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Daily Archives: September 7, 2023
The legend grows
This is adorable.
Wow! Sixty percent! If that doesn’t illustrate the difference between a Pac-12 crowd and an SEC one, I don’t know what does.
But, sure, Sanders is awesome. I wonder what his next feat of strength will be.
(h/t)
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UPDATE: This is more like it.
Filed under Coach Prime
Run the damned Monken playbook, Bobo!
He did.
Explain that to the know it all sitting a couple of rows behind you bellowing about how much Bobo sucks.
Filed under Georgia Football, Strategery And Mechanics
First thoughts on Ball State
Okay, let’s not get too worked up here. Georgia’s opponent this week is a middle of the pack MAC program that lost its opener to Kentucky by thirty points. (That’s actually an improvement over last season’s opener, a 59-10 loss to the Vols.) But, as Chip Towers points out, there were some points of interest from their Kentucky game.
Ball State had the Wildcats worried for a good while Saturday at Kroger Field. The Cardinals led 7-3 in the second quarter and were deep in Kentucky territory trailing 10-7 late in the first half. That’s when they turned the ball over on a fumble, which led to a Wildcats’ TD. Ball State would fumble again on the next possession, which led to another Kentucky score. The Cardinals gave up a 99-yard kickoff return in the third quarter, and that was that.
The ‘Cats didn’t cover the spread until there were only six seconds left in the game.
Some of the stats tell an interesting story.
Considering it came against Mark Stoops, who coaches like he invented the concept of controlling the clock, that time of possession disparity is an eye opener. The Cardinals ran 71 total plays to Kentucky’s 51. If Georgia wants to play manball again this week, Ball State might not be too unhappy with that choice, as it would probably choke down on both team’s chances to score (turnovers and funky kickoff returns notwithstanding, of course).
They’re already used to hostile SEC crowds and Towers notes one other little quirk: “… Marquez Cooper, who with Kent State last year rushed for 90 yards against Georgia, the most the Bulldogs gave up to a single back all season” is Ball State’s lead back.
Again, I don’t want to read too much into this. The Cardinals were 5-7 last season and lost three of their last four games, so they’re not exactly cruising. And Kentucky finished the game well enough to be sixth in this week’s conference net ypp rankings. But it does kind of smell like this might be a good week to take the under.
Filed under Georgia Football
College football’s glorious end game
Just fucking shoot me now.
“Ripe for some kind of NFL intervention” is just what I’ve been waiting for.
My one disagreement is that it won’t take college athletes becoming employees to usher in this grand new age. It’s simply too much money for the whores running college football to turn down. Even if it means becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the most boring sports league on the planet.
Be still, my heart.
Filed under It's Just Bidness, The NFL Is Your Friend.
House divided
This is pretty funny.
Ball State’s Mike Neu is excited to play No. 1-ranked Georgia on Saturday for all the reasons one would expect of an opposing coach. But his anticipation pales in comparison with that of his wife, Charmin.
Charmin grew up a Bulldogs fan in Lincolnton.
… It was during their 13 years in Louisiana that Neu said his wife showed her true colors.
“I’ve got to be honest with you, there were times when we were living in New Orleans – and, of course, Baton Rouge is just 45 minutes from us – when Georgia and LSU would play, Charmin is driving around New Orleans with Georgia flags flapping on the car. She was just begging for trouble,” Neu shared.
Charmin was wearing Georgia colors at Tiger Stadium when she and her husband went there to catch LSU’s game against the Bulldogs in 2008. They watched quarterback Matthew Stafford lead Georgia to a 52-38 victory. Charmin was beside herself.
Fast forward to this week, and the anticipation is high in the Neu household. Charmin, Neu revealed, actually has never been to a game at Sanford Stadium.
“So, she’s obviously very excited about that,” said Neu…
Gotta root for hubby’s team. Outwardly, anyway. (Too bad they can’t let her call the Dawgs before the game.)
Filed under Georgia Football
Mandel has a question for us.
From this week’s Mailbag ($$):
Do you love to win or hate to lose? A friend posed that as a dinner discussion for the table a couple of months back, and for some reason, it was rattling around my brain Sunday night*. I want to see your response, but I’m also curious to see if any fans want to post their own answers in the comments along with their team affiliation**.
*For the record, I love to win.
**The obvious caveat is that losing to some folks hurts worse than losing to others. — Catherine B., Dallas
Anything for you, Catherine.
I’ve wondered this myself sometimes when it comes to fans of teams like Georgia, Alabama and Ohio State where they’re expected to win every single week. In the regular season, against anyone that’s not your rival, are you more excited that you won or relieved that you didn’t lose?
Conversely, it may not seem nearly as fun to root for a team that loses a lot, but doesn’t it make the wins infinitely more enjoyable?
I’m always in it for the win. By one point or forty, it doesn’t matter.
But watching Georgia lose to Georgia Tech will always suck. Luckily, it’s getting to be about as common occurrence as seeing Halley’s Comet.
What about y’all?
Filed under Georgia Football
Musical palate cleanser, there’s still life in the old boys yet edition
The Rolling Stones have announced details of their first album of new songs in nearly two decades, entitled Hackney Diamonds.
Featuring a constellation of guest stars including Lady Gaga, Stevie Wonder and former Stones bassist Bill Wyman, it also contains the final recordings with the band by late drummer Charlie Watts, who appears on two tracks.
Hackney Diamonds – east London slang referring to broken window glass outside a robbery – has the still-thrilling sight of “Jagger-Richards” mentioned throughout the songwriting credits. It’s the first time Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have written an album of new music since A Bigger Bang in 2005, and the first studio album of any kind since 2016’s collection of blues covers, Blue & Lonesome.
… The first single and opening track, Angry, has been released alongside the album announcement: powered by a classic Stones riff and strutting rhythm, Jagger is in uproarious form as he mopes about a lovers’ tiff. “It hasn’t rained in a month, the river’s run dry / we haven’t made love and I wanna know why,” the 80-year-old singer complains, eventually going off in a huff in the coda: “I’m still taking the pills / and I’m off to Brazil.”
And here ‘ya go!
Filed under Uncategorized
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