EUGENE -- This is a story about weightlifting and football, strength and flexibility, and a philosophy that was learned at Alabama before being lived in Oregon.
But we need to start with the mustache.
Aaron Feld is known most by his mustache. The facial hair of Oregon's strength and conditioning coordinator overseeing football, who has been on the job for two months, is a cross between Salvador Dali and Rollie Fingers: flattened at the edges by "a whole laundry list of products," he said, into tight, curly points.
Lots of strength coaches have cartoonishly large muscles.