andymuffins
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I have a friend who used to be an Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach to Shannon Turley at Stanford, let's say his name is "Luke".
We had a long conversation about a month ago regarding Bennie Wylie. Now I don't profess to know a lot about S&C, but Luke knows his stuff, not saying he's the best or even smarter than any other S&C coach but he does know what he's talking about and was directly responsible for Toby Gehrhart's improvement and development.
He said the general consensus is that there are two types of S&C Coaches, there are the Player Development Coaches and there are the RA! RA! Coaches.
Luke calls BW a RA! RA! Coach, which focuses more on Conditioning type workouts and less in strength, general development, etc.
Now he said there is nothing inherently wrong with this model, it's just that different schools are able to run their S&C program in different ways, sometimes it depends on there schemes and others it depends on their talent.
He said the reality is, that at a place like Stanford, player development is a necessity, they cannot always get the best and greatest talent in the country, it's just not going to happen because of academics, so they must focus on development, same thing with smaller schools, less known, etc.
He also said that any coach that actually participates in workouts is not really coaching, which BW does do. Again though, he said this may all be part of the plan or template at Tennessee, he may have assistants that are actually doing the "coaching" part and that he is simply the big scary drill sergeant that all the players are "afraid" of and that he is actually just the "face" of the program.
All of what he said made sense though I don't necessarily agree. What I do feel is that Strength and Conditioning from a Coaches standpoint has more opinions than The View.
I don't know if he's right or wrong, I just thought it was an interesting perspective on our program.
We had a long conversation about a month ago regarding Bennie Wylie. Now I don't profess to know a lot about S&C, but Luke knows his stuff, not saying he's the best or even smarter than any other S&C coach but he does know what he's talking about and was directly responsible for Toby Gehrhart's improvement and development.
He said the general consensus is that there are two types of S&C Coaches, there are the Player Development Coaches and there are the RA! RA! Coaches.
Luke calls BW a RA! RA! Coach, which focuses more on Conditioning type workouts and less in strength, general development, etc.
Now he said there is nothing inherently wrong with this model, it's just that different schools are able to run their S&C program in different ways, sometimes it depends on there schemes and others it depends on their talent.
He said the reality is, that at a place like Stanford, player development is a necessity, they cannot always get the best and greatest talent in the country, it's just not going to happen because of academics, so they must focus on development, same thing with smaller schools, less known, etc.
He also said that any coach that actually participates in workouts is not really coaching, which BW does do. Again though, he said this may all be part of the plan or template at Tennessee, he may have assistants that are actually doing the "coaching" part and that he is simply the big scary drill sergeant that all the players are "afraid" of and that he is actually just the "face" of the program.
All of what he said made sense though I don't necessarily agree. What I do feel is that Strength and Conditioning from a Coaches standpoint has more opinions than The View.
I don't know if he's right or wrong, I just thought it was an interesting perspective on our program.
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