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Around the Campus for Sunday, April 12th

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Good news: Dawgs beat Gators to even the series. After a disasterous single inning to open the series on Friday night, Georgia came back and beat the Hogtown ballers 5-1 on Saturday.

Now for the mystery of who the Day 3 starter will be to try to take the series. Should be intriguing…first pitch is at noon today on the usual outlets.

On to women’s tennis, who is still laying waste all those who dare to compete with them:

Women’s Softball dropped a 4-3 game to Missouri.

Georgia Men’s Tennis is having their Senior Day today and is facing everyone’s favorite, Auburn, to boot, at Magill. You’ve got one world of orange suck next door in the baseball stadium, so just come to the general area wearing red and you’re doing your part.

Go Dawgs!

Knoxville, They Have a Bigger Problem

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Ah, it’s nice to watch. The baseball program is imploding. Tony Vitello can barely win a game and people are wondering why he ever left. The most esteemed program for the Hillbillies, if you look at actual championship trophies that darken their double wide trailer that must serve as the athletic association’s offices, is women’s basketball.

Or, at least, it was.

To add insult to injury, it is rumored that they lost Vitello because AD Danny White did more maneuvering to keep Kim Caldwell than he did to retain their championship baseball coach. Through various press conferences and public appearances, it looks like Caldwell’s concern about it all is next to nothing, idgaf.

It’s getting so bad, people thought that Smokey himself had hit the portal, too.

Bless their hearts.

Your 4/8 Reminder that Auburn Sucks

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Lol.

I think I’d opt out of posting anything at all. But they did, and shortly after the Men’s Basketball team posted this:

Go Dawgs, and FTMFs.

Your WABAC Game Day Post: It Was 10-9 in Texas

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You all nailed it last week in the comments.

If you have nothing to do on a slow Saturday, you’ve got a full throw back game to watch now. Enjoy.

So let’s hop into another one, maybe I can be both accurate enough and vague enough to make this week’s WABAC post a stumper.

Here we are, underdogs again.

With four losses on the season already – two of them to unranked teams – here we go limping into this one praying for mercy or a miracle…against a Top 5 team in their house. We went from winning the SEC last year to limping through the year with a freshman quarterback who has shown flashes of brilliance but not enough to answer for a defense that’s come under a lot of scrutiny in the pass defense game, which is 64th in the country at this point.

Our offense is tenth in the conference. Defense is a mess. They are in the Top 5 but at times this season they’ve looked like they could easily be where we are. I think we have a chance in this one, but we’ve got to play a full, four-quarter game and be solid on both sides of the ball, which we haven’t seen all season. There’s questions about our head coach’s ability to motivate the team, and some are grumbling about our inability to sweep our rivals in any season. We won the conference then laid an egg in last year’s bowl, and the coach is starting to feel the heat as Dawgs are eager for another National Championship, not just SEC Championships.

A win here could quiet some of that prospecting for the next championship coach, but a loss could mark the first time in the coach’s tenure of losing to our big three conference rivals…all in the same season. The expectations were so high to start, now we’re begging for a moral victory to salvage what once was.

Will this be an ongoing theme…or where we finally turn the corner again?

The SECCG, We Hardly Knew Ye

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Born in 1992, who knew it could be eliminated 34 years later. With the expansion era and the looming specter (read: it’s gonna happen) of CFP expansion to 24 teams, it seems the extra game isn’t doing anyone any favors. If you don’t believe me, hear it from Kirby Smart, who’s on the mother, as always.

Shorter Smart, fi you didn’t expand the Twix:

“Where we are right now with 12 teams, I don’t necessarily agree that it needs to quit being played. But if it gets to 16 or 24 and we’ve got to move the end of the season up and we’ve got to get everything done by the second week of January, then I’d say it probably has to go.”

Roy Kramer’s vision is being eclipsed by the expanding need for money. If it goes away, call me crazy, but it feels like the spirit of the game goes away, too. There’s a palpable difference between Sankey and Kramer, and if you can’t feel it, you need to head to the doctor and get your pulse checked.

Sigh.

Tuesday Refugee Roundtable: The ABS in Baseball…Time for Something Similar in College Football?

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I spent the weekend watching the Diamond Dawgs (swept USCe, by the way…Go Dawgs!) and the Braves, and all the rage on the socials was about the ABS overturns in Major League Baseball. The Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) System is a “robo-ump” that quickly measures up a hitter and gets a strike zone based on the hitter’s appropriate strike zone, and if the batter, catcher, or pitcher think a call didn’t go their way, they have two ABS challenges they can use by tapping their head.

If successful, you still have two challenges left. Some teams challenged away successfully multiple times. Some (like the Braves) blew their two in the first inning.

So far, the catchers have been the ones to use the robo ump the most, followed by batters, and least by pitchers. I guess they have to trust the catcher more since they have a better idea of the zone than does the pitcher.

Anyway, it seems to be making the game better, in some people’s opinions, and the purists are the ones having the hardest time with it as they believe there should be some of that umpire error involved. I’ve enjoyed it, so far, but the one thing about it is that the review is quick, a decision is made, and they move on.

What’s interesting in college football, on the other hand, is the length of reviews when they are used in a game, like for targeting or inbounds catches and so on. One thing I liked the few times I watched an ACC game, is that they transparently broadcast the review for all to hear:

Now I don’t think every play can be reviewed ad nauseum, but having more than one might be nice. You can currently challenge certain plays, by calling a timeout and requesting a challenge, and, if successful, can challenge again later.

What I don’t care for is that the following can’t be reviewed:

  • Holding
  • Pass Interference (remember the Texas game…I do, and you do, too)
  • Illegal contact, block in the back, or roughing the passer
  • Spot fouls for personal fouls, like facemasking

Would having more challenges improve the game? Also, would allowing challenges to the four categories above improve it, as well?

Discuss.

They’re Baaaaack…to Off-Season Greatness, Once Again

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How many iterations of this are we going to see each and every year until the end of eternity as long as Texass has the deep pockets and heaviest bankroll in the SEC?

Respect? They enter the conference in 2024 and declare that they will run the conference, then losing to Georgia not once, but twice. In 2025, they couldn’t get out of their own way at times and Archduke oscillated between horrible and great, at times. Again, they visited Georgia, predicted to shock the world, just to get Kirb Stomped in Sanford and limp into the Cheez-Its bowl.

To their credit, at least they went an played the bowl game, and won it, beating a B1G team in the process.

But I believe it was off-season last year where some sports pundit asked the question: is Texas the new Alabama?

The answer is no. Alabama isn’t even Alabama. Funny how NIL can’t buy you everything, amirite?

Monday Hating: The Really Bad Week that Was Tennessee Athletics

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Boy, I tell ya, I love to see this. First, video was leaked that showed the Everything School’s baseball coaching staff were dealing with their feels.

Honestly, you can’t blame them. Their baseball empire is crumbling and it just got worse with the weekend series with Vanderbilt, which walked Tennessee off not once, not twice, but three times in the series.

And, the icing on the cake, Tennessee is yet again denied a trip to the Final Four, getting destroyed by Michigan on Sunday night.

Lolz.

Couldn’t happen to a better group of assholes.

FTMFs.