What do you want?

James_Smith · April 20, 2009, 1:09pm

You ought to take a position at one of the teams then and show everyone what results you could present. I know there are numerous NCAA coaches on this forum from D3 and no facilities to top tier Division 1 T&F and I think all would be interested in seeing how radically different things would be.
Sure, Pitt’s program sucks. Arkansas did a ton of intensive tempo though and their guys cleared up the medals at plenty of NCAA meets. LSU uses intensive tempo AND overspeed AND specific weights and they continually put up world class people in every sprinting and hurdle event. They took at guy who ran track through his life from 10.5 to 9.8 in 4 years.
I don’t deny that. I think there are numerous great coaches who still don’t necessarily get results all the time. John Smith hasn’t gotten a new guy to 9.8 in how long? And he has had the horses for sure… Point is, things aren’t that simple and if learning and applying things CONSISTENTLY was so easy, everyone could do it. The point of this thread and my comments in it is to help explain what kind of products I, and probably many others, would find useful (something topical to our performane levels). This isn’t a thread about your experience or your team.

That is great, where is he now? Where has the programming taken him? Again, we’re looking for things that will allow for continued progress and help lead us through these plateaus and difficulties. You telling us you took a guy with a crappy program and changed a couple things and he went a little faster doesn’t exactly help, at all, integrate Charlie’s charts and plans to our levels.

I am sure numerous other teams and athletes could say the same, but I want to look at context. When everyone was being timed in the same fashion, what did they run, simple as that.

Fogelson, I’ll start another thread titled NCAA T&F Problems in order to preserve this one.