I can recall a time where it seemed that ESPN was so in love with Alabama and Saban that their pandering and objectivity were questionable to me. Nowadays, it seems like that pandering has shifted completely to Texas, which I’m sure is not about the broad fan base and driving up ratings, clicks, and viewership by hitching their wagon to the Longhorns.
In the same article, they mention the November matchup between Georgia and Texas could be Arch Manning’s Heisman sealing opportunity, and later go on to make their “wild prediction” of this:
Did Mickey not notice that the 2024 version of Georgia was injured much of the season, but still managed to beat Texas – twice? Georgia won the SECCG. Georgia has a CFP bye. Did it with a backup quarterback and a slew of injuries to the running back room. A one armed Beck and an oft-injured Etienne literally scored the final touchdown. As far as I could tell, Texas was at full strength. Texas also loses a ton of talent across their offensive line as well as in their receiving corps, so I guess Arch Manning will just be walking on water and turning the Gatorade to wine?
When your job is to ensure that drive home a narrative, week in and week out, I guess they’ll turn away from results and get their job done. Given that, it’s maybe even more amazing that Georgia won two national championships in a time when everyone out there was salivating for Alabama or Ohio State or Michigan to do it. While one can argue that results in the field speak for themselves, when you have decisions based on perceptions for the CFP, this actually matters a lot.
Not saying it’s Georgia against the world. That’s Ohio State’s thing.
But it is Georgia against the media, as you can see by the celebrations that occur when another Georgia football player gets a driving violation, or by the offseason downgrading that seems to be happening all over the networks and social media outlets.
It’s good to know that there’s no need for Kirby to develop a chip on his shoulder. Everyone else is doing it for him.
Bro, does Heather Dinich have any crediblity?
Does anyone in sport’s media have credibility?
Her creditability was “established” in the Big Infinity as a graduate of Indiana University.
I am also worried this could be rough year for us.
What does a rough year mean? 7-5? 8-4?
I don’t take you as a “natty or bust” guy, so you must think there’s some fundamental flaw in the program that can’t be rectified. Based on your offseason comments, you don’t seem to like Gunner Stockton at QB. I’m guessing that’s what it is.
I haven’t seen enough of Stockton to make a blanket statement that he isn’t going to be successful. I’m also not going to take a game in New Orleans where the tackle play was abysmal as an indictment of him.
Dude. You’ve been around here longer than me. You should recognize the Inner Munson when you see it…
Derek has been consistent since New Orleans that he doesn’t think this is as championship quality team.
Well… Somebody has to do it.
I too think that the Dawgs take a step back this season. As I posted earlier in the week, the O-line and D-line are my major concerns. The D-line has been slowly declining over the past couple of years. The O-line took a huge step back last year, and am not sure we see an improvement in 2025. I have no idea if Stockton is the guy or not, but breaking in an inexperienced QB behind a leaky O-line is no way to go through an SEC schedule. 9-3 or 8-4 feels about right for this group.
If this team doesn’t make the playoff, multiple things must be true.
1) The recruiting services should just go out of business.
2) Kirby isn’t adapting to the new world as well as we think he is. Said differently, he’s not on the mutha.
3) The lines of scrimmage end up as a mess … see #1.
4) The lack of experience on both sides of the ball result in a team that is not player led … that’s the one that scares the living hell out of me.
It’s hot take season.
I’ll take my chances with the coach who has more 1st round draft picks than losses, and remember 5 of those losses came in the throwaway season.
By the way, I don’t know if we’ll win it all, but to say this team isn’t going to make the CFP is a joke.
Bama, Ohio State, and Texas are all breaking in new starting QBs as we are. Does anyone think Drew Allar(sp?) and Cade Klubnik are going to be world beaters?
I can see three and four as possibilities but not probabilities. Our offensive and defensive lines don’t seem set to dominate anybody but maybe I’ll be surprised. That’s the biggest difference lately is no monsters on the interior defensive line. I realize those guys do t grow on trees but it seems like they’re harder to get now because if the portal. You might can get one but having three and four is really hard to do now.
When my inner Nolan Smith says “a storm’s a coming”, Coach Smart loads his big balls into a wheelbarrow and says “I am the Storm”!
#GoDawgs
#FTMF
you think Ranger Russ was worried about Tejas during Swamp Phase of Ranger School?
Yummy! Dark Kirby has been hard at work.
They don’t like us and they never have and they never will. They don’t see us as a “pedigree program”.
UGA gets set up to make a run of dominance unlike anything we’ve ever seen and what happens? Schools get to open up their wallets like drunk sailors, and the transfer rules turn the landscape into something the Hessians would envy. Sounds about par for the course.
Well, they buy more beer and erection pills in Texas than Georgia. Gotta chase those tuchuses in the seats.
As Ranger Russ would say,FTMFS
Seems to me Dawgs are well respected by football fans wherever I travel. I really don’t give a damn if anybody at espn likes us or not. The ONLY time I turn that channel on is when there’s a game I can’t watch elsewhere. All the rest of their daily talkathon shows are junk TV.
It really has no effect on me what any of them say in the talking season. It’s mostly about getting attention to themselves. Actually kind of glad the rat poison gives Kirby more to work with.
In my humble opinion Gunner better light up our first two cream puffs. If he doesn’t the wolves will be out in force. The two Natty teams were very special and to think we can keep that up is fantasy land. This season will be a real test of our position coaches, fingers crossed.
Let’s go ahead and give them a trophy then be done with it so the rest of us can get back to football. FTMF
Shorter ESPN: all uga’s issues will resolve against them. All Texas or Ohio St’s issues will resolve in their favor. Our new starters? Disasters. Their new starters? Can’t miss successes.
FTMF. There is great disorder under the heavens, and the situation is excellent for UGA. They’re going to make us play all the games anyway, even with the pronouncements of doom. Let’s show up and ruin the party.
Still amazing to me what Kirby and Co. managed last year with a severely banged up and (according to some) short handed team. Played a lot of people last year. plus, according to recruiting and transfer news, sounds to me like help is on the way.