RunningJacket

This board for years would laugh at every and any team who didn’t have top 10-15 recruiting classes. It’s almost as if SEC fanbases were brainwashed so companies like Athlon, Rivals, ESPN could make money off the “recruiting” rankings etc. Even right now, we still have threads about portal class rankings.

Indiana would have been mocked and laughed at by every poster on this board 2 years ago. Heck, you guys dismiss everyone who didn’t have a top 5 class. So, yes, what Indiana is doing right now is single handedly the most unique thing we’ve ever seen in this sport. They came out of nowhere and have proved the entire history of the sport is fake. These so called bluebloods were created due to cheating. Indiana proved anyone can be a blueblood by paying. It’s gonna be awesome watching these rural schools fall down the ladder as big boy money enters the sport.

The SEC does not play defense anymore. Look at the scores and the stops that SEC teams don’t get at end of games. The SEC has become what they use to make fun of the Big 12 being - all offense and no defense. Other conferences may not have “marquee” offensive names but they play offense and defense. The SEC needs to get to work and realize they are being put coached.

Just kidding man. I’ve said many times I like Kirby. He isn’t taking a pay cut to go the NFL nor should he. The biggest problem at UGA right now is lack of talent evaluators. If that continues those close wins will turn to losses.

You guys crying about having to learn new player names, etc are just funny. Who the heck cares about their names. We root for our TEAM and the players are lucky to be on those teams. I could care less about any player individually or as a person. They are just 1 of 11 on the field wearing my teams uniform and helmet. They don’t know me and I don’t know them.

The portal should and will remain. That’s what creates parity as players move around for playing time. The old days had coaches flat out lieing to players knowing they were held hostage for 4 years so teams like Bama and UGA could bagman 4 and 5 stars and keep them away from other teams. My teams old coach Bobby Dodd did the same thing in the 50’s when we were a top 10 program. Now, the depth at the power schools is gone and it’s created a great sport where every fanbase has hope. Give it another decade and there will be very few power schools but the sport will be much healthier as everyone can win or lose every week.

I thought iron sharpened iron. Maybe it was charmin wiping charmin all season.

We’ll be at 32 within a decade. Unbalanced schedules makes it impossible to have any real clue as to who are the top teams. College football has been a fraud sport because they used polls to decide who was best. What are polls? Nothing but opinion and this board proves opinions are varied. Ohio St losing to Miami shows that the polls have been WRONG all season. Yet we made a playoff based on them.

Right now we can all list the preseason top 10 next year yet and the entire season starts out biased. It’s a joke. Expansion and auto qualifiers will end the polls which is what needs to happen.

The BIG has won back to back Natties and dominating the bowl season. Just because one team loses doesn’t mean anything. If that’s the case the SEC is trash then which we all know they aren’t.

It’s a cycle of course. Losing begets losing which means fewer fans and worse facilities. Cheating begets winning and more of those. You guys better enjoy the rest of Kirby’s career because when he leaves along with your major advantage being gone you’ll be back to normal. And don’t worry our bagmen were definitely few and far between but the fear of the NCAA is gone. Give it time and the landscape of the sport will change. Who would have ever thought that Indiana would be a power just 3 years ago.

Yes. And we aren’t whining. And we sure haven’t been beating our chest the past 20 years because we were winning games by cheating. That’s the difference. Listen, I have no problem with cheating and I’ve been a long advocate for GT to use the bagman system like Auburn, UGA, Clemson, and FSU was doing. I am friends with several Auburn and UGA bagmen down here in South Georgia and I get it. If you want to win you have to buy the better players. It’s just funny now that everyone can use the bagmen that SEC fans are screaming that the sport need la to be burned down and start over. UGA benefited for years by buying players and beating us. We all knew it wasn’t a fair game. It’s getting fairer though.