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?
Fay - Transferred in, 3:58 mile before UW
Ellis - Transfer, 3rd in NCAA 1500 at princeton, 3:37 before arriving to UW
Ryan - Transfer - sub at at Williams
Trippas - Transfer - Olympian from princeton
Lumb - Transfer - 3:38 prior to UW
Leo Dasbach - sub 4 in high school
MOST of his top athletes (6 out of 9) were sub 4 or an Olympian prior to UW. That was a factuallty CORRECT statement.
Waskom and Houser were both local products and entered as freshmen who didn't break four minutes in high school. They did it while being coached at the UW.