re: Would you say over the course of the season this team has trended up, down, or held steady

Is Peter buck dead?

Did the Bama game kill him?

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Did the Bama game kill him?

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Better chance his mom caught him cussing in his Georgia Sports Board posts and took his phone.

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There is a core group of like 3 of you that think Bobo and Richt should still be on the coaching staff, which is laughable.

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That's a straw man argument because nobody (including me and I was a big Mark Richt fan) is saying they'd choose Richt over Kirby. Kirby has proven himself beyond any doubt. He has the 4th highest winning percentage, 85%, of any major college coach ever (>10 season), 2 national championships out of the last 4, 3 SEC championships of the last 9, including 2 of the last 4. In the two and a half seaons since his last national championship, his record is 31-5 (86%), 10-5 vs final ranked teams (67%), 21-0 vs unranked teams (100%) and his current team are the reigning SEC champions and ranked 5th in the country.

But, we have a special group here who collectively, and in some cases individually, constantly criticize Kirby's choice of both coordinators, his receivers coach, defensive backs coach, OL coach and probably some others I've forgotten. That same group constantly criticizes player development, game management, play calling, scheme, recruiting, etc. That's virtually the entire job description of a college head coach and they're saying Kirby Smart is failing at all of them simultaneously. Some of this group, who are among your peers and upvoters on this board, are moving beyond insinuation and outright saying Kirby's a problem and needs to go. But even the ones who aren't explicitly saying that are implying it through their general disagreement with how he's running the program. And according to this special anonymous group, anyone here who understands that success waxes and wanes for every program and therefore Kirby deserves the benefit of the doubt on all of those complaints above, is also a problem.

I choose the "core group" that trusts UGA's current proven head coach over message board football analysts, for now and a long while to come, even when he has down seasons or the wins aren't pretty and the championships are more infrequent. It's a new era where talent depends on money and UGA is not the leader there, so future complete domination probably isn't in the cards. But we still have the best coach UGA's ever had and one of the best ever.

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We don't have near the talent on the DL we're used to.

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Neither does Arkansas, but even they have 16 sacks.

Glad you’re paying attention

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Also, aren't you the one that said you can't bet against your team to make money?

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Betting against your own team will never not be bizarre and fruit loop behavior. The whole idea is so far out in left field that you have both feet on the warning track and both soulders against the wall.

You are basically betting that the other team will do good against Georgia and that Georgia will fail.

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gotta be honest, I much prefer the 21/22 versions where the 2nd halfs were mostly for getting the backups reps.

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Even though blowouts are supposed to be boring, I loved watching those teams play defense. So many tough, physical dudes just flying around dominating every opponent. 2021 (2019 as well) especially refused to concede an inch

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You still don’t understand how betting works.

GA can do well and the other team can do poorly and you can bet the other team and points and win money.

Why is this hard for you?

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I've been betting on football since I was 14, and I promise you I've never encountered a real Georgia fan who bet against Georgia.

The whole concept is just batshit crazy. So you root for Georgia to score some touchdowns and get some stops, but you also root for the other team to score some touchdowns and get some stops? You've got a screw loose, man!