Brandon Walker on UGA

[gravedigger]

Well, since everybody is cheating and pretty much getting away with it, when do we fire Bracky? I mean, if we can look around and say all these schools are cheating and we can see the NCAA didn't really touch OM, then I blame our administration for not playing the same game as the rest of the league.
Stop blaming the other schools for winning if you've got proof the others are cheating and getting away with it.

Because the man who hires the athletics director is.....shall we say adverse.....to scandal. Brackey does EXACTLY what he expects. He can live with the same ole same ole if that's what it takes to keep our schools name as clean as possible. He will not have the circus that OM just went through or the one we almost went through around the time of Redmond. He believes the University, for better or worse, is bigger than the athletics department. We can disagree with that line of thinking or not. But that is who he is and what we will deal with. Coaches, players and AD's that put MSU in salacious headlines will be shown the door.

[smootness]

Because the man who hires the athletics director is.....shall we say adverse.....to scandal. Brackey does EXACTLY what he expects. He can live with the same ole same ole if that's what it takes to keep our schools name as clean as possible. He will not have the circus that OM just went through or the one we almost went through around the time of Redmond. He believes the University, for better or worse, is bigger than the athletics department. We can disagree with that line of thinking or not. But that is who he is and what we will deal with. Coaches, players and AD's that put MSU in salacious headlines will be shown the door.

The university is obviously bigger than the AD.

[Cooterpoot]

Because the man who hires the athletics director is.....shall we say adverse.....to scandal. Brackey does EXACTLY what he expects. He can live with the same ole same ole if that's what it takes to keep our schools name as clean as possible. He will not have the circus that OM just went through or the one we almost went through around the time of Redmond. He believes the University, for better or worse, is bigger than the athletics department. We can disagree with that line of thinking or not. But that is who he is and what we will deal with. Coaches, players and AD's that put MSU in salacious headlines will be shown the door.

Although my original post was more tongue in cheek than serious, based on our academic standing, I'm not sure this is true. So, if our academic standing and athletics lag behind these schools, what's good about all this?

[sonofozarka]

If everyone cheats, then everyone is on an even playing field. It's absurd to think that the only answer for UGA jumping to the top is cheating, and it's lazy. There are good explanations for why they would be recruiting better now than they ever have. USC now doesn't recruit at anything close to the level they did 15-20 years ago. Florida hasn't recruited at near the level they used to for the last few years. Clemson now recruits far better than they ever have. Do you honestly believe the only answer for these changes is that schools just arbitrarily decide when to scale up and scale back their cheating?

Completely agree, it's so lame when someone starts recruiting better everyone jumps to the "cheating" conclusion when they're just speculating and have no idea what they're talking about or have any details whatsoever. It's just a childish knee jerk accusation with nothing behind it

UF recruited great under Urban, not as much since. Think the coach might have something to do with that? Mike Shula or Franchione or whoever else Bama has had certainly didn't recruit on the level Saban is.

Smart is basically Saban junior with a great product and a better talent base to recruit from. And basically there is no such thing as cheating since the NCAA obviously isn't interested in exposing or penalizing schools for it.

To say "school A is cheating more than they used to and is now cheating MORE than school B" is just a retarded childish argument based in nothing but message board rumor

[Ari Gold]

I have no idea what Brandon said was the comparison in the article since I didnt read it
But UGA has been recruiting in the top 10 every year for the last 10 years .
And very few are the scum bag POS that Freeze was.

[Todd4State]

One thing that I think is also helping Georgia is Florida having the Country Club and then you have Tennessee and Florida State that were both down last year.

[dawgday166]

Of note... the state of Georgia has the most 5-stars (7 out of 34 20.6%). Of the 7 5-stars in Georgia, 4 of them are committed to OOS schools (auburn, Tennessee, Clemson, and Michigan). Georgia has 3. If Georgia was cheating at historical levels, no way they let 4 5-stars in their backyard leave. 5 5-stars isn't historical either... Ohio state did it in 2017

I was going to say something similar. Ga has more talent than just about any state other the FL, TX, CA, LA maybe. And there is only 1 Power 5 school in the state and they for the most part own it when they want to. Ga & LSU .. lot of talent and only 1 power 5 school in state.

Not saying Ga ain't cheatin, but so is Bama. Kirby learned from the master. When Saban took over for Shula, Bama vaulted from about 10 or so to the top too, blowing everyone else away in the process. No one said he was cheatin.

[dawgs]

Yeah, nothing really surprising with uga at all. Kirby is finally the Saban clone everyone has hoped to find hiring Saban assistants all these years. Also, Athens is the best college town in the country. Oxford is an average-ish college town with an overinflated sense of superiority.