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Good morning. Dave Richardson heads back to Ohio State, Michigan's Matt Aldred talks managing a team after a title run, and Nebraska adds a new strength coach. Let's get into it.
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NEWS
💪 Dave Richardson Heads Back to Ohio State
Dave Richardson is returning to Ohio State as the men's basketball strength coach, the same job he held under Thad Matta from 2005 to 2017. He spent the last seven seasons at Arkansas, where the Razorbacks reached at least the Sweet 16 in five of the past six years.
Richardson says he wasn't looking to leave - Buckeyes coach Jake Diebler first called him just for help finding a hire, and the conversation talked him into it. "I told him that I wasn't interested in coming back," Richardson said, but Diebler's energy won out. He and Diebler overlapped at Ohio State a decade ago, when Diebler was Matta's video coordinator. Read More
🏀 Michigan's Matt Aldred on Coaching After a Title Run
Michigan strength coach Matt Aldred went on the 'Defend The Block' podcast and talked through how he's approaching the offseason after the longest season he's ever coached. He's being cautious with his returners, planning to pull back volume in June and build them up later in the year, and he's trusting his guys to manage some of their own work rather than hammering them early. He also changed how he handles newcomers this year, choosing not to call their previous strength coaches so he could start each player with a clean slate and no prior weight-room baggage.
The lesson he took from winning it all was to keep things simple and not chase random stuff just because it's new. And he summed the job up about as well as anyone, saying it's about people and relationships way more than the dumbbells and barbells, because if it were just the lifting he'd probably be an Instagram influencer. Read More
🌽 Nebraska Hires Mike Chatman
Nebraska announced the hiring of Michael Chatman as Director of Strength and Conditioning for men's basketball under Fred Hoiberg. He comes from LSU, where he was the head men's basketball strength coach for the past two seasons, and brings more than 15 years at the Division I level.
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