Dig in, peeps.
- Jeff Sentell does a deep dive into Georgia’s de-commitments during the Smart era.
- Barrett Sallee sees Florida winning the SEC East, beating Georgia and LSU, but losing to… Tennessee?
- How will coronavirus affect the 2020 college football season?
- Dr. Fauci thinks some sports may have to skip a 2020 season entirely.
- The Mountain West Media Days are going virtual. More conferences to follow?
- Tell me you saw this one coming: TCU’s Gary Patterson is using the downtime from the coronavirus to record an album.
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I zoned out as soon as Sallee wrote about the Dawgs rebuilt O line. His prediction may come true but not because of his diligent research.
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I read the Sentell article. Definitely worth your caffeinating time.
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“The Gators have had 38 de-commitments dating back to the 2018 cycle. That figure already includes five de-commitments for the 2021 class. Georgia has had just 21 in that span.”
As the article says, Kirby is almost always electing to replace decommits with higher ranked commits. Each recruit making the overall class progressively better. Whereas fu is using a lot of effort chasing players who decommit, then having to take whatever they scrape together.
Interesting article. Even Sentell admits fu doesn’t belong in a discussion of top recruiters. He put them in there as an example of decommits having an adverse effect.
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From the Sentell article: “Georgia has never been a program that tried to get umpteen commitments before the summer of a player’s senior year.”
I beg to differ. That was a cornerstone of the Richt recruiting strategy. It’s been a while, but… not never.
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Cocktail Party: different year; same result.
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Dr. Fauci is the same guy that said we should not have banned travel from China and then a few weeks later said we didn’t do it fast enough.He is the same guy that in February said we had nothing to worry about in this country. Then a month later said we need to shut down the Country. So excuse me if I don’t put a lot of stock in anything Dr. Fauci says.
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Your post begs the question. Who do you put a lot of stock into infectious disease knowledge?
I have yet to read or see on television any infectious disease expertise say anything that materially differs from what Dr. Fauci says. Therefore you must be putting your stock into statements by people without knowledge and experience in the field of infectious disease.
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Agreed. No one has a clue. The White House might as well cite Twitter as their main epidemiology resource because nothing the government says seems any more informed than the average armchair epidemiologist with a phone.
Fauci may see data a few moments before it goes public, but that’s about the extent of his expertise.
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That is the whole point. There aren’t any experts in this. None.
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So folks who have 30+ years leaning about and dealing with infectious diseases have no greater expertise than Joe the 8th grade drop out assistant detailer at the car wash. Got it.
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They have certainly been as accurate with their predictions.
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I think they have plenty of knowledge on what has happened in the past, but as far as turning that into actionable advice to help in this situation, it’s been a global disaster. The whole world has been in a reactionary mode on this since day 1. I’m not even trying to throw blame on them. I think sometimes things just happen and we simply have no control over the outcome. This is one of those things. When I see how Japan is having the same curve shape as the US, but they didn’t shut down their economy, it makes me think this thing is just naturally running its course.
At this point, the only thing we has a society can control is when we go back about our lives. We assume risk every single day — often more than we realize. The media has brainwashed the public into thinking covid is the only cause of death and morbidity. It’s insane. We need to start taking some risk and put this behind before it turns into even more of a political paralyzation than it already has.
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The only thing I’m confident we could do to put this baby to bed would be to make a few billion N95 masks and just have everybody wear them for a month or two with a bottle of hand sanitizer in their pocket. The virus would die. We need factories in every city churning these puppies out and we’d be in good shape fast.
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Yeah, every single person who has offered an opinion on this virus, its timing, risk, spread, etc. has been made to look like fools within days to a couple of weeks, and then ridiculed for their willingness to offer an opinion. Only Fauci has been given a pass for his total whiff in both January and February. I am not blaming the guy for the mistakes, everyone has heard erroneous info from experts in this country, and abroad; but why don’t we wait until we have enough information to step before a microphone and pretend definitively otherwise. It’s OK to say we don’t have enough information yet and here is the best way to proceed from what we have heard at this point. Fauci would have never given those statements if he had better, more accurate information. Even now we are hearing conflicting information, and new theories about this disease.
Given the uncertainty, I would expect a lot of schools, fans, and players to take a pass on the upcoming CFB season. But as SARS did, it could fade away by July, we simply don’t know. If I had to put money on it, I would bet no to a full CFB season and bet the house on it. I would probably bet no to a limited season too, but that would be a much smaller bet. There is just too much weight being given to holding off until there is a more guaranteed all clear is announced. Some folks will never come out of their shell after this. Want to be optimistic but it just isn’t looking good. I do expect the NFL to play by September, it may be all the football we get to watch, ugh!
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WHO said no to border closures and flight cancellations. Then they come back with shut it all down. Now this week they come back with do it like Sweden which never closed schools and is just asking for the sick to quarantine themselves. A semi straight answer would be nice.
As well forget the vaccine. It’s not the miracle everyone is hoping for. It will be as effective as the annual flu vaccine which is normally hurt or miss.
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I guess I’m the only one that thinks Alabama’s offense is going to take two giant steps back in a potential 2020 season going from Tua to Mac and losing Jeudy and Ruggs. I know the line will be good, and they still have Najee Harris, DeVonta Smith, and Jaylen Waddle, but they had all of those players plus Jeudy and Ruggs and Wills and still lost two conference games in 2019. The Tide will be counting on unproven WR’s to go three or four deep at WR like they have been the last two seasons. I guess we will see if recruiting really does trump all.
They get Georgia early. They close with A&M and Auburn at home, probably to decide the West title, and travel to LSU and to a (according to Sallee) resurgent Tennessee program. It’s the easy call to say Alabama will go undefeated, but it’s odd for a team to lose two first round WRs and a first round QB and not just expect them to have better results the next season, but expect it to be a cakewalk.
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No, you aren’t the only one who feels that offense will not be duplicated in 2020, if we play. That group of receivers was as strong a quartet as I have ever seen, but they are gone and Bama’s offense will take a couple of steps back. But their defense will be better, and the offense is still pretty good, so they will be a tough out. Too tough, imo, for UGA to beat them in Tusky in Week 3 with an offense still trying to get their sea legs. Maybe by SECCG time, if everything clicks.
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It’s a lot of work to type “Barrett Sallee”, so I’m just going to be lazy like him and just use his initials.
Sadly, I wasted time reading B.S.
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You guys realize what is going to happen this year. We are going to have some modified type of college football and this will be the year where we win the championship. So instead of “1980” it’ll be “your championship doesn’t count since it wasn’t a normal year.
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Yeah, I had the same call a few weeks back. Sort of like the 1995 Braves World Series in a shortened season.
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You could have put a disclaimer warning us about the Smith/Parrish picture in the Sentell article. That moment is still too painful. 😥
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Gaturds going to gaturd. Their posts bear a striking resemblance to post our fans used to post…
I guess ole Sally has gone down that path too…
It does bumuse me how badly the media want the Gaturds to return to the SOS days…
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I know some will say trust the coaches and I do, but Sentell says we don’t need to reach further down for lower rated recruits anymore. Exhibit A is 3* Marlin Dean. I personally think his film looks good, but to say that we’re now only getting the highly rated ones early isn’t totally true.
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