Sean Carlson to Colorado Official

Looks like a great pick.

Any idea if Andy Powell was considered? CU might be a step up, though he’s built a ridiculous program in Seattle

The two dumbest posters back to back.

Dude, every coach believes this. Have you ever heard of Coach say “I only get top talent and I don’t have to do anything.” every coach I ever met believes in the program that they use.

p.s no training is rocket science.

Having the most talented miler in US history and the footlocker national champ doesn’t make you a good coach.

He has been at Tennessee for 2 years, this is the lost of portal entries within that 24 month span (per NCAA Transfer Portal):

Emily Covert

Yaseen Abdalla

Nathan Atchue

Dawson Welch

Adam Snoke

Connor Henson

Craig Becker

Fuji Anday

Brendan Gomez

Chesney Peterson

Isaac Thiessen

Yordanos Zelinski

Audrey Thronson

Trevor Coggin

Simon Schabort

There’s another 10-15 from their 19 freshman women and 15 freshman men who have never raced for Tennessee and are either hurt or likely quit the sport altogether. THIS IS NOT THE SIGN OF A GOOD COACH. This is the sign of a serial psychopath who will run through as many bodies as it takes to get what he wants. Not to mention all the staff leaving him as well. And his two new hires at Tennessee that he’ll likely bring with him to Colorado? Two more 23 year olds with a combined 0 years coaching experience.

Also, Vanhoy's wife is Cal Poly's head women's XC coach and makes $67K.

lol imagine firing Mark MFing Wetmore to hire Sean Carlson

You must be looking at different NCAA XC results than me. In the last ten years I count 9 podium finishes (4 for men, 5 for women) and one national team championship each for the Colorado men and women, plus an individual championship on the women's side. I don't know if Wetmore was putting in work or not but very few coaches have done better in the last decade.

Shayla to Tennessee!

Got rid of a legend for a douche.

If they had issues with Wetmores remarks and contribution to a toxic team culture, then this will be pretty interesting to see how they handle a master manipulator who had 8(!) freshman, 2 sophomores, and 1 senior transfer out on the men’s side alone this year due to his demeanor. It’s truly disappointing to see the reigns of a great job and program handed to Sean.

I understand your point wejo, but Jacobs was already a footlocker champion before Carlson got his hands on him, and Yared made a massive jump immediately after going pro. It’s clear he was a generational talent as well. While it’s obviously a check mark on his resume, I feel it’s more valuable to look at the entire picture, not just two mega talents. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not discrediting him or saying he shouldn’t be given any credit for those two athletes, I just think 2 people being the sole argument to say that he’s a good talent developer out of all the athletes he’s coached over 13+ years is a little bit of an oversight, no?

Someone has an Axe to grind v Carlson.

He had a unique situation at Tennessee. Tons of booster NIL moneys, and no distance tradition at Tennessee.

His strategy to deal with that was to quickly bring in a ton of recruits and to see who developed.

There were no secrets to recruits, you could even see the large classes right here on the board.

He göt Tenn from nowhere to nats for both men and women, and with those giant classes no surprise he had a ton of transfers.

He's only 37, so CU can get 20-25 years from him (if D1 sports last that long). At CU he has a highly desirable tradition to work with and standard funding, so he will have a different recruiting plan.

Develop?? or be graced with incredible genetic talent? Sure two runners are amazing... but what about the others who were the 4th, 5th, 6th runners on the team?

They were transfers who were developed elsewhere

LOL

That's hilarious. If anyone listened to sports talk radio in TN, every time there's a coaching change, THIS exact call comes in.

Currently living in Knoxville, lived in East TN all my life.

I agree about the distance tradition. Anyone that says Tennessee doesn't have one is just ignorant - which isn't a knock on them, it was a long time ago to be fair.

I have to disagree with you about Knoxville being a great running city though. Its not. It kind of sucks really.

Perhaps the dual Head Coach experiment (Ross/Carlson) did not work?

Does either team make ncaas this fall? Not like either squad is packed with talent

Havent scored it out yet for the mountain region.

I’m well aware of his plan to mass recruit and see who develops. Now let’s look at how his freshman did:

Dean Casey: Ran well, but was already a 28:59 guy coming jn

Jacob Nenow: 30 something at secs, 180 or something at nationals. Pretty good. He transferred out right after the cross country season. (Princeton)

Brendan Gomez: 9:17 3200 in highschool, developed enough to finish 40 something at secs. Never raced again and transferred out. (Butler)

No other freshman ran cross country.

No other freshman ran extensively indoor outside of the occasional 800 at a local indoor meet.

Only 2 freshman ran outdoors. Dean Casey, the 22 year old who was already developed, ran o.k at secs and regionals. Brody Chapman ran 9:11 in the steeple, a respectable time.

Now tell me, if he’s such a great talent developer, how did no one do that well and why did everyone transfer out? If everything was sunshine and rainbows, wouldn’t they stay and trust the process? Seems like there was an urgency to skip town.