Anyone know if Champ will be on the sidelines for the playoffs?

@Anthony Dasher

for game against Grand Canyon? Me and a buddy from church going. Haven’t bought tickets yet but looks like get-in price under $40 right now. Not bad at all.

What kind of nonsense is that? Please tell me we aren’t looking in FCS for players. And 2 star WRs??? Seriously Clark?!

Are you saving these big boards somewhere so we can refer to them?? This is great information. Thank you.

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Good wr

It's Friday, we're SEC champs despite the hardest schedule in UGA history. The way we came back to beat Tech in 8 overtimes and then Carson goes down at the end of the half. Gunner comes in and we beat Texas in OT. I feel like we were the grinch and just stole wins vs both of them. This team is destined, someone will have to knock us out the way ole miss did. Not sure if anyone in this bracket is capable of doing it. BTW one positive note on Ole Miss, they were in the redzone 7 times and had to settle for 5 FGs.

Hawks seem to like playing in the Cup. Great D in the 3rd

Hunter off the bench vs starting has been a huge for his production with the Hawks.

I asked you this the other day. Are you going to store these big boards somewhere so we can refer to them?? Thank you.

So, there's been a lot of talk on schedules - both 2024 and 2026. I don't think it was AS BAD as some suggested. I think there were 2 primary problems with our schedule (and I'm not sure there's much they could do about Texas' schedule).

1. We should not have played @ Ole Miss. That probably should have been @ Arkansas. I think that was a punch in the mouth from the conference. We played them as our rotating other division game in 2023. Only 1 of the other of those was also played in 2024 with a return game: Vandy @ Auburn. Really, we probably should have not played @ Bama either, but I do believe there was some 'conference regret' from the 2020 trip happening during Covid and the league wanted a re-do with that environment. We probably should have been @ LSU and @ Arkansas or something like that. (I'll give some reasoning why NOT at A&M yet).
2. The biggest issue as the spacing. The fact that it was Nov. 10 and we'd only played 3 home games was tragic. The Tennessee game probably should have been after the Florida game or the Texas and Miss. St games switched. Miss. St. played us back to back. They could have made that happen. They October to mid-November slate should have been re-worked to get a home game in there. Even the Tenn. & OM games switching would have been more balanced.

For overall scheduling philosophies for this year (and, inI

3/6

Auburn
Kentucky
Florida


Texas - OU
Bama - LSU
Miss St. - Vandy
Ole Miss - South Carolina
Tennessee - Texas A&M
Arkansas - Mizzou

Texas 3/6

OU
Akansas
A&M

Georgia - Bama
Florida - Auburn
Miss St. - OM
Vandy - South Carolina
Kentucky - Mizzou
LSU - Tennessee

Silly Season….

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My friend, who is a football coach but an alum from another SEC school, told me today that he loved Stockton's grit last night but not "his windup." I hear people sometimes talking about quarterback's windup and/or throwing motion, but unless a guy has a really funky delivery, I just can't seem to see a big difference. I need one of you QB experts to break it down for me. Is his release significantly slower than Beck's?

made 37 of his last 40 field goals

118/118 on PATs

Weapon

was gracious enough to hop on my podcast tonight! Spent about 30 minutes talking about his recruitment, how he missed the cutoff to a rivals camp, and how Corey Moore told the recruiting outlets that he was coming to Georgia before he actually committed among many other things.

Beg 2 Differ podcast on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts! Look for the episode with Amarlo next week!

If this happened two or three years ago, maybe this wouldn't be worth a thread. However, considering the season Georgia just went through and that Josh Pate seemingly picked against the Bulldogs more this season than he has in the last three combined. His prediction for this year's national championship felt worth sharing.

"Georgia is the best football program in the country. And I believed that coming into the year," Pate said about Georgia. "And I'd still believe that if Texas had beaten the other day. You don't tear down a program overnight. ... The reason I mention that is because it takes a lot more than losing one player to tear down a program."

Pate predicts Georgia will defeat Notre Dame in the quarterfinal, which, according to FanDuel, Georgia would be 1.5-point favorites over. Pate then has the Bulldogs facing Penn State in the semifinal, followed by a third matchup with Texas in the national championship. And while he picked Texas to beat Georgia in their two prior matchups, he sided with the Bulldogs in a predicted third game between the two SEC programs.

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He can run the offense. As another poster said, you're going to see Gunner run the offense like he did the first drive of the second half going forward. Kirby sat on the lead and tried to avoid the critical mistake by GS after that touchdown.

This team has been missing something all year. They're resilient and gritty and tough, but there's never been a spark. We saw it when Gunner took over last night.

Gunner is a winner and a leader, and he matches the personality of our program. He's one of the guys.

He may or may not be the right guy to lead us in 2025, but I think this playoff run with THIS team is tailor made for him.

Court Report: The details on why AJ Dybantsa chose BYU and how much NIL money the No. 1 recruit is set to make​

“Alabama had a long-standing connection: Crimson Tide assistant Preston Murphy coached Dybantsa at the grassroots level previously, and that seemingly gave the Tide a real shot, dating back to the beginning of Dybantsa's recruitment more than three years ago. Last week, the stakes felt upped when Dybantsa's father, Ace, decided to attend the Alabama-North Carolina game on his own, without AJ in attendance. In reality, Dybantsa's decision was in. He signed a national letter of intent with BYU on Nov. 20, sources said. (This isn't sitting well, after the fact, with Alabama and North Carolina.)

So, how did a program that was in the WCC practically 15 minutes ago wind up landing the No. 1 player in the Class of 2025? Is it about the money?

To an extent, yes, but it turns out that BYU, North Carolina and Alabama were all able to meet the asking price, which was approximately $5 million, according to sources at schools on Dybantsa's list of finalists. That deal is considered the largest for any college basketball player ever. That NIL deal will come directly from BYU's collective, according to Leonard Armato, Dybantsa's business adviser.

"The money for every [school] was the same," Armato told CBS Sports. "The decision wasn't a money decision as much as it was a culture fit, a decision for the family, basketball, all those things that should be the determining factors. There was a certain money threshold, but once you got to that, it was about 'how comfortable do I feel for me as a basketball player and my family.'"

Armato is a former NBA agent who famously represented Shaquille O'Neal (and still does), helping Shaq build out a massive brand during his playing days. Dybantsa does not have an agent and is primarily advised by his parents, Ace and Chelsea, in addition to Armato.

Dybantsa also has deals with Red Bull and Nike.

"They're substantial," Armato said of the Nike and Red Bull contracts, though he didn't want to provide exact numbers. It's believed those two deals combine for at least another $1 million. Armato said that although the Red Bull deal runs through Dybantsa's first year of college, the Nike contract ends next June, meaning Dybantsa will be on the open market to negotiate again five months before he ever plays for BYU.

"His deal will be up before he goes to college and he will be a free agent in the athletic footwear market," Armato said.

That will serve to ratchet up the hype next summer.

With this much earning potential, Dybantsa never had the urge to play for a blue blood and be the next blue-chip guy to add to a wall in a team facility of players drafted into the NBA. Historic program prestige didn't register as a major factor with him; BYU was the leader for months.

In choosing BYU, Dybantsa is staying local in this sense: The Massachusetts native is spending his final year of high school at Utah Prep, a move that also came with significant financial benefits for the Dybantsa family. It's fair to say no basketball player has been paid more to play hoops before ever stepping on a college court than Dybantsa, but that is the era we are now in and that is what indicates just how great he stands to be.

It's also not a stretch to say that had BYU not hired Phoenix Suns lead assistant Kevin Young in April, Dybantsa could be going to Alabama or North Carolina. Young's first time seeing him play was in the May NCAA live period, but Dybantsa immediately became the top priority for him more than a month prior, when he got the job. Young coached Kevin Durant, who is Dybantsa's favorite player. The 43-year-old was on a fast track to being an NBA coach but opted against that lifestyle in an effort to coach fewer games and be on the road less so he could be around his family more.

He brings pro connections and credibility in a way that resonated heavily with the Dybantsa family. Ace was the point of contact for almost all of the recruitment process. AJ's communication with coaches was minimized, though he took visits to all of his finalists and schools beyond that. The Dybantsas visited BYU shortly after Young was hired in April and took three visits total in the past five months. He was last on campus for BYU's home game vs. Idaho on Nov. 16. He committed four days later.

"A lot of it had to do with the style," Armato said. "Kevin Young comes from the NBA and they run NBA-style practices and NBA-style offense and they pattern their play after the NBA."

BYU having multi-billionaire Ryan Smith as a booster (he owns the Utah Jazz and new NHLfranchise, the Utah Hockey Club) also helped significantly. Danny Ainge (who was the GM of the Boston Celtics as Dybantsa emerged as a special talent in New England) and Smith, both members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, were the key players in getting Young hired at BYU. Their influence at BYU (Ainge and Smith are both alumni; Dybantsa is arguably the best BYU recruit since Ainge in the 1970s) continued to contribute as a swaying factor in Dybantsa's road to picking the Cougars, sources said.

What a fascinating development for college basketball all of this is. It's possible BYU will have the face of the sport a year from now, and thought it's not unusual for top-rated prospects to go to uncommon destinations, the outcomes don't always lead to huge team success. (Recent examples, of varying results, including Cade Cunningham to Oklahoma State, Nick Smith to Arkansas, Ben Simmons to LSU and Anthony Edwards to Georgia.)

We'll see how things change, or don't, in the coming years as the House case settlement (with schools paying revenues to all their athletes) stands to impact the way NIL collectives are run. The big takeaway from Dybantsa and recruiting in 2024 is: If you're going to recruit top five-level players, you need to be able to rally millions of dollars to pay them moving forward. Even before they've proven a thing. Might not seem right or fair to some, but this is the free market at work and this is the new world of college athletic. Dybantsa is one extreme example for a template moving forward. He's a revolutionary prospect from an earnings perspective. As for what matters most, we'll find out next year if he's a revolutionary player, the type who's worth the wait, hype ... and money.”

if we get through the Sugar Bowl

I won’t believe unless I read it here, though

Not gonna happen.

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WRONG with the portal and the attitude of so many young athletes these days. So clearly these kids only choose Marshall because of Coach Huff, otherwise why would you have 25+ out the door as soon as he's gone? What a shame.... thought we might actually have a legitimate opponent to open the season.