ColoradoHusk
Heisman Trophy Winner
Benning made comments today about how the team reacted when the S&C staff changed things they did in the weight room. He didn't go into a lot of specifics, but he mentioned how they focused less on bench pressing, more on higher reps, doing core work, switching workout partners, etc. The two things that I took from his comments are this:I think you nailed it.. Riley did not know first thing about accountably.. he was concerned with being “friends” with players ..
that doesn’t work in organizational leadership.. especially with 18-22 year olds .. I never heard a former Osborne and McBride player at the time they playing call coach O or McBride their “friend” ...
and im persuaded the second part of problem is the players themselves.. they have not mad
dog, lunatics like Peters Brothers and Zach Weigert who were known to “push” the team.. literally if needed.. we don’t have a man that steps up as THE alpha as says this is what we WILL do....we WILL hit folks and get back to de cleating opponents ..
1. The team needed to have trust in their coaches and S&C staff in order to buy-in to switching their S&C programs. Without that trust, the players would have been like "this isn't going to work, let's not do this".
2. The new workouts were pretty grueling, and the players really had to pump themselves up before going into the weight room and depend on their workout partners to make it through the workouts. That brings up the point of accountability.