This Is Getting Old RE: S&C/Nutrition

[Waterfall]

Golden's idea of nutrition is McDonald's cheeseburgers. Let that sink in.

McDonald's cheeseburgers. They're consistently awful like Al Golden is.

 

[Ethnicsands]

I think al was obsessed with weight numbers rather than total body. Jmo

Clearly correct. That's why he talked about them so much. He wanted to be able to point to metrics that made it sound like he was doing his job and the team was progressing, when the results on the field suggested otherwise. Similar to him quoting all sorts of BS metrics to claim the on field performance was improving when everyone could see that it wasn't.

 

[Ethnicsands]

I think al was obsessed with weight numbers rather than total body. Jmo

This, the guy was a massive size queen. Every time he'd get asked about a player he'd talk about how much they weighed. It was borderline pathological. Clearly the emphasis was slotting players into a weight by position they played versus effectiveness.

It was something he could control that sounded good but had no relation to success. He couldn't recruit or coach well enough, but gosh darnit he could fatten those kids up. That's why he talked so much about it. It was his defensiveness and inseecurity coming through.

 

[ArtKehoe]

Sorry guys. I was just doing my job. On page 217 of Deserve Victory: The Pillars of Performance by Al Golden it said "we need to get all our OL up to +320, please trust the process by taking the guys to Taco Rico after very practice."

 

[Tad Footeball]

Sorry guys. I was just doing my job. On page 217 of Deserve Victory: The Pillars of Performance by Al Golden it said "we need to get all our OL up to +320, please trust the process by taking the guys to Taco Rico after very practice."

The Taco Rico reference is brilliant.

 

[Novacane32000]

Kehoe did not set the example for the OL. I saw him come off the bus one day before a game -he walked within a few feet of me and I feared for the man's health he looked so overweight. How can any OL take nutrition seriously when their coach is 100lbs to heavy???

 

[ncncanes]

One of the best decisions was getting rid of Art - love his passion but the game passed him by

 

[paksat]

Didn't Golden use to preach nutrition? Was he just completely bull****ting?

Golden preached bull****. You answered your question within your own statement.

Al Golden: We want to have the best nutritional program

Mind boggling

“If you’re not trying to be the best from a nutritional standpoint or from a strength and conditioning standpoint or from a preventative measure standpoint, then you’re behind.

[video=youtube_share;r7Tr_f0pTPY]http://youtu.be/r7Tr_f0pTPY[/video]

In the first ten seconds the guy says "Coach Golden sets the (weight) goals." Rather than let a professional do his job, Golden set the standards for each player. So on top of running everything else a head coach is supposed to be in charge of, the HC was in all likelihood setting the actual desired weight for some 85+ players on his team.

What the players say speaks volumes. Old staff it was, "Coach wants me at 215-220." New staff is, "I'm down to 11% body fat." Richt doesn't seem to care about total weight in a vacuum like Golden did. He wants performance strength, body fat %. It's astonishing that Golden had specific weight goals for each player, which tells you nothing about how well that player performs at the weight -- or even how strong they really are.

Yeah, ready to put this topic to bed.

Reminds me of my ***ing work, managers sticking their micro managing noses in every little thing you do while not doing jack sh*t in return

 

[Republicane]

Golden isn't very smart or particularly innovative. His whole coaching philosophy is built on four years spent at PSU thirty years ago. He doesn't have the ability to come up with a plan B so it just made him cling to that PSU/JoePa model even tighter.

 

[Cane Dynasty]

Anyone else look askance at the MuscleMilk days?

 

[omaha]

This is just shocking how far behind Miami is. Nebraska has a training table and Nutritionists since the early 80's. Just think how dominate Miami kids would have been if they had access to the Big 12 and SEC type of programs.

 

[marshallrc13]

Didn't Golden use to preach nutrition? Was he just completely bull****ting?

Have you not seen a picture of what Al Golden looks like??? He has no ******* clue what nutrition is! He probably put everyone on a high-gluten Burger King diet. Fat A$$ had no clue.

 

[Canedog]

You have to understand where Al comes from. At Penn State Al and the other players wanted to be as big and fat as they could be so Sandusky wouldn't want to bugger dem in da showers.