Ever since Brian Kelly arrived at LSU, he has monitored speed.
All the players wear monitors within their pads that track a variety of metrics, which helps him understand fatigue and determine workloads throughout the year.
One of them is mph.
At practice March 10, the second this spring, nine players ran 20 mph or faster, Kelly said Tuesday. And those numbers told him something about the program’s development.
On the second day of spring practice last year, only one player did.
“I think we’ve looked at all of our numbers, and it’s pretty clear our football team is bigger, faster, stronger,” Kelly said. “Now you’ve got to be able to translate that as well.”
Kelly in the same breath said LSU has other issues to work through — mainly depth concerns on the offensive line with reinforcements not arriving until the summer — but he feels pleased with the strength and conditioning level early in practice.
“We want to be physically stronger, faster as a team,” Kelly said, “and we are.”
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