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The ABSOLUTE MOST IMPORTANT hire..replacing Jerry Martin

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MattMang23 said:
DJ Dogpound can go with him.
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If Diaco has a say in it, I would be extremely surprised if DJ Dog pound ever does another football game. He gets it, and we all know the in-game DJ is mickey-mouse/minor league baseball crap.

It's the cringe-worthy, overcompensating equivalent of a 45 year old guy asking his son if he can "chilllax with his bro-skies" or Des saying "What's good?"
 
huskymedic said:
We didn't get Dan Mullen but...

MSU strength and conditioning coach Matt Balis leaving Bulldogs program for UConn
Read more: http://cdispatch.com/msusports/article.asp?aid=30232#ixzz2pvWBepNM

>>Balis, who had been the strength and conditioning coach under Mullen since he was hired as the head coach at MSU, has often been referred by Mullen as "the most important part of his program" and has called him ""the best strength coach in the country".

Balis came to Starkville from Virginia, where he served two years as the strength and conditioning coach for the Cavaliers' football program. Prior to his stint in Charlottesville, Balis previously served as the assistant director of strength and conditioning at Florida in 2005 and 2006 when Mullen was the offensive coordinator with the Gators.<<
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Sounds like a Urban Meyer/Dan Mullen guy, and an integral part of their success. I'll take that 7 days a week.
 
I think it's a pretty strong statement to get a guy like this from an SEC team and coach he has followed. I doubt we gave him such a raise that made it impossible to say no.

It tells me the respect he has for HCBD and his belief that UConn athletics is a quality position.

Without going back through the thread, is this guy just a football S&C guy or for all athletes?
 
sportsart said:
I think it's a pretty strong statement to get a guy like this from an SEC team and coach he has followed. I doubt we gave him such a raise that made it impossible to say no.

It tells me the respect he has for HCBD and his belief that UConn athletics is a quality position.

Without going back through the thread, is this guy just a football S&C guy or for all athletes?
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Think that still needs some official clarification from UConn...
 
sdhusky said:
Come on. the quote I responded to was that it was too late to have the seniors workout differently.

I reject that. I think he can teach his methods in less than a year.
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I don't disagree that the new coach can come in and run his own program from day 1. But it is not just telling the guys what to do and them doing it as you suggested it is as easy as.
 
The guy had a good run, time for some new blood. It's clear BD has a plan, this is just another piece.
 
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This is why I love the Boneyard. Little did I expect to find a two-page thread about the strength and conditioning coach, but alas. You guys are good.
 
Does anyone know why Martin was FIRED.

Just seemed like he was AWESOME at his job and an ASSET to UCONN. I only heard GREAT about him and his performance / results were top notch.

Also is this new guy for Football only or for all sports?
 
In August 2013 the Men's hoop team switched to Travis Illian for strength and conditioning. He has a PhD and was at Alabama. They play football there, but Illian was the S&C coach for women's gymnastics and women's soccer. He replaced Chris West who is still listed as #2 in S&C at UConn. Amore wrote in the Courant that West was moving to soccer.

FYI, I think Phil Nolan is visibly bigger and more muscular since preseason. Gaining strength and size in season is no easy task.

There is a true science to eat this, lift that and there is another at play in off-season motivation and discipline. I am biased toward cutting edge theory here and encouraged that our AD and/or HCs see that S&C, including nutrition, it is another way to help win.

This is about Illian's impact at Alabama - http://cw.ua.edu/2013/02/21/patterson-credits-strength-coach-for-teams-power/
 
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tayjlaw said:
Here's 6+ pages of reaction from the Miss State fans re: Balis' departure. Generally positive reviews:

http://www.elitedawgs.com/showthread.php?11325-Matt-Balis-leaving&s=7d47d3a0fc7a180510cd09e7b6e5f70e
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Wow UCONN is nothing but northern pukes. SEC football schools really do look at the rest of the world in a different light. Nice to see that this hire, their loss pissed off a number of their fans. Sounds as if Matt Balis is quite the catch. Sorry to see Martin go but time marches on.
 
jackl said:
Wow UCONN is nothing but northern pukes. SEC football schools really do look at the rest of the world in a different light. Nice to see that this hire, their loss pissed off a number of their fans. Sounds as if Matt Balis is quite the catch. Sorry to see Martin go but time marches on.
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haha, my favorite quote "duck*. Just....duck*. There's no excuse for this bulls*. NO SEC school should lose an assistant coach to UCONN. Period."

:)
 
I liked the complaint that he left after they built a Taj Mahal of a workout room.

I'd be surprised if ours still isn't better than theirs.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
I liked the complaint that he left after they built a Taj Mahal of a workout room. I'd be surprised if ours still isn't better than theirs.
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I think it's funny that despite all our championships and academic accolades, they can't understand why we'd pay a good coach. I guess nobody believes that we intend to win in football. The SEC pays them serious cash, otherwise everything about MSU is small time.
 
Hoophound said:
I think it's funny that despite all our championships and academic accolades, they can't understand why we'd pay a good coach. I guess nobody believes that we intend to win in football. The SEC pays them serious cash, otherwise everything about MSU is small time.
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We don't have any championships. Basketball doesn't count. Field hockey doesn't count. Soccer doesn't count. If it's not a football championship, it isn't a championship to them.

As for MSU, they're one of the schools that wins the CR lottery due to playing 100 years in a league with a Florida, an Alabama, and even an Auburn to ride the coattails of. Hell, just to p!ss them off, you can throw Ole Miss on that list too.

MSU is one of the schools that we are a better athletic department than that we deserve to be in a better conference than just due to sheer athletic success. They're one of the poster children. They're right at the top of that list along with Wazzou, Wake, Baylor, and at least a half dozen other schools.
 
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Waquoit said:
Why would anyone want to live in Mississippi if you had a choice? The griping on that board over his leaving is music to my ears.
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Well at least one guy did make the point that they have to overpay assistants to come just to have to live in Mississippi in the first place lol.
 
Since Martin was responsible for all sports, not just football, this seems like a Warde Manuel decision. Diaco might have had a say since strength & conditioning is football-centric, but it seems like if Auriemma, etc. had wanted Martin to stay that badly they would have created a separate S&C just for football for the incoming guy and kept Martin. Sure there's a good back story here somewhere. Martin has a national rep and, like TJ, seems as if he should definitely land on his feet somewhere.
 
NHRJimFuller5:12pm via TweetDeck
#UConn AD discusses dismissal of highly-regarded strength coach Jerry Martin

"Change is never easy," Manuel said. "While you want to make things as simple as you can, change happens. People come in and you need to make changes. None of this has been personal, it never has been for me but I am going to support Coach Diaco and our new coaches and that is just the way it has to happen. There is no easy way to do it. You try to be as sensitive and professional as you can but there is no easy way to say to somebody that we are bringing somebody else in and we really appreciate you but what they hear is 'I am not going to be here anymore.' You try to do as best you can. We are thankful for all the work that he did and now we are going to move on and bring somebody else in."

http://runwayramblings.blogspot.com/2014/01/martins-departure-from-uconn-raises.html
 
Waquoit said:
Why would anyone want to live in Mississippi if you had a choice? The griping on that board over his leaving is music to my ears.
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I spent some time in Jackson MS in the 90's for work and it wasn't the greatest place but it was kind of cool and it was full of nice people and absolutely gorgeous young women. Almost every conversation I had with a middle aged lady became a discussion about how fast they'd have me married off if I moved there. It was rather bizarre in that sense. In retrospect, every guy in the big bar/club I went to a couple times looked like a member of Rascal Flatts.
 
Waquoit said:
As long as we're cleaning house, can we please can the PA announcer ? He is the worst.
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The PA announcer or the DJ or are they one and the same...guess I never paid attention.....too into the game.
I thought the appeal of the music selection was for the students and younger fans. Certainly not keen of the music selection, would prefer the Stones, Journey etc but given the STOIC nature of some of our "fans" who walk in 2nd quarter and leave in the 4th when we're down by 7, whatever can generate excitement and noise resulting in "false starts", etc I am all for.
 
MattMang23 said:
Well at least one guy did make the point that they have to overpay assistants to come just to have to live in Mississippi in the first place lol.
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Except for the heat, heard that most SEC venues were a great place to see a game. plus you Don't you need a winter jacket if you live there and they get no snow.
 
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Hoophound said:
I spent some time in Jackson MS in the 90's for work and it wasn't the greatest place but it was kind of cool and it was full of nice people and absolutely gorgeous young women. Almost every conversation I had with a middle aged lady became a discussion about how fast they'd have me married off if I moved there. It was rather bizarre in that sense. In retrospect, every guy in the big bar/club I went to a couple times looked like a member of Rascal Flatts.
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From above...Seeing that every guy looked like Rascal Flats plus you had all your teeth ....maybe that's why they had you married off....
 
HobokenHusky said:
If Diaco has a say in it, I would be extremely surprised if DJ Dog pound ever does another football game."
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I dont get the impression (though I may be wrong) that "old school" Coach P cared a lot about all the ancillary goings on in a football game. He seemed to treat them as none of his business and it never appeared he was trying to enhance the gameday experience for fans (memo to P: winning would have helped!). But this is a new day, and change of all types is occurring right before our eyes. The established traditions are being questioned, the coaching staff is brand new, and the enthusiasm and outreach are unprecedented. Whether it's the on-site DJ, the in-game music, the look of the team's entrance onto the field, etc., somehow I get the feeling Coach BD's desire to demonstrably change the football culture and fan experience will have him voicing his opinions and caring about the result. For starters, I'll be shocked if the spring game, at his insistence, isn't substantially amped up.
 
Colt house75 said:
From above...Seeing that every guy looked like Rascal Flats plus you had all your teeth ....maybe that's why they had you married off....
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How do you know he had all his teeth??
 
MTHusky said:
How do you know he had all his teeth??
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Well I did in fact have all my teeth. The culture down there is/was just obsessed with marriage. They have these huge, glamorous magazines that showcase every engagement and wedding in the state.
 
I read through the first five pages of that thread. And for all the "dumb Mississippi" jokes, in general the posters had better spelling and grammar than the typical BE forum, including this one.

Anyway, Diaco worked with Balis at Virginia, so seems BD has already proved himself able to get "his guys" regardless of what WM says or thinks.
 
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