UCLA hires Mike Linn as new S&C coach

by Underbruin on Jan 23, 2008 4:31 AM PST Comment 3 comments

Official UCLA press release can be found: here.

Linn was UCLA's strength and conditioning coach from 1999 to 2002, as well as a Bruin offensive lineman in the early 90's. Slightly worrisome is the fact that Linn's tenure spans basically the decline of the Bruin football program from a Rose Bowl to Toledo's firing. There were numerous reasons for the failure of that regime, though, and singling out S&C is generally a mistake when assigning blame or credit (just don't tell that to mgoblog's Brian Cook -- I keed, I keed). More information will hopefully be forthcoming as I dig a little deeper when I get the time. After his firing, Linn worked for several years at St. Louis University for a while, among other things. I'll leave you with the summary quote from the official release:

UCLA announced today the hiring of Mike Linn as the head strength and conditioning coach. Linn, who has both collegiate and corporate experience, previously served as the Bruin head strength and conditioning coach from 1999-2002. The 1993 UCLA graduate was a three-year starter along the offensive line on the Bruin football team and a member of three Bruin bowl teams. On another note, guys, can we please lower the minimum word requirements for diaries? The above didn't meet the 200 word-limit; no offense, but that's not the sort of thing that really belongs anywhere near a random comment in another thread.

Just saying. :)

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Sorry UB

We will keep the requirement at 200 words. However later this year we will be launching BN 2.0 which will allow room for quick fire posts. However, for now we are not going to change the 200 words requirement. It has been working well for us. Thanks for sharing the story.

by Nestor on Jan 23, 2008 4:38 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

Heh, s'fine

I mostly put that in there because I needed to fill the rest of the space in the diary. =P

There goes my pipe dream

I posted in an earlier post about how I wished we would go after Mike Blasquez as new S&C coach. For those who didn't read my post, here is the link.

Mike Blasquez is the current S&C coach for Cal's basketball team and some of their olympic sports. Before joining Cal's staff, he was head S&C coach for De La Salle High School's football team, where he helped produce phenomenal athletes out of ordinary kids. Some of his products include Maurice Jones-Drew, Demetrius Williams, Kevin Simon, and DJ Williams.

Former DLS players have claimed that his conditioning program was the tougher than anything they experienced in college or the NFL. It was designed to dramitically improve strength, agility, and quickness in a short period of time.

Oh well, I just hope Mike Linn is able to condition our players so that they don't always get injured.

by hspigskinfan on Jan 23, 2008 10:24 AM PST reply actions 0 recs