Mmm, mmm good.
- Any time you see the line “An NCAA spokesman was unavailable for comment.”, it’s probably not good news.
- How badly does Ed Orgeron want to coach? Badly enough to want the Kansas job.
- Another mascot vote? Maybe they should just go ahead and retire the award.
- “Conduct detrimental.” Da’Rick would have had a helluva career at Georgia, if he hadn’t changed his mind at the last minute. Of course, he would have wound up at Auburn.
- For fiscal year 2012-3, Georgia generated $51.3 million in excess revenue from football.
- And that was without dynamic ticket pricing.
- My favorite tidbit from Cory Brinson’s Vanderbilt preview: “Vandy ranks just behind Georgia Tech in passing offense. Yes, passing offense.”
- You’d think if any offense would be well suited to running play-option pass plays, it would be Georgia’s.
Get The Picture 
Yards Per Game:
Georgia Tech: 116
Vanderbilt: 117
GEORGIA: 113…methinks making fun of Vandy’s passing game is a bit like the pot calling the kettle black.
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Except Vandy can’t run the ball, either.
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Oh Vandy is terrible, but so is our passing game.
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Yeah, I was going to point this out.
We average about 10 yards more per game passing than Tech does. That’s how terrible our passing game has been. We might as well run the option right now.
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UGA at #3 most profitable football program behind Michigan!?!
….Ann Arbor, we have a problem
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I’m surprised Da’Rick didn’t end up at Second Chance U. after he left Tennessee.
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And whatever happened to his buddy that got a scholly, Nash Nance? SOD’s two-fer didn’t work out so well.
Maybe kansas can hire SOD. We can get em on the schedule before they dump him.
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Nash transferred to Hampden Sydney, a private, all men liberal arts college in Virginia where he plays . Both my sons attended a private school from the 6th grade through HS. We live in Clarke County. I’ll leave it there. As athletes in a IA school they did well. Some interest from DIII schools. Probably because of their HS coaches. Hampden was one of them. Boys hung up their HS sports gear and went to Georgia. No interest at all in any other school. If fact they were a little indignant at me for asking if there was another school they might want to attend.
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“In fact they were a little indignant at me for asking if there was another school they might want to attend.”
Of course, you were saying it tongue-in-cheek, wearing your UGA hat, UGA shirt, red trousers, red tennis shoes, holding their UGA acceptance letters in hand, etc. The pride in your sons is evident whenever you mention them.
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The concussion thing there…all I can think to say is that this is really bad.
Basically what the report says is that you can’t play football without concussions of varying degree.
I don’t think football helmets with airbags are practical.
I have not paid much attention to anyone but us, but are other teams sitting kids down as quickly as we are? I hope so.
This is actually worse than TV.
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It’s funny you mentioned airbags in helmets; my wife and I were discussing the very same thing the other night. It wouldn’t surprise me for them to attempt to develop some sort of technology, which would be sponsored and/or developed by Volvo or something of the sort.
The concussion issue ultimately will derail football in some fashion, if nothing else due to the litany of lawsuits that will continue to escalate in the years ahead. While I’m not predicting that football will ever go away or be banned, I do think the game will be very different in 10-15 years compared to today.
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The problem with concussions are not the headgear but the sudden acceleration/deceleration of the brain inside the skull. When you go from a high velocity to a sudden stop the brain continues to travel forward and bumps into the skull causing the “bruise” on the brain. Wrapping kids in bubble wrap is not going to change that. The reason we are seeing so many concussions and concussion related articles are 1) more awareness/education and 2) bigger, faster, stronger players who hit much harder than the players of just 10 years ago. When you have 270 lb players who run a 4.5 40yd and hit like a dump truck you are going to have more sudden stops.
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But what about Volvo?
Interesting, thanks for this. In other words…football is screwed.
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There is a helmet out there that supposedly helps with concussions, but it is large and looks funny, so players do not wear them.
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What is the long term effect of rugby and Australian rules football, I wonder.
Those guys play with no head gear or wrestler style ear protection and they play prep and then professionally for a similar time period.
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RocketDawg is righ — it’s the instant deceleration that’s more the culprit than the hit on the head. Concussion is a brain injury, not a skull injury. Of course, both could occur in a major hit. And gjuys who play without helmets — I’m pretty much assuming they don’t lead with the head in most tackles.
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Take the helmets off the motorcycle jocks and they will slow their ass down! 😉 JK! Got my cast off yesterday. Feeling spry.
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Looking at UGA’s financial stat sheet, I’m left thinking our coaches are underpaid.
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The players too.
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If we had Amari Cooper or Shepherd, I can see MarkMike running some POP, but you gotta have one of those…Do we have one of those?
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Oh…wait for page two…we don’t have one of those, but we are running POPs anyway? (see passing stats above)
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“The good thing is maybe they’re not scooped up by brokers,” Broussard said. “We’re trying to get the tickets in the actual fan’s hands that would want to attend the game. The con of it is if you start getting a little out of hand with pricing and some fans may think you’re trying to gouge them. We want to get closer to the market value.”
In thought he was talking about a different kind of CON there!
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Its about time colleges move away from a static pricing model and more towards a dynamic one. The notion that you’d charge the same price to watch a game vs. directional U compared to a big rival is utterly absurd.
We’re already seeing it in MLB and its worked out well with their various tiered games structure. Even restaurants more and more are smartly moving towards dynamic pricing, with specials and lower priced entrees during the early part of the week compared to weekend nights, where prices reach a premium.
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No, what is utterly absurd is Rutgers charging $225 for ANY football game. Notice the programs on there who do this are also ones not really known for selling out.
Dynamic pricing is only going to alienate fans more. You cannot charge Stubhub prices on every available seat. Supply and demand.
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Well, we’ll see soon whether it works out for them…or if it explodes in their face, depending on the number of empty seats we see vs. Michigan and such. Thus far, however, it seems to have worked out beautifully for them with tickets obviously priced appropriately, as the game vs. Penn State was a sellout in their newly expanded stadium, thus being the largest Rutgers crowd ever.
Remember that the COL is much higher up there compared to the south. I travel to NYC and surrounding areas 4-5 times a year, and its just an expensive place overall, with higher incomes offsetting things a bit.
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In that part of the country everything cost a lot more. Unions control everything and I wonder if stadium / concession workers / groundskeepers, etc are all unionized. It may be a case of trying to break even. There have been times when the Braves couldn’t draw a crowd and I wondered, “why not just let everyone in for free or $1.00. They would make more off of concessions and parking than having almost no-one show up. (Georgia Tech has adapted this idea in a sense. :))
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Even restaurants more and more are smartly moving towards dynamic pricing, with specials and lower priced entrees during the early part of the week …
That made me chuckle when I thought of Allens Tuesday night special. 25¢ beer with a bit of Normaltown Flyers on the side. Allens was rolling for nealy 50 years. I guess Allen and Billy were a head of their time. Dynamic Pricing! Lower priced entrees plus music.!
John Keane and Peter Buck joined on a couple of songs!
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Ah, the memories. Amazing how THEY have aged, however.
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18:47 go on Greg!
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Between the Hedges…in the basement…yikes lotsa memories from grad school there…had this bartender-type lady…whew!!!!
Billy Slaughter…damn boy,
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More than 50 years, I think, Homes….hell, my daddy went there as an undergrad.
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…had this bartender-type lady…whew!!!!
“A man is no match for a woman in a dimly-lit arena.”
Lessons CMR never shared.
I think it was after the Ole Miss game in 96 that Bobo tied up with a disgruntled fan in that basement. I hope that wasn’t Skeptic! A fellow GTPer throwing down with our OC is … unseemly!
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In the mid-to-late ’90’s I kept an apartment in Athens for 5-6 years, next to the Naval School. Had a good friend who had an office nearby, and he’d eat breakfast there fairly often. So one day I went with him.
Discovered there was a healthy “table of knowledge” every morning (as Marvin Griffin used to call it) with local regulars, like there were in so many Georgia towns in the old days. I normally don’t eat breakfast, so I didn’t go very much.
But always enjoyed the camaraderie the times I did go.
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Good ROR on a mediocre prodcut. Looks like the assets are overvalued, and perhaps overpaid. Guess losing a bowl, not being in the SEC run again is okay if alums and supporters want to funnel the money into that. Plus losing to Vandy does have some benefit after all. You pay for what you get.
Running game. KC Royals. Ran the dicks into the ground out of Oakland. Goes to show what coaching, managing a roster of players who are not highly compenated can get done. Some coaches and managers can get a roster together to get it done. Perhaps a Pruitt. Think he wants a little more cut of that profit considering what he has to deal with CMR’s roster. Same with Giants. Puttin a mute button on a blackout in Pittsburg. Crawford shut up the whole town with a grandslam. Madison Bumgaurtner was litght out on the mound. Buster Posey can play, call a game, and manage pitchers
If Derek Mason looks good “with a no roster” he can deal himself to some cash in the Big House, provided Miles does not want to answer “mama’s call”.
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“the department had another $40.1 million in expenses not directly attributable to just one team”
The UGA Foundation thanks the University of Georgia Athletic Association for its support.
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Coach Ed Orgeron is not near fat enough for Kansas.
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Jayhawkz Wild Boyz.
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Senator:
I know we talked about Bill Connelly’s SEC forecast yesterday, but I saw no discussion of the game-by-game probabilities he presented, which added up to a 4-4 conference record for the Dawgs after losses to Mizzou, Arky and Auburn.
How well would the Dawg Nation handle that sort of season (which would presumably include wins over Florida and Tech)?
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If we close 4-4 in the league the fan base will (rightfully) lose their minds. Going 4-4 with the best player in the country is inexcusable.
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It ain’t like it hasn’t happened before…Arkansas Razorbacks-2007 record: 8–5 (4–4 SEC)
Arkansas had McFadden, Felix Jones, and Peyton Hillis. The Triple Headed Monster.
Darren McFadden-
— His career total of 4,590 yards ranks second all-time in career rushing yards in the SEC, behind only Herschel Walker of Georgia with 5,259.
—He was runner-up to Tim Tebow of the Florida Gators by a margin of 1,957 points to 1,703 points,[29] making him the first person since 1949 to finish second in Heisman voting in consecutive years.
—McFadden was drafted by the Oakland Raiders with the fourth overall pick in the 2008 NFL Draft. The Raiders signed McFadden to a six-year, $60.1 million contract which included $26 million in guarantees.
*Felix Jones- Went in the 1st rd. He signed a professional contract on July 26 for $10.53 million, with $7.67 million guaranteed, including a $3.57 million signing bonus
Peyton Hillis-During his sophomore year, Hillis accounted for 947 all-purpose yards (including more than 200 in kick-off and punt returns) and seven touchdowns while also serving as a blocker for up-and-coming star running backs Darren McFadden and Felix Jones. Drafted by Denver.
You still need a passing game. It would be cool to see Arky’s passing stats for the 2007 but CFBstats stops at 2008.
Decent schedule helps. Look at Arkansas schedule in 2007. They had LSU,UGa,Bama,UT,Barners, and a decent Kentucky team. LSU finished #1,UT won the East and Georgia #2, and I think the Barners finished in the top 20.
You need a pretty good D to go with that great running back. Ask Hershel.
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Spell it right…Herschel.
Dude. No excuse. Ever.
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The head trauma along with ticket prices and declining student attendance don’t point to a rosy future for CFB. There need to be some serious changes.
Coach O at Kansas makes perfect sense, plus it’s a can’t lose proposition. Anything is an improvement over Weis.
Finally, I’m so glad we missed out on Da’Prick.
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Da’dumb…Da’dumb dumb…..
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51 mil for one sport, through one year?!? That’s a lot of free education!
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The concussion stuff scares me. It scares me what it may ultimately do to the college game. And it scares me to think that these kids are playing through potential concussions. If I’m in their shoes, I assume that I do the same thing. It’s saddening to say the least.
Not saying that it can’t be done (see Duke), but you gotta want it bad to even think about taking the Kansas football job.
I guess I’m on the fence regarding dynamic pricing. I think it might work, as long as it is also applied according to the available seat location (i.e. end zone vs. 40 yard line).
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Not like me to fawn over an avatar…but that is one cool BullDawg and Hat!
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