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Smart: Dawgs’ defense must play with more passion to be successful
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Smart: Dawgs’ defense must play with more passion to be successful
UGA may have won by 38 points Saturday, but Kirby Smart justifiably wasn’t happy.
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Why on earth would “they” expand from 12 to 14 or 16 teams??!!??
That is the first I have read that anywhere.
And my response would be that instead of focusing on cupcake games versus Power 5 competition, you better address the elephant in that room if they do that- the Conference Championship game will be completely meaningless.
IMO, and I posted this several times last year before this expansion, the SEC Championship is going to be watered down enough already.
Just look at how many Dawg fans stated before last nights games that they would rather us NOT be in that game!?
I told people then and I will repeat it-this expansion is taking things too far, and it will never be as fun and exciting during the regular season or the postseason as it was prior to the expansion.
People are going to get sick of all the click bait and manufactured debate trying to draw ratings talking about those fools on the committee and why they do this or that-blah blah blah-and in the end nothing is going to change. Nothing.
Except for maybe a bunch of yahoos like Heather Dinich and Joel Klatt yammer on and on and on about “insiders knowledge” and all sorts of other 💩 to fill up air time on radio and to gaslight fans that have more knowledge about college football and their local teams than all of those 🫏 combined.
And Greg Sankey and the other Commissioners knew this was coming and they are culpable for almost all of it.
And they could care less as long as fans keep pouring in the money to watch this nonsense.
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Amen Bill. I can sense your frustration in this article on several fronts - all of which I agree with your wholeheartedly.
I didn't watch the game, but I can tell that our defense just wasn't on the field. They were an unmotivated group that was tackling poorly and defending like a bunch of rookies. It's hard to believe that this 2-8 UMass team ran the ball down our throats much of the game. We play better when we are under pressure and disrespected, so all we can hope is that the defense will be playing completely different against Tech and beyond. There are no more easy teams on our schedule going forward.
Wins and losses for Power 4 teams apparently mean more than SOS. So, you are right, there is really no reason to schedule a hard regular season. That's unfortunate.
to Gibroni88: It has been discussed quite a bit for some time now.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2024/03/15/college-football-playoff-contract-expansion-14-teams/72984984007/
@BillKing
Thank you for the material, I had no idea,
And after reading the article, apparently the Big10 and the SEC have no idea “what it will look like”, but it will be no less than 12 teams.
And then they mention money, tv rights, money again, and then money again.
Yup, just as I suspected: they are not talking about any specifics, or the hundreds of items that must be ironed out before they can even begin to expand it beyond 12.
These people couldn’t care less about CFB or the tradition of CFB that has drawn we fans in for decades.
They may as well be cut from the same cloth as Nancy Pelosi and her famous statement to we Americans in 2010 when asked about the ACA and some details surrounding the largest piece of legislation developed in 70 years: “We have to get the votes and pass the bill FIRST, then we can talk about it and share the details of it with you”.
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I agree with many of your points but I'm not sure about your complaints about gaslighting from Dinich and Klatt. Do you have specific examples? I find Dinich to be helpful in at least giving some direct insight into the committee and Klatt seems to provide a mostly reasonable outside-the-SEC perspective. If you don't like them or the other discussions about the picks (I find it fascinating), why do you watch? Just ignore it. The one change they should make that would help is to televise at least the selection day discussions by the committee. That would give real transparency, not the superficial bits they give us now, to your point.
And you have to admit that this season has been wildly entertaining as a college football fan. I'm still not sold on the 12 team format. I thought 8 would have been a good number (especially last year) and it should be left in place for at least 5 years to see how it goes. This year could be an anomaly or it could be the new semi-normal. I'm definitely not happy with the direction everything is headed in with the emphasis on money and transfers. It doesn't seem sustainable and is damaging to the traditions that many of us value and love.