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- “In the past 10 years, the University of Tennessee-Knoxville has seen the termination or resignation of two athletic directors, four football or basketball coaches and two chancellors, and buyouts totaling more than $24 million.” Oh, and “The $24 million total does not include buyouts for assistant coaching staffs.”
- Athlon looks at which SEC East team is most likely to challenge Georgia this season. They try hard, but don’t sound very convincing.
- John Infante argues that the impetus behind the NCAA’s transfer rule change that just benefited Shea Patterson was to avoid negative media attention.
- “I have a bone to pick with Georgia.“
- Ugh: “Larry Nassar sexually assaulted at least 25 MSU student-athletes, but there were no NCAA violations, the university has told the college athletics governing body.”
- Ian Boyd looks at switching on defense and sees similarities with… the NBA?
- Bill Belichick picked two Georgia players in the first round of the draft. That’s not unusual for him.
- Mark Emmert’s gonna Mark Emmert.
- It’s never too early to arrange your bowl season schedule.
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Those Athlon guys didn’t even realize Boom has been in Columbia for his 3rd year (one guy was expecting a 2nd year surge).
Everyone thinks Todd Grantham is a good defensive coordinator. Ha!
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He’s good at pressuring qbs. The back end gets burned too often and looks confused. Struggles with the power run game. Recruiting also a question mark.
In fairness though, I think CTG has been as good as a college dc as Mullen has been as a college HC. The confidence the press has in his abilities to put UF back on top is incomprehensible. You go back and look at how many wins he’s had against teams that finished the season ranked and it’s abysmal. You’ve got more fingers on one hand.
To me, beating LSU in starkvegas and then not even getting off the bus in Athens the next week is a stark warning to the gators. That was a Donnan-esque face plant game.
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So Kevin Harris is pissed at UGA for not accepting his commitment when he was a sophomore, but he just broke his commitment to Miami on sunday after JUST TELLING THEM LAST WEEK he was going to school there? No double standard there at all.
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Maybe he has a future in politics.
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And wanted badly to go to UGA but couldn’t go to a UGA camp because he got invited to an IMG camp? Just sounds like a typical confused teenager.
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But then after reading Sentell’s piece, it sounds like there may be something deeper.
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When did the SEC and the Sugar Bowl get disconnected?
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When the playoffs appeared.
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Many, how can UTk afford all of those buyouts? They must be fracking underneath Neyland Stadium. I guess that explains their shitty turf.
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I love it when writers say things like “Smart is building the damn Death Star in Athens”. Can y’all see me smiling from six time zones away?
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Death Star II may be a better term, but it’s mot like it ever ends well for the Death Stars of any kind. They blow up a few planets here and there and are eventually taken down in a moment when everyone is cheering against them.
Count me as one who doesn’t like that analogy.
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The defense should be among the SEC’s best under new coordinator Todd Grantham.
I nearly threw up from laughing too hard.
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fu has lived and died on their D the past several years. CTG is a downgrade from their previous DCs.
What I really question is Grantham’s recruiting. He was instrumental in our 2013 recruiting fiasco. Leonard Floyd is easily the best player we recruited during that period. But the list thins out pretty quick. Jordan Jenkins, Mauger, Bellamy, Atkins, Gaillard. CTG inherited some good talent, but left very little for Pruitt to work with.
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Did he inherit Ogletree it recruit him? What about Jarvis Jones?
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