The Miami Hurricanes stayed in-house to fill their top strength and conditioning job, promoting Ervin Young to the position vacated by Aaron Feld’s recent resignation. Young returned to UM as associate strength and conditioning coach earlier this year after one season at Tennessee. Mario Cristobal always has held him in high regard. He was considered the natural choice after Feld’s departure. Young was on the Hurricanes’ staff in 2022 and 2023 as an associate strength and conditioning coach after spending the previous two seasons on the Missouri Tigers’ strength and conditioning staff, including working as associate director of football athletic performance
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI Miami Hurricanes fill top strength and conditioning job by promoting from within
Feld had been the Hurricanes’ strength and conditioning coordinator the past three years, having accompanied Mario Cristobal from Oregon. Feld re-signed last weekend, citing personal reasons. “This was a tough decision to have to make, but ultimately the choice was clear,” Feld said on Instagram last Saturday. “At the end of the day, my wife and kids deserve more from me than my circumstances allowed, so the only course of action was to change my circumstances. Failing as a husband and a father will never be an option.”
Prior to his time with the Tigers, Young also worked as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Vanderbilt (2019-20) and Kansas (2014-19). UM announced Young’s promotion to strength and conditioning coordinator on the social media platform X on Friday evening, adding the words “Driven. Relentless. Elevating the standard.” Young graduated from Cumberland University, where he played running back in 2011. He went on to earn his master’s degree in sport exercise pedagogy from Cumberland in 2014.
Young’s promotion leaves UM with three assistant strength and conditioning coaches: Victor Ishmael (who has spent 20 years at UM), Rodney Prince (joined UM in 2022 after serving as assistant strength coach for six seasons at Georgia) and recent addition Nick Tulluch
