The official announced attendance count was 52,630, which seemed a tad generous, although folks continued coming in after kickoff. I’d put the crowd over 40k, which, given the weather, ain’t half bad.
As the head man put it,
Here’s the crowd right before kickoff pic.twitter.com/THRVtm3zjJ
— Anthony Dasher (@AnthonyDasher1) April 20, 2019
The official announced attendance count was 52,630, which seemed a tad generous, although folks continued coming in after kickoff. I’d put the crowd over 40k, which, given the weather, ain’t half bad.
As the head man put it,
Kirby Smart said if he were a fan and saw the rain during the Dawg Walk, he may not even have shown up for #GDay. (Also his final thoughts on spring). #UGA pic.twitter.com/YLudrd85kt
— 11Alive Sports (@11AliveSports) April 20, 2019
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“We remember the Sugar Bowl, I think it my junior year of high school, we let Alabama beat us twice,” Brinson said of a team that also lost to the Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship game. “We’re not letting Alabama beat us twice. In the Sugar Bowl in 2018, they… thought they should have been in the playoffs and lost to Texas.” -- AB-H, 12/27/23
I thought the crowd was good for the circumstances … rain, cold, Easter weekend. A LOT of students went home. I was able to get a spot in the lot at Creswell with no problem.
If the weather had cooperated, I expect there would have been 70k+.
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Thinks most decided to stay home and watch the girl’s softball game (UGA/TN).
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Forced to watch, by directtv.
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SEC Network was showing the Oprah Network in my Casa on Comcast…WTF?
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YOU’RE gonna wreak havoc…and YOU’RE gonna wreak havoc………..EVERYBODY’S GONNA WREAK HAVOOOOC!!!!
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Weather aside, it was poor planning to hold G-Day on Easter weekend.
Seems to me that they appealed to a niche (though admittedly, well-heeled) crowd by going around a golf tournament.
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Yeah, I’ve never bought the argument that the Masters takes away a huge chunk of people that would otherwise attend G-day. I would estimate it to be a couple of thousand at the most. And if you’d rather stay home and watch golf on tv that Saturday, then you probably didn’t really want to go fight the crowd in Athens for a spring game anyway.
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Respectfully disagree on both points. As said before, the Masters is so much more than “a golf tournament”, even more so in the state of Georgia. You have many options to avoid the obvious conflict, why would you ever go head-to-head with it? Didn’t make any sense when we did so, and wouldn’t make any sense to do so again. If I had a planning manager who missed the logic of that in scheduling an event, he/she would be looking for another job. The attendance fall off was the crummy weather, imo, and understandably so. I will say that watching that silly ass broadcast yesterday and all the attention to media “officials”, I may never watch, or attend, another GDAy. Disappointed in Kirby for allowing that type of event, that will impact future attendance and viewership more than any other scheduled activities. At least the softball game was an athletic event, not a carnival act.
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Stetson!, Stetson!, Stetson! ….. . ..and where is the QBR report? Not that much difference between first and second string and that ain’t bad at all.
It was a fun Spring Game and the players had the most fun. Dawgs looked great for this time of year and I hope they continue through the summer until the newbies get here. Best of all was showing the pass game to the prospective WRs and TEs, including long throws by several QBs. Players looked like they were up to trying hard in front of an audience and even did each other a few favors along the way.
Waiting to see Kirby entreat several players at the same position to look like shit in front of a recruit we want for that position in order that he would think no one is good enough to keep him off the field if he commits.
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“Cry ‘Havoc!’, and unleash the Dawgs of war!!!”
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-Shakespeare
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