re: How do you rate this season?

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Losing another semi-final game after a bye is a concern.

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7/8 teams lost after the bye. Ole Miss got a break then got a warm up game. On top of Harris and Aguero being out, half the defense that started got hurt and one got ejected. Bobo, who really was having an elite season at the most important o line position, was out. Ole Miss is a good team. What did y’all expect to happen?

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Last night, I'm not sure if it was him or if our play calling was off.

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It wasn't our play calling. It was our OL failure to give Stockton the time he needed. Our defense also failed to pressure the Ole Miss QB and make him hurry his throws. I give the team a B+ for the season., a C- for the Sugar bowl.

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A = win a playoff game A- = win the SEC but don't win a playoff game

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This is interesting. Prior to Thursday, did Ole Miss have a better season than UGA because they beat Tulane in a home playoff game rematch? I don’t see how you can say that.

I mean, the Sugar Bowl win obviously changes things for them but it’s still a comparable season when you zoom out a bit.

I think we’d all trade places with Ole Miss as it stands right now. But if they lose in the Semis? Idk I’d rather have the SEC Championship

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7/8 teams lost after the bye. Ole Miss got a break then got a warm up game. On top of Harris and Aguero being out, half the defense that started got hurt and one got ejected. Bobo, who really was having an elite season at the most important o line position, was out. Ole Miss is a good team. What did y’all expect to happen?

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It makes more sense once you understand that several posters on this board are not Georgia fans. They want Kirby Smart fired because he's beaten their teams 8 or 9 years in a row. Oh, they'll deny that: "Who said anything about getting rid of Kirby?". But then you read their non-stop "analyses" of "what's wrong with Georgia's football program" (quotes to emphasize their default starting point of debate), and it's literally an indictment of everything that our head coach does.

Kirby can't recruit. Kirby doesn't use the transfer portal right. Kirby does a bad job of managing his staff. Kirby's game management is poor. It gets completely absurd. It's Kirby's fault his backup center snapped the football when he wasn't supposed to snap the football (as if Kirby taking the heat off Tolliver was an admission of guilt).

They start brain dead threads with titles like, "If Kirby was indeed the second Saban". The logic is literally non-existent from the outset, it's a straw man thread, but the nega dawgs flock to it like flies to shite. Nobody expected Kirby to repeat Saban's run of championships. Not even Saban would be the 2nd Saban in the era of NIL and the transfer portal.

Or "Whatever happened to offensive recruiting?", a thread that contains this gem, among other nonsense critiques that are trending toward a collection of every coaching failure known to man:

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Kirby has recruited bowers, Ladd, swift, fields, but not much else. Now we get zero elite talent,

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If that's a Georgia fan, they were in a coma for the last 10 years. By the end of that insane thread, we're desperate for Georgia Tech castoffs while Tech scoops up the 5 stars Kirby wants. That's some rich trolling right there.

This board is overrun with troll posts, it was inevitable I guess. There are two main kinds of threads now. The ones directly taunting fans who support Kirby Smart (or Lord Kirby, as SemperFiTroll mockingly calls him), and the ones criticizing virtually everything that Kirby does, directly or indirectly. I started one positive thread since the Sugar Bowl, mainly because I knew it would piss them off. It included data that doesn't fit the troll narrative that Kirby Smart and his staff have lost their edge, or maybe never had it to begin with. They avoided it like the plague. Their threads here are mostly nonsense, but that's all a troll can do when the object of their ire annually clubs their team like a baby seal.

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tldr;

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I wasn't writing for the trolls. I was writing for any Georgia fans wondering about the nonsense being spewed here.

We beat all our rivals and Alabama and won the SEC Championship. In what sane world is this not an A. We did this with a new QB, a young Defense, a wounded line and lost our last game in a heartbreaker down like 8 starters by the time the 4th quarter had started. I hope some of y’alls personal drive and standards are as high as they are for UGA football, though I think we know the answer to that…