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Then there were the veterans, who had the attitude of,  I got here without you, I m going to stay here without you, and I m going to be here long after you leave. Because strength training was not mandatory for the Orioles when he arrived, except for stretching, Johnson had only 14 guys from the 25-man roster willing to work with him during his first year.  With college athletes you have more control over the discipline of the athletes. Johnson kept at it and earned their trust, and by his last year virtually the entire team was working out. Although there were some younger players who saw the value in conditioning, the greatest influence Johnson had to get players in the weightroom was Cal Ripken, Jr.  The best thing for me going to the Orioles was Cal Ripken Jr. I attribute a lot of my success to Cal Jr., because he was the leader of the team. <br>Johnson admits that after four years the requirements of being involved with a major league baseball team were getting to him.  People look at it as glitz and glamour. The first year it s kind of neat, but you re on the road about 125 days a year and at times you don t know what day it is-it s just a crazy, crazy lifestyle. So when the athletic director at WVU asked if I was interested in getting my old job back, I tell you, it was a pretty easy decision. <br>Johnson came back just in time, because that first year he saw his Mountaineers take on Florida in the game that would decide the National Championship. Johnson also says he was pleased to find that the college baseball players were really Gj`9c)ᱏ\*QI^)wv *ʹpq֬I "F=+"[rg&:Rǰ\Kv[9.Hʞ1RAx?5r͸j@J#GĚu.dZK=WH;Y_oGp62eŸ <+ mnZ)ёѰG#^vj]Y gކ/,0v# GYIInp V˳:dּPwFrh3ﴉ]8׌*+f6Xd'RHF]FI#8V1\3c?CSW*0iwjm aEmieTqA.TϟdG=+DMurcX`3LXx/Y4in&p;WI;jz3\!*a2=˘9rYz2.<1#p$cǍ"KuZm]; FglNe`$G #:0mR9dΏdl&h@ GLtqxL2(hfs"m3R`TTb_UΟxclqƣ%Iƫ`b3I,E,\Fvڸ5P(AԔ?MX\@:hO%o*Np wW5otq xvPere not so dynamically obvious, machines would have snuffed our free weights entirely.<br>Second, the advent of the strength coach played a significant role in doing things right. Before the strength coach, it was usually administrators or the football coach who made strength-training decisions. By the early 1980 s nearly all major colleges had a strength and conditioning coach. Boyd Epley of Nebraska, an ex-track athlete, started the National Strength and Conditioning Associations (NSCA) in the late 1970 s. Books and publications like the NCSA and BFS Journal were being published. As a result, a more knowledgeable strength and football coach emerged. No longer were vast majorities of coaches gullible.<br>Machine people still get asked to speak at clinics because they pay for booth space, but recently it has become embarrassing. Football coaches will make jokes and speak out during a machine presentation. To stay in business, the machine people have softened their claims considerably. Some have also started pr