Paul Spangler run off as Boston U distance coach

Confirmed. Hot off the press.

Gabe seems like he is a little too woke.

Cancel culture is out of control

They qualified a female to NCAAs. Is Paul Spangler going with her to NCAAs or is he terminated immediately?

What's pathetic is there is no indication on any BU social media page or their website on them having a national qualifier. Absolutely pathetic. Clearly Sanders hates distance and won't even celebrate the accomplishment.

Confirmed, but not made public yet. The athletes learned of Sanders' plan to remove Spangler via a letsrun post this weekend and have since received confirmation from the coaches.

Yes, back-to-back PL wins and NCAA qualifier coached by Spangler. BU track & field posted recognition for the women's qualifier earlier today, then removed all of their posts without explanation.

Sanders has reportedly not communicated anything directly to the athletes yet, despite allegedly deciding this position change several months ago.

ChrisLewis82 wrote:

Confirmed, but not made public yet. The athletes learned of Sanders' plan to remove Spangler via a letsrun post this weekend and have since received confirmation from the coaches.

Yes, back-to-back PL wins and NCAA qualifier coached by Spangler. BU track & field posted recognition for the women's qualifier earlier today, then removed all of their posts without explanation.

Sanders has reportedly not communicated anything directly to the athletes yet, despite allegedly deciding this position change several months ago.

That is absolutely sickening! Why would they delete the post recognizing the national qualifier? Are they not letting her compete?

I lost all respect for Gabe Sanders. He is a scumbag. If BU has any sense, they would fire Gabe and promote Paul to director.

wow...probably not performance related; they had a pretty good conference meet. Women's win and men were third to Army and Navy. Those two teams are always going to be tough to beat for reasons exclusive to the service academies.

Why was he terminated?

Sanders has no respect for the distance team at all. He wants to focus on sprints, which have been absolutely awful. He is completely arrogant and is going to absolutely implode the program that Spangler has done a great job of building into a solid program with a bright future.

Sliding Scale wrote:

wow...probably not performance related; they had a pretty good conference meet. Women's win and men were third to Army and Navy. Those two teams are always going to be tough to beat for reasons exclusive to the service academies.

Why was he terminated?

Boston men were 2nd, Navy did not compete (COVID). Boston was only 8 points away from first place.

3rd was actually Lafayette, which is stunning. As a long time fan of the league, I never thought they would ever beat Lehigh, American or Bucknell. Kudos to them and their coach.

correct...I mistakenly looked at 2019...but that shows how consistent Spangler's teams have been.

Yea, Sanders is a joke, he can't coach, just regurgitate stuff he has picked up from Boo.

No wonder Coach Milt brought his entire staff from Stanford to UNC...except for Sanders.

Likely a bunch of BS. Spangler wasn’t Sander’s guy and Sanders looked for a bunch of petty BS to attempt to justify firing him sincere. The issues were completely ridiculous.

Please report any post that quotes this email. This is clearly not appropriate to publish online, regardless of the circumstances. At least remove the email address and name of anyone not associated with the program. The original post by "Jake from state farm" lacks the context necessary to make a fair assessment of this email. So many questions need to be addressed before the email is of any use.

For starters:

Why the pause? Were athletes informed? How clear were the restrictions? (including start/end dates) Was the report true? If true, were the athletes a safe distance away when passing? (only complains about masks, not distance) Was there a mask mandate at that location? How many people were there, if true? How many previous warnings had there been? Had there been previous, credible reports of covid violations? How many xc members had tested positive? Did Sanders verify info with Spangler or the athletes before reporting the incident to the AD? Is this tone typical? Why only threaten distance if track is one program?

If someone learns the answers to these questions, it would be very helpful for understanding the context surrounding this email (I predict removing it will be impossible at this point). I was hoping my contact would know, but it's still radio silence.

post the email from the coaches that said Spangler was being fired.

This Spangler guy only took up running at age 67! Seems a little late for someone to try and establish themselves as a coach.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Spangler

he ran cross country at Alabama and he's currently in his 40's....? what?

Why do posts keep disappearing in this thread? Not just the ones quoting the e-mail sent to athletes.

I’ve seen four or five posts on the thread making the simple point that “new program directors clean house and hire the guys they want all the time. This is a pretty normal occurrence and doesn’t mean anything nefarious is going on.”

Those seem to be the only posts that are getting removed. All the inflammatory posts remain. Am I missing something???

Sanders is probably the best young sprints coach in the country. Whether you think him firing Spangler is ok or not, Boston hired him over Spangler to be director and he absolutely can fire and hire staff.

This is such a silly thread. Bosses get paid to make boss decisions. Gabe is an excellent coach. Whether he fails or succeeds at BU it’s HIS program to administrate how he sees fit. Such a dumb thread.

In any other sport all the assistants go when the Head coach goes anyway.