Hey folks - as a member of the DawgNation community, please remember to abide by simple rules of civil engagement with other members:
- Please no inappropriate usernames (remember that there may be youngsters in the room)
- Personal attacks on other community members are unacceptable, practice the good manners your mama taught you when engaging with fellow Dawg fans
- Use common sense and respect personal differences in the community: sexual and other inappropriate language or imagery, political rants and belittling the opinions of others will get your posts deleted and result in warnings and/ or banning from the forum
- 3/17/19 UPDATE -- We've updated the permissions for our "Football" and "Commit to the G" recruiting message boards. We aim to be the best free board out there and that has not changed. We do now ask that all of you good people register as a member of our forum in order to see the sugar that is falling from our skies, so to speak.
- Please no inappropriate usernames (remember that there may be youngsters in the room)
- Personal attacks on other community members are unacceptable, practice the good manners your mama taught you when engaging with fellow Dawg fans
- Use common sense and respect personal differences in the community: sexual and other inappropriate language or imagery, political rants and belittling the opinions of others will get your posts deleted and result in warnings and/ or banning from the forum
- 3/17/19 UPDATE -- We've updated the permissions for our "Football" and "Commit to the G" recruiting message boards. We aim to be the best free board out there and that has not changed. We do now ask that all of you good people register as a member of our forum in order to see the sugar that is falling from our skies, so to speak.
Comments
I don’t know what will happen with the Arkansas-A&M game in the future, but the main reason that game is at AT&T Stadium is because of Jerry Jones. He wants a game featuring his beloved Razorbacks in his stadium, and he wants it to be a “legitimate” contest. And as much money as he contributes to Arkansas, they’ll find a way to keep that going, either against A&M, or versus someone else. Go Dawgs!
Thanks for catching me up! However, the PIttman comment about not feeling great about it was more in response to having to play in College Station during the COVID year without a return trip to Fayetteville in 2021. That was kind of like the Dawgs playing in Auburn two years in a row. I am sure Mark Richt didn't feel great about that especially when you consider the second year turned out to be the "prayer at Jordan Hare". But I do see where you pointed out that both schools (A&M & Ark) seem to be in favor of moving it back to campuses.
One major difference with A&M/Arkansas and Georgia/Florida is the history. The neutral site for A&M/Arkansas has only been around for about a decade. Georgia/Florida in Jax is coming up on 100 years. Have you heard of any commentary from Oklahoma or Texas moving the Red River Rivalry (which has a similar neutral site history)?
I attended both the '94 and '95 Georgia/Florida games in Gainesville and Athens while the old Gator Bowl was being renovated for the expansion Jaguars. Both of those games rank at the bottom as my worst experiences attending Georgia games. Of course those games coincided with Florida being at the top of the college football world while Georgia was experiencing its worst stretch of the past fifty years. To be fair there were also some bad experiences in Jacksonville as well during the 90s and early 2000s.
My preference is Jacksonville, but I am not opposed to home and home (Athens/Gainesville). I would be opposed to rotating neutral sites. Keep it in Jax or on campus.
Good! Play them all like you have to win or go home....stay healthy....share the wealth with young pups....stay out of trouble!!!Study, study, study....'cause the other guys, are just waiting to find a weakness. Other than that....it''s hammer time....soooo let the Dawgs out!!!!!
@Hemingwey Sorry about missing the sarcasm thing.
@ancely Being picked to win the SEC because you win it all the time is very different from "they were better on paper." Of the 7 players that Alabama lost from their offense six of them started in the NFL as rookies. This is why.
Mac Jones was #2 in all time SEC passing yards (now #3 to Bryce Young).
Jaylen Waddle was #1 all time in SEC receiving yards.
Najee Harris was #25 in single season rushing yards and #2 in rushing TDs.
And add to that WR Devonta Smith (Eagles), LT Alex Leatherwood (Raiders) and C Landon Dickerson (Eagles). So not only did all they start, but 5 of them started for playoff teams (Waddle's Miami Dolphins were the only ones who didn't, and they just missed the playoffs at 9-8 thanks to Tua getting hurt again).
When you add in Patrick Surtain II (4 INTs as a rookie starter CB for the Denver Broncos) and Christian Barmore (starting DT for the Patriots) that means that 8 Patriots from Bama's 2021 draft class started as rookies, all on winning teams and 7 of them on playoff teams. Five of them (Jones, Waddle, Harris, Barmore, Surtain) were on the All-Rookie team!
That Alabama could lose all that talent and still be up with 8 minutes to go in the 4th quarter of the title game against a UGA team that had 15 draft picks of their own - up to 8 of whom could have been 1st rounders under different circumstances (the 5 who were plus the injured Pickens and Dean and the "only got 113 carries to Najee Harris' 251" Cook) - is absolutely incredible.
Is this another ‘rebuild year’ for Bama? Afterall, they raided a number of other schools for starting skill position players… 😉
I said this time last year that 2021 was our year to win the NAtty. Some(even writers said) there is no clock on us winning it all. And of course technically that wasn't. BUt my argument was If not this season then when? Now I firmly believed JT was going to be our starter(who didn't at that point) and I was a JT fan boy. So, my argument was that in 2022 JT would be gone and I certainly didn't see SB being back as the starter, so I believe we would have a "rookie" QB this year. Winning the Natty with CB, or BV seemed impossible, plus BAMA had just lost a record haul to the NFL. So, I believed they would have to reload and that they were vulnerable. This was our year to strike while the iron is hot.
I was right to some extent, BAMA was vulnerable. THey lost to A&M and almost lost another game or two.
BUt who saw the emergence of Williams (a transfer) blowing up like he did? Or that Young would be as good as he was?
All that to say that BAMA's reloading and coming within an eyelash of beating us in the NC game gives me great hope that the same can happen with us, even despite the losses to the Draft. By the end of the year we ought to be rolling.
The young studs on defense will have matured and know where they are supposed to be and what they are supposed to be doing. The offense barring injury is going to be an all-time best(I believe). THey have the talent. GO Dawgs!
When you say that Vandy intends to show up for this one, you mean that they plan to be physically present on campus, not that they have intentions of being legitimately competitive, right? That’s what the follow-up commentary suggests, but I just wanted to make sure there wasn’t some Vandy chatter I was missing 🤣