On Saturday, Georgia football coach Kirby Smart made an appearance on Bulldogs Gameday on WSB-TV.
Smart spoke on some of the challenges that the Georgia coaching staff and players are dealing with during the COVID-19 pandemic.
One of the main challenges is implementing new offensive coordinator Todd Monken’s offensive system remotely. Smart mentions that the coaches are doing their best to use technology that can help players transition into the new system more comfortably.
Smart said:
“I don’t know if creative, but definitely innovative technological ways that maybe coaches weren’t comfortable with. And maybe you’re finding a better way of doing something that you should have been doing all along. I can sit in on a defensive meeting, listen in to an offensive meeting all while watching tape.”
Technology helps and Smart is challenging players to use this time at home to make themselves better.
“We are asking and challenging our guys to be somewhere local, have a pen and paper, write things down. Really use this as a time to commit to their trade because you have so many hours during the week, this is a small piece when you talk about the time our kids have on their hands now,” Smart said. “Take two hours out of seven days, and say we are going to dedicate this to knowledge and learning a trade.”
It seems like Smart’s mindset is to make the most of this abnormal time. The Bulldogs will need as much help as they can get in 2020 as they enter the year with one of the toughest schedules in the country.
“Two weeks ago we were literally doing no football. Our offensive staff comes in, Coach Monken is going through the offense, doing installation,” Smart added. “They are putting things together and studying opponents. Doing things we would normally do over the summer when we don’t have the players, we are doing those things now.”
