scclone is right. The only reason some of the players like Sheppard is because he lets them do whatever they want. His programs are nothing more than bodybuilding routines. Spending 45 minutes doing bicep curls so the players look big. When you only have 8 hours a week to train guys in the off-season......spending 3 hours a week training their arms is the biggest waist of time. After Sheppard is let go, he will not get another head job, I can guarantee you that. I have talked to many strength coaches about philosophies and training ideas for football players. Coach Sheppard will not share any ideas with anyone else, just like Ben Bruns blog stated, Shepp thinks he is better than everyone else. If our guys are so much faster and stronger than when Getty was here.....how come we were 5-19......and had several fourth quarter meltdowns where we got pushed around???
As far as the testing numbers go. Shep and Chizik ran the team 5 days a week for 3 hours a day for the first three weeks. Then they tested them when their central nervous system was in a state of fatigue. The guys wore tennis shoes to run the 40 yard dash and pro agility for the pre-test and cleats when they retested at the end of the spring. Of course they were faster! And they tested in the weight room in exercises they had never done before (real safe and ethical). Of course they got stronger in those exercises!
And if you want to talk about technique.......our guys had no technique in the weight room. There were several guys in the training room with bad backs because they were forced to use a ton of weight and use terrible form. S&C is about making a better athlete.........not about making guys have big arms. If that were the case, professional bodybuilders would play in the NFL, becuase they don't make much money as a bodybuilder. But, none of them can move because they have no functional strength or mobility.
