Favorite team:Georgia 
Location:Mableton
Biography:UGA grad '94. Pulled for the Dawgs since 1980. 3rd generation Dawg. My grandpa sold peanuts outside Sanford stadium in the '30's.
Interests:College football, tennis, biking
Occupation:Senior systems administrator
Number of Posts:1113
Registered on:10/16/2016
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You should do it. It's the most amazing place I've ever been. It will ruin your future beach trips however because the beaches are absolute paradise. We had a friend that lived on the big island and staid with her so we had that expense covered. The beaches on the big island are some of the best. We took a day trip over to Oahu and saw Pearl Harbor. The food and dining is expensive. There was a really good market in Kona that we went to and they had fresh sushi every day. We ate there at least once a day. You can also hang out at the nice resorts as long as you don't use the chairs at the pool. Some of the locals were not friendly to tourist but not that bad. I seemed to notice it more around Hilo.

re: What's Muschamp up to?

Posted by agentoranj1990 on 6/5/25 at 3:29 pm
I'm surprised more coaches don't step back and or retire like Ray Goff did after grabbing a ton of cash from one of these high profile head coaching contracts. They are pretty much set for life and could do any # of business ventures.
I think the last 2 years were kind of the new norm. You saw Bama finally get beat by a Michigan program that was previously miles from being a top program. Saban is also gone. It just seems like we can't recruit the kind of 4/5 star depth on the lines like we used to. I think a big thing we need to improve on this year is the running game. I'm pretty sure we were in the bottom tier in rushing yards per game last year; like 14th in the SEC. The D line probably won the SEC championship for us but we have to get better on the O line. If we lose in the first round of the playoffs or heaven forbid don't make the playofffs there were be a lot of chatter about how Kirby has lost his edge.

re: Kirby looks different

Posted by agentoranj1990 on 6/2/25 at 10:53 am
good for Kirby. I'm a few years older than Kirby and had to lose some weight a few years ago. For me and most males I think the key over 50 was diet and intermittent fasting. I worked out for a year straight and didn't start losing weight until I lowered my calorie intake.
That was awesome. They really have stepped up the graduation ceremonies since I graduated in '94. Back then they were really lame. I didn't even attend my ceremony as I wasn't graduating until Fall and back then you still were supposed to attend the ceremony before you graduated.
I have found it rare to find fresh shrimp in Atlanta. I used to be able to get good shrimp at 6 feet under, but I haven't been there is a while. I grew up in Savannah so I'm spoiled. People in Savannah used to tell me the best shrimp was in St. Mary's GA. There's something about shrimp where if you freeze it at all; it loses the flavor. I was just in Barcelona, Spain and I didn't think the shrimp was that there; nowhere near as good as coastal GA.
off topic, but I'll be interested to see how Penix works out for the Falcons. He checked all the boxes with arm strenght, team centered, and mobility. But yah, it's been a mix if these atheltic, mobile qb's work out vs the game managers. Fields seems like a bust so far and Watson is really trending downward.
man, Beck has created a lot of drama around himself. His career looked so promising and now it looks like he will be lucky to get drafted.
that guy is really good. The guys like Chuck Oliver and Chip Towers just seem to try to stir the pot and try to bait Kirby with questions that relate to off the field issues. A lot of us just want to watch breakdowns and the sport itself. I rarely turn on these ESPN shows they are talking about off field issues like what a player said or sone contract issue,.

re: Ticket Renewal

Posted by agentoranj1990 on 4/8/25 at 11:01 pm
I gave up drinking years ago, but have a few friends that still try to tailgate like it's college. Show up for one game and buddy has a 60oz tumber w/ half Jack and half coke. Pours himself one and hands it to my ex-wife. He was incoherent by kickoff. Seems like overall it's less crazy than the 80's or 90's. Went to a game with my dad in 85. I had never seen so many drunk people. We were like that all my years at games 90-95. Had a dorm mate that blacked out at every single home game freshman year.
I missed it. We got plenty of sleep back at UGA. O recall coming home from class around 1pm some days and I was out partying the night before just take 2 hour nap. Get up; eat dinner; study a few hours; then go out drinking all over again. We were young and could rebound but we weren't going out for 2 a days with full pads on.
Gunner had some good throws in the SECCG and playoff game, but he just looked a step slow. He was a great runner in HS but guess you have to consider it was AA football. Still we only had one full game to really watch him.

re: OT - 0-6 Braves ???

Posted by agentoranj1990 on 4/2/25 at 4:05 pm
I stopped supporting the Braves until they come up with some local TV contract. They keep saying it's the media companies fault. I don't care who's fault it is; get the games on TV. They lost what made them such a great organization for so many years. You could turn on the Superstation all over the US and any night the Braves game was on. Now it seems like the focus is trying to pay off debt from the Battery.
They probably weren't making a lot of profit from it or caused other problems. I'm gen-x and this younger generation drinks nowhere near as much as we did.
It's tough and not fair to these coaches, but this is the new world with NIL and the portal. I remember some announcers talking about how young this team was; like to say we would be more experienced next year. There's no next year for really anyone. It's rebuild from the portal every year.
The portal has been really hard on UGA. I remember when Crean lost several guys including Wheeler. Too bad Demary isn't coming back. Seems like we will have to completely rebuild next year.
If Florida wins it all; it will hard to comprehend how bad we looked in the first round.
I generally root for the SEC in hoops in the tournament even if it's one of our rivals. I like the Florida coach. He's running a solid program down there. I've always liked Rick Barnes. I had a friend that played for him at Clemson. He said he was a great coach and person. I'm not much of a Bruce Pearl fan though.

re: Ticket Renewal

Posted by agentoranj1990 on 3/24/25 at 5:25 pm
I remember the days when we would go in the 90's after I graduated and people would give us student tickets and they didn't check ID's. You can still go to a the decent non-premium games for around 100 a ticket and if the weather is bad a lot less.
I hear Asa Newell is one and done going to the NBA draft. He's great but he's very raw. He needs to develop his post game, shooting, and defense; but I guess some NBA team will take him as he is. I would think he could make some good NIL money but I can get where guys want to jump. This has been going on for years. I had heard Demary may also jump to the draft. As with most other programs White will have to rebuild next year, but we should have a lot of guys back like Blue Cain and Cyril.