Plenty of good stuff here:
You know, for a program that supposedly has one of the deepest rosters in college football, Georgia sure seems to have a lot of needs. 😉
Daily Archives: December 20, 2023
TFW the recruiting shoe’s on the other foot
Boy, this is rich. Hugh Freeze is bummed out about losing K.J. Bolden to Kirby Smart at the last minute.
Now he knows how Mark Richt felt about losing Laremy Tunsil at the last minute.
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UPDATE:
He’s not taking it well, is he…
Filed under Freeze!, Recruiting
Coronation
It’s beginning to sound like a broken record at this point. (Not that that’s meant as a complaint.)
The gap, she abides.
Filed under Georgia Football, Recruiting
Tailspin
“Stick with Billy”, they said. “He’s an elite recruiter and that’s what Florida needs right now”, they said.
Is it okay to gloat like hell now?
Filed under Gators, Gators..., Recruiting
From blowing the Admiral to between the hedges
By now, you’ve heard that London Humphreys has portalled through to Athens. You may have even seen this replay a couple of times over the past few days:
What gets me about that clip is the view out of the end zone after he scores. It’s a reminder of how far behind Vanderbilt has gotten itself from the rest of the conference. So, with Humphreys moving to Athens, it’s a helluva sea change for him.
Just ask his dad ($$).
“It was so hard to see the future. Incremental steps at Vandy, maybe?” Clark said. “Then you go to Georgia, on the other end of that. It’s quite a change.”
From the outhouse to the penthouse…
Filed under Georgia Football, Transfers Are For Coaches.
The rent’s too damned high.
The next time you hear somebody wax rhapsodic about how moving the Cocktail Party to a home and home footing should happen because it benefits Athens-area businesses, keep in mind that this is part of the equation ($$).
The Georgia Bulldogs — the two-time defending national champions — draw some 90,000 spectators to Sanford Stadium for six or seven home games every fall, essentially creating an alternate market for short-term rentals that lasts about three months. Real estate investors are buying and building homes for fans who will pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars on a weekend of housing for a home game, and the effects are impacting local residents all year long. According to AirDNA, which tracks the performance data of Airbnb and VRBO vacation rentals, there are currently 1,135 short-term rentals available in Athens — up from 865 in November 2022 — with 88 percent of them comprising an entire private home…
… Around the United States, in small cities reliant on college sports to keep their economies humming, short-term rentals are destabilizing housing markets, fueled by wealthy fans and investors who transform single-family homes into de facto hotels for a few weeks out of the year, and often leave them sitting empty the rest of the time.
“College athletics, in particular college football, have become so enormous in this country, particularly in the Southeast, that it has caused this phenomenon of short-term rentals,” said Adrien Bouchet, director of the DeVos Sport Business Management Program at the University of Central Florida. “On one hand it creates value, but on the other hand, it definitely hurts people that have lived in and around the university for a long time.”
… Over the past year, the supply of short-term rentals has grown 34 percent in Tuscaloosa (home to the University of Alabama), 33 percent in Columbia, Mo. (University of Missouri), and 11 percent in South Bend, Ind. (University of Notre Dame), according to data from AirDNA. Bookings typically peak in November.
I’m not saying whether that’s right or wrong, just that things are usually more complicated than they seem.
Filed under Georgia Football, It's Just Bidness
For want of a shoe, a Gator was lost.
Correlation or causation?
Either way, I’m more than good with it.
Filed under Gators, Gators...
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