BloodRunsRed&Black

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UGA basketball is a mystery to me. State is loaded with talent but they seldom have good teams. What's the issue? Is your arena a shite hole? Even Tech has had some good teams over the years.

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It is exactly what was said earlier, the fanbase, mostly, doesn’t care. When I was at school, we never even considered going to bball games. No one gave a shite.

I am fine with UGA keeping bball an afterthought. Put the money and effort into football. Football success is immeasurably more important. All other sports success is pretty meaningless.

A lot of UGA fans and supporters feel this way, and it seems like the athletic department and the administration do as well.

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They should recruit better. Georgia has plenty of basketball talent.

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The fanbase would have to give a frick. In all the time I was at school, never went to a game, never even considered it…same with everyone else I knew. Hell, they could disband the fricker and I don’t think most Georgia fans would give two shits.

I know there will be UGA fans that love basketball and want a good team, but that is a minority. Most of ‘em, from what I can tell, don’t give a frick.

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2. This UGA defense is good but they haven’t played a single high powered offense. They really lucked out with their west games and Clemson being in a rebuild year.
3. Mark it down, they will get torched in the SEC championship and again in the first round of the playoffs.

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I’m not arguing that this defense will end the season as an all time great…there’s a lot of football left and they have a lot left to prove.

But the argument that they haven’t faced an explosive defense is because a lot of people just look at the rankings of the offenses, which are based on total yards per game, or points per game. That stat is useless, as a tool.

Yards per attempt is what is important, coupled with efficiency, and linking these to scoring. And UGA is holding teams to under 50% their rushing yards against other opponents and 70% of their passing yards and their efficiency is amazing. The numbers are elite, and ridiculously so. There are enough data points to think that unless they just have an off day, these numbers should hold against even an elite offense…they just have to keep executing, so we’ll see.

The thing is, against an OSU or Bama offense, these numbers indicate that UGA will give up around 30-35 points. UGA is almost at the CEILING of what is statistically reasonable, and should still expect to surrender that many points. That’s just the reality of modern offense. Against either team, it’s “6-5 and pick’em”.

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Georgia defense is good but let’s see them play some good offenses before anointing them the 1985 Bears.

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This is the reason a game with Bama, OU, or OSU (Just to name some good offenses) would probably be a pick’em type game.

There are enough data points to think that UGA would most likely hold true to form, hold up to a good offense at the levels they have. That still means a good offense puts up ~450 yards and ~35 points. And UGA has played better 5 better defenses than either OU or OSU and is still projected string the same points, going by the same statistical reference. Conversely, both those teams have played offenses better than Georgia…it all boils down to a matchup between these teams being a toss up.

Bama, I think, is best set up to handle UGA with the balance of offense and defense that they have shown mostly. They’ve had a rough hiccup, which is why I would call that a pick’em game as well.

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They are probably better

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They are. Mostly…

Auburn is 9 ppg and 70 ypg better
Kentucky is a 6-7 ppg and 70 ypg better
Arkansas is 5-6 ppg and 70 ypg better

South Carolina is almost exactly the same…like within 6 ypg and 1.5 ppg.

So:

Auburn: 35% up on ppg, 18% up on ypg
Kentucky: 30% up on ppg, 24% up on ypg
Arkansas: 21% up on ppg, 18% up on ypg
South Carolina: push

That’s fairly significant when you consider that type of increase in ypg alone is the difference between an offense in the 70s range and a top 20 offense

EDIT: Or to put it another way, averaging it out, the teams mentioned are 5.25 ppg better than last year. So, using your numbers, if Georgia’s defense was just the same as last year, they should have averaged 13.75 ppg, 2 touchdowns each, basically. As it is, Georgia has held them to 65% of the projected scoring when based against last year

I have a lot of confidence in our team right now. Sure, Auburn could beat us and I will probably be nervous come game time, but I expect UGA to win.

Worried? Not exactly worried at the moment...

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Danny Sheridan said yesterday if the game were to be played right now (meaning yesterday) the line would be Bama -14.5

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I saw that...I actually think he is right. I think money would go to UGA at that line and it would move down, but given Alabama's recent history and Georgia's first trip to ATL under a new coach, I could see that line happening.

I think that if you only look at on the field product, we're a touchdown underdog though.

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Don't know why this gump is talking shite, you can't get into UGA anyways. Hence, you went to Bama.

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C'mon man, he did not go to college.

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I bet the line is more like Auburn -5 to -7

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Auburn -3 or -4...a home field advantage line.

Has the SEC rank as #1 conference...wtf