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Muschamp has had 6 years of being a head coach to figure out an offensive identity and he still hasn’t. There’s some talent there, but not enough to put up a bunch on our Defense
Their defense is extremely barren on talent, I’m still not sure jaymest was a take for us. We stole away their savior tindall, and sandidge might be starting as a true freshman.
UGA 45
USCjr 20
@BojanglesInsider your keen sense of humor is so very refreshing in here sir, (we have just too many Chicken Little's here & besides that just a few TROLLS here too) so please, if you can?, no more forgetting your password & taking months away!!!
with our larger than almost believable recruiting classes. We can always take more, it seems.
This feels like a thread you would read at an Alabama board. We had 1 GREAT year and the elitist are out in full force. South Carolina has good players and good coaches. They won 9 games last year and beat Michigan in the bowl game. They also beat a solid NC State team. I expect a battle in BOTH Columbia's this year, South Carolina & Mizzu. Last years Dawgs did some GREAT things, but that was last year. I'll wait and see before predicting any blowouts.
The ONLY thing USCjr has going for them is the home game. We are going to field a team that is better than them at very single position, prolly even 2 deep. To point to the past CMR teams that didn’t bother to get off the bus as some indicator of future performance is silly. We ran the east through a wood chipper last year and didn’t play down to a single lesser opponent. As far as Mizzu, most of drew lock’s stats were piled up against sub par teams. even against us, HALF their total offense production came from two blown coverages and they only had a single sustained drive in the whole game that resulted in a TD. Now they have a new OC (who has never called plays before). To say UGA should repeat at running the table in the east is not elitist, it’s just a reasonable expectation at this point.
Expecting to have a good season is reasonable....expecting to CRUSH teams is elitist and sets you up for disappointment....you can still be excited and enjoy the ride, without the crazy expectations
I personally feel like the Dawgs toughest game will be against Florida. Florida has the talent, they've always recruited well, and I believe Mullen is a guy who can make that talent play well. He did a lot more with a lot less at Miss State. Whether he can do it in his first year is still to be seen. USCjr to me is wayyy overrated. They have a lot of returning pieces, I'll give them that, but Jake Bentley is a terrible quarterback and looks lost against competent defenses. The defense is okay, but Clemson still ran through them with ease last season with a less-than-stellar offensive attack. Deebo and a couple of their wide receivers are the only real threats on the team, but Bentley is so bad, it doesn't matter how good the playmakers are...they can't get the ball. Coot fans have a diluted sense of confidence after beating up on crappy East teams last year and a horrible Michigan team in the bowl game. Wait until they get a sense of reality this year with some of those East teams (like Florida) not going 4-8
Didn't we just read that Florida's de-commits have a higher ranking than their commits?
As always, I am too lazy to internet any stats on my own, but I would bet a lot of money UF is close to, if not at, a record low for quality of roster over the last ten years or so. Meanwhile in Athens, we are hitting records high after record high and 19’ doesn’t appear to be any different. I will concede that in rivalry games all bets are off because the other guys show up ready to give you their best shot. But to counter that point, in 2017 UF came swaggin’ in ready to embarrass us and we all saw how that played out. So hate and history only takes you so far because you have to actually play.
Agree with this. I think Florida will be tougher than they were last year. All those suspended players will be back, Mullen is a better coach than Jim was, and they'll run a better offense. UGA still wins but that game will be bigger than the USCe game IMO
And a bad one, at that. Chris Doering made his whole career off of 3 Ga/Fla games during the 90s.
And they also lost to Kentucky for the 4th year in a row. SCAR is like a bi-polar woman going thru menopause.
They play teams like UGA as if it's the National Championship game, but lose to KY 4 years straight. You never know what you'll get with them.
They used to.
Between 2003 and 2013 Florida ranked ahead of Georgia eight years ('03, '04, '06, '07, '08, '10, '12, '13... so much for the myth that Florida beat a more talented Georgia). Since 2014-zero. Georgia has signed 42 blue chip recruits in the last two years. Florida has signed 37 in the last four.
This is not the Florida of the Spurrier (or Urban) days when the Gators had realistic hope for the no.1 recruiting class nearly every year. Their national recruiting rankings:
2nd in '06
1st in '07
5th in '08
7th in '09
1st in '10
11th in '11
3rd in '12
3rd in '13
Lately their fans have been crossing their fingers for for a top ten class but finished:
9th in '14
21st in '15
12th in '16
11th in '17
14th in '18
Florida's worst class between '06 and '13 would have been their best class in the last four years. That's pretty stark.
Meanwhile, Georgia...
The Gators have been a middling SEC recruiting team and the chickens (and Dawgs) are coming home to roost. They won the east in '15 and '16 by being the least bad team in a weak conference with a few leftover recruits from their heyday. Florida's poor performance in the 2017 WLOCP was not an anomaly; it's the manifestation of a trend of talent separation between Georgia and the rest of the east. It may not be a five TD blowout, but it won't end in 2018... it's just beginning.
Did I mention I dislike Florida?
I feel like your being a little harsh on Bentley. He would be the starting qb at Florida this year and most teams in the east, save Georgia and Missouri.
Agreed. From a quality of roster perspective (talent+coaching) I take USCjr seriously, but I’m not the least bit worried. I’m not sure I even take UF seriously right now in July. If you consider coaching (ALL coaching changes have some kind of adjustment period), quality of recruiting, and most recent performance (as a baseline for projections), and lastly team character/attitude, none of things things bode well for the lizards. I was shocked that not one, but ALL of the UF players tried to push the narrative that last year’s WLOCP was somehow closer than the embarrassment it was. If that is any indication of the teams mindset things are not going to go well for them in the near future. Remember the safety last year who said “I don’t care if they are 3rd in the country, we don’t lose to Georgia”. Mullen has to change that mindset RIGHT NOW because as of SEC media day it hasn’t.