Georgia Football features Scott Sinclair, strength & conditioning on social media
Georgia Football started a series on Twitter on Tuesday giving fans a sneak peak behind the scenes in the Butts-Mehre building. First up, Strength and Conditioning spearheaded by Scott Sinclair.
Sinclair started the video off by introducing himself and his priorities as the director of strength and conditioning, a position he took over in 2016 after Kirby Smart was hired.
“My number one priority is our players,” Sinclair said. “It doesn’t just matter with getting them bigger and stronger and faster and flexible and those kinds of things. I think it matters about helping them develop as young men. My number one goal is always to help watch them grow physically, mentally and emotionally, and then secondly is to keep them physically fit and physically ready to play football.”
Smart and Georgia players have always said that practices are designed to be harder than the games. That’s done by design to get the players prepared for anything and everything that they might see on a Saturday. Sinclair is a big part in doing that, making things tough for the team.
“It’s important to me that we walk that line that it’s really, really tough, but it’s also achievable and they know that if they can make it through that, anything that happens in the season or in the game or in the fourth quarter, whatever, they can make it through,” Sinclair said.
A perfect example of this came last season when Georgia players recalled running the stairs of Sanford Stadium during the offseason. The Bulldogs went up and down 15 times for the 15 games that they wanted to play in 2021. Mission accomplished on that end.
Sinclair knows that his job is different than anybody else’s on staff. He isn’t on the sideline making calls and adjustments to the game plan. That doesn’t mean his job is any less important, but he can’t be as involved come game day. However, he can still be helpful for the players.
“When game day comes, our work is in the barn per se. We’ve trained during the week, we’ve trained in the summer, we’ve trained in our offseason,” Sinclair said. “The one thing we can do is bring excitement to our players. If I have a mindset that’s excited, that’s showing energy, that’s showing enthusiasm, I think it’s contagious. I want them to feel that same thing, not only on Saturdays, but we’re doing that same approach in here when we’re lifting weights.”
“The role of a strength coach has grown so much in the 23 years that I’ve been doing it,” he continued. “Back in the day, ‘Let’s go lift weights,’ and then you were done. You didn’t see the guys anymore. Now, our role is a strength coach, it’s a psychologist, it’s a father figure, it’s a friend, it’s a brother. Learning about our players more than just football players is extremely important.”
And the help doesn’t stop when a player leaves Georgia. Sinclair stays in touch with the Bulldogs that are in the NFL and hears one common theme: Georgia prepares players for the pros like none other.
“Guys are in the league, and they’re like, ‘Man, you guys really prepared us to get to that next level because the next level seems easy kind of compared what we did here. We were used to that.’ So the number one thing is just for them to know that we truly care about them as people and not just as a player.”
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