The evolution of the college football strength coach | College GameDay 

the two words that scare every college football player are... I'm pregnant

Crazy how just 40 years ago people legit thought weight lifting was a bad thing lol.

“It kinda started out as a joke and then it just kinda grew on me” went right over everyone’s head. 10/10 dad joke

3:05 - "He's obviously an internet sensation with his... _juice_ and passion."

My Dad played college football in the 60s. I asked him what kind of strength and conditioning he did in the off season. He said "I bailed hay and ran."

The two words that scare every college football player are... 6am workouts

Patrick Swayze is one heck of a strength coach

The two words that scare a lineman the most are..... *running laps*

the highest paid S&C coach in D1 football (Iowa) had 13 players admitted to a hospital for Rhabdo symptoms. This industry still has a LONG way to go

0:03 white DMX

Oregon's coach took all the roids so that his guys wouldn't be tempted.

As a Strength-Nerd, I was add that the first actual 'Strength Coach', as is applies to Football, was a guy named Alvin Roy from Louisiana. Alvin Roy was an Olympic Weightlifter and later a coach for the US Olympic Weightlifting teams under Bob Hoffman, at the US Olympic Weightlifting Headquarter/York Barbell Club in York, PA in the mid-1940's after WW2. A little later, Roy opened up his own Gym in his home-town of Baton Rouge, LA. There, in the early-mid 1950's, Roy helped build up a local High School Football player, named Billy Cannon. They developed Cannon's strength and power until he has literally a 'Man among Boys'. Under Roy's training, Cannon became one of the best High School players in the nation - and later one of the best College Players in the Nation, winning a Heisman Trophy and National Championship. Later, Alvin Roy was hired by the SAN DIEGO CHARGERS in the early 1960's - and then the KANSAS CITY CHIEFS, who won the Super Bowl and later, the DALLAS COWBOYS, who also won the SUPER BOWL. Roy also worked with the NEW ORLEANS SAINTS and OAKLAND RAIDERS. Besides introducing cutting edges (for the time) strength training methods to Football, Roy is also known to have introduced the use of Dianabol in Football training. Roy's Assistants later went on to numerous strength coaching position around the NFL and NCAA College Football - bringing the ideas and methods that Roy used.

As a player strength coaches are my favorite people in the program

Aaron Feld is a national treasure

Thank you so much for showing the brilliance of Boyd Eppley, he was a Husker icon, so far ahead of his time, as soon as I saw this video I knew you had to bring him up in order to give the current emphasis on strength coaches their due, he was the father of the modern strength programs.

This video is a great tribute to the strength coaches who transformed college football. It’s fascinating to see how the profession has evolved from its humble beginnings to the science-driven approach of today. Strength coaches play a vital role in athlete development, and they deserve a lot of credit for the success of college football programs.

There's no mention of Alvin Roy who started the first weight training program at a university in 1958 when he began it at LSU. A team predicted to finish 9th in the SEC won the national title that year. He would also become pro sports' first strength coach when he took the position with the Chargers in 1963 when he helped them win the AFL title after a bad 1962. He wasn't paid by LSU though, just did it because he was from Baton Rouge and loved LSU.

This is the type of thing I live for. Absolutely amazing how far things have come since 1969

Thanks for posting this Video.. This has always been my calling! Read about Boyd years ago! Salute!

Sure has changed since I played at Tennessee back in the 80’s. But we did have an innovator with Bruno Pauletto

Oregon's coach doing a great job with that Defense

A Nebraska coach starting this makes sense. Being from Oklahoma, I can respect that. At least it wasn't some tool from Alabama.

The hardest thing that was flexed in this video was the Oregon 3s 4:15🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

My corn fed brothers in Nebraska. We really did start something back then. I’m still 6’3” 270 and corn fed in the Nebraska heartland 🌽 💪

I could have sworn this was going to be a joke about now them holding the back of the head coaches' pants

I can't believe they never mentioned Bill Starr and his classic "The Strongest Shall Survive: Strength Training for Football"

I thought that was donut operator when I clicked

Not all strength and conditioning coaches are equal. We had a switch after my third year in coaches so we went from a power offseason program to almost exclusively speed and light weights. We hated it. Ended up with our worst record in a decade

LSU's strength coach and BAMA's have made a difference! LSU still needs to get all the baby fat and blubber much quicker out of some their recruits! Proper nutrition also plays quite an important role!

This was incredibly funny. Thank you.

I remember Aaron Feld from watching UGA games loved seeing him out there.

Those Jordan's tho 👀

They missed out on showing South Carolina Football Strength Coach Jeff Dillman. Getting players hurt wherever he goes. But he does have a large voice

Legend

dude from Oregon gets paid $250k/year

Correction there are 3 words that terrify any college football player: “Get em Choppin!”

Needed some motivation for my CSCS

This is great

Just a few decades ago strength & conditioning was nonexistent, it’s amazing to see the growth in this sect of sports. There is probably still so much we don’t know that we don’t know…the possibilities of growth and learning in this field are endless it’s so exciting. There’s nothing better than a S&C coach who strives to be a lifelong learner and has the hunger to embrace new knowledge, techniques, technology, etc. Truly no room to stay in the same place when you look at where S&C started to where it’s at today.

I’m born and raised in Oregon: my first game at autzen stadium I was 3 months old when Ms. America was a young lady from Oregon, too. The Man (strength coach) downs 3 Red Bull’s and says What the flip no IPA’s (Oregon style beers)

Dream job 🙌🏼🙌🏼

Good just waiting on you to get tired.... savage line

two words that scare every college football player are : ... CHILD SUPPORT

Omg thank you for your service

That stache benches 220

The ‘Stache! SCO DUCKS!

2:42 straight bars lol

Oregon coach use to be at Georgia..Look at the top of his bookshelf on the left.

3:21 Steven Schapiro, you can’t fool us, bro.

Que bien, tienen gimnacio y tiempo para entrenar.Que vida tan feliz.

The first strength coach was Alvin Roy of LSU

Man I had the worst football coaches to exist, They never practiced the hole team, just A team while everyone else stood on the side lines. They didnt even give us anything to do, not even a burpee. When off season hit I was 130 lb. and lifting was generally new to me, I knew the form but just started 2 months before the school year started. The first day we did trap bar dead's and in my free time before this I maxed at 175 at another gym, The coaches said to put 135 on without warmup, I was in a group of with 2 others but they were linemen. The set was 6 sets of 6 and the first set almost broke my back. The other sets I barely got the bar off the ground, Sure I was pretty weak but what had me leave football was the coach on the first day he said and I quote" Why cant you lift that weight and why are you even on the team" I was a center and could hit pretty hard, knocking a few 165lb linemen, I was just more aggressive but that line made me get out.

This has to be one of the best jobs💪

Alex Spanos is crazy💯💯💯💯

UGA strength coach had made a TON of difference. The physicality has been improved so much.

Coach Feld! The mustache himself!

And they sing in Metal bands in the off-season.

Bruh my strength coach for middle school is a beast no cap

0:55 who else recognised the footage instantly?

My strength coach in college played at Nebraska and he would mention how he was transformed by gaining almost 40 pounds of muscle in 2 years. I see how.

Olympic lifting is a sport. And a dangerous one at that. It is not a style of weight training. I wonder so many athletes get hurt. They’re all doing the most dangerous style of “training” possible. You can build the same amount of strength and muscle using slow, controlled movements to muscle failure. Hopefully someday the athletic world will remember we this.

Win The Day!!!

Aaron is basically our second mascot

this guy reminds me of my old drill sergeant. if you see this ds kugler.... thank u

Husker power baby, went to school with his son Jay

I had to like just on principle. The stache.

They didn’t feature Scott Cochran nearly enough in this video.

Feld rolling up in a unicycle

"Up downs" is actually the 2 words that scare us football players

Scott Cochran has been with Saban forever. He is the the secret weapon.

If only he would come back to Nebraska and help us win again

Northwestern's s&c coach getting paid to be a clown. Outstanding.

Just think what we could accomplish if we took this kind of initiative with the education side of the COLLEGE.

Welcome to The U coach Feld!

I need more highlights of Alex Spanos

When your coach just walked out of a Peaky Blinders set

Dude with the stache looks like a jacked Tyler Childers 😂

Go Big Red!

Two words that scare every college football player... and then the coach says "HOLD IT".... yep that would do it.

3:28 Looks liked a jacked Professor Eggman

I clicked because of the thumbnail. What a very fine stache that is.

Go BIG RED baby

Johnny Long - Tennessee

my strength coach back in 80-85 was only about 4 exercises. Also can you consider D ball?

GO BIG RED

1:27 what's that??? I wanna buy it

Pumping out the leg press in Oregon threes

If that's the highest he can get his elbows up at 0:08 ...... oh boy....

Anyone see that “all you bro” bench @2:55??😂

I wonder if the right strength coach, along with his assistant trainers and any nutritionists, would be enough to narrow the gap between teams that get out-recruited, and whether it's enough to get guys to the NFL who otherwise wouldn't have gotten there. Central Michigan got me thinking of this. How is it they were able to get Eric Fisher drafted #1, and able to get JJ Watt and Antonio Brown ready for the NFL?

GOOOOOO BIIIIIIG REDDDDDDD

"it started as a joke and then it just kinda GREW on me"

Well build up muscles can make you slower if you just do slow muscle build upd training. You always have to train everything, also speed. So it was not compelty wrong but he did the right training and then its not making you slower.

Man this make me want to go back to the gym and I just left the MF ROLL TIDE!!!

Bro science!!

GO DUCKS!!

Go Big Red.

I used to hear my lifting coach’s voice while sleeping... sweet Jesus

THAT'S CBUM AT THUMBNAIL

Imagine where strength and conditioning will be 10 years from now