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East campus lot off River road game day parking issues

Parking there since moved for construction at my prior lot. Last week arrived an hour before kickoff and there was NO parking. All grass, parallel parking both sides of road at exit and parking spots full. Circled around and guy working at entrance moved his car up in media lot which was also full for me to park in. He told me frat houses have a green paper parking permit that he suspected they were passing out to friends and family. That lot shares entrance/ exit with the river road frat houses. Spoke a few times to athletic office they claim they are looking into problems at lot but it was an issue last year but getting worse. Anyone else park there? Anyone know anything re the green frat passes? One guy at parking office for campus said he thought they were M-F only. If that true then it’s an easy fix. Even though athletic dept controlled lots they don’t really control them it’s some other dept they just collect the money. I feel like if I can’t find the problem and tell them a fix it will not be resolved. Everyone saying it’s not their responsibility. I drive up from Florida for games and can’t get there to my lot and have no parking. If anyone has info re above please reply. Especially info re the Green paper frat parking passes.

Y'all enjoy wearing pants tonight......I'm out.

For years I have struggled with these restricting garments just for the sake of propriety. No longer. If you want to waist your life away being restricted ...fine go ahead. It's time for the powers that be to step and ban pants. Kilts all the way for me now. UGA has a tartan I can wear for Gameday.

Maybe later in the evening I will switch over to a nice Mumu or a housecoat. But that's it. If you enjoy pants that's fine. But I wont tolerate the confinement anymore.

I'm Done.

Why are we not better at forcing turnovers?...

Since Kirby arrived, we have been below average overall nationally at forcing turnovers, especially considering we perennially have one of the best defenses in the entire country:

2016- 27 forced turnovers (in 13 games)
2017- 20 (15 games)
2018- 17 (14 games)
2019- 16 (14 games)
2020- 13 (10 games- Covid)
2021- 21 (15 games)
2022- 19 (15 games)
2023- 17 (14 games)
2024- 4 (5 games so far)

Kirby's first year in 2016 was our high water mark by far at 2.1 turnovers forced per game. Since then we've never been above 1.4. It just doesn't make sense to me why this is, considering the absurdly talented personnel we typically trot out there compared to other defenses. Maybe it's something in our coaching or defensive philosophy, I don't know. It just jumped out to me again this past Saturday when Auburn, which had been turning the ball over at a truly heroic rate before playing us (15 turnovers lost in their first 5 games!), of course had zero turnovers playing in Sanford Stadium. Somebody make it make sense for me!

Catching Texas at Perfect Time

Feeling really good about catching Texas at the perfect time of the season. Think it sets up perfect for the good guys.

1. They will be ranked #1 or #2
2. Coming off physical game against their biggest rival
3. All their games so far were against some of the worst offenses in the nation (UT defense has not been tested at all)
4. See Offensive rankings below:

Oklahoma - #121
Michigan - #118
Colorado St - #99
Miss St - #79
UTSA - #65

Paul keeps saying we could possibly get into the

playoffs with 3 losses. While I appreciate the up vote, and it will also depend on what the other candidates end up doing, eventually you have to beat some of the good teams on your schedule.

IF (and I don't think this will happen) we lose very close to Bama, UT, and one of UTjr and Ole Miss, then we'd have just one "top" win and a bunch of ok wins.

Doesn't matter how hard your schedule is if you don't at least break 50/50 against the best teams. Lot of football left to play, of course.

Thursday scrimmage notes

Went checked out this year's team at today's scrimmage...

Some Notes:
We'll start with the pitchers Alton Davis started for the Red Team and JT Quinn for the Black.
Davis is a slender lefty, but showed a good three-pitch mix with a fastball that topped at 95 per scouts that were there.
Was a little wild with his slider, and the Black Team touched him for two runs, but overall was solid. If you're a lefty-hitter, he's not fun to hit against.
Was impressed with Quinn, the transfer from Ole Miss.
Like Davis, Quinn topped out at 95 and has a hard sinker that when it's one, is going to get hitters beating it down in the dirt.
Quinn gave up just one hit in three innings. Sorry, I didn't keep up with the strikeouts, but he had a handful.
Davis Chastian also pitched three innings, giving up one run on a homer to freshman Michael Mullinax.
ABAC transfer Lucas Morici has a big, big arm. Morici topped at 97. Was told that control was a bit of an issue, but today he seemed to have everything pretty well-harnessed.

Black Team Starters

1B Charlie Jones
2B Slate Alford (also played third)
SS Erik Parker
3B Ryland Zaborowski
RF Lukas Farris
CF Max Mullinax
LF Bryce Clavon (also played second)
C Henry Hunter
DH TL Saxon

Red Team Starters

1B Brennan Hudson
2B Ryan Black
SS Trey King (also played third)
3B Cade Brown
RF Josh Morant
CF Nolan McCarthy
LF Knox Bennett
DH Robbie Burnett
C Daniel Jackson

NOTES

Bryce Clavon - Very impressed. Built like a RB, which isn't surprising considering he played QB at Kell. Clavon lined a single up the middle against Davis and promptly stole second and third.
Max Mullinax - Drove in two runs with a couple of hits, including a screamer over the fence in right that would have been a homer at Foley Field.
Eric Parker - Very good range at short. No hits, but displayed a good eye and stole a base.
Nolan McCarthy - Certain guys you can look at and tell they are gamers. That's definitely the case with Nolan. The dude's a baseball player, if you know what I mean.
Slate Alford - had a couple of hits, one to right and one to left
Catcher Daniel Jackson - Very athletic, doesn't take a bad cut. Also threw out a runner trying to steal third.
Robbie Burnett - No hits today, but hit the ball hard. Like Clavon, looks like he could suit up and play running back for Kirby Smart.
Brennan Hudson - Played first base today. Solid left-handed batter. Hit a couple of line drives, including a single to right.
Ryland Zaborowkski - Another big guy (6-5, 236). Didn't get a hit today, but has a good eye.
Ryan Black - Smooth. Very good length and bat-to-ball skills. Stole a base

My personal observations.

Granted, it was just one scrimmage. But physically this one of the better-looking and more athletic teams than they've had.
It's a really good-looking group. Still need to see how some of these bats coming from other conferences are going to adjust to SEC pitching. But there's certainly a lot of potential here.
Biggest observation about the pitching is all four guys I saw today throw HARD, with each having a three-pitch mix.
Tre Phelps and Kolby Branch did not play today, but were there.
There were 12 scouts there today.
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