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"I'm the guy who screwed up college football.". Oklahoma and Texas join the SEC today. And everything - realignment, the fact nobody is in charge of college football - ties back to one case. When Georgia and Oklahoma sued the NCAA and changed everything:.
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News: Jalen Carter has entered a deal with Athens-Clarke County solicitors, per his lawyer. Carter has pled no contest and will receive 12 months probation, pay a $1,000 fine, perform 80 hours community service and finish a driving course. Carter will receive no jail time.
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In Oxford, just saw a Georgia fan chugging a half-gallon of vodka. At 7:45 a.m. In his defense, it's 8:45 a.m. his time.
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Jordan Davis is directing the Georgia pep band. Really.
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Kirby Smart when asked in press conference on what he told the team in the locker room afterwards: . “I told them: How bout those fuckin’ Dawgs.”.
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And Jordan Davis finishes his speech by saying: "Go Braves, and Go Dawgs," and lifts his jacket to reveal a Braves shirt underneath. Not a Georgia native. But wow did he acclimate.
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Kirby Smart on the reversed PI call:. “Now you've set a precedent that if you throw a bunch of stuff on the field and endanger athletes, that you got a chance to get your call reversed. And that's unfortunate, because to me, that's dangerous.”.
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Jordan Davis finished his presser by thanking the media:. “You all made this tremendous and special. You all are a direct link to the fans, you all are a direct link to everything, so I just want to say thank you for painting us in a great light.”.
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Arkansas playing Illinois in Des Moines, an NCAA tournament record of four instances of a silent s.
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Let’s check in on how Georgia players are reacting to this.
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Georgia linebacker Monty Rice on why he doesn't buy into recruiting rankings:. "I could look at you at and say that you’re a five-star reporter. But what do I know, I’ve never been a reporter!". Yeah, I'm gonna frame that quote.
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Jalen Carter is subject of arrest warrant in Athens after being implicated by police for racing in the crash that took the life of former teammate, and UGA staffer.
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Crazy but true: Georgia's first points of the season - at Arkansas - and last points of the season against Cincinnati - were on safeties.
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Stetson Bennett has 3,104 passing yards this year . in the first three quarters of games. Bennett only has 321 passing yards in the fourth quarter all season, due to being pulled from blowouts or Georgia running the clock out.
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What luck for Lincoln Riley, he thought they'd be starting from scratch and just happened to check the transfer portal one afternoon and discovered, Whoa, Caleb Williams is in there! And two other guys he knew from Oklahoma! Whoa, what are the chances?!?!.
#USC's Lincoln Riley on The Herd today: "We didn't take players from Oklahoma. We took players from the transfer portal. Those players and their families had to make a decision to stay at that university . or to enter the portal where they could be recruited by anybody . ".
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Stetson Bennett said 912 “is the best area code in Georgia.” Kirby Smart, a product of the 229, rolled his eyes.
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Spotted here tonight: Mark Richt, Nick Chubb, D'Andre Swift, and a crowd that may be around 75% Georgia fans.
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Georgia has set an NFL draft record with 15 players selected.
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It was $33.18 last year. Damn inflation.
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“It was one hell of a game. … obviously we weren’t prepared in the first half and that’s on me.”
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Kirby Smart: "There's going to be some property torn up in Indianapolis tonight, BAY-BEE!".
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Tom Crean on hosting @PFTCommenter and @BarstoolBigCat yesterday: "Those guys are brilliant. Don't let them trick you. Behind those sunglasses they're brilliant.".
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The Atlanta Braves should look into the possibility of re-signing Freddie Freeman.
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NEWS: Demetris Robertson has had his waiver request to play in 2018 granted by the NCAA, according to a source. Georgia just got another weapon for his offense.
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Ed Orgeron on planing to recruit in-state next week: . "I'm gonna be in about 18-to-20 homes next week, so that means 18-to-20 gumbos.". Moral of the story: I want to coach at LSU.
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Jordan Davis and Nakobe Dean are going to the Super Bowl as rookies, a year after winning the national championship in college.
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Stetson Bennett: "I think we covered tonight, so that's good.".
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Chamberlain Smith has been released from the hospital, UGA reports. Great news.
UGA confirms that the injured photographer is Chamberlain Smith, who works for UGA athletics, and is being treated at East Alabama Medical Center.
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Sony Michel and Isaiah Wynn, after the pain in the same building last year, get a Super Bowl ring there a year later. David Andrews gets his third ring. Michel finishes with a game-high 94 rushing yards and the only touchdown in Super Bowl LIII.
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My sense is every Georgia fan knew Stetson Bennett wasn't going to win, and that merely getting to NYC was a win - and amazingly, it had been 30 years since a Georgia player did even that.
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News: Georgia’s leading rusher Zamir White declares for the NFL draft. Via Instagram:
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Malaki Starks got engaged last week: “I met her in the fourth grade. She’s been my best friend ever since.” . They’ve been dating for four years. Starks proposed on her birthday last week in Chattanooga:
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Final question of press conference:. Kirby, your defense made Georgia Tech set a school record with 13 punts . Smart: “Good for them.”. End of press conference.
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Coach K’s first season at Duke was the same school year Georgia won a football national championship. Coach K’s final season was the next school year Georgia won a national championship.
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News: Nolan Smith, Georgia starting edge rusher whose sack was the final play of the national championship, is coming back for his senior year.
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Georgia has 10 players invited to the NFL combine: . -QB Jake Fromm.- RB D'Andre Swift.- RB Brian Herrien.- WR Lawrence Cager.- TE Charlie Woerner.- OT Andrew Thomas.- OL Solomon Kindley.- OT Isaiah Wilson.- S JR Reed.- K Rodrigo Blankenship.
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Kirby Smart: "The older I get, the more wiser I get, and the more you realize that chasing the guys that don't believe in the same principles and values of your university and of your program, they're just not worth it.".
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Final Four includes one team each from:. - SEC.- ACC.- Big Ten.- Big 12. No automatic berth for Notre Dame.
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Georgia leader in sacks Robert Beal confirming on his Instagram he’s coming back for his sixth year.
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Alabama and Georgia will meet next week in the first of their two matchups this season.
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Kirby Smart on the field goal block return and the team knowing the rule on picking it up:. “The rule is you’re not allowed to pick it up unless you score with it.”.
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There are only two unbeaten SEC teams left and they meet next Saturday in Athens.
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When Kirby Smart married Mary Beth almost two decades ago, the ring bearer was the very young Drew Bobo, who got his first college start today at center.
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I asked Kirby Smart whether he watched "The Tiger King" during his quarantine:. "I got through two episodes. And I just couldn't do it, man, I couldn't stomach it. And everybody continues to talk about. That's not my cup of tea. I'm more of an Ozark guy.".
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Hot take: Cincinnati is still a damn good team and would've liked to have seen the Bearcats get a shot in the Playoff.
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Nakobe Dean and Sony Michel are here with Georgia in warmups. (Not playing.).
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Stetson Bennett will throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Georgia baseball season opener on Friday. It is expected to be a perfect strike, and if not critics will wonder whether JT Daniels/Carson Beck/Caleb Williams/the team trainer would have thrown it better.
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Brother of Georgia softball player Jaiden Fields enters NFL draft.
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The CBS cameras briefly caught this embrace last night during postgame.
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D’Andre Walker, a Senior, said that Georgia’s scout team offense ran Georgia Tech’s offense better than Georgia Tech did. Kirby Smart’s retort to that: “He can say that because he doesn’t have to play them next year.”.
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Tae Crowder, a two-star tailback recruit who eventually switched to linebacker, makes the initial 53-man roster for the New York Giants.
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Jeremy Pruitt walked across the field to say hello to Mark Christensen, who I wrote about earlier this week. His mother Marybeth: “It’s so cool he did that!”
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Greg Sankey to the Georgia crowd: “As the commissioner of the Southeastern Conference, I think the four-team Playoff worked out fine this year, didn’t you?”.
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Mark Richt is a special guest at Kirby Smart’s press conference.
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NEWS: Georgia has dismissed baseball player Adam Sasser, accused of using a racial slur during last Saturday's football game in relation to Justin Fields. Sasser was a second-team All-SEC selection as a junior this spring, after hitting .317 with 10 homers and 44 RBI.
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I’m not the only one to observe this, but it sure SEEMS like there are more than 23,000-25,000 people at Sanford Stadium tonight.
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Kirby Smart’s youngest son providing the final score for anyone who needs it.
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Just not sure how a college football program could let a QB like Joe Burrow walk away.
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Kirby Smart when asked about Georgia passing the bal so much today:. “We want people who want to play in this offense. And if you’re sitting at home watching this offense today, I think you’re saying, I wanna play in this offense.”.
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NEWS: Georgia and Ohio State have arranged a home-and-home football series, The Athletic has learned. Details coming.
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A Georgia fan just won $1,000 by making a short field goal at halftime. And I suspect I know what every fan who saw that was thinking.
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Kirby Smart praises and lauds Georgia fans for their passion and support, then pauses a moment and adds:. “Even if they didn’t think that Jake could throw the ball.”.
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I'm only going to talk about the guys that are here, but off the record several Georgia beat writers are questionable for tonight's game after testing positive for New Orleans.
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Pending final rankings, Alabama will have beaten teams currently ranked No. 3, No. 4, No. 5, No. 7 and No. 9 . by an average of 19.2 points (pending rest of Ohio State game) and putting up 50+three times and 40+ another time.
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Dan Lanning will stay with Georgia through the Playoffs, and then Glenn Schumann and Will Muschamp will become co-defensive coordinators. Per Kirby Smart statement.
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Georgia kicker Jack Podlesny: "I didn't watch a lick of football until I got to college. I was a soccer kid growing up.". Somewhere, @3YearLetterman is shaking with rage.
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First Super Bowl ring for Matt Stafford and Leonard Floyd, and second one for Sony Michel.
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Kirby Smart said he spoke yesterday to Mississippi State QB Michael Van Buren Jr., and "and told him I had no intentions or ill will at all.”. Smart said he didn't realize he had shoved Van Buren until he saw the tape on Sat. night, and immediately called coach Jeff Lebby.
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Georgia’s Deandre Baker has won the Jim Thorpe award as the nation’s top defensive back.
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Baylor coach Matt Rhule said he asked standout WR Denzel Mims if he was playing in the Sugar Bowl. “He looked at me like I was nuts,” Rhule said. “(He said): ‘We’re playing Georgia. Of course I’m playing.’”.
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College football could continue holding the national championship at various bland sites that make the highest. Or it could just hold it at the Rose Bowl every year.
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I'm amused by this idea that Athens, Ga., has never seen anything like this. Every game since 2010 has been a sellout. Georgia has played No. 1 teams, top 10 teams, etc. This is a bit ratcheted up because it's Notre Dame. But almost every home game is a huge deal around here.
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Georgia’s Rodrigo Blankenship is the 2019 winner of the Lou Groza award, which goes to the top place-kicker in college football.
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Jordan Davis, if eligible, would win all the Georgia state elections.
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Big lift for Georgia’s defense in 2019.
After talking with my family and Coach Smart, I have decided to come back to the University of Georgia for my last year of eligibility. #EatGreedy #ChampionshipSZN.#GoDawgs
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All this COVID news today doesn’t have to be a setback. It should be a wake-up call. Wear masks in public. Socially distance. Wash hands. Be responsible. We want sports back, we want to have some normalcy. Be responsible, and we’ll get there.
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What changed in the last few days? The virus situation didn't. The presidents and powers-that-be can talk all they want about health and safety. But more likely they don't want to disrupt their model by admitting amateurism is a sham and putting their players in bubbles.
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Sony Michel vs. Todd Gurley in the Super Bowl . in Atlanta. David Andrews, Ramik Wilson and Isaiah Wynn (on IR) will be there too.
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Six Georgia football players will receive their degrees tomorrow: Lamont Gaillard, Kendall Baker, Keyon Richardson, Rodrigo Blankenship, J.R. Reed and Steven Van Tifflin. So will former players DeAngelo Tyson, Nick Williams and Shakenneth Williams.
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Kirby Smart on George Pickens' penalty for squirting water on the Tennessee QB:. "Are we seven, eight years old? I mean, c'mon.".
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Georgia left tackle Jamaree Salyer gave himself a grade of "B-minus, C-plus" for this game. Tough room.
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Richard LeCounte said D'Andre Walker going after Brenton Cox was just a case of someone getting after someone for not doing the right thing. LeCounte was then asked if anyone gets after him like that: "Yeah. He wears a red hat during practice. A little visor.".
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“Will, would you like to provide any info for your bio on the web site?”.“Nah.”.“Cool.”
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Based on what I’ve seen around LA the past few days Georgia is going to have a sizable crowd advantage. Maybe even more than it did in Atlanta.
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Georgia has officially been invited to the White House to commemorate its (second straight) national championship. From a White House official this evening: "The President looks forward to welcoming the Georgia Bulldogs to the White House.".
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NEWS: Georgia and Clemson have signed a deal to open the 2024 season against each other in Atlanta, I have confirmed. Story coming.
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Georgia nose tackle Jordan Davis, who downed a Kit Kat just before taking questions.
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During the 2010s I moved to Athens, met a girl and married her, had two kids, went from The State to the Macon Telegraph to the AJC to The Athletic, wrote a book and bought a house. I finished the decade by forgetting to send out this tweet because I fell asleep at 9 pm. Boom.
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Asked about Jake Fromm matching up with Baker Mayfield in this game, Kirby Smart indicates that Jake Fromm will not play defensive back in this game.
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