Top Lombardi and Outland Candidate

By Dr. Greg Shepard “Death is what you see when you stare at us. When you go to prison and possible but death, That’s what we want our opponents to see when they when you stare at us.” come to the line,” says Warren Sapp serious as a priest at the midnight hour. Warren was the youngest ofsix “Here’s how it’s going to be bud,” football team as a junior and started at sion on the team,” Warren related. see that happen.” team.”

Warren met the challenge. He led the team to an 8-2 record and was named to the Florida-Georgia High School All-Star game and was an game at linebacker on the JV team. to prepare for your demise.

20 times for a 43.5 average. me to weed out the problems.” strong legs,” everything for us.” also held down a 2.7 GPA. W:

400 and Clean 320 pounds. however, never did lift weight: solo tackles and sacks. as a starter last year with 27 solo tackand keeps you from fatigue.” like. He smiles when I make gains. on-one sessions with Coach LaDuc.” When it came to choose a college, Warren deferred to his mother. “My mom liked Miami for the care they take with the education of their athletes. went.

Russell Maryland and Cortez Kennedy. I’m glad he’s on our side. Warren is all over the damn place.” tabbed him as the nation’s number one defensive tackle. was the only underclassman to be named captain on this year’s Hurricane squad. The following are my favorite Warren Sapp quotes, championship. In fact, in the last 11 years, Miami has won four national with an animal. No way are you going to get underneath me. [’m of 116-17 (.817). That is the most wins of any school in the country!

As a freshman, Warren weighed 315 pounds. That’s why they put him at defensive line. “I knew I was too fat so I worked hard. I lifted weights. There was no choice. We lifted five days per week. an idiot for not lifting.” Warren redshirted his freshman year and was able to really concentrate on the weights. As a result he made massive gains. “I got up to a 315 pound bench,” said Warren proudly. “Whee, three plates on each side. For me, that was monumental.” Warren was muscle and lose fat. In fact, he quickly worked his weight down to a lean 267 pounds. He soon was able to Parallel Squat over 500, Power Clean physically and mentally stronger this year.

I’m going to get beaten every so often but then I'l] come back and beat you and I'll get to your mind. It never gets boring. It becomes a game within a game. It’s always fun to see if you can make an offensive lineman fall down without touching them. Offensive lineman are so clumsy.

“People hate us whether we go 9-3, 10-2 or 1-11. They hate us, but they can’t do anything about it. Miami’s always going to be a big deadly weapon and every time you step up to it, you better be ready to go down. | look into their eyes and I see fear. They know Miami is like a big machine. around the country have the confidence to say we can beat Miami. “T really don’t get banged around the NFL but as he does that and after his football career, he wants to help kids. “Many have lost perspective. A lot of kids know crime and are running the streets. I don’t think there are enough people reaching these kids and showing them there’s more, much more, to life than the streets.”

Warren gives his mother the credit for keeping him in line as a youth. “Td rather be called a punk than face the wrath of my mom. I never wanted to disgrace her. She taught me to be a good example.” Peer pressure was never an issue with Warren . “I never knew what that was until I took a sociology class. Anyway, it’s not them that makes my that much. If you do it properly, you barely get touched. be.” decisions, it’s me. fathom doing drugs. majoring in criminology and has. right, you'll be free and you'll be runwork. me. long. gle block. ’'m hoping. If it’s 4th and one and the other team decides to go for it? No... No. That is really disrespectful. That really makes me angry.

They think they can get one yard? That is so disrespectful and that really Warren Sapp is one of the very best athletes I’ve ever seen for a big man. He’s a tremendously dedicated athlete and I put him right up there with the very best. It’s a lot of fun to work with guys like Warren who love to work hard and are also talented. That’s a hard combination to find. Warren runs like a deer. I mean ticks me off.” strength.”

We thank Coach LaDuc for his great help on this article and express our appreciation to Warren for sharing his Upper Limit attitudes without reserve.

Editor’s Note Coach LaDuc was hired by UM in 1993. Before that, he was the head strength coach for the University of he’s like a tight end or a receiver. fun and he obviously enjoys his work. from all this psych talk. go far deeper than a QB sack. sprints with the defensive backs. as of October is now 340 pounds.

FLASH UPDATE Sapp, at this writing, has 19 solo tackles and 23 sacks for a -27 yards, 4 tackles for loss of 9 yards & 3 recovered fumbles. Player of the Game by ABC (ys. Washington) ESPN (vs. Florida of the Week.

From BFS Magazine — Winter 1994. Part of the BFS Magazine Archive (1980–2014).