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ESPN raises questions Georgia football ânewcomer talentâ
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ESPN raises questions Georgia football ânewcomer talentâ
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Bummer the 247 Composite did not include Bryson Beaver in our #6 ranked recruiting class mentioned in this article. If you drop him from the #3 Oregon class and add him to ours we would have likely jumped several teams into the #2 or #3 position. Oh well, what matters is how players are developed and retained on our roster for 3-5 years. Go Dawgs….you are #1 in our hearts!!!
A typical Connor trash article. Good grief, this is up there with the worst of your work and that is saying something. I wonder if Connor's team will ever beat Georgia again. It might help his mindset. The anti-UGA takes are so old. I leave the AJC for months because of them but always seem to come back for punishment. Time to break the cycle.
Kirby will turn Prothro into a blocker and a decoy. Pray someone in the WR room can get open on third down.
Not sure why I just got a downvote, but I won’t lose sleep over it. Must be that dude who thrives on negativity.
OK, I already read most of this on ESPN. How about just providing a link and saving some time? I'm not trying to be overly snarky, but it's a fact: CR relies on ESPN more than any DN reporter (or for that matter any UGA affiliated reporter I could have AI find)… and by a mile.
While the AI sample was limited (DN's archive has a ton of limits/restrictions in terms of searchability), it was large enough to be valid (over 40 articles). Of that sample, 17% of the articles were explicitly parroting of ESPN reporting while a whopping 32% were heavily ESPN sourced.
I actually respect Connor's intellect and ability to drive his own insights (not exaggerating), but this litany of being a remora that is attached to the shark that is ESPN (so to speak) is somewhere between flummoxing and disappointing. It implies he just does not seem to have the connections with the program that an Adams, Griffith, Sentel, etc. seem to have.
I really try to avoid overt criticism (not just of DN writers, but also posters, players, etc.), but this trend, combined with CR's frequent blocking of comments (although this seems to be changing lately) and unwillingness to allow himself to be tagged in the comments section (most of his colleagues do) is a bit of a smack to the loyal reader/commenter base… my 2 cents 😐️
Retention of talent and a more experienced roster - that's a better formula…just ask Ohio State or Indiana. I think Kirby made the right moves and with our manageable regular season schedule, we should be better than last year if everyone executes and we are lucky on the injury front.
I do think we've got some very capable WRs and TEs on the team, and I am hopeful one or two of them step up and become elite. If Gunner can confidently learn to stretch the field and improve his accuracy on mid-to-long balls then we will be much more of an offensive threat than we were this past season. An experienced Gunner will have a clear advantage on most teams in the SEC. We definitely need to take advantage of that edge and our experienced roster this coming season. We all know this kind of roster won't last long.
I'll probably get voted off the Dawg ship, but I wish all UGA football fans would get behind Kirby and his coaches. I want him and his beliefs to succeed. Sign good players, develop them, and retain them at whatever cost. Use the portal when needed. It seems the talking heads and lesser coaches are hoping he fails, and that includes our own B.A.. I hate the portal and NIL. I really want Kirby to succeed doing it his way! College football is swirling the drain. 24 teams in the playoffs equals participation trophies, which I hate! Thank you and good night.
Yup. I think you are on to something here. Getting "elite" recruits that get baptized freshman year, get hurt or start to make an impact 2nd year then leave after their 3rd year of dialing it down to not get hurt while making some impact hasn't worked well the last 3 years. Maybe this is an adjustment to very expensive 3 year recruits?
Possibly CKS is adjusting his recruiting strategy, leaning on the reported "elite" development that occurs while at UGA, in favor of the long game of retaining boys until they become men on the football field?
I agree with what you said about GS. He should definitely be better with an entire year of live action. If he has not improved '26 will look a lot like '25.
We hsve too many cynics and people using the team sd an outlet to express there own frustrations and misery in life fkr everyone to get behind smart. Irs made worse by our recent success at an all timr crb level that was bound to come down even before nil/portal. Some are so used to somrthing bad happening its the only way they can see things, project futures (glass half empty) and overrmphadizing everything with extremes. They have to put out the wordt case scensrio to get ahead of it or thry see someone else have any of success they wsnt and then they miss everything else that happened tk cause it. They see correlation! Between the two. For example: i want win nc, the teams thay won' this yead had a guy who hss transfered before, therefore we musthb hsve or trsnsfer qb equals nc. Problem is thst eould be causation and isnt true, bbc a ton of teams had transferbqb and lost so we known other things matter but bd they can find a link or something similar in both they think it has to be. Also not knowing that a lack of evidence can not be proof and many other things while using extremely small sample sizes, which we know meaningful data can not be concluded. Goof example there is thr crowd that thinks we are falling behind in talent bc of one recruiting class that ginished 5th. One data point dorsntn even determine a pattern or trend, let alone can a problem or meaningful conckusi9n be drawn we have fallen off. There are other things they are wrong about in rehards to how they see talent i wont get into, but i thunk the largee poibt is there are so mamy who are confidentlywrong in what they veoieve and are such cynical, miserable, or just negative in generak io actually get behind the team and suppoet them.
im guilty like any9ne of over questioning things or being caught in the moment upset about things. Still if level headed im not too bad. Supporting the team should be what all strive for. Complaining and hating serves no purpose anyway. When done too much like many do it actually makes things worse and hurts us. Kids and recruits see stuff and hear narratives. Then stuff that isn't even true or hasn't even been works against us and have to. Hope they are intelligent enough to investigate themselves and thrn believe the coaches. Not like kirbynor any coach has ever been online looking for tips on what he needs to do better from fans. So nothing is changing andn no zense in us all going thru life miserable having deal with all thrse haters stuff.
Expressing doubts and concerns is completely fine dont get me wrong. Its how they expressed and the vitriol or definite that they are expressed thst is toonmuch and goes from questioning to proclaiming. I like our model. I do believe Innal the added value in secondsry things it adds. I also wouldnt mind us being richer and incorporating a larger pay roll, but it also isnt necessary. It could help but isnt preventing any winning. Something else people dont seem to realize. Honestly wonder what people learned in school.many need to go back bc it seems they didnt pass or never took any maths/sciences. And majored in subjevtivemess and their biases. Not realizing how they pick things and randomly focus on that as issues. While ignoring many other things and how that is their owner confirmation bias at work. Not recognizing the fhanxe or randomness of sports , differences in talent sndnin regards to player development timeliness etc it makes it all easier to accept snd ynderstand on a fundamental level when you have those core basics in math (statistics and probability) and can look at what happens and then get whynit makes sense or isnt unreasonable of resultnandnother things l.
OK, this absolutely cracked me up. What inside connections to the UGA program does Adams, Griffith and Sentel have? I know Adams talks to former players (Fromm, Bellamy, Edwards, Stinchcomb, etc) , but those are not insiders. Who do they get info from that are involved in the day to day? It seems to me, when there is breaking news with the program, Dawgnation always gives attribution to other sites, basically copy and paste. Am I wrong here?
Is money better spent protecting the existing roster with players you developed better than spending to bring in new players. I think the strategy is pretty clear. Recruit great players, develop and mould them and retain them. I am glad Kirby is a lot smarter than most sports writers and many of the people on here. The fact is that NIL has led to parity in college football and it will be hard for any team to dominate year after year.