From Ari Wasserman’s mailbag ($$):
If you think of college football programs as stocks — not just for this year, but for the next 2-5 years — what programs are you buying and selling? — Mark C.
Georgia — Buy: Georgia is Apple. It is the best company in the world. It prints money and is going to be here for the long term.
Whew!
I’m not sure it’s really sunk in yet how much the perception of Kirby Smart’s program has elevated since the national title game. If it ever does, though, I hope it doesn’t turn me into the Georgia blogging equivalent of Erik Evans.
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Having been in school at UGA 1980-1984, I am stunned as to the highs and lows in between and am trying to enjoy the ride!
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I was there from ’80 to ’85. Managed to squeeze in that extra season. Good times.
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Saw you on kudzu hill several times I believe!
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Me too
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Nothing like a double-header, 4 guys and a pony keg. Never graduate…
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God help us all if we settle into that kind of entitled “if my team didn’t win then it doesn’t count” mindset. Hopefully years of walking in the relative wilderness have taught us at least a little gratitude.
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Years in the wilderness didn’t give Bama fans much perspective. I have so many friends in their 40s or older who are Bama fans. They remember the lean years and for the most part appreciate what they have right now. But their kids? They’re spoiled brats who largely melted down after the natty last year. They have no idea what life was once like.
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I”ve lived in Tuscaloosa and Valdosta, and the similarities are uncanny. Each school was blessed to have the greatest coach in college/high school history. Then they were fortunate enough to replace that guy with an even better coach. Aside from those, they have either had coaches that did well that they ran off because they couldn’t reach the fans’ ridculous expectations, and they’ve had clusterf*** coaching searches and backroom politics that made them a joke from time to time. They will always be good, at least when they aren’t shooting themselves in the foot, because of their support, history, and location, but they’ll never be where they think they belong and will never recognize that their success wasn’t manifest destiny. Finally, because their fans think that unheard of success is their birthright, they never actually enjoy it. They can only be disappointed.
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I grew up in Moultrie in the 60s and 70s. Re: Valdosta, I know just what you mean.
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It is true though… Program is in a great position and it should help spring board the others.
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True UGA fans have too much Munson skepticism to become an Erik Evan’s, so you have nothing to worry about. This is the thing mist fans of other SEC teams never really know about UGA fans.
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The way to avoid becoming Erik Evans is to look around and see if there’s a single professional commentator who is employed by a major media organization who shares your opinions. If Erik can find me a single media member (not a fellow blogger, but an actual professional who gets hired and fired for the quality of their reporting, their writing, and their analysis) who thinks Georgia is as big a piece of shit fluke as Erik Evans does, then I’ll buy him the biggest steak they’ve got at his favorite restaurant. He can’t do it. So yeah, Senator, just make sure that you’re not offsides (in the soccer sense) that you’ve run past all rational thinkers and you’re fine.
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Senator, the very fact that you worry that you could possibly turn into Eric with a K means that you will never turn into Eric with a K, because of the many things that d-bag lacks, it is his utter lack of self-awareness above all that makes him the particularly loathsome d-bag that he is.
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