It’s interesting to read this piece about changes Georgia has made to its training program in conjunction with the story about Texas A&M I linked to yesterday.
Are the players buying into it? Ask Greg Pyke.
“You’d think that if you came in and just played a hard-fought game, especially after Missouri, you come in at 3:30 (a.m.) and then have to lift at 2 p.m.,” senior offensive tackle Greg Pyke said, smiling. “It’s tough, but I think that’s what makes our team have that edge in the fourth quarter, that we put ourselves in those positions to kind off just out-work people.”
Indeed, Georgia has out-scored its opponents 24-10 in the fourth quarter this season. But opponents have out-scored the Bulldogs in the first, second and third quarters.
The full-lift on Sundays isn’t the only major game-week change. There’s also a full lift on Wednesdays. Under the previous coaching regime, according to receiver Isaiah McKenzie, there was a “light lift during the week – when we could.”
Does that leave you anymore fatigued during the week and in the lead-up to the game?
“Oh it doesn’t affect us,” Pyke said. “Because we lift today then have Thursday and Friday and Saturday. So you’ve got three days off – from lifting.”
I like that little qualification at the end there.
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I’ve said since Nicholls the team looked dead legged but nobody’s buying. Add in the bussing to practice and few days off this summer and I think this team is ready for cooler weather for sure.
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My hope is once it cools off, Catalina plays a bit better at least.
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THIS…is the kind of stuff that takes time. You don’t get soft overnight. You don’t get tough overnight. This starts to matter much more in November, and it’s a sea change philosophy. Will be interesting to see the results.
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You can get soft or tough in 9 months, no problem.
do you even lift, bro?
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If you’re over 40, you can get soft in 2 weeks and it will take 2 months to get back to where you were. God, I hate getting old.
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Yep, we gave Ole Miss’ 3rd team HELL in the fourth quarter last week!
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Dude, only one of those TDs was in the fourth, so take that one out and we’re still outscoring opposition 17-10 in the fourth. Domination.
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Aren’t you the same folks that bitched the last decade about S & C??
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It will never change, some folks just have to bitch about everything
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“Outscoring”? The defense has pitched a shut out in 3 of 4 games in the 4th Quarter (with the exception being Nicholls where they gave up drives of -1 and 7 yards for 10 points). The AVERAGE team in college football is scoring 30ppg, you should be getting about 7.5 points per quarter. UGA is scoring 6 points per quarter in the 4th….so I’m not sure why they are interviewing the offense on that piece.
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“Oh it doesn’t affect us,” Pyke said. “Because we lift today then have Thursday and Friday and Saturday. So you’ve got three days off – from lifting.”
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday off?!?! Yep…definitely looks like they have been taking Saturdays off.
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That’s what you call taking Saturday off to heart.
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It’s really too bad the scores from those first three quarters count too.
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A win this Saturday is going to have a lot of folks here confused.
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But even a hard fought close loss will have the cliffs and ledges full.
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I think a win on will go a long way.
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