Portland State goes home devastated AGAIN - brand new coach quits

No. I can confidently say that Rhonda & Goetz were 100% the reason why the mens team didn't have the numbers. Upon arrival they made moves that slandered the entire current team which caused most to walk away. Moves like trimming the roster on the PSU website to 10 and telling the rest of the team that they have to try out for their position on the team. Created training where several of the top talented started to get injured and they walked away from the team. Hepburn isn't the first or twentieth person you would call for a distance training plan or scouting talent but over the years he was liked as an administrator with little personal agenda. His time was simply up.

Even with Goetz, the top female runner announced she was leaving. The trend isn't supportive.

BUMS, thugs, homeless grown men sitting around campus smoking

PSU reflects the state of dotwntown Portland = sorry state of affairs

Who would want to be associated with that

How is ABQ supposed to be considered safe when there are plenty of drug rings running around New Mexico?? Last I heard the blue stuff was getting into college student bodies down there in the ABQ. Not to mention the whereabouts of Pinkman, known associate of the former leader of the drug ring there. And people say Portland is dangerous??? What a joke

Portland State could just drop T&F and nobody would even notice. save the school some money in the process. their facilities are a joke. the athletes bust their ass, they deserve to run at a school that actually cares.

it's essentially just a commuter school anyway, bunch of boomers getting specialty degrees. ive been there a few times and it's one of the most lethargic student bodies I've ever witnessed. buncha white dudes with dreadlocks playing hackey sack and protesting about the 'patriarchy', yet they'd all be lost without mommy and daddy paying their way.

Why didn't Jack do his own research? Anyone with an internet connection can see there was nobody on the team. Jack sees Portland State at every meet, surely he could tell that wasn't true. He would have met with members of the team for the interview, too. Did he ask them any questions?

Every school is going to exaggerate things to prospective coaches. Maybe PSU exaggerated more than usual, but Jack would have to be THE MOST GULLIBLE HUMAN ON EARTH to believe what you claim he was promised. This is 90% his fault for not doing his homework.

Hepburn had way more of a roll than either of the other two did. While I can confidently say that people didn’t like Rhoda, she was more of an annoying pest than she was an actual problem. Hepburn was the one who trimmed the roster. The others never told anyone to “try out”. That’s ignorant and wrong. If you actually talk to the athletes you would know that it’s clearly Hepburn that drove the MAJORITY away. Also the top women thrived under Goetz. All three of the top women broke the previous school steeplechase record. Again, they leave do to politics, not Goetz. Also I don’t know who on earth told you that Hepburn was liked as an administrator. He was the least liked in that whole building. He wasn’t respected or like by anyone except for the ones that hired him. They fired him because he was arrogant and destroyed the team. Goetz wouldn’t have become the interim coach if he was the reason everyone left. Hepburn’s “time” wasn’t up. He sucked.

Well I can confidently say that you have no idea what you’re talking about. There were 31 men during cross country. 9 Graduated and had no more eligibility. 3 stayed (with one leaving in the fall due to lack of people). 5 left due to non-coaching reasons (religious, difficulty in school, pursuing hobbies, etc.). 3 left due to Dan/Rhonda. NINE left due to Hepburn (these are confirmed with those athletes). And 2 tried to hold out, but left due to not having enough people on the team for next year (3 if you include the individual who’s still there, but plans on leaving). Hepburn messing up Jordan Macintosh’s nationals chances, plus being incompetent to his athletes prior to that led to OVER HALF the remaining team leaving. Dan and Rhonda led to 3. Like I said earlier, this is completely normal for a coaching change. Especially one as big as this one. Also the female athlete who left followed the previous coach (Seitz) to UO. Finally, Seitz’s training injured just as many, if not significantly more, people as Dan’s did. Being a division 1 student athlete is strenuous. You can’t 100% blame the training just because some people inevitably got hurt. (It’s also confirmed that some of those injuries were due to other outside factors too)

All that being said, with the coach who changed his mind not coming over, plus the rumored coaches ahead of him that turned it down, who are the new front runners for this position? Or will they go with the interim coach through Cross, then keep looking throughout the fall for a new candidate?

Urban campus

No practice facility of its own

No tradition

Massive defection of athletes

Not super close to trails - must shuttle to decent trailheads

Constant turnover of coaching staff and volunteers

Low pay

Why would anyone really want this gig?

LMAO

His twitter will recruit against him!

A broken clock is right twice a day

Way to resurrect a 4 year old thread just in time!!

his rankings are old and tired…please

In case their luck couldn't get worse.....they hired THIS CLOWN!

I feel so bad for the athletes on that team.

A broken clock is right twice a day

Way to resurrect a 4 year old thread just in time!!

his rankings are old and tired…please

Can we get a fact check on this?

That was in the mixed relay.

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BTW, when JMar had HPW, didn't Skechers pull the plug on sponsoring the team because of him?

technically accurate, but it was part of the mixed relay team. an extremely disingenuous claim as he implies she placed that high individually.

for example in 2019 team USA placed 4th out of 9 teams (Ugana was the 10th team but was DQ'd).

But this is the same guy who accused Nuguse of doping solely because of his stride, so why would we expect any honesty out of him?

PSU xc/tf soad enjoyers go home devastated

Jonathan Marcus broke his promise to the sport: he said 6-7 years ago that he would "retire" in 5 years because he'll have accomplished everything there was for him to accomplish in the sport.

Liar.

Liars out.