from what I here Appalachian state has a great s & c program
The previous strength coach there was a former roommate of mine-Tommy Hoke now at Michigan State.
The current guy, Jeff Dillman, was at App. as a student and prior to coming back to App. was an asst. strength coach at LSU.
Is there any chance that whoever they bring in tells the current S&C guy to find a new job?
The rumor I’ve been hearing since this past spring was that Gittleson would retire when Carr did. Now that LC’s retirement is reality, who knows?
Some fans(myself included) are concerned that they promote his assistant s & c coach to the head spot and there would be a continuation of HIT.
It’s now been confirmed that this guy, Mike Barwis, is coming to UM. Hopefully Gittleson and Tolbert will not be in place to “oversee” what he’s doing nor attempt to control nor direct his actions in any way.
Hopefully Rodriguez can get Terrelle Pryor to come along for the ride as well. Being originally from Pa I have heard the Pryor hype all year, but AA ball in Pa is nowhere near what he will be seeing next year.
Yeah, Pryor supposedly said yesterday that UM is now on his short list after not being among his original list of finalists.
It would be great to get him while simultaneously keeping him out of the hands of the Bucks. I’ve read some calling Pryor an OSU lock but we’ll see if that’s how it plays out.
ANN ARBOR, Mich – University of Michigan head football coach Rich Rodriguez announced Sunday (Jan. 6) the hiring of the strength and conditioning staff for Wolverine football. The six-person staff that worked with Rodriguez at West Virginia is led by director Mike Barwis, assistants Chris Allen, Parker Whiteman and Kentaro Tamura and graduate assistants Dennis Murray and Jesse Miller.
“I am pleased to have our strength and conditioning staff join me at Michigan,” said Rodriguez. “They have been an integral part of our success on the field and I know they will help us attain our desired success at Michigan.”
Following is biographical information on the full-time Strength and Conditioning Staff:
Mike Barwis
Director of Strength and Conditioning
Barwis worked at West Virginia for 14 years and coordinated every facet of the department’s athletic sports conditioning program during that time. His primary responsibility has been working with the Mountaineers football and men’s basketball programs after working with 10 Olympic sports during his tenure.
Barwis has coached 14 National Strength and Conditioning (NSCA) All-Americans since 1999, and was one of 12 coaches to receive the 2002 Bronze Award from the NSCA certification commission. He has trained professional, Olympic, national and international competitors and medalists in wrestling, track and field, soccer, football, basketball, baseball, motor cross, cycling and rifle during his career.
A Philadelphia, Pa., native, Barwis earned his undergraduate degree in exercise physiology from WVU in 1996 and his master’s in athletic coaching in 1998. He has also completed course work in the area of anatomy, physiology, histology and biomechanics at Temple, and is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialists by the NSCA.
Barwis and his wife, Autumn, have one son, Ray. Autumn was the associate strength and conditioning coach for West Virginia’s varsity sports.
Chris Allen
Director of Skill Development
Allen spent the past five seasons as a member of the West Virginia strength and conditioning program. He spent two years working in Internet technology support in Atlanta, Ga., prior to joining the WVU staff. A native of Kingston, Jamaica, Allen graduated in 2000 with degrees in accounting and MIS. He has been working on a master’s degree in athletic coaching education.
Parker Whiteman
Assistant Strength Coach
Whiteman was appointed a full-time assistant strength coach at WVU in 2007 after working as a graduate assistant during the 2006 season. Prior to joining the Mountaineers staff, Whiteman spent two years as an assistant strength coach with the Baltimore Ravens and worked as a performance coach for Velocity Sports Performance. He received his bachelor’s degree in physical education and health from Shepherd (W.Va.) University, where he played football in 2006. Whiteman completed his master’s degree in exercise science from McDaniel College.
Kentaro Tamura
Assistant Strength Coach
Tamura was hired as a full-time assistant strength coach in 2007, working with the Mountaineers’ football, men’s soccer and rifle. He served as an intern and graduate assistant at WVU for three years. A native of Kanagawa, Japan, Tamura received his bachelor’s degree from Nihon University in economics and earned his master’s in exercise physiology from West Virginia. He is a certified strength and conditioning specialist and holds CPR and AED certifications. Tamura and his wife, Hiroko, have a daughter, Yuna.
hes from the gayle hatch tree.
How much does an asst. strength coach make? Enough to have heat and tacos?
Assistant strength coaches can vary greatly from school to school…a lot has to do with what responsibilities that person has, and whether or not football is involved.
Example: “Big State U”
Head strength coach - football only - $90K - 150K
assistant football only strength coach - $25-45K
Head strength coach, “other” sports (meaning they take care of 14-20 sports) - 45 - 65K
assistant strength coach, “other” sports - 25-35K. There may be as many as 10 full time assistants…
Of course, many schools are getting rather creative. Some have basketball only strength coaches now, some divide it up into revenue/non-revenue sports, some put the elusive “assistant/associate athletic director for…” title on to it, etc.
I know of one school that actually has a wrestling only strength coach!
oh well.
example 2
“little private U”
Head strength coach, all sports - 28 - 50K
assistant strength coach, all sports - 20-30K, if he’s even full time. “interns”, GA’s, part timers tend to make up most of these staffs as well.
An article about the MSU basketball training. Go to the later pages for the sample workouts.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FIH/is_5_75/ai_n17211526
depends what school, when my bro was up for the unc job (fb only) they were offering 47,000. i guess thats enough to buy 2 soft shell tacos and a cheap hooker.
Mike Barwis…I’m very excited about Michigan football. 
Same here. I don’t know if he’ll be a great s & c coach but I do believe he’s a major improvement over what we’ve had.
I had a chance to read the whole thing and unfortunately barwis was not a big improvement for u of m. Guys are still getting hurt and transferring out of mich.
Knowing what I do about Gittleson and Barwis, though, I am still strongly of the belief even with all of his shortcomings, (many of which I’ve pointed out and in other cases agreed with posters here) Barwis is no doubt better than Gittleson.
Barwis simply has not had the same caliber of player to work with, overall that is, that Gittleson did over his time there.
I think his over the top methods have probably led to some injuries but Gittleson’s injury rates were horrendous. I think even Charlie talked about this at one point-just as he talked about Mannie’s injury rates on the old forum.
Ok cool. 
I’ll admit I know only but so much about Gittleson thru his workouts. I did meet him at the clinic I pm’ed you about an he didnt come right out and say it but he doesnt like the New regime there. Coaching and racing/playing against some of Mike G’s former guys, they still love him (the 1’s I know). But yes your right about the injury rates, I think missed that part (my bad). Whats funny is barwis’s injury rate high. Apparentl not as high as Mike G.
I do know he’s doing alot of speaking engagements for I wanna say Hammerstrength? Correct me if Im wrong.
No problem and much of what I state is just opinion anyways-no right or wrong there.
I’ve been a UM fan since the Rick Leach days (went to the 79 Gator Bowl vs. UNC and Anthony Carter/Lawrence Taylor though Leach had grad. by then) when I was a kid so we’re going way back with that and MG got his job right around then, around 78 or 79.
I felt like they underachieved for so long under him and many players physically regressed particularly after their sophomore or even freshmen years. For lack of a better analysis, I thought the athletes became slower, less explosive under his program. His program was truly archaic.
You are right, Barwis does not have a great injury rate either-for one, we’ve not been able to keep feature backs healthy during his watch.
I would imagine he might still be linked with Hammerstrength and I’ve seen some things he’s posted at the Roger’s athletic site.