Mavric Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Nebraska's Boyd Epley can still remember the weight-room phone call during a warm August afternoon in 1969. He didn't know the brief talk would forever alter the college football landscape. For months Epley, a no-name pole-vaulter from a no-name Arizona junior college, had trained -- almost inadvertently -- the Huskers' injured football players. Epley lifted weights to strengthen his injured back -- using techniques he picked up from a body-building friend in high school -- and the Huskers' football players mimicked him. Tom Osborne, then a first-year offensive coordinator at Nebraska, noticed that those injured players returned to the gridiron even better than before, so he wondered what kind of impact strength training would have on healthy players. Why couldn't Epley work his magic on the entire Huskers team? Why not call down to the weight room and hire him as the nation's first full-time strength and conditioning coach? "If you're looking for the most impactful change, in terms of progression, Nebraska's coaches coming onto the scene like that -- that was probably the single most important event," said Dr. Peter Weyand, an SMU professor of applied physiology and biomechanics, and one of the nation's foremost experts on human performance. Link 2 Quote Link to comment
NUinID Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Nice read, it seems like every few years an article like this comes out about Boyd Epley and S & C. Quote Link to comment
funhusker Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Was just coming to post this article. Good job, Mav! Good read..... Quote Link to comment
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