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Evidence mounting: Georgia among most doubted championship programs in recent history
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Evidence mounting: Georgia among most doubted championship programs in recent history
ATHENS — The evidence is mounting: Georgia is the most doubted preseason No. 1 program coming off back-to-back national titles in history.
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The big point is, who cares what these "experts" have to say?
“Georgia, if you’ve seen them the last couple of seasons, they’ve taken over college football,” Pollack said, leading the seven-time national championship coach to drop his eyes, seemingly in rejection to such a notion......and the reason is as clear as the nose on Durante's face, or Cyrano de Bergerac, how bout Pinocchio....The Dawgs are great and will continue to be great because of one distinguishing fact.......consistency in coaching by coaches that are the "Cream of the crop"......Bama has endured fruit basket turn over for the past 5 years....since Kirby left, and their proficiency as a winning Team has and will continue to suffer. 2023 Bama prediction...9 wins and 3 loses.
Kirby will thank the doubters on a weekly basis this fall. Most of us will lol.
Kirk Herbstreit has eaten crow before and he will be doing it again. I tell you these sports analyst guys make sports interesting when they do not know what they are talking about. It is like barbershop talk.
Mike Griffith laying down the hammer on the Finebaum show....I mean, that was early in Georgia's dominance - anybody see anything wrong with what he said there? He was talking about future Georgia and yes, I would double down on what he said...Georgia is the standard, Alabama not so much. AND, I would say that with the divisions going away in 2024 in the SEC, Alabama is going to be even more exposed as yesterday's champion. Think about it, as much as Georgia is catching heat for the 2023 schedule, Alabama has been living off those kinds of schedules for years - and no one in the "industry" says anything about it. When Georgia becomes king, everybody wants to take about the easy schedule. It's ridiculous. BUT, with 2024, I just think that Georgia is better built with better coaching and player development to weather the storm of the new, tougher schedule. Alabama will wilt under the pressure. You watch!
Exactly. If I remember correctly, there were doubts last season. When the Natty came, a lot of the doubters sorta laffed off the doubts.
It's all one game (really, one practice) at a time, but I wouldn't bet against Kirby & Company given what we know.
Go, Dawgs!
We don't measure Georgia vs Alabama because we have passed them and being like Alabama would mean we took a step back.
I am feeling another Braves and Dawg Championships year.
Heck, I’m pretty sure even Herbie doesn’t really believe what he says. He actually believes THE Ohio State University is the best team in the country, maybe the world.
Bottom line - Who cares what Herbie says, thinks, or believes. It’s irrelevant.
There are 130 teams so it is most likely that Georgia is NOT going to win the championship again.
So basically Kirk Herbstreit is taking the field. In reality there are about 20 teams with a chance to win it and about 8 true contenders.
I am not too concerned about Herby. Georgia has a good chance to do something historic and I think everyone is rooting against us because they don't want it to be us that creates the record. Every doubter just adds fuel baby! Bring It!
IMO...They've never seen a Program, quite like the one Kirby has been building...or a Coach, quite like Kirby Smart, in Athens Ga., over the last seven years.
My guess is that Kirby has been building this kind of Program, in his head...since the day he decided to enter coaching. I think he had it planned...to accumulate as many "Former Dawgs" as possible on his Coaching Staff...and, in the administrative infrastructure, to create "solidarity, connectivity and continuity". An ingredient previously unused by any modern day, successful Coach...except, maybe Bear Bryant.
Kirby Smart will "undoubtedly", go down in history along with some of the greatest and most innovative coaches in the history of the sport, before he's through...God willing.
Hell...I've never seen a Program quite like the Dawgs, either. I haven't found a flaw...yet. Lol. Nick had the recipe, the best "**** chef" in the business (Smart)...and used only the best ingredients, to create a perennial contender.
However...after Smart left...he turned the kitchen over to his line-cooks. A bad chef can screw up, even the best cut of meat, and that's exactly what O'Bryan and Golden did during their tenure. Not to mention...the rest of Nick's Staff suffered a dip in intensity and quality after Scott Cochran left to join Kirby in Athens.
As for the recipe...Nick went all-in on the fast paced, passing offenses at the expense of the running game. Why?...because he thought he could do it better. And, in a lot of ways...he did...however, an offense that relies on 3 players to move the ball...QB + WR²...is at the mercy of injury and unreliable.
I'm not going to get into the "how". That's a longer story. Suffice it to say Nick changed his "recipe". And, the new recipe is flawed. It doesn't help, to have a revolving door in the Assistant Coach's office. Bama's been in a slow downward spiral for about 4 or 5 years, and it's been picking up speed, over the last 2 years.
However..Saban's a professional and a helluva Coach. He can still turn Bama around. Kirby's got his feet propped on the control panel, one hand on the helm and the rudder set to autopilot. I don't understand how any reasonable mind could possibly doubt Kirby & the Dawgs...after what they did in their "Rebuilding Year"...2022. Lol