Nevada Dawg

I feel that I have come to know some of the regular posters a little bit over the past year and it would be great to meet them in this kind of gathering among rabid college football fans. Unfortunately Northern Nevada is a long way to drive for an evening gathering, and the chances of me scoring a ticket for the USC game are about as likely as Vanderbilt winning the SEC Championship this year and playing Colorado in the Natty, although wouldn't that make a heck of a story?

Someone lining up as a 5T is supposed to contain the edge, and Jordan is doing a great job of it in this clip. I knew when he pledged to the Ducks that you guys were going to like him. Lets hope that he stays healthy and has a great season. He certainly has the talent to become a significant asset.

Jon, I nearly died choking while chuckling about the Bama-Haley's comet reference while eating a hand-held burrito. Georgia hasn't been out west lately either for an OOC but have one coming up soon with UCLA. In a similar article on Dawgs fans requests for new OOC games, Oregon and Washington are always on the list, and many would also like to find out what a Riley USC team and Utah are all about.

Impact of game: Really indeterminant at this time on college football in general but possibly huge. In Eugene I'd guess: HUGE no matter what the circumstances. True Duck fans age going to want to stick it to the traitorous Trojans no matter what the teams' won-loss records. Autzen should be rocking este noche!

Thanks Charles for the kudos on staff evaluations over mere star ratings. Those of us who carefully follow Georgia recruiting have been amazed about how quick Kirby offers 3-stars and passes on higher rated players because the staff evaluates the 3-star as the better player with a higher upside. Not only have several of these kids become starters on an elite squad, but several have become first-round NFL draft choices as well. A while back a thread was posted showing that Georgia has a bigger recruiting budget than any other Power-5 school. I noted earlier at this is because the staff travels to scout more prospects than anyone else and that scouting so widely helps them to uncover the hidden gems out there. Its a great approach IMHO if you can afford it.

Indeed, for that next matchup: Me too!!! That tells us that both teams had a great season in whatever year the matchup occurs. And while honesty compels me to admit that I would pull for the Dawgs, should Oregon advance, I'd feel that I hadn't actually lost and would be screaming like crazy for the Ducks to vanquish their next foe.

You are telling me nothing that I didn't already know AMC Dawg and have been saying as much on this blog all this recruiting season whenever I had any meaningful information to add. But hey, all is good and Duck fans will enjoy and appreciate the feedback on Lanning's recruiting prowess from a Dawg fan in addition to me.

I agree Charles that this is an interesting case. Georgia's inside linebacker room is absolutely stacked with top talent and the path to significant playing time is likely much shorter in Eugene. Oregon will have the higher NIL offer I'd bet, but Georgia has the proven road to NFL draft success for MLBs that is hard to match. Indeed, the Tampa Bay Bucks head coach sent his own MLB son to Georgia for its developmental potential with talented MLBs. Is Justin Williams per chance an outside LB? If so that may favor the Ducks for that is what Lanning coached in an on-hands manner in Athens. This is the time of the year that tries the souls of LB recruiters (and recruitnik fans) as kids take their officials and have more and to think about. This is why so many recruits become more uncertain about where they are going and do more thinking about what is best for them as individuals. Trying to guess and feel confident about the mental machinations of 18-year-old kids can almost drive the hard-core recruitnik to drink.

Just Ducky you aren't imagining anything. My sources in Tuscaloosa contend that it is crystal clear that the Tuscaloosa police apply one set of laws to football and basketball players and another set of laws to the rank and file public. Interestingly, many posters on the Georgia blogs believe that both the Athens and the University police have it out for Georgia football players by arresting them for various forms of misconduct. They also think that the AJC is biased against the football team for investigating allegations. I have argued on these aforementioned blogs that both the cops and the AJC investigative reporters are simply doing their jobs and need to continue to do it. That brings me a hell of a lotta down votes from fellow commenters, but if you can't count on the police and the free press, we are all in trouble. Having said that, there is little evidence that Kirby looks the other way on sexual and domestic violence incidents and ample evidence to the contrary. And...the latest incident involving the 16-year-old recruit and the older women who solicited contact with him far in advance of the evening in question has been overblown by the AJC. An Athens friend who is an attorney and hardly a protector of football players, told me that more damning charge that could have been levied in this incident was soliciting or even statutory rape against the woman. The Athens police, wisely in my opinion, elected to file no charges in this "he said, she said" incident. Having said all this, I would still prefer to see stronger sanctions applied to misbehaving athletes and have them be public rather than internal. And believe me, I am in NO way tolerant of sexual misconduct of any kind.

I read the AJC story and was dismayed by the behavior of the Georgia recruit in question who exhibited thuggish behavior in my opinion. But this one case hardly means that Kirby has lost control of the program or doesn't take sexual and/or domestic violence cases seriously. When charged in 2018 I believe for domestic violence Kirby immediately dismissed the Dawgs top wide receiver. Last year, he immediately dismissed Georgia's top sack master and almost certain first-round draft pick who was indicted for rape and immediately dismissed from the team Two earlier domestic violators were immediately dismissed and welcomed with open arms by Nick Saban in Tuscaloosa.. By the way, my friend, who is a rabid Bama fan is very critical of the Bama staff for its permissiveness and the Tuscaloosa police for looking the other way at violations by Alabama football and basketball players. You don't hear a lot from Tuscaloosa because nobody comes down on the players. Auto racing and driving misconduct: Yeah Georgia has a big problem. But I'll say this about the recruit who was not charged for his conduct: He is on a very short leash and will be gone if there is any repetition of the allegations made, whether or not he is formally charged by the police.

Scuttlebutt on one of the Dawgs recruiting blogs tonight is that OT Baker is most likely a Duck. Congrats!

IMHO McRoy was a great get for the Ducks. Incidentally, I saw on one of the Dawgs recruiting blogs this evening that several OL recruits are ready to pop for Georgia and OT Baker is not one of them. The consensus is that Baker is a Duck all the way. If so, another great OL pickup in Eugene! Your understudy to Nix should have the makings of a great protective front in 25 and 26.

I concur that Sewell never reached his potential although he became a good player. It seemed as if he was asked to be mainly a run stopper in the Oregon scheme and he was good at it. As for Flowe, I think that he was badly overrated as a 5-star high school recruit. This is heresay so take it for what it is worth, but at least two people with alleged insider information said that Georgia quit recruiting Flowe after a couple workouts because the belief that he wasn't good enough to be a first-line contributor there and there were multiple guys that they liked better. As Georgia recruited Sewell hard and wanted him, Flowe was almost never mentioned that year.

Not completely. It has been reported on many sites who have inside knowledge, and they say that Oregon is NOT the top dollar NIL. We are competitive, enough to stay in the group a recruit is considering, but Lanning is selling the other aspects of Oregon to offset the pure payoffs. It's been working! Kirby Smart at Georgia does not offer incoming freshmen any more than the recruiting combine stipend that all Georgia players receive. Anything above that figure is dependent on those who have a big NIL value and can get someone to ante up. Development is the primary recruiting inducement and Smart can back that up with 34 NFL draft choices over the last three years, several of whom were 3-stars who ended up being selected in the first round--and that's big money worth many millions of dollars. My guess is that Lanning learned that development sells, and it does. It will continue to work on the recruiting trail as long as the Oregon staff has some meaningful success at backing it up.

Hope I don't get flagged for the above post of mine. Sorry Charles.

Remnants indeed! What a moronic post.

This kind of recruiting is what Lanning has to do, and over a period of several years, to build the kind of roster that will have the staying power of a truly elite program. It is extremely important to layer talent across all position groups to ensure the depth necessary to win championships. Dan Lanning was well schooled in roster building during his years at Georgia and I expected nothing less than this kind of aspirational recruiting when he became a Duck. This is one of the major reasons that I came on this blog soon after Lanning's hire to say that you rabid Duck fans are going to love this guy. Enjoy the process.

Numbers 1,4,5,and 6 are all Georgia recruiting targets. Wingo, who loves Dylan Raiola, will not be in Georgia's class because he wants upfront NIL and Kirby Smart doesn't roll that way---for anyone. Georgia sells development over NIL to incoming freshmen. As for Baker and Nwaneri, it is anyone's guess where they end up but Georgia is still in the game for both I am told. If the Dawgs don't get them, I sure hope that the Ducks do.

I generally concur that SDSU will thrive in the PAC-12. Already is legit in MBB and has a winning record in recent years against PAC teams in football. I think that the ponies (SMU) have a great chance of becoming relevant as well if they can tap more readily into the deep well of Texas high school football talent. As for USC in the football scene of the B1G, I believe that Lincoln Riley is one of the best offensive minds anywhere and is likely to rival OSU for top offensive honors almost right away. If the man ever takes defense more seriously, hiring a top defensive czar and leaving the guy to run that side of the ball, USC may become a perennial contender in a conference that I see as somewhat overrated. If it means anything (and I hope we never have to find this out), I think that the Ducks would fit right in among the contenders as well as might Utah and the dreaded Huskies. Just my opinion.

As a former college professor who has been around a fair number of obscure and/or obtuse colleagues over the years, I can't recall anyone this bad. IMHO this is clearly AI generated. (Now watch me be wrong!).

OK now I see what you were saying but it wasn't real clear in the original post.It read, to me at least, as if only two SEC schools played a power-5 OOC opponent in 2023 I listened to the Dawgnation Daily podcast today in which the host defended the SEC's staying on the 8-game conference schedule unless ESPN coughs up more money. The main guest, also a Dawgnation writer, in a polite way tore the host a new one. His main points were that trashing long-standing annual rivalries, which would be maintained only with a 9-game schedule with three permanent opponents, is absolutely stupid in view of the loss of important rivalries that the schools hold dear. In other words, don't screw with the traditions that make the treasured game that it is to whore for a few more dollars. Yeah, money may be important, but when it becomes the factor that drives all decisions, I think it likely that a significant portion of he fandom starts to peel away. We've already got the cold money game with the NFL. Why ruin college football to craft a junior version of the Sunday game? Commissioner Greg Sankey very much wants the 9-game SEC schedule for 2025. My money is on him getting what he wants, whether or not additional money is forthcoming.

SEC plays only two OOC games against Power5 opponents in 23? I know Georgia plays Georgia Tech annually and that Alabama plays Texas in 23. Manty years Georgia plays two such games on their own. Next year in 2024 the Dawgs have Clemson and Tech on their schedule. I have learned not to doubt Jon Joseph's "facts" on this forum but it is a bit hard to believe, true as it may be, that Georgia and Bama are the only SEC schools with a power 5 OOC game. In fact, I am pretty sure that Florida has OOC games with Utah and Florida State, South Carolina plays Clemson, LSU has Florida State and there are surely others that slip my mind at this late (for me) hour. check again Jon.

There is a Dawg podcaster by the name of Uncle Lou who broadcast, on Wednesday I believe, his forecast for Heisman finalists. He starts by saying that the Heisman is basically a OB award and proceeds to say that, without question, the Pac-12 has the best array of QBs. He proceeds to analyze the pros and cons of his 10 Heisman favorites and concludes that two finalists will be PAC-12 QBs: Bo Nix and Caleb Williams. He (wisely in my opinion) doesn't forecast a winner. Thought you guys might find this interesting. Uncle Lou's podcasts are available on you tube.

I am with Jon Joseph in betting that SEC Comish Greg Sankey gets his wish for a 9-game SEC Schedule in 2025. This has surprisingly not been covered in stories on the DAWG Nation sites but criticism of the 24 8-game SEC schedule abounds on social media surrounding the team and other avenues for fan commentary. I also saw a post, on MSN sports if I am not mistaken, that new SEC members Texas and Oklahoma favor the 9-game schedule in 2025 and thereafter, and Jon J nicely illustrated above with actual scheduling that many SEC teams have upgraded their Power-5 OOC matchups for the coming years. In Georgia's case, they will soon be playing a quality OOC Power-5 school as well as traditional power 5 instate rival Georgia Tech each year. Added to a 9-game SEC slate, there is nothing soft about that kind of challenge. Kirby Smart is a competitive freak and he has to be loving it.

Those who have read through this thread know how I feel about the SEC's 8-game schedule and the loss of traditional rivalries. I apologize to the rest of college football for the scheduling decision made today. And yes that root of all evil--money-- was involved in this decision in more ways than one. I fully plan to voice my displeasure about the 8-game schedule every opportunity I have to weigh in on the topic. It is set in stone only for 2024--at least that is my understanding. One of the Georgia beat writers ran a poll asking Dawg fans their preferences, and the last tabulation I saw had about 85% favoring the 9-game schedule. The fans I have corresponded with really dislike the end of yearly matchups with traditional rivals. The Georgia-Auburn game, for example, means a lot to both schools being the oldest continuous football rivalry in the Deep South. One Dawg fan put it this way--"Doing away with rivalries for the sake of money is a step toward ripping the very soul out of the game I love". I heartily concur!