Demosthenian

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I want to watch the best teams go against each other as close to 100% as possible for all the marbles

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I want to watch these teams go against each other in weeks 1 - 10, not in mid-January.

That sounds like the difference in our opinions. Although, also in my opinion, prioritizing beating some “team like Indiana who has rested their starters all year” in the last week of the post-season seems pretty overrated and not even an accurate gauge of “the best teams going against each other”.

Give me UGA-OU, UGA-Bama, UGA-Auburn, and UGA-FL back-to-back-to-back-to-back every year, please

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The league is just to demanding physically and mentally.

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Compared to what?

So sick of all the excuse making by everyone around here. Football is hard. It’s hard to win. There is more parity. Losses happen. Fatigue happens. Injuries unfortunately do happen also (albeit not at a rate any greater than other levels of football).

If you can’t play in this league, transfer or quit. Same goes for the fans.

I’m paying enough in money, time, and distraction to not tolerate anything less than the very best product on the field; this is especially true for in selecting opponents: your rivals, your neighbors, the best out there, in that order.

Kirby isn’t clapping. He’s playing a tambourine.

100x this. Literally every time I threw on a game this was my comment on repeat

Coach keeps his mouth shut

But what was it??

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had a NDA so got no credit for it

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this doesn’t follow

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the wealthier your employer, the worse the pay you will get and the more hours you will work for free.

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Yeah I’ve gone through this a few times, in employ and in deal advisory. Someone should name this axiom

16.

I’m a human calculator, I would know.

And if you love third derivatives, you’re a jerk

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Probably the two most pretentious fanbases in the nation.

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No; if you mean "wealthiest" per capita, sure they're up there as far as land grant universities go (but to exclude private schools---Duke, Stanford, Vandy, Northwestern, SMU, TCU---lacks ready logic); if you mean "entitled", I can point to about half a dozen programs in a line between Texas and Michigan that are worse (TX, Nebraska, Ohio St, Notre Dame, Michigan, Penn St), and if you just mean bow-tie wearing cornballs with gout, I think Ole Miss, Maryland, and all those private schools still have you beat.

They're somewhere between South Carolina and Vandy. Maybe like how UGA used to be before Michael Adams retired, the Georgia Way went bye-bye, and the school embraced a real separation from academic instiution and athletic department.

Something I can see UNC especially, and probably UVA, doing once they have the cloak of invincibility that an SEC membership provides them

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why don't you post over there?

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I may; I’d been wanting the option to for a long time, but I’m not convinced yet I have the deft touch to slot into conversations with the frequent posters and accomplish anything productive. It’s a pretty close-minded place and not worth my personal aggravation to expose myself to the policeman bullshite a lot of the posters self-assume.

All of this is way more gray area than black-and-white, and UGA posters esp. don’t (no longer?) seem to have that level of intelligence.

I know what I’m getting on tRant. It’s a place to troll and not be too serious. I can get on board with that game. It’s also remarkably self-deprecating in the honest messages that are shared.

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FooManChoo

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Breath of fresh air around here. Thanks for the clear-eyed post. Can you post more on the UGA board as well? It’s pretty stale over there.

Rewatched the game and UGA should be commended for stringing together long drives, it’s excellent OL play and protection, and the way Peanut and Bo ran the ball. That was maybe the best OL blocking I’ve seen by the Dawgs against a high-caliber opponent in my ~30 years of watching.

Also, Stockton’s composure and toughness can’t be overstated. And he plays at a high level under stress. His “game manager” performance and knowing when to push and call his own number is dialed in: he knows how to bet on himself with the ball in his hands and win more often than not.

That said,

UGA had a bunch of poor tackling and not wrapping up occasions that allowed Bama to convert first downs and drive the field. KJ Bolden is pretty undisciplined, but his athleticism is masking it at the moment. Gabe Harris giving up on Keelon in the open field on his 21-yd gain; there’s no excuse for jogging through a play and giving up.

The lack of care of the football should have been a killer…I guess dogs also have 9 lives however. Stockton’s tight throws (most were ill-advised—and the timing of most of them being on 3rd-and-long was nauseating—yet every one of them was converted), Sacovie had 2 bad special teams decisions on punts, UGA’s recovery of the botched punt, and Peal’s fumble self-recovery.

Obviously the missed calls were unfortunate, and distracted from a great game: the DPI on KJ and KJ’s targeting on RCW (while inadvertent) (and the missed facemask while we’re on it), were all calls you’d like to see in a high-quality game. The late hit on Gunner I agree also should have been flagged (and again was simply an inadvertent mistake).

I do think a few things can be true:
• UGA may have a higher floor, but Bama’s ceiling matched quality of play UGA had out there and the teams were equal
• The team that wanted it more won
• Nevertheless, the breaks that went UGA’s way (both the lucky ones and the missed calls) were critical to UGA winning, and I don’t believe they win without most of those going in their favor
• I DO want to play Bama again, as I think we’d be better the next time around from a discipline and scheme perspective, as I think UGA’s ultimate ceiling is higher

Hope to see you in the SECCG :cheers:

YPP ignored field position. Bama dominated Georgia with starting field position. Those elements cancel each other out mostly.

I’m interested to hear why you think UGA won the game, but it wasn’t due to net YPP (nor TOP, which is related to these two data points)