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Bilbo got some play in the infamous 2004 UGA game. Started out down 16-0 and Gailey pulled Ball. He struggled even more, Ball came back in, they came back some, but then there was that 4th down… Sorta like the 2007 season, made ya go “oh that’s why Ball was the starter.” Gailey could never...

Yeah Pyron’s yardage stats have also been quite underwhelming - as has the entire offense under any quarterback - so I have a hard time saying there’s regression there vs somehow just even worse gameplan and scheme…

I should’ve clarified average major state school. UCLA seems to be 1405 now, for instance. https://www.prepscholar.com/sat/s/colleges/UCLA-SAT-scores-GPA Texas lower at 1355. https://www.prepscholar.com/sat/s/colleges/UT-Austin-admission-requirements UGA a touch lower at 1325...

Are GT SAT scores up more than the average state school? I haven’t done a lot of research into this but I have seen headlines about the Texas and California systems seeing the same thing. Combo of kids prepping more/helicopter parents, students applying to more schools, and generally sorting...

I find it hard to believe anyone really thinks Gailey was held to or met a higher standard than Johnson. Even setting UGA aside, you have to reach to find stuff like "only record against FBS teams counts" to drop some of Johnson's wins, and then completely ignore things like the complete failure...

I think we’re fairly away from where I started now - I said “My concern with “the coach doesn’t have to be the head recruiter” is that I think if you take that too far, you get a coach who isn’t even qualified to judge the abilities of the staff. “ I don’t think the coach has to be head...

I wouldn’t apply that standard to young actors thrown into the spotlight and hounded by the media, and I wouldn’t apply it to these players either. I guess it depends on if the 2004 team would’ve won it all if the superstar hadn’t been a 1-and-done the year before. 🙃 I think Hewitt’s recruiting...

I think there’s a couple key differences: Recruiting is a huge core competency for a college football team in a way that accounting or sales or engineering or HR isn’t for any given company. So I think you’re discounting it too much there with the corporate comparison. Another is evaluation...

My concern with “the coach doesn’t have to be the head recruiter” is that I think if you take that too far, you get a coach who isn’t even qualified to judge the abilities of the staff. Recruiters are salespeople, and if you don’t know the game well enough then it can be VERY hard to tell the...

Hewitt - while he doesn’t deserve to be compared to Collins at all, really!! - is interesting there because it illustrates the levels of success you can have even with a “similar” method. Hewitt had much more success with even a more superstar-based approach. The competence of the coach is not...

Not directly aimed just at your comment - yours I read more as “aim high, try again if fails vs settling” vs some comments I’ve seen in various threads like “without a home run hire I quit!” Cause right now we’re broke. I don’t have a hundred million, so I’m looking for a guy who can at least...

What’s the record for most punt return TDs against in a game?

Assuming the “asked if he could go, didn’t go” story is true (I’m taking it with a grain of salt myself) then depending on the severity of injury it’s a bad look for someone but it could be for the coaches if there’s a risk of making things worse.

“Don’t accept mediocrity” seems nice but also a bit of an empty platitude. Like, you want us to be willing to take another spin after plateauing like letting go of Gailey in 2007? Sure, sounds good, let’s aim high, no complaints or disagreements there. But you would be pissed at any hire...

I’m coming around on a O’Brien (or similar). Not opposed to Chadwell, but there’s a lot of work to do across the board right now and he has seen how things work at the very top end of successful D1 programs. Combine that with a ceiling that also appears quite high, and I like it. Deion could...

Something about hiring coaches from Temple, huh…

ok, the stands are empty for those games at UGA… but overall, UGA and other have tons of fans despite often playing weaklings out of conference. A decade of 10-2 teams with two out of conference patsy wins is going to grow a fan base better than a decade of 8-4 teams with two extra out of...

The thing that frustrates me the most about this coaching is that we won’t just do what is working. We’ve seen other teams do this to us. Keep hitting us with stuff until we figure out how to stop it. We seem too tentative, like we don’t want to run things too much since they might catch on...

Obviously the outcome was terrible but I’m glad you can stay positive! When I was a student I relived nightmares about Reggie Ball throwing an INT at the goal line against UGA at the end of the game in 2005. It wasn’t healthy. There was never much chance of winning a lot of games this year...

If you look at "potential" in terms of the recent peaks - "you just need to figure out how to repeat it" - there's definitely two or three tiers. Auburn top 5, Nebraska top 10, the rest around 15. I'd say the Auburn/Nebraska group is definitely ahead of the others in demonstrated potential, even...