Strength and Conditioning questions.....

I figured out that’s what you meant.

 

Be strong, Grasshopper...

 

Boyd Epley. Nebraska Strength and Conditioning. Where it all started at college level.

 

It’s not just strength and conditioning but how you are coached to utilize it.

Are they playing with the right leverage? Is the pad level too high? Taking a wrong angle? In the right space with the right footwork?

Just buzz word phrases but leverage matters. There are smaller guys with less strength who are virtually immovable due to great leverage. Someone super strong with pad level too high with poor footwork can get pushed around by someone faster and not as strong. That is often how big upsets occur in football.

it could be our trench coaches are getting out coached and or players out played due to some of those factors.

 

I think that is pretty similar because it is usually not a trade of a 1a for a 1b. And coming in midyear is not like chemistry with teammates for the year. It really needs to be plug and play. You carry less players as well, creating more strain on starters. So I think in NFL it's still pretty important to keep the starters. healthy.

 

There are some that definitely look like they’re dancing with two left feet. Nobody can teach me to be MC Hammer.

 

In other words, safely build muscle and proactive the demands of your sport.

 

Being big doesn't mean being tough or strong. If it were so, Big Dez would be unstoppable and be on everyone's All American team.

 

Yes, but the myth persists that we got beat by big ol’ corn fed boys. So I’m here to kill the myth.

 

Sometimes gotta be athletic enough to get to your man and set feet and pad level properly. Think we struggle with that because we have plenty of size but not enough athleticism on the line.

 

We got SMASHED cause we could not block Nebraska at all that night in Tempe. As everyone knows, we did not go shotgun until 96 SECCG vs Alabama, after having been previously exposed on pass protection by FSU in the game prior. Once Wuerffel was in shotgun, he had extra time to pick apart the secondary, and he did. As great an offensive mind was Spurrier at that time, I and many others could not understand his hesitancy to go shotgun given the importance of timing on his passing attack.

 

Smashed by a team that was smaller than we were. Hypothesis: it was the strength and conditioning.

 

It was a combo. For sure, under Spurrier on offense, we were never a smash mouth o-line outside of 90 and 91 when we on oline were Hall's recruits.......Mark White, Hisham Ismael, Cal Dixon, Chris Bromley, Jim Watson, Tony Rowell.

Spurrier used pass to set up run in mid 90s. Could be effective, could be exposed. Fortunately, we got the Title in 96, 52 to 20.

 

the GREAT WALL OF FLORIDA 1984……
The most physical line we ever had.

 

YES!!!!! Good Ol' Days.

 

Spurrier could be very stubborn too but he wouldn’t keep doing it longterm.

 

Well said.

 

If we had not gone shotgun after FSU DESTROYED our pass protection in that 96 game, we may not have beaten Alabama in the subsequent SECCG. And if we do not go shotgun in the 96 Title Game in New Orleans, FSU beats us again. We simply could not handle Reinard Wilson and Peter Boulware with Danny under center. We go shotgun, and we literally took candy from a baby with our pass offense that night.

 

New to this forum, but not GC, 20 years, your posts throughout the site are excellent. A reminder to some ( many) that UF did not start playing sports in 1990, or 2006. Keep up the good work.

 

I talked to Watson about his time on the field. Great guy.