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For Feeley, in his first year as Cane strength coach, it’s all about players finishing strong in his weight room and on the practice field. It’s a simple formula: Great effort plus great attitude equals getting the Manny Diaz ship on smoother waters.
“I don’t expect anything different than just great effort, that’s it,” Feeley stated. “Anything else is unacceptable, it’s treason. Like you have to give good effort. You’re at Miami. This is a place that was built on hard work and dudes and championships. You’re not coming here to play football, you’re coming here to win. If you’re giving bad effort this is not the place for you.”
Feeley is big on incentives and making things fun. It's why he does 10 pushups every time someone breaks 20 miles per hour on the practice field - “I’ve been doing a lot, did 100 (Wednesday), that was a long day,” Feeley says. And it's why he posts top NFL speed numbers at each position every week for Hurricane players to measure up against.
The goal: Beat that number.
“You’re here to compete at the highest level possible,” Feeley said. “We have a chart to compare to NFL guys of how fast people are running, the top speeds for the NFL all year. And our guys are either beating them or they’re right there with them. … The percentage of what our guys run in a game is either darn close or exceeding it.”
Feeley singled out WR Dee Wiggins: “He runs 23 miles per hour, there’s not a whole lot of guys on planet earth running that playing football,” Feeley said. “It’s pretty cool. And there are other guys running 20, 21, a couple of guys popped 22 - I mean, they’re moving.”
It’s a new way of doing things at UM, and the goal is to make this a team that fights all four quarters and out plays opponents when it matters most, in the fourth quarter. In some past seasons you'd see Miami defenders with their hands on their hips huffing and puffing.
You don't see that anymore.
“That is the idea,” Feeley said. “And getting to that, that is - when the pressure is applied to them time and time and time again, and when the workouts are going and they’ll put up their fours if they know it’s the end of a workout, or they start chanting `Last set, best set,’ which is our mantra in the weight room or outside. That’s a battle cry, straight up. They need to understand, and I think they are - they’re a great bunch - that when they say things like that and their eyes are wide open and they’re huffing and puffing a little bit, they have to dig a little deeper. And the details matter, they have to be hyper-focused. That is something we work on daily.”
Feeley says a sign that the system (including the weight room, nutrition program and medical program) is working: “Thus far we have not lost a guy to a play to cramping," he said. "That has not happened. Soft tissue wise, halfway through the season, there hasn’t been a guy to miss because of a soft tissue problem.”
As for finishing strong, the Canes have outscored opponents in the second halves of games 102-58. UM was only outscored by one opponent in the second half this year - that was against Florida, which had a 17-7 edge on the Canes in the final two quarters.
“I don’t expect anything different than just great effort, that’s it,” Feeley stated. “Anything else is unacceptable, it’s treason. Like you have to give good effort. You’re at Miami. This is a place that was built on hard work and dudes and championships. You’re not coming here to play football, you’re coming here to win. If you’re giving bad effort this is not the place for you.”
Feeley is big on incentives and making things fun. It's why he does 10 pushups every time someone breaks 20 miles per hour on the practice field - “I’ve been doing a lot, did 100 (Wednesday), that was a long day,” Feeley says. And it's why he posts top NFL speed numbers at each position every week for Hurricane players to measure up against.
The goal: Beat that number.
“You’re here to compete at the highest level possible,” Feeley said. “We have a chart to compare to NFL guys of how fast people are running, the top speeds for the NFL all year. And our guys are either beating them or they’re right there with them. … The percentage of what our guys run in a game is either darn close or exceeding it.”
Feeley singled out WR Dee Wiggins: “He runs 23 miles per hour, there’s not a whole lot of guys on planet earth running that playing football,” Feeley said. “It’s pretty cool. And there are other guys running 20, 21, a couple of guys popped 22 - I mean, they’re moving.”
It’s a new way of doing things at UM, and the goal is to make this a team that fights all four quarters and out plays opponents when it matters most, in the fourth quarter. In some past seasons you'd see Miami defenders with their hands on their hips huffing and puffing.
You don't see that anymore.
“That is the idea,” Feeley said. “And getting to that, that is - when the pressure is applied to them time and time and time again, and when the workouts are going and they’ll put up their fours if they know it’s the end of a workout, or they start chanting `Last set, best set,’ which is our mantra in the weight room or outside. That’s a battle cry, straight up. They need to understand, and I think they are - they’re a great bunch - that when they say things like that and their eyes are wide open and they’re huffing and puffing a little bit, they have to dig a little deeper. And the details matter, they have to be hyper-focused. That is something we work on daily.”
Feeley says a sign that the system (including the weight room, nutrition program and medical program) is working: “Thus far we have not lost a guy to a play to cramping," he said. "That has not happened. Soft tissue wise, halfway through the season, there hasn’t been a guy to miss because of a soft tissue problem.”
As for finishing strong, the Canes have outscored opponents in the second halves of games 102-58. UM was only outscored by one opponent in the second half this year - that was against Florida, which had a 17-7 edge on the Canes in the final two quarters.
