Georgia football’s indoor practice facility is really coming along nicely.
It’s not a finished product, but Georgia football’s indoor practice facility sure looks pretty.
For years, SEC rivals would negatively recruit against the Georgia Bulldogs because they didn’t have an indoor practice facility. Yes, they had this little rinky-dink half-sized looking adjacent to the Butts-Mehre Building, but now we’re about to let the Big Dawgs eat! Here is the latest teaser video of how the state of the art indoor practice facility is coming along in Athens.
🚧 We're building toward something big here in Athens. 🚧#GoDawgs #ATD pic.twitter.com/YeyPtCEVdu
— Georgia Football (@GeorgiaFootball) July 8, 2020
Though it never gets too cold in Northeast Georgia, winter does happen in that part of the country, if you can believe it. It’s zero fun doing anything athletic outdoors in sub-40 temperatures and constant winter rain. While football is a game played in the elements, Georgia football will soon have no excuse to cancel practice due to inclement weather. It’s a beautiful thing.
Georgia football having an indoor practice facility changes everything.
Not having an indoor practice facility was a microcosm of why things didn’t ultimately work out with former Georgia head coach Mark Richt. During his first eight years on the job, Richt was sensational, as he took a second-rate program that wasn’t nationally relevant since Vince Dooley was the coach and turned it into a perennial top-10 team in the country.
However, his last seven years were painfully frustrating. Nick Saban arrived in Tuscaloosa in 2007 and Richt had no shot of slowing down college football’s next dynasty. When he brought over former Florida State Seminoles defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt, who served on Saban’s staff for six years at Alabama, the elephant in the room was openly ridiculed out at every opportunity.
“You do realize every other SEC team recruits against you by not having an indoor practice facility?” Pruitt now leads the division rival Tennessee Volunteers, but always had a reputation as one of the best recruiters in the country. Once Richt was terminated in 2015, Pruitt went back to his alma mater to replace Kirby Smart as Saban’s Crimson Tide defensive coordinator.
For those who aren’t members of Dawg Nation, you have no idea how great it is to see the state of the art facility being constructed. It means the University of Georgia has kicked having a good football program to the curb; it only wants to have a great one. Getting into Georgia has become increasingly difficult in the last decade-plus. Much of it has to do with the football team’s success.
If a tear isn’t streaming down a Dawg fan’s face after seeing this, something’s wrong with them.
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