Huddle Up 3/1/2024

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Good morning. Well, they’re not satisfied with the needle and the damage done. We haven’t even begun the first season of the 12-team playoff and the moneychangers are already drawing up plans for a 14-team playoff. With guaranteed spots for the SEC, B1G, ACC and Big 12. So much for the best teams, huh? The article says the spots would be based on highest ranked teams. But, fails to mention who will be doing the ranking? Committee? Traditional polls? Bubba and Jethro in the corner rollin’ bones?

“The Big Ten and SEC are making a major move to gain access, revenue and power”. You don’t say. You don’t say. I know it’s all about the money, full stop. But, when Ole Miss is a higher ranked/better team than, oh, say the Bucknuts, and they get left out… where’s the credibility? Why not just take the top 12 14 16 64 teams in the traditional polls after the conference championship games?

Or use ranked choice voting to determine the field? As we’ve seen over the years with the Mumme Poll, it’s accurate, takes little time and would remove voters subjectivity in their rankings. Of course, convincing the powers that be of that… I may as well be teaching my kitten trigonometry, it’d have the same success rate.

In the NFL Combine today, workouts will feature DBs and TEs so, if you want one last look at Brock Bowers, Javon Bullard, Kamari Lassiter and Tykee Smith before they turn pro, tune in today for more of the Underwear Olympics!

I was in a consignment store in Cordele two days ago and saw this sitting on a shelf:

I’ve collected cans, old co-coler bottles and such over the years. Never seen these before. I should probably go back and buy them. Okay, who here drank 1 or 12 of these? I know some of you crusty ol’ bastards had to have cracked some open?

Go Dawgs!

49 thoughts on “Huddle Up 3/1/2024”

  1. Great post. Feels like not-so-old times.
    Wasn’t there talk about Bowers skipping the Combine workouts? He obviously doesn’t need them to ensure his draft status. But it sure would be fun to see his numbers. And McConkey’s, Mims’, Bullard’s, Milton’s, and the list goes on.
    I think I’ve still got a couple of 1980 N.C. Coca-Cola bottles. Never wanted to open it. Not sure I’ve ever seen commemorative cans, except the Jittery Joe stuff.

    • Shit, man!! I got a whole case of those 1980 bottles. A Vet buddy of mine who has a nasty habit of giving me random gifts gave them to me for my 30th B/D. Heckuva conversation piece!

  2. Why don’t they just make the season 45 weeks long, like the NBA or MLB? Half regular season, half playoffs. If you’re going to make a cash grab, grab it all. I’m with Josh Pate. The 4 team playoff? Perfect.8? 12? 64? Ridiculous. It’s going to lead to collective bargaining, which will lead to strikes and/or lockouts, which will lead to people losing interest.

    I don’t want the NFL lite. But that’s where we seem headed.

    • Conference commissioners and TV execs around the country just smacked their foreheads and exclaimed why didn’t they think of an in-season playoff.

  3. I read on Yahoo Sports that SEC and Fraud 10 get two guaranteed first round byes. No other byes in this format. SEC and Fraud 10 guaranteed 3 playoff spots each, ACC and Big 12 guaranteed 2 spots each, Group of 5 champ guaranteed 1 spot. That’s 11 auto-qualifiers and 3 at-large spots. The SEC and Fraud 10 Champs get a first round bye, the other 12 play a first round game which dwindles them down to 6 remaining. Slide in the SEC and Fraud 10 Champs and now we have 8 in the bracket and we go from there.

    Honestly this is just a power play by the SEC and F10. This format takes away any chance of a first round bye for every other conference and guarantees that a minimum of 6 of your 14 CFP teams will be SEC or F10, which likely would have happened anyway. Oh and I think Notre Dame gets a guanteed spot if they finish Top 14 in the final CFP rankings. Screw the Domers.

    • Side benefit is at least those two conference championships will mean something as far as the bye. But the NFL has shown the Bye can hurt a team by taking them out of rhythm too, so there’s that.

  4. Best post yet, Otis. I agree with Doggoned – it feels familiar and comfortable while remaining informative and fun. Thanks to all of you who had the passion to continue the Senator’s work!

  5. I remember seeing Billy Beer but never drinking it…don’t recall seeing Georgia beer in 84…back then I was just steeling the old man’s Budweiser and blaming it on my older brother…Jimmy if you’re reading this, shit happens, let it go!

    • LMAO.
      Got Sr. (He would have been 75 today, btw) was a Miller Lite Dawg for years. The first beer I ever drank was an ML I liberated from his cooler, just to see what all the fuss was about. Duglite posted it was “horse piss” elsewhere… I’ve never drank horse piss but that one Miller Lite set my drinking career back by several years. Just fucking awful.

      • Buddy, one of the funniest post I ever saw on here was when your dad jumped in the comments of me, you and RR spouting off a few years back…it was cool as shit…(he didn’t want to have to strip a sapling and make a hickory, to straighten us out)…made all this virtual world a little more like home for me…sorry for your loss, he seemed like one a hell of a dude

        • Thanks.
          He did get a charge out of the comment section. You and RR were favorites.

      • Hey, Got! You can do worse. Back in my Frosh year in Athens, there was a little pkg shop just up from Russell where you could get a twelve pk of Red, White, & Blue for like 3.99. EOM when nobody had money, we’d pool our change and loose singles and buy a carton. Pour it into a glass and it fizzed like Coke and was flat within 3 minutes. Talk about horse piss?!?!?

        • Remember “Cost Cutter” beer from Kroger? Plain can with just a pair of scissors and the name. You know it was bad when college students would just pour it out after one sip.

        • They had Drewry’s at around 4 bucks for a case of longnecks. Roomie and I thought we’d hit the jackpot and bought 2 cases first semester. There were 44 left when we moved that spring. We left it for housekeeping.

    • I’ve still got a can of Country Club Malt Liquor with the Dawg’s 1982 schedule on the back. Talking about Billy Beer, one of my best friends in college married Billy’s oldest daughter, and I used to go over to Plains and hang out with him at Billy’s Service Station that he was running for Billy at the time. The tourists bought the hell out of Billy Beer, but none of the locals bought that nasty shit. God awful. Saved a few cans for a while, but have no idea what happened to them, I damn sho didn’t drink ’em. 😜

  6. As I noted above, the only reason to stop at 14 is to give the 2 super conferences a bye for their conference championship game winner. This IS the NFL model. Next step will be to kick out schools from the championship level so the top 64 can keep more money. I seriously doubt we’d see a two tier system with promotions , but maybe and probably based on a stupid fan voting model tied to which teams attract more gambling money for which every conference gets a percentage of that too. Future viewing of college football will be the YouTube TV style of multiple on-screen games and betting odds continuously posted so you can gamble live with your remote. Their is no rock bottom for these guys, just a race to see if they can get there.

    • The NCAA’s only real role, to rake in dough and restrain trade, has become moot. I’m guessing the SEC and Big Integer haven’t left it yet just because it’s taking time to draft the necessary legal documents.

      • The reason the Power 4 plus a few haven’t left yet is that they haven’t come up with a way to replace that sweet dough from March Madness.

  9. Is anyone surprised that before the expanded playoff even starts those in control of CFB want playoff expansion. How long before watching CFB is completely pay per view. I’m very grateful we got to see Georgia on top of the mountain before it’s totally changed to a professional sport.

  10. Otis, my man! Great post. Twelve team playoff sux. Fourteen will be suckier. These idiots can’t help themselves. Go Dawgs!

  11. “I may as well be teaching my kitten trigonometry …”

    That made me laugh this morning, Morris/Otis. Ms. Carmen approves this message.

  12. Never seen that beer before. Front of the can kind of looks like generic beer you could buy in the 80’s at Warehouse grocery store in Carrollton. White can with simply BEER written on the can. Sold cheaply by the flat. You could only stand to drink it very, very cold.

    • Trip, I still see a craft beer in the stores called “Emergency Drinking Beer.” What’s the word?

      • BB, I think that’s a beer made by a craft beer company. Can’t remember which one, but I’ve seen it too.

  15. Here’s one for you, ee:
    From Shane Beamer (I saw it on Brooks Austin’s Twitter)
    “The previous WRs coach made a decision that he felt was best for his family. We collected the 450k, then-some for him leaving, and it allowed us to go out and hire an even better WRs coach in my mind, and that’s not a knock”
    Shane sounds a little butt-hurt, IYAM.

    • Also, if this new hire is so good, why didn’t Shane hire him to start with, instead of Coley? I call BS.

      • See above: “Shane sounds a little butt-hurt”
        “I mean ya know I didn’t like her anyway I’m glad she ran off her ex ’cause my new squeeze has a great personality…”

      • I don’t disagree with you here, but I prefer to think he was telling everyone SCe needed our money to afford the guy he really wanted. In this new NIL inducement world where the ncaa has stopped all investigations, “we can’t afford it” should mean one less school to worry about

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