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Georgia burns the boats again, sets 'standard': WATCH

On3 imageby:Wes Blankenship•01/25/23
Auburn vs. Georgia (10/8/22)
Georgia head coach Kirby Smart, Georgia director of Strength and Conditioning Scott Sinclair during a game against Auburn on Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga., on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022. (Photo by Tony Walsh)

Georgia won the National Championship, burnt the boats, and then won the National Championship again. Now, they’re back at it again this offseason.

Kirby Smart has all kinds of visual motifs to motivate his football team.

The proof was in the pudding when Georgia won back-to-back National Championships:

They work.

Somehow, Smart found a way to light a fire under his team after winning Georgia’s first National Championship in 41 years.

The tale of Hernando Cortez’s smoldering boats inspired the Dawgs in 2021, and carried them through grueling workouts this time last year.

This January, Georgia is on the verge of an attempt at the first three-peat in modern College Football history.

You may think the season starts with UT-Martin on September 2nd.

Actually, it starts with Scott Sinclair in the House of Payne. Right now.

Sinclair is more than Kirby Smart’s get-back coach

He sets the tone in this slickly-edited workout clip.

Good luck filming something this cool when you shoot your own gym gains. This looks simultaneously hard as hell and effortless at the same time.

Georgia’s offseason workouts are all about “Attention to detail, and doing it the right way,” Sinclair booms.

“The standard is the standard.”

If there’s any doubt about how important these soul-crushing sessions are to the lifeblood of Georgia’s football program, Sinclair makes it painfully clear, before Georgia’s players run another gasser in the House of Payne.

“(You can be) as good as you want to be, depending on how you put the work in every day. This determines how you start your year.”

It’s that work that sets the foundation to win games like Georgia did over Missouri and Ohio State in the Peach Bowl.

The schedule looks weak now, but you never know when a feisty team will elevate against the defending champs.

Kirby Smart hardly has time to celebrate back-to-back National Championships; that’s just how Georgia’s process works

Beyond the physical strain of staying in Championship football shape, Georgia has to keep its roster in order amid transfer portal and NFL Draft departures.

The Kirby Copter ain’t slowin’ down.

Transfer wide receiver Rara Thomas‘s status with the team is still up in the air, as of this article’s publish date.

Even before all of the heartache and turbulence of the last couple of weeks since Georgia won the title, Smart made it clear that hard work defines his program’s DNA.

Check out these two concise quotes he shared with ESPN as the confetti fell at SoFi Stadium:

“Just hard work. We don’t run from work. Our kids don’t run from work.”

and:

“They had a will to work. They didn’t listen to what everyone said about them.”

Georgia had tremendous discipline and attention to detail on its runs to both National Championship game. The Dawgs were one of the nation’s least-penalized teams.

If they want to make even bigger history than becoming the first CFP team to win back-to-back National Titles, then that discipline will get tested again.

Welcome to class, kids. Professor Sinclair is ready to get to work.

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