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champs99and04 said:
I don't even know what to say anymore.
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Say nothing. You feed the delusion by acknowledging him.

I have a hunch he needs help and isn't getting it from a professional, family, or friends. We're not in a position to help him so it's best to ignore IMO. I find it sick when people make fun of him... He's been on here long enough and persistently enough it's not just some weird kid. Just a sad man or woman that needs some therapy, rehab, or even just a friend or two.
 
What I imagine Travis' face would look like if he were to ever see this thread of some guy named Chief referencing him by name with oddly specific criticisms without knowing what's actually going on in the weight program.

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BUHusky10 said:
What I imagine Travis' face would look like if he were to ever see this thread of some guy named Chief referencing him by name with oddly specific criticisms without knowing what's actually going on in the weight program.

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Seriously, what a loser
 
I think we're missing the point -- Chief's real critique of Travis lies within the comment he makes occasionally that "Travis is KO's guy". For whatever reason, Chief has a problem with the current coach bringing in his own people (i.e. Travis, Danny Griffin, folks like that) as opposed to keeping the entire JC regime intact. All of this stuff about academic theories is hot air - Chief is just upset that the prior training staff, which was probably loaded with his old cronies, got jettisoned because KO had the audacity to bring his own people in.
 
Chief00 said:
Quite frankly, so often in basketball plays start with keg explosion or core body strength. That's been my disappointment with Travis's Brimah program - he gets so moved out of position by being overpowered on lower body strength what arm strength he may have gain becomes irrelevant.
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Maybe your worst post ever.

I've seen kegs explode. And I've seen basketball plays. I've never seen those two events intersect.

You're going off on the strength and conditioning coach for running a poor program and you use as evidence a unicorn event.

I bring this up because I don't know if the programmers of the Chief00 bot have a response for exploding kegs on a basketball court.
 
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DiacosArmy said:
It's easy for these kids to look jacked in July when they have all the time in the world to lift. I imagine once they start a full practice regimine, classes, games etc lifting is the first thing cut.
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That is a good point. They also burn a lot more calories once they start practice, cardio, running, etc. I hate to sound like Chief with a name drop here, but....
Tony Robertson once told me "it's easy putting on muscle in the offseason. Keeping it on once you start running, practice, games, travel, etc. is the hard part."
 
Thirty Three said:
That is a good point. They also burn a lot more calories once they start practice, cardio, running, etc. I hate to sound like Chief with a name drop here, but....
Tony Robertson once told me "it's easy putting on muscle in the offseason. Keeping it on once you start running, practice, games, travel, etc. is the hard part."
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Calhoun credited in-season weightlifting for Ben and Emeka's success.

Chin goes on record right now. A program needs overall performance expectations from the HC. The W&C executes the plan. 12-14 young adults will all develop differently. No single program can be used as a cookie cutter for all the players.
 
Since we seem to be on this topic, I have noticed that Florida's players under Donovan used to balloon up with muscle at ridiculous rates. I always thought they had certain supplements involved because their guys all had similar characteristically, almost bulbous forms. Look up all the guys on the 2014 team, they all had the same exact ridiculous build. Just a random relevant thought.
 
BUHusky10 said:
Since we seem to be on this topic, I have noticed that Florida's players under Donovan used to balloon up with muscle at ridiculous rates. I always thought they had certain supplements involved because their guys all had similar characteristically, almost bulbous forms. Look up all the guys on the 2014 team, they all had the same exact ridiculous build. Just a random relevant thought.
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Guess you never saw the Gatorade commercials.
 
Stairmaster said:
I think we're missing the point -- Chief's real critique of Travis lies within the comment he makes occasionally that "Travis is KO's guy". For whatever reason, Chief has a problem with the current coach bringing in his own people (i.e. Travis, Danny Griffin, folks like that) as opposed to keeping the entire JC regime intact. All of this stuff about academic theories is hot air - Chief is just upset that the prior training staff, which was probably loaded with his old cronies, got jettisoned because KO had the audacity to bring his own people in.
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Daniel Griffin is a great guy - like him a lot. Where does this come from? I am just looking at S&C results - don't pay attention to what I said - listen to all the NBA Executive sources and scouts about DHam's strength. That's not me talking .

As for my relationship with KO compared to JC - KO has done me a favor and with JC - it might have been the other way around - LOL - so why would I feel that way? KO has always been a great guy to me - and we go back a long ways - I admire his work ethic - and I have told stories about his early morning workouts with Pat Knight during his CT Pride Days, a couple of which I saw first hand. A guy who stuck with him during those days is not a band wagon fan.
I encouraged Warde to hire KO on a permanent status. I have criticized some of Glen Miller's Bigs coaching and Glen was a Calhoun guy. I have also praised him.

Ok - I admit I loved Calhoun and what he did and the attitude he did it with. Man, the dude is a Hall of Fame coach - why are you hating on me for admiring that?

Calhoun was also the guy who pushed KO to be head coach. True, I knew and know people on the staff - big deal - I have supported guys when they are down - Clyde V and Nate Miles - but I criticized JC for having a blind spot for JD - I criticized the current staff for not developing Bigs both physically and skill wise. I have also praised KO and JC many times. No one was more excited than me that night the news officially broke on Drummond going to UConn - I went out and bought complete strangers drinks that night - along with true UConn people.
 
BUHusky10 said:
Since we seem to be on this topic, I have noticed that Florida's players under Donovan used to balloon up with muscle at ridiculous rates. I always thought they had certain supplements involved because their guys all had similar characteristically, almost bulbous forms. Look up all the guys on the 2014 team, they all had the same exact ridiculous build. Just a random relevant thought.
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He recruited a different type of player. Teams like Florida, Baylor and Cincy have always recruited built kids. We almost always bring in skinny kids, it's hard for a lot of ectomorphs to put on bulk especially when you are playing 5 hours of basketball a day.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
Maybe your worst post ever.

I've seen kegs explode. And I've seen basketball plays. I've never seen those two events intersect.

You're going off on the strength and conditioning coach for running a poor program and you use as evidence a unicorn event.

I bring this up because I don't know if the programmers of the Chief00 bot have a response for exploding kegs on a basketball court.
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Before you go too deep into your conspiracy theories - it's just a typo - "kegs" should be "legs" even on this holiday weekend.
 
Huskyforlife said:
Maybe Hamilton refused Travis advice?

That's not from casually working out, there's a substantial difference in the size of Larrier's arms.
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Good point. I think people put too much emphasis on the trainer. I'm pretty sure if you work your ass off with any trainer's work out you will see positive results. I think the same goes with coaches. Some coaches are seen as developers of talent. If they were so great at developing talent, why do only certain players show huge improvement and not all of them? It is the players that work the hardest to improve that improve themselves. I think some of Calhoun success at developing players is because he would not accept anything but hard work and probably intimidated some players into improving.
 
Chief00 said:
Before you go too deep into your conspiracy theories - it's just a typo - "kegs" should be "legs" even on this holiday weekend.
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Bottom line is your posts have been ineffectual since JC left the program. You are better off posting on the gymnastics board.

All that money Andre has thrown your way has made you soft.

Do you even lift bro?
 
Devland said:
Good point. I think people put too much emphasis on the trainer. I'm pretty sure if you work your ass off with any trainer's work out you will see positive results. I think the same goes with coaches. Some coaches are seen as developers of talent. If they were so great at developing talent, why do only certain players show huge improvement and not all of them? It is the players that work the hardest to improve that improve themselves. I think some of Calhoun success at developing players is because he would not accept anything but hard work and probably intimidated some players into improving.
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Quite frankly, part of coaching is motivating and setting expectations with consequences. Over-all, I think both JC and KO did/do that. I think our strength program, in particular as it applies to our Bigs, is a work in progress - if one is to be optimistic.
 
Chief00 said:
Daniel Griffin is a great guy - like him a lot. Where does this come from? I am just looking at S&C results - don't pay attention to what I said - listen to all the NBA Executive sources and scouts about DHam's strength. That's not me talking .

As for my relationship with KO compared to JC - KO has done me a favor and with JC - it might have been the other way around - LOL - so why would I feel that way? KO has always been a great guy to me - and we go back a long ways - I admire his work ethic - and I have told stories about his early morning workouts with Pat Knight during his CT Pride Days, a couple of which I saw first hand. A guy who stuck with him during those days is not a band wagon fan.
I encouraged Warde to hire KO on a permanent status. I have criticized some of Glen Miller's Bigs coaching and Glen was a Calhoun guy. I have also praised him.

Ok - I admit I loved Calhoun and what he did and the attitude he did it with. Man, the dude is a Hall of Fame coach - why are you hating on me for admiring that?

Calhoun was also the guy who pushed KO to be head coach. True, I knew and know people on the staff - big deal - I have supported guys when they are down - Clyde V and Nate Miles - but I criticized JC for having a blind spot for JD - I criticized the current staff for not developing Bigs both physically and skill wise. I have also praised KO and JC many times. No one was more excited than me that night the news officially broke on Drummond going to UConn - I went out and bought complete strangers drinks that night - along with true UConn people.
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Just who are you chief? Can we have some background about your connection to the program?
 
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Huskyforlife said:
Just who are you chief? Can we have some background about your connection to the program?
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It would be pretty funny if Chief is for real and we're all just taking a dump on him. He's either delusional or he's a donor and/or very old friend to someone. I like to believe the latter because it would be funny to think someone who is a somewhat high profile donor posts under the name.
 
These guys are all already to be able to rebound and work it inside. Can Travis teach technique, timing, reading the shot or rebound? If not they can lift all they want, if the technique and other areas don't improve nothing else will either.
 
mauconnfan said:
These guys are all already to be able to rebound and work it inside. Can Travis teach technique, timing, reading the shot or rebound? If not they can lift all they want, if the technique and other areas don't improve nothing else will either.
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Quite frankly, I don't disagree. Those are the things Coach Miller needs to be able to effectively communicate. I did notice last season when Brimah actually had position - it was ineffectual since he got moved out of the way so easily - so that core/lower body strength is needed too.

To the "this is not complicated" posters - I agree with that too - that's why to me it's so frustrating.
 
mauconnfan said:
These guys are all already to be able to rebound and work it inside. Can Travis teach technique, timing, reading the shot or rebound? If not they can lift all they want, if the technique and other areas don't improve nothing else will either.
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Exactly. We won a championship in 2014 against some very intimidating front lines, when UCONN's was decidedly not.

And fact is, we don't have any 40 year old Wayne Seldon's underneath either. They came in skinny dudes.
 
Chief00 said:
Quite frankly, I don't disagree. Those are the things Coach Miller needs to be able to effectively communicate. I did notice last season when Brimah actually had position - it was ineffectual since he got moved out of the way so easily - so that core/lower body strength is needed too.

To the "this is not complicated" posters - I agree with that too - that's why to me it's so frustrating.
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I do think you fail to admit that Amida will always be challenged in the "getting moved out" category. His center of gravity is so high, just the longest legs with a small to average torso at best. He's at a disadvantage from the get go. He'll never pack on much muscle in those legs either. They are just natural bean poles.
 
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Chief00 said:
Quite frankly, I don't disagree. Those are the things Coach Miller needs to be able to effectively communicate. I did notice last season when Brimah actually had position - it was ineffectual since he got moved out of the way so easily - so that core/lower body strength is needed too.

To the "this is not complicated" posters - I agree with that too - that's why to me it's so frustrating.
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Glen Miller can't coach the natural instincts so now it is definitely not on him or the staff. Watching the games you will notice both AB and Kelis Fisher at times are not even ready to box out never mind getting moved. They both have had a bad feel for when to begin and the instincts of knowing when the shot is going up. 4 years later we can only hope they have learned some to be more productive. Funny, with Kelis Fisher he knows he doesn't get the ball so he is always ready to react to the offensive rebound as is so much better doing so. Not strength there, pure athletic ability and knowing what you need to do.
 
mauconnfan said:
Glen Miller can't coach the natural instincts so now it is definitely not on him or the staff. Watching the games you will notice both AB and Kelis Fisher at times are not even ready to box out never mind getting moved. They both have had a bad feel for when to begin and the instincts of knowing when the shot is going up. 4 years later we can only hope they have learned some to be more productive. Funny, with Kelis Fisher he knows he doesn't get the ball so he is always ready to react to the offensive rebound as is so much better doing so. Not strength there, pure athletic ability and knowing what you need to do.
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On the flip side, when the staff decide to recruit players who aren't natural rebounders it falls on the HC to have coaches who will emphasize technique and prioritize film study to help the players improve. The coaching staff's teaching techniques and strengths need to support the growth the players need.
 
Larrier, Facey, and Brimah need to have a decent deli next to the weight room. Mickey Mantle's who was 145 pounds, first apartment in NY in the 50's was over the Carnegie Deli, he gained 20 pounds in no time flat.
 
jibsey said:
Larrier, Facey, and Brimah need to have a decent deli next to the weight room. Mickey Mantle's who was 145 pounds, first apartment in NY in the 50's was over the Carnegie Deli, he gained 20 pounds in no time flat.
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jibsey. I love your avatar pic.

I have to wonder though, why they would bother with the lettuce and tomato. Its a perfect thing of beauty without them.
 
August_West said:
jibsey. I love your avatar pic.

I have to wonder though, why they would bother with the lettuce and tomato. Its a perfect thing of beauty without them.
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The first thing to do is to throw the lettuce and tomato away. BTW, Harold's in New Jersey builds sandwiches like this and bigger.
 
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