Putting a Dent in the QBR Buzz for Saturday

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If you’re expecting to see a lot of Gunner’s growth since the 2025 season, you’re going to likely have to wait until the 2026 season.

From Rowe:

I could be wrong, but I don’t think we’ll see him play a ton. He entered spring drills with a minor knee injury, but Stockton was back at full speed in week two. Still, Georgia has dialed back his reps in each of the scrimmages based on the intel we’ve gathered.

Stockton has the trust of the coaching staff. Smart and company are confident that they know what they have in the fifth-year senior. While his first season as a starter was up-and-down, another spring game probably isn’t going to do a ton for him. But when you look at those aforementioned reserve quarterbacks, playing in front of tens of thousands of fans against a talented Georgia defense is as close as they’ll get to real game action.

Could Stockton go out there and play several series? Absolutely. I just don’t expect Georgia to use him that way this time around.

Ryan Montgomery has generated the most buzz coming out of the spring camps, but it could be because we haven’t seen much of him since he’s recovering from a high school knee injury. Puglisi will get plenty of reps as he’s anticipated to the QB2. We’ll also see Bryson Beaver, the newest Georgia QB commit, Hezekiah Millender, and fan legend Colter Ginn.

Also:

Seriously, I wasn’t even aware that Bobo’s kid was on the roster, aside from the one we all know plays center.

Well, We Made It 13 Days, But the Injury Bug Just Bit Us on the Edge

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Shizen.

In truth, we have depth at the edge, just not a lot of experience. Someone will have to step in and there’s always Chris Cole and Chase Linton is getting a lot of buzz, as well.

Saturday should show us a couple of things, perhaps.

Roses are Red, Violets are Blue

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No way around it, Dylan, you’re number 2.

At least he’ll have plenty of time for poetry and prose whilst sitting on the bench.

For I have dreams that do not sleep with pride.
I hear the crowd though silence cloaks mine ears;
I feel the laces though no ball is mine.
Each practice snap, each film-lit midnight hour,
Builds brick by brick the tower of what I’ll be.
A king is not made king by crown alone,
But by the weight of waiting for the crown.

Then let me bide. Let patience be my coach.
This bench is not a prison, but a forge.
And when my hour arrives, let all men say:
“He did not languish—nay, he sharpen’d there.”
So shall I rise, when destiny gives leave,
Not as a boy who wish’d, but one prepared.

– from Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Eugene”, probably

Wednesday Wondering: Practice Makes Perfect

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Interesting sound bite from a Dawg here:

For today’s Wondering, tell me about something you had to work hard to perfect, through practice or patience, that made you excellent. I’ll start:

I’m a natural introvert. It’s baked in my DNA. One hallmark of introverts is their inability to express themselves, they’re corner huggers at parties, they’re quiet. One thing I’ll say is that beer and UGA broke me out of that. A public speaking class at UGA helped me a lot, and helped me more when the GA who taught it asked me out for a date. And my public speaking project was on the 2nd Amendment and why it was important for us to have the Right to Bear Arms.

In retrospect, I shoulda asked for a second date instead of stumping for the Amendment, but I digress. No, I don’t digress, she was as hot as a South Georgia summer under a clear blue sky beating down on rich, ripe watermelons, and I shoulda had more confidence. Ah, choices. And the life we lead. But, to this day, my remedial English class at UGA along with this fateful class has turned me into the man I am today. I wouldn’t be writing this prose without it.

Discuss, scamps.

Friday Night Frights

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My, how times have changed from my days in high school in the 1990s. If someone from your hometown got a sports scholarship somewhere, they were a hometown hero. Now, it’s about the guy from your hometown and their agent ($$).

Programs developing reputations in world of NIL

The big NIL spenders, according to high school prospects, are becoming clearly defined. The usual suspects like USC, Oregon, Texas A&M and LSU dominate the high-end offers, new programs are trying to enter the arms race.

UCLA, Cal and North Carolina were frequently cited as “most open” regarding NIL discussions with recruits. For UCLA and Cal, NIL is a tool to ignite fanbases under first-year coaches; for UNC, it’s about providing Bill Belichick the resources to improve the program’s fortunes in year two. Their pitch is simple: “This is your minimum offer, this is what it could grow to, and if you perform, we’ll reset the table.”

Conversely, Georgia was the program most frequently cited for offering substantially less than some of its peers. Kirby Smart‘s program sells NFL development as a long-term financial play that outweighs an upfront NIL check. (emphasis added)

The article also cites that high school kids are now seeing that their NIL valuation is $300,000 and they start upselling from there, asking for a million or more.

Whatever happened to the good ole days of getting a Trans Am and your family a fat stack of Benjamins in a McDonald’s back, huh?

Anyway, I can hear Kirby’s recruiting pitch now. “I’ll offer you the minimum, but by the time you leave you’ll be asking for the supermax at the draft. Max we can give is 2 million a year, max a NFL team can offer is limitless. One of these things isn’t like the other, and if you don’t believe me, I can put you on the phone with Roquan, Jordan, Ladd, Brock, Jalen…just ask. They’ll tell ya, the NFL scouts will tell ya, you’re gonna be rich someday, but it ain’t gonna be right now. You can make millions for a few years at the other place, but you’ll be working for $50,000 a year three years later as a staffer at a company somewhere, and you’ll watch the guys who came here playing on Sundays wishing “why didn’t I go to Georgia”. I’ll take care of ya, but you’re gonna have to fight for it. I’m not paying you more than the guy in front of you who has been going through five years of hell on earth we call Bloody Tuesdays and SEC games and you wouldn’t want that, either. Take it or leave it, it’s my way, and you gotta trust me on this.”

Woof. I’d buy that for a dollar.

Well Allow Me to Retort: Kirby Answers Steve Smith

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It’s been a wonderful week of slander to the Georgia wide receivers and Gunner Stockton, and Kirby’s had enough of this foolisheness.

Do your homework, asshole. And we don’t worry about what the pundits said, we worry about winning.

That’s a coach-speak I can get behind. Kirby’s on the mother, and Steve, he might be on your mother, too. Nyuck-nyuck.

Them Dawgs is hell, no?

Sleeping with the Enemy: Wilkinson Lands at Arkansas

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Well, the signature win from White’s season in Athens just made Calipari recruit more guys out of the portal. So much for him only playing high school guys. Insert foot in mouth, John.

“These guys are gonna struggle when they get out college getting a 75k job in a company” or some such shit from Calipari on the recent NIL roudntable.

Blow me, John. It’s Chinatown.

Wednesday WABAC: Ask And You Shall Receive, TBS Style

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This was serendipity on the Twix last night. Based on a lot of responses from y’all about missing Superstation 17 Braves broadcasts, here’s a gem that will take you back to days gone by.

Javy Lopez, Mark Lemke…ah, the good ole days. As Archie and Edith used to say:

“Girls were girls and men were men”…man how times change, and, yet, they don’t.

Still, I miss my JP Sports and Superstation 17.

Just a Quick One…

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Good morning! Just wanted to say, the family and I are headed to Athens today. We’re going to see the Diamond Dawgs. If any of you are attending, feel free to stop by and say hey! We’ll be in the accessible seating area behind the UGA dugout. My son will be in his portable, electric wheelchair that’s blue and white. We aren’t able to get up to Athens much at all, so just wanted to reach out to y’all and let you know. Have a great Georgia day!

I can’t use a post title like that without following through with some Who!

Go Dawgs!

Tuesday Refugee Roundtable: Missing You, SEC Style

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Here’s happy noise for our tiring ears:

Comcast Charter Sports. Me, personally, I miss Jefferson Pilot Sports and the old CBS start up to SEC games, but that’s just me. I’m too old and too tired to think back too far to better days before that, but JP Sports (also part of the reason for my pen name) was great for watching the “second tier” SEC football games of the days gone by, from long ago. To me, there were no second tier games when Georgia was involved, but what do I know?

Anyway, for today’s Roundtable, what TV sports do you miss the most? Is it the Braves on TBS? Cubs on WGN?

I can also remember a time in the 80s when you could sync up the TV with the stereo and watch Ken Cook in Atlanta introduce the songs and watch music videos while you heard them in quadraphonics (tip of the hat to Steve Martin…googlephonics (NSFW, in 80s terms)).

Anyway, what’s your most missed childhood sports memory…or any memory, if you still have one?

Chat away, scamps, this should be fun.