In February, Scott Cochran resigned as Georgia’s special teams coordinator. A key piece of the Bulldogs’ back-to-back national championships, the university said he and analyst Darrel Dickey resigned to “pursue other opportunities.”
During an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, though, Cochran said his resignation was because of drug addiction. Now, he’s giving back by helping start the American Addiction Recovery Association.
“I’m more excited about our mission at the AARA than I was when Coach (Nick) Saban called me in 2007 to be his strength coach at Alabama,” Cochran said, via the AJC’s Ariel Hart. “We’re going to stand tall instead of crouching down. Instead of living in fear and in manipulation, we’re going to stand tall. And we’re going to wear recovery as a badge of honor. We’re coming together as a group across the nation to say, ‘Hey, recovery is real.'”
Cochran also recalled the conversation he had with Kirby Smart about his addiction in 2021, and the reaction that followed.
“I literally said the words, ‘I am a drug addict,’” Cochran said. “And you could just hear the air come out of his voice. And I started getting emotional. I said, ‘I’ve been battling this a long time.’”
This story will be updated.
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