re: Why does UGA underachieve in baseball?

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I'm not a liberal, just not a racist like you.

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Any proof to Evidence that claim?

No, you just didn’t like my factual response and retorted by randomly calling me a “racist.”

You’re a liberal, you just don’t know it.

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It’s not football season, baw. I’m genuinely curious how a school with seemingly everything at its disposal can consistently come up short.

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If you look at the overall history of UGA Athletics, recent football history notwithstanding, you will see that UGA has "underachieved" for years at just about every sport...there have been periods where UGA was excellent at some minor sport like Gymnastics etc. Georgia is talent rich in most major high school sports. High school sports are very popular in the state. The difference between Georgia and the rest of the south is that Georgia has been a regional "draw" for careers etc. since at least the 1920s. While there is a lot of support for say high school basketball the supporters are not UGA nor GT supporters...UGA does not have the same level of allegiance in the state as most state universities have, especially in the south. Atlanta is vastly different than any other metro area in the south not in Texas...and that difference spreads over much of the state. Coupled with pro sports in Atlanta (if you can call any team other than the Braves professional) sports have never had the interest in Georgia that they have in other states in the region...too many people with no ties in the state and too many things to be passionate about in state other than college athletics. Football is the outlier because Georgia is still in the south...anyone who does not understand what that means as far as football and the south is concerned probably aint been in the south long....

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Not to mention Ga Tech used to be a power but has fallen back now as well. UGA should dominate in recruiting baseball players.

Look at the recruiting rankings every year for high school baseball players, that state pumps them out.

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There is also a heaping pile of basketeball talent in Georgia...it will probably never translate into UGA or GT being basketball powerhouses because there is no pressure from supporters for it to be anything other than an entertaining pastime for students and folks in the general area. I would posit that you could poll 500 people on the streets of Augusta, Macon, Columbus or Savannah and at least half of them would not know there was such a thing as college baseball.....they'd know about the Braves though and would have most likely been to some Braves games...Georgia is not like the rest of the south outside of college football and even in college football there has been very little demand for anything other than a competitive program which did not embarrass the University....

Pro sports in Atlanta predate ALL pro sports teams in the SE. the Dolphins and the Saints are 1 and 2 years behind the Falcons, the Jazz was 6 years behind the Hawks and are now in Utah, using the same name for some inexplicable reason, and the Braves predate MLB in the south by 25 years. Remove New Orleans and Miami from the mix and there is not a metro area in the South that is remotely like Atlanta and Atlanta, for good and bad, is the heart of Georgia economically and culturally. New Orleans is a sleepy small village in comparison, Miami is more akin to a NE city...leaving Atlanta unique in being the only true city which is remotely still southern culturally...and it is just barely southern culturally. The population in Atlanta is unique in that almost no one is from Atlanta...their collegiate loyalties and professional sports loyalties lie elsewhere. There just is not much demand for college athletics to be anything more than entertaining and not an embarrassment to the state. This is not the case in the rest of the south where the entire self image of the state is focused on college athletics.

Student-athletes must earn a minimum SAT or ACT score that matches their core-course GPA on the D1 or D2 sliding scale. NCAA Sliding Scale—The NCAA uses a combination of your GPA, SAT or ACT scores in determining your eligibility.

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This makes no sense.

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Id explain, but I cant understand it for you.

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AwgustaDawg

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My man is dropping the truth. I greatly appreciate all that information.

Long story short… pro sports reign supreme and outside of college football (obviously) if it doesn’t make money it seems it isn’t worth going all in on.

Your from Georgia and went to UGA. Your a fricking pussyarse fagg that’s insecure his school is only good in one sport

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Your from Georgia and went to UGA. Your a fricking pussyarse fagg that’s insecure his school is only good in one sport

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We got good tennis teams baw. That's the one where there's a net in the middle of a court and you have to hit the ball over it and not let it bounce twice on your side before you hit it again. Might have seen it on TV a time or two.

Got a fair amount of PGA guys playing these days, too. That's the one where you start out way yonder ways from a hole and you keep hitting this little ball until you put it in the hole. If you can do it without hitting it more than four times on average per hole, you usually pretty good at it.

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Do they even gaf about it at the school?

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Not really.

UGA fans care about football.

UGA is competitive at a fair number of other sports besides football. We just don't really care about them individually. We want to be pretty good at sports in aggregate and great at football. We're fine with being in the 10-20 range for Directors cup standings as long as we are doing very well at the one sport that matters.

UGA has 8 national championships in sports other than football in the last decade. We're cool with that level of success outside of football.