Strength and Conditioning Not our problem?

Your right Buc, it's the "C" part of S&C that has been the problem for too long. It accounts for many problems: confidence (tired players are less confident that they'll be able to pull out a game), blocking and tackling (when tired, fundamentals tend to break down - tired players take short cuts) and aggression (tired players subconsciously hold back).

If I am in better football-shape than you I do not have to be as talented to beat you. If I'm just as talented and in better shape, I'll beat you every time.

Go Dawgs!

Know that this subject has been thrown back and forth on a lot of blogs. Most seem to be concerned with who the S&C dude will be. Folks like wlayton have the right thoughts, that being we need to be concerned with the "overall" and for damn sure Big Macs don't work well in the body in the fourth quarter.

BullDogShannon, I would guess that for the past 4 or so years, sadlerdawg has been totally on top of the play calling, and he has screamed his butt off. Here you are doing the same thing, if you, sadlerdawg and others can call the plays at home and in the stadium, think maybe Saban, SS and others are wise to the same old, same old play calling. At this point, I hope that we either bring another OC in or we see if Richt still has the talent to call the plays. MB apparently is a really good QB coach, I vote for that.

Richt was a very good play caller for many years, don't think much of his defensive choices prior to CTG. CTG can be judged after next season, he made some statements that will stay with me for a long time. Five hour radius of Athens, enough talent to win a NC. His words, not mine. Show me. He will be judged on those words.

ecdawg, right on the money.

sadlerdawg made a statement in this thread that took me back a few years, and proves his point.

Sonny Liston and Cassius Clay (at that point). All of the money in the world was on Liston, big, strong, slower than a snail. What did CC do, danced around and wore Liston out, then the famous "phantom punch" that knocked Liston out. Liston quit, he was worn out and could not handle the kid with the excellent cardio. Fact. We see some of this in college football, player gets tired and fakes an injury.

When a damn gator talks to the press and says our guys quit, for all to read, funny how we changed directions with our S&C personnel rapidly after that. Think that our AD acted on that statement more so than Richt.

Get a bit tired of the same plays called in the same situations game after game, and see us get our butts kicked over the past few years after halftime. Richt is responsible and it appears he has heard the "noise". Think the major noise he hears is coming from our AD. Would bet on it.

great stuff Buc. yeah, that was one of my poits in the S&C stuff-yes, it may be a problem, but that shouldn't cover the fact that we have bigger issues.

clap if you are tired of any of the following: 3rd and 4 inches, 30 yard passes; having to call timeout after a change of possession; going for FG's when its 4th and 6 inches on a team's 15; getting burned on the same play in a game 10 times;

We're pretty good at playing red rover.
Not the endurance thing.
I have always admired those who play soccer for their endurance.

Have to agree with many points on this thread. Obvious there are several areas where we want noticeable improvements.

I think the D will come around with the right big boy at NT and another year in this scheme.

Think we saw some better play calling later in the season. CMR or not? We'll never know, but CMB should be nervous about his job.

There is no other pain(other than maybe childbirth) than cardio pain. I played soccer at the collegiate level, wrestled and have taken different martial arts classes and experienced cardio pain to no end. The cardio pain and fatigue translates into mental errors, sloppy execution and poor efforts. All things we saw late in games.

Let's not forget that bigger muscles require more oxygen and can gas an athlete quickly too. Need strength, but not body builders out there. One word- plyometrics!

Whip these boys into cardio shape, let CTG do what he does and we will be quite pleased with the results.

Good points dawgnLA. I think one area people don't want to admit is personnel. I read a comparison somewhere of the players drafted high the first 5 years under CMR vs the last 4--it's staggering the drop off.

even if one says the coaching has laxed, the NFL would still be drafting our players on talent alone-NFL does that every year.

We need to GATA in the state recruiting. Of the big 5 left that we all know about, we need to land 4 of them--3 at a very minimum.

If not, we need to look into our methods on recruiting and address those too.