![]() Yoxall also previously served as Minnesota’s strength coach and started his career at TCU. He came to Auburn with Tommy Tuberville and was retained when Gene Chizik took over last season. Yoxall was a power lifter in college at East Texas State and earned All-America honors in 1983. Yoxall has been at Auburn since 1999 when he came over from UCLA and supervises all strength and conditioning programs for men’s and women’s athletics. Among the professional athletes Veltkamp has worked with include Carolina Panthers receiver Steve Smith and NBA basketball player Andrew Bogut. Veltkamp played for Bobby Petrino’s father, Bob Petrino, Sr., at Carroll College in Helena, Mont., and was a captain on the 1994 team. Veltkamp was also the head strength and conditioning coach at Utah and was there with Florida coach Urban Meyer for a season in 2003. ![]() ![]() He was with Bobby Petrino at Louisville for three seasons and helped coordinate the development of 21 future NFL draft selections. Veltkamp is beginning his third season as the Hogs’ head strength and conditioning coach after joining the Arkansas staff in January 2008. “He makes you want to show up and work every day and push yourself even harder than the day before,” said former Alabama All-America center Antoine Caldwell. An LSU graduate, Cochran has been credited by many of the Alabama players for being a big part of the Tide’s turnaround under Saban. Cochran’s ties to Saban go back to LSU when Cochran was an assistant strength coach on LSU’s 2003 national championship team. Prior to taking on the Crimson Tide’s head strength and conditioning duties, he spent three years with the NBA’s New Orleans Hornets as assistant strength coach. One of the most energetic and vocal coaches on Alabama’s staff, Cochran came to Alabama in 2007 along with Nick Saban. Here’s a rundown of the head strength coaches in the SEC: No wonder the first piece of advice Florida’s Urban Meyer gives to a first-time head coach is to go out and get the best strength coach he can find. Strength and conditioning coaches in college football are around the players more than the head coaches and more than the position coaches.
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