Getting Defensive in Texas

First, they go and coax Boom out of retirement, then they go and get another former SEC head coach to serve as a special assistant to Sarkisian.

A longtime defensive backs coach and defensive coordinator before becoming the head coach at Kentucky, Stoops and new Texas defensive coordinator Will Muschamp “have a lot of respect for each other,” the source said.

Stoops will be enjoying a 38 million dollar buyout while serving in the role. Question is – head coaches would go repair their careers by landing in Tuscaloosa under Nick Saban…but is Sarkisian and Texas really the place to go now? Based on results and records, I say no, but it’s probably a nice place to go and buy up all you need to win while collecting a healthy check in the process.

Also, fun fact:

Bold strategy, Sark. Let’s see how it plays out.

A True (Redshirt) Freshman

In all the nyuck nyucking of jokes traded between Kirby and Cristobal at the SOS Awards, I missed acknowledging that Ellis Robinson IV was just the second recipient of the award from Georgia for a freshman:

Not a bad accolade, just a poorly named awards ceremony for a Dawg.

Musical Palate Cleanser: I Can’t Drive…105

First, there’s this:

Linebacker Chris Cole, driving a black SUV, was recorded at 105 miles per hour on a speed measurement device and linebacker Darren Ikinnagbon, driving a white SUV, was an estimated 10 feet behind him was neither gaining or falling back and was also estimated to be going 105 by the officer, according to an Athens-Clarke County police incident report obtained Tuesday Feb. 24 by the Athens Banner-Herald. Both SUVs passed 6 or 7 other vehicles on the road.

In SUVs. Jesus. Anyway, for today’s musical palate cleanser:

Regarding the song’s origins, it was a bit a rebellion piece about the National Maximum Speed Law of 55, enacted in 1974 as a means to reduce energy consumption (although it was only predicted to reduce energy use by a whopping 2.1%, it is estimated it actually achieved a .5% reduction, mainly because people did everything they could to disregard it). Despite energy prices decreasing enough by 1987 to increase the speed limit back to 65, many kept it supposedly for “Driver safety” although the reality is many local LEAs discovered it was a healthy and reliable revenue stream. The limit was eventually increased to 65 in 1995.

As Sammy tells us:

“Two o’clock in the morning, I’m driving a rental car to Albany, from Albany to Lake Placid. Four-lane Highway, not a soul, I’m going about 62 miles an hour exactly. Cop pulls me, a little wet I didn’t even know while I was going the speed limit changed. I’m sitting there, I was so burnt, I was just exhausted. I just handed my driver’s license, hand him the Rent-A-Car stuff. He starts to write it up and the guy said how fast is 62. I said like ‘I thought it was 65’, you know, and he’s going […] ‘We give tickets around here for 62!’. You know like ‘Where have you been?’. I went 55, get to my house, wrote the song. Oh man, I mean, four o’clock in the morning. I picked up my guitar. I just wrote that damn song. It came that quick.”

Imagine getting clocked at 105 when the speed limit was being that strictly enforced.

Also, imagine that, nearly 31 years later, a local LEA is still relying heavily on speeding tickets and moving violations as a steady and reliable revenue stream. Particularly from the UGA Football team.

Allow Kirby to Retort…

Here’s another clip from the Spurrier Awards event, this time focusing on Kirby’s roasting of Cristobal. I have to say, the comments about Spurrier’s real estate selling daughter…*chef’s kiss*. Enjoy.

Try the Veal, He’ll Be Here All Week

Mario Cristobal, ladies and gentlemen.

I see Spurrier, Fulmer, and Cristobal all in the same room together at one time.

It feels like it should be some form of a joke, but seems more like a place in hell.

Settling Down

I bet you’d forgotten about Jaden Rashada, hadn’t you?

You might’ve forgotten about the lawsuit he had out there against Billy Napier and a Florida power booster who promised a four-year, 13 million-ish NIL deal to come play in Gainesville.

Here it is, two years later, three teams later (Georgia to Sacramento State to now Mississippi State), and the two parties have finally agreed to a settlement.

You could read the article, but, essentially, the details of the settlement are confidential, so we’ll never know what the final settlement could be. My guess would be that, considering Rashada’s NIL value has likely diminished by a lot, it was considerably less than 13 million dollars.

If they did give him the full amount, then that would amount to roughly 34 million dollars in buyout money between Rashada and Napier alone.

Couldn’t happen to a finer group a assholes, if you ask me.

FTMFs.

Quality Losses

Shot:

Chaser:

Nine conference games plus a triad of cupcakes. Fun stuff.

As a reminder, Georgia won National Championships playing 10 P4 opponents in both years, opening against #3 Clemson in 2021 and #11 Oregon in 2022. It can be done.

Or, it could be done. Now, if you’re having to play upwards of three more games at season’s end, I guess you want to have a few games to rest your players to make sure they can compete for a Natty.

When you’re in the B1G, you can rest them during most of your conference games, too.

Family Matters – More from the Kangaroo Courts

And to think, this was part of the proceedings that lead to granting Trinidad Chambliss an extra year of eligibility. Quite frankly, how the hell did this even come up in the hearing?

Meanwhile, you had to know the outcome wasn’t going the NCAA’s way when this was going on:

Can you imagine if the Senator was witnessing this? I’d love to hear his commentary on the state of affairs, to be sure. To make matters even more absurd, the “Judge” got emotional reading his decision.

Jesus, Joseph, and Mary.

Trinidad and To Bye/Go

That title’s a bit of a reach. But let’s be real, we all saw this one coming, didn’t we?

The NCAA attorneys weren’t real happy about it, opting to leave the courtroom before the Judge’s decision had been reached, to which the Judge had a nice response:

Another Day, Another Dollar

So, more feedback coming in…some of you like the faux-Dawg, some not. So here you go:

Some of you liked a different tag line…

Now, for a little Simply Southern flare, plus an homage to our hatred for Auburn.

Apparently they can’t do an Early Cuyler very well at Chat GPT, but you get the idea. In keeping with the same theme, here’s another request, referencing the famous cannon shot idea.

I kept playing around with another idea, and I must say…damn good stuff. This is my favorite thus far.

I mean, it’s true right? It’s been free as long as I can remember and still will be (the site).

Keep the idea coming…I’ll keep building as you all send them. Oh, one last homage…

I ran out of free designs so I can take the quotation mark out and show another version of this, maybe with some edited font selections for the hat. It’s a start, though.