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Our schedules are boring.
I’m just trying to put a spin on it. We could play Texas. We could play Baylor, we could play Iowa. Just mix it up for Christ sake.
Trash Tech? Why don't we trash the other high school OOC teams on our schedule?
Why does BA let some ESPN chick that's never played a snap of football in her life guide him to thinking UGA needs to give up on their in state rivalry game? Think a bit clearly and you'll realize that by adding a game vs LSU, Aub, Ala (SEC CHAMP) Sugar bowl victory against a top 4 team, and a return to the nat champ game against a top 2 team to the slightly down SEC East schedule things look a bit different. UGAs SOS will end up grading out as a top 10 by the end of next season. Control what you control this season and don't give up storied traditions because of someone Disney thinks can speak to real football.
@dawgkeeper I kind of rolled my eyes too at BA acting like just because some schmo said something on ESPN, that that meant it was somehow important.
But ESPN didn’t make BA think nothing. BA is an entertainer at heart. It’s why his podcast is so good. And if some floozy makes a dumb comment to try to stir up controversy, BA is more than willing to try to cash in on the hoopla. Especially during a slow period in the off season.
And of course BA would want to drop the Tech game. He’s an entertainer. And we’re gonna thump Tech pretty hard for the next few years. Yeah, that’s entertaining for the guys who’ve been hating Tech for maybe even decades. But there’s a larger audience out there. A true entertainer wants more than just the die hards.
All good points about the entertainment aspect of the situation. If nothing else it’s something to talk about. But I think there is a 3rd party of dawg fan that is completely over the competitive disadvantage of playing tech. We have to commit significant amounts of time to prep for the 3option when it does nothig to carry over game plans to the rest of the schedule. Not to mention the injury factor. Tech is always the most stressful game of the year for me by far worrying about knees. If they ran literally any other offense I would laugh at someone suggesting we drop the game. But they play football like it’s 1964 so I at least understand the discussion to move into greener pastures.
I understand the desire to play a border war team if we added FSU or Clemson, but this whole discussion is being driven by a weaker than usual OOC schedule. I think we keep the nerds on our schedule and dominate them. Honestly, they should be wanting to drop us instead of the other way around. I’d like to see us play Texas, Washington, Michigan State, or another Big10 school. How much fun was it to play ND and OK in the same season? With that said, we cannot reasonably make it to the NC game again if we are loading up top-10 OOC games again. That’s why Alabama has been there so much. They relay on the SEC brand to give them a ticket there. We should do the same. Beat USCjr, TN, FL, Auburn and Bama in a year, and that’s a monster schedule. Who cares what some woman analyst on ESPN thinks of our schedule?
Bama does usually schedule a top opponent to open the year at a neutral site. Although, this year against Louisville (without Lamar Jackson) isn't as high profile as some of the previous years. It's about on par with Tech.
The offense will change soon when Paul gets run off. That's not permanent, the rivalry is.
I think the preparation which resulted in our much improved display of displine and lateral pursuit we achieved in the tech game this season actually helped us get better as a defense overall. We definitely defended edge running plays better in Atlanta the following week in the dome than we did on the plains against the same offense two weeks prior.
I wouldn't get hung up on the timing of the game as much as the reason McGarity wants the three cupcakes on the schedule is so that we don't have to do a home and home. Got to keep the money rolling in! Playing florida in Jacksonville hurts our home gate revenues ( a little not a lot) so that sort of keeps the AD's hands tied about playing a home and with another big name team unless we dump Tech. As VaBeachDawg stated their are some serious drawbacks to playing Tech, major upset if we lose and no bounce in the polls if we when. We currently spend time preparing for their offense when it could be well spent other ways. And don't discount the cut blocks, very dangerous to our D lineman. Yes I know that when Johnson leaves then the offense will most likely change but he could be around another ten years or so and there are still the other drawbacks of playing Tech. Imagine the slap in the face that Tech would get if we told them " you don't bring enough to the table so we're discontinuing the series." That would tick them off!
I thought it was reported that UGA, and UF for that matter, make more money playing in Jacksonville than they would at home. The city of Jacksonville pays both teams a handsome sum to come play every year. And I think that's one of the main reasons they play there, not just because of tradition, but $$$.
https://www.dawgnation.com/football/opinion/college-football-economics-georgia-florida-game-jacksonville
https://www.dawgnation.com/football/team-news/uga-will-pay-3-7-million-non-conference-games-2018
Based on the above columns I don't see how we're making more playing in Jacksonville.
Yeah, thought it was more, I think I saw the $5.75 mil, but that's for both teams combined over 5 years. But $250k, plus they still split the gate 50/50 (which I would guess is $3 mil+ per team) and have no expenses like they would opening up their own stadiums. Not a bad gig, considering it's a good game to recruit FL HS players.
Queen bee of the hive isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.
Everyone realizes that;
1. We have (3) other non-conference games that I would be happy to schedule anyone other than UMASS and Austin Peay
2. Why would other teams give up their major rival to play UGA (that's ****)?
3. Tech is not a bad out of conference opponent. In the last (10) years, they've been ranked Top #25 (3) times.
Before we start eliminating Rivals from our schedule, start scheduling better opponents year in and out and then I'll consider it. When there are no more Austin Peay, UMASS, or other school we're paying $1 million dollars to beat up, then maybe I'll change my mind.