Re: Re: Nebraska S/C Program

[Guest guest]

wrote:

> <In the coaching world Nebraska is regarded as having the best strength and

> conditioning program in the nation. Ask your coaches if you don't believe

> me. Everybody tries to mimmick them to some degree. I understand that great

> lifters are not necessarily great football players, but it damn sure can't

hurt. >

Ben Freeman:

> *** - for those of us who do not live in the

> US nor know much about

> the various universities and their strength &

> conditioning programs, could you please briefly

> discuss why Nebraska " is regarded as having the best

> strength and conditioning program in the nation. "

>

> Perhaps some other Supertrainers may have some

> interesting thoughts on this also :-)

I coached college football for four years and that

was the consensus. They were the forerunners in

complex training, dynamic stretching, etc. In fact,

they were the first to really stress weights and their

success got everybody started. Are they truly " the

best? " I don't know, but everybody copies them to

some degree. This is their routine in simple terms:

M/TH = explosive lifts+sprints;

TU/F=strength lifts+plyometrics.

[Maybe they were among the forerunners in using these

methods in college football, but they were by no means the

forerunners in such methods compared with other sports

and other parts of the world. There are going to be quite a

few coaches here, too, who are going to disagree with you that

they were the " first " to really stress weights and that this is

what set others onto the trail of weight training. Mel Siff]

Mims

Dothan, AL

[Guest guest]

Fr bhb Lange was my strength coach at Notre Dame from 1964-1968...I played

def. back for Ara Parseghian....Fr Lange taught us how to snatch, clean and

jerk, back sqt, front sqt, pulls....chin ups, hanging from a bar for grip

strength....and to some extent dumbell bench presses. He was in my opinion

the first strength coach at a major university....

While I respect Boyd and what he has done at Nebraska, Fr. Lange did this for us

years before Boyd - and I have a 1966 national championship ring to prove his

value to our team. Boyd took it to a new level...and if it were not for him at

Neb,

we may still be in the stone ages regarding weight training there.

Mike Burgener

california