“The weight lifting program at Long Beach State wasn’t enormous. You basically go in there and get things done on your own. When I came to Miami, the strength coach at the time, Brad Roll (who since then held several jobs in the NFL coaching the strength and conditioning program), was really big into Olympic lifts which was like power cleans, snatching and all of that. I wasn’t big into that, we just didn’t do it a Long Beach. It was foreign to me. I came in one morning for a workout and you have your sheet. There happened to be two other teams in there. So, Coach Roll's attention was divided amongst the football players that were in there and the two other teams that were. I thought I could get away without doing my power cleans.
"So, I do my work out and I realized he wasn’t paying that much attention, so I'll slide out of here without doing my power cleans. I went into the locker room, put on my stuff and I am heading out to the parking lot. This was the parking lot by the track so it is a good little walk. Halfway there, I hear these big-heavy footsteps behind me and I am like no way. I turn around and there it is, Coach Roll sprinting towards me. He said, ‘Chad you didn’t do your power cleans. This is not how this thing was built.’ He made me come right back into the locker room, get all my stuff off, get my workout clothes, out of the hamper by the way, put them back on and go in there and do my power cleans. And that is just guys holding other guys accountable. Even the strength coach, not letting you get away. He could have easily let me go, it was one day. He could have let me be. But that guy stopped what he was doing and ran out to the parking lot and got me back into there to handle my business.”
