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#53
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HollowaytoSeivers said:
Sounds like a Lewis Grizzard punch line.
For you youngsters, he was a columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for years. He was also one of the funniest people I've ever heard, despite being a UGA graduate.
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Lewis Grizzard...a Southern genius.
 

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05_never_again said:
When you look at the resources they have, the SEC's dynasty school really should be Georgia, not Alabama.

Say you knew nothing about football and were given demographic/resource information about each of the SEC schools. Then you were asked to guess which school had been the most successful at football. I bet 90 out of 100 people would guess Georgia.
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I agree but the dynasty isn’t a school it’s a man , remove Nick Saban and bama might be good but no where near where they are
 
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05_never_again said:
When you look at the resources they have, the SEC's dynasty school really should be Georgia, not Alabama.

Say you knew nothing about football and were given demographic/resource information about each of the SEC schools. Then you were asked to guess which school had been the most successful at football. I bet 90 out of 100 people would guess Georgia.
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What resources does UGA have that Bama doesn't? Bama has tgoat in Saban and is sits in a great recruiting area. UGA's AD was notoriously cheap prior to Smart. UGA was one of the last in conference to get an indoor practice facility. Acting like UGA had been spending tons of money on its athletic dept while schools like Bama/UF/UT/Auburn/LSU didn't is ridiculous.
 
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77' Vol said:
He admitted that the VOLS played a good first quarter and a half and had them worried. He is hoping that Pruitt gets run off...... he's afraid that if Pruitt gets another class or two of his own recruits that the VOLS will actually be competitive. Good to hear that hard core Dawgs think Pruitt is a threat. Now let's silence those cowbells Saturday!!!!
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Ho Hum,tribute from Caesar(Georgia did win 43-14):rolleyes: I hope Jeremy Pruitt will be gone also because I don't think he will turn Tennessee around:confused:
 
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Atlanta917 said:
What resources does UGA have that Bama doesn't? Bama has tgoat in Saban and is sits in a great recruiting area. UGA's AD was notoriously cheap prior to Smart. UGA was one of the last in conference to get an indoor practice facility. Acting like UGA had been spending tons of money on its athletic dept while schools like Bama/UF/UT/Auburn/LSU didn't is ridiculous.
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If your AD is cheap and doesn't like to use the resources they have, that's on them. That's a decision they've made. It isn't like UGA doesn't have the resources...they do and either don't use them, or don't get as much out of them as other schools get out of theirs.

UGA is probably in the single-best recruiting area in the country (either there or LSU). Georgia as a state is simply more economically developed and the university has more resources (not saying that the University of Alabama is poor or anything, just relatively speaking). Georgia, for example, should have a much more successful program historically than Tennessee has, but they don't. Why do you suppose that is?
 
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Orange defense said:
Sounds like Uncle Lou again. He is a Georgia fan, and is scared of Pruitt. He wants Pruitt fired right now, and he has admitted that he wants Harrison Bailey at UGA, because he has admitted it on his videos everything.
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You are obviously infatuated with this Uncle Lou person. And no, the vast majority of us don't want Pruitt fired and aren't worried about Harrison Bailey either. Not saying Harrison isn't good but do you realize how crazy it is to worry about every good player that signs with another school? You try to hard
 
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TDawg said:
You are obviously infatuated with this Uncle Lou person. And no, the vast majority of us don't want Pruitt fired and aren't worried about Harrison Bailey either. Not saying Harrison isn't good but do you realize how crazy it is to worry about every good player that signs with another school? You try to hard
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05_never_again said:
If your AD is cheap and doesn't like to use the resources they have, that's on them. That's a decision they've made. It isn't like UGA doesn't have the resources...they do and either don't use them, or don't get as much out of them as other schools get out of theirs.

UGA is probably in the single-best recruiting area in the country (either there or LSU). Georgia as a state is simply more economically developed and the university has more resources (not saying that the University of Alabama is poor or anything, just relatively speaking). Georgia, for example, should have a much more successful program historically than Tennessee has, but they don't. Why do you suppose that is?
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It's really very simple. In the aftermath of the Jan Kemp trial, UGA hired a president that was known to be hostile towards big time athletics. During a time when our competitors were accepting Prop 48 students, Knapp refused to allow UGA coaches to recruit these spec admit students.

If that was the end of it, UGA could have dealt with the set back but he also instituted a remedial study program that all athletes that could not gain normal admission were required to complete. It was an 18 month program that saw multiple kids wash out and even the kids that completed the program got no hours towards graduation.

Iows, UGA lost kids that didn't want to go thru a program that would either get them kicked out of school or didn't give them credit hours towards graduation. That is part of the issue as well as the next president lobbying to get rid of Dooley as AD so he could siphon off AD dollars for his projects but UGA way behind the curve. So, yes, UGA has always had a lot of untapped potential but the admin made a half hearted effort at best to compete at the highest level. Kirby's agent made sure he wouldn't face those handicaps as a condition for accepting the job.
 
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Visiting Dawg said:
It's really very simple. In the aftermath of the Jan Kemp trial, UGA hired a president that was known to be hostile towards big time athletics. During a time when our competitors were accepting Prop 48 students, Knapp refused to allow UGA coaches to recruit these spec admit students.

If that was the end of it, UGA could have dealt with the set back but he also instituted a remedial study program that all athletes that could not gain normal admission were required to complete. It was an 18 month program that saw multiple kids wash out and even the kids that completed the program got no hours towards graduation.

Iows, UGA lost kids that didn't want to go thru a program that would either get them kicked out of school or didn't give them credit hours towards graduation. That is part of the issue as well as the next president lobbying to get rid of Dooley as AD so he could siphon off AD dollars for his projects but UGA way behind the curve. So, yes, UGA has always had a lot of untapped potential but the admin made a half hearted effort at best to compete at the highest level. Kirby's agent made sure he wouldn't face those handicaps as a condition for accepting the job.
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Jan Kemp explains underachievement for the rest of Dooley's tenure and perhaps during Goff's. It doesn't explain it since the mid 90s though. To still bring up Jan Kemp's name today is an excuse.
 
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DonDiego said:
Then I'm sorry--you are lost.
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How is he lost? What eviende is there that Georgia or Alabama is remotely scared that we have Pruitt?

I ask again, if Georgia or Alabama had Pruitt and his first year and a half went like ours has, would YOU be scared of them?
 
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Wow, we are on the path to being good again because some random UGA fan thinks we night be a threat in two recruiting classes all because we played one solid quarter. These threads get dumber and dumber.
 
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Rocky Top Raby said:
Wow, we are on the path to being good again because some random UGA fan thinks we night be a threat in two recruiting classes all because we played one solid quarter. These threads get dumber and dumber.
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You are right.......and so do the replies.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
ROFL...because we've never heard of an opposing fan praising our coach and telling us we found "the guy".

We had people claiming Alabama fans were afraid of Dooley and claiming Georgia fans were wanting to get him to come to UGA. We had people claiming the same about Jones. I'm not even sure I believe you actually had this conversation; even if you did, it means absolutely nothing.
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If he continues to hang 40+ points on folks at Mizz and if Georgia slumps....you never know.
 
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05_never_again said:
Jan Kemp explains underachievement for the rest of Dooley's tenure and perhaps during Goff's. It doesn't explain it since the mid 90s though. To still bring up Jan Kemp's name today is an excuse.
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The aftermath of Kemp was a huge blow to the brand and Mike Adams (the president after Knapp) did things like demanding drug test immediately after kids got back from spring break. Donnan actually brought the program back to respectability but with SOS at UF and Fulmer in his glory yrs at UT, he could field a top10 team and still be the 3rd team in the east.

No doubt UGA has always had the potential to be a perennial national championship contender but had a habit of constantly shooting at our own feet. It wasn't until the money folks decided that Kirby was the man that forced the admin to enter the SEC arms race.
 
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