UL Strength Coach (2002-2005) Brad Ohrt

[Turbine]

Brad Ohrt: Louisiana's Strength & Conditioning Coach/Coordinator

Brad Ohrt played football for and graduated from Appalachian State where he finished up in 1994 as one of the Mountaineers all-time outstanding linemen.

In 1999 Brad was voted by the Southern Conference media as the All-Southern Conference Guard from 1980-1998. The coaches of the Southern Conference also voted Brad Ohrt as the All-Southern Conference Tackle for the same 18 year period.

After graduating one of the stops for Brad Ohrt was as an assistant strength and conditioning coach for the USC Trojans.

Early in 2001 Brad Ohrt became the Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Western Carolina Catamounts. Prior to the start of last season coach Bleil noted that it was evident that Strength and Conditioning Coach Brad Ohrt was getting the team tougher. Brad Ohrt was putting the team through a rigorous workout schedule, which had made strides in making the catamount defense and team as a whole stronger and in better physical condition than the season prior. The prior season before Brad Ohrt came on board the Catamounts had stumbled through a 4-7 season.

During the Western Carolina Catamounts 2001 season in which they improved from 4-7 to 7-4 coach Bleil was asked "Has the weight program during the off season been a major factor on the improvement of the offensive and defensive line?" he responded "Our weight program has made a substantial gains. You usually see the most improvement in a player between his third and fourth seasons and we have some mature kids along the offensive and defensive fronts. I don't think you can give enough credit to strength coach Brad Ohrt. He has done a great job. Our strength and conditioning are getting better. Also, we contribute our lack of major injuries thus far to him."

The University of Louisiana welcomes and looks forward to the implementation of Brad Ohrt's system as Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Ragin' Cajuns.

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Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns have suffered a setback before they can even take the field for the 2005 football season.

Strength and conditioning coach Brad Ohrt has left that role at UL and is taking a similar position at Western Kentucky University, packing up and moving this week just days before the Cajuns report back for preseason drills.

Like UL, WKU is a member of the Sun Belt Conference, but the Hilltoppers compete in Division 1-AA in football, so the Cajuns have lost a vital member of their athletic staff to a program that competes at a lower level.

However, Ohrt was in charge of conditioning for all of the Cajuns' men's and women's athletic squads, while his new position at WKU will solely involve the football program and will include a pair of assistants.

For Cajun football coach Rickey Bustle, the departure is a frustrating one after he replaced two assistant coaches last spring.

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Bruce Brown
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[CajunNation]

"We almost lost Brad earlier to Appalachian State, his alma mater," Bustle said. "Now he's leaving for a 1-AA program. I hate to see him go."

There is absolutely no reason for this bull______.

Well, there is one big, old, needs to retire, reason.

[JMV JustMyView]

There is absolutely no reason for this bull______.

Well, there is one big, old, needs to retire, reason.

I agree when you lose a coach to a D- II school that is sad. With the budget like it is we will always lose coaches.

[DaddyCajun]

I agree when you lose a coach to a D- II school that is sad. With the budget like it is we will always lose coaches.

Their budget is quite a bit larger than ours, due to their state contributions to their universities and student fees!!!!!!!!!


Still no excuse if we are going to get where we need too get, we all must buy tickets and support as much as we can.

DaddyCajun

[RaginCajun77]

Coach Ohrt was also teaching classes at UL as well. I was scheduled to take one with him in the Fall.

[UL Ragin Cajun]

I agree when you lose a coach to a D- II school that is sad. With the budget like it is we will always lose coaches.

We should never rely on a budget. Private funding is the only way.

[lxa656]

We should never rely on a budget. Private funding is the only way.

Patience....just answer the calling when it comes!

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Athletics Director Chip Smith of Western Carolina yesterday hired Brad Ohrt as the school’s strength coach and conditioning coordinator. Ohrt spent the past year as the assistant strength coach of the Miami Dolphins and also has worked at Western Kentucky, Louisiana-Lafayette, Southern California and Wingate. Ohrt is a 1994 graduate of Appalachian State and was All-Southern Conference as an offensive lineman in 1993 and 1994. He also was a third-team AP All-America as a senior. The source of the story

[zephyr]

Does this guy ever hold a job for very long?

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Does this guy ever hold a job for very long?

he told parcells he disliked tuna .. (smiles)

trust me he would have loved no coaching change

[MissingMandy]

I'm sorry but this thread is very confusing. Did this guy ever work at UL or was he just going to work at UL? I thought the guy had passed away at age 3 when I first saw the years in brackets!! If he never worked here at all and is so easily taken away, then who really cares or knows what he could have done? I'm confused!! Perhaps it's the disgusting snow covering the ground this morning that has my brain FROZEN!!!!