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Bobcat Coach Brent Vigen Likes the Condition MSU's Condition Is In
8/9/2021 4:23:00 PM | Football
Strong off-season conditioning program has Bobcats in good early-camp shape
BOZEMAN, Montana – August 9, 2021 – As a first-year college head football coach, Brent Vigen rightly has many things on his mind. One of them, though, is not his team's conditioning.
Bobcat strength and conditioning coach Sean Herrin said his team's work in the summer "exceeded my expectations," and Vigen calls that a significant development. "That's as worth noting as anything," Vigen said early in camp. "The work that Coach Herrin and his staff did with our guys this summer, again it's (early in camp), but they were rolling. They were going at a good clip. You could tell that guys weren't having to slow down."
The nature of the last calendar year at Montana State – it was almost exactly one year ago when the Big Sky Conference cancelled the fall season – has been start-and-stop, to say the least. The Bobcats rebooted the program in January with the idea of playing one or two late-spring games, but the February coaching changed altered those plans. Instead, MSU football went through a conventional spring practice session.
"Last off-season was as big a roller coaster as anything from a physical conditioning perspective," Vigen said, "and now we've had three months leading up to this. And that showed (in the team's early practices)."
While Vigen is pleased with MSU's good physical condition in the present, he hopes it also brings benefits as time passes. "I think injuries happen a lot of time because of fatigue," he said. "We need to get reps, and we need our guys to be able to push through some things, but ultimately the more fatigued they are technique slips and whatever, so I have more confidence in our ability to be as preventive from an injury perspective as possible."
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Bobcat strength and conditioning coach Sean Herrin said his team's work in the summer "exceeded my expectations," and Vigen calls that a significant development. "That's as worth noting as anything," Vigen said early in camp. "The work that Coach Herrin and his staff did with our guys this summer, again it's (early in camp), but they were rolling. They were going at a good clip. You could tell that guys weren't having to slow down."
The nature of the last calendar year at Montana State – it was almost exactly one year ago when the Big Sky Conference cancelled the fall season – has been start-and-stop, to say the least. The Bobcats rebooted the program in January with the idea of playing one or two late-spring games, but the February coaching changed altered those plans. Instead, MSU football went through a conventional spring practice session.
"Last off-season was as big a roller coaster as anything from a physical conditioning perspective," Vigen said, "and now we've had three months leading up to this. And that showed (in the team's early practices)."
While Vigen is pleased with MSU's good physical condition in the present, he hopes it also brings benefits as time passes. "I think injuries happen a lot of time because of fatigue," he said. "We need to get reps, and we need our guys to be able to push through some things, but ultimately the more fatigued they are technique slips and whatever, so I have more confidence in our ability to be as preventive from an injury perspective as possible."
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