SEC rage baiter and Florida village idiot Danny Kanell is at it again.
If you are an FSU graduate who holds up Miami as a positive for anything, there is no way your blood has any garnet and gold in it now. Chief Osceola and Renegade should run over him or kick him in the head next time he’s on the sideline pregame in Tallahassee. His football IQ may improve by a couple of points as a result.
Keep up the great work, Christen.
In the past we have talked about the Georgia Way in not so flattering terms. This simple action is exactly what the Georgia Way is all about.
Go be great, good sir.
This will be happening in Tampa later today.
I came up with 3 serious and 3 not-so-serious questions for Kirby if I were at SECMD.
Serious:
Q: Who would be the first 5 on the offensive line to run out for the first snap if you were playing a game today?
My thoughts (or hopes) on an answer would be Greene at LT, Glover at LG, Bobo at C (I’m assuming he’s fully healthy since he’s going to Tampa), Calhoun at RG (is that too much to ask), and Gaston at RT. I admit I’m not as sold on Jah Jackson as others appear to be. I want Gaston to be groomed to take over at LT in 2027. I also want Helton to get a bunch of snaps (just not the first one) this season.
Q: The narrative this off-season is all about going deeper in the playoff. Would you rather win the SEC and lose a quarterfinal or go deeper in the playoff without winning either the national title or an SEC title?
My answer (if I were Kirby) would be: A number on the wall should mean something. Winning the SEC title is an outstanding year regardless of how the season ends. Do we want to go deep in the playoff and win the whole thing? Absolutely. Should we discount the value of winning our league in the name of the playoff? Absolutely not.
Q: You made a big deal about being more explosive on offense and disruptive on defense throughout the spring and the offseason. Who are the players you expect to make that a reality?
After injecting Kirby with truth serum … here’s the answer as opposed to coachspeak:
On offense, that starts with the offensive line playing to their immense potential to give Gunner time to allow plays downfield to develop or holes for our backs to run through. Then, Gunner has to be willing to take calculated risks in the passing game with the intermediate and downfield routes. Don’t be stupid with it, and also don’t default to the check-down or the behind of line of scrimmage throw. Finally, make the first guy miss. Talyn Taylor, Nate Frazier and Elyiss Williams need to be those guys for us.
On defense, it starts again up front. Take away the run game and force teams into poor down and distance. Move the line of scrimmage back. We started doing that in games later in the season last year but didn’t do that consistently in New Orleans. Cover a second longer to give our front 6 a chance to get home and disrupt the QB. I would love to get more sacks, but taking the QB out of rhythm is the most important thing. Look at the 2 Alabama games. Game 1 we didn’t do that and they had their way in the first half. Game 2 we never let them truly get comfortable. Elijah Griffin, Chris Cole, Q Johnson, and Gabe Harris need to play to their potential.
Not-so-serious (with in some cases not-so-serious responses):
Q: Your son Andrew recently attended a Georgia Tech camp and seemed to come away with an offer. Is there any way your son plays for that good-for-nothing program where he has held up whiteboards with “We Run This State” written on it multiple times?
Andrew is Weston’s little brother, but no way will I allow him to play for a little brother program like Fech, Texas Tech, the Barn, the Handbags, or Texas AgCult. FTMF.
Q: It’s been reported you are a member of the new golf club, The Rose, right outside of Athens. You can take anyone to play. Who are you taking?
That guy, EE, who writes at GTP Refugees, seems like a guy I would enjoy a day on the course with. I know he would bring a couple of members of the best community in the Dawg interwebs with him.
Q: You and Mike (Bobo) are both SAE alumni. Do you think you two would have gotten in if you didn’t play football?
Hell, no. They would have sent both of us to sit in the TV room watching 1980 highlights on VHS with a paper cup of tepid water while they schmoozed their rich boy legacies.
Those are my questions.
Inquiring minds want to know what your questions and answers would be.
Refugees, assemble and discuss.
At first, I thought this was due to a typo due to a missing decimal point. Then, I kept reading.
Good grief.
I guess the answer is yes. I’m sure this dude calls F-bum regularly.
Sometimes it’s best to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
This made me laugh.
Honestly, my first thought after the 3rd goal was that this was the soccer version of the Prayer at Jordan-Hare. Combine this with the offense of Schitty for much of 2015, and that’s what last night felt like.
Wake me up the next time the World Cup is in the US. Until then, I may go to a UGA alumni night at ATL UTD. Give me at least 5 other sports to watch before I’ll watch soccer.
Opinionated is probably correct, but knowledgeable is not necessarily a word I would use to describe Hillbilly fans.
I have some words I would use to describe them, but this seems like a good one to get our merry band of refugees to weigh in on.
The Hamburgers said on the SEC Network on the night they became official members of the SEC, “We want Georgia.” I think they have found out they don’t really want Georgia anymore.
For Mcm23, we find the combination of a triple letter score with a Q and a double word score that empties the tile for a 50 point bonus every time we play them.
Let’s let Kirby have the final word:
Somebody blinked.
Texas Tech lost the battle in the courtroom of public opinion when they thought sports fans outside Lubbock, Texas would empathize with a player fighting a mental health demon fighting against the NCAA. Instead, they found a public who felt bad for the QB and also wanted the same QB to feel the consequences for his actions.
At the end of the day, pressure from the Big 12 office and the conference’s athletic directors and head coaches likely forced the Red Raiders’ hand to negotiate an exit based on mutually agreeable terms and an air-tight non-disclosure agreement.
When public opinion is on the NCAA’s side, you know you’re going to lose in the end.
This appearance can’t have been a good omen for this next version of the “everything school.” Kirby has official visit season going on and still found his way to support the Diamond Dawgs against Texas in Omaha.
Does the entire Texas athletic apparatus wake up in cold sweats when the red & black is on the other sideline?
Oh yeah, we’re the dominant women’s track & field program in the country now, too.
Ms. Hodge is picking them up and putting them down. When you’re in She’Carri Richardson territory, that’s SEC speed.
Wow.