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Was the ACC specifically targeting ND, or just advocating for Miami?
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Anyone sitting out bowl games still has a future in football and wants to protect that future.

This isn’t entirely true. A lot of Notre Dame players are at their final football destination.

FSU pulled basically a proxy opt out after their snub a couple years ago, and it was indicative of a horrible culture in that program. I would be surprised if ND’s is that severely bad, but declining a bowl bid certainly doesn’t point to a really strong competitive culture.
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You can tear your ACL playing just about any sport, sure No one's trying to decapitate you with their own head in any other sport

There are tens of thousands of people playing HS and D3 football with no prospect of ever making a dime for their efforts. They play anyway.

The whole mindset of sitting out of “meaningless” games is anti-competitive, similar to the idea that teams shouldn’t care about conference championship games. Of course they should.

re: Zachariah Branch

Posted by Crowknowsbest on 12/7/25 at 12:54 pm to
I could see him being in the gray area where UGA could pay him enough to make it worthwhile to stick around and try to cement a Rd 1 slot next draft.

shite, he may be able to sneak into Rd 1 with a big playoff run. He’ll test extremely well.
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They did exactly this to Auburn

In a four team playoff
Haynes King is in that same mix this season. GT may have won 3-4 without him
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Now you sound like the people arguing Bama’s composite last year vs. Milroe at QB. And yet, we still beat UGA in a transition year with a horrid QB that lost to Vandy and a 6-6 OU team.

I’m not defending Kirby’s performance against Alabama since 2023, but there are more games than just Alabama.
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According to 247 composite 2017: Bama 1 UGA 4 2018: Bama 2 UGA 3 2020: UGA 1 Bama 2

The gap between 1 and 4 was pretty big in 2017. That was after years of Saban lapping Richt in recruiting.

The QB and WR difference alone in 2018 and 2020 were jarring. Fromm played out of his mind in 2018 but was still not the player Tua was.
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The question is if his gameday coaching is why he is 1-7 against the main team he’s faced with comparable talent. The evidence seems to overwhelmingly suggest it is, but that appears to be hard for UGA fans to swallow.

Alabama isn’t the only team with comparable talent. Texas the last couple years, OSU, Michigan in 2021, Oklahoma in 2017, Auburn in 2017, etc.

He has a complex about Alabama at this point, but some of the bad record was racked up before UGA had as good of roster talent. UGA was the less talented team in 2017, 2018, and 2020, for example.
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Just don’t think Kirby is a very good gameday coach overall. He’s good at halftime adjustments, but the rest is pretty bad.

It would be impossible to have the record he has without being at least pretty good on gameday, even with a talent advantage. Teams with better talent lose all the time.
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Allegedly Mizzou gave his family the money to repay UGA and they chose not/failed to do so.

This would seem to venture into fraud territory.
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Give Bobo or any good coach/coordinator a steady stream of those guys and you can win championships.

I think OP’s point is that we aren’t getting a steady stream of these guys because we keep getting dumped by the shiny toy at the last second.
I think UGA needs to have contingency plans for any player that is committed at an NIL number below market value or who has some kind of tie that could make them a tempting overpay for another school close to NSD. Raiola and now Curtis both qualify.

It’s one thing for a kid to commit in the summer because he has great relationships and knows the development story at UGA, but money talks in the end. Relatively few families are in a position to turn down the extra cash.
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There are worse problems to have than to sign a seasoned portal QB for a stopgap year or two.

It’s a better use of money too. I have no problem with a policy of staying below market for HS QBs given the bust rate. I do think we need to consider upping the ante for OL and front seven defensive players. Those guys don’t transfer nearly as much, so acquiring the top HS prospects is more critical.

re: Bama vs UGA

Posted by Crowknowsbest on 12/3/25 at 10:02 am to
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I just really don't understand how anything works anymore. It blows me away that a team with 3 losses and no conference title can be in the playoffs.

Because there are rarely 12 teams with really strong resumes. This year is actually an improvement compared to last season.
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that yall think this is some kind of own is hilarious

Maybe step away from your keyboard for a minute
The narrative to get rid of conference championship games is anti-competitive at its core.
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I’m quite sure Kiffin would have agreed to lay off Ole Miss players if they could have come to an agreement.

The part about OM fans booing him in active playoff games is speculative but seems likely given how this has all gone. The above quote is absurd at face value. I don’t think most people would trust Lane Kiffin with an agreement like that. That includes LSU. Nothing in his past indicates that that sort of agreement would be possible.
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This wasn’t a rational decision. It was an emotional one.

It’s a rational decision in light of the emotions involved. OM administrators simply can’t allow for a situation where their own fans are hatefully and enthusiastically booing their lame duck coach in front of a national audience, while that lame duck coach is leading a team of players that either (a) know he won’t be coaching them anymore, or (b) he is actively recruiting to a rival.

That situation is completely untenable. Everyone is acting like Lane staying gives OM the best chance to win. That isn’t true. The distraction would be entirely too overwhelming to reasonably expect to compete at a high level. They have a better chance to win with coaches that are excited to be there.
This LSU fan narrative is bizarre. In no world should Kiffin be allowed by OM to coach their team any longer.

I’d argue that Tulane shouldn’t allow it either, but it’s a different enough situation that I could see it going either way.