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Daily Archives: May 11, 2023
Nonchalant
Eight- or nine-conference game schedule? Kirby Smart don’t care.
Smart spoke about the conference’s schedule options prior to the Regions Pro-Am golf tournament in Hoover, Alabama. When asked if he had a preference between the conference sticking with its traditional eight-game conference schedule or pivoting to a nine-game schedule, Smart explained either option would be just fine with him.
“I can go either way on that. I think either format’s going to allow us to go through the cycle and through the SEC much faster. So there won’t be a four-year window that you don’t play everybody home and away either way” Smart said. “In the grand scheme of things, what are we really talking about? I think people are looking for something to debate about, but if you’re going to play everybody in the SEC in four years home and away, the two methodologies we’re going about are not that vastly different.”
Honestly, it’s a little disappointing to hear him toss aside the Georgia-Auburn game like that, but I probably shouldn’t be surprised, as we’re on the cusp of entering an era when the 12-team playoff renders regular season rivalries just a little less intense. Still, it’s kind of a bummer.
Filed under Georgia Football, SEC Football
The comedic stylings of Zach Smith
Let’s see what Corch’s favorite serial wife abuser has to say about Georgia football.
I have no idea if he’s being serious or sarcastic there, but if it’s a lame attempt at the latter, I’ve got no problem with Kirby taking him out of context and letting the team stew on it over the summer.
Thanks for the gift, my man.
Is Mike Griffith’s wet dream about to become a reality?
Christmas may be coming early for Kirby Smart.
The wholesale renovation of the stadium where the Jaguars play would require the team to play its home games somewhere else for two seasons, Mayor Lenny Curry said Wednesday.
Curry said he understands the Jaguars are scouting potential locations in Jacksonville for those home games, which Curry suggested could be in the 2025 and 2026 football seasons.
He said during those two seasons, the annual Florida-Georgia game could be played outside Jacksonville with each school taking a turn hosting the game at its campus stadium.
Should this in fact come to pass, I have two requests. One, I expect Kirby Smart to take full advantage of the recruiting opportunity presented in the season when the Gators come to Athens by signing the greatest class in college football history and two, in the other, the Dawgs need to go down to the Swamp and hang at least half a hundred on those assholes, hopefully with Spurrier in attendance.
That is all.
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UPDATE: Andy Staples ($$) suggests things might not be as obvious as a home-and-home substitute. You get one guess why.
The finances are different in this era than in the mid-90s, though. The deal with the city of Jacksonville has grown so lucrative for both schools that playing on campus would cost each school about as much as it makes from a home game for one of the seasons. Each school currently makes about as much from its half of the gate of the Jacksonville game as it makes from the full gate of an on-campus home game. A similar neutral-site contract might bring in similar money.
So if Jacksonville’s stadium winds up being unavailable for two years, don’t be shocked if the game gets shopped to Atlanta, Orlando, Tampa or Miami. And if one or two of those cities bite, don’t be surprised if the price for Jacksonville to reclaim the series goes up prior to 2028.
If Kirby can’t get his game in Athens under these settings, he’s never gonna get it.
Filed under Gators, Gators..., Georgia Football
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