re: What needs to change and what needs to stay the same

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I get so fricking sick of "recruit better" complaints without innovative ideas being suggested.

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No one here works for the school so we don't have to suggest a damn thing. That's not our job.

A friend of mine who worked for the team said flat out that we're behind other schools, namely bama. It's little things that add up. We have people walk around a ton (and campus isn't an easy walk) whereas bama rides them around on ATVs. Little shite like that.

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We recruit as well as most any top 10 team

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As "most any", yeah. And it gets us ranked around 10 every year. Funny how that works. To break this plateau we have to recruit top 5, not just once, but for about 3/4 years.

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The problem is the coaches fail to bring them up to top level production on the field.

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Not sure I agree there. How much coaching do you think Percy harvin, julio jones, adrian peterson, cam newton, etc needed? If anything we're getting MORE out of these kids than you would think, for the most part.

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Administration also puts stringent conditions as far as grades and personal performance that other schools don't have

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very true

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I would rather have UGas standards and fall short of a natty than be like Auburn and Florida State.

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couldn't possibly disagree more with you there.

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If all you want is titles then for Gods sake go support another team.

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Florida is academically a better school than us and look what they've done the last 2 decades. There's nothing that says we have to blow up our entire program/image and start accepting mississippi state level standards to win big. We just need to level the damn playing field. We're playing t-ball compared to what other schools do. We drive 90 minutes all the way to got damn atlanta instead of using the airport that's 4 miles from campus when we fly. We are just NOW getting "support staff" that others have had for years. We are just now getting where we need to be with a S&C department. We still don't have an IPF. Our stadium, glorious and heavenly as it is, doesn't really make an on the fence fan or a visitor come back, does it? The diehards will always come so forget about them. What about the people we're trying to come out more? Our concessions are a 2 bit shitshow of an operation run by volunteers barely through puberty. We ban tailgating/fun from the best part of campus because we're too fricking stupid to put out more trash receptacles and refuse to hire a company to do cleanup checks. When people are there all day for a 7:30 kick and all the garbage cans are full by noon then no shite there's going to be trash everywhere. Our stadium doesn't have any hat tips to past greats. Go to jordan hare, go to bryant denny, go to ben hill....those places you walk up and you're instantly met with huge reminders of past players. What does sanford have in that regard? Well, the gate 6 concourse got widened! Whoopty doo.

If we had an AD who was even the tiniest bit forward thinking we'd be competing for titles in no time. But unfortuantley we are still only about building that resreve fund...when these dolts don't understand that going in 100% and FULLY BUYING IN to win a football title would bring in money hand over fist. Look at bama. They are swimming in dough and their admissions/academics have skyrocketed as well! And it all started because they financially made a committment to win football games. We haven't.