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Chin Diesel said:
Kirby said after the game he wants to stay hungry and avoid the pitfall of entitlement that comes with success.

Hmmm.

What school which enjoyed tremendous success did Kirby coach at before coming to UGA?
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Kirby Smart has paid some dues...he was a DC at Valdosta State..then..

He completed his masters at FSU while a Graduate Assistant under Bobby Bowden (worked with cornerbacks). He then coached at LSU under Saban...then RB coach at Georgia...then back to Saban at the Dolphins and then back with Saban to Bama and then finally to Georgia.
 
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billybud said:
Kirby Smart has paid some dues...he was a DC at Valdosta State..then..

He completed his masters at FSU while a Graduate Assistant under Bobby Bowden (worked with cornerbacks). He then coached at LSU under Saban...then RB coach at Georgia...then back to Saban at the Dolphins and then back with Saban to Bama and then finally to Georgia.
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Sounds like a smart guy...............
 
Scrutiner said:
I wonder if the media will ridicule TCU for the blow out the way they dumped on UConn when we lost the Fiesta Bowl 48-20?
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It always made me chuckle that Va Tech lost in the Orange Bowl to Stanford 40-12 (same score differential) and nobody said a word about VaTech. I still remember the feeling when it was 34-20 and UConn had the ball in Oklahoma territory in the but stalled and punted.
 
Chin Diesel said:
Kirby said after the game he wants to stay hungry and avoid the pitfall of entitlement that comes with success.

Hmmm.

What school which enjoyed tremendous success did Kirby coach at before coming to UGA?
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The overall strength of the SEC (Georgia almost lost to Missouri) during the season on the national scene was incredible. That being said, how does the SEC getaway with not scheduling Georgia and Alabama during the regular season? That’s like Michigan not playing Ohio State, or USC not playing UCLA, or Texas not playing Oklahoma.
 
metsfan2323 said:
Yes that would have been a classic final. The question becomes how did TCU finish ranked ahead of Ohio State after losing to Kansas State? If Ohio State was 3rd and TCU 4th we would have had a much better final.

BTW Stetson Bennett is the perfect example of how an "FCS level" QB could surprise to the upside and be a great FBS QB. Baily Zappe is another one.
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Ohio State was blown out by Michigan, TCU lost by 1 in the tournament game.
 
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billybud said:
Georgia's roster is primarily Georgia guys with 10 Florida guys sprinkled in....they sit in a football hotbed of talent and are the state team...Stetson Bennett was a two star quarterback from a little town of 3,200 and led the Dawgs to two championships.

The SEC has a football culture, avid fans and good coaches. Kids playing high school ball in Georgia are, of course, swayed by the state team that is a winner,
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A bit of an overstatement, but the themes around recruiting hotbeds, and SEC culture/fan base are spot on. Frankly, the SEC has been operating at another level for past 25 years.
 
To me, watching the game last night and remembering when the Big East was torn apart and we landed in the AAC, I thought “be careful what you wish for NCAA…”


you’ve got what you wanted and now you’ve got a team putting up 65 points and demolishing a team by 50+ points in the National Championship Game. It was embarrassing to watch as TCU was clearly not in the same league as Georgia.

The Talent level with the playoff structure is so out of whack now.
 
CONN78SEJ said:
The overall strength of the SEC (Georgia almost lost to Missouri) during the season on the national scene was incredible. That being said, how does the SEC getaway with not scheduling Georgia and Alabama during the regular season? That’s like Michigan not playing Ohio State, or USC not playing UCLA, or Texas not playing Oklahoma.
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Going forward, realignment may put some of those rivalries at risk. Alabama’s eastern rivals have been TN and FL far more than UGa. Heck, UGa looks at auburn more as a rival then it does bama.
 
CONN78SEJ said:
The overall strength of the SEC (Georgia almost lost to Missouri) during the season on the national scene was incredible. That being said, how does the SEC getaway with not scheduling Georgia and Alabama during the regular season? That’s like Michigan not playing Ohio State, or USC not playing UCLA, or Texas not playing Oklahoma.
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Because Bama and UGA aren't traditional rivals like UM/OSU, USC/UCLA or UT/OU are rivals. Bama's rival is Auburn and Tennessee or LSU are #2.
 
Some folks don't realize the strength of the Auburn-Alabama rivalry....It did catch some national attention when the Bama nut fan poisened the famed trees at Toomer's Corner. Two strong teams in the same conference sharing a state makes for a great rivalry.

Georgia and Florida have had a traditional rivalry with their annual game listed as the world's largest outdoor cocktail party.

And every Gator guy will know the answer to why the Florida St. John's River is the only river in America that flows north?

"Because...Georgia sucks".
 
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UConnRock said:
It always made me chuckle that Va Tech lost in the Orange Bowl to Stanford 40-12 (same score differential) and nobody said a word about VaTech. I still remember the feeling when it was 34-20 and UConn had the ball in Oklahoma territory in the but stalled and punted.
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Tech wasn't even able to move the bal into Stanford territory the entire second half.
 
gioff2323 said:
A bit of an overstatement, but the themes around recruiting hotbeds, and SEC culture/fan base are spot on. Frankly, the SEC has been operating at another level for past 25 years.
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Yea I was gonna say georgia can and does recruit nationally, they can pick and choose
 
Chin Diesel said:
Because Bama and UGA aren't traditional rivals like UM/OSU, USC/UCLA or UT/OU are rivals. Bama's rival is Auburn and Tennessee or LSU are #2.
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Hear what you’re saying but I was looking at a rivalry along the lines of a head coach (Smart) going up against his former mentor (Saban). They were 1-1 against each other last season (2021-2022).
 
UConnRock said:
It always made me chuckle that Va Tech lost in the Orange Bowl to Stanford 40-12 (same score differential) and nobody said a word about VaTech. I still remember the feeling when it was 34-20 and UConn had the ball in Oklahoma territory in the but stalled and punted.
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UConn had 14 NFL players on that roster. Not just camp invite players, but guys that were drafted and/or spent significant time on NFL rosters. Some are still playing (Jones, Andrew Adams, Ryan Griffin).
 
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billybud said:
Some folks don't realize the strength of the Auburn-Alabama rivalry....It did catch some national attention when the Bama nut fan poisened the famed trees at Toomer's Corner. Two strong teams in the same conference sharing a state makes for a great rivalry.

Georgia and Florida have had a traditional rivalry with their annual game listed as the world's largest outdoor cocktail party.

And every Gator guy will know the answer to why the Florida St. John's River is the only river in America that flows north?

"Because...Georgia sucks".
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Every Gator who "knows" that is wrong.

Plenty of rivers flow north to south including the Genesee river which starts in Pennsylvania and dumps in to Lake Ontario in RaChaCha, NY.
 
Chin Diesel said:
Every Gator who "knows" that is wrong.

Plenty of rivers flow north to south including the Genesee river which starts in Pennsylvania and dumps in to Lake Ontario in RaChaCha, NY.
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South to North... or Up, as on the map.
 
Game sucked, agree with you all.
To change gears, I thought Kirby pulled a real Richard move late in the 4th with Stetson out. He went for it on 4th and 5 when he either should have punted or tried a field goal. They ultimately scored another TD after converting the 4th down. I thought a little sportsmanship was the right call.
 
AllHusky said:
You mean South to North yes??
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he was correcting my screw up using north to south instead of south to north such as the Genesee and St. Johns River.
 
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billybud said:
Jeez...don't let a bit of geographic fact get in the way of good rivalry smack...

To Florida Gators...the St. Johns flows north because Georgia sucks like a Hoover.
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Now you're talking. No need for hyperbole when straight smack does the job.
 
UConnRock said:
It always made me chuckle that Va Tech lost in the Orange Bowl to Stanford 40-12 (same score differential) and nobody said a word about VaTech. I still remember the feeling when it was 34-20 and UConn had the ball in Oklahoma territory in the but stalled and punted.
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Yep I was there screaming my head off ,we were driving down 2 TD‘s . Sitting with a bunch of Oklahoma fans , I don’t think they were worried but they were disturbed every time they thought they put us away we did something to hang in. Very Pesky .
A TD and it’s anyones game instead it’s intercepted.
the Below totals don’t reflect the return yardage


Statistics[30]ConnecticutOklahoma
First Downs1927
Total offense, plays – yards60–33564–524
Rushes-yards (net)41–11230–95
Passing yards (net)223429
Passes, Comp-Att-Int19–39–234–50–1
Time of Possession31:4928:11
 
superjohn said:
Lowest TV ratings since BCS era began in 1999, '21 is second lowest.
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Second most populous state and eighth most populous state with 40 million residents combined.

Throw in DFW and Atlanta metros as fourth and eighth most populous metros with about 14 million.

Fort Worth and Atlanta have about 1.5 million.

UGA is a national brand name and has had recent high level success. TCU is the new kid on the block.

Regardless of all those numbers and factors Americans knew it was going to be a snooze fest.

I'd love to see a chart of how quickly viewership went from beginning of the game to the end of the first quarter, halftime.....until the end of the game.
 
I don't know how they calculate a viewer, but if the time spent watching the game matters, then I imagine a lot of people were like me and tuned in until it basically was obvious that Georgia was going to roll them very early in the game.
 
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