Wow, no wonder we got the shit beat out of us last year.
That relaxed atmosphere worked with the upperclassmen, because they'd been through the â€work, hard work†they'd been through the strict discipline in the weight room, that's all they knew. So, the relaxed atmosphere was somewhat welcomed, but those players still busted their ass in the weight room, because they still had that fear of Coach Yox.
Starting with the first class of recruits '09, they began the next few years of not having to fear Coach Yox, because the discipline had been taken away from Yox by Coach Chizik, also enter in Coach Troop, the coach that would eventually put all of the players under his wing and basically keep them from being somewhat scolded (Coach Chizik getting in Daren Bates' face during a Special Teams play in '11, iirc).
Now we have a full team that hasn't felt a real 4am mat drills, fans off and trash cans placed all around the gym to throw up in, then going to class (those bring back some fond memories) and a full team that doesn't fear the Strength & Conditioning Coach...that's hopefully going to change and it'll be a hard lesson for a handful of players. I'm still thinking that there'll be around 5 players leaving (not including OL Christian Westerman & QB Clint Moseley), because the hard practices and training hasn't started yet.