Tereshinski: ‘We’re going to prepare this team for the fourth quarter’
Joe Tereshinski, named Thursday to take over as the Georgia football program’s director of strength and conditioning, started his new job by meeting with the players at 6 a.m. Friday.
Five hours later, he talked with reporters on a conference call.
Here’s some of what he had to say:
- He thanked Mark Richt for the opportunity, thanked the position coaches who have called to express support and thanked all the strength coaches he has worked with over the years, including predecessor Dave Van Halanger (”the second winningest strength coach in America”).
- He said he understands the responsibility and importance of the job to the school, the players and the Bulldog Nation. “This job is not taken lightly by me in any way,” he said. He also said: “Everybody realizes that we have to go in a different direction and become stronger, become quicker and turn this program around.”
- As for changes, Tereshinski said a nutritionist and graduate assistants will “closely monitor” the players’ meals and record what they are eating. “I told them nutrition is one place we’re going to be very candid about.” Also, new technology will be introduced into the weight room, where all workouts will be videotaped and reviewed by strength coaches.
- “The whole culture we’re going with is, we’re going to prepare this team for the fourth quarter,” Tereshinski said. “Georgia used to be known that in the fourth quarter, they won. . . . We’re going to press and challenge these kids every day to overcome. They’re going to have to overcome.”
- Even the fabled “mat drills” – the grueling off-season conditioning sessions brought to Georgia from Florida State by Van Halanger – are on the table. “Coach Richt and I are discussing the mat drills,” Tereshinski said. “No decision has been made on the mat drills as of yet.”
- An assistant strength coach at UGA since 1982 and video coordinator since 1987, Tereshinski strongly disagrees with those who opine that Van Halanger’s replacement should have been brought in from outside for a new perspective. “First of all, I have a pretty fresh perspective of our strength program,” he said. He added that his familiarity with the players and his long exposure to SEC football will be beneficial.
- Tereshinski said he is “talking to some other individuals that may join the staff.” One of those people is John Kasay, a former Georgia strength coach who retired this year after a long career in the athletics department. “He is a tough, hard, knowledgeable, unforgiving, pointed, disciplined man that loves to train kids,” Tereshinski said. “I will visit with John Kasay.”
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Hunker Down
December 4th, 2010
9:54 pm
Please say I told you so next year!
Rilo
December 4th, 2010
11:18 pm
Listen close here because I’m going to give you a secret that’s not really a secret. If you dominate the Line you will win in the 4th quarter. If you need proof….look at the SEC championship game and all the games we lost. We were beat on the line and Auburn simply dominated on the O Line. CMR is correct to address the strength and conditioning because we need to dominate the line like we did 2002-2004.
Insider Knowlegde
December 4th, 2010
11:52 pm
FYI — Joe T was SUPPOSED to start coaching immediately when he spoke with CVH yesterday and made the annoucment. However, when the news broke to the players, all Hell broke lose. The players are completely AGAINST this change. They refused to show up to workouts today with Coach T. During a conference today with the team, MANY of the Juniors actually stood up and said they were going to leave UGA because of this change.They don’t respect Coach T at all. When Coach T got up in front of the team he, of course, cursed and yelled at them like usual and told them that from now on he was requiring them to take a picture of EVERY MEAL they eat each day and show it to him. Needless to say, the you could hear the laughs from the players in the room. Needless to say, CMR quickly realized his team doesn’t respect or want Joe T as their S & C, let alone anywhere near them in the weight room.
To save his a** for the chaos that unfolded and is still unfolding with the players, CMR called Coach Van and basically begged him to stay on as S & C for the Bowl.
All in All, Joe T is a joke to the team. They don’t trust him, they don’t respect him, they don’t want him. This is all coming from the those who know the situation the best —- the players.
75-76-DAWG
December 5th, 2010
3:20 am
Insider Knowledge
If you are really stating what went on , which I have my doubts , then that is the problem at UGA in a nut shell. Players don’t dictate policy to coaches ,they say yes sir , what ever you say,sir. That’s respect and acknowledgement that an adult more than twice their age might know a lot more than they do.. There is no way that CMR wouldn’t back up Coach T in that situation. If it was me I would march each one of the problem players in my office and tell them they had a choice ,to show respect for adult authority or get the hell off the campus and don’t let the door hit them in the butt when they leave.
LMAO
December 5th, 2010
3:44 am
Where would grade the University of Georgia Strength and Conditioning Facilities?
I can tell you where they rank. About 6th or 7th in the Conference, and that is being generous.
You can ask any Strength and Conditioning Coach who has visited UGA in the last two years and they will tell you that UGA lacks in many many areas compared to the LSU’s, Florida’s, Alabama’s and Auburn’s and now the Mississippi St’s in the conference. You may not like it but that plays a role in who wants jobs like the ones at UGA.
Lets get this straight, last season at this time CMR ridded himself of his Defensive Coaches and bought himself some time. Now in 2010, almost a year to date, CMR shuffles his staff around to replace the S&CC. Is there a pattern here? How much more time can he buy himself with these changes?
Remember Jim Donnan, he turned down the NC job to stay at UGA, then within the next 11 months he was terminated. CMR should have hopped right on that Miami opportunity because this time next year he will once again NOT be in a Championship game, he will again be around 500 or a tad higher and who will he want to fire then to save his job?
dawgiellama
December 5th, 2010
7:17 am
Tech fans, go to Hell. S.Carolina fans, go to Hell. Volnation, go to Hell. Auburn and Florida fans, die in a fire… then go to Hell! Quit pretending to be UGA supporters. You are not and its obvious with your instant negative reactions to every UGA decision. Die in a fire!
NoFKNdog
December 5th, 2010
8:35 am
dawgiellama, as previously stated the dogs can beat Georgia Tech and any team they play, win the SEC championship, win the National championship, recruit the best players in the United States, have uga gear sold in every store world wide, and I may have left something out as far as being, as some would say, number one, until this world ends. But the greatest thing about you and all dog fans, players, coaches, alumni and anything associated with uga, is that you all suck and will contnue to suck even after the world ends. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!
SLICK RICHT
December 5th, 2010
9:48 am
You should have hired Richard Simmons. hahahaha! I’m the greatest.
Boseefus
December 5th, 2010
10:05 am
insider knowledge – This is typical of what’s happening with the program. Whose in charge of these thugs – it appears nobody and it is reflective of the man in charge (I forgot his name???? – oh yea its CMR with Richard Petty sunglasses – collecting his huge paychecks). If he worked at major corporation he would have been fired 2 years ago. The Dawg Nation (including me) must come to grips that a change must happen for the program to return dominance. Reality is reality and winning 7 games (CMR average wins per year) is just not goo enough!!!!!! Where can we find John Gruden???????
tell me again
December 5th, 2010
10:21 am
Did somebody write on here that Bama and Florida fans are laughing at us — what, after the great year Florida had while getting smacked down by their in state rival? And Bama getting taken to the shed in the second half by Auburn? I wonnder what Bama and Florida fans are laughing about exactly?
Snatch Dawg
December 5th, 2010
10:34 am
Richt just put another Nail in his casket. Look at what has happened in the SEC LSU, Alabama, Auburn, Tenn. (until recently) and now South Carolina. All of these programs have been Olympic Based programs. Not 1980 or 1990 HIT programs. When GT hired Eric Ciano, from Tennessee mid decade, they went from being slow to winning championships. SMU became a winner under this concept and that strength coach went to FSU. OH ya they played for the ACC Championship last night. Van Halenger stepping down was good. He is a great Christian man who affects athletes in a great way. But time has passed him by in the wt room. Hiring Joe T (the video coordinator for the past 20 plus years) and his coach Kasey is going backwards. I am just wondering who Coach Richt is getting pressure from. Next year is going to be ugly because by the time the 4th quarter gets here the game will be long over.
AltamahaDawg
December 5th, 2010
11:02 am
The thing I don’t doubt is that the players don’t like the idea of being pushed. I happen to know a former player, who was on the team very recently and He has related many time to me that the real source of the decline in performance is that leadership is severely lacking on this team. Nobody wants to push each other. If you don’t go as hard , you won’t make me look so bad. So I say , go ahead an quit. We can simple recruit some that haven’t come up in the climate of just getting by. As far as a lack of respect for JoeT, or thinking he is a joke, absolutely not even close to being true.
Pago Pago Dawg
December 5th, 2010
11:07 am
Not so sure we want Central Florida this year!
Timmy Dog
December 5th, 2010
12:38 pm
Is this some kind of bad joke? This guy is a goon and has been on the staff forever. Fresh perspective? My butt. We continue to be a bad joke by SEC standards. Only at UGa do we celebrate something like this.
Michael
December 5th, 2010
12:50 pm
So the assistant strength coach who has been with the team since ‘82 replaces the strength coach who’s been here since 2000? How much does a strength coach make anyway? Sounds pretty gay to me.
CDAWG
December 5th, 2010
12:52 pm
He’s been at UGA a long time; I really hope he is not using those outdated Charles Atlas courses. Seriously how can anyone say they CMR is not trying to take this team in a positive direction. I know that Richt has finally gotten it, mediocrity and being complacent will get you out of a job. Way to go Richt and GO DAWGS. I was in Buckhead last night and saw all of those Auburn fans, wished it had been Dawg fans.
Bulldawg
December 5th, 2010
1:53 pm
Crowell could not even stay on the field with Calhoun. He looked terrible in the game. If richt considers him as part of his so called “dream team” richt and bobo should be fired immediately.
DawgVoiceofReason
December 5th, 2010
3:01 pm
LMAO,
You obviously don’t keep up with the UGA program very much. Have you not heard about the brand new, state-of-the-art weight room the Dawgs are about to move into?
You also state definitively, “this time next year he will once again NOT be in a Championship game”. How many people thought Auburn was going to be in the championship game this year?! Your kind of negativity is pathetic or indicative of a UGA rival (42-34 mean anything to you?).
DawgVoiceofReason
December 5th, 2010
3:06 pm
Bulldawg,
So based on your obviously “close” observation of one game, you are knowledgeable and experienced enough to know with certainty that Crowell won’t be a top college running back? Do you form all of your opinions in that way? It’s obvious you don’t like Coach Richt or Coach Bobo, so your opinion about them is not worth much.
Barrett
December 5th, 2010
3:16 pm
Georgia needs ot play good in the 1st quarter. Ain’t I smart for making such an inteelectual observation?
Mobile Dawg
December 5th, 2010
3:18 pm
S&C is a necessary evil. Of course the players hate it, it’s hard, grueling, even tortourous at times. That’s where they learn the toughness it takes to finish. If I’ve got a team that likes the S&C Coach, that would seem a problem to me.
Mark Richt may get it right, if he does I see some players being run off as examples unfortunately. First guy that missed the first drill trying to make a statement would pick his belongings up on the way out that afternoon. Saban lost quite a few his first year at Bama, those that didn’t buy into his program. If I’m CMR and serious about keeping my job long term, it’s either my way or the highway at this point, he has nothing to lose.
LCDawg
December 5th, 2010
3:21 pm
hey”volfan” how about talking smack in a year where you didn’t get your ass handed to you on the filed.
AltamahaDawg
December 5th, 2010
3:59 pm
Nobody is going to be making any statements.
BTW, we are way too caught up to much in only the director. The problem is the staff under the director. I believe that entire crew is about to get some new faces and some new instructions. While being work out junkies is great, clowning around too much is not.
Grim Reaper
December 5th, 2010
4:24 pm
I hope we’re late in the 4th quarter of the Richt regime. Time to get a new captain.
Grim Reaper
December 5th, 2010
4:26 pm
We don’t need to run off players. We need to run off coaches. They’ve stolen enough of the University’s money.
Grim Reaper
December 5th, 2010
4:27 pm
Crowell will be a great player. And if he comes to play for Richt, we’ll waste his talent just like Stafford, Moreno, Massaquoi and A.J. Green. No one gets less with more than Richt.
Grim Reaper
December 5th, 2010
4:33 pm
Why the patience from so many UGA fans? Ride Richt out on the rails. He’s destroying our program and I’m not hearing enough anguish. We’ve got the second lamest bowl in the SEC. We’re 8th out of 12 teams. How much farther do we have to slide before we admit that it’s over? At least we’ve got basketball. Go Fox and beat the Jackets.
Grim Reaper
December 5th, 2010
4:33 pm
Have I mentioned it’s time for Richt to leave the program?
Grim Reaper
December 5th, 2010
4:34 pm
I’ve got the tar, if you’ve got the feathers.
Stop the bleeding now
December 5th, 2010
4:34 pm
Nothing is going to change for the better at UGA until Mark Richt is gone. He’s a 2nd-rate coach (at best) whose best years are way behind him. We’re now well into a long slide to complete irrelevance. We’re already irrelevant in the SEC, unless you enjoy going to places like Shreveport.
Fire Richt now and stop the bleeding.
Stop the bleeding now
December 5th, 2010
4:38 pm
Adams and McGarity will likely put up with Richt for another two years, which is a very depressing thought.
AltamahaDawg
December 5th, 2010
5:11 pm
Reaper, and bleeder who don’t you tell the folks what all YOU are doing about it? I notice its all “we this” and “we that” till you talk about taking some action. Then it’s “you fans”. Easy to sit around and complain when somebody esle is doing the heavy lifting isnt it?
patrick
December 5th, 2010
6:45 pm
eddie………Aaron Murray needs just one touchdown pass in Georgia’s bowl game to match Matthew Stafford’s single-season school record of 25. What’s more Murray already has matched D.J. Shockley’s UGA single-season record of 28 touchdowns accounted for. Murray, like Shockley in 2005, has thrown for 24 and run for four. Pretty impressive rookie season, to say the least. How’s Brantley doin?
Tha Reaper
December 5th, 2010
10:44 pm
AltamahaDawg, my eligibility done run out. I’ll tell you what you should do though. Stop watching the program slip into the morass of mediocrity. Wait. Mediocrity has passed us by and we’re on the highway to suck city. But AltamahaDawg wants to know what the fans can do to make a detour. I can raise hell on this little blog and shake some sense into the zombies like you who seem content to put up with this crap. Why don’t you take a long walk off a short pier right to the bottom of your handle’s namesake and then take a look around because that’s where you’ll find the program we know and love.
about the hire
December 5th, 2010
10:58 pm
Don’t know if anyone is still following this or not but…Coach T is a solid guy, He is serious and will take his new position seriously. He won’t try to be the player’s “buddy” or be “cool,” basically he’s gonna get the players in shape make them stronger and not take any crap from the whiny pre-madonna’s.
I dont know where the insider knowledge guy gets his info from, but Coach T has class, he would not get up and cuss out the players. He started for UGA back in the ’70s, and he is loyal to UGA. Therefore, I’m sure he will make progress in the weight room with the players. Why bring some “new blood” in that doesn’t give a crap about UGA when you have a guy who does, who is going to implement new training techniques, monitor nutrition (instead of everyone fattin it up at the dining hall and not getting what their bodies need) and bring in specialized personnel. Good hire.
cadawg
December 6th, 2010
2:29 am
he’s saying all the right things. i like what i hear… let’s see if we like what we see next fall.
dawgno91
December 6th, 2010
7:05 am
Coach T will get the job done. He was a young coach when I went through his winter workouts. If he brings Casey back, look out. The Dawgs better get ready to go to work. As for nutrition, it won’t have to be monitored. They can just look out back from the wt room after a workout and see what most of them ate. haha
JD
December 6th, 2010
7:55 am
If we are going to continue with this strike quick and get off the field offense he better prepare the defense for four full quarters to keep them fresh in the fourth quarter….and be “BEASTS” in the end.
Strength and Conditioning = Cookies and naps
December 6th, 2010
11:14 am
First, if the dogs played well the first several seasons with mat drills, why would you quit doing them. Also, i will believe nothing until actual progress is shown on the field. Grantham talked big before the season started too. The result was Willesque… The D is soft in the middle, cant cover pass routes, constantly blowing coverage, weak on the corners, and have no safeties who care to make a hard TACKLE.
DOG53US
December 6th, 2010
1:31 pm
Congratulations shinskie. you been there long enough. dont be puching nobody like myrvos and pyburn! you did work hard in the weight room i guess. we didnt really have much of a weight room back then. the defense worked at stegman with sam. pull overs super sets, dips and the infamous “reverse dip delays” quick gains. we were at the coliseum with kasay squatting and jumping rope dog!! know what i’m saying. Dem boys aint ready. you need to break dat juice machine and get em running them stadium steps. THATS MY GOOD WORD.
SEC1
December 6th, 2010
7:07 pm
OK, Great! Now how about the 1st, 2nd and 3rd quarters?
Bad Dog
December 6th, 2010
10:29 pm
My question is why didn’t Van Halanger listen to Tereshinski’s ideas of change before when all the critics where taking their shots at this program? No wonder Van Halanger and Richt are such close friends because it seems they feel their record should speak for their inconsistencies and won’t listen to advice from anyone until their hand is forced.
dodgecountydawg
December 6th, 2010
10:38 pm
heck yeah !! we going back to the days of the Erk Russell “Junk Yard Dawgs !!!!!!!!!! “”"
UGA Season Ticket Holder Since 1986
December 6th, 2010
11:08 pm
Why don’t all of you haters just start following another team? Oh. Because you already do.
Seriously, if you’re a dawg fan and you’re hatin’ on this blog, why don’t you just take your money and spend it somewhere else. We’ll try to replace your $35.00 contribution. I know it’ll be hard to do but somehow we’ll manage without you.
I got a GREAT idea, why don’t you just go and follow some team that has the coach that you’d rather have than CMR? Maybe you can post on their sites. We’ll try not to miss you too much.
UGA Season Ticket Holder Since 1986
December 6th, 2010
11:09 pm
That’s a great idea! Instead of firing the coach, lets fire the “fans” that are constantly on the site ragging their own team. It will be a whole lot cheaper since none of them contribute to the program anyway.
Will AM play far better vs. UCF than vs. Florida ?
December 7th, 2010
10:41 am
We all know that Aaron Murray choked in the Florida game. He wanted to be the HS hero in Jax and he fumbled and threw pics and it COST UGA that game. Guilt needs to go all around.
Ealey FUMBLED vs ARK and SC on the 3 or 4 and we lost a TD. He also FUMBLED away a TD in the Mississippi State end zone and he looked dumber than dumb. We win w.o. these three or four fumbles.
Caleb’s FUMBLE COST UGA the Colorado game.
In the SC game ……………..Murray over threw his receivers time and time again.
We are not a good team. We are filled with kids that cannot perform at the high level needed in the SEC and this has been coming on for several years, gang.
When doing any interview, Richt has those sleepy, droopy eyes going on and he almost slurs his words. He is a classic exmaple of burn out but the money is too good to quit ……………. so it will continue until the bitter end. Sad. He is a very nice man, he just does not want ao admit that he is tired.
UGA needs fresh blood ………….. let them come in for 4 or 5 years, win big and let them move on. UGA is no longer a jobs program,.
AD McGarity is the new sheriff in town
December 7th, 2010
10:53 am
McGarity will not put up with one more ugly year. He is making Richt make some needed changes and it was easy to achieve them with conditioning coach changes. UGA’s men are always gassed midway through most games and even my wife recognizes that.
Richt is not able to demote or run off assistants. Last year, he was forced to run off the D coaches. Now?? AD McGarity is pulling all of the strings and when the bowl season ends, look for more fresh coaches to be in Athens. We are in the market ( mcGarity is in the market ) for an O line coach and a head recruiter and running backs coach. Mac McWorter has just “retired” at Texas and his successful resume is well known and it has been for years. Great O line coach he is.
McGarity will mimic what Florida has done with position coaches and UGA will be better, especially with the red panty AD of ours gone. Evans was dumber than a rock and with his mega salary, he could have cared less about w/ls as he was living it up in and around Athens and Atlanta, baby.
GO Dogs. McGarity is the new sheriff in town.
Dawg Trainer
December 7th, 2010
11:29 am
HEEL, you mangy curs! Tennessee is heading up. JawJa is treading water. The bar has been set. 45-19 at our place. 41-14 at Neyland South. I have informed Coach Dooley that I expect to hang at least 52 points on the mutts in 2011. As you know, we’ve ALREADY hung 51 on you at Neyland South. I don’t care if you hire The Hulk to be your S&C coach, we’ll have you mutts well trained when you come up to Knoxville.
Sit. Stay. Good dawg!
how2fish
December 7th, 2010
11:56 am
Dawg Trainer welcome back good to see you’ve recovered from the butt kicking we gave your Vols last time we met….plan on more of the same, once again we will stomp a mudhole in Coon Dog Nation and then stomp it dry.
46-39
December 7th, 2010
12:50 pm
Time will TELL.