I don’t know if that story is true, but I hope so. Must be the romantic in me.
Daily Archives: May 17, 2023
You just keep on using me until you use me up
Filed under Alabama, It's Just Bidness, Transfers Are For Coaches.
Making a good impression
Yeah, getting a commitment out of the number one player in a recruiting class who happens to be a transcendant talent at the most important position on the field is kind of a big deal, even to a recuiting process skeptic like me. That being said, for now I’m more wowed by how Georgia managed to pull off what for the program is an unprecedented commitment, than I am about Raiola’s potential.
The answer may be as simple as Smart making Georgia’s recruiting Death Star fully operational. Here’s what Raiola’s dad had to say after his son’s announcement:
“Every time we go there, we feel the same leaving there: It’s elite, the environment is competitive, it’s a grinder and a lot of it is football. Once you step into the indoor facility, it’s all football and you can see why [Smart] built what he built there.
“You can see his plan in action. Everything they do from nutrition to recovery to weight room and then you get into meetings and on the field, it’s an environment that’s competitive and conducive to winning.”
That’s not a over the top reaction in the slightest. What is shows is a serious appeal to those recruits, especially the highest rated ones, that if they’re making a business decision, they have the opportunity to take their place in a program that means business.
Filed under Georgia Football, Recruiting
“You don’t want to be a Cinderella team. You want to be a legitimate program.”
If I didn’t know any better, I’d think TCU just dawgraded themselves after the 65-7 debacle in the national championship. They certainly took it hard enough ($$).
It was more than a month before TCU defensive coordinator Joe Gillespie could stomach the tape. Head coach Sonny Dykes isn’t even sure he made time to watch it with his players.
After such a nightmarish ending to a dream year, it was understandable that TCU coaches were hesitant to turn on the game film of their 65-7 loss at the hands of Georgia in the College Football Playoff national championship game, a horror movie for the Horned Frogs from start to finish.
“I didn’t watch it until after I got off the road recruiting and vacation, just because I couldn’t do it,” Gillespie said.
“It was kind of what you would expect from a score like that,” Dykes said.
It will be interesting to see what kind of recovery they make from an epic beatdown like that.
Filed under Big 12 Football, Georgia Football
An NIL win-win
For the fans and players, I mean. For the schools and NCAA, a complete and utter disaster. Not too mention a totally unnecessary one. Had they settled when they could have, who knows how things would have gone with Alston? After all, they couldn’t have gone any worse.
Filed under It's Just Bidness, See You In Court, The NCAA
Missing you already
Lame ass logo, Mickey.
Although, no matter how much you tart it up, I’m still gonna miss the hell out of this:
Filed under SEC Football
Prime math
This really is bonkers.
Which is not to say Colorado won’t be a fascinating experiment to watch unfold in real time. If it works, say hello to the new reality of what coaches will do upon taking a new job at an underperforming program. If it doesn’t, the next coach there is going to have an even bigger mess to clean up.
Filed under Coach Prime
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