Would Mike Favre make a great Strength & Conditioning coach?
The University of Michigan has a world class strength & conditioning coach on campus today.
http://www.mgoblue.com/genrel/mike_favre_564945.html
Mike Favre is Director of Olympic Sports Strength and Conditioning. He's trained athletes who compete at the Olympics. One of his students won an Olympic Gold medal. He knows every aspect of training for agility, body control, generating force, preventing injuries.
Shannon Turley is great. But if we hire Turley's top assistant for the football specific elements of training, and combine that with Mike Favre's world class knowledge in a wide variety of athletic training and conditioning, we could have the best of both worlds.
Could he transfer his superior knowledge of wrestling, gymnastics, Olympic lifting and other sports to football? If not the head S&C coach, he would certainly make a great addition to the team.
What's your intelligent opinion?
Peace.
January 5th, 2015 at 11:46 AM ^
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January 5th, 2015 at 11:50 AM ^
He certainly looks like a BAMF. Named S&C coach of the year in 2013. DO WANT.
http://www.baylorbears.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/kaz_kazadi_339280.html
January 5th, 2015 at 11:52 AM ^
January 5th, 2015 at 12:22 PM ^
are you referring to #80 who scored the TD in the bowl game?
January 5th, 2015 at 11:57 AM ^
not a bad looking football player
January 5th, 2015 at 12:01 PM ^
are we sure thats a human being?
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January 5th, 2015 at 12:34 PM ^
My Grandfather had a bottle of that in his bathroom, between the Paco Rabane and the Brut 33.
Thanks for the memory trigger. Better than a madeleine.
January 5th, 2015 at 8:05 PM ^
What no British Sterling or Stetson!
Yes, that is Matthew Mcconaughey, and just think he is moved up and doing adds for Lincoln while rolling a....
January 5th, 2015 at 12:57 PM ^
Relating to the Lions Game
Ref: Pass interference on Dallas
Shawn Oakman: No.
Ref: Lol jk *picks up flag*
January 5th, 2015 at 1:13 PM ^
From Black Hole?
January 5th, 2015 at 12:02 PM ^
S&C guy that was extremely disappointed that Turley was taking the job. He was hoping to take it. Sam didn't know if he was next in line though.
Sounds like a good option if true.
January 5th, 2015 at 12:37 PM ^
One guy says
yea. Harbaugh could hire 3 orangutans and a Japanese Kabuki troupe and we'd still be ahead.......
it would have been nice to get Turley but...
January 5th, 2015 at 12:56 PM ^
who is that?
January 5th, 2015 at 1:30 PM ^
I think he's in U2
January 5th, 2015 at 11:48 AM ^
January 5th, 2015 at 12:02 PM ^
Harbaugh was on the right track going after Turley, who runs a well rounded, innovative S&C program. That's a good sign.
JH obviously knows about up-to-date training methods that get better results, instead of just the old body-building methods that many trainers still rely on.
Peace.
January 5th, 2015 at 12:15 PM ^
January 5th, 2015 at 11:53 AM ^
I highly, highly doubt Favre would switch. First, he wouldn't do both because he has enough on his plate. Second, he's about as secure as secure gets in his line of work (a benefit of being the olympic sport S&C coach is that you are a part of multiple sports, and therefore aren't let go if a coach gets fired or leaves). Third, he probably likes that field because he knows what each person needs to improve in their field and immediately how to meet that need.
I know there are a ton of parallels, but typically you want a football strength guy to coach football. There is different schedules, different requirements of your time, different interactions with coaches, different ways of handling discipline, etc, and that's before getting into the fact that it's just different sports and therefore needs different approaches and what not.
Do I think Favre would be capable if he really wanted? Most likely. But I think it's more beneficial for all Michigan programs if Harbaugh brought in his own S&C guy with a football background.
January 5th, 2015 at 11:55 AM ^
Favre is a great coach. He won the National Strength and Conditioning (NSCA) Coach of the Year a few years back. He's authored a number of both research based on practical articles in professional S&C journals as well as presented a number of times at S&C national conferences. He knows his stuff. Of of my buddies from my grad program worked for him there as an assistant and I've seen him present before. I'm sure he could do just fine. Basically Oly sports means everything minus football and basketball which get thier own coaches. He heads up volleyball and wrestling but oversees all the other sports too. That being said, typically football wants football guys with experience. It's not that Mike couldn't do it, it's just that it would be a huge difference in how football is run...not neccessarily the programming of workouts, just the overall year long commitment to one sport and how that works. I'd guess Harbaugh would want a guy with more football specific experience.
January 5th, 2015 at 11:59 AM ^
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January 5th, 2015 at 12:48 PM ^
We heard tons about how Barwis stressed flexibility and injury prevention and stamina... then we never saw any of this. It seemed 4th quarter losses and torn ACL's were just as prevalent as they were under Carr. Maybe more so even. I can't argue that Barwis doesn't know his stuff, but I don't think he produced everything that he was supposedly going to when he came to Michigan in the first place.
January 5th, 2015 at 2:11 PM ^
Barwis is busy building an empire. He has too much going on to go back to being a dedicated S&C coach. I think Harbaugh wants someone who is all in, not someone who's looking for a side job.
January 5th, 2015 at 12:00 PM ^
If Kazadi is really being looked at as our S&C coach, I think it's clear that Harbaugh is looking for a more modern approach to training. The thing I liked hearing about Turley is the stretching and flexibility, getting low, and focusing on speed with strength. Seems like Kazadi is in the same mold based on the article I read from the EDGE. Also, not sure if the EDGE is really saying he's being looked at, but saw one posting about him.
January 5th, 2015 at 12:04 PM ^
January 5th, 2015 at 12:10 PM ^
we get about a dozen special forces instructors in here.
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January 5th, 2015 at 1:01 PM ^
If simply asking if a specific person is in a photograph is racist . . . THEN YES!!! 100%.
But in my humble opinion. It is not racist.
January 5th, 2015 at 2:10 PM ^
January 5th, 2015 at 12:54 PM ^
No. This is Baylor's S&C coach.
January 5th, 2015 at 1:30 PM ^
No its Muadianvita Machkaz Kazadi
January 5th, 2015 at 6:03 PM ^
Nice copy and paste haha
January 5th, 2015 at 12:39 PM ^
January 5th, 2015 at 1:24 PM ^
Not good enough. Pass.