What Washington Needs to do to get back to the top

Ivan was a nice guy but that is FS...as I understand it, free weights are much better because you need your smaller muscle fibers to balance the bar / weights (bench) and keep your own balance (squat, power clean). WTF. That revelation actually concerns me because shouldn't someone in the athletic department noticed that and said something? Where were Greg Lewis and Damon Huard?

They were training on machines?! Christ!
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Even a guy in his mom's basement with a boner in his sweatpants knows that machines don't force you to use your stabilizing muscles and they're for pussies. Such fag, Ivan.
 
Surprised Sark didn't have about 100 bow flex machines hauled in and just told the kids to have at it. In between hot dog eating contests of course. Jesus Christ.
 
Rocky IV >>> Ivan Drago, Free weights recruit accessory muscles preventing more injuries under physiologic load. I believe the correct terminology is proprioception. Why do you think we had so many ACL injuries under Sark?
 
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Please please please tell me that USC is doing the same weight program under Sark now. We play them this year so hopefully are superior S&C program helps match counter their 4 and 5 star talent (and depth issues remaining from sanctions).

 
Thanks Guys on the information on Coach Socha. I have never met him but He seems to be my kind of guy after reading his article in the times. Like I said, it takes time and we have to give the new staff a chance to develop these players but I do hope to see a noticeable difference by next year.

I am a fan of Coach Petersen and believe he will get the job done. Sark did a good job considering he took over an 0-12 program but it seems he was trying to be too much like Oregon. That's understandable if you are WSU but the precedent has already been set and a culture has already been established. I have talked guys that played against Washington from the 70's all the way up to the early 2000's and they all will tell you that whenever they had to play the Huskies they always had to buckle up their chin strap because they new they going to be in a physical battle.

I am not knocking Oregon's style of play because they have become one of the top programs in the country but that's them. You can look at the way Stanford plays Oregon. Our style has been proven to win National Championships and I just feel we need to get back what's Husky football is all about.
 
Thanks Guys on the information on Coach Socha. I have never met him but He seems to be my kind of guy after reading his article in the times. Like I said, it takes time and we have to give the new staff a chance to develop these players but I do hope to see a noticeable difference by next year.

I am a fan of Coach Petersen and believe he will get the job done. Sark did a good job considering he took over an 0-12 program but it seems he was trying to be too much like Oregon. That's understandable if you are WSU but the precedent has already been set and a culture has already been established. I have talked guys that played against Washington from the 70's all the way up to the early 2000's and they all will tell you that whenever they had to play the Huskies they always had to buckle up their chin strap because they new they going to be in a physical battle.

I am not knocking Oregon's style of play because they have become one of the top programs in the country but that's them. You can look at the way Stanford plays Oregon. Our style has been proven to win National Championships and I just feel we need to get back what's Husky football is all about.
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Sounds like DJ (ILTCHDJ) misses WASHINGTON, dammit.

Welcome home. You're among frens.
 
I couldn't agree more. It will be satisfying to see the jump from Year 1 to Year 2, not only for the S&C program but culture overall.

I hope we end up being a hybrid between Stanford and Ohio State, maybe with a tilt towards Stanford since they remind me most of Washington from the 50's or 60's to 2000.

Thanks Guys on the information on Coach Socha. I have never met him but He seems to be my kind of guy after reading his article in the times. Like I said, it takes time and we have to give the new staff a chance to develop these players but I do hope to see a noticeable difference by next year.

I am a fan of Coach Petersen and believe he will get the job done. Sark did a good job considering he took over an 0-12 program but it seems he was trying to be too much like Oregon. That's understandable if you are WSU but the precedent has already been set and a culture has already been established. I have talked guys that played against Washington from the 70's all the way up to the early 2000's and they all will tell you that whenever they had to play the Huskies they always had to buckle up their chin strap because they new they going to be in a physical battle.

I am not knocking Oregon's style of play because they have become one of the top programs in the country but that's them. You can look at the way Stanford plays Oregon. Our style has been proven to win National Championships and I just feel we need to get back what's Husky football is all about.
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Did Donald Jones just upvote me?

Awesome!

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Please please please tell me that USC is doing the same weight program under Sark now. We play them this year so hopefully are superior S&C program helps match counter their 4 and 5 star talent (and depth issues remaining from sanctions).
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Yup they are. Going to copy/paste a post from my old thread.

Here is some more evidence, thanks to USC's scout site.http://usc.scout.com/story/1377439-lewis-tough-enough-to-eat-nails

He seems more concerned with addressing the question "why" rather than "how much", a philosophy he's cultivated in his own time as a head coach and a method he says differs slightly than his mentor's. "It's not always about the weights, it's about the whys. Why we do things." Lewis explained. "Coach Carlisle's philosophy was really about how to, how fast, how much."

This quote helps strengthen (lol) the previous statements on why the S&C program is much more difficult now. Under Lewis, it isn't always about the weights, and it isn't about completing a certain amount. Now, Socha sets quotas for these players to meet and demands that they do these work-outs properly. No shit the S&C is going to be a lot harder when you have a coach that demands you complete what was assigned to you and that you complete them the right way. Just go back to Riva's video. Or look at those Pro Days numbers above. Or back to ASJ's assessment by the NFL scouts, calling him soft.

Other gems from the article:
Lewis emphasized multiple times the importance of players "buying in" to a strength program.
"It's just a great staff who has been put together and we are just buying into that."
"We're going to play 100 miles per hour and we're going to win. It's going to be great."
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Should be fun to watch the decline of USC these next few years.
 
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