Josh Pate serves up a softball to Sarkisian. I understand Pate wants access over being a real interviewer, but the follow-up questions that could come from this were many (yes, he has done that with Kirby as well).
Listening to Sark talk about culture of team first while he parks Lamborghinis in front of the football facility for high school recruiting visits makes me laugh.
Refugees, discuss.
like celebrities complaining about not having any privacy but whore themselves out with their pr team. cry me a river.
still 10-9 bitch.
Can we start calling Sark Meghan Markle?
Would that make him a “sarkle”, I’ll hang up and listen….
DIW, I think we have a winner.
“he parks Lamborghinis in front of the football facility for high school recruiting visits”
Not only recruiting, but it plays to the non fans Disney wants watching the CFP reality show. Sark HAS to be the face of College Football – unaccomplished, full of the “Texas is back,” hope and the recovering alcoholic rising up. Unlike, say, a Coach Smart – you WILL work, you WILL be accountable, you WILL be on the receiving end of criticism. No faster way to alienate the casual, loser fan. This is only the beginning, the cope to preserve the CFP show (that probably expands to 64 teams) will drive so many on this site away. I’ve seen references to NASCAR’s halt/drop in popularity on this site. I don’t know nothing about NASCAR but I know something about loving the Dawgs and seeing television related changes that parallel the NASCAR situation other Refugees (your welcome if I just earwormed Thomas Petty’s song for ya) shared and tend to agree. Graham Coffey posted on Twitter an interesting breakdown on CFP expansion. Chasing the non fans’ eyes are killing us.
#GoDAwgs
Preach. We’re no longer losing battles, we’re losing the war for CFP’s soul. Pate…a fake journalist…and Sark…a fake HC on a fake blue blood team…are part of the problem not solution.
He can have the Lambos. The best “Arch” in America is on Broad Street in Athens. Went by there the last three days and there was a long line waiting to take photos with it. Haven’t seen a line like that for photos with the Manning one.
He has created a culture. It’s the classic rich entitled arrogant TU is the best still without winning anything in the league.
It’s polar opposite is busy grinding hard, getting better and still chopping away in Athens. You can’t buy what Kirby is offering. It can only be earned. That speaks to a different person than what Sark is selling.
Stuff like this really has become tiresome as the Senator would say. I am convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt he would have shut down GTP by now. Thank you guys…editors, contributors and commentators alike for keeping it going to feed our last glimmers of hope this shit will get fixed.
But it won’t.
Really? He asked, no begged, for NIL for years and years.
If a player could sign a contract directly with the school for a 4 year period, that would change everything. The problem is unrestricted movement due to the 1 year nature of the national letter of intent.
NIL isn’t the problem. The uncontrolled nature of the transfer portal combined with NIL is the problem.
The point of my post was how can Sark create a “team first” culture when his talent acquisition strategy starts with a “me first” emphasis.
I’m not saying you’re wrong. I’m simply saying that NIL was something the Senator advocated for. (I was the person who challenged him on it. A lot.)
He was at most indifferent or in favor of the portal. (I am as well.) The Senator talked constantly about his disdain for coach’s insistence on roster control. Again, on that he was right.
What the Senator would be complaining about is playoffs, playoff expansion and reducing the import of the regular season. (I also agree.)
I pretty much aligned with the Senator on everything but NIL/amateurism.
Let’s not rewrite history and make him anti-NIL. It ain’t true.
He was definitely pro-NIL.
He also supported enabling players (agents) to negotiate the terms of the contract (NLI) with the school.
And while that arrangement is superior to the old system, its inferior to an optimal system whereby students, qualified for entry pretty much like everyone else, play sports in exchange for a free education.
And they aren’t asked to treat that participation as effectively an employment obligation.
And they aren’t asked to generate millions of dollars for the suits and coaches while going to bed hungry.
Athletes haven’t been admitted like any other student for the last 75+ years (and probably longer than that).
Always thought Bluto’s main complaint was hc’s ability to vanish for greener pa$ture$ vs player travel plus compensation…GO DAWGS!!
Re: athlete admissions standards
1) length of time doesn’t make it right
2) i think its the original sin that has led us to the place none of us seem to like
3) i have no issue with “hedging” a bit on admissions for athletes. What I don’t like are admission standards that are half the standards for regular student body, no one thinks they can do the work of the regular student and no one gives a fuck IF they can play. Including the player. Its gross.
I’m not saying it’s right or wrong. I’m saying it is, and it’s that way at every level of college sports (except maybe D3).
A talented art or music major can be admitted without meeting the admissions requirements.
No one is admitting an artist for profit nor is anyone carrying them through the academic requirements.
Letting a kid in who is talented who has a 3.8 gpa and 1250 SAT is one thing.
A 740 and a 2.2 gpa? Come on man!
Its bullshit and colleges shouldn’t be in business much less in that business.
Let the kid go get eligible at juco and then get recruited. Save some dignity for fucks sake.
What is your solution to put the toothpaste back in the tube?
Always do the right thing.
Its never too late.
You are correct and I was not implying the Senator was anti-NIL but everything else is what he predicted as the downfall of the sport and his enthusiasm to run the blog therein.
We just to hang on to what we can. Refugees stay tight. As for myself, ain’t a whole lot more Saturdays in the fall l will get to see. But l will be a Dawg forever. Still miss the real SEC but l have seen some Good times. Hate all this for my kids sake cause they cut their teeth on GA Football. Anyway, let’s go out with Dawgs barking!!!
That’s a lot of words to say we are just going to make sure we can pay more than everyone else.
I hate that they are in the SEC.
Well, the good news is that those Texas oil barons will be starving for years to come, amirite?
To borrow a phrase from Dos Eques: “Steve Sarkesian: the most insincere man in the world.”
I love that Kirby tells everyone including recruits that we want players who are willing to eat off the floor. Even the team’s stars make it clear they want to be coached hard, forced to earn it and admit that Georgia isn’t for everyone.
A Lambo is like the Chevy Camaro of Italian sports cars. If Sark had any class he would have Ferrari’s parked out front instead, but I doubt they would sell him any.
Local lambo dealer is no doubt related to burnt urunge football, if they were really serious, park a half dozen Koenigsegg’s in the parking lot….now you’re talking $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$…
One of my favorite Top Gear running jokes was the spelling of Koenegsegggggsegggegggegigioabbavikingcc…
https://youtu.be/E00GwyX8gPA?si=shupkwyztVIOWb9n&t=110
Dare you to spell “Realllly Fuckinnnng Fa$$$$$t” with both hands on that steering wheel….GO DAWGS!!
I fucking hate Pate. A non-credentialed blow-hard and Alabama guy, at that. His takes are inflammatory but he has so little to back it up that it’s like having a 12 year old do TikTok dances or shitposting for clout.
Sark it’s such a charlatan. Someone stated the same above in a much better way; he epitomizes everything that is wrong with college football these days.
Bruce Feldman, who I do not care for, wrote a good article in TA today about how NFL coaches are seeing kids come in soft and under prepared for the league due to transferring so much. This was my comment:
Mercenaries…hired guns…oh my! In other news; water is wet & sky is blue.
Kids not wanting to train hard or play special teams? That’s an indictment of their character, not the system. Weak, coddled, soft is not what you want in a ball player.
Kirby Smart is a master developer & motivator & should include this article in the Georgia recruitment brochure. As a former star DB said, who is now shining in the League; “…if you don’t want to be here, we will find someone to replace you”. Go Dawgs!!