wdhalgren

You'd have to do a lot of digging to bet on non-playoff bowls. Too much trouble to figure out which pieces and parts of a team/staff will participate and GAS.

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And then they'll score 150 points in their first two game and Tennessee Season will be in full swing.

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Sometimes I wish Kirby would do that too. Instead of turning the game into a clock-eating contest, put in the backups and let 'em run the offense.

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They prosecute after they have built a case with cameras of repeated incidents of someone “forgetting” to scan items every time they check out.

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I read on another site that Glover and Walker had a couple of cleaning products in the cart they hadn't paid for. Never say never, but that doesn't seem like the sort of thing a couple of football players would intentionally do repeatedly (either cleaning or stealing cleaning products). I, on the other hand, actually am a repeat offender at this sort of thing because I'm typically quite absent-minded while doing menial chores. Over the years, several times I've gone back into a store to pay for things that, for one reason or another, weren't rung up at the register. Sometimes their fault, but two or three times it was my fault or both. Store staff never came after me, but they could've if anyone had noticed. Once I left a 40 pound bag of dog food on the bottom of my shopping cart and got all the way to my car in the parking lot before I saw it and realized what happened.

The latest incident was at the self checkout. My girlfriend was handing me items, and I was scanning. As we were leaving the store, I picked up our reuseable bag from the cart's baby seat and there was a $10 pack of batteries underneath that I didn't remember scanning. We stopped short of the exit and stood there looking at the receipt and the woman overseeing self-checkout showed up almost immediately. I think she already had me scoped out as a recidivist shoplifter/idiot. I just handed her the receipt and said, "You caught me. You caught the tater."

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Objectively we seem to be better off with 4 star players who really want to be at UGA vs 5 stars like Raiola and Fields who really didn't want to be at Georgia.

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That's why I'm okay with Georgia's approach. I enjoy watching athletes who strive for something other than the bottom line. It may or may not be the way to maximize outcomes every year, but it's fun to root for kids who still play for team and school.

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on top of whatever NIL money they can conjure up from donors and boosters.

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For whatever reason, UGA seems to have de-emphasized the "collective" approach to fund raising. I'm fine with that, because it's obviously pay to play and not "NIL" in any reasonable sense of the term, but it may impact roster management. It's hard to see how any program can consistently maintain a top roster while paying lower salaries. Even if Kirby can do that, it probably won't last beyond his tenure at UGA.

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Running Tulane out of VHS shouldn't even be in question. Nobody's going to know a thing until the Sugar Bowl.

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Yeah, that's a gift for Ole Miss. Their coaches know Tulane and they're still very superior to Tulane with or without Kiffin on the sideline. It's like they were intentionally given a bye.

At first glance, I thought this was an easy draw for Georgia, but now it doesn't appear quite as easy. Looks like the main group of Ole Miss staff will be coaching in the playoffs, other than Kiffin obviously, which makes them a much better team.

And, the playoff committee did Ole Miss a huge favor with the seedings. As far as I know, Ole Miss is the only team so far to enter a playoff with guaranteed re-matches in their first two games (I don't even recall any rematch in the first game). That means their coaches don't have to come up with an entirely new game plan or study either opponent from scratch. That's a big plus for a team that lost their head coach. They may not even have to tweak their previous game plan for Tulane, mostly just focus on Georgia for the next 3 weeks.

Which raises a question. Why did the committee rank Tulane higher than James Madison, which meant a boring first round game with Ole Miss barring something unexpected? Ole Miss has already blown them out once. The other polls had James Madison ahead of Tulane until the final poll, when it became obvious that the playoff committee was gonna go with Tulane at the 11 seed. James Madison had a respectable single loss vs Louisville early in the season, a win over Washington State, and appears to have the much better defense of the two. Tulane beat 5 loss Duke (so did UConn), but also got blown out by a crappy UTSA team and by Ole Miss. Putting them at 11 looks like an intentional move to create a perfect rematch for Ole Miss.

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What the hell is the discrepancy? Tech and Indiana have kicked arse come on man I get it you want to hype the SEC and we all do but this is just a brain dead take.

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Texas Tech has played 3 ranked teams; Utah, BYU and BYU.

Indiana has played two better ranked teams, Ohio State and Oregon, but the rest of their schedule is very weak.

Going undefeated is an accomplishment for any team, but those two schedules didn't have very many challenges along the way.

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"See grass get grass"

So hard to defend.

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If Gunner gets a little better at keeping his eyes downfield when he starts to run, it'll be even harder to defend. That's when he can find guys wide open.

I assume he has some trouble snapping or blocking with shotgun snaps. They have time to work on that. Or if snapping in shotgun is something they don't think can be completely fixed, maybe Bobo will put McCray or Lawson Luckie at fullback and install more I formation. Bobo definitely knows how to run it all night long, and defenses don't see it a lot these days.

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How’s that mediocrity looking now loser?

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That poster is most likely a troll. The other option is that he's too stupid to know the definition of simple words like "mediocrity". Anybody who says or implies that Mark Richt was mediocre at Georgia is essentially saying that UGA football is mediocre. Because Richt was our 2nd best ever, after Kirby. And anybody who says that UGA is a mediocre football program is, like I said, either a troll or very stupid.