Methinks a little reprogramming is in order here.
Seems a little… dare I say it… Mickey Mouse?
Daily Archives: September 10, 2023
When the fan base ain’t happy…
Let’s see. Through two games, Georgia has dispatched its two cupcake opponents by a combined margin of 83 points and has yet to trail in the early season. (Before anyone sneers at that, allow me to retort with this.)
Yesterday saw these two impressive achievements.
Pretty good, eh? And yet, perusing social media you’ll find a not insignificant portion of the fan base losing its collective shit over Georgia’s showing to date. Or, to put a specific face to it, Mike Bobo. It’s nice of Kirby to help bring back a tradition that had faded over the past few years, UGA fans’ obsession with style points. Apparently there’s nothing new under the red and black sun.
(As an aside, to say I’m amused seeing some of the same people telling us the Cocktail Party needs to move from Jax because Kirby says so and his judgment should be the final word on the matter now insisting that Bobo only has the OC job because he’s Smart’s drinking buddy and we’re all gonna regret it is an understatement. But I digress.)
Buuuut…, the disgruntled retort. Georgia’s started slowly in both games. They didn’t even score in the first quarter yesterday and when they did get on the board, it was by virtue of a punt return! Checkmate, bitch.
This whole thing reminds me of that scene from Moneyball where Billy Beane is meeting with his scouts. One of them dismisses a player by saying “so he walks a lot”, to which Beane asks rhetorically, “do I care if it’s a walk or a hit?” No, he does not. Georgia’s winning by 40+ points a game so far. Do I care how the Dawgs score? No, I do not.
If you think it’s going to catch up with them, that Bobo simply isn’t a championship level OC, fine. What game scares you? The SEC is off to a slow start this season. South Carolina, next week’s opponent, got whipped by a North Carolina team that was taken to overtime by Appalachian State yesterday. Kentucky, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Missouri and Auburn all trailed inferior opponents yesterday.
But the playoffs, man! The playoffs! How will Bobo ever keep up against a real team? Ask me when they get there. The CFP is an entire season away right now. And for some reason I hold this silly, unrealistic belief that Smart-coached teams improve over the course of a football season. Your mileage may vary, of course, but it seems like a waste of energy for now.
Filed under Georgia Football
Having a good time. Wish you were here.
During this mid-game conversation with his quarterback, Alabama OC Tommy Rees looks like he was just told his dog died.
Incredible body language during a big game. I knew watching that live that ‘Bama was in real trouble.
Filed under Alabama
The art of being Art
Here’s the other bookend to the Tucker-Tracy story.
Oklahoma coach Brent Venables was unaware that former Baylor coach Art Briles had entered the field following Saturday night’s win, and said the situation is “being dealt with.”
Briles, who Baylor fired in 2016 amid a sexual assault investigation with the program, was seen talking with Oklahoma offensive coordinator Jeff Lebby after the Sooners’ 28-11 home win over SMU on Saturday night. Images of Briles on the field wearing an Oklahoma shirt sparked backlash from Sooners fans on social media.
And?
Boundaries? Jeff Lebby don’t need no stinkin’ boundaries!
Lebby said Briles had attended the game with other family members and joined them on the field afterward.
“He’s my father-in-law,” Lebby said. “That’s the grandfather to my two kids, so he was down with our entire family well after the game, but he was down there. … He’s with his entire family.”
Next time, you might want to leave the babysitter at home, Jeff.
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UPDATE: Jesus.
Is he trying to get fired?
He said “she said”.
Jesus, this is one helluva story to drop on a Saturday during college football season.
Two years ago, one of the nation’s star college football coaches and a prominent rape survivor teamed up to fight the culture of sexual violence in sports.
Their partnership should have been a force for good. Instead, it has devolved into scandal, with the activist accusing the coach of the same misconduct that both of them preached against.
The accused is Mel Tucker, the head football coach at Michigan State University and one of the highest paid coaches in all of sports. Accusing him is Brenda Tracy, a rape survivor who has made educating athletes about sexual violence her life’s work.
Over eight months, they developed a professional relationship centered on her advocacy work. Tucker invited Tracy to campus three times – twice to speak to his players and staff and once to be recognized as an honorary captain at the team’s spring football game.
But their relationship was upended during a phone call on April 28, 2022, Tracy says in a complaint she filed with the university’s Title IX office in December that remains under investigation.
According to her complaint, Tracy sat frozen for several minutes while Tucker made sexual comments about her and masturbated…
What. The. Fuck.
His defense is even more WTF.
In his statements to the Title IX investigator, Tucker acknowledged masturbating on the call but said Tracy grossly mischaracterized the episode. According to him, they had consensual “phone sex.”
“Ms. Tracy’s distortion of our mutually consensual and intimate relationship into allegations of sexual exploitation has really affected me,” Tucker wrote in a March 22 letter to the investigator. “I am not proud of my judgment and I am having difficulty forgiving myself for getting into this situation, but I did not engage in misconduct by any definition.”
Well, gosh, sorry you’re having trouble forgiving yourself, Mel.
That this has sat around for months with no public word, nor even a pause in Tucker’s career, would ordinarily raise an eyebrow, but then I remember he coaches as Michigan State, where this kind of shit is par for the course.
There’s a TItle IX hearing on this scheduled for next month. I’m sure it won’t be any sort of distraction for the football program.
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UPDATE: And there it is…
Filed under Big 12 Football, General Idiocy
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