August madness

On a number of levels, this makes little sense.

Sources: In the next 24 hours, there’s two calls for the ACC to vet and have early exploratory discussions on the potential addition of Cal and Stanford. One is for ACC athletic directors and the other for the league's presidents and chancellors.

— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) August 7, 2023

So of course they’ll take a look under the hood!

Seriously, the logistics suck and the two schools don’t bring much to the table, financially speaking (Cal in particular is a basket case).  Plus, you’ve already got FSU chomping at the bit for a redistribution of conference revenue and you’re gonna split that with two more shares?

Killer academics, though.  And ACC gets to crack into the coveted late Saturday night TV broadcast market.  You can’t put a price tag on prestige, amirite?

When you haven’t lost the coaches…

Georgia is on top of the preseason Coaches Poll, so I don’t know how Kirby’s gonna play the disrepect card this season… except, wait!  The Dawgs aren’t a unanimous number one.  Yeah, that’s it, that’s the ticket.

We need to find out who those five rat bastards are and plaster their faces in Georgia’s locker room, if you ask me.

Today, in the annals of chutzpah

From a University of Michigan regent, this is right up there with the son who murdered both his parents and threw himself on the mercy of the court, claiming he was an orphan.

This is where I find the @NCAA and its behavior so wildly offensive. If this alleged oversight body, which claims it is high and mighty every time it runs to Congress demanding action, really cared about student athletes, they'd get this nonsense under control.

— Jordan Acker (@JordanAckerMI) August 6, 2023

First off, yeah, I find the NCAA’s stance on NIL especially hypocritical, given what’s happened over the past few days.  But you don’t have the privilege of sharing that opinion, Jordan, given that your school has just welcomed the program in Eugene to your conference, and, more significantly, given that the NCAA answers only to the beck and call of its member schools.

In other words, fuck off with your righteous indignation.  Asshole.

Projection

Shot.

No you'll make it to a bowl game. It's hard to replace a gamer like Stetson. It's not an insult to say you'll go 10-2. Get your estrogen levels checked https://t.co/GBUeERwZvN

— VOLNUGS (@VOLNUGS) August 6, 2023

Chaser ($$).

10. Specialists

Brett Thorson was booting balls toward Brisbane on Thursday. Jared Zirkel, after three years of waiting, is poised to be the kicker, but freshman Peyton Woodring is available if Zirkel falters. The return specialists will come from a deep pool of speedy candidates, as well as some experience, especially McConkey on punts.

And in the most important sentence you will read in this story, perhaps in your life, William Mote was just named to the preseason watch list for the award that goes to the nation’s top long snapper.

So why would this group be last? Refer once again to Georgia and being loaded.

I realize after a season when their team won a national championship played in the CFP won the conference title won the SEC East won ten games, Vol fans are feeling rather condescending towards their Georgia brethren.  I mean, compared to Josh Heupel, what has Kirby Smart done lately (besides go 2-0 head to head, that is)?  And Stetson Bennett’s apparently now the second coming of Peyton Manning.  Who’da ever thunk it?

Then again, maybe he’s trying to praise UGA by saying it’s capable of having as monstrous a 2023 season as UT’s 2022 was.

Either way, it’s not easy being Urnge.