I may have overlooked it but has Pope named who the Strength & Conditioning Coach will be ?
Strength and Conditioning Coach
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PS-Pope hasn’t named one yet.
PS-Pope hasn’t named one yet.
I’ll do it for a discounted $80,000 per year and four lifetime season tickets in the first five rows behind bench.
Gym, Tan, Laundry.
Gym, Tan, Laundry.
Likely someone from FITYERO on the Paddock.
Never understood the fascination with this. We had a few that acted like after we changed the last one it was some big upgrade. 99% of them are all doing the same thing.
Joe Biden. He can do more pushups than anybody, plus he drove a big-rig, killed Corn Pop & worked in construction.
I think it's probably something you just don't want to be lackluster. Get a younger guy who has some new ideas on strength and mobility. Doing things that will keep the team on the floor.
What you don't want is some crusty old guy who thinks the Presidential Fitness test is still the gold standard lol
A good article. Good chance we model much after this. Pope still talks about those practices.
I thought Oliver was still there, thought I heard he was helping on the phones etc while Pope hired his staff.
In my 92 vhs tape of the Cats, yep...vhs....of the team conditioning, they were in the pool treading water holding gallon jugs over their heads.
I’ll do it for a discounted $79,500 per year and four lifetime season tickets in the first five rows behind bench.
As long as the new hire has a good track record with ankle strength, they should be an improvement.
Rock Oliver was promoted to an assistant AD position several years ago.
Can only help. Tired of players after a year still looking like this dude.
While we play teams with players that look like they have been lifting weights and roiding in the prison yard for 10 years straight. Hopefully upperclassmen transfers will help.
While we play teams with players that look like they have been lifting weights and roiding in the prison yard for 10 years straight. Hopefully upperclassmen transfers will help.
This past year Edwards looked like he had never seen the weight room.
I a thinking that part of the reason our guys never looked tip top shape, and didn't get after it in games, is because Calipari didn't really spend a lot of time teaching sets and different defenses. Probably a lot of "guys, you know the drill. Anyone wanna go to the movies?"
Pope, no question in my mind he is going to run a completely different ship, and force guys to step up their game in practice.
Pope, no question in my mind he is going to run a completely different ship, and force guys to step up their game in practice.
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Rock Oliver has one of the more curious career trajectories of anyone. S&c forever. Never updated his approach. UK hired someone else then he went into a non sports job (I think someone posted he was a dei chair or something) but was always sitting at the scorers table. Then somehow Uber confidant to Mitch and now played a role (of some sort) in helping pope select staff.
I have no idea what his current title is or what he really does; but he's carved out a place for himself that's for sure.
Eat 500 calories less than your TDEE, lift heavy rock. Eat 1000 calories more than your TDEE with heavy protein intake. Lift heavy rock. Profit.
If Coach Pope learned anything from Rick Pitino it was you can win games not by offense or defense but by just being in elite shape. The reason the press worked was because it was relentless.
And his Uncle got eaten by cannibals.
According to Mitch, rock was one of only four people in the meeting with Cal. Mitch, Cal, Marc hill, and rock Oliver.
I'm not saying there is anything nefarious about it, but I do think it's curious how an outdated s&c guy somehow worked his way into a created job and is Mitch's confidant.
He hasn’t been on the S&C side of things since 2015 and has been in an administrative role since then. I think Rock’s strength is his connection with the student athlete and that’s a big part of his role over the past 10 years overseeing student athlete success and engagement. It’s a vital role in a lot of athletic departments and almost like the eyes and ears of the student athlete for the administrative staff.
When Calipari was here, our inside players were so skinny and weak I often wondered what does Calipari's strength and conditioning do? I always figured that he was just a friend of Calipari's that was totally unqualified for the job