Without saying you couldn’t make it in the SEC (sorry for the delayed posting. I’ll likewise blame it on the heat, or the things we do to cope with the heat).
“We did lose a guy to Georgia,” Bielema said on The Triple Option podcast, in the middle of discussing his current running back room. “Somehow, he found his way to the portal and 12 hours after being in the portal, he was on a flight to Georgia. I don’t know how that happened, but it’s crazy.
It’s as crazy as my seven year old being able to talk to text and sounding like she writes on a senior high school level. Maybe he doesn’t understand that even a poor, clueless blogger like me could check the portal listings daily or that, you know, your own player was shopping himself and knew of a good SEC program that needed some depth to the running back room and could likely pay for said services.
I don’t think that’s tampering, but it is what the current landscape of college football looks like.
I guess in the absence of speeding violations, folks will just say what they want to about Kirby and the football program, won’t they?
Don’t worry, Bert. I’m sure the ACC PD is on the mutha. And Alan Judd will probably blog about it as well.
Watch us be the first program to get smacked around for this so-called tampering. That would be classic.
You know ACC PD might start their own NIL collective for players like some sort of crazy speed trap.
How in the blue heyell did it take dayum haffa day? Kirby’s spies are spying on the guys we got spying on the transfer portal. Not only that, we got folks in the basement watching film on EVERYONE. You don’t think every player in the portal doesn’t get their HUDL highlights clicked on? I look for damn drones when I train at Athens Academy’s track worried that Kirby will think I’m slacking off as a fan (I am). There’s blank NIL deals ready to be filled in & credit cards ready to book flights 24/7. Probably a moving company ready to roll and get his stuff (think Breakup Bounty Hunters from the Man Show) after we tell the guy to grab his go bag and head to the Classic City. Spoiler Alert: a lot of programs got it dialed in, too. Tampering? Transfer players are knocking down the door to upgrade. It probably takes more work to get transfers to leave the top programs alone!
Sorry Ma’am, I’ll take a baconator and a frosty please.
#GoDawgs
(Posted by mistake in another thread previously): I don’t know whether we tampered with anybody or not, but I know for sure Bret Bielema is one of the top five assholes in college football and in the mix yearly for the Asshole Championship Trophy. If you ordered a boxcar full of assholes out of the Sears catalog and a boxcar with only Bielema in it showed up, you’d still think you’d gotten a good deal. – PDawg30577
Bert is still butthurt from Kirby hiring Sam Pittman away from him years ago.
Not sure if the transfer to UGA football was speeding, he sure did git here fast…”ABC”….GO DAWGS!!
I hear Bret hates being called Bert.
Tough toenails to you, Bert.
Well played. Now you need to go apologize to everyone named Bert! They don’t deserve that kind of treatment.
didnt take Bert long to moonwalk away from the accusation. What a moron.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/bret-bielema-clarifies-remarks-suggesting-georgia-kirby-smart-tampered-with-illinois-rb-josh-mccray/
I am getting a strong deja vu feeling (never good) – didn’t another B10 coach say something similar a season or two ago, and then had to walk it back???
Bret is a sly cat. Remember him forcing Shane Beamer to waste a timeout in their game?