From Athens- "Stuff"

Good Morning All,

Some of the old local Bulldog roosters and myself enjoyed a cup of coffee and hashed out this S & C coaching change.

Many folks on this blog have this shared their thoughts about this subject. I offer this new thread on what is some of the local thinking.

Joe T. made a lifetime commitment to the Georgia football program. “DGD”

It has been said that he is “Old School” and may not have the advanced training skill sets being used at other current successful football programs.

This may be true or not, but what he does have for sure is what I call first person history.

He was here and was part of our past success and has an understanding of what needs to happen for us to take back our fourth quarter dominance.

Several locals shared that he was not on board with how the S&C program was being conducted of late. His position kept him from voicing his displeasure until now. With JT, I do not think it was a case of jumping on the bandwagon.

It is pretty much a given that another one or two “new” people will be hired and added to JT’s staff. It is the strong feeling of these “Old Dawgs” that they will be the ones with the “New” high tech wiz bang cardo skills to dial in the program and get the physical results we need.

JT and Kasay Sr. will be the “Bad Cops” in the weight room. Their task is to build the no quit attitude into our players. Teach and build mental toughness.

JT knows that the road to success has no short cuts.

Pride, self respect, hard work and doing ones best are timeless teachable qualities. True not everyone learns and retains but that’s the same with what ever is being taught. Point is he will provide the opportunity to learn.

Being a seasoned citizen me thinks that JT has both the bark and the bite to make this fly.

Topic for our second cup was what other changes that loom for our football team.

More on this next week as I try to confirm some “stuff”. There are more pieces to be moved but not until after our bowl game and the end of the NFL season.

Knowledge knows a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Have a great weekend and a safe week. As always " Go Dawgs"

yankeedawg1, while I don't claim to know a lot about the "new way" to become totally conditioned and play hard in the fourth quarter, I remember this. . . .

In the weight room you will build a lot of muscle lifting. Strength is not only necessary, it is imperative. If you take a young man doing 20 reps of anything he will get stronger. If you take that same young man and introduce cardio into his workout, at some point the 20 reps move up to 25 reps. Along with that this young fellow has increased his cardio and can not only knock you on your butt, he can chase and catch you in the fourth quarter. I am sure that there are those on this site that could go into more detail.

One move I would like to see all of these young men have to make, under the guidance of a professional is a serious yoga class. Seems over the past few years we have had some serious muscle pulls. If I were the person in charge of the S&C, my first hire would be someone with a serious yoga background.

Back in the day, most of our high schools were not lifting weights, did not have a weight room. School let out, we went to the field house and dressed for practice. First thing we did was stretch and then do our jumping jacks, push ups and other things that were supposed to keep us on top of our game. At the end of practice and scrimmage, it was wind sprints then laps. Best I remember, we could play four quarters of football, and for some of us that was two way football.

Strength does not catch that running back that is high tailing down the sideline. Cardio and flexability come into play at that point. Too much emphasis on strength in my opinion. Strength training has also laid the ground work for steroids, yes that happens in high school.

Thanks for the Cup of Joe this fine Friday morning and putting up with one old farts opinion.

Totally agree Buc with the stretching. The new advanced conditioning programs incorporate flexibility as a BIG part of their conditioning just for that reason......pulls, strains, tears etc. Strength and endurance in todays athletes HAVE to use a ton of flexibility because of the muscle mass these kids develope. Strength and edurance does you NO good if you are sitting on the bench because you pulled a hamstring, quad or pec muscle. Plyometrics is huge with these programs today, if you aren't using it you are way behind.



Great post YD1.....look forward to next Friday after your next "meeting".

wlayton wrote:

Totally agree Buc with the stretching. The new advanced conditioning programs incorporate flexibility as a BIG part of their conditioning just for that reason......pulls, strains, tears etc. Strength and endurance in todays athletes HAVE to use a ton of flexibility because of the muscle mass these kids develope. Strength and edurance does you NO good if you are sitting on the bench because you pulled a hamstring, quad or pec muscle. Plyometrics is huge with these programs today, if you aren't using it you are way behind.



Great post YD1.....look forward to next Friday after your next "meeting".

Knew that someone could explain the system . . . on board wlayton. By the way, have a great Friday, make a lot of money and enjoy the weekend. Big weekend on campus with potential players. Really last big shot at some of these young men.

After posting the above, read a post by kentdaddy about yoga. He can certainly lay some facts out here. Me thinks . . .

Yeah Buc, from what I understand about Yoga, it also incorporates a lot of flexibility AND core strength training. Believe most programs are using it in some form.


Thanks Buc, you know how the corp. world is......make a little money, handle the stress, get to Friday, relax and enjoy the family on the weekend and DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN NEXT WEEK.


Hope you have a great weekend as well, sure we'll have something to talk about over the weekend as well.

Great stuff guys. been away for a few days. I hope you guys are right on the S&C stuff. With UM stepping down, with SC in Athens, 2011 could be the chance we have to get back to ATL.