Swasey

[Prince_Boll]

Personally, we should fire Myrna Schneider, Al Golden's assistant. She has been at the University for 35 years, so she was there for every single bad season we have had since the 80's. Personally it has to be all her fault. We should hire Nick Saban's assistant instead, she has 3 National Championship's in 4 years.

 

[SBAMACANE]

He's following orders right now, the dc is the major issue.

+10000

 

[DeadPoets]

Personally, we should fire Myrna Schneider, Al Golden's assistant. She has been at the University for 35 years, so she was there for every single bad season we have had since the 80's. Personally it has to be all her fault. We should hire Nick Saban's assistant instead, she has 3 National Championship's in 4 years.

stfu w/ that bs

 

[Ernie McCracken]

Ernie: been screaming this for years. Basically knew we'd be still lacking development when Golden retained him.

Butch fired his S and C team, brought in Moffitt. Then fired his close friend and DC and brought in Schiano. And the team turned around.

Every single year for as long as I can remember, we have looked like this down the stretch. The guy is a cancer, a virus. He couldnt even get these kids bench pressing!!! How he is still here defies any logic. This school is financially ****ed with the Golden contract, and so we MUST improve the staff around him or we will be in this **** forever.

I agree. I don't think ppl appreciate how important a good sc staff is. They have more contact with the kids than the head coach or coordinators.

If donofrio spends 20 percent of the time with a kid and swasey spends 80 percent of the time, whose fault is it the kid regressed?

How do you know what the **** they are doing? Bands and yoga balls, says who? The players have not regressed in the weight room. They've almost all gotten stronger and faster. The numbers don't lie.

Just because that hasn't translated to the field doesn't mean its Swasey's fault.

There is a difference between functional strength and weight room strength, just like there is a difference between track speed and football speed. That's part of swasey's problem.

 

[Ernie McCracken]

We shut down Florida's running game.

Our blocking is just fine. FSU couldn't do **** against our OL.

FSU said that we were the most physical team that they've played at the time.

Swasey isn't the problem.

Floridas rb was out of the game due to having aids.

Hey I bring facts, you bring opinions and blanket statements

The fact is we have sucked for 10 years and swasey is the only common link, the fact is that swasey spends more time with these kids than any coach

 

[Ernie McCracken]

He's following orders right now, the dc is the major issue.

+10000

So Swasey is a mindless puppet that makes no decisions on his own?

Tell me this then, guys, why don't we hire a trained monkey to do the job? Might save the university some money.

 

[Hurracanes]

SMH at anyone who was pleased with the OL performance this year. I believe this unit was very disappointing.

 

[bacane]

Can't believe Swasey didn't alert folks to Nevin Shapiro. Should have warned Donna not to take his money. Guy can't do anything right.

 

[Ernie McCracken]

Can't believe Swasey didn't alert folks to Nevin Shapiro. Should have warned Donna not to take his money. Guy can't do anything right.

Can't blame swasey for the NCAA mess, you can blame him for soft *** players who get their **** pushed in by duke

 

[ucrew02]

You know what "functional" strength turns out to be on the field? Good football technique. Our guys are plenty strong and are using methods similar to almost every team in america. It's not rocket science guys. Alabama isn't using some secret formula for "functional strength". They are better football players. They are in the right position to make plays on the field and then they make them. We have been strong and fast enough to win just about every game this year.

Does S&C matter? Sure does. It matter a **** of a lot more in terms of maximize player's physical potential more than it does in one on one battles on the field, though. I've said it a handful of times here, Swasey will not take deficient football players and make them good. That's not what a strength coach does and it never will be.

 

[DeadPoets]

You know what "functional" strength turns out to be on the field? Good football technique. Our guys are plenty strong and are using methods similar to almost every team in america. It's not rocket science guys. Alabama isn't using some secret formula for "functional strength". They are better football players. They are in the right position to make plays on the field and then they make them. We have been strong and fast enough to win just about every game this year.

Does S&C matter? Sure does. It matter a **** of a lot more in terms of maximize player's physical potential more than it does in one on one battles on the field, though. I've said it a handful of times here, Swasey will not take deficient football players and make them good. That's not what a strength coach does and it never will be.

Can't you say the same thing about coaches? So shouldn't they all be producing the same results?

There is an art & science to S&C these days. You want the best you better get the best.

 

[Canefreak2001]

I'll never understand why Kehoe's name always gets dragged through the mud. Our OL might be the strength of this team.
Pass protection is great. The running game in 4th quarters has been unreal when you think about it.

The 2 biggest knocks on him are the shuffling of OL (that's on Golden, Kehoe said that when he got here that was all new to him - it's Golden's call) & short yardage blocking.
In regards to short yardage I would say that the play-calling has at times been mediocre. Stretch plays on 3rd or 4th & 1?

When we've gone power run game we've mauled teams over. Dallas Crawford, who is a tough runner, is NOT a BCS caliber RB. And he's gashing teams thanks mostly in part to great holes to run through.

completely disagree with your Dallas Crawford comment. dude definitely is BCS caliber, and he is one of the few players I see that always plays full speed

 

[ucrew02]

You know what "functional" strength turns out to be on the field? Good football technique. Our guys are plenty strong and are using methods similar to almost every team in america. It's not rocket science guys. Alabama isn't using some secret formula for "functional strength". They are better football players. They are in the right position to make plays on the field and then they make them. We have been strong and fast enough to win just about every game this year.

Does S&C matter? Sure does. It matter a **** of a lot more in terms of maximize player's physical potential more than it does in one on one battles on the field, though. I've said it a handful of times here, Swasey will not take deficient football players and make them good. That's not what a strength coach does and it never will be.

Can't you say the same thing about coaches? So shouldn't they all be producing the same results?

There is an art & science to S&C these days. You want the best you better get the best.

Not even remotely similar. Human performance is based on a handful of very simple concepts derived from the way our bodies respond to the demands of training stressors. There is an end game in everybody's program that meets at a certain point. Powerlifters, weightlifters, bodybuilders... all of them use the same principles to meet different goals. In football there are different base schemes (4-3,3-4,3-3-5, etc), there are personnel packages, there are variations off the base package (1 gap 3-4, 2 gap 3-4, hybrids), there are different coverage preferences, there are blitz schemes, and on top of all that? You have to recruit the players to be put there.

People assume certain guys are great coaches and work miracles because the team is successful but that's not always the case. When you have the best football players, you're going to win and that may be in spite of what the strength staff is doing. It's not a direct cause and effect.

 

[Ernie McCracken]

You know what "functional" strength turns out to be on the field? Good football technique. Our guys are plenty strong and are using methods similar to almost every team in america. It's not rocket science guys. Alabama isn't using some secret formula for "functional strength". They are better football players. They are in the right position to make plays on the field and then they make them. We have been strong and fast enough to win just about every game this year.

Does S&C matter? Sure does. It matter a **** of a lot more in terms of maximize player's physical potential more than it does in one on one battles on the field, though. I've said it a handful of times here, Swasey will not take deficient football players and make them good. That's not what a strength coach does and it never will be.

Functional strength and technique are both critically important, but they are not the same thing.

 

[Coach Macho]

SMH at anyone who was pleased with the OL performance this year. I believe this unit was very disappointing.

Running game is averaging 5.16 yards per carry (4th in the ACC) and 180 yards per game (6th in ACC) despite being 2nd to last in attempts per game. Only Wake runs the ball less than we do. We've also allowed the fewest sacks in the ACC.

 

[theibisrules]

The OL is the best performing unit on the team and it's not even close. Morris barely got pressured against even FSU.

Dallas Crawford is not a BCS caliber RB? lmao

I gotta agree with dead poets on this one...damnit I am tired of watching Dallas Crawford run right into the back of our offensive linemen and then fall down like he did something great. That **** is annoying.

 

[Ernie McCracken]

SMH at anyone who was pleased with the OL performance this year. I believe this unit was very disappointing.

Running game is averaging 5.16 yards per carry (4th in the ACC) and 180 yards per game (6th in ACC) despite being 2nd to last in attempts per game. Only Wake runs the ball less than we do. We've also allowed the fewest sacks in the ACC.

How's it looked since duke Johnson went down? Funny how an all-everything superstar running back man make your running stats look good.

Other than our short yardage struggles though we have an elite bcs caliber offense that has improved from last year (a lot of thanks to randy Johnson). A lot of that is our stockpile if offensive talent and the fact that Morris is highly under appreciated by our fans .

 

[Prince_Boll]

Personally, we should fire Myrna Schneider, Al Golden's assistant. She has been at the University for 35 years, so she was there for every single bad season we have had since the 80's. Personally it has to be all her fault. We should hire Nick Saban's assistant instead, she has 3 National Championship's in 4 years.

stfu w/ that bs

it was a joke bruh bruh

 

[DeadPoets]

Personally, we should fire Myrna Schneider, Al Golden's assistant. She has been at the University for 35 years, so she was there for every single bad season we have had since the 80's. Personally it has to be all her fault. We should hire Nick Saban's assistant instead, she has 3 National Championship's in 4 years.

stfu w/ that bs

it was a joke bruh bruh

It was your way of saying that we're trying to place the blame on someone inconsequential to the situation. Well our S&C coach isn't.