Vig is the luckiest coach ever

And a $20,000 bonus incentive clause for winning the indoor championship DMR.

He aslo gets a cool nickname.

John Gruden 2002.

By the end I decided that you're being sarcastic. Leo and Robbie are certainly as good of talents as we've seen come into the Ncaa in a long time, but he did an awesome job with Jacob (he was horrible after Vig).

I dunno.

I think VIG is pretty good. If I wanted to be a miler he would be my man. Leo was an absolute stud and would have been good anywhere, but vig has coached quite a few kids with decent talent into top tier NCAA guys. We always had to worry about Vig and his team in college.

He shouldn't even be coaching

Integrity wrote:

He shouldn't even be coaching

You're right! He shouldnt be coaching because it isn't fair to the rest of the coaches in the NCAA. Has any coach won more individual NCAA championships since he started? I don't think so.

Btw, at UVA vig scored way more points at the NCAA championships the last few years he was there compared to the first year he was there. Check it. That's called improving. I don't know what that idiot poster is talking about.

The guy can friggin coach. No one is better at the middle distances. No one is even close.

Oh, I mean, he is so friggin lucky I can't stand it!

Question: why do the UVA and texas distance coaches hate vig?

Easy answer: they can't and will never produce his results so they will always be a disappointment at their schools.

Vig was and Andrews is. Princeton is shameful and Samara has become win at all costs.

Maybe he is taking talent and just building his reputations on them, but how many coaches have you seen that screw up talented runners? Just like a doctor, a coach should "first do no harm." I've always felt one of the roles of a coach is to help an athlete reach his/her own potential. You might say he is lucky, but isn't luck part of being good?

RSEW wrote:

Vig was and Andrews is. Princeton is shameful and Samara has become win at all costs.

Princeton is shameful because their athletic teams want to win? They are shameful for what? For choosing the best coach when they had a coaching vacancy? That's absurd. I'm sure our AD and President checked out every rumor when hiring Vig.

We will certainly see more and more mid distance domination here at Princeton. Just for fun, lets compare it to the successes we'll see at Texas and UVA in the next few years.

All I'm sayin is I'm glad we got him.

I've always thought coach vigilante was just lucky. But now he has done it at 3 different schools with 3 different sets of athletes. Sometimes he inherits these guys, sometimes he recruits these guys but he always wins NCAA titles! At some point I have to call BS on myself and admit coach vigilante can flat out coach. He doesn't just win conference stuff, he wins NCAA titles everywhere he goes. It's a bit insane how much difference a coach makes.

I am trying to find where anybody has said he is a bad coach. There are many that say he has been lucky and to some degree that is certainly true. I also think that there is little doubt that Dolan would have achieved the same results in that race Friday night.

If you have the opportunity to go to Princeton or Penn then I would choose penn any day. Dolan is as good a coach and a thousand times better person. It is very simple.

There are many ways to define luck. I like this definition.

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

I think Vig has shown he is quite lucky in this sense. He may or may not be a good coach but he seems to have shown he can work with what he has got. Of course he is still relatively early in his career, but so far it looks like he knows how to train and motivate.

You would choose Penn every time, really? Even though Princeton is the better school, has by far the better running program, and has more financial aid? I think you need to get off Dolan's nuts for minute and take a better look.