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Insider Note Quick note on FSU WR commit CJ Wiley

Getting anything out of Wiley is tough, to say the least. He said he really enjoyed his visit to Georgia last week. He followed that up with he is still committed to Florida State. Novell was there on the sidelines and flew a yellow helicopter in. He said it was cool that he was there.

Outside of that, he said Auburn, Colorado, Georgia, Georgia Tech, and LSU are still the schools coming hard. When asked if he would visit any of the others again, he said he didn’t know, maybe. When asked if he had plans to visit Florida State again, he said he did not.

He said he and James Coley talk about twice a week and his main pitch is that Georgia is still looking for that bigger wide receiver and they want him to be the guy. He said he also talks to Kirby Smart but followed up with, we do not talk everyday or anything like that.

Fwiw, from talking to sources I really like where Georgia sits in this one right now coming off the visit last weekend. I would be surprised if he isn’t in Athens at least one more time before Early Signing Day.
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Get Muschamp to be more involved

I know that he wanted to take time off and so he demoted himself, but maybe we could convince him to ramp up his involvement. Schumann is in over his head, and Kirby is busy being the HC. Our defense, especially the secondary seems confused and unmotivated. Muschamp may have failed as a HC, but he was always a good coordinator, and he also knows how to chew somebodies ass out. Sometimes players need to fear their coach and I don't think any of them fear Schumann. Otherwise, Wilson would have never pushed the MSU QB down well after the play was over, which led to an MSU score. Chambliss has twice this season grabbed a QB's facemask and held on. In making a tackle your hand can accidently graze a face mask, but when you hold on until you rip the helmet off the players head, that is intentional and beyond stupid. Also, if you'll notice, when a player needs a good ass chewin its always Kirby, never Schuman. Schumann would make a much better analyst, where he can just tinker with X's and O's.

NEW STORY What’s the Line? (vs. Texas)

Looks like Georgia will be the underdog for the first time in 50 games... Is 3.5 about what you thought?


Btw, that's quite the extreme ATS home-away discrepancy for Sarkisian that I doubt you'd find with many other coaches.

Am I the only one that laughed a little bit when Frazier missed a block on his first play in the game?

I say just hand it to him when he’s in the game. The defense won’t ever know that he’s the only running back in there to just run lol. He’s a stud and needs to play, running or passing play, and the best way to get better and picking up blitzes is to see them live. He’s gonna be fine and we are too. Maybe it’s just my sense of humor but I did think it was funny.
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Here's why we'll be much better this year and make the dance.

Some predictions are starting to show up on some national sites so I wanted to re-iterate some points i made this summer.

We lost fifteen games last year. Seven games last year by double figures. Three of those games by 14 and four others by 10. I believe we had a shot in all of those games until the last 6-8 minutes.

I know we lost two for sure and maybe three games primarily due to CMW's decisions. Mostly involving the D. That is problematic for me, but overall I felt he did about a B- on the season as we got better as the year progressed. A lack of depth limited our options for sure.

There were several main reasons we lost:

1 ) the other teams had considerably more talent in the games we lost by double digits.
2 ) we were outrebounded by a lot, in most of our losses, on both ends.
3) Our outside game was erratic, inconsistent and limited to basically three options
4 ) Our inside scoring was just as inconsistent and we had few easy opportunities as a team.
5) Our individual and team D was good to average and below at times. Again too inconsistent. See coaching.

We also shot fts poorly and turned it too much over at times, but those were not killers often.

Several reasons we will be above average in the sec and dance: ( without knowing the true strength of sec teams this season, but by all accounts the league is somewhat stronger overall )

Without the stat sheets in front of me I would guess, on average, we gave up 3-4 offensive rebound buckets per game. Throw in fts with many and you're looking at about 10 ppg. many O rebounds led to open 3s. That will not be the case this year and will score often off O boards. We will be + in that category.

Our outside shooting will be much improved with multiple options. My guess is at least 9+ ppg points over last year.

Better outside shooting will allow our inside guys room to work and work they can. We have at least five bigs that can score in multiple ways inside. 10+ ppg. Throw in our slashing guards and that's 6+ ppg.

FTs are a question mark at this point.

We will be much stronger on D overall due to our guards being able to play their man tougher because of our shotblockers inside. We will block a lot of shots inside. Easy buckets will be at a minimum. And we will be much more athletic allowing for more pressure D. Our defensive rebounding will afford many more break opportunities this year. Our improved D is worth 8-10 ppg.

Of course these are all variable game to game. And as I said I can only make an educated guess on conference strength based on last year and what I hear about the sec this year. So my instincts tell me we are 20-25 ppg better as a team than last year. If the rest of the conference has improved 10-15 ppg that yields, imo, 10-15 ppg swing in our favor most games. So based on all the above I feel like we will win somewhere around 12 conference games. We should have a eight seed or better for the dance.

UnderDawgs...Counted Out...Not Elite

So here we are finding ourselves as the underdawgs for the first time since?

National Championship Game 2021. I think...?

Texas is the big favorite and I imagine it will be up to 4.5 or 5 points by game time.

How did we get here? We were suppossed to be the unrivaled best team in the country with a Joe Moore Award winning OL, better DL, Stout defense in general and a plethora of running backs and Heisman level qb.

We've rarely been the underdog since 2017. I think only 4 or 5 times and we won most of those games.

Do we win this one? No one gives us a chance...
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