8/8/24: OC Mike Bobo Fall Camp Press Conference Part I

I I'll just open it up for questions yeah coach to your right right here I believe it's your 15th season being the primary play call for an offense I'm curious how are who you go to to study or what you go to to study to remain Innovative as a play call well that's a good question uh we've all got uh friends in this business that we talk to on on a regular basis uh that are that are coaching uh trying to stay uh fresh and new with with how you do things uh football's football uh you know we're really running very similar plays that we ran 27 years ago when I when I started coaching uh might be just out of different formations and different personnels and using different guys uh then I like rely on uh coaches that have coached me uh that they've had a lot of experience uh you know Coach Rick and Coach Donan uh coach Don who I played for and then worked for and then Coach Rick who I worked for for long time got a lot of experience so you lean on guys with experience my own my own dad will be at practice today as a coach a long time you know I ask his opinion about how things looked at what we're doing but uh you know I tell the players all the time you know you've never arrived you're always learning and that goes for us as coaches too we're always trying to find new ways to do things uh uh not necessarily new uh but ways to do things better where we can be efficient on offense I kind of fall those same lines of every coach as as they go along the business adapts you know as they go along are you surprised at some of the ways you've adapted over time uh you know me and Coach trod were talking about it uh you know earlier uh you know about you know back back in the day the game may have been a little bit simpler it was a little more physical uh but uh you've got to adapt the game that's played in space uh nowadays uh but you still you know I don't want to adapt so much that we don't lose our physic as offense and and what this program's built on what coach Smart's building on is tough as and physical and offense so you know you want to be you know Innovative and and play the game and space and and try to be explosive uh You' got to be explosive on offense nowadays but at the same time you don't want to lose your physicality as an offensive uh unit and that's something we pride ourselves on and uh it's a staple of what coach Smart's been here since been here at University of Georgia like looking at Carson what is the biggest difference you see in him right now compared to this time last year going through F game uh i' see a guy that is trying to have a sense of urgency uh every day um about everything he does and and not taking anything uh for granted uh you know he wrote a bunch of things on our board in our meeting room uh of what we need to do as a quarterback and number one was be where your feet are you hear that a lot uh but here's a guy that you know had a good season his first season and there's a lot of noise outside you know this building um you know about the future but he can't control that what he can control is you know being where Ste are every day and in in the meeting that we're going to go to uh here in less than an hour uh it's going to be a install but it's not going to be a new install for him it's going to be a lot of things that he's heard over the four years four to five years that he's been here but he's going to be locked in being where his feet are paying attention there might be one little nugget today that is is a little bit different than last year something that's going to help him be better at whatever play We're installing so I think he's got a really really good mindset of of focusing every day and controlling what he can control uh and getting better uh because last year's last year tomorrow's tomorrow uh the most important thing is today and that's a hard thing to do that's a hard thing to do for me and I'm 50 but you know we've got a head coach that's going to stress that daily of most important thing is is our meeting here in a minute with the players uh then how we go out there and walk through how we go out there and do stretch we do everything on a day-to-day basis uh and he's doing a good job of that how you doing M can you uh can you tell us about the progress of your backup center I think his name is Drew Boo he's H he's Hell on Wheels is he and uh I you know kind of on on the end of that I mean I understand uh maybe your starters had some issues here lately can update us on that but sincerely coaching your son that's uh I'm sure that's there's interesting dynamic yeah uh you know you know Jared Jared has has missed some things uh but he's got to do as much as possible uh it's it's always you know uh that's a very important position offensive line in the offensive unit uh they communicate uh you know really to everybody what goes on up front um and you know Jared's still being able to do that a large majority of what we're doing uh we're just being careful with Jared but also gives guys more opportunities uh to work in center and make those calls we lost a four years Carter and said van brand has made the calls a 100 times and confident making those calls and communicating uh so everything we do from walk through to practice as an opportunity for those centers that Jared's not getting work uh to make those calls and communicate with those other guys and it's probably more important this year because we've got so many young linemen U that you know might not be able to hear the call and know what they got and a lot of times you know that Center's got to pass everything down the line and make the call front side and backside for those guys and you know it's a little bit uncomfortable for guys like Drew uh but the only way they're going to get comfortable is keep doing it and putting them under those pressure situations hey Mike all right looks like uh you should have a really good offense if you based on this college football playoff uh or college football video game is that a good indicator of what you guys going to do this year I don't know the only video game I ever played was techmo bow and super techmo uh B which is a lot I play a couple times I sat down with my son and and Jake and Drew and they were playing when we had some time off over the summer and and and it's it's amazing you know the plays the concept of defense and there's a lot of there a lot of good things in there my son's trying to you know play battling for the quarterback job at Prince and sitting down and seeing you know what the defense does and making decisions but uh I you know I'd go with techmo and Super techmo Ball um you know I always play with the Oilers more moon was hell and Chris Dishman on defense he could pick him off about anything Techo bone