huntmich

March 7th, 2018 at 10:13 AM ^

Connolly received a bachelor’s degree in "Manual Therapy from the Institute of Physical Therapy, Dublin, and a PhD in computer integration- based optimization from the University of Limerick." Oh so he's legit Irish. I guess it makes sense why he's plastered at noon on a Monday then.

Blue in St Lou

March 7th, 2018 at 10:19 AM ^

A relative of mine received a masters degree in Performance Studies.  She explained that it was a broad field becsuse all human activity involves performance.  According to his bio, Fergus' title is actually Director of Performance Science.  I guess that makes it a little narrower than Perfornance Studies because my relative's field wasn't limited to science.

I hope that makes it clear.

MGoStrength

March 7th, 2018 at 12:46 PM ^

In my experience working as a strength coach, this position has been titled as an administration job, which is technicaly the boss of the strength and conditioning staff (minus football and sometimes basketball).  The reveneue generating sport's strength staff tend to be appointed by the head coach.  The rest of the strength staffs, often called Olympic strength and conditioning, tend to be appointed by the performance director.  I would liken it to the AD of the strength and conditioning coaches for all the sports minus football and men's basketball.  This was how they did it at 2 of the 4 schools I worked at.

crg

March 7th, 2018 at 10:07 AM ^

Quite an indictment of society. This guy makes $255k a year and no one can state exactly what he does. Meanwhile, grade school teachers in inner cities, dealing with threats to their personal safety in addition to trying their damnedest to help these kids, make $20k-$30k per year (most with a good amount of student debt to repay too).