This is NO Joke! It’s Time to talk about it!

I am putting it on him as far as he makes the calls on the strength and conditioning staff and trainers. There is more that can be done to help prevent injuries. They are going to happen, but to this extent for this long? Something is up.

welp, let’s just say this…Whitt is to blame for everything wrong with the program right now! when it rains it pours. he gets paid millions $$$ to solve problems and put a quality football team on the field and not have a program in disarray because he’s not being transparent with the players and the fanbase. players speaking out on social media how they felt and their body language on the field says it all.

Why not? He has allowed Elaisa to run Olympic powerlifting sessions mid season… that’s just stupid. That’s perfectly fine to do in the off season, but mid season you’re asking for injuries. Sure, injuries are a part of the sport… but only to a certain extent. When a team seems to have major injury issues year in and year out, you have to start looking for causation. There is no excuse why our QBs have such a terrible history of being injured. I remember seeing a campus news article that had mentioned the same thing during the Travis Wilson years. The coach absolutely has to take some of the blame here.

it’s up to you to do the research and prove his theory wrong

And just how in hell do you expect someone to prove that? For one, we don’t even know who is and who isn’t injured. We just barely found out Huard has a season ending injury and has surgery “some weeks back”. Our coach won’t discuss it. I will tell you this. My best friend works closely with coach Whitt, and I won’t say what he does, but he works in healthcare. He had a conversation with coach Whitt discussing his concerns with how the S&C program is run. Whitt is loyal to his friends, I’ll give him that. But he told my friend that Doug Elisaia has been doing his thing for some time and basically told my friend to mind his own business. Someone with a doctoral degree in understanding Kinesiology, Anatomy and Physiology, vs a guy with a bachelors degree in physical education with a MINOR in Athletic Training… give me a damn break. I received my first degree in Athletic Training from the U, I didn’t Minor in it, but my bachelor level understanding of the human body was paltry compared to what my current understanding is. Maybe Doug isn’t the guy. Maybe we need someone who understands functional movement, and has an understanding of rest vs fatigue, strength maintenance vs gains, and training periodization. And that absolutely is 100% on Whitt to have the right guy for that.

You should go listen to Weddle’s interview from a few weeks back with OC. Weddle talks about this. From someone that had a long career and minimal major injuries, I take his word over others (did you even play college football or football in general 🙄). He says this isn’t a Whitt problem or S&C coach problem… Did you watch Cam’s injury, Moneys? Zero to do with S&C. Did you see all the NFL players out the past three weeks with season ending injuries…
Step away from the computer

So, humor me for a second. I’m not even asking for facts. Theories alone are fine at this point. What is the suspicion as to what could be causing this? Throwing a generic term out there like players are getting hurt because of “strength and conditioning” doesn’t actually mean anything. Strength and conditioning are what is done to get more physically resilient, not less.

So what is the thought? That Whitt is not having people lift weights enough? Having people lift too much? Not running enough? Running too much? Isn’t feeding people? Feeding people too much? Feeding people fake food that builds weak bodies? Pushing harmful supplements? Not letting them rest?

Does any of this sound right? Do you really think if we lined up the strength and conditioning protocols for every team in college football that Utah would really be that different? Put your emotions aside and just think about it logically for five seconds. I agree that Utah’s injuries seem like a lot over the past couple of years, but do we actually know that that’s true in comparison? Whitt has been the coach for like 147 years and his teams rarely have seemed to have more injuries than the next team until the past two years. Did he make some significant change in the way he approaches everything in the last two years?

We’ll all be sure to give everyone a pat on the back when we see them, and just for you Jimmy, a slap on the tush.

Maybe they’d kick it up a notch if he walked around practice with a bat…