No wonder Quincy Wilson is so good. Bullis high school's track team has 13 assistant track coaches

You could hire 100 assistant coaches and not produce a 44.20 16 year old at virtually every high school on earth. I get it, the school has a serious track program, but the thread title strikes me as funny.

See, rojo is funny!

Rojo does tend to push the logic of statements just a step or two too far.

An eye-catching number, maybe, but that seems less crazy the more I think about it, especially if the team is big. I get to 5 core areas even combining areas of expertise (jumps, various sprints, hurdles) that you could possibly handle separately. (I'm not sure I would count middle/long separately, since the longest race most kids will run on the track is 2 miles.) You could also add more to handle boys' and girls' workouts separately, etc. I also doubt most of these are full-time coaches, most likely they're teachers doing this on the side.

Throws (shot/disc, possibly hammer and javelin if it's contested in their league)

Jumps (high/long/triple)

Sprints (long, short, and hurdles)

Distance (middle/long)

Pole vault

One more anecdote - for a few years at my school (a large public school), we had a guy who just coached 400m runners (on a volunteer basis). 100/200 were separate, and I think hurdlers were too.

Is this a surprise to anyone? Bullis is very much a sports school.

Joe Lee runs a track club. I assume he brings most of his track club coaches on at Bullis. The number of coaches has nothing to do with Quincy Wilson’s success. But the funny thing is they don’t really produce much in field events or distance so I wonder what the other coaches are doing.

Our regular old suburban school has nine assistants.

We also , I have 160 kids

how big is the bullis team?

What the hell does this have to do with Wilson being a generational talent?

It’s a sports school. They recruit and kids go there from all over. That national record SMR mentioned has a recent junior transfer state championship from Virginia.
The 13 coaches aren’t as important as the athletes coming to the school.

Correlation is causation. Duh.

The school itself only has 900 students.

Thank you for this analysis. I have left a message with my old HS telling them to add more assistant coaches. The state title should be in the bag now.

Glad to see everyone having fun at Rojo's expense again, but I think it's clear that his headline wasn't intended to suggest that Quincy Wilson isn't a one-in-a billion talent - except with tongue in cheek. I read it as, "Wow! Bullis has an ENORMOUS coaching staff."

It does show a very rare commitment to the sport on the part of the school. It also means that a lot of the kids are getting individualized coaching that they wouldn't typically get without hiring private coaches.

Monteverde and IMG are sports school. Bullis is a school with very high academic standards.

Are we pretending they don't get to recruit for sports? It's great that they have very high academic standards, and I hope they hold them for their student athletes as well as everyone else.

The academic piece just makes them more of a Duke, ND or Stanford than a fill in the blank great sports school without academic standards or expectations.

Thread title is a good attention getter. Sometimes Rojo is just in a stream of conscious mode, sometimes he purposely puts out a statement that he knows will generate discussion, even if he doesn't quite believe what he's saying. Probably more fun to have a beer with than most of his haters.

LOL

Seems like thatvis boys and girls. We have a head coach for boys and head for girls and each has 7 assistants for a total of 16. That is pretty common in my area.

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