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Daily Archives: July 21, 2023
What reloading looks like
Tired: Georgia’s lost fifteen defensive players in the last two NFL draft. The defense is bound to take a step back this season.
Wired:
Filed under Georgia Football, SEC Football
“One reason why SEC should keep its eight-game league schedule”
What do you do when you’re the hometown paper trying to give a local business a boost? Well, in the case of the AJ-C and the president of Peach Bowl, Inc., you take the position that what the fans want isn’t always the best thing.
However, Stokan’s job as salesman, logistics coordinator and game organizer likely is about to become even more difficult. If the SEC moves to a nine-game conference schedule – the league considered it earlier this summer for the 2024 season when it expands to 16 teams with the addition of Oklahoma and Texas, but decided to stay at eight games at least for 2024 – pulling together appealing non-conference matchups to start the season at Mercedes-Benz Stadium will require far more string pulling.
… There are several reasons why the SEC could move to a nine-game league schedule. But there’s at least one good reason why eight would be enough, especially for a certain sports marketer from Atlanta.
Good reason for somebody, anyway.
Filed under It's Just Bidness, SEC Football
“Georgia’s strength of schedule is easier than all of the other SEC teams in part because it doesn’t have to play Georgia.”
Truth from Bud Elliott:
https://twitter.com/jontweetssports/status/1682134386928410627
Or, to put it another way…
Filed under Georgia Football
Lane Kiffin, control freak
Seth Emerson ($$) points out the “fine for me, not for thee” take Junior has on college athletes’ use of the transfer portal.
Kiffin has been outspoken about these issues, and he prefaced his remarks Thursday by saying he had no problem with the players being paid. The main source of his discontent was the ability to transfer right away being leveraged along with NIL rights, with very little system in place to govern it.
“I mean, I was just thinking on the plane ride over here: What if you had that in other sports?” Kiffin said. “Tom Brady, A’ja Wilson, Lionel Messi, LeBron James, what if every year those guys can opt to free agency, twice a year, really, and they have no long-term contracts?”
Kiffin is set to make $7.35 million this year. He has been a head coach at four different college programs as well as the NFL, earning millions in the process. When he was Tennessee’s coach in 2009, he left after one season to take the same job at Southern California. This year his Ole Miss team will have 40 new scholarship players, counting high school recruits and transfers.
Believe it or not, his bullshit got even deeper.
Kiffin said players essentially could leverage their “free agency” three times in their career: as a high school recruit, as a first-time transfer and as a grad transfer. Like many in college athletics, Kiffin is hoping for that to be limited.
“Eventually you’re not going to be able to do that, I don’t think,” Kiffin said.
Which makes me curious: which of those three does he advocate taking away?
Musical palate cleanser, mo’ blues edition
Let’s wrap up this week’s MPCs with Muddy Waters, from 1996 1966, doing his classic, “Got My Mojo Working”.
James Cotton on the harp, by the way. He cooked!
Filed under Uncategorized
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