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re: University of Georgia, because it can never be stated enough...

Posted on 3/2/26 at 8:18 am to
Posted by bigDgator
Dallas, TX
Member since Oct 2008
49151 posts
Posted on 3/2/26 at 8:18 am to
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Such an odd thing for Florida fans to constantly be obsessed over. It worked out great for BOTH schools. We are doing great (compared to our norm) and Florida got even better too. Win win for everyone. Florida fans always pretend it's an insult though which is just really strange.


If you can't see the humor in Georgia hiring Mike White out of all the candidates that you could have hired, including Todd Golden, I don't know what to tell you. It wasn't a bad hire, but it also wasn't a great hire. You chose mediocre, and some of the Georgia fans were doing a victory lap for "stealing" him.

I'm not really big on stupid arse threads like this, but on the rant this is not an odd thing for rivals to make fun of each other. It's poor form imo, but not odd at all.

And no one knew anything about Golden yet. Well maybe a few people who knew him or listened to him, but he was far from the star of the coaching hires that year. Many thought Mike White was the better hire. But it turns out he was not.

Best college basketball hires of 2022


To sum it up, this is all we got right now because you have been kicking our arse badly in football for a while.
Posted by WG_Dawg
Member since Jun 2004
89965 posts
Posted on 3/2/26 at 8:42 am to
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out of all the candidates that you could have hired, including Todd Golden


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no one knew anything about Golden yet.


do you not see the irony here? Hindsight is a tricky thing. The fact that Golden ended up being a grand slam (at Florida, who knows what he'd do at a lesser program) doesn't diminish the fact that we hit a home run ourselves. I mean Jans and Gates were also listed above White on the list you linked and I certainly wouldn't want them over White.

Believe it or not, it IS possible for a situation to work out for the best for all parties. This is one of those times, but because we went from bad to pretty good, while florida went from pretty good to great, y'all seem to think that we are the loser of the transaction, which simply isn't true no matter how much you paint it to be.
Posted by lewis and herschel
Member since Nov 2009
16386 posts
Posted on 3/2/26 at 8:52 am to
Mike White is the Basketball version of Richt, the program is improved, stable, and will never win a Championship but that beats the basement we were in prior.
Posted by bigDgator
Dallas, TX
Member since Oct 2008
49151 posts
Posted on 3/2/26 at 9:01 am to
So there is no irony in hiring a coach from your rival, who then hires quite possibly the best coach in the country for less money, when you could have hired him? Not even a small slice of irony there?

I think your fellow UGA fans would all disagree that Mike White was a home run hire for Georgia. You fail to see that you could have gone from bad to great, as if Georgia has limitations in basketball. I guess you didn't witness Indiana football these past 2 seasons either.

But hey if you say you are happy with the way things have turned out, and can't find any irony whatsoever in the situation, more power to you sir!



Posted by armtackledawg
Member since Aug 2017
14387 posts
Posted on 3/2/26 at 9:05 am to
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Well it's good y'all no longer argue that Mike White is the better head coach.


I never argued that Mike White was the better coach. Frankly, I didn't know much about him or Golden.
Posted by lewis and herschel
Member since Nov 2009
16386 posts
Posted on 3/2/26 at 9:10 am to
Florida is just a different opportunity for Basketball. Atlanta kids end up at the Blue Bloods while UF is cherry picking all the major metros in Florida.

UF has done a great job at going from the outhouse to the penthouse since 2000.
Posted by ParkRanger
Montana
Member since Dec 2025
27 posts
Posted on 3/2/26 at 9:26 am to
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WG_Dawg


You do not speak for UGA Nation.
Posted by Darindawg
Member since May 2022
3995 posts
Posted on 3/2/26 at 10:16 am to
I didn't even know who Mike White was till I read this thread and looked it up. (Yawn)....spring football practice can't start soon enough.
Posted by ParkRanger
Montana
Member since Dec 2025
27 posts
Posted on 3/2/26 at 10:38 am to
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I didn't even know who Mike White was till I read this thread and looked it up. (Yawn)....spring football practice can't start soon enough.


This situation says more about UGA basketball than anything else. White wasn’t brought in as a program-changer. He was the most stable, proven option available to a program that’s been stuck near the bottom since the dawn of time. If we want different results, the investment and expectations have to change.
Posted by SM1010
Member since Oct 2020
1350 posts
Posted on 3/2/26 at 11:50 am to
Thanks UGA for taking Mike White!

And we hate you for hiring a better football coach than we are apparently capable of.

Posted by DawgCountry
Great State of GA
Member since Sep 2012
32901 posts
Posted on 3/2/26 at 12:33 pm to
The staggeringly low expectations of Georgia fans Here is embarrassing. I don’t give a shite what our history says. We should expect more from our program. Settling for 1st rd exists isn’t much to be proud of
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