Enough with he pissing contest East Coast2 and Usher! You guys sound like little bitches.
Kooter, give the paavo thing a try. Like many of the other posters suggest, though, you will discover that the system will have to be adapted.
I went to all the levels of the Paavo clinics and used the program for a few years when i started coaching 10 years ago. I used it because I didn't know anything else and there was an enthusiastic community of supportive coaches using the program across the country. We had some success with it but ran into the same problems pointed out by all of the other posters.
The most important thing i've learned in ten years of coaching is no SYSTEM works. Coaching is working with individual athletes and observing how they respond to training and how they race and contantly adapting training based on the current situation. Any of this sh*t that says " On Tuesday we do . . . " is mindless.
I recently attended the Distance Summit in Iowa, and was surprised at how many coaches were looking for the magic system. Even the Woodlands guy, with all of his success, is looking for it. He commented that he was intrigued with the Paavo kids success in Texas, so he ran to Vigil looking for the "system." It was so much like the Paavo system in its weekly schedule, balls out intensity, and rigidity that I had to laugh.
Learn physiology, carefully observe and communicate with your athletes, take good notes on training and competing, and take a genuine interest in the kids you coach--that beats any system