![]() You’re not hired based on your qualifications, knowledge and experience. “That’s how you get hired in strength and conditioning. ![]() record in career receptions and is now the strength and conditioning coach at the University of Dubuque. “We always say it’s who you know, not what you know,” said Michael Zweifel, who holds the N.C.A.A. Too many losses and the entire staff is looking for a new job. A team’s loss is the strength coach’s loss. This can often tie the strength coach to the football coach in a way that, many say, promotes serious conflicts of interest. requires that strength coaches maintain certification through a nationally accredited program, the requirements of those programs can vary. Their salaries (which can be upward of $400,000 per year) come out of the football budget. “You’re with them all the time.”īut in college football especially, the strength coaches are typically hired - and fired - by the head coach, with little or no oversight by an athletic administration official. “The players’ most important relationship is with the strength coach,” Cortazzo said. They also spend more time with the athletes, particularly in the off-season, than any other coach. They are usually the loudest and most energetic ones on the sideline. McNair’s death has thrown a spotlight on collegiate strength and conditioning coaches, who are seldom celebrated yet are vital cogs on the athletic staff. The university apologized to McNair’s family and acknowledged that the player’s temperature and other vital signs had not been taken and other standard procedures had not been followed after he was overcome while running sprints. ![]() Court was the program’s first staff member to resign over the death Durkin’s fate remains in limbo pending the results of a new investigation. But a 19-year-old football player, Jordan McNair, died in June, two weeks after struggling to recover from a grueling off-season workout, and an ESPN report in August described a toxic culture of fear and intimidation in the Maryland program.
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