Bad and good are relative. I think you have an over-inflated view of how much talent UGA puts on the field relative to our competition. We recruit well, but never at the very top. And then we apply discipline that impacts our depth, including starters. That's uncommon for most of the SEC, where a large part of the attrition comes from culling players who can't make the two deep.

If Georgia has become Oklahoma, I'd say that's a major advance over what happened prior to Mark Richt. And Oklahoma would become less than Oklahoma if they played in the SEC, IMO.

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Posted by VADawg

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Posted on 2/23/15 at 1:28 pm to wdhalgren

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If Georgia has become Oklahoma

That wasn't supposed to be a compliment. Oklahoma has the most talent in that conference every single season (UGA doesn't, but it's the same idea) and yet they have lost to Baylor by a combined score of 89-26 in the last two years. That should never ever happen at Oklahoma. They have two or three games a year where they play way, way below their talent level and it costs them in a big way. That's the similarity. Georgia just doesn't lose those games in humiliating, blowout fashion as often as OU does.

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Posted by ATLdawg25

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Posted on 2/23/15 at 1:31 pm to wdhalgren

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Bad and good are relative. I think you have an over-inflated view of how much talent UGA puts on the field relative to our competition.

I think this is a good point. Unless we are playing Samford or something, the discrepancy in the quality of the athletes is rarely as big as we might think. But last year versus USC and GT - there are no two ways about it, we were putting a flat out better product on the field than those two teams.

Florida I can understand. I think at this point both UGA and UF can appreciate the fact that no matter what the records are, we are usually going to be pretty evenly matched. Although they have had the upper hand with blowouts the the last decade