Considering we are weaker and less conditioned than we were when he started in 2021, I have no idea what value Viloria is actually bringing to this program. One of many staffing misses by Aranda, in my opinion. Consider...
He made his name with Jimbo's FSU teams, where it should be said they stacked top 10 classes year over year with world class athletes. It's hard to say how much he actually influenced that program given the wealth of resources around him - he's often been credited with the establishment of the GPS performance tracking, which they were first to do and that everyone uses now, but he had absolutely nothing to do with any of that and was a mere beneficiary of it. Which kind of sums up his time in Tallahassee.
It should be noted that Jimbo did not opt to bring Viloria with him to A&M and Willie Taggart did not retain him at FSU, perhaps had something do with a DUI arrest in 2016.
Then spent a throwaway year with SMU before going to LSU as, it should be said, a second in command to Tommy Moffitt, who's been there forever and is an established S&C legend. So Viloria didn't actually come anywhere close to running the program - Aranda just skimmed as high to the surface as he could based on his working relationship with him while they were both in Baton Rouge. All that hype and bluster about us getting "LSU's strength coach" was actually for the understudy.
I just don't get his value based on our trajectory. It's not like Kaz had a ton of top-line experience before he joined, but he at least understood what it was like to work with like 2 and 3-star athletes and build them from there, as opposed to maintaining entire rosters of the most elite athletes in the country as Viloria has done for his entire career.
Once again we missed on a critical hire that has badly degraded the fighting strength of our trenches and the explosiveness of our skill positions. It is particularly galling how badly we are beaten at the point of attack time and time again and how low energy our starting lineups are. We are juice-less.
He made his name with Jimbo's FSU teams, where it should be said they stacked top 10 classes year over year with world class athletes. It's hard to say how much he actually influenced that program given the wealth of resources around him - he's often been credited with the establishment of the GPS performance tracking, which they were first to do and that everyone uses now, but he had absolutely nothing to do with any of that and was a mere beneficiary of it. Which kind of sums up his time in Tallahassee.
It should be noted that Jimbo did not opt to bring Viloria with him to A&M and Willie Taggart did not retain him at FSU, perhaps had something do with a DUI arrest in 2016.
Then spent a throwaway year with SMU before going to LSU as, it should be said, a second in command to Tommy Moffitt, who's been there forever and is an established S&C legend. So Viloria didn't actually come anywhere close to running the program - Aranda just skimmed as high to the surface as he could based on his working relationship with him while they were both in Baton Rouge. All that hype and bluster about us getting "LSU's strength coach" was actually for the understudy.
I just don't get his value based on our trajectory. It's not like Kaz had a ton of top-line experience before he joined, but he at least understood what it was like to work with like 2 and 3-star athletes and build them from there, as opposed to maintaining entire rosters of the most elite athletes in the country as Viloria has done for his entire career.
Once again we missed on a critical hire that has badly degraded the fighting strength of our trenches and the explosiveness of our skill positions. It is particularly galling how badly we are beaten at the point of attack time and time again and how low energy our starting lineups are. We are juice-less.