Georgia Tech had football players lift weights on the sideline before facing UCF.
College football coaches will try a lot of things to get their team pumped.
Georgia Tech’s Geoff Collins may be taking the pump up thing a little too literally.
Yellow Jackets players were on the sideline ahead of Saturday’s game against No. 14 UCF lifting weights for some reason.
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Sideline weight lifting doesn’t seem to be helping Georgia Tech.
This isn’t a response to COVID-19 and the delay for the 2020 season. Georgia Tech did the same thing last year.
It didn’t help them against Clemson last August. They lost 52-14. And it certainly didn’t help them as the season progressed. They went 3-9.
So why keep doing it?
There doesn’t seem to be any rational explanation.
Perhaps its another opportunity for reserve players to get in some weight training, but if starters and players who expect to get in the game are also doing it then it seems counterproductive.
Wouldn’t you want to save your energy for the actual game?
Even if it’s just for developmental players, it seems like a whole lot of unnecessary work to allow them to do curls of all things. Curls aren’t going to make the difference between 3-9 and a bowl berth.
It’s just an odd look.
If Georgia Tech had been playing better since this weight lifting phenomenon began it might make more sense. They simply haven’t. Collins may want to point towards future gains, but those better come quickly. He’s in Year 2 as a head coach and hasn’t done much to suggest he’ll keep his job for long.
At least they beat Florida State in Week 1. That 16-13 victory over the reeling Seminoles didn’t mean much though.
Standing up to UCF would make a much bigger statement. It doesn’t look like that’s happening though. Midway through the second quarter, the Knights built a 21-7 lead over the Yellow Jackets.
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