Ghost of Ward Cleaver wrote:
SDSU Aztec wrote:
If what you posted is true, you should be coaching a different sport. Do you have access to mile times run by kids in your feeder schools? When I was in middle school and even breaking 5:30 wasn't common. I'm about 100% confident there were no potential 9:00 guys walking through the halls at my H.S.
if you're an average coach and could only coach the NP kids to run 9:20, then 9:30 would be the new 9:00.
How large (grades 9-12) was you high school?
I did not understand your last sentence?
He claims he would lucky to coach some of the most talented runners in history to run 9:20. If he's an average coach than others would be doing the same thing which would mean no runner in the U.S. would break 9:20.
In the U.S., there are about 270,000 boys that compete in HS XC. Presumably, most of the kids that go out for it have at least some talent and out of this group, only a tiny fraction of a percent can run close to as fast the NP top 3. How could there possibly be such talent in of a pool of Soccer players or guys that don't participate any sport.