Matt Balis Resigns as Notre Dame Director of Football Performance

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FWIW, since despite their importance strength coaches aren't exactly household names, out of curiousity I looked up a bunch of S&C coordinators at elite college programs (Bama, Georgia, LSU, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, USC, Oregon, Washington, Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, I could go on).
To a man, they'd climbed the ladder of P5/G5 college football. Some are tightly connected to their head coach across multiple jobs. Not one had been hired from the NFL or personal trainer/sport science type gigs.
So this guy is definitely an out-of-the-box hire. Maybe it's brilliant. Maybe it's folly. I guess we'll see.
 
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NumbersGuy0520 said:
Still trying to figure out how I feel about this hire, but my early lean is incredibly hesitant.

Credentials to talk on the matter: one of my passions is pretending to be a halfway decent powerlifter. I’m an every day joe who has leveraged daily undulating periodization to get to a 350lb bench, 400+ squat, 500+ deadlift. Nothing extraordinary, but I do enjoy reading up on the literature, both lifting and sports performance.
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Sorry bud I don't care what your total is, if you aren't threatening to meet me at the Irsay Y and fuck me in the ass I just can't take anything you say seriously
 
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NumbersGuy0520 said:
Still trying to figure out how I feel about this hire, but my early lean is incredibly hesitant.

Credentials to talk on the matter: one of my passions is pretending to be a halfway decent powerlifter. I’m an every day joe who has leveraged daily undulating periodization to get to a 350lb bench, 400+ squat, 500+ deadlift. Nothing extraordinary, but I do enjoy reading up on the literature, both lifting and sports performance.

His stuff definitely seems new age. He describes himself as a Muscle Technique Activation Specialist, whatever that means. Looking through his content, I see a lot of fluff - sure, S&C coaches arent necessarily going to give up their secret sauce, but usually you get a strong sense of what they’re all about from say their IG (look up aaron feld, for example).

I don’t think this is what a football team needs. As others have said in this thread, what’s needed is primarily just compound movements with focused recovery and nutrition. Nothing fancy.

Hope I’m wrong
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That’s pretty extraordinary for an everyday Joe.
 
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I listened to the hour long podcast from the Physical Preparation Pod embedded earlier in the thread.

Here are some notes from Landow:

Collateral load - when you see a snakebitten position group. Starter goes down or is held out, the group must absorb the load so their likelihood of being overworked and going down from an injury increase. So you must walk a delicate line and be in communication with other coaches so needed volume is spread.

Increase staff size because time with athletes is limited so have specialists all working to coordinate the larger goal.

Time with professional athletes is extremely limited in the NFL. You'll get a short window pre-season and then you have them maybe 30-45 mins 2x/week during the season. The hard part was having players following inconsistent training during offseason. (seems like this would be a bonus in college because they'll have the ability to control year-round programming for the athletes)

Use the data from analytics to augment your decisions or to further backup what you're seeing from the players on the field/court.

Always be learning from the best so you can continue to grow/develop. After listening to him, I like the guy a lot and I think he has a very strong chance of succeeding if we're able to get him. He sounds interested in a return to the NFL so it might be difficult for us to bring him in. Uncertain if he'd get poached in the near future.
 
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LSU (Flint), Ohio State (Marotti), Oklahoma(Schmidt), and Bama (Ballou) all have strength coaches that previously worked at ND. With Balis being held in high regards, if Loren Landow turns out being a good hire...Notre Dame could become Strength and Conditioning U.
 
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NDohio said:
Hey guys - I had some really wild dream this weekend involving Reaper, the Irsay Y, and - ummm - butt plugs...anybody know where those dreams would have come from?
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Rizzophil said:
www.9news.com

Former Broncos strength coach Loren Landow headed to Notre Dame

Brady Quinn helped connect Landow and Notre Dame. Landow is considered a leading national sports performance coach.
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Brady Quinn helped to facilitate
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“I think Loren’s got the capabilities to oversee every single sport there. Which is huge. I think that’s one of the attractions to him, his work with so many different athletes and so many different realms. I do think they look at him as much more than football but obviously football is what drives everything at Notre Dame.’’
 
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BoredIrish said:
“I think Loren’s got the capabilities to oversee every single sport there. Which is huge. I think that’s one of the attractions to him, his work with so many different athletes and so many different realms. I do think they look at him as much more than football but obviously football is what drives everything at Notre Dame.’’
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Mixed feelings about both Ron Powlus and Brady Quinn current involvements in hiring decision making processes
 
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Jimmy3Putt said:
Was that the Fiesta Bowl prison rape by Ocho Cinco?
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Nah, just PD shoveling the ball directly to a BC defender and the Titanic soundtrack playing in my young mind watching the dude rumble 70 yards for a touchdown and crushing my dreams.

And the other six fumbles/turnovers we had that day didn't help either.
 
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IRISHDODGER said:
No they’re referring to 2002 loss to BC when ND was 8-0. Holliday went out w/ an injury. Dillingham replaced him and proceeded to toss a shovel pass to the BC LB who housed it for the go-ahead TD that ultimately won the game.
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Ah yes, Tyrone's green jersey game.

thank you
 
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