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.
Good stuff… keep ’em comin’ EE!! 👏👏
Awesome. Florida is a long, long way from being a good football program again. I’m sure they think they’re this close to playing for titles but they’re not. And the fact that Firebomb is calling for the return of Urban Meyer just makes it even better. Mr Fake Heart Attack ain’t walking through that door and even if he did I’m not sure it would matter.
It has blown my mind to hear people say they thought Brian Kelly at LSU would work. That is a total mismatch and I don’t know how anybody could think otherwise.
Florida has returned to their norm. Except for a ~15 year run run they’ve always been a mediocre program. Just like they are now.
Yep, Carpetbagger Kelly and his ‘Fam-uh-lee’ have about worn out their welcome in cajun country.
Should we stop referring to as Sun Belt Billy, and start referring to him as Sun Set Billy?
NICE!
Y’all need to lay off Napier. He just needs 3-4 more seasons in Hogtown to get his system fully in place!
If your offense cant execute anything you call, at what point is it on the OC to get the unit to function. At some point results matter, not theories.
Let’s revisit this in a few weeks. When things go right is it because of Bobo or just despite him?
Mike, didn’t you know the only way things go right is if we score on every possession and, of course, even then it’s in spite of Bobo.
Oh I didn’t forget. And like Derek pointed out the other day, Todd Monken always, always had the offense performing like a well oiled machine. No touchdowns against the Sons of Clem, forget about it, never happened. Barely getting into the twenties against Missouri, ditto, never happened. And scoring sixteen points against Kentucky definitely never happened. Same goes for all the points that have been put up under Bobo, that was just like luck and stuff.
I’ll accept the white knighting when he actually wins something. I know a lot of apologists here came over from the other board.
My point stands, at what point does the OC around here actually have to obtain results? Or is it just he called the right play it’s everyone else’s fault.
I think you dropped the mask a little there without meaning to. Referring to it as “white knighting” because people won’t act like he sucks just underscores your bias. A lot of people who know a lot about football think pretty highly of Bobo. You’re obviously free to have whatever opinion you want but it’s not based in anything besides your feelings.
Well championships are the expectation here, so let me know when that’s been fulfilled. Unless that’s changed recently and I wasn’t aware.
I can have great plans at work, still have to execute or they will find someone else who will.
I am confident you aren’t as good at your job as Mike Bobo is at his. Bobo Derangement Syndrome.
Forgive me if this has been harped n please. I was at the game and Evans was hit twice after signaling for a fair catch and neither time was flagged. Has the rule changed?
I think incidental contact isn’t flagged, but who knows with SEC officials.
I guess we should be happy they didn’t flag Evans for getting hit.
The funny (not funny) thing: every time I talk to Coach Bobo (which is never) he blames the fans when things go wrong. CB misses a read – he blames the fans. Bakersfield’s fines ole’s a block – it was the fans. We only put 63 on the Conquered in a bowl game – you guessed it, the fans. If the fans would get off their arse and stop standing in line to buy $11 Tropicalias, this team would be undefeated.
as an aside, when I was thinking about getting back with my girlfriend (like the loser, chump I am) she got on the Blame Bobo program so I held strong – – there’s just no place for that in the boudoir…
“Why would you want to bogey the same hole twice?” – Lewis Grizzard
Ok, I just watched Brooks Austin’s film breakdown of what went wrong on offense. Right off the top, Kentucky had one hell of a defensive game plan. Lots and lots of mixed coverages and lots of changes made just before the snap. Credit to them for having their guys so well prepared to execute some complex things.
The second thing was, there was something they spotted watching film or something Pop and Brock pointed out/told them about in terms of tendencies or tells because there were multiple times Bobo had a good play for what they were in and suddenly a couple of Kentucky players would start pointing exactly where the ball was going. I don’t know what kind of relationship Kirby has with their staff but he for sure needs to talk to them.
The next thing is, Earnest Green had a horrible game. His worst as a college football player. Kentucky confused him with some things they did but more than anything else he just had a bad game. I don’t know enough about Yurosek (sp?) to to say a whole lot but he had a really bad game as well. Childers who was number 11 for them and was all over the field just whipped him when that was who he was supposed to block.
During the game I mentioned Ratledge being hurt playing a role and was told he didn’t do anything before he got hurt. Not so fast, bacon breath. Tate Ratledge was blocking his ass off and man handling people until he got hurt. Good news on that front is his injury isnt season ending. Mike Bobo had some winners called for what Kentucky was lined up in and we didn’t execute. There was one of Etienne’s runs that ends up being a house call if a lineman doesn’t get beat. On one play where Beck had Dominic Lovett all by himself, Earnest Green blocked the wrong man. On one play Carson just flat didn’t see Arian Smith running all alone down the sideline. Carson never was able to get comfortable.
My main take aways were, Kirby needs to talk to Kentucky’s staff and do some self scouting and ask them what they saw in terms of tells, expect more of what Kentucky did because it worked, and the blocking mental mistakes have to get cleaned up.
Thanks, looking forward to watching this evening.
I saw the same. Guys on the offensive line were getting beaten. You mentioned the one I was thinking about. Ratledge did seem to play well before getting hurt, but when someone on the o-line busts, it makes the group look bad.
Like many have said here already – for the most part this is a schooled group – chit happens sometimes and good teams survive it. We survived. Period. The only football genius I know of that I envy is Agent Billy: he gets to tank the Florida program and gets paid millions to do it. I want that job.
If this season has shown us anything, it’s that you can’t use this week to predict next week’s game results. Teams are up one week and down the next. Are we elite? I don’t know. David Pollack doesn’t think so and he probably knows more than I do about football. I don’t understand calling runs up the middle or off tackle when there is an 8 man box. Maybe that’s just me, but we won and I’m glad of that even if it did take a few years off my life. Right now, based on the eye test, it looks like Bama is starting to hum and will once again beat us, but I’m hoping that my 1st sentence is accurate and we show up and take one in Tuscaloosa cause it ain’t getting no easier with Ole Miss, Tennessee and Texas still on the schedule.
Like others have said: We got out of Lexington with a win. I didn’t think the team looked good on offense and Kentucky played their asses off.
I reserve the right to launch a “Dammit Bobo” in the comments after seeing them try to run off tackle into a 7 man front on third and six. I thought Beck looked a little lackadaisical at times and said as much.
One thing Saturday night accomplished was to cause an Inner Munson revival. Aaannnd of course one of my normally pleasant co-workers that is a Bama fan had to throw the obligatory “Ya’ll stole one! Y’all may beat us but Texas is gonna kick y’alls ass! Har har har”
#I guess we’ll find out. #FTMF