Tuesday Refugee Roundtable: Colors Run Deep

David Pollack, who many of you around here have said should be on the Mount Rushmore of Georgia Football, has found a new home for his son.

Man, he can’t deny he’s his father’s son, can he?

Anyway, the Roundtable discussion for today is this – how deep does your loyalty run?

I’ve had the conversation with my kids that, as passionate as daddy is about Georgia, I don’t care if they go to Georgia, Georgia Tech, or Alabama, or anywhere, for that matter, so long as it’s where they want to be and (added bonus) if they are offering a scholarship. We can always root for the good guys on Saturdays, sitting on a paid for couch in a paid for home. Without having to worry about a college loan.

How about you? Do your colors run that deep where you forbid your child from going to a certain school because of football, or are you happy that they’d get to take a free ride…or in Pollack’s case, a possible better paycheck?

Discuss.

Kirby Smart, Timing is Everything: Georgia Lands #2 LB for 2027

Impeccable timing, Kirby. I never knew he was a reader of the blog. No sooner had I posted something yesterday about a lackluster recruiting class, then Kirby has a banner day:

Kirby brought in four recruits in two days, and word is, that train isn’t slowing down, either.

Kirby also added Lovejoy EDGE Olayiwola Taiwo, another three-star, but Georgia suddenly jumped up from 22nd to 11th in the On3/Rivals team rankings for 2027, and now has an over 90 point average for the quality of the class.

Not a bad day at the office for Kirbs.

Go Dawgs!

Cruitin’ and Executin’

Folks are starting to get a little antsy about Kirby’s 2027 recruiting class.

Aside from landing the nation’s number 1 running back in Kemon Spell and a possible (let’s not hold our breath, here) non-verbal from a blue chip QB, folks are getting overly antsy about the recent recruiting pickups in Kirby’s class…all three stars.

Quick reminder about those stars when it comes to CJ Allen, Quay Walker, and Jordan Davis, all of which were three stars and even now it’s reminder that it’s June 1st, and there’s lots of camps and evaluations that will come to pass that will likely push these guys up to four stars or higher once they start to make a splash. Not to mention that the almighty dollar can always bring that star count up, too.

Georgia currently has the 22nd ranked recruiting class according to the On3/Rivals recruiting rankings, and it should be noted that early commitments to Georgia that are four or five stars have been shown to do so only to receive richer offers to other schools (looking judgingly at you, Miami), so there will be further moving and shaking.

Oddly, Indiana has the #30 ranked recruiting class. Why isn’t anyone panicking over that? It’s as though Kirby never heard of the portal and NIL and doesn’t know how to use it? Hmm.

Of course, there are people out there that feel that Atlanta’s loss to Cincinnati yesterday means the season’s over, even if we’re 20 games above 500 right now.

Sports, and sports fans, are interesting things to behold.

Diamond Dawgs Moving On…

The Diamond Dawgs overcame some strong pitching from Liberty to move on to the Super Regionals, but not before it’s going to cost them an important game 1 suspension of Tre Phelps.

The offensive floodgates finally opened for Georgia when Phelps blasted a two-run homerun, where Phelps was pushed out of the batter’s box by the home plate umpire, which looks odd, then he decided to wave to his parents above the Liberty dugout, which Liberty took offense to and the Liberty head coach immediately came out and started to protest to the home plate umpire.

To be fair, he did turn and wave to the protesting Liberty first baseman, which was enough to get him tossed for taunting, but when Liberty’s head coach was asked what offensive gesture or comment was said, he had nothing.

Of course, Wes got tossed, too. And enter Phelps’ backup, Michael O’Shaughnessy.

I think we might be alright. The attitude was great after the game, after all.

Anyway, the Dawgs will find a familiar foe in the Super Regional, hosting Mississippi State for what should be a fiery rematch. The Bizarro Dogs didn’t like the strike zone in the first season series, which saw the good guys sweep them at the Dude, and the MSU fans have been very, very much butthurt ever since.

See y’all again on Friday, and Go Dawgs!

Who is Playing Duke? In BASKETBALL?

I really had to check to see if this was an April Fool’s joke.

Let me get this straight…Duke, Houston, and Alabama all make deep NCAA Tournament runs in 2026, and Georgia loses over half of it’s first-round-faceplanting basketball roster and someone out there said “hey, Georgia will be competitive in this contest!”

Were they drunk? Why are we having to do this? If anything, if it’s any more embarrassing than the losses to St. Louis and Gonzaga, maybe Brooks will be compelled to invest more in the program. Or maybe he won’t.

I think I’m going to have to go back to not watching Georgia basketball again.

May Madness – Baseball Regional Shockers

Oh, my goodness. Let’s hear again about the almighty power of the B1G…

Say it with me, class…for the first time ever…yikes.

Meanwhile, in Tallahassee…

And here’s another to shut the RPI nitwits up…all those folks screaming about Auburn and their RPI can explain this…the only team in the Regionals with a LOSING RECORD knocks off the #4 Barners on their home turf…

Milwaukee started the season going 5-23, to finish with a 26-31 record. They did win the Horizon League, though, so hopefully that will soothe the Auburn souls. Note: it will not…check the Saturday Message Board Geniuses post.

Also, this is the May 30th reminder that Auburn sucks.

In other news…Georgia didn’t get to finish off Long Island University, being up 15-1 in the 6th when the deluge hit.

Our friends at Dawg Sports have this right

If you are going to another site for your Dawgs’ content today, make it the guys at Dawg Sports. This defense of the Georgia-Clemson home and home is a magnum opus (Someone needs to send this to Josh Brooks – athdir@uga.edu). The good Senator would be smiling over this if he were with us today.

https://www.dawgsports.com/georgia-bulldogs-football/37590/keep-the-game-where-it-belongs-why-georgia-and-clemson-fans-should-reject-a-neutral-site-money-grab

I’ll say it now. I refuse to purchase tickets to either of these games if they move to a neutral site (yes, I attended both games in 2021 and 2024). I may even decide to hell with it and not even watch the games on television on principle. I get that schools have to look for every revenue stream they can at this point, but the powers that be look at us as nothing but wallets at this point in the name of looking out for what’s best for UGA athletics as opposed to what’s popular to fans.

I carried the ticket stub from 1984 in my wallet for years after that. I wish I had kept it pristine and gotten a signed picture of Kevin Butler kicking the most famous field goal in Georgia history.

If we don’t reject this kind of thinking while still getting OOC games with the likes of Tenn State and WKU in our season ticket packages, we’ll get more of this.

It’s time for these people to feel the economic impact of the decisions they make rather than to tell us they know what’s best for us.

Buc ees Loves the Bulldogs?

Quick note: the game has been pushed up to 5 pm today on SEC+ because of potential inclement weather.

If you’ve been watching the Diamond Dawgs this season, you’ll know that Sour Power has been a big part of the dugout and the post-game celebrations. Well, folks, Buc ees heard that they were running low on supplies and sounds like they’ve stepped up.

In case you haven’t seen it…

You know what this means, though…I’m sure Josh is thinking of it already…

Bound to happen…but until then, thank you Buc ees and Go Dawgs!

Thursday Thought Provoker: The 2026 Georgia Football Schedule

Here it is, and we have start times for the first three games now (note: both cupcakes are at home to start the season):

So for today’s Thought Provoker…which game or games are you most looking forward to…and, what’s your prediction on our record after going through this schedule?

My thought: we have a ceiling of 11-1 and a floor of 10-2. My inner Munson tells me we have to step up and prove we can win at Alabama and Ole Miss before I believe we could go undefeated, so I figure we could slip up with one, if not both, of those games.

Oklahoma at Sanford would be remarkable to go to…I’m hoping it’s a night game. Also, something surreal would be playing at South Carolina in something other than a Mars-level heat typhoon would be something to behold. I’ve never experienced that.

Discuss.