re: Why can't Georgia win a Playoff Game in the Modern Expanded Playoff?

It’s almost as if the teams we play don’t have scholarship athletes that are pretty good too.

Do you expect 50 pts a game?

Do you think an OC can outscheme a tackle getting beaten or future NFL DE on the other side if the ball.

Who did you blame when Monken lost a game or our offense looked bad under him? Bennett?

I have no issue calling out bad calls but the whole “Bobo sucks” thing on the rare occasion when we lose a game is tiring.

I think yet again, a goal line big moment didn't go our way and the play looked pitiful. The call gave Olemiss time. How that game was going, if Kirby wanted to go for the win, We should have gotten what we could on third, burned the clock, then went on fourth for a TD. Not sure we win in OT.

Monken has 2 NCs, his favorite plays were high percentage throws to the TE, they worked. The Bowers TD vs Bama was amazing.

if we ran two back to back toss sweeps, I swear I wouldn't bitch.

I now agree, especially QBs though I have no issue with Stockton, he played hurt. it's all in spending the money on the right guys in the portal.

I have no issues with Stockton as well and firmly believed he played concussed in the GT and OM games.

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For all those saying we did well with the roster we had

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Do you believe that those numbers serve up guarantees of a single game outcome? Clearly they don't and the reasons for that go far beyond coaching. Starting with the fact that, statistically speaking, small sample sizes (Like "1") yield extremely variable results.

In other words, 12-2 is a lot more meaningful than 0-1. Over the course of a season, is where the Team Talent is more meaningful. And even then it takes good coaching to achieve a good outcome. That combination, coaching and talent, is why Georgia won 12 games, and the SEC title over some other very talented teams on that list.

But even then there are other variables that have shifted and made those team talent numbers less meaningful. One that you didn't bother to mention seems very obvious, but maybe not. So, rather than give you the benefit of considerable doubt, I'll explain it using an example or two.

Trinidad Chambliss is probably better than the zero HS rating, or 86 Transfer rating that he was given by the recruiting service that made that chart. In fact, Ole Miss' team ranked 11th in the SEC, and they've won every game played so far, except for one. So, talent data can't, don't, won't foretell every game outcome, regardless of coaching. And the transfer portal makes those numbers even less meaningful, because experience is important, and nobody has a good handle on transfer ratings.

Taking all of that into account, plus inexperience, injuries, and competition vs other good teams, it's perfectly accurate to say Georgia did well with the roster they had. But, if all of this leads you to say Kirby Smart must now switch to a portal based roster, please take out your checkbook and write a very long number and mail it to whomever they ask you to buy for next year's team. Because those numbers are about to get a lot longer and money doesn't grow on trees. Otherwise, stop complaining about the portal because you're part of the problem.

My opinion is coaching decisions/play calls during the game cost us way more than injuries.

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Kirby is playing the middle of Dabo and Cignetti.

Shades more towards Dabo but should be shading towards Cignetti.

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Bingo.

Yeah, I think of the 90s Yankees, they spent many times more than other franchises, they won a bunch of championships but they didn't win the all. Same with Bama at Sabans peak.