Oyster Joins Staff - Official

**fccy** · 02-16-2009, 07:51 PM

Oyster was officially announced as assistant S&C Coach

Oyster Joins Strength and Conditioning Staff - Iowa State University Athletics Official Web Site - www.CYCLONES.com - Iowa State Cyclones Sports

**cyfan964** · 02-16-2009, 07:55 PM

The boy has some serious credentials.

**dinger** · 02-16-2009, 07:58 PM

At Rice, Oyster designed and implemented comprehensive year-round speed, strength and conditioning programs for baseball and assisted in the same role for the Owl football program. Oyster was on the staff of three Rice teams that qualified for the College World Series.

sweet maybe he can double up his duties at iowa state too. help get us back to the college world series.

on a serious note, i have seen rice play in omaha (cws) the last few years... their ball team are some big boys. not sure what this means for football, but rice baseball players were big strong dudes.

**Luke3485** · 02-16-2009, 08:09 PM

Not sure if this has been posted in a past thread but here is a link talking about some of the improvements the Rice football players made under McKnight and Oyster. Hopefully they start a Night of the Iron Cyclone event.

Scout.com: Night Of The Iron Owl

**JDDCy** · 02-17-2009, 07:31 AM

Any thoughts on Oyster from the S&C guys? I remember a pretty good discussion awhile back debating the strengths and weaknesses of different coaching styles. Most of the CF S&C experts were ready for Shep to move on. How does Oyster compare to Becton?

**isuno1fan** · 02-17-2009, 08:01 AM

Rice did not want to lose Oyster either, but it was pretty well known he would follow Yancy to Ames.

**cyhiphopp** · 02-17-2009, 08:04 AM

Originally Posted by isuno1fan

Rice did not want to lose Oyster either, but it was pretty well known he would follow Yancy to Ames.

I am surprised that Rice did not give him the head job down there. I wonder if they offered it to him.

**Wesley** · 02-17-2009, 08:39 AM

I would think so...

**CrossCyed** · 02-17-2009, 08:45 AM

So I believe we're down to just needing LB/DC.

**dunar** · 02-17-2009, 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by CrossCyed

So I believe we're down to just needing LB/DC.

TE (since Fountain left), OL (none official, assume Bleil; he could do both OL and TE), and who's got special teams (I seem to remember that Rhoads was covering ST...)

Anyway, welcome to Coach Oyster!

**bos** · 02-17-2009, 11:34 AM

The Cardinal and Gold Oyster Cult.

**CyBobby** · 02-17-2009, 11:36 AM

Originally Posted by cyfan964

The boy has some serious credentials.

Credentials....Can you say....WINNER BABY WINNER!!!!!!

**bfross** · 02-17-2009, 12:09 PM

Originally Posted by Luke3485

Not sure if this has been posted in a past thread but here is a link talking about some of the improvements the Rice football players made under McKnight and Oyster. Hopefully they start a Night of the Iron Cyclone event.

Scout.com: Night Of The Iron Owl

Maybe it was just assumed that he would do the same thing because I can't find the article, but I think I remember reading somewhere that McKnight had already mentioned he would open the lifting up to the public for an event like that at ISU.

**Aclone** · 02-17-2009, 12:19 PM

Clayton Oyster. I had to look inside to see if he had a first name...I was hoping it wasn't "Rockefeller", let alone a nickname like "Crackers". Well, hopefully some of the big linemen will start coming out of their shell, and start mussellin--er, muscling defenses around.

**Cyznutz** · 02-20-2009, 02:21 PM

Originally Posted by JDDCy

Any thoughts on Oyster from the S&C guys? I remember a pretty good discussion awhile back debating the strengths and weaknesses of different coaching styles. Most of the CF S&C experts were ready for Shep to move on. How does Oyster compare to Becton?

I'd take Oyster or a blind miget over Becton!