At some point, one has to wonder if Kyle Field isn’t as mythical as aliens, Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness Monster. For some reason, no one from Georgia has ever seen it.
What are those last two? Oh, nothing, just the World Cup:
I guess it really exists. For some reason, I doubt I’ll ever have substantial enough reason to go since Georgia will likely never play there.
Maybe.
Be careful what you ask for
UGA had been in the same conference 20 years before ever going to Starkville, Mississippi, so it isn’t unprecedented. Of course, back then the conference didn’t make the schedules the individual schools made the schedules. Who in Athens wanted to go to Starkville in pre interstate highway days.
Who wants to go to Starkville in the post-interstate days?
This is exactly why I hate the āplay in every stadium in 4 yearsā schedule. What people want was the āsecondaryā rivalries like the DSOR, 3rdSiO, and others maintained. I hate the fact the SEC didnāt consider the 2/6 or 3/5 options. Because of that, weāre losing all of these home/home OOC games (or they are becoming 1 time neutral site games).
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I was in the stands in 1982 when the DAWGS went to Starknam. It was a third world country then. Really don’t care to go back.
I was at that game and have been back in ’21 (or was it ’22?). Not a bad stadium now, and it’s easier in and out.
I have never had any desire to go to a Georgia game in Starkville except when I was an unmarried guy in my 20s had my friends and talked over drinks about going to a Dawgs game at every school in the conference. Realities of family life ended that talk.
I have heard some Georgia fans who have gone say they like that trip. I am happy for them and I make sure every time “@MSU” is on the schedule that I don’t take the last visitors ticket from them.
Due to in-law duties, I’ve probably been to more games in Starkville than anywhere else over the last 20 years. Yeah, the cowbells are horrendous, but the tailgating is always great and never more than a 2 minute walk to the stadium gates. Which is a plus if you just want to leave and go sit back by the smoker with a drink and a tv set up. Definitely feels more like a UGA crowd than the snobs up the road in Oxford.
Starkville is a hidden gems. Old school feel. Great atmosphere, affordable tickets and up close and personal. Sat amongst players families lower level for like $50-75 per ticket. (i also live relatively close)
Itās an SEC game at cupcake prices.
They probably thought about sending us to A&M this year, but decided that yet another trip to Tuscaloosa would do the trick.
Why are we playing them again when we have[v played TAMU in several years? wasn’t the whole idea behind a ridiculous 16 team league that everyone would rotate (save for a few traditional rivals each) and play everyone else home and away in a 4 year span?
If you have a 16 team league, you really have 2 leagues. 14 was a stretch, 12 worked fine. I know we aren’t going back, but we ought to go back. I hope ESPN goes broke fast. College football is just a product to them, a bridge for ads. FTMF.
Been a proponent of going back for a long time. You are correct, it aināt happening. The money changers are in the temple. Not anybody with the fortitude to make this go away. Glad l have seen some sanity in years past. Glad l am old!!!
ESPN wanted Georgia-Alabama. Occamās razor for the win.
Ding, ding, ding we have a winner ^^^^^
Who cares? What is the hard on to waste the time and monies to visit a cult? It’s not a historic program. It’s not a historic stadium. It’s not an original conference member. I mean I guess if you needed to vacate your bowels in the middle of Nowheresville, Tejas Kale Field is the place to let fly. There’s 12 teams that want a piece of us on the schedule this year. Inventing a road trip for some bonfire singing goof troop is a waste of time and energy. Let’s focus on whippin’ Tennessee State’s arse and then 15 more!
#GoDawgs
Ditto.
Been to greater Bryan, Tejas. It is definitely a cult. But, they sold beer in the stadium long before they did in Sanford. That alone impressed me.
I want to āLikeā this more than once.
As others have more less said, not going to A&M doesn’t bother me. UGA went long periods without going to Miss State, LSU, or Knoxville.
Another home and away with Bama does highlight the hypocrisy of Hoover’s arguments of playing everyone on rotation. It isn’t about every kids seeing every SEC team. It is about marketing games. UGA/Bama turns on TVs.
Sankey, Don’t give us your 2 faced lies.
I want to see traditional rivalries and not destroy games we had waited years to get on the nonConf schedule as a home/away…. FSU. I always thought FSU was natural addition to a rotation of regional games much like Clemson.
Why must we bend our knee and resechedule games such as trips to OU, Oregon, or flip schedules (Auburn…) to fit Sankey’s politics.
The former Big12 schools might be conference games according to today’s signed contracts but I do not view them as regional. Mizzou is still in the SEC and nobody cares.
Logging in ^^ as Otto1980 and post above was my 1st reply in a while
To tweak a phrase, “Sankey was born at home plate, and thinks he hit a home run….”
I have about as much desire to visit College Station, TX as I do to visit Houston. In other words, zero. The only city in Texas worth visiting is Austin, and that’s to watch the bats fly out of the Congress Avenue Bridge.
I really donāt care about visiting aggie land.
Most all these comments reflect what the majority of refugees feel. They donāt give a damn about us. Boot us out, get more money š° in one year than we maybe have or will give! Makes me mad and sick. FTMFās!! Go Dawgs!
Don’t forget Bigfoot’s asian cousin the Yeti.
Georgia’s omission from playing on the road at aTm, while showcasing the conferences randomness (if not ineptness) in scheduling, doesn’t really bother me that much. It’d be fun eventually seeing Dawgs pantse yet another Tejas team on the road.
Funny you mentioned George Strait. Many moons ago I knew an A&M graduate who was forever pissed at George because he played College Station, left, and didn’t come back out on stage for an encore. Guy acted like that place was sacred and I had never heard of it before.
The whining about this comes from Austin and all the pissy UT people who complain to me daily about how they had to play us in their first 2 years and A&M hasnāt hosted us yet in 14 years.
Going to a game in AggieLand is actually a good time. I’ve been several times with a fraternity brother of mine. Good food, the bourbon flows freely, and the female sights are above par.