That is the question.
They have a scheduled day, but this makes it sound like it is still on the chopping block.
What say you? Do you care about G Day, or is it a lost tradition like everything else in the game nowadays?
GTP Refugees
Let all the Bulldog faithful rally behind the men who now wear the red and black with two words, two simple words which express the sentiments of the entire Bulldog Nation: Auburn Sucks.
I want an NFL mini camp like calendar with the portal moved to May 1-15 and no spring game. The spring game was created due to no coaching allowed by the NCAA all summer. Now that coaches coach year round the spring game is not necessary.
My thought is I think the players look forward to it. I know when I played in high school we always had a spring game but it was against another team. After practicing for 4 weeks you wanted to hit someone else.
I’m not sure it matters that much anymore. I could remember when I was younger I would be fired up and ready to watch. Not so much now. I watched probably three quarters last year on and off. Never did watch the whole game. Everything is so secretive now, I’m not sure if Kirby wants it open to the public.
I’m losing interest fast. At this point Im more interested in this site than I am college football.
Don’t care at this point. Whatever Kirby thinks is best.
What Joshua should’ve said was, “whatever Kirby thinks”. Its not like our AD runs the football program!
I didn’t go before I had kids, but we’ve been going the last several years now that they are a little older and it’s been fun to watch. If injuries, poaching, and confidentiality are a concern, which I’m sure they are, then I would be fine if they just had a fan day in Sanford with a non-contact scrimmage or something like that. My boys and I just like being around it and seeing what we can see.
Going away just like Picture Day! Took my 2 kids, they had their Dawg pennants, l had them on a piece of cardboard. They had players on practice field in uniform and the kids could get pictures and autographs! They loved it! I kinda miss it too. But those kids got kids now!!! tech still SUX!!!
The old picture day on the practice fields was rhe best act of appreciation the program did for the fans.
Now the acts of appreciation go to the members of the McGill Society, although I have heard from members at the $25,000 level paid over 5 years don’t get much benefit above the enhanced Hartman points.
LOL, am old enough (as I know probably everyone else here is as well) to remember when our Head Coach(es) would actually head out of the hinterlands and meet with ordinary folks at preseason tours, Quarterback Club meetings (during the season!) and whatnot……
I like GDay televised. Any opportunity to see live action from afar is welcome and it’s always exciting to see who the next great walk-on is going to be even though that role is likely dead.
Is just me? There are times when I see Josh Brooks in a picture wonder why Ted Cruz is passing himself as UGA’s AD?
Whatever Kirby wants to do is fine with me.
Canceling G Day just runs off the fans UGA doesn’t want. Why would UGA want a buncha riff raff that want a free event (although, I guess they charge $5 now), don’t fork out cash for parking passes, don’t stay at the Indigo Inn for three nights and brown bag their lunch for a family picnic? Run them off then lecture them for being bad fans and make sure they know they’re being traded out for the “good” “demographic”. My alma mater honors Michael Adams and voids their bowls all over Erskine Russell and they proudly show you every chance they get.
Oh yeah, Kirby wants to keep things secret? We’re the MOST watched program in the country! Schools like Michigan, Auburn and Clemson develop entire cheating programs to still have losing records against us. Spoiler alert: the word is out, dummies.
The Bleed Red & Black fans are fading fast! The wine & cheese crowd has taken over strictly for social reasons! Just want to say they’re going or have been. Dollar will always rule!! FTMF’s!! Go Dawgs!!!
Bring back Picture Day!!! Particularly in the days of NIL, the kids are doing alright enough to stand around at the practice center/fields and take pictures for a couple of hours.
Keep G-Day. It’s never ‘exciting’ football, because both the offense and defense are as vanilla as possible, but it gives the walk-ons/freshmen/redshirts a chance to impress. I mean, I’d like to thing we KNOW what we have with the likes of Gunnar and Frazier at this point. I’d like to get a vague idea of our depth, though, and at least give the scout team a chance to shine.
And also, televise the damned thing. It’s not like ESPN/Diz-nee isn’t going to make a LARGE contribution to the NIL fund to do so.
The only reason to keep G-Day is to let fans into the stadium that would otherwise never see it except on tv.