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  1. http://fauowlaccess.com/floridaatlantic/burnt-out-orange/10383/2018/08/13/

     

    BOCA RATON – Having once played at a prestigious Power Five program, former Texas Longhorns DeAndre McNeal and Marcel Southall thought they knew the hardest a conditioning program can be.

    They were in for a surprise.

    “I was shocked. It’s a whole different level than Texas,” Southall said of strength and conditioning coach Wilson Love’s “fourth quarter” workouts. “It got me back in shape, pushing me to a different level that I haven’t been pushed before.”

    The 6-foot-3 Southall shed 20 pounds since stepping foot on campus this summer, reaching his ideal playing weight of 270 pounds.

    He credits that physical transformation to the “fourth quarter” workout program.

    “It was just a different beast that I haven’t seen before,” said Southall, redshirt-sophomore defensive tackle. “It got my body right, I haven’t felt this good since high school.”

     

    The year before Southall’s arrival, another former Longhorn and JUCO transfer completed the journey from Austin, Texas, to Boca Raton. He has an idea why the two conditioning programs are different: the mindset behind them.

    McNeal says FAU’s coaches constantly harp on the importance of being accountable: if any offensive player messes up, the entire unit is punished. It’s a vastly different philosophy than at Texas where he said the mindset was “a little bit more relaxed” around organized workouts.

    McNeal recalls his new teammates trying to warn him about the difficulty of Love’s workouts. He shrugged them off, not expecting too much of a challenge considering he’d already experienced a Power Five training regimen.

    He was quickly proven wrong, determining that the FAU strength program is substantially more rigorous than Texas’.

    “Oh yes, by far,” McNeal said. “The fourth quarter program is no joke, I can definitely say that.”

     

    McNeal, who prior to coming to FAU never ran a 100-yard sprint test before, said he’d “never seen a football field get turned into a track field,” until beginning Love’s workouts.

    It’s a football axiom that hard work in the summer creates winners in the fall.

    McNeal watched FAU’s conditioning program do exactly that last season, watching the Owls “accelerate even more”, as his team stays fresh late in the season while their opponents are breaking down.

    The 2017 Owls were a prime example of that late acceleration. After starting 1-3, they finished the season on a 10 game win streak, including a victory in the conference championship and Boca Raton Bowl.

    Taking notice of FAU’s strong finish, other programs tried to lure Love, who came with Kiffin from Alabama, away from Boca Raton. Coach Lane Kiffin wasn’t about to let his first hire as FAU coach walk away.

     

    “As you continue to just look at your program you realize that that really is probably the most important coach that you have, maybe comparable to the coordinator on the opposite side of the ball as you as head coach,” Kiffin said.

    Kiffin increased Love’s salary and added “associate head coach” to Love’s title, a rarity in college football.

    “I also think it’s part of appreciation for that role – not just here but anywhere,” Kiffin said.

  2. 3 hours ago, Jhawk said:

    The fact that this is becoming so convoluted says to me that UM skates.  They have family members saying the wife is nuts.  It doesn't matter that they are estranged family members, it is he said/she said at this point.  

    I disagree. This isn't he said she said. Pictures exist of her with bruises on her arms and neck. There are screen captures of text messages, where the same mother who is saying her daughter is crazy was chastising her son-in-law for physically hurting her daughter. There are text messages of the abuser apologizing to the wife for hurting her.

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  3. Man, this has to be hard for Herman to take. Snook is going out of his way to make his wife look bad and to repeatedly keep her in the public eye. Tom's wife gave money to a friend who was going through a tough time, and now people all over the country will be talking **** about her. 

  4. Still trying to figure out what Ohio State people think Herman did that was wrong. He let his wife give money to her friend that was abused by her husband. Maybe she used that money for legal bills. And if you don't want former employees talking about the serial wife abuser on your staff, don't have a serial wife abuser on your staff. 

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  5. 46 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

    It's the same in this thread as well. Too many shitty fans that think they know more than the coaching staff.

    In all fairness, there have been plenty of times over the last decade when even casual fans knew more than our coaching staff.

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  6. 8 minutes ago, dad said:

    Most people agree that Herman was a good OC at Ohio State therefore one would assume that he knows how to evaluate an OC. If this is true and if he still keeps Beck then that means he thinks that Beck has what it takes to succeed and likely thinks that the offensive ineptitude is due to the players and not the play calling.

    "therefore one would assume that he knows how to evaluate an OC."

    Incorrect. 2 uniquely different skill sets. 

  7. I am very upset already about the offensive line and I would appreciate it if there were no more discussion on this topic until after we beat USC, OU, Okie State and TCU. I appreciate your support in this matter.

  8. I had a dream last night that I was on a boat with my family, and it started sinking. Huge waves were pounding the boat as it capsized. I was in the water, alone, struggling against the storm, convinced I would die. Slowly, one by one, my family all came together in the water. We supported each other, kept each other afloat, the seas calmed, and we were rescued. It was one of those dreams that felt very real. When I woke up, it took a few moments to realize I was in my bed. Sometimes, dreams like that make you forget about all of the bull*&#@ that occupies our minds, and it helps you to focus on what is important. I set there in bed, frozen, knowing that, if our oline can't pass block this year, everyone needs to be fired. 

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