Where is the name and articles on the new strength and conditioning coach?? He has a raise, a new car, and is the Cleveland Browns Strength Coach!! Bustle is pumped!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Where is the name and articles on the new strength and conditioning coach?? He has a raise, a new car, and is the Cleveland Browns Strength Coach!! Bustle is pumped!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
More info, DC, need more info!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by DaddyCajun
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His name is Coach Phillips & the kids like him a lot.
Some quick googling reveals....Quote:
Originally Posted by mickzat
From UT Martin 2004 Alumni mag online:
Rob Phillips,Assistant Strength Coach Clevland Browns
UT- Martin ('95)
Wife Suzanne, Two sons: Jarrett, 3 and Andrew, 4
http://www.utm.edu/admin/univrel/cam...neFall2004.pdf
<i>I'm not "DC" but I "Do Care" enough to dig up some info :) </i>Quote:
Originally Posted by RaginFan2
Most recently Rob Phillips - was senior assistant strength and conditioning coach of the NFL's Cleveland Browns.
From what I can gather he followed Butch Davis from the University of Miami where he held the same position.
<li>Rob Phillips was born December 3, 1971, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
<li>He attended Tennessee, did not play ball, but may have been active in the program?
<li>Phillips first S&C Coaching stint lasted 2 seasons at Western Carolina 1997, 1998
<li>Miami 1999,2000
<li>Cleveland Browns in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
<li>University of Louisiana 2005 . . .
He may have been somewhat familiar with UL since he coached with Carl Smith who was at Louisiana from 1974-78 . . .and later the Saints.
I cringe when I hear the name Carl Smith.....I keep seeing his curly mullet hanging from the back of his Saints lid. Was he the OC during his tenure at UL?
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Originally Posted by Turbine
From the Jags website: Smith served as offensive coordinator at the collegiate level for six seasons, including stints at North Carolina State (1982), Lamar (1979-81), and Southwestern Louisiana (1977-78). He also coached defensive backs (1975-76) and defensive line (1974) at Southwestern Louisiana. He spent one season coaching linebackers at Colorado after one year as a graduate assistant.Quote:
Originally Posted by dingo
When would he have coached with Carl Smith.Quote:
Originally Posted by Turbine
The Cleveland Browns stint
I think his connection with the Cajuns may have come from Coach Pry at Westerm Carolina.
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Originally Posted by Turbine
Thanks, Turbine! As they say, you da man!
Yes he was and ran the first shotgun with Roy Henry----The most victories ever called by a NO coord.(96)--Coached the heisman winner last year at USC!--The new off coord for Jaxville!!!---Plans to come back and live in the Laf. area when retired---Son is a GA at LSU!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by dingo
Thank you, Boomer, for pointing out those things about Carl Smith. Who knows, he might one day want to finish his career as head coach at UL. He'd be an excellent choice. (Assuming we ever have another opening.. :p )
His wife is from Scott.
Diane is a personal friend of the family. Carl and Diane have 3 boys. Yes I think it is their plan to retire to the Lafayette area.
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<p align=justify>You can't miss Rob Phillips.
He's the one striding purposefully between rows of Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns, exhorting them, talking to them and cajoling them through their pre-practice stretching routine.
UL's new strength and conditioning coach has been on duty for a week and has already brought an enthusiastic personality to the scene. It's a good mix with coach Rickey Bustle's staff.
"Rickey Bustle and Brent Pry are pretty good recruiters," Phillips said of the two Cajun coaches most active in bringing him on board.
"I was really impressed with the things they believe in. I got a chance to watch their practice, and I saw the intensity and the discipline they had.
"I also wanted to get back to the South."
Phillips worked previously at Tennessee, at Western Carolina and then at the University of Miami, before following Butch Davis from the Hurricanes to the NFL's Cleveland Browns. That's where UL found him, ready for a new challenge.
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He has jumped gleefully into the mix, eager to make a difference for the Cajuns in each of their sports.
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Think all strength coaches have overdeveloped muscles and underdeveloped brains?
Rob Phillips knows Newton's Second Law of Motion and puts it to use every day. He talks about the central nervous system and posterior chain strength, of athletes having long levers and fast-twitch fibers. He can throw out terms that would send people scrambling for the dictionary in the absence of a master's degree in human performance - which he has.
The University of Louisiana's head strength and conditioning coach takes care of those stereotypes and more, and at the same time has brought a 21st-century approach to what used to be a race to see who could lift the most iron.
"It's just like the country's approach to fitness," Phillips said. "It's all fads. You take this nutritional supplement or buy the Abdomenizer and you're going to achieve some results, but not for long.
"Everything works, but only for so long. The key is to find things that work and keep improving on those."
Phillips arrived at his theories on strength and conditioning, and the development of strength, power and speed, at several stops during his career. The most recent came with the Cleveland Browns of the NFL prior to coming to UL last August, just before the start of the athletic year.
"That was exciting, fun, seeing all the excitement that the college guys have," Phillips said. "We try to put them on a program from day one and let it evolve for four or five years. The goal is for them to be better when they walk out the door in four years."
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To do that, Phillips and UL's strength and conditioning staff - full-time assistant and new arrival Jake Rayburn and graduate assistants Nick Briley and Medgar Harrison - tailor development programs for each Ragin' Cajun athlete. That in itself is no small task, considering that between 350 and 400 athletes use the UL weight room nine months of the year.
"It all depends on the athlete," Phillips said. "Everyone is an individual, a little different, and then there's different sports, different positions in each sport. Someone who's tall has different needs than someone who's short. Every one of them has different weaknesses. With the small staff we try to generalize it and then make it specific for the sport and individual."
Those individual programs are a quantum leap from watching athletes bench press and squat lift massive amounts.
"Not everything we train here is body building," Phillips said. "The thing we see the most when high school athletes come here is that they've developed the stuff you see in the mirror. We try to develop what you don't see ... hamstrings, glutes, abdominal strength. That's where we see the biggest weaknesses."
That's also where Newton's Laws come into play. Simplified, it's force equals mass times acceleration and its more technical derivatives.
"Mass can be very large and acceleration very small," Phillips said. "Or acceleration can be very quick and mass small. There's an optimal relationship. It's not just about lifting weight. We do speed work, mechanics drills. We try to eliminate any weaknesses and make their bodies function biomechanically as efficiently as possible."
"We don't train the squat just to train the squat. We want it to enhance what they do on the field."
Phillips and his staff normally spend an hour per day with each UL athlete during the school year, with that hour built in as part of each team's practice and preparation. In the summer, all strength workouts are voluntary by NCAA rule, but once the athlete is there Phillips can work with them directly both in the weight room and outside with conditioning drills.
"That's to insure the safety of the athlete," he said. "We can monitor technique, make sure they're stretched and warmed up, that they're hydrating. They choose whether they want to come or not, but it's my experience that we have the most enthusiastic and hard-working athletes. That's one of the things that attracted me here ... the type of athlete we have."
It's doubtful, though, that many of those athletes work as hard as Phillips, who literally has a sunup-to-after-sundown schedule during the school year. He hasn't taken any time off since last August.
"No time for that," he said. "After we win a bowl game, I may take a week off."
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Home for the University of Louisiana's athletic strength and conditioning program is a 6,500-square-foot weight room located in the UL athletic complex.
UL strength coach Rob Phillips says the facility is good. It's just not big enough to accommodate 16 sports.
"We can comfortably work about 20 at a time in here," Phillips said. "It's a good college weight room. But with the limited staff we have and having 350 or 400 athletes using this room, there's not enough time to work it the way we want it.
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"A larger room could take care of more people, but you might need more staff because we try to monitor every person that's working in here."
During the school year, the weight room may have only a handful of athletes working out in the morning since most have classes scheduled in the morning hours. That leaves the afternoons and can create organized chaos.
"It becomes a fine juggling act," Phillips said. "Coaches want their athletes to work out at the same time, and a lot of them want to do that at specific times. With 16 sports trying to get their work in, it's not easy."
There are talks of expansion or multiple weight rooms, both of which would likely require additional staffing. Phillips will have his full-time assistant, former Tulane strength coach Jake Rayburn, on staff next week.
"What you've got to ask, is it important for your athletes," Phillips said. "The weight room can be a huge recruiting tool. If I'm a developing young athlete, that's something I'm going to look at."
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OK, so what is the latest on our weight room? Has it already been expanded, or is that one if the things still to come?? Sure sounds like we have a great guy running the program. .~.
Glad to see they finally got him some assistants. I don't think the last guy had one.Quote:
Originally Posted by NewsCopy
Wow! That guy sounds absolutely great! We are lucky to have somebody like him on staff for our athletes. Great job to whoever found him and got him here! Love his attitude. ..O..Quote:
Originally Posted by Hammer58
It is great to see that the Administration is also looking to build a second weight room! Doubling the size of the existing 6500 sqft weight room will be much more expensive than if they were to build a huge metal building and fill it with weights!
Adding one section onto the indoor practice facility would have been nice, I just do not think the room was there.
DaddyCajun
ps That land on the back side of the track off of South College would have been great for a huge weight room!:ms09:
Hey all you need is the Big Three
Weights
Running
Steroids
Works at most programs!
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Originally Posted by DaddyCajun
Does anyone know what this property is going to be used for? Is it owned by the University? I saw that it had been cleared out...
Story Link
http://louisiana.scout.com/2/984782.html
I've been waiting for a few days for this story to come around. I know that many of the student athletes that Big Rob worked with are deeply effected by this news. Over the years Rob had made deep ties with the athletes that he worked with and he will be greatly missed. With that said i know that he was working with an extremely limited staff and restrictive red tape around every corner. This is a great opportunity for Big Rob and his family, and I personally wish him nothing but the best at Tulane and any future endeavors that he pursues.Quote:
Originally Posted by CajunT
Thank you Big Rob, you Big Ol' Sucka