What do we know about Nick Savage?

Zero. That said, what do we know about our current strength coach? How many here have seen the KPIs used in determining his effectiveness? Looking back at the season, the team did fairly well from an injury standpoint, so how does everyone know the strength coach is one of the major factors behind our poor season? He seems like an easy scapegoat.

Well said.

As long as we have Marucci and his people we will always have these types of metrics at a high level.

A lot of these S&C coaches are really good. Like all other coaches, it’s all about how they communicate with these kids and get them to buy in. It’s the coach they spend the most time with all year.

I judge S&C by how our lines play against the opposition. When we need to be blow off the line and get a yard or two, can we do that against the other team's DL? LSU under Kelly was a resounding no.

Surely scheme and techniques taught by the Oline coach are factors there as well? And let’s not forget, we have freshmen Oline going against elite 3rd and 4th year Dlineman. Our O simply hasn’t had enough time to grow and develop.

Full disclaimer, I do not know our strength coach, I’m just trying to understand how we “know” he’s an issue?

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Agree with you 100%, but surely there are some KPIs looked at to help determine their effectiveness? % gain in strength, % gain in speed, explosiveness, injuries, etc.? But…no one on this board has access to that info so how does the average poster know our strength coach is a liability and not a strength coach?

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100% and your other post was spot on

if the coach isnt real active on socials or of sharing his programming...then its hard to know an S&C coaches system

but i can tell you, both the staff under BK and Moffit ran similar velocity based training using Olympic lifts. I will say the current staff actually did a better job using MPH during practice & total yards sprinted at 80% or above KPIs to track readiness and did pretty good job using those to keep injuries low

i also know they did a much better job with the nutrition side of things, but much of that has to do with enforcement with compliance which TM didn't have a lot of help with under O, at least towards the end. Also on the sports nutrition side in terms of macro timing, tracking micros and using supps was much much better under BK.

culture wise....moffit was way way better than staff under BK. but alot of that had to do with the HCs moffit was under. but also moffit had a really long history here and got lots and lots of nfl guys to come lift up there and that helped the culture alot.

now the couple years TM was unemployed...made him a much much better coach. He is a much better coach at A&M than he was here. the time off gave him time to travel and see other methods, dive more into conjugate and then allowed him to see more big picture and learn lots of new technology. He has an assistant at A&M that is just his, has the readiness report ready for him every single morning, has the speed readings along with the velocity KPIs ready for him to review and then they adjust volume based off that. TM will tell you straight up...he is a much better coach today than he was before plus A&M has provided him with the resources to allow him to be more big picture not grinding on the floor daily.

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Thanks for your post. You obviously are aware of some of the day in and day out activities of strength and conditioning. Do you know anything about our current S&C staff?

Not sure who or why anyone would downvote your post though?

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Not sure who or why anyone would downvote your post though?

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Do you know anything about our current S&C staff?

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You talking Jake Flint or Nick Savage?

on savage...all i know is he was under mullen and was very highly thought of at both places and under ole miss at kiffin. and then that he is extremely intense, similar to moffit and he had the florida crew doing the midnight workouts similar to how they did under Urban but alot of that shite is fluff so not sure

as far as flint goes, what do you want to know? I only know so much. I know a lot more of how baseball trains with chris than football does when talking actual programming.

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It’s ok. I was interested in hearing your thoughts on Flint. He catches a lot of hell because he’s not Tommy Moffit, but Flint is working with freshman OL while Moffit is rolling with juniors, seniors, and grad transfers. Not exactly apples to apples in my mind.

Honestly, I’m not sure anyone here truly knows Flint is a liability. As I said, he’s an easy scapegoat.

In Kiffin we trust and we’re rolling with Savage.

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oh i mean they use similar systems. Both use VBT Olympic style programming. Nick was way more up to date with using gps logs and certain vbt metrics to monitor fatigue and adjust and was more up to date on nutrition in terms of the overall team and how they went about that. now TM is doing all of that at A&m and that was what I was referencing when I said TM is a much better coach today than he was when BK let him go in terms of overall programming and nutrition etc but a lot of that is due to A&M has given him more resources to allow him to run things his way

Flint....not TM in terms of instilling culture, that isnt his deal. TM is bad arse and one of the best ever when it comes to that.

From my understanding Savage is very good on both ends. But hopefully LSU gives him a large staff and admins that can help with things