David Ballou is a football guy, a strength guy, and, perhaps as much as anything else, he's a numbers guy, too.
Ballou's data-driven approach to strength and conditioning at Indiana is beginning to take shape.
IU's new football strength and conditioning coach says that in the six weeks that he and top assistant Dr. Matt Rhea have been on the Bloomington campus, IU players are seeing gains in one of the most important areas of training — power.
Hired in January to help the Hoosiers increase their speed and explosiveness, Ballou is changing the way Indiana approaches workouts.