According to Susan.
"Richt said his first spring depth chart will be based on the recent offseason conditioning "mat drills.''
"We learn a lot through the matt drills,'' Richt said last week during a taped interview on Hurricane Hotline. "Just because you can do the mat drill well doesn't mean you're a great football player. There are guys that are drill masters so to speak and maybe aren't the best football players. But more times than not if a guy shows coachability in mat drills he's going to be coachable on the field. If a guy shows ability to change directions on the mat, probably going to be a pretty good football player that has the ability to change directions on the field.
"If he can endure a little bit of physical discomfort and keeps pushing hard through when he's fatigued, he tends to be able to do that on the football field. We're kind of getting a "pecking order'' of what we think we're seeing just through the mat program.
"The depth chart in the beginning is going to be just a way to get started. It's not going to be anything anybody should get too excited about one way or another -- players, parents, media or fans. it's just a way to line up and start repping the guys. It's probably the first true indication of where we will probably be after the first scrimmage."
"Richt said his first spring depth chart will be based on the recent offseason conditioning "mat drills.''
"We learn a lot through the matt drills,'' Richt said last week during a taped interview on Hurricane Hotline. "Just because you can do the mat drill well doesn't mean you're a great football player. There are guys that are drill masters so to speak and maybe aren't the best football players. But more times than not if a guy shows coachability in mat drills he's going to be coachable on the field. If a guy shows ability to change directions on the mat, probably going to be a pretty good football player that has the ability to change directions on the field.
"If he can endure a little bit of physical discomfort and keeps pushing hard through when he's fatigued, he tends to be able to do that on the football field. We're kind of getting a "pecking order'' of what we think we're seeing just through the mat program.
"The depth chart in the beginning is going to be just a way to get started. It's not going to be anything anybody should get too excited about one way or another -- players, parents, media or fans. it's just a way to line up and start repping the guys. It's probably the first true indication of where we will probably be after the first scrimmage."
