reservoir_dawg

Our fan base is one of the worst and is our problem.

Our fan base is happy:
(1) to make posts every single day about a player from 40 years ago
(2) to yell/post "run the d*mn ball" like it's still 40 years ago
(3) to give coaches way too much rope because they like them personally and we're a good, but not great, program
(4) to not win big and to not expect to win big

It drives me nuts. We have arguably the best access to talent in the big three sports - Georgia is a recruiting mecca for baseball, football, and basketball. The SEC programs with more numbers in their backyard also have more competition.

There is absolutely zero reason our big three sports should not all be top 10 programs who win championships of various sorts. Instead we haven't won in baseball since 1990, in football since 1980, and never in basketball. And watch, there will be UGA fans on here who defend our administration and coaches for these failures. Having mediocre to poor programs in 2 of the big 3 should result in people's heads rolling until the athletic department and its coaches realize that it's not acceptable given the advantages our school has.

Incredibly frustrating. Hopefully one day the fan base will wake up and go "win or gtfo" to these administrators and coaches.

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To add only 2 teams on the list have not made NY6 Bowls:

Virginia Tech and Texas A&M

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Huh? VT played FSU for the nat'l title in the Sugar Bowl in 2000. That's a NY6 Bowl...

Yeah, you showed me!

Nobody knows who you're talking about. Seriously, Mississippi State is irrelevant and nobody knows who their QB is.

I remember it live too. It was unbelievable on live tv. The type of thing you've seen before, an offensive player catching a ball in the flat and heading up the sideline, and then all the sudden an absolute train wreck.

Pruitt had never even built a defense before, much less a whole program, when UT hired him. Go look at his background. One to two year stops as DC everywhere. Yes, he produced good defenses, but it was always mostly with other coaches players.

That's not a great resume. Zero head coaching experience, zero long term coordinating experience. If he had turned our to be a great head coach it would have been miraculous.

That honestly reads like the type of poorly analyzed article you'd find in a school newspaper. Its effectively 5,000 words to say "my family lost its parking spot and so we dont like going to games as much and I'm going to extrapolate that to other empty seats at LSUs stadium without amy support for it whatsoever."

This is either completely made up or you fell for this guy's lies hook, line, and sinker.

You are talking about millions upon millions of dollars both for the individual coaches and their schools. If a coach finds success as an assistant he moves up and increases his earning potential from typically hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to $5-$10m a year. Real money. Every single one of those dudes cheats to protect that sort of income. Every. Single. One. The fact that you, or anyone else, thinks it doesn't happen is crazy.

Especially given that the other high dollar NCAA sport is currently going through a series of Federal trials where the gov't keeps proving that coaches in that sport were funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to recruits. You think basketball is the only sport where people do that sort of thing because of the money at stake? Of course not.

Oh, and nobody thinks Mullen's coaching staff is better than Kirby's. Nobody. That will be born out as guys on Kirby's staff go off and get better jobs while guys on Mullen's staff get trapped in the same positions.

3rd and 57, soft practices, and energy vampires

This part of the 2011 UGA/UT game is maybe the worst UGA has ever looked when you watch the entire stretch and realize we put ourselves in 3rd and 57, the announcers were discussing how Richt decided to hold soft practices the year before, and they then moved on to a discussion of "energy vampires" which was a time Richt read a book and decided to start using the silly terminology around the team. Between the undisciplined play on the field and the embarrassing things being discussed by the announcers, that may be the worst UGA has ever looked.

You don't understand the business side of sports very well. In 2001, McMahon had NBC as a 50-50 partner. He still failed.

As has already been pointed out, average league salaries are going to be 75k supposedly, so your idea of paying the least ready players 2-3x that is not based on reality.

Nobody cares to follow high school phenoms below the highest professional level. Or in other words, when high school phenoms skip college basketball and go play overseas do they get a bunch of people tuning in? No. When they don't make an NBA roster and get sent to the G league, does anybody watch? No. When baseball phenoms play in the minors, due they draw millions of viewers to the games in person and in TV? No. When soccer phenoms play below the highest league do they get millions to tune in like they do in the premiership/etc? No. When prep football schools used to have rosters loaded with big time talent that didn't qualify, did they have huge crowds and games on TV? No. Do the JUCOs who get big time talent have that now? No.

The other thing you and McMahon miss is that his league is supposed to have 8 teams. Each team is in a city that already has an NFL team. They're doing that bc of the media markets, but Dallas Cowboys fans aren't all the sudden going to become fans of a second professional football team in Dallas. Accordingly, the majority of folks who would be buying season tickets, apparel, etc in those cities are going to spend that discretionary cash on the Cowboys still and not divert it to some new lesser team. Additionally, you'll have nowhere near the corporate money spent on suites/tickets/etc. The big time companies who are schmoozing big time clients and business partners are not going to want to be viewed as doing it at the little brother franchise.

So, you can play kids like you want to, nobody is going to want to watch kids fresh out of high school play in a crappy league, and the franchises are at a huge disadvantage for fans and companies available discretionary funds. The league isn't going to be successful even if someone becomes the high school herschel and goes to the league for a huge contract.