So that’s a Google translation as I don’t Sprechen sie Duetsch…but Kirby landed a unique “player development” recruit on Monday.
Let’s think about an athlete coming over from Europe to American to make a name for themselves playing American football.
That’s what Hanne, who grew up in Berlin, did in the fall of 2022 when he worked out for PPI International. Director Brandon Collier, a former D-1 football player himself, saw a lot of potential in a young man that grew up playing soccer and flag football.
Collier had a feeling that he could be special and brought him over to American as part of a program that has sent talented international football players to Alabama, FSU and Ohio State in recent years.
I immediately had visions of two things: Richard “Le Sack” Tardits and Kirby’s penchant for training up three stars on defense. Only time will tell, and I trust he’ll be in good hands when he arrives in Athens. But I’m left with some wondering on these quiet, football-less days.
What’s a politically clean nickname for a defensive lineman from Germany?
Die deutsch Abrissbirne? or The German Wreckingball?
Der Schrottplatzhund? (SHROT-plat-zoon-d) or The Junkyard Dawg?
Meanwhile this also happened yesterday:
Es war ein guter Tag für Kirby. Okay, I’m having too much fun with Google Translate and I’m sure much of this is wrong. I expect one of our readers knows the correct language all too well.
Also…I wonder how Kirby would say “Go Dawgs” in German?
Wuf wuf!
I was telling a “young” Dawg fan about Le Sack yesterday at the dog park!
I think Kirby’s translation goes something like this, “How ‘bout them fuckin’ dawgs!”
Ok I looked at the current roster last week, how many players can we have? It looks like we are way over the limit. Help me out here.
I have no inside info, but a ‘commit’ almost has to be on next season’s roster, and sometimes, the one after that. So they don’t count for this year. And we had one dismissed for a ‘violation of team rules’ and Ra Ra is at least up in the air. Kirby is on it.
I know Kirby is playing Star Trek 3D chess but damn.
The NCAA recently approved scholarship expansion for NCAA programs, so football rosters can now have 105 players on scholarship, expanding from the previous 85. I’d imagine a few more preferred walk-ons and walk-ons will be on scholarship. Whatever the case may be, as Dylan said, Kirby’s on the mother.
Does the SCE still have the rule limiting how many players can make the trip to an away game?
SEC not SCE
too easy for a nickname:
Blitzkrieg-a combined arms surprise attack using a rapid, overwhelming force concentration…with intent to break through the opponent’s lines of defense, dislocate the defenders, unbalance the enemies by making it difficult to respond to the continuously changing front, and defeat them in a decisive Vernichtungsschlacht: a battle of annihilation (per Wikipedia).
The Teutonic Terror.