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Kirby Smart discusses injury, roster concerns that come with 9-game SEC schedule
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Kirby Smart discusses injury, roster concerns that come with 9-game SEC schedule
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Since, for most teams, what this actually does is reduce the P4 out of conference games they will play, I'm guessing that it will only have a small impact. Especially for programs that formerly scheduled solid OOC games and not the Rutgers of the world.
The Dawgs will have to win 18 games to win it all. That now includes 9 SEC games. I predict that a number of prospective first and second rounders will not make the trip to Vegas—some because of their injuries and some because of their fear of injury.
I am surprised and disappointed that the league is putting its athletes at risk for financial gain. If it leads to recruits avoiding the SEC, we will find out.
Anyone making it to the finals will have played 17 games if they play in their conference championship. Minimum games would be 16. You can theoretically lose 3 games in your regular season, make the CFP then run it would you mean you finish with 14 wins.
More realistically you have to win 10 regular season games to be safe. So that would be 15.
The challenges UGA faces are no different than any other team faces. Are we elite or not?
Anyone making it to the finals will have played 17 games if they play in their conference championship. Minimum games would be 16. You can theoretically lose 3 games in your regular season, still make the CFP, and then run it. Which would you mean you finish with 14 wins.
More realistically you have to win 10 regular season games to be safe. So that would be 15 total wins to be champs.
The challenges UGA faces are no different than any other team faces. Are we elite or not?
The game-count math is mostly right. The expanded playoff makes the road longer and harder. A team may have to play 16 or 17 games to win it all, depending on whether it plays in the conference championship and whether it earns a bye.
But that does not weaken my point. It strengthens it.
If the path now requires more elimination games, more injury exposure, more opponent quality, and more roster attrition, then depth matters more than ever. NIL retention matters more. Losing late five-stars matters more. Portal losses matter more. Offensive answers matter more.
Yes, every elite team faces the longer playoff.
But not every elite team is built the same way.
Georgia’s championship model under Kirby has been high school evaluation, elite signing classes, development, retention, and overwhelming depth. The expanded playoff puts even more stress on exactly that model.
So the question is not “are we elite?” Georgia is elite.
The question is whether Georgia is still building the kind of roster that can survive a 16- or 17-game championship path against other elite programs that are spending more aggressively in NIL.
That is not panic.
That is the standard now.
Cignetti's Hoosiers have shorter and easier practices than what Kirby runs at Georgia - focusing more on fundamentals than anything else. Curt also gives his players a lot more time off.
At least half of our injuries end up occurring during practice. Is there something we need to change in practice to allow these player's bodies and stamina the ability to last through an expanded season?
Just a thought…
the problem with that is that’s how Kirby’s sausage is made. Unfortunately thanks to a head scratching second half game plan, we didn’t get a chance to advance in the playoffs and take on Indiana. Let’s see how Indiana does this year being the hunted before we change the chemistry.
@Kasey It will take some setbacks for Kirby to change his practice methods. I do think he may have to change soon. He does not have a boatload of 4/5 stars to replace wounded warriors, and I feel our elite competitors do have them due to a higher spending philosophy. One season of 8-4 and the Weed Eater Bowl will at least have him to think about changing. We have one, maybe two years before we can find out.
we are gonna find out together
With rosters going from 130 to 105 the Alabama practice model deployed by CKS is pretty much obsolete. It may be how the UGA sausage was made but , with reduced roster sizes, it will become a sausage grinder.
Going forward UGA will see a reduction in the quality of ìts mature depth due to the NIL component. It will be interesting to see how CKS evolves.