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Season Review | 2025 Georgia Football
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I will say that I'll probably start asking questions when a high a kid out of high school signs a seven-year deal. I'm like, wait, what?
Introduction and Welcome
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Welcome to My Got a Podcast. I'm Jim Wood. In this episode, John Powell and review the 2025 season.
2025 Season Overview
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We talk about the college football ball playoff, our thoughts on Georgia's season, and we answer questions from you, our listeners.
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Now, let's join the conversation in progress.
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And we're back.
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And we're back. Thought out
Snowpocalypse 2026 Experience
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and back. Well, sort of thought out. Did you survive Snowpocalypse 2026, Jim?
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Yes, um but barely. So we are going on... Today was day two of no school. ah Tomorrow is virtual school. um I will say, like with even like it with... So our house, just like the direction our house faces...
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Our driveway has a hard time, especially up by the house of thawing out. So I did, I did some shoveling on Monday around lunchtime and an attempt to clear everything and got a good bit of it out and got like tire tracks out for the cars to be able to leave.
00:01:34
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But it was wild. Like this morning, other stuff had melted everywhere. And like our, the sidewalk that runs through our driveway was an absolute, just a sheet of ice. So um it did melt and drab today, thankfully. So.
00:01:50
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yeah we Yeah, we get decent amount of sleep. It sounds like you fared better than than those of us here in in Marietta. Because I feel like it was a giant nothing burger. Like we have a lot of people that are around us that are like, I thought this was supposed to be the apocalypse. The way that it was being described.
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right And I was too. I was i was a little nervous about it. was like, ah where should I park the car? I wanted, i kind of like you, like i where I'm living is is we've got a huge hill and it doesn't get a whole lot of sun. And so I was worried about the being, being iced in and not being able to get your car out kind of thing, even though the roads were clear kind of stuff.
00:02:28
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Yeah, exactly. I opted to keep the car as a quasi generator close to the house. So, Hmm. That's a, that's a good move. I, I got, I kind of started to panic like last second.
00:02:40
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Um, cause it was like, Oh, it'll be fine. And then like the day before i was like, I can't, are we prepared? And she was like, Oh my gosh, like you're worried about this now. Like now is not the time. Should we, should we like get some stuff? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, we had food. We had food. um But yeah, I do think like, mean, we haven't really had to go anywhere. So it hasn't been ah been a big deal. But had I not shoveled off the the ice and sleep whatever on on Monday, it would have been it would have been worse. So it it just takes forever in our driveway. Like our our neighbors haven't on both sides of us. They didn't do any shoveling and they both have like a huge sheet of ice. um
00:03:22
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So I don't know. So you feel a little bit better. Yeah. I feel vindicated. feel like I did not waste my time shoveling the ice off of our driveway on Monday. So there's at least that. I saw a couple of memes. One was like Patrick Ewing on the sideline and the basketball, like with, with ice on his ankles and knees and, you know, everywhere. And it's like, shout out to the dads that just are completely broken from shoveling snow for an entire day.
00:03:52
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Yeah, I know. Seriously. we We used to, uh, we used like pay neighborhood, like teenagers and stuff. Like we had these kids ah the next street over from us and they had, they had their little business that they would do and they would come in shovel. Um, but now they're like in college. So there's, those kids are gone.
00:04:09
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So it's it sounds like there's a void. There's a, it sounds like there's a void in the market, Jim. but There is, there is, I'm not going to fill it. I need someone else to fill it. Okay.
00:04:22
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Oh man, I saw another one that was like, you can go on Facebook marketplace and find all these generators that are on sale now that everybody bought and can't use. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That, that was one of my things I made that. That was one of the comments I made. I was like, Oh, like should we have a generator or something? And Kim was like, Oh my gosh, like, like we're going to able to get one today. know it it was like Sunday.
00:04:45
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Hey, it's the thought that counts, Jim. That's right. That's right. I at least thought of it eventually. Yeah. Ah,
Team Reflection: Challenges and Young Talent
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we had some football played in the last few weeks since we last spoke.
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We did. ah it didn't go the way we, yeah just as we predicted. um I think. I mean, it was pretty much like I predicted with with the Indiana and Miami. Yeah.
00:05:11
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Yeah, I just, I thought Ole Miss going be... The game ended on a back-breaking Carson Beck interception. Well, yeah, once we got to that game, it it went pretty much how I thought it would go, honestly. ah Man, there were so many tweets, like in the moment even, you can go back and there people were like, the back-breaking Carson Beck interception is forthcoming. Like it's about to happen. think You can feel it about coming.
00:05:31
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Wait for it. Yeah, I will say like, I don't know. I think the last time we talked on the podcast, I was thinking i was kind of on along the lines of like Indiana is just going to kill everybody.
00:05:47
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It's kind of what I was thinking. Um, and I will say, I mean, I think Miami kind of proved me wrong on that. Like that was a, that was a really good game. I will say that like, as far as college football ball playoff championship games go, was a pretty good one. Um, it was actually tight and down to the wire. as was i mean, it was fun to watch.
00:06:05
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Um, but at the same time, and I think I had said some things to you and I think you would kind of push back on me. So I kind of want to see get where your action is now, like, i know. I guess I had kind of gotten over it. Like, oh, we lost Ole Miss, like whatever. um But now it does kind of feel like, man, like if Miami gave them that game, like what could we have done? It definitely feels like a bit of a missed opportunity this season as far as the – Agreed. or has the kind Agreed. I think Yeah, I think that it's a a situation that, in my opinion, that we lost to the team that actually had the best, that was built the best to beat us.
00:06:43
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um Yeah. I think that we probably would have had some problems with components of those teams. But, I mean... I still think that Georgia was built to run with both of those teams in the national championship. We're we're not exactly built to withstand these mobile quarterbacks the way that Chambliss is. And so, I mean, just just historically, like a mobile quarterback is going to give, is going to have a higher likelihood of success against the way that Kirby Smart and our our teams are built. um Yeah. Yeah.
00:07:17
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and And that's not to say that like we can't stop mobile quarterbacks, but it's just to say that we tend to underperform when we are faced with mobile quarterbacks. These two guys, i would not classify them as as mobile quarterbacks, even though they both got you know had some success running the ball a little bit in the game. But those were mostly on like breakdowns. They weren't exactly like design runs or anything like that. It's like the sneaky athletic plays.
00:07:43
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Right. Right. um But I would have loved to have seen what we could have done against those teams, against those two teams. It just wasn't meant to be. then Yeah. That's the way the cookie, that's the way the cookie crumbles these days.
00:07:56
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Yeah. I think, I don't know. I think the the frustration on that for me goes back to, and like, whatever it it is, what it is, but like, I still think they seeded it wrong. And i I do think like, you know, job for Greg Sankey in the off season is to harp on that. Like, how do you end up with a, an 11 12 and one sec champion is ranked below 12 and one big 10 runner up.
00:08:23
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Um, so I, hundred a hundred percent that, that, that shouldn't happen. Um, I kind of, I had a feeling it was coming on selection Sunday, but you know, that doesn't mean it was right. Um, I think they got the teams in it,
00:08:37
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correct ah based on the, uh, the format or whatever the, the guidelines they have. But, uh, that was actually my biggest seating issue. So, um, I think there's, there's that. And then the whole, the whole buy thing and, you know, one in what is it now? One in seven, the teams of the buy. Um, so I think there's definitely still room for improvement. I guess those will be my, by my nitpicks, but even with all that, like we're not going to review the sugar bowl again, but we definitely had our, we definitely had our chance and we didn't, you know,
00:09:07
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to To use a Mark Richtism, we didn't finish the drill right at the end. so We did not finish the drill. No, I think that last year we talked about how young the team was. And surprisingly, we ended up being even younger, I feel like, this season. Because um we had guys that were supposed to be stepping up into their you know super senior status.
00:09:31
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They ended up getting their jobs taken away by young guys. And so we had an entire season of, you know, ups and downs of kind of figuring out where our offensive line stands, you know, in terms of the rotation. I still have concerns there, which obviously, you know, we, we haven't talked about it.
00:09:50
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Stacy, RIP. Yeah. ah this still Still not talking, i guess, in perpetuity at this point. ah we shall We shall move on to our new offensive line overlords.
00:10:06
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um yeah i mean i feel like not right i feel like we need to take a we need to take a bit of a moment here for this. We need to let this sink in. yeah it's like a little like a uh what do you call it the the the bugler the lone bugler or whatever for your your relationship with stacy serles has come to an end taps is that what they call it taps yeah yeah ah Yeah, no, it's a more than justified.
00:10:39
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i am a little bit skeptical of you know inserting someone that was on the staff, and they're basically swapping roles, which just, I don't know, feels weird. But hey, it worked really well for the defense when Muschamp was still there, so don't know.
00:10:56
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Yeah, that's a good point. um I will say, though, he's want to see he has great hair. that we He does have great hair. He's got like some but mullet action, right?
00:11:07
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Yes. It's probably the inspiration. maybe Maybe a friend of the show, Tate Ratledge, got him on that on that hairdo. but man Yeah. Uh, apologies on YouTube that I don't have the big, his picture of, but I'm looking at it right now. Phil, we have, we, we definitely, I do feel like we need uh, a Scott Howard pronunciation guide here. That's what I'm assuming it.
00:11:29
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Phil Rauscher. I'm assuming is, uh, how you say that, but, uh, we'll, we'll, we'll put some glasses on it and confirm that in the out season. Yeah.
00:11:40
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ah But yeah, so i mean we got we have some young guys across the board. um And we're returning a lot next season. We didn't lose very many guys to the portal, which I think is just insane and in the modern college football these days to not lose hardly anybody to the portal.
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we We gained a few. We gained a few.
00:12:06
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We lost a couple. yeah ah But I think that by and large, those guys were pretty much expected. um I think only one the only one of them I was kind of surprised about was the defensive lineman, but um it is what it is. you're gonna lose it's It's annual free agency, so to to bat 1,000 probably never going to happen. But we lost cost not as many guys and none of our stars, you know, super starters left. So I think it was I think it was a pretty positive, a pretty positive offseason for a portal.
00:12:45
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it's that what we're calling it? Portal situation. And it's not, yeah and apparently it's not even, it's not even over because you can portal out at this point if you want to. And by the way, if you're playing in the, if you're playing in the, in the G League, you can come over and play basketball if you want to.
00:13:02
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Oh my gosh. Save that for the basketball minute. Um, ah So, sorry, the basketball minute joke made me lose my train thought. um I agree.
00:13:15
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um i think like the one surprise for me, and of course I'm saying this and now I'm like blanking on his name, but we had a defensive back that left. I think he was number 24. think that one was kind of surprising. but Daniel Harris? Or...
00:13:29
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um He did leave as well. But no, there was like a freshman that left. huh Aguero, didn't he leave? Aguero left. Aguero did go into the portal.
00:13:41
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um but he had But he had kind of lost his job at that point. and like Yeah, mean, he was... the he was hurt the formal term like is processed out right right yeah i mean i think yeah yeah he he was hurt but then um i think i think the writing was kind of was kind of the wall there yeah um yeah we lost what what really like freaked me out during all of that and that you know he's he hughley was the offensive lineman Oh, that's right. That's right. That's right. Yeah, that was weird.
00:14:14
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um I got a little freaked out when there was all the like Nate Frazier and Chauncey Bowen's rumors flying around. um I was especially, i mean This is how my mind works. I was, um as far as, don't know, I guess I was equally concerned about both, but like Lily got a Chauncey Bowens jersey for Christmas. And I was like, bro, we get, she gets the jersey for Christmas. That was like the big thing that my parents got. too It's like, like, that's a thing we have to worry about now. It's like, you get a jersey, it is you know, yeah and they might transfer. Like what is going on?
00:14:52
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Welcome to what it's like in the EPL where you buy someone's jersey and then the next season they're gone and you're like, what the heck? right Yeah. Yeah. yeah that's what Or all those all those people that had Freddie Freeman jerseys for the Braves. Right. Right. Well, and there's a whole like jersey protection thing, I think, now you can get like at least like in in the pros. But I think those are more like you you like the player. And so like if they get traded or go somewhere else, like you can change it to that team, I guess, or whatever, but like, like no offense, but I don't want your Jersey when you go to non Georgia, you know, like, I don't know. Yeah. I'm not going, I'm not going to buy an LSU Jersey for whoever's going over there.
00:15:38
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Yeah. Yeah. So, Hmm. But yeah, I mean, I think overall, um i think I think like SEC-wise, I think we've lost less than than most to the portal, um which I think, which, i you know, obviously you want. um But we got that safety from Clemson, Cluelough Barnes, a Good one.
00:16:00
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ah A very a great couple of guys going in the right direction. in ah Isaiah Canyon coming from Georgia Tech as a wide receiver and Amaris Williams, a defensive lineman.
00:16:12
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um ah That could be big, by the way, of as far as edge rushing goes. But going from Auburn to Georgia. So you know you go from Georgia Tech to Georgia and Auburn to Georgia, those are great decisions.
00:16:22
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they They're transferring for the right reasons. Yeah.
00:16:28
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Yeah. the Anybody that that comes to Georgia is coming for the right reasons. And anybody that leaves is going for all the wrong reasons. Yeah. They just they just want, they're chasing that bag.
00:16:39
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Yes. yeah Yeah. But then you had. We have nothing but pure ah pure heart. that That's right. That's right. Yeah. We definitely had the whole Dabo portal gate going on with Clemson and Ole Miss. So that's that's been the whole thing.
00:16:53
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Dave, okay, so let's let's let's press pause and camp out on dogging on the on the portal situation. And frankly, I'm going to lump in eligibility ah into into all of it as well, because we've got guys that are signed up for eight years.
00:17:11
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They're about to to go into their eighth year of college football.
Kirby Smart and Mobile Quarterbacks
00:17:14
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Like, what are we doing? Jim, jim where does where does the insanity stop? Like, we've got guys that have stuck around for eight years. We've got guys that are lobbying and getting injunctions for determining what their eligibility is that are clearly designed to just run the clock out.
00:17:37
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they're they're basically kurt Kirby death marching ah ah a decision a final decision where you know you come you come to the point where you make a final decision and and it's like oh well we we just finished our season sorry right yeah um it seems like it seems like you you can get an injunction and i joked in our chat our chat earlier today that it just feels like some at some point someone is going to make the argument that they are progressing towards a degree and enrolled in the university and thus are justified in being on a college football team remember when we were getting made fun of because stetson was old uh a hundred percent dude like i don't want to hear about any of these stetson bennett jokes ever again
00:18:23
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In Stetson's, well, in their defense, I guess I should say, Stetson should have had a degree. And a lot of these guys do have degrees. So there is that. but wait Wait, hold on, hold But back to your prior point, Stetson could come back and still progress towards a degree. So we should just bring him back. He was progressing. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. That's what that's what I said. And and they they completely avoided the JUCO years. So like technically, he has a year of eligibility left. Yeah, I definitely have questions on like how some of this stuff is adding up. like the The Miami guy is going for an eighth year. I i saw some Instagram posts and it was it like broke down like why he can do that. And like the way I explained it, i was like, that's not how it works as far as I understand. So I don't know. I don't really understand what's going on. um i I guess we've kind of thrown some stuff out the window. But...
00:19:15
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um Supposed to be you get five years to play four seasons. You can redshirt. You can redshirt twice if your first redshirt is due to medical reasons. And then you do that again. So you can get two redshirt years if you're injured twice.
00:19:28
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But that's the way it's always worked. Add in the COVID year. But at this point, that should be gone. Like 2020 was a freebie for everyone. It didn't count. But like, I don't understand how some of these guys are still going. Yeah.
00:19:40
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It's kind of weird unless they were in JUCO first, but like that, the Miami guy, I don't think that was the case. So I don't know. i Make it make, make it make sense. oh Yeah. Make it make sense. It doesn't matter. All this does is hurt high school recruiting. like Like we were talking about in the chat this morning, like increasingly like the high school recruiting seems to like it's mattering less and less because of you know the longevity of these players in the portal and the longevity of these players with their eligibility. And so like, you can just rather than taking, rather than trying to recruit these kids out of high school and throwing millions of dollars at an unproven, and at an unproven, but clearly talented person, um or you can save your money and throw money at someone that's clearly created production
00:20:29
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at at a higher level. So um all all this all this eligibility, all of this transferring and stuff, all it does is hurt the high school kids. And I think ultimately it's going to impact, you know, the recruiting rankings and the recruiting and all that stuff because it's going to be much more difficult to scout these kids. And I think that coaches are going to care less and less about it.
00:20:52
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Yeah, you're I was thinking back to when we had Andrew Carraway on last offseason and what he was talking about then at you know around high school recruiting everything. And I feel like it's it's gone to another level, this go-around.
00:21:06
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um It's pretty crazy. Yeah,
JUCO Pathway and Minor Leagues in College Football
00:21:09
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seriously. Like there's almost, there's almost an argument to be made for someone to go and ball out at a JUCO school because the years, the years at JUCO don't count. You can get your credits towards, towards graduation or whatever and transfer to a school that's willing to pay you because you've, you've done your production and and suddenly you have four years of eligibility because the JUCO years doesn't count.
00:21:32
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Dude, that's actually really interesting. um It used to be, I'm going to go play college football to get the big paycheck in the NFL. that may You may be on to something. I'm going to go to JUCO so I can showcase myself, develop, and get the big payday for four years of college.
00:21:50
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And then maybe I go to the NFL on top of that. Yeah. Yeah, and you get and we saw it with Indiana what these older guys are able to do, you know, I mean, if you're a person like, I don't know, like a Brock Bowers or a Jordan Davis that is not like i mean, those guys didn't come out of high school as obviously heralded recruits. I think Brock was like what a four stars and like that.
00:22:14
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but and Which is obviously still like pretty good, but like it wasn't like he was yeah screaming at the top of the recruiting rankings you know in the top 100 players or whatever, or top 50 players.
00:22:27
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And we know all know Jordan Davis' story, so like maybe players like that that clearly believe and that would believe in themselves would make a decision to to go and take ah take a run at a JUCO and then come and come with some production to a team like Indiana where the coaches value clearly values production over all else.
00:22:49
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It could be a path for, it could be a path for a lot of guys. Yeah, no, I think, I think you may. And frankly, and frankly, like here's, here's, you want you want me to go take it a step farther, Jim? I do.
00:23:01
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So what if there's a world and and we used to have this, you remember the Mark Rick years when we had um Georgia military college and Hargrave military college?
00:23:15
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Yeah. Yeah. where that was, if you didn't, if you had problems or whatever, like that was like, that was like your, your mulligan, like go and get right at at Hargrave, go and get right at GMC.
00:23:29
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And then you come in and enroll at Georgia. And instead of having three or two years yearss to play now, all of a sudden you've got four years to play. So if you're ah a team like Georgia develop these relationships with these JUCO colleges,
00:23:43
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and say, hey, like we want you, but we want to see what you can do. Here's here's a pathway to to do that. and you partner You basically have a minor a minor league system for college football. right Right. yeah i mean With the money that's getting paid out in college right now, not a a bad idea, honestly.
00:24:01
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yeah But the the portal, the portal like everything about this, like you and i have had this conversation. like as As fans, I feel myself being less caring less about the sport that I used to be completely rabid fan a rabid and passionate for.
00:24:18
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Which yeah could be our age, but also like just this whole situation is just off-putting. Like you can't, like you you were talking about, like, I mean, Lily's got her, her she's got her jersey.
00:24:30
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And had that happened where he left, imagine how disenfranchising that is for for her, right? Dude, I. You're talking about an entire generation of. Yeah. No, I, and I like, I didn't say anything about it either. Like, and I know she was well aware of the Nate Frazier rumors. Cause those were all over Instagram. I feel like the Bowen stuff wasn't talked about quite as much, but it it was out there. Um, and like, I remember like I told her after they had like, that came out. I mean, you know, who knows, but like these are the things we're reading online. Like they both signed their new deals or whatever. And so I told her that and she, and she was like, wait, Bowen's too.
00:25:05
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she's like what? Yeah. I got his jersey for Christmas. like So, yeah, I mean, I can't imagine. I can't imagine. I mean, like that. I mean, seriously, like, i don't know what that would have done to her fandom.
00:25:18
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I can't. i sure And that's and that's the reality of where we're at right now is that you've got ah huge swath of fans that are completely turned off. by all of this.
00:25:30
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There's a whole subset of like casuals out there that just load the way that it was before. It was like, ah, there's just and just they're they're not they don't care about school. they're They're just there to play for a couple of years and then go to the NFL. Well, now...
00:25:45
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Now they're there for eight years and all they care about is playing for NFL money because they're making these kids are making more money than they do in the NFL. That was another thing that came out was like the average the average age of the nfl NFL teams was pretty much on par with the average age of Indiana's roster and the average salary for ah NFL first year, second year guys is less than what they're making in college.
00:26:14
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. and I don't know. I don't. It's just not as ah it's not as appealing. It's not as appealing as it once was. And i I'm damn sure, like, sorry, Raddy, I'm damn i' sure not following recruiting as much as I was before, which even last even the last three years was probably next to nothing.
00:26:34
Speaker
Oh, we got a commitment? Sweet. Now it's like, oh, we got a commitment? Awesome. Let me know when they actually enroll and actually, like, take a snap. Yeah, let me know when they enroll and don't go into the portal immediately.
00:26:48
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Because apparently, as we learned right now, enrolling and going to class is not enough. Exactly. almost caught myself. I was like, well, hang on Maybe we need to just upgrade that to let me know when they take a snap. Let me know when he steps on the field. and that a paragen that's That's insane. That's insane.
00:27:06
Speaker
And I know that we had a little banter about this this morning, but like you and you, you renegotiated your deal, whether or not you signed it or not, or whatever, like verbal agreements. I don't know, whatever.
00:27:17
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Uh, and at the 11th hour, another team comes in and just trying to, trying to get you to, you know, go away and you show your coaches or tell your coaches, you've got evidence of, of all this tampering. And they're like, oh but if you match their, if you match what they're offering me, then I'll stay.
00:27:35
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then the coach is like, wait, what? Yeah. Yeah. Well, and that, that kid had already transferred once this off season. It just doesn't make, it just doesn't make any sense. i can't remember where he went from. yeah He was a Cal to Clemson.
00:27:46
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Cal to Clemson in this portal in roles in class, goes back in the portal after being tempered with and goes to Ole Miss. Like, if If everything Debo says is true.
00:27:57
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But man, i and I know, like, sorry, Hunter. and we've been talking about this, but like when Debo brought receipts to the press conference and like had it all written down and was like naming names, was like, This is crazy, but I mean, everyone's been complaining and not naming names and just these like empty complaints. So I know a lot of people don't like Davo, but like I, I kind of, I loved it.
00:28:21
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Like, oh I mean, nothing's going change. Everyone's just complaining about tampering, but it's kind of like weak complaints. Like, oh, you you know, this is bad. This is bad, but not really doing anything about it. I mean, he, he brought receipts. He named names.
00:28:34
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I think unless people like nothing's gonna change. and unless you know like there has to be there has to be a de-incentivization of behavior and yeah guys like duke duke and uh their quarterback menzer or whatever his name is yeah yeah um that they apparently came to an agreement which i hope involves duke receiving compensation for their trouble uh in that regard um you got damon wilson and georgia still duking it out in court apparently yeah because we haven't seen a resolution there uh you've got what washington's quarterback that they kind of said that we expect you to to honor your agreement as well like hold these kids accountable and we're very quickly approaching like
00:29:22
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i don't know how you I don't know how it how it translates. like it's not They're not employees. like I guess they're your I-9 or whatever. They're contract employees kind of thing. Yeah, I don't know. Bring on the contracts.
00:29:36
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Bring on the terms. Bring on the severance agreements. um Hold everybody accountable, period. Yeah. Yeah. I'm, I'm with you.
00:29:47
Speaker
Um, and don't know. I, I wanted to talk about the CFP
College Football Playoff Changes
00:29:51
Speaker
changes. You want to hit that briefly or do you have more to say on, uh, on that topic? I don't know. we, we just, we just went into a whole diatribe about how it makes no sense. Like for, for high schoolers whatever, I will say that I'll probably start asking questions when a high school a kid out of high school signs a seven year deal.
00:30:08
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I'm like, wait, what? ah
00:30:13
Speaker
ah I like it. Fair enough. Fair enough. um my my My thing I wanted to say about the playoff was the... so Okay, so the changes are all around for next year, staying at 12 teams.
00:30:28
Speaker
So it's still 12-team playoff, still um first round buy for the top four, all that stuff. Like where the games are played, or still nothing changed. But what changed is like the ah there are now actual auto like deemed auto-bids. So before it was...
00:30:43
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the five highest ranked conference champions. Now it is the conference champion of each power for conference gets an auto bid period. And then the highest ranked group of, i think it's group of six now. Cause i think PAC 12 is kind of back.
00:30:58
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Um, but it's group of six, the highest ranked champion from those gets in. And the last thing is if Notre Dame is ranked in the top 12, they get in. So if you change, if you, if if you apply all of that to this past season, here's what that would have done. yes but So Duke makes it in because they're the ACC champion. That's an auto bid. So now Duke is in, um,
00:31:23
Speaker
I think only Tulane gets in, not JMU, because Tulane was ranked higher than JMU. So JMU is out. Tulane stays in. Duke is in. Notre Dame has to be in because they were they were ranked in the top 12. So what that would have meant is that even though the committee seated Miami higher the Notre Dame, Notre Dame would have gotten in, in Miami left out in this current season. So there, we can't leave the playoff alone. We have to tweak it every season. And now next year, if you apply next year's rules to this past season, one of the teams that made it the championship would not have even made the playoff.
00:32:00
Speaker
Um, I don't know. Yeah. Which is, which just seems, which just seems crazy. Like at some point we got to stop at some point you got to stop. Um, um, did Do you remember there being this much squirreling of things when we had the BCS? Like...
00:32:17
Speaker
I saw something about that. There were like some changes. It was like with the formula. So like they would tweak the formula, you know, like which computers were included, like waiting on certain things. I think like they changed. And like, I think at one point, didn't the AP poll say like, we're like, don't use us for the BCS anymore or something. Like I think a poll, a poll like withdrew itself from the formula. So there was some stuff like that, but this is in like, you know, the four team was fairly stable for the years that it ran. And now we're two years in, we're we're heading into year three of the 12 team, uh, comfortable playoff. And it's going to be there. The criteria have changed every year.
00:32:56
Speaker
ah Uh, they've changed something about it every year. I, it's kind of, it's kind of wild. Yeah. It seems a little crazy. Yeah. I do feel like maybe at some point, can we just kind of stick with something and just see, see what happens if we do the same thing two years in a row? Can we get some more data?
00:33:12
Speaker
ah Yeah, if we're if we're in a situation where a conference champion suddenly is in the playoff versus not in the playoff, to me, that's a little drastic. um and And frankly, like I think this year's rules, like this year's version of the rules probably protects ah a situation like what happened this year where yeah not every year not every year the conference champion is going to be a clear-cut contender. That's just the nature of, that's just the grind of an SEC schedule, right? like yeah I mean, i will say i still it's all it's all it's all a mess. It's still all a mess. I think that they got to fix the seating. They got to fix the home and away situation where you know the reward for winning the SEC championship is actually playing at home as opposed to playing on a neutral site game after having a month off or whatever. To me, that just seems insane.
00:34:09
Speaker
Yeah, i agree. um Totally. There is enough data to change that yeah Yeah, I think, yeah, one in eight Teams that get a bye going 1-8 seems that no that's not insignificant to me.
00:34:28
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. um Well, cool. That's what I had. Those are the things I had jotted down. We can hit the listener questions unless you have more. It's been yes it's been it's been an interesting Jim.
00:34:42
Speaker
seasoned jim Actually, before we hit the list of questions, let me ask you this. How do you, as you reflect on this season, like, what do you, what do you think? I mean, you know, SEC champion, quarter finalist, but didn't, didn't, didn't win advanced to the quarterfinals, but didn't win a game. We didn't win a game in the playoff.
00:35:01
Speaker
How do I feel about just about the team, Georgia in general, where we stand today kind of thing? I mean, I guess I know I said, like we said, kind of a missed opportunity, but I guess it's almost around like how do you define now in like today's day and age. Like, like, is it, was it a successful season? A successful season. You know,
00:35:21
Speaker
I mean, we made the playoff. we had our We had our opportunity to advance. We had our opportunity to to step on the throat of a an inferior opponent that we had beaten earlier in the season. um So I will classify this as as a missed opportunity.
00:35:37
Speaker
What might have been type season.
Georgia's 2025 Season Success and Challenges
00:35:40
Speaker
yeah Not too dissimilar to last season where, you know, maybe if Carson Beck didn't get hurt, things might turn out a little better. We had our first season, our first quarterback start in the bowl game, all the situation that that bowl game had last year.
00:35:59
Speaker
yeah So it's just kind of feels a little like, you know, we had all the superstar recruiting classes in 24 and 25, and we haven't been able to, um,
00:36:09
Speaker
We haven't and been able to replicate what we had in 21 and 22. Not that that should be the annual goal, as Will likes to comment on waiting since last Saturday. like If your goal is to win the national championship every year, like you're going to be highly disappointed because it's infinitely more difficult to win the national championship now in this day and age. so yeah You won the SEC, which in order to get into the playoff is one of those one of those hurdles is is winning the SEC.
00:36:39
Speaker
um I still think that based on data and our personal experiences, that third place in the SEC might be the best in the house. I feel like that needs to be the goal next year.
00:36:57
Speaker
i mean, i'm not I'm not disagreeing with you, but at the same time, we won a trophy, and there's a whole lot of teams out there that didn't win one. No, I agree with you. I agree. Including Miami.
00:37:09
Speaker
Yeah, well, when when you when he went into last last season and back getting hurt, all I could think of, all I could hear was Chris Fowler talking about how much he's been through. Oh, my gosh. i I'm glad we don't have to hear about that from Chris Fowler anymore. I don't know why he just like absolutely latched onto that. it It got to the point where it was like weird. like I had people i feel like that I work with that aren't like huge college football fans but were watching the game like texting me like, what is Chris Fowler talking about? I was like, oh, my gosh, don't get me started. Yeah.
00:37:39
Speaker
Bro, that whole situation is is definitely another component. Dude, that i'm telling you man, whoever Carson Beck's PR team is must be the same PR team that Lane Giffen had before he decided to blow himself up at another SEC school.
00:37:53
Speaker
Yeah. i would say i would say it was a successful season, Jim. I mean, what what what would you say? No, I say success. I think i think any... i I think that it will be a sad day when we consider an SEC championship season not to be a success.
00:38:12
Speaker
think that would be a sad day. um I mean, I think... and like it It has to mean something, I feel like. um i And honestly, too, i don't I'm not super confident about how much longer that game is going around.
00:38:24
Speaker
um i can I could definitely see a world where there is a an SEC champion, but that champion is crowned based on regular season record and tiebreakers. And tiebreakers, would there even be tiebreakers? Or would you just have shared SEC championships? Yeah. Um, I could see that. I just, you know, like, I don't know. where i say that, but I don't, the only reason I back away from that is what we always talk about. Like when they, the question is why the answer is money. Like, why would you keep that game going money? And so I don't know that game may be worth enough. That it that it won't go away. and yeah that's the only I like this scenario. Competitively, competitively i don't think that game makes sense anymore for the SEC.
00:39:06
Speaker
So I like the scenario that um pate Josh Pate put out where the conference championships are play-ins to the college football playoff.
00:39:19
Speaker
Yeah, his. The other thing he added was that, like, if you don't make a conference championship game and you are being considered for the playoff, you have to play a game that week.
00:39:30
Speaker
His idea is actually that the bowl games are played that week. So like your citrus bowl, your pop tart bowl, they move to conference championship weekend. And so you're either in a conference championship game or you're in a bowl game that I actually really like that idea.
00:39:43
Speaker
Yeah, i think that I think that that scenario makes a lot of sense. I hate the fact that it means that the Thanksgiving tradition of Georgia Georgia Tech goes away and you know you have the other Thanksgiving traditions. However, having those traditions matter makes it worth moving and making the SEC championship and making these bowl games matter I think is ah is a is a a good trade-off for having to upend some different traditions and things like that. Because basically just, I think what he was saying was you move move everything to week zero. Like there's no more week zero kind of thing.
00:40:22
Speaker
And that's yeah that's how you make up the time. It is. Yeah. And his, I think his model basically gets you to the, the national championship is on New Year's day, I think, or maybe it's like the week after or whatever, maybe it's still semifinal as at least gets the semifinals up to New Year's day.
00:40:39
Speaker
Yeah, that's the other thing that's crazy. like if Isn't it next year the national championship would have been on the 25th or 26th or something like that? Yeah, it's even later. It's it's too long. And again, i feel like i feel like the casual fan got fatigue, honestly. like I watched it. You watched it. But you know but we're we host a college football podcast, like you know a Georgia podcast. like We're like all in. like i i I think a lot of people, I don't know,
00:41:07
Speaker
I guess the ratings would say otherwise, least for championship game. I think the championship game did good numbers on TV, but like, shoot, man, when I got the semifinal week, it was like, oh there's a game tonight. You know, like we were like, what is going on?
00:41:18
Speaker
Like it was, it was a compelling matchup. I think that it kind of extending things out. Like right now we're, we're currently in like no man's land for sports viewing. Like there's nothing on TV right now.
00:41:33
Speaker
Uh, we had George basketball tomorrow night. That's why I wanted to record a night. Uh, Right, right. no No man's land for football. like The yeah Super Bowl set, got all the stuff. like There's just only a handful of things that are going on. it's like yeah But yeah I think that you've got to make some changes to where making the SEC championship matters, winning the SEC championship matters. There's a requisite reward for winning the SEC championship.
00:42:05
Speaker
If we're going to say that the playoff is is better because it's a playoff and everybody has a chance to win, like, okay, then don't water down the conference championship. If we water down the conference championship, just because we want to play off, then the playoff is dead in my opinion.
00:42:23
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I'm with you. All right. Um, well, let's hit the, let's hit the listener questions. Um, we can head on over to those, uh, as always, even in the season, uh, season review, listener questions are brought to you by working web media,
00:42:39
Speaker
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00:43:04
Speaker
right. Let's kick it off with the building bonus TMTMTM from Brett building. First question. Why do you think next season will will be better than this season for Georgia?
00:43:15
Speaker
Our youth is going to be more mature. Agreed. And Stacey Searles is no longer in charge of the offensive line. of Of course. Um,
Future Prospects: Gunnar Stockton
00:43:27
Speaker
I w I was going to hone in on a specific item of, of youth and and growth there, and that's going be Gunnar Stockton.
00:43:35
Speaker
So this was, you know, this was year one, uh, being a starter, uh, for Gunnar. So, you know, I, I look for some improvement from him from year one to year two. I think he had a, mean, he had a really good year as a first starter, first year starter. he's in the top 10 voting for the Heisman, had some amazing moments. I think when you go and look at the tape, you can see some like reads and open receivers that he missed. And, you know, I look for some development there and, know, hopefully he's coming back and letting it rip next year. So I think that's going to be a a big thing as well.
00:44:08
Speaker
Okay. Second question, who will be the MVPs on offense, defense? I can get down with that. Nice. Who will be the MVPs on offense, defense, and special teams next year? I think special teams, ah Payday is still around, right?
00:44:21
Speaker
ah Yes. Yes. Sorry. Yes. He is back. He is running it back, as they say. All right, we got payday covered, so I think special teams is going to end up being payday. um agree.
00:44:33
Speaker
I'm trying to think who... On offense, I'm going to have to go with Gunnar Stockton on that one. Okay, I will go... I think our team... good i was going to say, I think our team is going to live and die on Gunnar Stockton.
00:44:47
Speaker
Yeah. um I also think it's Gunner. I'm going to give an honorable mention to Nate Frazier. um i feel like that was a fraser would be it was a huge blow to our chances in the Sugar Bowl when he had to come out on that last drive. So I'm going to give an honorable mention to Nate Frazier.
00:45:04
Speaker
Agreed. Defense though. Hmm. yeah gonna go ah I'm I'm going to go Ellis Robinson. Ooh, nice. Okay. Um, Hmm.
00:45:16
Speaker
I'll just, I'll stick with the, the secondary and go KJ Bolden. Ooh. I like it. Cause the secondary was not so great for us this, this season. That was one of the weak spots and we immediately went out and that was the first portal edition was in the secondary. So.
00:45:31
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Agreed. All right. All right. We got those covered. ah Bonus bonus from Brett. Three. Remember that time we held Alabama to negative three rushing yards? tell me so That That was pretty amazing.
00:45:46
Speaker
i See, more proof. you More proof. This you have to consider this season a success. Negative three rushing yards. Agreed. SEC championship game. o What a time to be alive. Yeah. All right. ah Next up, proving that questions can be asked via any method, because this these were entered to me verbally this evening from Lily when she found out we were recording.
00:46:10
Speaker
her Her first, she has two things. The first one was just a comment, and I don't know that we ever talked about this. She said, I am thankful that Andrew Smart discovered Zachariah Branch. did Did you ever hear that commentary?
00:46:21
Speaker
Uh-uh. So Kirby made a comment that, like, and when when Branch went into the portal, Andrew Smart, like, alerted Kirby to this. Like, hey, have you heard about this Zachariah Branch guy that's in the portal?
00:46:33
Speaker
Like, you need to go check him out. ah Amazing. He's like... yeah he he's just He's just waving to his dad right now. like oh man. That is pretty awesome. Maybe maybe we need to send ah Andrew Smart out on the recruiting trail.
00:46:53
Speaker
Maybe we do. Maybe we do ah next Next time I see him ah on the on the way to a game, I'll have to love to bring that up. Yeah, seriously. like send Go ahead and send that boy to recruit some wide receivers.
00:47:05
Speaker
I have also, on that note, I've seen, you know, I mean i think we we think of Andrew as his, like, baseball prowess, but I think I saw a reel or something of him throwing a football. So, I don't know, may may be getting into some quarterbacking coming up for him.
00:47:18
Speaker
He looks like he can sling it. But I need him to need him to upgrade his competition from the Athens area private schools. Okay. Okay. Okay. Got it.
00:47:30
Speaker
Um, cause that has not been well for us. Oh, that's a good point. That's a good point. Okay. Yes. Yes. Um, her second item was a question. She's it's it is. Will Lily be on the podcast again next season?
00:47:47
Speaker
Um, but and and, and, and she told me that her, or she told me that her, her answer, if she's answering the question is if she's invited, that was her answer.
00:47:59
Speaker
and but it's pretty funny. She definitely, she, she got a huge kick out of ah the feedback. ah Like when David Lee said that she speaks better than I do. I think that was her favorite piece of feedback, but also i know couple people said stuff to her at ah at the tailgate. So definitely appreciated that. And she got a lot of kick out of it. So thanks for all, all who did that.
00:48:21
Speaker
She did a great job. Okay. ah She needs to sign a, she needs to go be a guest on girls talk ball. Bro, yeah. I don't know. like Is she going to try to strong arm us on her NIL deal or something? like What's going on? and ah she's She's entered the portal. Lily Wood has entered the portal. <unk>e up Cue up the noise, Jim.
00:48:48
Speaker
So good. so yeah Yeah. oh ah i'm being I'm being slow and John Michael D is laughing about it. Yeah.
00:49:00
Speaker
Lilywood is at the portal. Too good. um All right. Next up, we've got friend of the show, Tim Riley. um First question. He's got three. First question. What was the best home game y'all attended this season?
00:49:13
Speaker
All them. I knew you were to say that. I love it. We only get so many a year. We only get so many a year. So it's all of them. I think the one where Walter and everybody came, like, which game was that for? Was that Alabama? I can't remember. Or Texas.
00:49:27
Speaker
Oh man. Yeah. Which game was that? It wasn't Alabama. Cause Kim was at that game. Um, must've been Ole Miss. Was it Ole Miss? on this Or was it Kentucky?
00:49:39
Speaker
I can't remember. ah i have the worst memory. and the i could go back and look at my my photo reel and correlate the time, but I did not do that before the podcast. But that one was pretty cool, seeing everybody, all the fraternity brothers.
00:49:55
Speaker
So that was cool. That was cool. um So I actually looked at this in a different way. This is this is ah going to be a weird answer. This is not my actual answer.
Memorable Games and Moments
00:50:05
Speaker
But if you define best game as like the actual best played game, like the closest game was actually Alabama.
00:50:12
Speaker
Isn't that kind of weird? Yeah. yeah Um, and it was a really good game. I do try to like not lose sight of a game being a great game. Even if you lose it, that was a really good game. Um, but I, I think I've got to go with Ole Miss.
00:50:25
Speaker
So, um, yeah, for myself, I would say Texas second, Texas was awesome, but, um, man, especially that the onside kick, uh, that was incredible, but, um, I'm going go on this.
00:50:40
Speaker
outside of Outside of the adult in me talking about the adult experience, as a dad, taking Caroline to to her to the game that I went to with her was just me and her. It was also so pretty fun.
00:50:57
Speaker
i want to say that was Charlotte. the charlotte Yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah as a dad, that was pretty fun for me. Yeah, that was a fun weekend. That was fun weekend. and The funny thing there too is the, on the inverse, that was like, kim and I actually just went with, uh, and didn't bring a kid, ah which was rare. Our kids stayed, stayed here, which we like never do. So we had a very, very inverse that weekend.
00:51:21
Speaker
um Okay. so second question from Tim for this coming season, what home game are you most looking forward to and why? And now I, I should have like had up the schedule.
00:51:34
Speaker
um So home games this coming season, we have Tennessee state, Western Kentucky, Oklahoma, Vanderbilt, Auburn, Missouri, Georgia Okay.
00:51:47
Speaker
I have multiple things running through my head. um So I'm going to say... i mean, the Oklahoma game has got to be kind of earmarked there because isn't that the first time they're coming to campus?
00:51:59
Speaker
ah That is a great question. I don't know if we've ever... I think so. um We'll it will certainly have Hastie's target history as we approach. But I believe so. I mean, in the SEC, yes. i know't I don't know that they've ever come to Athens.
00:52:15
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I would say that i would say that sooners the Sooners at home is probably going an interesting one because that will be opportunity for us to play an opponent that we haven't played at home, I believe.
00:52:28
Speaker
a We'll have have to check check the history on that one. okay um I can confirm the only time we've ever played them was at Rose Bowl. Yeah. So that'll be fun. It'll be very similar to the Texas folks coming into town. So I imagine that that will be a pretty pretty heavily attended game for for both fan bases.
00:52:47
Speaker
I think, isn't John Mateer will be back for the Sooners? So they should have their Heisman, or at least early season Heisman candidate.
00:52:58
Speaker
ah John Mateer will be back for that game. um Nice clarification there. auburn Auburn at home is fun. i mean, I'm just saying we we could black it out. I'm just saying. i don't know. ah if only If only we had something to be traditional about.
00:53:15
Speaker
ah And then obviously the Gators coming to Atlanta is also going to be interesting. So I don't know if that doesn't count as an away I don't know we're home team or a away team. and But that's technically a home game for us because they're at the Benz.
00:53:31
Speaker
Fair enough. um I'll give some honorable honorable mentions. I always love a tech game at home, and I believe this one will be on Saturday again, unless they change it. um The only other one I was going throw in there is Vanderbilt and Jared Curtis. like Will he be their starting quarterback? so that's That's another sneaky one there.
00:53:54
Speaker
Okay. um Final question from front end of the show, Tim Riley, and maybe and we can convert this maybe into the basketball minute for Fletcher as well. Will the hoop dogs make the dance?
00:54:05
Speaker
They fell out of the top 25. Fell out the top 25, had a pretty brutal loss to Texas where had a halftime, seven point halftime lead and got outscored like 50 something to 30 in the second half. Texas could not miss. So I don't know. That would kind of is what it is. That stunk.
00:54:23
Speaker
um i Yes, I think they will make the dance. I think they'll make the dance. I think this team is better than the team last year. um That doesn't really mean anything. It's a different season. But, I mean, this the the start that they're off to is, like, historic as far as Georgia basketball goes. It's one of the better starts in team history. um I do. I do think they'll...
00:54:44
Speaker
you know, protect home court. Um, got to keep playing well at home. Got a big home game, uh, tomorrow night as we're recording on Tuesday, uh, Wednesday night at home at the Steg against Tennessee. Um, but yeah, know that loss to Texas, like Texas was favored by the way, like Vegas it did not expect us to, to win that game. Uh, but yeah, protect the home court, you know, steal a couple on the road.
00:55:07
Speaker
Um, you know, get one that you weren't supposed to win here and there and, uh, when the ones you're supposed to, I think, I think they'll be in the dance. Now like the Archibald's fall away when... Yeah, that that that and then the um the win at Missouri was really big.
00:55:24
Speaker
um you know and In a game where you you have a lead, you lose it. um You've got crazy ending with buzzer beater stuff going on and everything. And to hang on and and and win that game at Missouri on the road, was that was big.
00:55:41
Speaker
That was big too. Yeah, and those are those are top 25 teams right now. Yeah. And by the way, the game was that Tennessee game was supposed to be tonight and was moved to tomorrow due to snowmageddon.
00:55:53
Speaker
Um, and I don't know if that was kind of on the tenant on the Tennessee side, because I know Tennessee got, they actually got the ice storm, um, from my understanding that like, they did yeah yeah. So I'm, I'm assuming it's difficult for them to travel.
00:56:07
Speaker
All right. ah Hopefully we did the best. I think they'll, I think they'll be on the dance. Yeah. Yeah. I think so too. I think so too. Dude, it's it's, it's, they're fun to watch.
00:56:17
Speaker
Um, and we're we're going to get a boost because, uh, some of the recent struggles in the games we've struggled in were because Keeling turned the game on was watching and he actually went to the Texas game. He has told me that he has done with Georgia basketball for the season. Uh, he's pulling like a Josh.
00:56:32
Speaker
it's not watch anymore yes stop watching keeling all your fault uh all right uh one more we got one more uh set listener questions fireball
00:56:53
Speaker
from the i played this song ah played this song uh in the car the other day and camden was like dad what is this song i was like it's jason huggins song we're talking about yeah
00:57:03
Speaker
She goes, what?
00:57:07
Speaker
That's incredible. um Okay. We've got, he he's got like a, a batch. We'll say um first question. What will you remember the most from the 2025 season?
00:57:20
Speaker
The, the tailgates and going to the games with my kids. Yes. Yes. I would agree with that. A hundred percent. Hey, you miss it, man. You miss it when it's in the off season and then there's so much buildup and it's, it's so great to see everyone during the season. For sure. Yes. And you're, and you're like, and when it comes to an end, like, ah, no more, to no more tailgates. No more tailgates. hanging out. um No more bean dip. haven't had bean dip in weeks. JP. Yeah.
00:57:52
Speaker
ah If only there was a recipe that you could make That was one of our steps to try be healthier. It's like, well, college football is over. Stop eating beatnik every weekend.
00:58:07
Speaker
and I think everybody's on the health kick, right? I've been eating a lot of lentils myself. Yeah. um I'd say there, there is a lot continuing with the off the field. There was a lot of like off the field, cool moments like to, mean, you like shareable, you and Carter, like you know meeting the whole team and everything.
00:58:27
Speaker
Yeah, that was fun. Yeah. you You got that. ah Lily and I went to the Gunner Stockton signing um that first weekend. That was pretty, that was pretty cool. So, yeah, I think, I think that, and I, I will say too, I do still think, I think on the field, I think it's, I think it's Gunner getting to have, you know, know, some of those moments, the, the dive to beat Auburn, to seal it, the kneel to seal the Florida win is pretty sweet. The London Humphreys catch at Tennessee.
00:58:58
Speaker
Ooh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So i don't know. Which if, if I wonder if we lose that game, do we end up third place in the sec? I don't know. Oh, that's funny. That's funny. Um, I guess I would say like kind of on that note of those things we're just hitting it was like the, I mean the, the, I guess the slogan, whatever do you want to call it, the Kirby gave it the hard to kill. Like that's what I'm going to remember. but it That's what I'm going to remember about this team. I mean, they never, they never gave up.
00:59:25
Speaker
They never gave up. Shoot, even the Sugar Bowl, man. They never gave up. so Yeah, we were were we were in it all the way to the end. Yep. Okay, second one. Any departing seniors earn DGD status?
00:59:38
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I mean, think Delp a brother out. Yeah, Delp. I would say um Thorson, the Boomer and Onion. a Absolutely. it I would say the officially unofficial wide receiver of my God of Podcast, retiring.
00:59:56
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Yep. Yep. Dylan Bell. Agreed. Dylan Bell, who' who seems to be balling out in the, was it the Shrine Bowl? which Yeah. Which I think is going on tonight, actually. which East-West Shrine Bowl has Dylan Bell's in it.
01:00:12
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Noah Thomas is in it. And Colby Young, all three of them. They're all in that game. Yeah, I would say ah in the world of in the world of all the transfers and all that kind of stuff, you know, you got Colby Young and noah Thomas coming in.
01:00:26
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like Yeah. do do they Do they earn damn good dog status? What about Branch? I know you his question did say senior, and I think Branch was a junior.
01:00:36
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But, what dude, what a season. like I would say Branch, absolutely. i would say i would take most of those guys. Colby Young, ah which by the way, Colby Young earns damn good dog status in Carter's heart because when we were at the team hotel, he was one of the first ones that started high-fiving people. like He was very much involved and like made a point to like go to the fans and stuff. so yeah Shout out Colby Young.
01:01:03
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um But yeah, dude, Zachariah Branch, like all those guys. yeah Absolutely. There's definitely some damn good dog status. There's also some that have gotten lost because they transferred away. so Yeah, agreed.
01:01:15
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I would add Kristen Miller and Daylon Everett for the defense. I want to make sure to include those guys. Those are the main ones. i the you know I probably dole out the DGD a lot. know some people are like, not everyone is a DGD. They didn't graduate.
01:01:35
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Right. I tend to just say it. Yeah. Unless you transfer. Sorry. I don't make the rules. Unless you transfer, then you're dead to me. Or I guess I do make that rule. But yeah. um So the the third one, we kind of talked about this earlier, but I do, I want to answer it different, or I want to just state that, i okay, I'll ask a question. Has n NIL era dampened your enthusiasm for college football?
01:02:00
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My answer is no. i it's To me, it's not the NIL era by it itself. um and And maybe it's just this era and you want to call the and n NIL era. Then the answer is yes. But I just want to make it clear that to me, it's not the n NIL so much. It's the NIL plus portal plus conference expansion slash realignment slash playoff expansion.
01:02:26
Speaker
all happening at the exact same time. Like it was, it was too much. It's too much handle at once. And it has thrown just everything into the chaos, which kind of sent us down a rabbit hole earlier. So to me, it's all of those things compounded on top of each other.
NIL, Transfer Portal, and College Football Enthusiasm
01:02:38
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Yeah, I mean, I think we got to come up with a ah better name for what this what this current, like specifically honing in on NIL. It's not NIL anymore because in my opinion, like we went we went from NIL to like player players just straight up being paid.
01:02:57
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Yeah. Like NIL was originally like, let's let the players like make some money off of their name, their image. And if they're like a YouTube star or something like that going into college, like let them make some money.
01:03:08
Speaker
on the side do some sponsorships or whatever but now we're literally talking about universities cutting checks um yeah i think we've gotten a little a little too far over our skis for what the what the um for what the vision for what that was is has kind of blown up and i guess it's just like everything else money money corrupts um and it's just kind of like a disease has just kind of gotten worse and worse and worse um with no end in sight on the on the the money bag front.
01:03:41
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But yeah, to your point, like the the transferring and all that stuff, I think that that is the component that is really throwing gasoline. Because I can handle kids like going and taking bags if they actually stay at their school. You got players like, you know,
01:03:56
Speaker
they're They're literally like transferring to schools and then before they enroll, like transferring back. ah You just went and made a made your money on enrolling in a school and then leaving the next day.
01:04:10
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to me, that that kind of stuff just has to stop. like We can't have this every year. There's a reason the NFL doesn't do this. like every year's not Every year is not free agency for every player.
01:04:23
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me, it's just... yeah it's It's not a sustainable, it's not sustainable long-term. So yeah. And in that regard, I would say it dampens my excitement for the games, my enthusiasm for college football.
01:04:36
Speaker
i don't think we'll ever die because of all the things we talked about before where, you know, you got only so many games you can go to Athens and tailgate, you know, there's only so much that you can do with your kids and stuff like that with the centered around these games and these seasons. So Yeah.
01:04:52
Speaker
Yep. No, I totally agree with you. Agreed. Okay. All right. Next one. When do you bring begin your preseason prep for the upkeing for the upcoming season?
01:05:03
Speaker
No days off, Jason. No days off. I was going to say, yeah, I'm i'm somewhere in between my somewhere in between two jokes. Like one, there is no off season. Two, we just talked about how we're not as enthused about it anymore. So maybe a little bit later than we used to. Yeah.
01:05:19
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We definitely we definitely aren't are as as regimented about the Huggins family, I'm sure. man. Yeah. Yeah. and And everybody else at Morris Hall. like that Their preparation is is is very different. Yeah. Yeah.
01:05:36
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I do feel like for me, I will say like kind of like coming out of 4th of July is when I start to kind of, that's when the juices kind of start flowing for me big time. The next season, like we see a lot of Georgia fans at the beach 4th of July. And so we, we all, we always kind of like have a moment when you're on the beach and start talking through like what, you know, what are you thinking all that kind of stuff. And that kind of gets it going for me. So know that's usually a bit of a turning point personally, just for like mentally. Yeah.
01:06:02
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Yeah. um And then I like this. i would say G day is is that, is that time period for me? Like G day, G day is G day is the most underrated date on the UGA football calendar.
01:06:15
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a Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We made it down last year. I'm going to figure out if we're able to come for G day this year. Hopefully we do. I don't know. is It said that it was going to be a mid-April, which I think that... Does that mean that we could be up against the Masters again? Could we have another Masters G-Day?
01:06:33
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and Good question. Possibly. Yeah, I haven't looked at it yet. have have Have they set the date yet? I was checking like, yeah I don't know. Does that show up on the 26th schedule when they schedule it?
01:06:46
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Because it's not on there right now. i don't I don't know. I think it will. Yeah, because I'm looking at the 25th schedule and it has last year's G-Day on there. So I'm assuming it hasn't been officially announced yet.
01:06:57
Speaker
Yeah, I don't think it's been, it doesn't look like it's been announced because looking at I'm looking at some, it just says April, which yeah depending on when could be could be a conflict on the Masters there.
01:07:09
Speaker
Well, appreciate you. Trying to put glasses on. that's That was helpful. um Okay, last last last last question from Jason. Interest in a basketball or baseball tailgate this season?
01:07:22
Speaker
And i to that I say, heck yeah, we need to figure that out. Yeah. what and How do we how do we sign up for that? Yeah. Maybe it isn't there, isn't there a date? There's gotta be some dates on there where there's basketball and baseball, right?
01:07:35
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Man. What if, what if you get like, go to like one, then you tailgate in between before the next one. Like that'd be kind of amazing. If the time. Yeah.
01:07:45
Speaker
I'm sure that there are some overlapping games and ah the ah he would be the, Jason would be the one to to know that because he goes, i know he goes to the baseball and the, and the basketball games pretty, pretty regularly.
01:07:57
Speaker
Yeah. It's been a long time since I've been to a Georgia baseball game. I'll say that. So maybe, maybe this is a good time to, to change that. Yeah, um yeah bit I'm down. into a I've been to a basketball game this season, so wouldn't mind going to another one Yes, i'm on and I'm in. Yeah. Where do we sign up? Let us know.
01:08:14
Speaker
Yes, exactly. ah And then you just said ah my very best to you both. So same to you, Jason. ah Much appreciate you and the entire Huggins family.
01:08:26
Speaker
ah You guys have been very, very kind to us. So much appreciated. Agreed. um I did want to say a shout out to coach drill always for, you know, doing coaches over unders and, and tracking the all that throughout the season. But I wanted to call out that ah his beloved new England Patriots have made it the super bowl.
01:08:50
Speaker
Um, I know he was he was thrilled to see them make it through the swirling wins in Denver this past weekend in the AFC Championship game. ah So congrats to you, Coach Trill, and best of luck in the Super Bowl. And by the way, the Patriots have the only active Georgia player ah that it will be playing in this game.
01:09:15
Speaker
Active being the key word. Active, yeah, because Kenny McIntosh is on the Seahawks, but he is on injured reserve. Because either way, there's going to be a Bulldog Super Bowl champion. Yeah, yeah, correct.
01:09:26
Speaker
I think it's, whatever the streak is, it's what, 25 years or something? There's been a Georgia player, at least one. Well, so it's, yeah, so it's 25 years straight that we've had a player, former player in the Super Bowl.
01:09:38
Speaker
Yeah. um But we're guaranteed to have another Super Bowl champion, Bulldog. Kenny McIntosh is on the injured reserve for the Seahawks. Yeah. And you've got, what's, who is it on the?
01:09:51
Speaker
Jared Wilson. Jerry Wilson, yeah. yeah Yeah, he's like he's like the starting left guard for the Patriots as a rookie. So pretty impressive. That that Patriots that patriot Georgia offensive lineman.
01:10:04
Speaker
no Yeah, seriously. David Andrews. and You got David Andrews did it before was at center. Yep, yep. And the Seahawks head coach is a Georgia grad, by the way.
01:10:18
Speaker
Yeah. That's right, Mike McDonald. And he's from my neck of the woods. didn't realize that he was so Georgia. like he He showed up on my friends my suggested friends list today on Facebook. I mean, he must have grown up like right where I live. like He went to Centennial centennial High School. like That was like right behind my house. i yet It didn't exist when i was in high school because I'm old. right It actually opened my senior year. but So yeah, i you must ah they must have grown up right around the... he's younger, but right around the corner.
01:10:46
Speaker
Yeah. Crazy, what the Falcons could have had. ah We can't. I can't. I can't with him. They passed him up. They passed ah passed him up and hired Raheem Morris.
01:10:57
Speaker
Yeah. Well, now Matt matt Ryan's going to fix everything. so Matt Ryan's going to fix everything. Sure.
01:11:05
Speaker
Well, John, another cultural ball season, another My God of Podcast season in the books. In the books. It was fun. um We'll see you guys again for for G-Day, but I know that we'll probably meet again at some point in the not-too-distant future, perhaps to regale everyone in a basketball-baseball tailgate.
01:11:29
Speaker
Jason Huggins is going to let us know about. But yeah, with that said, well we'll put the gavel down on, on 2026 and, or the season.
01:11:43
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gerdogs go dogs