<p>^also, schools like Harvard/MIT will always be there even if their coaches aren’t the best. The sheer talents may just be enough because they get former IMO gold medalists matriculating there and Putnam is very much like the college version of IMO. For other schools, the success will definitely rely on whether they have great coaches from the faulty; that’s why you see some schools that were consistent for a certain period and then just kinda disappear and some schools that didn’t do well before and all of a sudden have become major players in recent years.</p>