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Re: Happy Father’s Day 2026!!
He had been!
That was one of the greatest games I ever saw! First time the Bear had ever been shut out ar Bama!
Bdw3184
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Re: Happy Father’s Day 2026!!
Favorite UGA Father's Day memory with my dad was sitting on his shoulders as an 11 year old child at the UGA vs. BAMA football game in 1976 @ Sanford Stadium at the old railroad tracks, when Vince Dooley's Junkyard Dawgs (as they called them in those days) shut out Bear Bryant and the Tide 21 to 0!
After the game while traveling home listening to the post-game celebration, we heard a reporter address the Bear, "Good day, Coach Bryant" and proceeded to inquire for comments from him.
All Bear Bryant would say in response was emphatically, "What’s good about it!!!" while sounding like he'd just gotten taken to the woodshed!
Go Dawgs!!!
RomeDawg288
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Re: Georgia football recruiting: How UGA wins talent without huge NIL deals
This article explains Georgia’s current recruiting strategy well enough. What it does not do is make a convincing case that the strategy will keep Georgia at the top of college football. In fact, read closely, it makes the opposite case: Georgia is conceding that it can no longer buy as many elite recruits as it once signed, and is asking fans to celebrate the discipline of shopping selectively.
So is this really analysis, or is it a pep talk for learning to feel good about being comparatively poor? The message seems to be: we may not win as many bidding wars, but when we do more with less, we can call it cultural success.
Georgia is not Dollar General. But it is clearly no longer shopping with the same freedom it enjoyed when it routinely assembled the nation’s No. 1 or No. 2 class. The Bulldogs are still recruiting at an elite level, still paying key players, still landing premium prospects, and still building rosters most programs would gladly trade for.
The issue is not whether Georgia can remain good. Georgia can remain very good.
The issue is whether Georgia can continue living in the recruiting penthouse while Texas, Texas A&M, Miami, Ohio State, Oregon, and others are treating the five-star aisle like an all-you-can-carry sale.
Culture matters. Development matters. NFL credibility matters. Georgia has all three in abundance.
But culture does not erase the math.
At some point, “we will identify better three-stars and develop them better than everyone else” stops sounding like a championship formula and starts sounding like a polite explanation for why the other team signed six five-stars at positions where games are decided.
Georgia may well make this model work. Coach Smart has earned the benefit of the doubt.
But the article does not prove that Georgia has solved the NIL problem. It argues that Georgia hopes discipline, development, and selective spending can keep it competitive while other programs increasingly purchase the top shelf.
That is not the same thing as maintaining the advantage Georgia once had. It is adapting to the loss of that advantage.