If this ever came to fruition, how much “another Gator home game” whining do you think there’d be if Georgia and Florida faced off in a playoff game there?
If this ever came to fruition, how much “another Gator home game” whining do you think there’d be if Georgia and Florida faced off in a playoff game there?
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“I just think that people like Georgia football. I mean, why, when you have an opportunity, on this nice spring day to come to Athens, I know I would be dying to come if I lived anywhere in the state or in a five-hour radius. Get out of the house, get the kids out of the house, come see who the new faces are. I think some of it’s recruiting but I think people enjoy football in Georgia and want to come watch it. I’m glad they do because the impact it has on recruiting, I can’t tell you how many recruits are out there going, oh my gosh, I can’t believe it, I can’t get over it. It’s the norm here. It’s the way it should be…” — Kirby Smart, AJ-C, 4/21/18
Recognizing an advantage isn’t “whining.” You don’t think UGA playing in the Georgia Dome would be an advantage over whoever the opponent would be? I’ll bet you don’t believe in gravity either and still think the world is flat.
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I’ll simply point out that Georgia’s won more recently in Jax than it has in the Dome. 😉
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It’s just an advantage senator, not a guarantee of winning. besides, we won the first half of the SECCG, didn’t we? 🙂
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Right…;), I am sure the level of opposition had nothing to do with that.
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That UGA “home field advantage” has really helped it out in SEC Championship games, has it not?
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Well, we won one in which we were heavy underdogs (2005). I’d say it helped out then. I’d also say it helped out in the first half of the most recent one. And in 2002 when we came out to a crazy atmosphere and blew the doors off the Razorbacks. That covers 3 of the 4 SECC games we’ve played in.
Care to make any more lame attempts at sarcasm?
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cube, that’s all he has. Not a good subject nor day for Mike to try to enter the conversation.
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In 2003 the Dawgs were seen as favorites by some because they played LSU to the wire in Baton Rouge. That didn’t go so well and you can’t just say that the dome was an advantage for half of a game. It is either an advantage or it isn’t. Did they play the second half in the Superdome?
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So it can’t be considered an advantage if you lose the game? Does that mean that in every game you lose you had no advantages? Home field advantage is just one of many variables that go into deciding the outcome of a game. And there are some variables that are much more important.
But if what you really want to do is argue that home field and crowd doesn’t matter, that’s a losing position. Stats show otherwise.
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No, it’s whining. Whether the folks complaining about Jacksonville recognize that they sound like a bunch of p@##$%& or not, the rest of the world does.
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Are you the spokesman for the rest of the world, Tom? Sure sounds like you think so. 🙂
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I just believe in calling a spade a spade. Not necessarily saying that folks who have that opinion are actually p!@@#$@, just that they sound like them when they propose throwing away one of the defining traditions of Georgia football because they think that playing a game in front of a 50/50 crowd is a problem.
I’d also like to point out that, in exchange for the disadvantage of playing in Jacksonville, Georgia has only made one trip to what has probably been the toughest stadium to play in as an opponent over the last 20 years of college football and which is unquestionably a bigger home field advantage than Sanford Stadium. Surely the ‘home field advantage’ enjoyed by the Gators in Jacksonville is less than the balance of the advantage in a home and home, isn’t it?
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You shouldn’t point out the obvious inequity in a home and home with UF versus the neutral site Tom, it will make those who don’t get it feel bad. They might blame it on concussions, or childhood issues, etc. But then, they still won’t get because they are not really thinking when it comes to this issue.
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The obvious answer Mayor is a resounding NO, we would have no advantage if the tickets were divided equally like they are in Jax. Get off it, an opinion that you want a home and home is fine, everyone has a right to an opinion. But don’t use faulty logic, it truly becomes a whine at that point.
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Jorts galore!
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Are they related to Pussy Galore?
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Jacksonville outdoors in late December/early January? Uh, no, they aren’t getting one of those games.
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The cities in the mix will be any city with a quality dome, San Diego, LA, Tampa, and Miami.
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How bout the Silverdome?
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I doubt the Silverdome would get much consideration but Ford Field might.
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J’ville, Dallas and Atlanta will enter the fray depending on location of the teams playing.
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So it can’t be considered an advantage if you lose the game? Does that mean that in every game you lose you had no advantages? Home field advantage is just one of many variables that go into deciding the outcome of a game. And there are some variables that are much more important.
But if what you really want to do is argue that home field and crowd doesn’t matter, that’s a losing position. Stats show otherwise.
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This was meant for Careful Brad, the LSU fan above.
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Jacksonville doesn’t stand a chance in hell of landing that regional game. Atlanta, however, with Arthur Blank’s new football stadium, would be a lock to get it.
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