re: "Other sports" have issues, Softball and Gymnastics

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I think in order to be successful at these sports you need to get a very loyal booster following that truly care about these programs specifically which UGA has.

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Like that married dude UGA's gymnastics coach was banging who gave the team illegal benefits after they won a title.

I would be ok with decent fan support and winning sec every 10 yrs. But it's been 30. Maybe after a few more years of 4th place out of 7 finishes others will see the light. As for sb I think we will find out a good bit about this team in next few weeks

Breaux is working extremely hard to get a new practice facility. once she gets that, the recruits will roll in.

the tennis programs are on the rise, and they will be getting indoor practice facilities soon enough.

golf was really good last year, both men's and women's...pretty sure for the first time in NCAA history both a dude and chick won individual titles from the same school.

softball, i don't know as much about.

NCAA regionals LSU finishes last in their bracket
For me it's the song reamains the same others disagree
It is what it is 7 sec teams we are number 5 !!!

Gymnastics is a very hard sport to get national championships. Since gymnastics became an ncaa championship sport in 1982, only 4 schools have won national championships, 2 of which were in the sec(UGA and Bama). I believe to compete with these teams, we really need the facilities and the fan support. This year bama is averaging nearly 13000 people per meet and georgia is averaging 8700 people, while we are only averaging 3700. But saying that, the future does look very promising. Like was said earlier, we are about to build a new practice facility.Also of the 11 athletes who participated in regionals today, 2 of them were juniors and 1 was a senior. We are definitely a young team, but we were ranked as high as 8th this year in the nation. Freshman Rheagan Courville is going for a national championship in vault tomorrow. Overall, I have a feeling our gymnastics team has a lot of upside and next year or two we should be really really good.

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I can read and still waiting for someone to tell me that 4-5th out of 7 in 10 of last 12 years in SEC and no sec champs in 35 years with same coach is acceptable….

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Yes, WHEN you have a sport where two teams in the same conference have combined for HALF the national titles OF ALL TIME in that sport, and there are only 7 teams in that conference competing in that sport, AND your team has consistently finished among the top 10-15 teams in the country, it is alright to finish 4-5t most years, even for 35 yeras.

And only someone with a personal bitch against the coach of that team would even dream of complaining about the state of a program that has gone to the Super Six twice in the last 4 years, and was in the National Championship meet again this year.

Look I have said nothing "personal" about coach. I do have an issue with her calling it "her program". But never said she was bad coach etc. Some of you are ok with being 4-5 in sec 10-12 years I'm not. I also never said we shud win nc. Sure bama and ugh are better, but we are not even beating uf and ark anymore. If you feel 5 in a 7 team league is ok fine. I disagree and after 35 years would like to see a new coach. But in any case we do have a good young team and I hope they do great but given the last 30 years I am not optimistic. I understand we are 12 th this year, but to me if your not competing in our conf you need a change. To each their own.