The latest rage wrote:
SDSU Aztec wrote:
Some of you guys are obsessed with the effects of coaching but the NP kids would just as good at hundreds of other HSs. Their coach won the lottery twice to have such talented sets of brothers run there.
No doubt they would be good, but not as good as they are with his coaching. He does seem like a pretty big D-bag, but kudos to him for keeping all that talent on the rails and focused on collective excellence. Lots of coaches would've been content with them winning states averaging 15:10. He set the bar higher and coached 'em to become the greatest HS XC team ever. That does not happen without his coaching.
Has to be his coaching? Another coach couldn't have done it?
He was completely out-coached today by the Buchanan coach, so I'm guessing at least he could do better with the NP team. Brosnan has said all season, the focus was the state meet. He "trained through" Clovis and set everything up to peak at state. Sounds like he did everything he could think of to have his teams ready to go for this meet, yet his top four girls ran faster six weeks ago at Clovis. NP beat Buchanan by 12 at Woodbridge, lost by 7 at Clovis and 21 today. In fact, if Buchanan doesn't have their number two go down inside of 400 to go, they beat NP by 40. Someone knew how to have their runners ready when it counts most and someone else seems to have had his team ready for the first meet.
NP lost 50 places across their runners after the mile. Maybe e a bad game plan or coaching tactics?
Also, while the boy's team is easily the greatest ever, I would have expected a bigger improvement from Clovis, knowing they trained through it and focused every move since their month long altitude camp on being at their very best today, in ideal conditions. They were an average of 4 seconds faster today, than six weeks ago. Hardly a masterful peaking job.
Coaches look great when they have great athletes. It's totally disrespectful to so many hard working, quality coaches to say it wouldn't happen with another coach as was shown today. How many other coaches did masterful jobs today with much less talent that will get no love because they keep their mouths shut and let their runners take the credit they deserve?