SALT LAKE CITY — It has been six months since Gregg Gensel stopped showing up for work, and there’s still no explanation. Gensel was the head coach of Utah State’s track and cross-country teams for 36 years and a highly successful one at that, and just like that he was gone.
Gensel’s assistant coaches and athletes are as puzzled as anyone about what happened. “I wish I knew,” says sprint coach Jeramie Murray. “I have no idea, honestly. They’ve kept us in the dark in the process.”
Matt Ingebritsen, a former assistant (and now the new head track coach), told the student newspaper, The Statesman, “I believe they were deliberately leaving us in the dark like that just so we wouldn’t have to answer questions we weren’t capable of answering.