New Assistant strength and conditioning coach
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The University of Michigan football program has hired Sam Coad to serve as assistant strength and conditioning coach, it was announced Friday (Sept. 19).
Coad comes to Ann Arbor from Brisbane, Australia, where he served as strength and conditioning coach and sport scientist with the Brisbane Lions Australian Rules Football Club. Coad also was a teaching fellow in the sports and exercise science program at Bond University. Prior to working with the Brisbane club, he completed strength and conditioning and sports science internships with the Gold Coast Titans Rugby League and Queensland Reds Rugby Union.
With the Wolverines, he will be responsible for assessing and enhancing student-athlete readiness, performance and recovery as part of the comprehensive sports performance program. Coad also will collect and interpret data obtained from football student-athletes during workouts, practices and games to provide training recommendations.
Coad earned a bachelor of sport sciences degree from Bond University, graduating with honors in 2012 after earning Dean’s Awards in 2011 and 2012. He is a PhD candidate at Bond researching the neuroimmunological, physiological and biochemical responses of elite contact sports athletes to training and competition.
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Turley’s impact speaks as much to availability as ability. The coaches recruit speed and size and talent. He believes the best players, the ones most on the field, who sustain the most collisions, also carry the most injury risk. His first priority is to keep them on the field.
From 2006, the year before Turley arrived on the Farm, as Stanford’s campus is known, through last season, the number of games missed because of injury on the two-deep roster dropped by 87 percent. In 2012, only two Cardinal players required season-ending or postseason surgical repair; this year, only one.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/12/31/sports/ncaafootball/stanfords-dist…
September 19th, 2014 at 10:51 PM ^
A lot of that could be sheer luck. It trended down every year? They just make the 2006 to 2012 comparison. Why would it take 6 years for that to kick in anyway?
September 19th, 2014 at 7:58 PM ^
Obligatory: Aussie Aussie Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!
September 19th, 2014 at 7:59 PM ^
Welcome to The Team! Go Blue!
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September 19th, 2014 at 8:02 PM ^
We're not just serious about ouur conditioning program, we're Yahoo Serious.
September 19th, 2014 at 10:03 PM ^
kind of person to get that post. well done.
September 19th, 2014 at 8:13 PM ^
I wish they'd make the Strength and Conditioning records available.
I'm really curious to see who holds the bench press, squat records.
Nebraska does an outstanding job making S&C program records for all sports available.
I emailed Justin Dickens (the director of operations) awhile ago about the S&C records and he said he has no knowledge of those being available.
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My SuperGuides bring all the girls to the yard
September 19th, 2014 at 8:45 PM ^
their weight a year later based on position, ideal weight, and school in order to determine which b1g school has the best sc program let me know.
I doubt the school released weights are accurate, but you never know.
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It's a sport replete with epic double points.
September 19th, 2014 at 9:26 PM ^
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Welcome
September 19th, 2014 at 10:01 PM ^
Hello, Bruce, send us your punters (and philosophers.)
September 19th, 2014 at 10:08 PM ^
is still on the FOX networks very early in the morning on weekends.
September 19th, 2014 at 11:01 PM ^
Most of our players' neuroimmunological responses are poor. This hire represents a welcomed new direction.
September 20th, 2014 at 12:00 AM ^
Coaches have talked a lot about the "new" (to us) GPS-ish technology they're using, like on Jake Butt and people. Especially as a Ph.D candidate, my guess is that this guy is going to be doing quite a bit of data analysis on the information those devices provide, perhaps more so than "just" being in the weightroom with the athletes all the time, like Wellman or some of the other S&C coaches. It would probably be really interesting to 1) see what he gleans from the data and 2) as these types of things become more common in the NCAA, to have reasonable cases and controls to try to see if this is actually an effective strategy. Though 1 will probably never be available to the public and 2 probably won't ever be done at a particularly rigorous level.
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I have no special insight here, but if he's "researching the neuroimmunological, physiological and biochemical responses of elite contact sports athletes to training and competition", then I'd have to assume that a lot of his work is going to be focused on studying and working to improve players' brain health, short and long term. This seems like a very smart move by the University, both in terms of protecting the wellbeing of students and in terms of limiting future liabilities (though again, I have no expertise in terms of legal-type things).
Also, has anybody seen that Rippetoe article? /s
September 20th, 2014 at 8:07 AM ^
And would appear to be quite forward thinking.........thinking out of the box?
Are there any other sports teams at any level that have tried this type of training?
Go Blue! Get pumped!
September 20th, 2014 at 11:02 AM ^
Glad to see 4 months of hard work from the search and recruitment committee pay off by pulling this diamond in the rough from 9000 miles away.