The fact is that there has never been a team in the country this good. Four guys in 13:48 or better. Ten guys under 15:34. One of them over 15 ran 14:30s years ago, but other than that, this team has shown much greater system-wide possibilities than anyone ever allowed for high school runners. There's way too much thinking that it's all about spectacular talent. The high quality depth in Kenya and Ethiopia is an artifact not only of incentive, culture, high altitude, and dirt roads, but large groups doing the same high quality training. Brosnan and his wife have been able to build the team culture and sell to athletes and families the whole program, which is one of the keys to their success. Others may design workouts that would do this but you have to get the complete buy in from athletes, which Nico Young helped them to institute by having an athlete the others looked up to following the coach's program, as he has said. Most people are not the kind of high level salespeople this guy is. He is also successful in getting them to believe they are capable of a level no one else thought high schoolers, other than a few special talents, could do. For him, it shouldn't be the apex of a high school's entire history to get one guy under 4:15 or 4:10. That or the equivalent 2M time can be done every year by multiple guys at the same school. Yet, there was a year in the 1990s when no one went under 9 in the entire country.