FAU may have found its new strength coach
By Chuck King
A leader has emerged in FAU's search for a new strength and conditioning coach.
FAU appears to be in the final stages of negotiations with Chuck Lobe to take over the position that came open when Brian Remington resigned earlier this month.
Though Lobe and FAU have yet to formalize a deal, he was on campus this weekend. Sources said a contract could be finalized this week.
Lobe spent the past year at Denver University – a fellow Sun Belt school that doesn't have a football program. The three years prior to that he was the strength and conditioning coach for the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning.
From 2004-08 Lobe ran the strength and conditioning program at Minnesota St. from 2004-08. Current FAU wide receivers coach/recruiting coordinator Jeff Sims was also a coach at Minnesota St. for two of those years.
Lobe also spent a couple years as an assistant strength coach at the University of Minnesota, his alma mater.
The strength and conditioning coach is the final major coaching position new football coach Carl Pelini needs to fill to complete his staff. It is also one of the most important positions. The strength coach is allowed to work with players during the offseason at intervals not afforded to other assistants.
Pelini has stated that upgrading the strength program at FAU is one of his main goals.
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