Kudos to the Strength and Conditioning Program

Submitted by GustaveFerbert on

There were a lot of players playing lots of minutes in a tough hard hitting football game.   And those players were still going strong right till the end.   We eventually need to get more rotation of players, but for now, thank you Barwis and Company - and thanks for those players making the dedication.  

Go Blue! 

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lexus larry

September 12th, 2010 at 8:19 AM ^

Two hard-hitting games, two excellent victories, nothing more than some bumps and bruises. And a couple tin cans to thump to close out September. We're in excellent shape literally and figuratively, in almost all ways. Keep working, keep improving...more awesomeness to come!

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LB

September 12th, 2010 at 8:54 AM ^

Seconds are ticking away. You look up at the clock to check the time, and realize that yes, it is indeed Barwis Time.

There is an awful lot of work (within NCAA limits, of course) taking place that might not seem to yield magical results. That is because football has been, and will be, a game of inches. We might not see it, MM's biceps notwithstanding, but this is the best conditioned team that has ever left the tunnel. Conditioning played a part in that win.

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Kilgore Trout

September 12th, 2010 at 9:20 AM ^

They played well and were clutch in the end, but the whole thing of UM being in some sort of superior shape that will win them games in the end is played out and a little lame in my opinion.  Where was that tremendous conditioning on the Rudolph bomb?

EDIT:  I don't mean to say UM is worse off than anyone else S and C wise, but I haven't seen any on field evidence in the last 2+ years that they are any better than anyone else either.  All top IA football teams have good S&C.

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michiganfanforlife

September 12th, 2010 at 9:57 AM ^

moronic to attribute conditioning to lack of coverage on a long pass play.  Cam Gordon played a great game, but he let Rudolph just run right past him. Deep as the deepest, boys. That's a mental thing, and it has nothing to do with physical shape. Saying otherwise is just downright ignorant.

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DetroitBlue

September 12th, 2010 at 10:49 AM ^

I agree that you can't attribute his lapses on a couple plays to lack of conditioning, but it's a stretch to say he played great; he was one of the main culprits in ND's 2 passing touchdowns.  I don't blame the kid at all because he's a freshman who switched positions and, in a perfect world, he wouldn't be playing at this point.  I have every confidence that he'll be an excellent safety when all is said and done.  That being said, I just don't think he "played a great game."

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