Off-season Training for a College Football Coach

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Now, classes have ended for the summer. People think it's time for these kids and coaches to go home and have a blast. Not necessarily. Great teams, most of the major programs in the country, their players will stay on campus in the summer and work a summer job. Their second summer job will be with the strength coach doing the same things they did in the winter. It might not be in the morning, it might be around these kids? jobs, but the majority of the great programs will have their kids out there in the summer. The strength coach will get after them probably three or four days a week. They'll do such things as run, they'll lift, they'll do 7 on 7, real football specific drills. The coaching staff cannot be there during the summertime. So, you have to have a great strength coach. He's the lifeline between you, as the coach, and the players. Bad teams in the country won't have a lot of kids on campus in the summer. The great programs, the people that want to make a difference, those kids will be there on their on, voluntarily. They want to be as one. They want to be on the same page with their fellow players so when Saturdays come around in the fall, they've put in so many hours in winter and in summer, that Saturdays are just routine. They go out, they play, they have fun, and it's easy. So, the summertime is a continuation of the winter conditioning except the coaches themselves cannot be at it. The players will police themselves, get after each other, and prepare themselves for the long, upcoming season.

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