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I take as a positive it means that the players are keeping their noses clean and there have been no significant injuries.frdbtr wrote:Should I be concerned that this guy is the biggest story in the off season for BYU sports? Come on, everyone has a strength and conditioning coach. I would be shocked if BYU is doing anything any better than anyone else. If he made such a huge difference, why wasn't a change made to our program years ago?
Were there any other variables that changed or was he the only one? Not trying to be argumentative, just trying to get a clear picture of what changed.scott715 wrote:Some stats
2005: 2-9
2006: 3-9
2007: 2-10
2008: 1-11
2009: 2-10
2010: 3-9
Wintrich joins staff
2011: 5-7
2012: 4-8
2013: 9-4
2014: 4-8
Team went from 2.2 to 4.5 wins per average season.
BYU has struggled for over a decade to get out from under the Coach Stiggins model of strength and conditioning, which went of style the same time as rollerblades.frdbtr wrote:Should I be concerned that this guy is the biggest story in the off season for BYU sports? Come on, everyone has a strength and conditioning coach. I would be shocked if BYU is doing anything any better than anyone else. If he made such a huge difference, why wasn't a change made to our program years ago?
BTW, there's been a lot of talk about the "bash bros". Exciting stuff.frdbtr wrote:Should I be concerned that this guy is the biggest story in the off season for BYU sports? Come on, everyone has a strength and conditioning coach. I would be shocked if BYU is doing anything any better than anyone else. If he made such a huge difference, why wasn't a change made to our program years ago?
Coach Omer was a step down from Coach Stiggins. Stiggins was progressive up until the moment he stopped coaching. Then things really started to go downhill...snoscythe wrote:BYU has struggled for over a decade to get out from under the Coach Stiggins model of strength and conditioning, which went of style the same time as rollerblades.frdbtr wrote:Should I be concerned that this guy is the biggest story in the off season for BYU sports? Come on, everyone has a strength and conditioning coach. I would be shocked if BYU is doing anything any better than anyone else. If he made such a huge difference, why wasn't a change made to our program years ago?
This move to more plyometric-based conditioning is long overdue.
[youtube]XFkzRNyygfk[/youtube]runbyu1 wrote: Stiggins was progressive up until the moment he stopped coaching. Then things really started to go downhill...