Strong, Fast, Agile

The job of the strength coach is not a complicated one. It is to build stronger players and to do it with efficiency and organization. If you help develop stronger players, your program has a better chance of playing winning football. And it\'s not just about building stronger players – it\'s about developing faster and quicker players. Give strong, fast and agile players to a head coach who is worth his salt and he will likely win a lot more games than he loses. Jerry Schmidt is the director of sports enhancement for the Oklahoma Sooners. No strength and conditioning coach has done more for his school than Schmidt, and he has been named the strength and conditioning coach of the year by American Football Monthly. When Bob Stoops was hired as head coach at Oklahoma prior to the 1999 season, he brought Schmidt with him from Florida. Schmidt had worked as a strength coach for Tom