Yes, it's literally a fact. After the Vols baseball season, I wanted to find out WHY UGA is so good at football and that falls under a hobby of studying greatness. So I watched a ton of content on UGA and there's a very well done video out there about Kirby's living room sales pitch to the parents of linemen. Towards the end they showed the people making the adjustments to the braces.
Earlier in the video they showed a player getting x rayed, measured for braces, then the technician make adjustments to the braces that he could. Then he made minute pencil marks on different parts of the braces and adjusted them after the player left. They showed those adjustments and they were all small or minute, but they do that so the braces are both comfortable and protective and that's so the player actually WANTS to wear them.
The cost for that is even under a recruiting cost, but man is it ever a great recruiting tool. ie, where would you send your son? To a place that did that or didn't do that? That allows and encourages top talent to seek out UGA, particularly in the age of twitter. Recruits have non public accounts and talk to current players, so they know if a coach keeps his promises or not. Let JUST that sink in. Coaches could make all kinds of promises in the past and get away with it for quite a while, but private twitter accounts run wild when it comes to recruiting and the transfer portal.
I highly recommend watching the latest video showing UGA's football facility. It's .... incredible and yet, not even the most impressive in NCAA football. I think UGA spent $85 million on that building, but the Seminoles and I think one of the Texas teams spent well over $100 million. Each on of those video runs about 20 minutes, but it blem my mind on the cryo tanks and super cold pools some schools have for post practice and game therapy. The food UGA players get perhaps the best or at least top two or three.
The care these guys get in every possible part of their lives is crazy good. Some foot ball facilities have their own dentist, team of doctors, Shinks/therapists. Life coaches. There's more, but I don't remember because each of the schools being so extreme in what they offered.
SOme of it is based on geography. Seminoles have an indoor facitly right near their practice field so when after noon storms roll in, it takes them about 3 minutes to continue practice from where they left off. Other schools don't need that, but the seminoles took that cost on just be efficient.
Long answer sorry, but yes it's literally true what I said about the leg braces and I think it's unique within the college ranks for now.
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