Andy Powell greatest miler coach ever?

If his milers were good, they would be good at the 10k as well? What?

I'll ask him the next time I see him.

Guess you never heard of John McDonnell...

I'm clueless and haven't tried searching the web yet, so would someone kindly post more info about John McDonnell? Thanks.

Jumbo Elliott. End of thread.

Does anyone know how he coaches? Seems like sparse info out there.

Have you ever heard of jumbo Elliott, John McDonald or frank gagliano

So did Bowerman.

Not really a husky fan -- graduated across the mountains at WSU. I don't really know why either place couldn't be a great for track and field. I would much rather train where it is cooler than train in the heat in the humidity in the South. Is there some disadvantage for sprinters in the cooler climate?

Bob Timmons coached Archie San Romani Jr. to the national high school mile record at Wichita East. Following that he would later coach Jim Ryun to the HS mile record and the first sub 4. Then at Kansas Ryun had world records in the 880, mile, and 1500 under Timmons' watch. Not to bad for a college mile coach.

I think of cross country as not the mile.

Too bad the UW couldn't have talked Kenneth Rooks, the 2023 NCAA steeplechase champion, into going there instead of BYU. He is from Washington, although on the opposite side of the state.

Lol if you were at WSU you should know full well why that part of the state will likely never have much of a sprinting prowess. Brutal winters. Much easier for us distance fellas to navigate a bad winter than it is for sprinters. As for the western part of the state, I can imagine rain isn't a much better condition to have to deal with year-round

Well if someone is at BYU I am sure you can imagine why they probably couldn't be swayed to go to any other school...

i don't know what to think of this story, and especially Powell's role in it. So we have a guy that went from 4:32 in his junior year to 4:10 as a senior. powell let him try out as a walk on, multiple times. Finally let him join the real squad, when after 2 years of this kid busting his balls training on his own, he runs a 3:46.

sounds like the potential was always there. glaringly obvious. and powell still made him go to hell and back to make the squad.

that kid is the hero of his own story. Powell benefited from Prefontaine's lore bringing that kid into oregon.

This is true. Most of his successful athletes at Oregon went there because it's Oregon, not because of Powell. Centro went there because his father went there. Jenkins transfered in already having run sub 4. Rupp was getting coached by Salazar.

Most of his UW athletes were sub 4 before arriving at UW.

None of the three UW athletes in the 1500m final were sub 4 before arriving at UW. How can people post things that are blatantly untrue yet easy to check?