Football workouts
I spent the day with the football team earlier this week, getting there for the morning weight lifting session and staying on campus until the night conditioning drills were completed. It is for a story for next week, but thought I would give you a few tidbits.
OL Jeff Baca looks great, and really does well in the weight room. A lot of the players have put on sizable pounds, but I am told it is the good kind of pounds. As an example, LB Donovan Carter is up to 255 pounds, and the staff is happy about it.
The freshmen are very vocal in the weight room and during drills. There is also a lot of fun competition taking place each day, but I will get into that more when the story comes out next week.
TE Logan Paulsen is also doing a great job from a leadership standpoint.
yoodaman dohn
I've put on sizable pounds, but I suspect Dohn would not categorize them as "the good kind of punds."
a 255 pound LB. I sure hope all that weight does not slow him down a step.
Are you aware if they are moving Carter to DE?
if the coaches are good with him be 255 , then so am i
I remember reading similar comments from players and media alike every off season. With the exception of 2005, the team performance has disappointed every year this decade. I have learned the hard way to not get my hopes up from reading these same old talks about how great the off season conditioning workouts have been. I'll get excited when we finally start winning some quality games.
Let me just say in a few short words that I will withhold judgment on this Football Team until I see some results ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD. Too many times over the past years Bruins Fans have been BURNED by optimistic reports of off-the-field improvements in training.
For example, Last year or the year before that, there were many positive reports of a special "Speed" coach that was working with the team to improve their "bursts" of speed. Everybody got all excited over nothing, as the team remained very slow compared to the athletes at USC. If you have a slow athelete, not much you can do to increase speed; white rice will always cook the same way.
Try as I may, I am not trying to be pessimistic. But every year we hear reports of how well the athletes are training in the off-season; of how well Ben Olson looked in the passing league; of how so-and-so ran up and down the stairs 300 times. Yet still the same 6-win season every year. Cheers!
LJ,
I believe the entire point of this post is that the attitude around the program has changed and the young players are developing.
And if a new coach is hired, why wouldn’t BD report it? It’s his job and it is the fans job to optimistic. Hence fans, which derive from the word fanatic which by definition mean "a person with an extreme and uncritical enthusiasm or zeal" so, go be a downer somewhere else.
p.s. feel free to correct any grammatical errors
255 is about right for a starting Pac 10 middle linebacker who has to regularly shed blocks ranging from fullbacks to big uglies.
I have to agree with Lawyer John on this one. I, too, got overly excited about the rave reviews of the off-season workouts in the past years but was ultimately disappointed by our actual game performances. It is natural for the players to feel good when they see the effects of their workouts. They may not realize that every team out there is working hard and seeing similar improvements in physical conditioning. I am not going to get excited until our team demonstrates it can win against quality opponents.
255 pound linebacker???? That's fantastic. If we can get our athletes to put on that kind of solid muscle, then we'll be able to compete at the level with some of these BCS type schools. Those successful programs eventually send those kids to the next level. I mean have you seen how big and fast these kids are getting when featured at the annual NFL combines once they finish school? I love the new "attitude" that's evident this off-season!!!