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While UM coaches cannot work directly with players for much of the time between the end of the season and the start of spring drills, which start Monday, several players voluntarily sought offseason training within a week of Miami’s Independence Bowl loss to Louisiana Tech.

The South Florida Sun Sentinel spoke with a couple of those local trainers, Tevin Allen and Chris Scott, to discuss strides Hurricanes players have made in their speed, agility and footwork ahead of next week’s spring practices.
In the first of a two-part series, we focus on Miami’s defensive players.

Allen, who runs Gold Feet Global training services, has been impressed with sophomore cornerback Te’Cory Couch’s approach to the offseason.

“He’s definitely trying to take someone’s spot,” said Allen of Couch, who as a freshman played in all 13 games on special teams but was behind Trajan Bandy, Al Blades Jr. and DJ Ivey for cornerback reps."

“He doesn’t want to be a backup, so I believe that he’ll go in and work his hardest to earn more playing time. Obviously, he has to wait his turn, but if he has the opportunity to make a lot of plays during camp or during spring and leading up into the regular season, he’ll do that. He’s definitely determined and disciplined, as well. Real humble kid.”

Scott, who with his service, TH3 LAB, currently works with 25-plus professional football players, 40 college players and 45 prep standouts, is high on Ivey’s potential.

“He’s one guy that can really set the tone and the standard of what it is to really be an elite DB,” said Scott of the rising junior. “Once he’s able to understand his length and how to use his length, his ceiling is going to be ridiculous. He has the speed. He has the hands. He has the range. He’s still very young, as well. With him learning how to use his body and how to control his body, and if he’s in press-man, he’s going to know, ‘I can literally lock this full side of the field down and not have any issues of it.’”

Junior defensive tackle Nesta Silvera has worked with both Scott and Allen since the end of the season.

“Nesta’s speed is great,” Scott said. “It all starts with the feet. It all starts with the mobility. It all starts with the movement, being clean in the trenches where your feet will win you the battle every single time.

“Working on his feet, his hips, staying low and being comfortable staying low, making the right steps, the right movements, not stepping underneath ourselves when we do certain movements. Nesta’s been doing great at that.”
Allen has worked to improve similar facets of Silvera and senior defensive tackle Jonathan Ford’s game.

“When it comes to my D-linemen, it’s all about getting that quick twitch to be able to get off the ball as fast as possible,” Allen said. “We’ll work on resistance sprints, over-speed drills, then deceleration drills. Getting in the backfield and being able to change directions when the running back changes direction, and just making more plays in the backfield, tackles for loss and creating more opportunities.”

Redshirt sophomore striker Gilbert Frierson has been focusing on coverage drills with Scott.

“Not being too out of control when he does break on the ball, making sure that his feet are where they need to be at,” said Scott of the details they’ve worked on. “His hips, he’s not running too high and he’s able to get in and out of his breaks fluidly enough to get in on a play.

“His hip mobility, his 180-[degree turns], backpedal-open-run, backpedal-open-cut down at 45 [degrees] has been the main thing we’ve been working on with him.”
 
tsimonitis said:
Why do these players need to seek outside training? Does this happen other places? Is out training staff understaffed?
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We probably don't have the same number of staff as a BAMA but that's irrelevant. Off-season you're only allowed 8 hours a week with the kids I believe. That includes training. The players can hold their own practices and workouts all they want and I think we're allowed to have staff in the weight room as oversight though.

Point being, outside training is certainly not isolated with UM and not indicative of understaffing. Jeudy used to come back to Florida and work with that "Receiver Factory" or whatever their name is.
 
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tsimonitis said:
Why do these players need to seek outside training? Does this happen other places? Is out training staff understaffed?
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There's limitations on what the coaches can do in terms of time with the NCAA calendar. This is just extra work outside of team sanctioned stuff.
 
AllAboutTheU said:
There's limitations on what the coaches can do in terms of time with the NCAA calendar. This is just extra work outside of team sanctioned stuff.
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I’m glad players are actually taking the initiative to do extra work to get better. The Scott guy also trains mark pope, dee wiggins, cam Harris and others as well. The Tevin Allen guy works with mike Harley, Xavier restrepo and I think a few times with Michael Redding
 
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