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ESPN makes the case Georgia is still ‘the gold standard’ despite recent playoff setbacks
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ESPN makes the case Georgia is still ‘the gold standard’ despite recent playoff setbacks
ESPN recently unveiled its rankings for the best coach in college football.
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same thing was said about Dabo's program after the 2018 season, fool's gold perhaps? We shall see.
After we win the Nattie this year Kirby will go down as the best coach in the modern era.
This team is a juggernaut and will be impossible to stop with the tight ends and offensive line we have.
Plus our defense will be 21/22 great.
I hope you are right about the defense because that is what will get the Dawgs to the Natty. There are just not that many teams that scare me this year. I am trying to figure out why the Golden Domers are ranked so high after not making the playoff field last year. I saw Ohio State play a couple of times, they were pretty mid and they lost a ton on defense. Texas, really? Ole Piss is getting the whipping they deserve in Oxford, mark that down. I like the chances of the Mighty Bulldogs.
Agree! However...
Cignetti? After 1 successful Season? Lol...where was that open mindedness with Smart, over the last 10 years? He's had to step aside several times to make room for the lesser sort.
Cignetti may well be the best Coach in CFB....But, Not yet. Not yet....imo.
Smart has "earned" it. By God...give it to him and quit trying to equivocate and rationalize an alternate reality. Lol
I'd be curious to know....where those 6 out of 10 judges hail from. To whom do they owe their allegiance?...And, jobs? Just sayin'.
It's interesting because Kirby perfected what Saban had built in that era. Really NIL kicking in with the transfer portal AND the expanded playoff AND the time clock changes didn't really start until 2023. Michigan was built on a team that brought back all it's seniors. OSU also brought everyone back on defense plus spent more than anyone.
Indiana is really an interesting model but the average age for them was 22. So they also had an 'older' team with less blue chippers than we are used to seeing. Plus they had a lot, ALOT of transfers. Cignetti is the first to do it this way but I think it is a combination of an older team and the transfer portal.
Georgia 21 - Recruiting, Development
Georgia 22 - Recruiting, Development, Older Team
Michigan 23 - Development, Older Team
OSU 24 - Recruiting, Development, NIL/Transfer Portal, Older Team
Indiana - NIL/Transfer Portal, Older Team
So yes, Indiana is the first to win it all with this model in the modern era. If Kirby is able to win it again he will have won it in 2 different eras of college football and done it with top 10 money but not top 5 money for NIL.
I think Kirby is the kind of Coach that can "take his'n and beat your'n...then, take your'n and beat his'n." [The Bear] Lol.
Cignetti may well be that kind of coach, too. That's what my first impression is, anyway. But...I've seen Kirby do some pretty special things with a thin, beat-up bunch of players.…and, get no credit or not enough...at the end of the season.
I don't know what the hell they're lookin' for...and, I'm thinkin'...they don't either. Lol. Whosoever pays the greatest toll or provides the most grease...gets the edge and the hype. That's pay-for-play Sports in a nutshell...imo.
It's just business and Cignetti garnered enough hype to rate a $15 million contract and a few commercials. Money, baby!...when it walks...BS talks. Lol
15 Million for 1 title and Kirby gets a measly 13 Million for 2. Maybe when Kirby wins his third they will bump him up to Cignetti's level.
this coaching contracts are ruining the game!!!!
Ed had Joe. Curt had Mendoza. Cignetti is the modern day Coach O who lucked out and found him a Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase combo. He is a one and done Indiana hit wonder who will head down obscurity lane with a 70 million dollar buyout.
Make it make sense please!
If programs are outspending UGA for the ultimate payout from a NC, what happened to all the cash UGA received from back-to-back NC paydays?
but I thought you said he coached everyone up at Indiana? 🤔
Especially the QB and the WR and the defense but just like Nick, and Dabo, and Kirby and Jimmy and Joe, once the purge of quality assistant coaches takes hold, only high hopes and shattered expectations are left.
I don't know if Cignetti is another Coach O. Cignetti has been successful as a head coach since 2011. Coach O only had success that 1 year with LSU. Great recruiter, but not the executive you need to run a big time college football program.
He didn't have to coach up the 8 middle aged men on his two deep roster, just the other 38 players.
Lmao....I hear, Beck is balking at signing an NFL contract, paying him less than he was making in Miami…or UGA, maybe.
He's facing the minimum for a Rookie, right now....about 8 to 9 hundred thousand. What to do?....now that the courts have shut the door on these players returning to CFB indefinitely.
Idk....Why pay Beck more than the minimum? Especially, when he failed to win a Natty in 3 credible attempts. And, missed the CFP entirely, in '23....due mainly to being distracted and taking his eye off the ball....imo. [Plus, the ol' Southern prejudice that exists...Lol] .
The Dawgs should've gained at least 1 Title between '23 & '25. Of those 3 years....Stockton got UGA closer to the gold than Beck did...with less talent and depth. Just sayin'.