Did Georgia's makeshift weight room contribute to its on-field flop? The new strength coach thinks so.

The clamor for a new direction after the disappointing 2009 campaign brought the ax down on defensive coordinator Willie Martinez, whose tenure was the definition of "diminishing returns." This year, the damage control was aimed at the strength and conditioning program, where Dave Van Halanger – strength coach for all 10 years of head coach Mark Richt's tenure – is out and longtime staffer Joe Tereshinski is in. Part of Tereshinski's old job was to edit game film for the coaches, and he makes no bones about the problems he sees there. "The film doesn’t lie. I'm the video coordinator, I see every play. Yeah, we were not winning the line of scrimmage," he told the Macon Telegraph, adding, "We are not Olympic training anymore. We are training for football."
From Bulldogs Blog:

Tereshinski says one factor that hasn't gotten much notice is that because of construction, the team has been moved to a different weight room, and for the previous 18 months had been largely operating out of trailers. They didn’t have much room for equipment: No dip bars, no incline presses, and some other machines.

"Last year's team was very limited, really because of the facility, of what they could get done," he said. "So we were very weak in our triceps. We were very weak in our upper chests. So what happens is now that we have our full weight room capacities we're really going to be able to develop our bodies fully. …

"That did affect this team. Because Georgia did not have anything that it was used to having. Now we have an unbelievable weight room, and we have everything we need."

So, the stage is now set...the Dawgs in 2011!