Would Mike Favre make a great Strength & Conditioning coach?

Submitted by BIGBLUEWORLD on

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. 

 

MGoBoard
Football
Olympic training
world class training

BIGBLUEWORLD

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. 

Joined: 07/14/2012

MGoPoints: 4239

Space Coyote

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.

Joined: 06/18/2009

MGoPoints: 38962

MGoStrength

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.

Joined: 07/29/2010

MGoPoints: 20002

teldar

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.

 

Joined: 07/14/2009

MGoPoints: 8132

samsoccer7

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.

Joined: 07/08/2008

MGoPoints: 11864