re: Did you know that Georgia, LSU, and Vandy football players dodged the draft in 1943?

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SouthernInsanity

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You do know the MO of this forum, right?

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This is mostly a bash to Georgia for having their upperclassmen the year before and winning a national title that they gladly claim, while other schools suffered the same issues in 1942 that they faced in 1943.

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Well of course we will claim 1942. Didn't Florida field a team in 1942 along with most if not all aother colleges?

After checking i see that Florida indeed did field a team in 1942. I know this because Georgia beat Florida 75-0 in 1942.

So, if you are going to (in your words) bash Georgia, then we can only think you were bashing Army and Navy for also fielding teams.

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You do know that the upperclassmen at Georgia still played that year as they didn’t get drafted (yet).

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They were not drafted yet, so what was the problem?

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While Florida lost all of their upperclassmen to the draft and scrapped together a very inexperienced and depleted team and decided not to do that again the following year.

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No they didn't. Florida lost several players and coaches. Not all of their upperclassmen. Don't paint it as something that it was not. They lost several during the season, too, as did Georgia.

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This makes you worse for this argument.

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You just going to skip over WW I? Come on, dude. At least attempt to be consistent.

Bad optics. Florida fielded a team in 1917 and 1918 during WW I! OMG!

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You barely beat one of the worst teams we’ve ever had.

I would hardly call that having our asses handed to us.

You’re also still behind in record since I’ve been born, so for the greater part of my life, we’ve owned you all.

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I guess "lately" is in the eye of the beholder.

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Did you know that Georgia, LSU, and Vandy football players dodged the draft in 1943?by ForeverGator
Bunch of unpatriotic coward

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You are either completely ignorant of history or the worst troll on Earth.

The Navy Preflight Training School was at UGA.
In case you were unaware, pilots had to train before they sacrificed everything for their country and colors during WWII.

Bomber pilots were 50% mortality rates during the war. Only about 24% survived the war without injury or harm.

Schools like Florida weren't good enough for pilots. They trained the rest of the crew during the war.

If your flight attendants couldn't play football, then it probably was a good decision to scrap the team.

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We're talking about the SCHOOL fielding a FOOTBALL team while there was a WAR going on. It's bad optics. Period.

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Fielding a team of students who were either too young to serve, physically unable to perform, or were enrolled in programs at UGA during the period which the military deemed important to the cause and thus given a deferral to service, who were given the option of not playing a limited schedule or playing a limited schedule, is a bad look? I take your point and its a fair jab at UGA but its also a pretty harsh statement that the men who were enrolled at UGA and played football from mid September - Late November, 1943 and were in basic training or Europe by January 44 and those who played football in late September through early December 1944 who were either in basic training or Europe by January 1945 were dodging the draft. That simply is not true....it is highly doubtful that none of the schools listed had fewer football players on those teams who did not serve in WW2 than the general population of men of appropriate age in the US....about 20% of men of appropriate age served in WW2 at some point....80% of men of appropriate age never served during WW2.

During the 2 years in question UGA played games against teams from VMI, whose players were too young to serve during the period or had a deferment until they completed their education, which the military thought the military needed, and all of those players served. UGA also played teams from a flight school in Augusta, all of who were training to serve and did, both years, a similarly situated team from Fort Benning, all of who served and the US Naval academy....thus giving those men a game of football when they were facing going to war. Its funny that those teams from Daniel Field, VMI, Fort Benning and the US Naval Academy, who played the team from UGA, and all served, are not included in your list.