If you are reading about things that you really think will improve your running, talk to your coach about "personalizing" the program, NOT "improving" it. No coach wants to hear some wise-ass try to correct him (even if he is right!). To be honest, your coach has (probably) read all of the books you have, plus he's got the experience in real life. It is one thing to read about some workout or approach to coaching in a book, but it is very much another to implement it in the real world of modern racing. For example, most training books call for 2 6-month training cycles, and thus 2 peaks. But in college today, you have an indoor season to deal with. How do you adjust to that? That's something only experience can teach. There's dozens of other examples of things like that which can't be taught in a book.
What a good coach does is start out with a general approach to training, and then personalize it to each of his athletes to provide them (and thus, the team) with the greatest possibility for improvement.