Pete Dolan is officially out as head coach at UCSB

I would think if he was a high grade A hole he wouldn't have lasted 30 years and had the success he did.

UCSB probably had the worst track of any college in the state, they finally get a new one this season and he is gone, that sucks.

Say what you want about Dolan, if you come to any school do your home work on the program first ( i.e. University of Washington ) as another thread discussed attrition rate in D1 programs is high everywhere. How many This program sucks threads are there every week? I think it's sad when athletes start running the show. Privileged little ktaz syndrome!

Typical idiotic baby boomers on here. It is not normal to have a 50%+ attrition rate.

W's?

This program hasn't progressed in 25 years. And every year I've been astounded he kept his job.

Here is why he has kept his job for 30 years

http://www.ucsbgauchos.com/sports/m-xc/mtt/dolan_pete00.html?view=bio

Perhaps Greg Metcalf can apply for the job and maybe Pete Dolan head north to Washington!

Pete is/was a great coach and this was so unwarranted. Before people try to put him on the same level as Metcalfe the load of skeletons in his closet, this is biggest load of shi## to let him go over was definitely minuscule compared to what goes on with with other sports and their programs.

Dolan developed so many amazing runners given they wanted to live the lifestyle. If a 4:14 guy or a 5:05 girl came in, 99/100 times they were weeded out of the program because they wanted to live the college party life. They were cancerous to the culture Dolan created and the life the serious athletes wanted to live by Saturday morning workouts, 2 hour runs on Sunday's, and high mileage in general. We didn't have eating disorders on the team that were triggered by Dolan like Metcalfe. If you ran like crap, he told you. If you joined a frat, get off the team. If you drank during season, get off the team. Pete did not even drink himself. Except Dr. Pepper.

Was Pete abrasive and blunt at times? Of course. Enough to be fired? Not even close. Verbally abusive? There is a lot of grey area there. He told you what you needed to hear and all it boils down to is us raising a generation of softies who can't take any kind of heat or criticism along with what I mention below. He bled blue and gold and I am so sad that this has happened.

My only guess is he went head to head with an ultra feminist superior and did not back down. The sad thing about that is it was most likely over something petty that he did not want to let go and vice versa. Then they used every reason to let him go.

lol, pathetic baby boomers who talk about how "this generation is full of softies." Guess who raised this generation, you idiots. Sorry that this generation actually stands up for itself, unlike yours.

Everything said here is spot-on. "Petty" is an understatement. UCSB scrambled to find any justification they could scrape together to fire him and what they used will make every coach in America nervous.

So what was the mysterious reason then?

Hey dsrunner the bio post after your ignorant stab made you look like a major fool. Facts are hard to argue with eh?

back in the day, i knew of him since i had several friends that were on the team. some were great in HS, others not so much. The ones that worked over the summer and did the time trial and met his standards usually went on to have great careers in running (college + beyond). like you said--others were weeded out, because they could not meet certain standards (athletic, academic, social). Pete held you to it.

When I got in the world of coaching, i got to know him for a bit. I was a college coach for a while, and bumped into him at the state meet. I told him my best friend was a former athlete of his--he laughed and remarked at how well the individual improved, and really enjoyed having him on the team. He then gave me what felt like a job interview for 3 minutes--i felt intimidated (at 29 years old!), but he said "hey, me and a couple other guys are going to jog Woodward Park in 20 minutes. I'd like for you to join us for a 3-4 miler." I of course did, and had a great time.

AD's cant handle guys like him anymore. He didn't play games, and held the standards that he kept for his athletes. He didn't toe the politically correct party-line.

Okay it's over with now he does not the coach so what was the justification to let him go somebody has to know why not tell the world

Male baby boomers are probably the most sensitive group that I have encountered in this country. When the topic of parents comes up with friends and dating partners, we can agree that out dads can't take an ounce of criticism, have a tragic sense of pride and stubborness, and an angry, willful arrogance towards anything that challenges their world view. Quite frankly, older males' inabililty to process and express emotions in a healthy manner has hurt a great deal of people in this society and resulted in emotional damage that takes many years to understand and recover from.

Coaches like this are being cleared out to make way for the oncoming tide of transgendered female athletes.

“ If a 4:14 guy or a 5:05 girl came in, 99/100 times they were weeded out of the program because they wanted to live the college party life. They were cancerous to the culture Dolan created and the life the serious athletes wanted to live by Saturday morning workouts, 2 hour runs on Sunday's, and high mileage in general.”

So confused by this. All the talented Hs kids that came were weeded out? Is that what you’re saying?

Only 1/100 4:14 kid wanted to take running seriously?

You sound ready to join my drum circle, then maybe we can get together and cuddle, and share our feelings.

Was friends with a former early 2000s All American from UCSB who spoke of Pete’s abrasiveness, though he didn’t say if he liked or disliked him.

One story that did stick with me was that Pete was super against taking the little shampoo bottles from hotel rooms. Considered it stealing and was very outspoken about it.

SJWHippie wrote:

vivalarepublica wrote:

Male baby boomers are probably the most sensitive group that I have encountered in this country. When the topic of parents comes up with friends and dating partners, we can agree that out dads can't take an ounce of criticism, have a tragic sense of pride and stubborness, and an angry, willful arrogance towards anything that challenges their world view. Quite frankly, older males' inabililty to process and express emotions in a healthy manner has hurt a great deal of people in this society and resulted in emotional damage that takes many years to understand and recover from.

You sound ready to join my drum circle, then maybe we can get together and cuddle, and share our feelings.

I absolutely expected this kind of predictable answer. The tougher you act, the more you reveal your weaknesses and insecurities.

But I think your drum circle is a great idea! Can't wait to join!

You want to see how pathetic this generation along with being entitled has become? Get in the classrooom and teach a year. Same thing with coaching. They want to be rewarded for doing next to nothing.

Sure you have a portion of parents teaching their kids to work for material things and in general. But overall most kids in public schools think they deserve a medal for writing their name on paper. Wait I’m sorry, for capitalizing their name on their school given desktop.

Get real.