Great coach and fantastic program forever. There is an interesting thing about the program, if you listen to the coach at seminar's he goes on and on about team spirit and team bonding and believing in the team and caring about each other and giving it all for the team and how team comes first etc. Then he barely mentions the key to the whole program. They do 13 runs a week 9 months out of the year. This turns 10:20 high school 2 milers into 24:50 guys by senior year.
They had a down point in the program 5 years ago and in the seminars the coach said they got away from the team spirit and went and on about the team thing not being there. Then he barely mentioned that he made the morning run 6 days a week mandatory again and 1/3 of the team quit but they immediately returned to their old championship form.
He will speak at the coaches convention in AZ 3 weeks from now and will talk about team bonding but you will know it is the 13 runs a week 9 months out of the year that put them at the top of the hill.