Strength and Conditioning Coach...

[kc_clone]

Anderson was mostly with Coach Moser at ISU, not Getty.

 

[scclone]

I have great respect for PR, and I think he's going to do great things here. That being said, it's Week 2 now of the winter semester and still no strength coach. This is not good. You can get away with not hiring a DC for a little bit because they really can get with those players until Spring Ball. It's go time right now for the physical development of our players. Having a couple of GA's just monitoring the weight room is not going to cut it.

 

[cyclonedave25]

I agree with everything you said there. But how in the world is any of that difficult? Nothing you just said can't be done by someone with a little education, training and experience. That was my point. I wasn't trying to down grade the job...just make a point that, well, its not rocket science. Don't just go out and hire some schmuck but lets be honest here, PR knows what he's doing and he'll bring in a guy that will get the job done.

I know you weren't downgrading the position, but there's more to it than just lifting some weights. On the surface, it may seem easy to an outsider looking in... Lifting weights, running, making people sweat, etc.. But your good S & C coaches will have a great understanding and knowledge of the physiology, biomechanics, motor control, and nutrition to capitalize on all possible accounts. Periodization and Conjugate training methods are widely used in strength and coniditioning, knowing how to do those correctly and efficiently are very important. Proper form on all lifts is very important, something a lot of uneducated people may not know about. Knowing how to correctly perform a squat, power clean, clean and jerk to an exact "T" vs sloppily doing it will yield huge differences on the field.

I'm just saying that although S & C may seem pretty easy on the outside, there is so much more to it than people actually realize. All of the little things matter in this business. Including, properly training your athletes so that when the season rolls around they are in their best condition and most powerful stage ever. And continuing to train them throughout the season to keep getting better, without over training them, is something hard to accomplish.

 

[ChickenWing]

I agree. I remember McCarney saying once that the S&C coach (Getty) spent more time with the players than any on-field coach. I'm not into lifting, but if you want someone who just has the players do arms on Monday and Thursday, legs on Tuesday and cardio on Saturday, then yeah, those guys are a dime a dozen. What they need is someone who can tailor the program for each player, focus workouts on improving them at their position and evaluate bodies to project and acheive the optimum size, quickness and speed combination.

Also, the S&C coach needs to be part of the recruiting strategy on official and unofficial visits.

You are crazy if you think in this day and age there are any candidates for this job that would run a simple program like you described. Wouldn't it be safe to assume anyone up for the S&C position at ISU would do all those "high tech" programs and wouldn't it be safe to assume that PR is more than capable of recognizing not to hire Joe Meathead as his S&C coach. Those programs you describe aren't some hidden secret within college athletics. I'm sure they all go to conferences and I'm sure time is dedicated to this junk at coaches conferences. Bottom line, a lot of people get this training now, a lot of people would be more than capable of implementing these programs and PR just needs to find the person he likes and trusts.

I'm giving it another I don't give a f*** who he hires because i'm sure he'll be fine.

 

[kingcy]

Why dont they just get a few of the workout DVDs from the late night infomercials.

 

[Wesley]

Maybe the problem is PR cannot find the right person. Many people's jobs are set. Dollars may be short. People may not lioje to relocate in Jan to Ames. Seems like it is more than time to make an announcement. At the same time, two grad assistants subbing does not sound like an acceptable solution. Why would you not pay to have an interim professional fill in starting last week? After reading gow everybody took the holidays off reminded me of the fact we did not have a bowl game and we should have done much more lifting than what was reported. With our smaller in eweight guys who need to put on weight, the nutrition choices should be monitored. Seems like the last S&C left a month ago. I do not know if PR can afford to wait for the Pittsburgh extraodinaire Mr. M to see if he has other offers. We need to move on. Heck, we have had a revovlving door of S&Cs in the last three years.

 

[Bobber]

Maybe the problem is PR cannot find the right person. Many people's jobs are set. Dollars may be short. People may not lioje to relocate in Jan to Ames. Seems like it is more than time to make an announcement. At the same time, two grad assistants subbing does not sound like an acceptable solution. Why would you not pay to have an interim professional fill in starting last week? After reading gow everybody took the holidays off reminded me of the fact we did not have a bowl game and we should have done much more lifting than what was reported. With our smaller in eweight guys who need to put on weight, the nutrition choices should be monitored. Seems like the last S&C left a month ago. I do not know if PR can afford to wait for the Pittsburgh extraodinaire Mr. M to see if he has other offers. We need to move on. Heck, we have had a revovlving door of S&Cs in the last three years.

I don't think that's the case at all. I think Paul is focusing on recruiting right now which is exactly what he should be doing. He's got months before he really needs to have those coaches in the saddle, but only a couple weeks left to harvest these kids.

I think the Fanatics are a lot more worried about this than Coach Rhoads or even Jamie Pollard.

 

[ChickenWing]

While we are making suggestions for PR on a S&C coach, my vote is for Vera de Milo. I heard she is the S&C coach at Coe College and trained under Doyle.

Dailymotion - In Living Color - Workout - Jim Carrey, a video from harrison73. In, Living, Color, -, Carrey

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[Cybyassociation]

Maybe the problem is PR cannot find the right person. Many people's jobs are set. Dollars may be short. People may not lioje to relocate in Jan to Ames. Seems like it is more than time to make an announcement. At the same time, two grad assistants subbing does not sound like an acceptable solution. Why would you not pay to have an interim professional fill in starting last week? After reading gow everybody took the holidays off reminded me of the fact we did not have a bowl game and we should have done much more lifting than what was reported. With our smaller in eweight guys who need to put on weight, the nutrition choices should be monitored. Seems like the last S&C left a month ago. I do not know if PR can afford to wait for the Pittsburgh extraodinaire Mr. M to see if he has other offers. We need to move on. Heck, we have had a revovlving door of S&Cs in the last three years.

Or maybe PR thought he had the right person for the job, actually got to interview them and then found out...well, maybe not. After this, he would now be going through new candidates with a finer tooth comb. After having one of his coaches already jump ship, I'm guessing he's making sure the coaches he gets are ones that want to be in Ames and want to make this team better. It takes a while to find the right person for the task that is at hand.