A few years ago,
@Coach Macho and I had a conversation about speed. I said if kids are going to the combine and they haven’t improved their speed over their high school years, then take a look at the S&C program, there might be a problem. Last year
@apfenny3 , myself and a few others had raised eyebrows about what we considered an excessive amount of 300’s (or whatever they were). If you’re looking for speed … you might never do a workout like that. Ever.
there was also a debate on these boards on the effectiveness of deadlifts. The “deadlifts“ people outnumbered the “forget Deadlifts“ people, who argued “Olympic lifts” and squats + plyometrics, almost to the exclusion of all else.
yes, Miami has to recruit better but Miami also has to develop better. and the weight room numbers don’t impress. At all. It’s a sport of strength and collisions but athletes in other sports are outperforming Miami’s athletes in similar lifts/performances.
here’s A 6’5”, 270lb man running the equivalent of a “combine 4.5x” 40. I’ll bet he doesn’t deadlift or does so little to be inconsequential.
here’s Reese Hoffa running 1.68 at 320lbs
a big deal was made of Saquon Barkley power cleaning 425, here’s an avg British sprinter FRONT squatting that
it’s not just the fast kids, where are the strong kids? Explosive kids? Most would expect football players to be stronger than top track athletes … but not at Miami, unfortunately.
Iowa, Wisconsin, Stanford… routinely trains 2* and 3* athletes, yet Miami cant train up 3*, 4* and 5stars?
im not saying you can train/teach what Schwartz has, but there’s no reason that 3-4 years of S&C shouldn’t yield better combine results … faster, stronget, more explosive Canes.
