UCLA's new coaching staff doing well

This original post was obviously posted by one of the new coaches who needed validation. Looks like they should've just stayed quit and focused on coaching.

I think it's safe to say this original post didn't age well.

Speaking about the need for validation... there sure is someone who is continually posting about UCLA that is certainly looking for validation but I don't think it is the OP.

I come from throws and UCLA has been down right painful to watch in this department. To be honest UCLA has been painful in all disciplines and a long time away from being a powerhouse Track & Field program. They have administration issues as we have seen in Football these past few months. They don’t have NIL money to play with in major sports like Football and Basketball so don’t expect anything to change anytime soon.

Avery Anderson was ones a top UCLA football players back in the day who has his hands full trying to manage a bunch of no name coaches in T&F who are not producing. Sometimes things just don’t fit and need to be rebuilt. It sounds like no one at the top of Athletics cares about Track at UCLA and that’s the biggest problem. A rebuild could only go up from here.

After kicking Brosnan, they basically lost all reason for top recruits to choose UCLA over other CA schools. They no longer have the talent or the coaching to build up athletes capable to compete nationally.

There is basically no reason for out of state top performers to want to go to UCLA other than for reasons outside of track. They might still get some good leftover CA residents, but the majority of instate sprinters should choose USC and majority of distance should choose Cal Poly SLO, Stanford or even one of the other DII schools.

Did Brosnan recruit top out of state talent? I’ll be willing to bet this year’s recruiting class will be much better than Brosnan’s.

This guy gets it. The main the reason why UCLA is so bad right now is because Brosnan had a HORRIBLE recruiting class.

They only have 1 freshman male distance runner who competed indoors...8:56 for 3k and 15:29 for 5k. They have another listed as a freshmen but he is a transfer junior.

Brosnan did not bring in runners as talented as those he inherited. He brought in a D3 caliber recruiting class.

Stop whining about UCLAs indoor season. Nobody cares about it, least of all people out in California. Whilst all these east coast schools are treating indoors like the world depends on it, UCLA is playing the long game. Indoors is merely a stepping stone to the real sport of outdoor track. When everyone who has peaked for indoors is washed up or injured in the Summer, UCLA will rise

This was UCLA's worst indoor season yet. Not a good sign. When is Avery Anderson's contract up? I was hearing rumors about him not getting renewed a few years back. UCLA will never pay out a contract early, so If coach Anderson's contract is up this year all the current coaches are in trouble and should be worried.

I just looked and they have three current freshman in the 8:57-9:04 range for 3200m. That is better then I thought. Most the top men and women left or never came when the former distance was out.

I'm a USC fan and always will be, but UCLA has and had potential like their Football, but can't get the job done. The only thing I wish is that USC invested more in distance.

At the moment he is enjoying about as much coaching success as 420 Miler.

PR's everywhere! It's so great to see how well the UCLA team is doing now moving on from the Brosnan disaster. Coming right out of the gates so early in the season, we've already seen:

Mia Kane with the 2nd fastest steeple in school history and huge 1500 and 3000 PR's.

Michael Mireles bouncing back from being driven into season ending injuries to PR in the 1500.

Bella Browne with a massive 1500 PR.

Kate Jendrezak PR'ing in the 800 and qualifying for Indoor Nationals.

The future is looking great in Westwood, despite the cupboard being left nearly bare of any real recruits. I can't wait to see who commits to UCLA this year.

I really hope these kind of posts get deleted. If you replaced Ferris' name with Brosnan above, that post would last about 2 minutes before being removed. I think whoever is bashing Ferris is just jealous of his success. I wish people like this would just focus on the positive things happening at UCLA and not waste their energy trying to tear down someone more successful than themselves. So sad.

What a jealous loser to try and bash the current coach who took over a disaster left behind. You should really get some help for what appears to be a sad life that doesn’t allow you to be happy for someone else’s success.

Ferris is posting here. I knew him since his Iona days and he’s a strange dude and did some bad things at Wake Forest. Those women needed to stand up for themselves and not be abused by their coach

Seriously bud. Please stop. It’s not healthy to harbor all this jealousy. It would be much more productive to focus on finding your next job than trashing others on a message board.

I think Ferris will ever learn. It’s sad but unfortunately true.

I’m about 3000 miles from UCLA and don’t think anyone is jealous of the UCLA distance coach. Especially anyone who understands distance running. It sounds like me someone is trying to justify a group of athletes are getting better. In reality if they were getting better you don’t need to post about them. I think it’s a case of insecurity to brag about a team that is not very good. This thread was pulled up from weeks ago. Seems fishy if you catch my drift

I can think of one person who is absolutely jealous of the UCLA distance coach.