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Georgia football final grades as Bulldogs fall to Ole Miss to end 2025 season
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Georgia football final grades as Bulldogs fall to Ole Miss to end 2025 season
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Coaching: C
Too many peaks and valleys, Too much school yard football, gritty & tough, really good but not great…that's the 2025 Georgia Bulldogs. I feel like we've seen this kind of team before.
Nothing wrong with that, but I'd love to see something different and more effective going forward…and I think so would the fans.
Has Stockton hit his ceiling? Is gritty, resilient, and tough enough in today's game?
I do not question the team fight…I do question coaching…as usual. I will say I wish we had Chambliss. Every since Bennett, UGA has had mediocre QBs. Stockton tries hard…but simply not elite. Beck would not have lost that game..IMO. Miami could win it all. Ole Miss is not that great…Georgia is just worse. Cannot get past even the first round of playoffs. Josh Brooks did not sleep well last night. Kirby needs to think long and hard about this program's coaching. UGA has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into football and NIL …for what? Win in the season, lose in the big playoff games every time..routine. Look at Bama…Sabin leaves and down goes Bama. LSU the same. Now, with Kiffin, and purloined Ole Miss coaches, LSU will climb back to the top. Georgia may lose many games next season. Kirby talks physicality…Ole Miss out muscled Georgia. Very dissapointing game…IMO!!!
Not having Harris, then losing Wilson and Thomas on defense definitely changed the game. College football is a clown show. You got players on playoff teams transferring today. Half the ole Miss coaching staff is headed to Baton Rouge instead of coaching in the semi finals. Kiffen is in Oxford doing hot Pilates then getting that elite spray tan and flying back to Baton Rouge. Sort of hard to take this sport serious.
Third quarter killed us, had chances to extend the lead but rather gave way too many possessions to a really good offense.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but for the first 50 minutes of the game, I don't think Stockton threw a pass that actually traveled 10 yards past the line of scrimmage. Is there something this coaching staff isn't telling us about Gunner? Perhaps the many batted down passes speak for themselves. It also seems like the defense has taken a step back—absolutely no pass rush and a most definite inability to keep the Reb's offence from moving down the field like a freight train.
Be glad we are not Ole Miss fans. Half their staff is headed back to Baton Rouge to get spray tanned and attend a toga party with an Otis Day and the Knights cover band and Lane Kiffen judging the wet toga contest. Also realizing that this is it. What does next year hold. Georgia fans we are in better positions then 98% of teams.
Now, what we have to worry about is being devastated by the portal. In a perfect scenario, CJ Allen, Raylan Wilson, Monroe Freeling, and Ernest Green return. We’re losing three good receivers to eligibility, and frankly, the highly touted Taylor and Wiley haven’t shot confidence way up for the future. I think it’s almost a necessity to pull Cam Coleman out of the transfer portal and pray that Branch stays. Another possibility is that our latest five-star TE, Kaiden Prothro, does not gain weight and remains a WR. That might not be a bad thing, as the TE room will still be stacked. Next year, it looks like the top three TEs will be Luckie, Barbour, and Williams. Reddell is a great blocker, so I’d like to see him take on a more “H-Back” type of role. Expect Henrich to transfer; poor guy is a three-star drowning in a sea of four- and five-star talent. Newcomers Keyes and Fogle will have to pay their dues, but they are very promising. At Running Back, expect to see Rod Robinson hit the portal; it just hasn’t worked out. Frazier and Walker are the quickest, most explosive RBs we have. Bowens is good, Bowens is fast, but he ain’t “sudden.” McCray is out of eligibility, so I think it would behoove us to bring in another RB in the mold of Frazier and Walker. At QB, I don’t think anyone can doubt Stockton’s intestinal fortitude; however, has he reached his ceiling? He’s just not effective as a downfield passer. Maybe we need to find a Trinidad in the portal???? Puglisi to me is an enigma. Can stand flat-footed and throw it sixty yards, but not sure about his pocket moxie and decision-making abilities. Montgomery has had rave reviews, but that’s come against the third stringers. Offensive Line, it would be great if Freeling and Greene return, but more importantly, we need a coach. Searels isn’t the answer. There's a certain guy named Pittman, who I hear is available… On defense, it would be a blessing if Allen and Wilson return a la Chubb and Michel, but Cole and Williams have proven themselves more than capable. The D Line needs more dominance in the 3-technique slot, and we need more and better depth at the Edge position. We have good replacements and incoming talent for special teams. Drew Miller will replace Thorson and Snellings for Garner; I don’t see much, if any, drop off here. We have the number one kicker and punter in the nation coming in this spring as well. Now, let’s look at coaching. Kirby places a great emphasis on recruiting, but at what price? I’m sorry, there are much better secondary coaches out there than T-Rob and Williams. In fact, IMO, I think Kirby ought to have ditched T-Rob and paid Muschamp to stay as Safeties coach and co-defense coordinator. Coley can recruit, but he’s just not a superior WR Coach. Maybe it’s time to give Hines Ward a call. Trey Scott is one of the best D-line coaches, and he and Coach Uzo-Diribe seem to be very cohesive. Schumann needs to do a deep self-evaluation and work on his weaknesses. Without Muschamp as his second chair, he’s been in decline. All of a sudden, the “Schumann will be a head coach soon” talk has gone away. There’s a reason for that… Hartley is the best TE coach in the nation. Pay him what he wants. Bobo, ah Bobo, the fans' pet hate. I don’t know. Schizophrenia comes to mind. One game brilliant; the next awful. More consistency in play calling would help. We were spoiled with Monken, admit it. Finally, the man himself, Kirby. At 10 years, two NCs, and 4 SEC titles, he still screws up game management regularly, often at the very worst times. For every brilliant onside kick or fake punt call, there are 3 game management screw-ups. But… They say you got to dance with the “one that brung ya…” Well… Just saying there are better and more consistent coaches out there than Searels, T-Rob, Williams, Coley, and Bobo. Finally, NIL. While it will be hard to compete with Texas Oil money, we aren’t lacking in resources here. We need to spend wisely and copiously for the 3 or 4 players that will put us over the top. Oh, and for the love of God, avoid the playoff bye and Sugar Bowl like the plague!
Ole Miss is paying Kiffen half a million for making it to the semi finals. Lane Kiffen loves this Country.
Absolutely…I agree. Georgia has peaked as a team and changes must be made. QB is too mediocre. Just for one.
@lucydog On a first quarter drive, Stockton threw a deep ball to Zachariah Branch to the sideline that went 50 yards in the air. Seemed to be either an attempt to catch Ole Miss off guard for an easy score or something designed to force Ole Miss to change their defense. Failed on both counts. The ball was poorly thrown plus the DB was able to easily single cover downfield Branch, who is a quick elusive slot WR as opposed to a tall fast split end. The only way the ball was ever going to be caught was if the DB tripped and fell down. Otherwise it was more likely to be intercepted than caught. Also as it was clearly a scripted play rather than a read or something set up with hook/hook/hook-and-go or play action, it isn't something that would have forced Ole Miss to change how they defended UGA even if it had been caught.
When your teacher doesn't put you in position to do well (instruction + fair test), it's really hard to get good grades. Go Dawgs!
Lane Kiffen on a conference call with the 5 Ole Miss coaches after the Sugar bowl. Great win guys. Y’all made me half a million. I got a jet picking yall up in 30 minutes. Soon as you get to the Bayou yall are getting spray tans bc yall look like Yankees and that’s not cool. We are hosting a toga party a quarter mile from the Quad with an Otis Day and Knights cover band, Howard and the Hand Grenades, George T and the Delaware Destroyers. We are guest judges and they are taking cell phones and car keys at the door. Act and absolute fool. I love College. I love America. See yall when I see ya. Great gameplan!!!