I dunno about this…
Although this is funny:
If it’s much like SOD trying to teach shower hygiene to Vols, the good news is that the lesson probably won’t take.
Daily Archives: September 26, 2023
“Some of y’all could do the research.”
I know most college football coaches are famously known for wearing blinders when it comes to news outside their own programs, but this strikes me as a little extreme, even for that:
Of course, Hugh may have been just a little preoccupied back in 2017, you know?
Filed under Freeze!
Worried about Georgia’s defense lately?
Max Olson’s advice? Don’t worry ($$).
There’s no need to be concerned about Georgia not being No. 1 right now. The Bulldogs have forced more punts than any other team in the country and have been a top-10 defense in points per drive, yards per attempt and third-down defense. They’d be No. 5 in stop rate if we were counting their win over FCS program UT Martin. They’re going to be just fine.
Feel better now?
Filed under Georgia Football, Stats Geek!
“The Vanderbilts, the Purdues, the Kansas States of the world [need to] have someplace to go.”
As you can imagine, the ADs at Oregon State and Washington State are pretty bummed out regarding their programs’ current state of affairs, which I guess is how you start pondering the bigger picture in this way:
“They lowered the market for TV rights,” Washington State athletic director Patrick Chun said. “SMU and Stanford essentially set the floor at zero dollars [to go to the ACC]. Think about the repercussions of the decisions by those five schools relative to telling TV, ‘You know, schools are OK taking less money.’ They reset the money on the market, on the floor.”
Chun continued: “It’s been very clear that TV looks at college football as an inefficient purpose. They’re focusing on big brands right now — what they deem to be the biggest brands. College football is either going to have to adapt to that or create a different total model.”
And that “different total model”? It’s basically the haves getting ready to screw the have-nots again, just within the same conference.
“At that point, Ohio State may say to Purdue, ‘We can’t give you a full share. We’re going to be driving this thing,'” the same FBS commissioner said.
That prospect has a chilling effect coming off the best weekend of the season featuring six games between ranked opponents. The likes of Purdue indeed might not make it. That’s understandable. But can there be a credible CFP without Florida State and Clemson, for example? That FOMO moment had to be in the back of those schools’ minds when they were so strident about demanding more ACC revenue.
“It’s when other, more prominent brands say, ‘Hey, we have to look at more,'” Schulz explained. “The Ohio States, the Michigans, the Alabamas of the world. When they start saying, ‘Hey, it’s time to get together and start changing something,’ we want to be in that conversation.”
Nothing good ever comes of college athletic departments referring to themselves as brands. This will be no exception.
Filed under College Football, It's Just Bidness
“He’ll just say, ‘crank it up!’”
It appears the speakers in the indoor practive facility aren’t elite.
Which brings us back to those speakers. It is not unusual – in fact, it’s quite common — for Power 5 teams to crank up artificial crowd noise and/or music as they prepare to play games against opponents in hostile environments. Georgia has done it forever.
But the Bulldogs took it to another level after they opened the William and Porter Payne Indoor Athletic Center in 2017. Nicknamed the “House of Payne” by the players, that goes double for their eardrums when it comes to the state-of-the-art sound system inside the $30.5 million facility.
“Coach turns it up in there as loud as you can turn it up,” junior linebacker Jamon “Pop” Dumas-Johnson said Monday, shaking his head. “He makes it so loud in there that, when the game comes, it’s easier. It’s lower on game days because our ears have been blasted out Monday through Thursday.”
It doesn’t happen just when Georgia is getting ready to play an opponent on the road. The Bulldogs pump in noise pretty much every week all year.
The catch is they were blown out in preparation for last week’s home game against UAB.
No word on how they’re preparing for the crowd noise at Jordan-Hare. I thought y’all might have some suggestions. Let ’em rip in the comments.
Filed under Georgia Football
So, is Brock Bowers…
… good, or insane?
(The correct answer is yes.)
Filed under Georgia Football, Stats Geek!
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