The kind where you already have no more fucks to give. Meet first year head coach Biff Poggi (great name!).
Boy, if Charlotte does finish last in the conference, I don’t know where you go from there.
Daily Archives: July 28, 2023
“But he is certainly one of the premier guys in the country.”
Seth Emerson ($$) makes a good case for Brock Bowers being underappreciated.
… When people meet him, Bowers was asked, do they seem to be surprised that he’s Brock Bowers?
“Oh, I’ve gotten a lot of: ‘Oh, you’re a lot shorter,’” he said.
And so he can walk the streets of Athens, or his hometown of Napa, Calif., or really any place imaginable, and people will have no idea they are in the presence of the man who is …
Hmm, how to put it?
The most impactful Georgia player since Herschel Walker, their careers on an eerily similar trajectory?
Or merely just a very good player who is a cog in a larger machine that has been Georgia football the past two years?
Will he be included in this year’s Heisman chatter? Most likely. Will he be invited to New York? That’s a lot less likely. Even so, there’s much stronger likelihood of this unique accomplishment happening:
Bowers does have the chance to be the first player to twice win the John Mackey Award, given to the nation’s top tight end.
I didn’t know that, either. See? Underappreciated.
Filed under Georgia Football
Shall we play a game?
So from 1 to 133, how good is everyone’s schedule going into the 2023 college football season?
Working off our 2023 Preview College Football Rankings 1-133, here’s the very, very basic scoring system.
San Diego State is ranked 60th in the rankings. If a team plays the Aztecs at home, that counts for 60 points. If a team plays them in Snapdragon, that counts for half, so 30 points – the theory being that dealing with teams on the road is a massive problem and every away game adds up over time.
So if you have any questions about easiest/toughest games, it comes down to the scoring system with the tie going to the game on the road.
Any game against an FCS team counts as 134 points, and neutral site dates are scored like a home game. The lower the score, the harder the schedule projects to be.
Based on that, where do you think Georgia’s strength of schedule ranks?
Filed under Georgia Football
Love among the ruins
George Kliavkoff, putting the cart before the horse:
Now down to nine members following the departure of Colorado to the Big 12, the Pac-12 said Thursday night that it plans to “embrace expansion opportunities” once it finalizes its new media rights deal.
The quest for a new media rights deal has been an ongoing saga for the last year. On multiple occasions, the conference has signaled that it was close to securing a TV contract that would provide stability for its future. It has yet to materialize, and Colorado decided to sign on with the Big 12 — which already has a new deal with ESPN and Fox finalized — rather than wait around.
Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff said at the conference’s media day event last Friday in Las Vegas that the league needed to complete its media rights deal before it could start exploring expansion opportunities of its own. The current deal expires in July 2024.
Based on the conference’s statement Thursday night, that is still the order of operations the Pac-12 plans to follow.
“We are focused on concluding our media rights deal and securing our continued success and growth,” the statement says. “Immediately following the conclusion of our media rights deal, we will embrace expansion opportunities and bring new fans, markets, excitement and value to the Pac-12.”
So, the Pac-12 is going to cut a deal for their media rights, while making a vague promise about conference expansion, without actually having an expanded membership in hand? I bet ESPN and Fox will be jumping out of their shoes to get in on some of that sweet action.
On the other hand, the strategy does have one advantage: if any other Pac-12 schools leave in the interim, George doesn’t have to change the wording of the press release.
Filed under Pac-12 Football
Not dead yet
Interesting word choice here.
“Renaissance”? The Big 12 has swapped Oklahoma and Texas for three Group of Five schools and the worst team in the (once) Pac-12. Not exactly your phoenix rising from the ashes material there, more like the soft bigotry of low expectations.
But it is a shiny new toy and we know how the media feels about those…
Filed under Big 12 Football
Get The Picture 