After San Marcos’ playoff-clinching win over Austin Akins last week, head coach John Walsh made a peculiar statement.
“Coach T (Carl Thompson), who runs our offseason, he's the head coach from as soon as we get done until I wanna say something,” Walsh said. “He did a great job, and you know the great thing is, the kids are here and their mentality changed in just one offseason. So I can’t wait to stack some offseasons on top of each other. But yeah, that weight room’s critical. I call it the magic room and we’ve made some magic in there.”
Normally head coaches don’t call their strength and conditioning coordinator their own title at any point, but John Walsh did just that last Friday. Obviously, Carl Thompson isn’t handling the PR duties of the program or taking phone calls in the head coach’s office in the summer, but he is leaving his own impact on the program — and the program is seeing the results.
