Athletic Strength And Power Podcasts

ASAP PODCAST with the Youngstown State Penguins Football Asst Strength Staff

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Youngstown, Ohio 

 

For the Youngstown State Penguins, the season can't start soon enough. Excluded from the play-offs in 2022, the football squad is ready to put that in the rear view mirror and move on. This is a program that prides itself on winning tradition, and the atmosphere around Stambaugh Stadium, which houses the athletic offices that include the football coaches and their meeting rooms along with the strength and conditioning facility, is basically: Let's go!!!
The Director of Football Sports Performance, Jimmy Rodenberg, is making sure that the Penguins stay the course and avoid the cold treatment from the selection committee. Rodenberg, whose father is a well known, longtime high school football coach in the Cincinnati and Indianapolis region, got some great early experience at Ohio State and then expanded on that base to a greater extent under Coach Brady Collins at Cincinnati with the Bearcats and their story book season and College Football Play-off run.   

Following his initial year at YSU,  he's made some staff additions since his arrival and it can only serve to help the cause and the team goals to get back to national prominence. Keep in mind that this is a program that's had its share of the limelight as legendary college football coach Jim Tressel rebuilt the Penguin program during his fourteen year reign and tenure there, winning four national championships. 

Coach Rodenberg was able to bring in a full-time assistant, Mason Garrison, a Cincinnati high school product who was able to be a part of the big transformation as a member of the Cincinnati Bearcat team that was selected to the College Football Play-off vs Alabama during the Luke Fickell years. In addition, they've added G.A. in Sport Performance Colton Krueger, a Marquette University grad who got some quality experience at Oregon Football (intern) under Coach Aaron Feld. Justin Nikakhtar arrived in Youngstown via San Diego State and had an opportunity to work under Coach Adam Hall and Coach Chris Jurek with the Aztecs working on his professional internship in the southern California sunshine. And, Jake Puckett rounds out the strength staff. Jake is an Iowa State guy and had the opportunity to work under Coach Dave Andrews in Ames. He also had a stop at Valparaiso as a sports performance assistant there in northern Indiana with the Crusaders. 

ASAP Podcast with Coach Molly Binetti: South Carolina Gamecocks’ Women’s Basketball Performance Director

In her five seasons as Director of Sports Performance-Women's Basketball at The University of South Carolina, Molly Binetti, has seen the Gamecocks lose but only 19 games. And, she's been on board to witness 152 wins that include NCAA Sweet Sixteen, NCAA Final Four twice and an NCAA National Championship! (The COVID19 fiasco eliminated a run for another championship opportunity when the Final Four was canceled). All this in just five years at USC. What an experience!!

    So, it comes as no surprise that HAMMER STRENGTH Clinics sought out this championship caliber performance coach as one of their top notch presenters at the Spooky Nook Sports Center complex in Hamilton, Ohio. Ted Lambrinides, Tommy Moffitt, Niko Palazeti. Al Johnson. Molly Binetti to name a few. All experienced, detailed and highly motivated coaches that HAMMER STRENGTH brought in to provide a learning experience and environment to help coaches who have a strong desire for personal advancement. 
    Coach Molly Binetti is now tweaking the program a bit as the USC Gamecocks prepare for an off-season program that prepares South Carolina WBB for another SEC and national championship opportunity..... along with an international tip-off this November 6th in Paris, France. 

In this podcast, recorded on location and surrounded by HAMMER STRENGTH equipment in Hamilton, Ohio, Molly describes how she got her career started in the strength and conditioning profession and updates us on the preparation for the coming 2023-24 season, as the team is on break in accordance with NCAA rules concerning mandatory off time. However, after mid June.... It's on!! And, it has to be because, as Binetti reminded me, the Southeastern Conference is a "super physical league.....you get your butt kicked every night". 
So, a huge shout out to one of the best in the business, Molly Binetti. We wish her continued top tier success. Here's the podcast, sponsored by SPECATHLETIC and their world renowned Regupol sports flooring.
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ASAP Podcast with Football Sports Performance Coach Tommy Moffitt

One of the big highlights of the HAMMER STRENGTH Clinic that was conducted at the Spooky Nook Athletics Complex in Hamilton, Ohio was the presentation on the opening night by Coach Tommy Moffitt. Basically, he laid out the infrastructure of his championship performance program that had the LSU Fighting Tigers fighting for and winning the big games and the big prizes. He's been in the strength & conditioning field for over thirty years. At Louisiana State for 23 years and prior to there, he'd been at Tennessee Vols and the Miami Hurricanes.

So, I guess it's a no-brainer that the Hammer Strength Clinic roped in the accomplished Tommy Moffitt. And, the clinic was the perfect time to catch an Athletic Strength And Power Podcast recording with Coach Moffitt. We talked strength training and conditioning an discussed how he used Polar heart rate monitors with the Tigers at LSU when conducting speed and conditioning workouts.

Currently, Moffitt has a strength & conditioning website called The Moffitt Method. It looks like a great resource for coaches & athletes and can even merge with TEAMBUILDR, the online strength & conditioning software.  In addition, he has a podcast that he records every Wednesday! 

Cincinnati Bearcats Head S&C Coach Niko Palazeti Podcast

Things were moving quickly at The University of Cincinnati as the school's athletic director scoured the football world for a replacement for Head Coach Luke Fickell who had departed to take on a struggling program in Madison, Wisconsin. A little over a week later, Cincinnati A/D/ John Cunningham was welcoming in his new football coach, Scott Satterfield, to take the reins of a program that has seen winning and lots of it in recent history. 

 

Meanwhile, one hundred miles to the north, in Columbus, Ohio, at Ohio State Football, assistant strength and conditioning coach Niko Palazeti was busy training his groups of Buckeye football stars at The Woody Hayes Athletic Center under the direction of his mentor and the Director of Football Sports Performance, Mickey Marotti. The Buckeyes were in training for another run in the College Football Playoffs. However, things were about to change for Coach Palazeti.  As the newly named UC Football Coach Satterfield began familiarizing himself with the Bearcats' athletics building, the Richard Lindner Center, he knew that his real and immediate focus was to find someone to take direction of the team's strength and conditioning program, often the heart and soul of a team, and assure the current roster of Bearcats that the uncertainty and doubt that they were experiencing was coming to an end. The Bearcats are now official members of the Big 12 Conference. In fact, the Oklahoma Sooners will be in town on September 23rd, so the football program was in real need of a strength & conditioning coach with much needed experience to guide the team and reset the foundation. 

 

Phone conversations, texts, emails were suddenly lighting up the former Michigan State Spartan's cell phone. The Cincinnati Bearcats would like to interview Niko Palazeti! Things were moving fast and and   And, as it turns out, Niko Palazeti finished up his morning training-groups at Ohio State, changed shirt logos to a CINCINNATI "C" paw, and headed to I-71 South for the two hour drive 
to the Queen City along the Ohio River. Bearcat football coach Scott Satterfield would introduce him to the squad a few hours later.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was a new focus for Palazeti, he needed a strength staff of his own. So, he finally was able to secure his new personnel:

Chris Friend (via Ohio State, football, hockey)

Scott Ethington (via Marshall, Maryland)
Brandon Garcia (via UNLV, Maryland)

Robert 'Robo' Williams (via Duke, Cincinnati)
Now that he had a staff, it became time to roll out the Winter Program and begin Coach Palazeti's first priority:

Prepare the Players for the demands of Spring Football

In today's ASAP ~Athletic Strength And Power Podcast, Niko and I discussed:

• the Cincinnati Bearcats opportunity
• his admiration of his mentor OSU's Mickey Marotti
• how the Bearcats attack the ever important region of the neck
• Spring football strength training objectives
• looking ahead to the Summer Program
• construction has begun on the new indoor facility and subsequent football building

 

ASAP Podcast with University of Kentucky Head Athletic Trainer Chris Simmons

This is a re-issue of my podcast with the late Chris Simmons, who has passed unexpectantly. just this week, January 2023. He was the best! Chris spent over ten years as The University of Kentucky Mens Basketball Head Athletic Trainer with Head Basketball Coach John Calipari. He will be dearly missed as a friend and ASAP associate and podcast guest. He truly loved Kentucky Basketball and he had the good fortune of working with "Coach Cal" for many a Wildcats victory. All of the Athletic Trainers from coast to coast mourn this loss of a great human being who touched the lives of many. 

Chris Simmons .Head Athletic Trainer at The University of Kentucky. He joins ASAP~Athletic Strength And Power~ Podcaster Ed Cicale for ASAP's 100th Podcast. Simmons' responsibility is the Kentucky Wildcat Basketball team. The winningest program in all of college basketball. Presently, his main focus is helping to make sure the recent arrivals, the incoming freshman class.... get oriented to their new collegiate experience.
The topics discussed in this podcast are:

• 2011 Freshman Class Arrival
• Coach Calipari
• Educational Background to becoming Head Athletic Trainer
• Inspiration in Mississippi
• Keeping Players fresh for Tournaments
• Tendinitis
• Ankle Sprains: his secrets to returning the Wildcats back to action quickly

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ASAP Podcast with Quinn Barham: Ohio State Football Assistant Dir. of Strength & Conditioning

Columbus, Ohio

There's a countdown clock in the Ohio State Buckeyes' massive strength training complex. A constant reminder to everyone involved with this program of when the BIG game kicks off. If you're a player, it's in one's subconscious. Time is ticking away..... will you be ready? Have you applied enough effort into the workout sessions? How's your bodyweight? Is it where it needs to be? The Mettler~Toledo®  scale is right across from the countdown clock that every player steps onto for their daily weigh-in as a strength coach takes notice and records the data on a master sheet.  The scale is right between Coach Mick's office and the assistant strength coaches' office.  There's no question that it's a big deal. Mickey Marotti, the Director of Football Sports Performance for the Buckeyes knows what each player is expected to weigh. At the basic level, he and his very knowledgeable staff, are responsible for making sure the players are packing on muscle and report to fall camp at their prescribed weight. The added muscle combined with being in great football condition along with daily improvement of their speed, agility and balance is critical and paramount to superior results in the coming fall season. Superior results in this program means WINNING. 
    The foam rollers were out in the Buckeyes' indoor facility as the players filed in for this morning training session and grabbed one. The strength staff; Marotti, Kenny Parker, Niko Palazeti, Quinn Barham and Zach Higgins are set for the first of three groups this morning. There's no question as to the tradition here. Championship, as in National Championship, banners adorn the walls of this indoor facility. The players know the expectations here. Win. And, win championships. Yet, down on the west wall of the 130 yard facility are the words 'TOUGH LOVE'. And, after observing Marotti-led programs for over thirty years, this slogan is the epitome of the strength and conditioning program here. 

Coach Quinn Barham pictured here instructing Buckeye participants at the 2022 OSU ProDay

The tough love is doled out mostly by the strength and conditioning staff. They spend more hours with the squad than anyone else, including head coach Ryan Day! So, for today's Athletic Strength and Power Podcast, we reached out to the team's assistant director of strength and conditioning, Quinn Barham. Like the players on this football squad, he knows the expectations of being at Ohio State, as well. The banners and the expectations at Ohio State drive the competiviveness of the strength coaching staff.  Barham is beginning his seventh year as a coach for the Buckeyes and like the other members of Marotti's staff, Quinn definitely possesses all of the necessary qualifications of a head strength and conditioning coach at the NCAA Division 1 level as well as professional football, too. Though, working with the Buckeyes and fellow coaches, Parker, Palazeti and Higgins is very rewarding as they're all highly motivated and working in a positive climate.
The countdown clock is visible from Coach Barham's office desk and for him, every minute of every day counts.... there's no time to waste. He know what's expected.

And like the guy whose name is on the building, Woody Hayes, stated, "You Win with People". 
The Buckeyes are in good hands!
Today's podcast discussions points are:

• training for speed
• tall lean falls
• three bucket pose
• barbell and split squats
• hip mobility 
• improving team speed
• leadership and competitiveness 

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• The Bill Jacobs Power Company
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ASAP PAC-12 Feature: Arizona State Football Strength Coach Joe Connolly Podcast

Tempe, Arizona

 

I had to go all the way out to the desert to track down Coach Joe Connolly, Arizona State's Director of Sports Performance. I'd last seen Joe at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, when the Michigan State Spartans hosted the ASU Sun Devils. In the end, MSU couldn't find a way to catch the shifty Sun Devil freshman QB Jayden Daniels as the capacity crowd of over 77,000, mostly in green & white, and their Sparty mascot left the stadium in shock with an upset loss. Head Coach Herm Edwards, Joe Connolly and the Sun Devil mascot, Sparky boarded their motor coaches and headed to the airport, off to PHX with the W.

Coach Connolly a Massachusetts dude, now in his fourth year in Tempe, has settled in to Arizona living, abundant cacti, and his PAC-12 team. We'd first met back in 2008 at the University of Louisville, where Joe was an assistant with then UL Cardinals' Head Strength Coach Joe Kenn.

Joe also spent some great years at the University of South Carolina as head strength coach for the Gamecocks and their legendary Hall of Fame Head Football Coach Steve Spurrier. In fact, they ran off three straight seasons of 11 win teams! Following that, he spent a few very enjoyable years with UMass Football. But now, he's preparing the Arizona State Sun Devils for the week to week challenges of a competitive PAC-12 Conference. Things can be good out west when you've had  some nice season victories versus UCLA, USC and Washington.

In this ASAP~Athletic Strength And Power Podcast, we discuss:

• his carrer path that led him to working with Herm Edwards at ASU
• Developmental Fridays"
• the extensive in-season training program
• what Sun Devil legend Pat Tillman means to ASU and all of Arizona

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• The Bill Jacobs Power Company
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ASAP Podcast with Tennessee State Football Head Strength Coach Scott Holsopple

This ASAP~Athletic Strength And Power Podcast with Head Strength & Conditioning Coach Scott Holsopple was recorded on loaction in Nashville, Tennessee at one of America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Tennessee State University. 
Coach Holsopple, the Director of Sports Performance, is a twenty-two year veteran in the collegiate strength and conditioning profession and is excited to work along side the likes of former NFL head coaches Jeff Fisher and Hue Jackson as well as new TSU Tighers' Head Football Coach, former Tennessee Titans and Ohio State Football star Eddie George. college football's 1995 Heisman Trophy recipient. 

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ASAP at Cincinnati Bearcats Football: Strength Staff Podcast

ASAP Podcaster Ed Cicale ventured to The University of Cincinnati Bearcats, post-pandemic, to check in on what last years' media darling college football team is up to and how they are preparing to make another move toward becoming a top ten program.

This podcast is a group interview with the strength staff assembled by Bearcats' Director of Football Sports Performance Brady Collins. He's put together an "amped up and juiced" staff comprised of:

Coach Jeremiah Ortiz
Coach Zach Higgins 
Coach Danny Folino
Coach Jimmy Rodenberg

The podcast was recorded at the Cincinnati Bearcats strength staff office where each coach was able to explain and detail many of the parts of the Bearcat strength and conditioning program. 

 

ASAP Podcast with Robert Rolf M.D. Beacon Orthopedics Surgeon & Shoulder Specialist

Robert Rolf M.D. is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio and a graduate of La Salle High School. He attended the University of Notre Dame where he received a BS in Chemical Engineering. This served as the foundation for furthering his studies into medicine and eventually, a specialty in the shoulder following his advanced research conducted at The Boston Shoulder Institute at Harvard under the guidance and fellowships with world reknowned shoulder surgeons. Nowadays, Dr.Rolf is the Co-Director of the Beacon Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine sports medicine fellowship program. He's also a guest for our ASAP Podcast on the shoulder joint and rotator cuff.

Rocky Boiman NFL, ESPN & WLW Radio ASAP Podcast with Ed Cicale

Former NFL star and Super Bowl winner, Rocky Boiman joins ASAP Podcaster Ed Cicale at the 700 #WLW Radio studio. We talk everything NFL, draft day, Notre Dame, Tennesse Titans 

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ASAP Podcast with Anthony Schlegel The DIFFERENCE USA & Strength Coach

We've featured Coach Anthony Schlegel on our site in the past. His colorful and demonstrative personality is pure linebacker.
Nowadays, Anthony spends the majority of his time running his business, THE DIFFERENCE USA out of his workshop in Columbus, Ohio. It’s basically just a short drive from Ohio Stadium where he once roamed the field seeking a chance to attack and dominate!
ASAP~Athletic Strength And Power stopped by the shop to talk shop with Schlegel to catch a podcast. I wasn’t too early -- he rises everyday around 4:00 a.m. to conduct a Columbus based morning “drive time” radio show with former Buckeye & NFL baller Bobby Carpenter and co-host Brandon Beam that’s guaranteed to get listeners “juiced” up. The show is appropriately called “The Morning Juice”.

 

In our ASAP Podcast, we discuss:

• The ‘Morning Juice’ Radio Show
• THE DIFFERENCE USA
• Hand striking purpose and goals
• Strength training workouts
• Anthony’s skills of dog hunts & wrestling wild boars in Texas

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ASAP Podcast with Cincinnati Bearcats Head Strength Coach Brady Collins

Coach Brady Collins.
He's the guy that Coach Fickell has entrusted to lead his Bearcats as the Director of Football Sports Performance. Once Fickell had landed from the short flight south of Columbus, Ohio, he summoned Collins for the task. Coach Collins has been well schooled for the assignment, as he spent a the entry level years at the University of Kentucky Wildcats with Ray "ROCK" Oliver and Ted Lambrinides. From there, he made his way south and deeper into SEC Football at Mississippi State at first with Matt Balis and then under Rick Court. Then it was on to Columbus and the Ohio State Buckeyes where he worked under Master Strength Coach Mickey Marotti. What a ton of great athletes and coaches whom Brady Collins has been around! Now, Brady Collins and his great young staff of Zach Higgins, Danny Folino, Jeremiah Ortiz and Dustin Tripp are preparing this 2020 COVID19-tested, #13 ranked @GoBearcatsFB for another journey at The University of Cincinnati! Good Luck Brady!
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Podcast discussion points: 

• In_Season Football Strength Training
• How things are getting "juiced up" in Cincinnati
• Some training ideas and tips from the trenches

ASAP Podcast with Dr. Robert Burger M.D. Orthopaedic Surgeon, Beacon Orthopaedic Sports Med Specialist

"sports are not the most important thing in life.... but, sports are one of the greatest classrooms for opportunities for young people to experience success and also to learn to deal with failure, to work hard towards a goal with teamwork" Dr. Robt Burger Orthopedic Surgeon

 

ASAP~Athletic Strength And Power Podcasts caught up with Dr. Robert Burger for a second sports science podcast. In this podcast, Dr. Burger talks about

• Hip and leg issues, and problems stemming from:
  landing mechanics
  recurrent hamstring tears
  achilles tendonitis
  weak core & flexibility issues related to lowered athletic performance & further injury
  
  
• The Shoulder and labrum tears

Dr Burger was a former Notre Dame Fighting Irish football player who worked himself into the starting line-up on a team that had Joe Montana as their starting quarterback. The hard work that Burger embraced, earned him an opportunity for a National Championship with that squad! Years later, Dr. Burger's son Bobby also made the Notre Dame team, he was a tight end/fullback. Another son, Chris starred at Xavier University in Cincinnati as a Captain of the Musketeer golf team and brother John played there for Xavier Golf, as well. Meanwhile, another son, Joe Burger, starred and was a team captain at Ohio State Football, himself playing for a National Championship in 2014. Later, OSU scholar athlete was elected Captain for the 2016 Buckeyes.

  "the important thing is not just the success that you did or didn't do, but it's what you've learned through the process"      Dr. Robt Burger Orthopedic Surgeon

Dr. Burger is the Head Team Physician and Medical Director for Xavier University Athletics, Orthopaedic Consultant for the Cincinnati Reds, and head Orthopaedic Team Physician for the College of Mount St. Joseph Athletics. Additionally, he is Head Team Physician for the Cincinnati Steam and his alma mater, Cincinnati LaSalle High School. 

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ASAP BASEBALL PODCAST with MLB Pitcher Bronson Arroyo

ASAP Podcaster Ed Cicale caught up with former MLB star pitcher Bronson Arroyo. The 6'5 finesse thrower spent the bulk of his career with the Cincinnati Reds. However, prior to that time the strength training enthusiast spent time with the Boston Red Sox where he had the opportunity to pitch in a World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals. 
During an eight year stint with Cincinnati, Arroyo never missed a start in manager Dusty Baker's pitching rotations.  He followed an extensive training plan in Cincinnati with then @REDS Strength & Conditioning Coach Matt Krause, where the two devised a meticulous program that accounted for strength training and conditioning, elbow and rotator cuff specialization, recovery and sports nutrition. 

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ASAP Podcast with TEAMBUILDR Founder Hewitt Tomlin

TEAMBUILDR, one of our longtime ASAP sponsors, has continued to make some great strides in the strength training and conditioning business, even during a COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, their industry leading online strength & conditioning software has become even more of a game changer for strength coaches everywhere.  While the Tennessee Vols, West Virginia Mountaineers and the Golden State Warriors strength and conditioning programs have been major players who have reaped the rewards of using TEAMBUILDR, many other high schools, college programs and professional teams are now under the TEAMBUILDR umbrella. And as a matter of fact, the most fiscally successful and most prominent collegiate athletic program in all of sports, the Ohio State University Buckeyes, have signed on with Hewitt Tomlin's TEAMBUILDR, as Coach Mickey Marotti is delving into the software.

In the ASAP Podcast, our initial attempt at a ZOOM recording, TEAMBUILDR founder Hewitt Tomlin explains the many advantages of using this powerful coaching tool, which is becoming even more beneficial during a shutdown that has left a strength coaching fraternity scrambling for ways to train their athletes from a distance.

ASAP Podcast with Dusty Baker, All-Star MLB Player & Manager

Think you've seen and know a little bit about baseball? Imagine being involved with nearly 6,000 games! That's how much involvement in the game of baseball that today's ASAP Podcast guest Dusty Baker has had. Baker knows the history of the game from his days as a kid...with his own heroes. History of the game as a star player. History of the game with today's brand of game and players, too. And he has the stories to go with the experience. For example, in this podcast, Dusty talks about some of the "strength training" that he and the great and legendary Hank Aaron did. He also tells about the evolution of strength training in baseball and how different it was. 

And how about these stats?

• NLCS MVP
• World Series Champ
• Two time All Star
• Gold Glove Award
• Silver Slugger
• Four Times Manager of the Year

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ASAP Podcast with Retired Cincinnati Bengal Strength Coach Kim Wood

Coach Kim Wood spent thirty years as a coach with the Cincinnati Bengals. He was hired by the venerable founder and first coach of the @Bengals Paul Brown. Keep in mind that this was during the Bengals' hey day, as the team appeared in two Super Bowls, one of which San Francisco 49er stars Joe Montana and Jerry Rice led hall of fame type performances in the final minutes to take the win out of the grasp of the Cincinnati Bengals, quarterback Boomer Esiason and their head coach Sam Wyche. 

In this podcast, Kim Wood reminisces about the former coach who recently succumbed to complications with melanoma. 

We also discuss:

•    the 2020 NCAA College Football National Championship match-up
•    The NFL Play-offs
•    the late Bengal head coach Sam Wyche
•    the upcoming 2020 Michigan State Strength & Conditioning Clinic
•    His son, John Wood will be a speaker/presenter at the Michigan State Strength Clinic, his Oldtime Strongman website and Functional Hand Strength

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Ohio State Football Coach Ryan Day presented Mickey Marotti with Game Ball post Michigan State Game

Following the game, Buckeye Head Coach Ryan Day presented the Buckeyes' head strength and conditioning Coach Mickey Marotti with the game ball stating that "he's the guy this whole thing is built upon. He's the backbone.... the blood that runs through this whole program. And to say that we're tough, it's beacause of him and his strength staff and all the work that they put in with these (Buckeyes)".
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Coach Mick Marotti (right) with Parris Campbell watching SBJ at a recent PRO-DAY

The Michigan State Spartans, ranked #25 came into Ohio Stadium with one thought in mind. Knock off the #4 ranked Ohio State Buckeyes. MSU Coach Mark Dantonio knows how it can be done. He and his MSU squad had done it before and certainly believed it could be done again. And, with only a three point deficit after the first quarter, Michigan State, with their much vaunted and respected defense, had to feel that they could keep things tight. Then, Ohio State stumbled on capitalizing on turnovers. Third down conversions didn't gel. Michigan State played their patented tough-as-nails Spartan "D".  However, the Spartan offense struggled to get a foothold against a Buckeye defense that is extremely stingy in their own right. In fact, OSU defensive line coach Larry Johnson has been cranking out a ton of talent lately. Past stars Joey Bosa, Nick Bosa Sam Hubbard, and now Chase Young are all members or former members of Johnson's "rushmen" crew. If you can't find ways to score on these guys, it's just a matter of time before the Ohio State offense, loaded with speed and size that can strike at almost anytime, will put up enough points to win the contest. 
Following the game, Buckeye Head Coach Ryan Day presented the Buckeyes' head strength and conditioning Coach Mickey Marotti with the game ball stating that "he's the guy this whole thing is built upon. He's the backbone.... the blood that runs through this whole program. And to say that we're tough, it's beacause of him and his strength staff and all the work that they put in with these (Buckeyes)