Today in the Georgia message board genius world:
When your case of BDS is more powerful than your Georgia fandom, this is what you get. I contributed faithfully to the Hartman Fund throughout the hell that was the 90s. My only response is I just don’t get this.
Refugees, discuss.
Some upsets, close calls and a smackdown or two await this week’s edition of Message Board Geniuses. Today’s trip starts in Tracktown where everyone’s favorite crybaby lost in his first game this season against an opponent with an active pulse.
The spokesman for Just for Men with his perfectly coiffed hair just can’t catch a break. He has arguably the country’s best freshman plus a team bought and paid for with $20,000,000 of the fan base’s money. I didn’t watch any of the game, but Day’s fan base’s seems to have fully turned on him. I can’t imagine a school firing a coach with 87.5% winning percentage, but the metro Columbus area isn’t exactly stocked with the most reasonable fans. If the collective donors say no, it could get interesting at the end of the season whether the Buckeyes are in the final 12 or not.
We’ll head down I-75 for a double feature from the Senator’s ultimate meteor game … Handbags vs. Hillbillies.
As I mentioned on JP’s post from yesterday, SBB is in over his head in Hogtown and that’s even with his moral victory Saturday night in Kneeland. That series in overtime was downright awful. Will Napier’s last stand be on the banks of the St. Johns River or will he be gone if his team loses in Hogtown on Saturday to Kentucky?
On the other hand, the bloom is rapidly coming off Bobby Hill’s rose, and his quarterback looks like a deer in the headlights at this point. Tennessee’s defense and running game are covering for a lot of the problems Tennessee is having against teams with a partial pulse. Congratulations, Vowels, you get to host the Tide next.
Let’s go out west to check in on Arrogant Nation.
The Men of Troy blow a double digit lead on n a game between the 2 most overrated coaches in the sport. Penn State wins in spite of a -2 turnover margin. Watching the spoiled brat fan base of USC cry about their university leadership as an excuse when all they have to look at is the lack of toughness as exhibited by the beta coach Boy Wonder. Has a coaching star fallen so quickly as Lincoln Riley’s?
Let’s head back south for a look-in on the Gump Geniuses.
Losing to Vandy in Nashville was one thing. Getting pushed to the brink at BDS with a +2 turnover margin by the Poultry was an eye opener. As the weeks go on, I’m glad I didn’t (and still haven’t) watch the Bama game. Is Kaleb DeBoer going to be successful with his style and culture in Tuscaloosa? Maybe, but at this point, I doubt he’s going to get a chance. Anyone who really believes DeBoer was Bama’s first choice probably works in the Bama Pravda media.
Let’s take a trip out to the Texas State Fair to check in on roadkill that appears to be Boomer Sooner.
How did Oklahoma get this bad this fast? They looked horrible in the Red River Shootout (I refuse to use the PC name for the game) as the Texas lines of scrimmage just laid the wood to Oklahoma. Is Brent Venables another great coordinator who just isn’t cut out to be a successful head coach or was his coaching ability masked by the fact he made his career coaching in the Almost Competitive Conference with superior athletes to everyone he went up against. The crucible of the SEC may break the Oklahoma football program.
Let’s end our trip in the Classic City to check in with our group of geniuses.
Good grief. Yes, the interception on the goal line was bad. The tipped ball pick just happens. The rest of the game Beck was totally in control and spread the ball around. It’s damn hard to generate 600 yards of total offense with the new clock rules. If the offense plays like this (without the TOs) in Austin, we’re going to have more than a puncher’s chance on Saturday night … whether we can clean things up on defense is another matter.
That’s what I found entertaining around the message board universe. What did you see this weekend?
After last night’s escape from Lexington, I needed 12 hours or so to think about how the same team that beat the hell out of Clemson could be taken to the brink by a team that lost by 25 at home to South Carolina. We’ll get to our geniuses in a bit, but for now, let’s enjoy a little from the message board universe.
I had to start today with the Hogtown dumpster fire mixed with Busch Light, Axe body spray and eau de paper mill.
https://twitter.com/boardgeniuses/status/1835326918352384034?s=46
Jort Nation can’t decide whether to fire Sun Belt Billy now or force him to earn his buyout by taking the brunt of this season on his record. The Handbags made the AgCult’s offense look functional. They also learned that DJ Lagway may become a great player at the college level but he isn’t one right now. The mostly empty 2nd half Swamp made these 90s eyes cry tears of joy. I hope SBB makes it through the season because it will make the Florida recruiting class so bad the talent gap between us will look like the Gulf of Mexico.
Good times indeed.
We’ll move a little west toward the Redneck Riviera for our next stop in the message board universe.
Losing to Georgia Tech sucked but at least there was plenty of Guinness, Harp, and Irish whiskey for sorrow drowning. Being bullied by Boston College was surprising and shocking. Getting punked at home by Memphis has to be rock bottom. At least that’s what Nole fans have to be thinking. When your unconquered fans are now saying we don’t want any part of a big boy conference and longing for the days of Willie Taggart, it ain’t good in Tallahassee. How low can it go now especially given FSU is tied to Mike Norvell.
Let’s take our little trip now to the surface of the sun aka Columbia, South Carolina for a double feature.
Gamecock fans are delusional, but usually, their delusion is gone by this time of the year. The idiocy of the typical Poultry partisan has never been in doubt. The combination of the 2 in the TwiX above is incredible – the delusion that South Carolina could play for the SEC championship combined with the stupidity of not knowing the divisions are gone now is the USCjr stereotype.
OTOH, the Leprechaun continues to lose Corn Dog Nation. Beating South Carolina by 1 is not the way to prove to the proud Cajuns that you have things under control. Garrett Nussmeier’s awful decision that should have been a game-clinching pick 6 was bailed out by a call that would have never been made anywhere else on the field involving any other player on the field. Does anyone really think Brian Kelly was ever going to be a good fit on the bayou? Add Tiger fans to the list of those who believe they can convince Saban to leave his cushy ESPN job combined with his ability to play golf whenever and wherever he wants and the money Bama is paying him to be around the program.
Let’s move on to the backwoods of the SEC, StarkVegas.
I normally never think about Mississippi State, but this nugget from last night’s beatdown the Bizarro Dogs took at the hands of Toledo made me laugh. When you think MACtion talent is an upgrade, you know you aren’t built to win in the SEC. Those Disney checks still cash very well.
Our trip around the world of CFB now takes us to the capital of the Empire State of the South.
https://247sports.com/college/georgia-state/board/59462/contents/congratulations-236307855/?page=1
I have saved this space for relishing in the pain of others, but I had to give a shout out to Dell McGee for his Panthers’ win over previously undefeated Vanderbilt last night in Atlanta. McGee seems to be doing things right in downtown Atlanta by taking what he learned from Kirby and applying what works for his current situation. Good for him and I hope he can make life miserable for Brent Key.
Let’s end our weekend travels on the Kentucky bluegrass.
Now it comes to our geniuses who know more football than all of us but just haven’t gotten the chance to show it. I was disappointed in how we played Saturday night (I had a growing Munson throughout the day yesterday that only happens for late games I don’t attend) especially across both lines of scrimmage. Yes, I understand we had a lot of guys out on the defensive line, but we had plenty of chances to get backs on the ground for TFLs or short gains and didn’t do it. The offensive line did not play well at all for most of the game. We got outplayed physically on both lines for most of the night. Said differently, Mike Stoops wanted to play the game in a phone booth to shorten the game, and Kirby was happy to oblige.
For our geniuses, “Fire Mike Bobo” is the hammer for every nail that is a problem at UGA. I don’t know if the game plan was bad because the execution was generally putrid last night. The guy from southwest Georgia that takes a potshot at Beck and Jake Fromm can stick it for all I care … they’re both DGDs.
Those are my thoughts on the weekend that was. Finally, this bye week comes at a good time where Kirby can chew some back sides and get this team focused on the task at hand … Beat Bama.
Pretty neat social media highlight reel here:
That’s Arian Smith on the first TD…I’m hoping this is his breakout year, he feels like Isaiah McKenzie, tons of speed and potential but just needs to bring in the bag a little more this season.
The throw and catch at the 33 second mark…chef’s kiss. Let’s hope everyone stays healthy and we make Dabo Swinney come up with more creative narratives after we whip IPTAY’s ass this fall.