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Good article on the new offseason workouts
Posted on 3/6/17 at 7:45 am
Posted on 3/6/17 at 7:45 am
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Posted on 3/6/17 at 7:55 am to lowhound
Was coming to post.
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Former LSU tight Coin Jeter is watching this all happen, seated with his back against the wall of the indoor facility. Jeter is training at LSU in preparation for the NFL draft.
He watches the boot camp-style workouts and smiles. He never got a chance to do them.
“I wish I could have,” he says. “Looks fun, competitive.”
Therein lies the reason for the change, Moffitt said.
“Before, it was monotonous,” he said. “There was no change. We’d go three or four days a week with zero change and just crush the guys. This year, there’s more variety. Because there’s more variety, there’s more enthusiasm. It’s just different. There’s been more energy. They look forward to it more. It’s not the same ole thing every day.”
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Guice, one of the favorites for the 2017 Heisman Trophy, is the head coach for the Bayou Bengals team, one of the six squads.
Each of the teams has a general manager, head coach and about 12-15 team members.
Quarterback Danny Etling, for instance, is the general manager of the Midwestern Cowboys. He picked tight end Foster Moreau as his head coach.
Moreau and Etling, like the five other GMs and head coaches, selected their team during an NFL draft-like selection process in mid-January in LSU’s primary team meeting room. Moffitt served as commissioner of the draft, decked in a suit and tie while standing behind a lectern belting out each team’s choice.
“With the first pick of the draft, the Midwestern Cowboys select … receiver D.J. Chark!”
Chark was indeed the first pick, and he walked up to the lectern to pose for fake photos with the commissioner and others.
“We did it big,” said Eric Donoval, one of Moffitt’s full-time assistants who help run the Fourth Quarter Program and its new additions. “They really got into the draft.”
Posted on 3/6/17 at 7:58 am to sicboy
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The result of one of Orgeron’s first changes to his new program — shortening and quickening practices — is already known.
Donoval has those answers stored in a spreadsheet on his computer and printed out in the thick black binder he thumbed through during an interview earlier this week.
LSU got physically faster as last season progressed, a nod to Orgeron’s practice tweaks, strength staff members say. The Tigers’ team speed improved by 2 miles per hour — a 12 percent increase — after Orgeron took over in the interim on Sept. 25.
How do they know such information? Through devices strapped to players’ chests during practices and games. The GPS-like sensors, made by Polar Team Pro, measure heart rate, a player’s speed and other variables to give staff members an idea of how long and hard they exerted themselves, Donoval said.
After practices and games, players place their tracking devices into docks connected to the cloud, information that’s easily acquired by staff members and coaches.
Posted on 3/6/17 at 8:08 am to lowhound
Great article. The program is finally moving in a more innovative/creative direction. Geaux Coach O!
Posted on 3/6/17 at 8:10 am to sicboy
These data are incredible. It allows the staff to apply real numbers to things they are seeing on the field and enables them to coach each player individually based on their stats.
It should allow the coaches to rotate players more effectively as they should be able to tell after how many plays which guys will start getting winded or are becoming more erratic.
It should allow the coaches to rotate players more effectively as they should be able to tell after how many plays which guys will start getting winded or are becoming more erratic.
Posted on 3/6/17 at 8:19 am to lowhound
in years past, all this conditioning work was to prove yourself in the big cat drill, which turned out to be pretty damn meaningless. 
Posted on 3/6/17 at 8:20 am to Bmath
I have a friend who works in an athletic department who talked to a friend of his who worked at Tennessee when O was there, and he said his organization and attention to detail was like nothing he had seen before. Obviously we'll have to see how this translates on the field, but I love the new direction.
Posted on 3/6/17 at 8:55 am to sicboy
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Donoval has those answers stored in a spreadsheet on his computer and printed out in the thick black binder he thumbed through during an interview earlier this week.
Posted on 3/6/17 at 8:55 am to CEORanter
Was waiting for a rantard to call that out.
Posted on 3/6/17 at 9:20 am to sicboy
I think some of the data that the strength staff was showing about the speed improvement last year is really telling that coaches need to review and adjust philosophy when some things are not working. That was Les' problem, he brought some new ideas and freshness into the program the first few years of his tenure, but never really adjusted or added to that afterward. In the words of Moffit, the offseason program grew stagnant, and O's new ideas have brought in new energy and passion to the program. You can say what you want about Ed O, but he has never been short on energy and passion, and it's starting to rub off on the players and our recruiting.
Posted on 3/6/17 at 9:22 am to sicboy
Didn't realize Etling was a 3.9 GPA guy.
Posted on 3/6/17 at 9:30 am to lowhound
How many more days till kickoff? I hate this time of year.
Posted on 3/6/17 at 9:44 am to Brazos
So far I really love all of Coach O's changes he's made. He really is our last hope of getting Neck back too...
Posted on 3/6/17 at 10:12 am to sicboy
great article - aside from the buying into the competition aspect, an item that was interesting to me was the end portion that discussed the performance improvement due to shortened/more efficient practices and how they use wearables to measure and quantify those results.
I can't wait to see how this translates to the field this coming season, hopefully it's something we end up being extremely excited about.
I can't wait to see how this translates to the field this coming season, hopefully it's something we end up being extremely excited about.
Posted on 3/6/17 at 10:41 am to LSUGlory16
I like the changes too but the Ws are all that matters. I was totally against this hire but I think I the formula of top notch coordinators and a motivator at the top might just work and set a trend.
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