As Georgia transfer quarterback Brock Vandagriff gets accustomed to the new city and campus with Kentucky Football, he’s also trying to get used to the new helmet system being implemented at many schools. New receivers, new stadium, and new colors, there’s a lot to take in for the QB1 and he believes this addition will help speed up the snaps and ultimately allow them to perform better as a unit.

Back on Media Day (Aug. 2), he said he really liked having it even with it still being a new method. “I love the Coach Com.” When explaining how it works, he mentioned that “all of our skill guys are still looking to the sidelines for signals and stuff, so, but I don’t. I get it, I tell the o-line the thing and then obviously coach (Bush) Hamdan will tell me that one or two word reminder for that certain play and basically I’m ready to go. I really enjoy it. It basically eliminates a step, a pre-snap step, which is always important. Simplify everything.”

With another week in the books of using it in practice, including in today’s scrimmage, Brock Vandagriff doubled-down on his compliments and said it is great to have so far. For everyone else who doesn’t get to try it out but gets to see it from a birds-eye view, I think we all are wondering, how does it work?

“So the helmet communication basically, I can get the whole play, whatever, (and) I don’t even have to look to the sideline.”

Explains that only the skills guys have to look to the sideline for the play calls and once he hears the call from the offensive coordinator he can tell the offensive line what the play is, giving him much more time to conduct his routine as he awaits the snap.

“I hear it, bam, tell them the play. It just gives me a lot more extra time at the line while other guys are getting lined up and stuff.”

The question of the summer has been surrounding tempo and how this year’s offense needs to be much quicker than the 364th fastest offense in the country from last year, and this will, if anything, improve that aspect somewhat. Brock believes so too.

“I think it will help tempo across college football because when you think about it, like, even the quarterback doesn’t have to look to the sideline now.”

With the quicker pre-snap routine, it allows the staff up top to spot out more “pre checks” from the defense and can help the offense prepare and navigate much quicker in real time.

If the guy running the play likes it, and us as fans hated the way that it was before, I think this marriage will be very beneficial as we attempt to have more plays on a game-to-game basis this year. I’ll say yes to anything as long as it doesn’t result in what we had last season. In my opinion, that was not acceptable if we want to be the team we believe we can be, especially in this hard of a conference.

You can watch Brock Vandagriff go into more detail about the helmet system, as well as, how their first scrimmage went today on our YouTube channel.