BATON ROUGE, La. — Years ago as coach of Tennessee, Phil Fulmer presented Tommy Moffitt with a proposition: remain the Vols’ associate head strength coach or join Fulmer’s staff as an on-field assistant. Moffitt didn’t need long to deliberate. “I was like, ‘Hell no,’” says Moffitt, now in his 20th year as LSU’s strength coach. “All I thought about my entire life is being a strength coach.”
Many in the strength coaching world hold similar feelings, their passion grounded forever in the art of sculpting athletes—not necessarily coaching them. That’s why Scott Cochran’s recent move sent shockwaves through a close-knit industry of weight-clanging gurus.