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SCENE: A small Alabama town's Christmas parade last night.

Walking with my family, wearing a UGA hat. A lady with an Alabama shirt on sees me coming.

Now, I get a lot of snarky "Roll Tides." I'm somewhat of a connoisseur at this point. This one was the snarkiest of all.

Never breaking stride, I say, "Yeah, I'll be sure to send you a postcard from the playoffs."

Her, clearly very hurt: "Hey. . ."

The end.

NonDawg The Numbers for Indiana/Notre Dame (Look ahead to Sugar Bowl)

Indiana is really good on 3rd Down (both sides of the ball) and is great in the Red Zone offensively. Notre Dame struggles in the Red Zone defensively.

Notre Dame is very good against the pass.

Both defenses do a good job of preventing explosive plays.

Neither team has played opponents the quality of the other team very often this year.

Excited to see this one!

I think Notre Dame believes they can run the ball on them if they face Georgia. Indiana believes if they play Georgia that they can expose the secondary for the Dawgs.

Going to be interesting

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Dawgs BB ranked #26 in CBS...

CBS' "Top 25 and 1" poll. I know it's not an "official" poll, but it's nice to see the Dawgs finally getting into rankings conversations.

I’m really trying…

Not to get my hopes up about the branch bros. I mean from every angle this is a recruitment we don’t win. Electric playmaker, package deal, heavy NIL. And yet every report sounds more and more positive. I’ve told myself I won’t get my hopes up but every outlet has given me no choice but to be emotionally crushed when these kids pick Texas or Miami or whoever pays the most. Somebody please give me some negative news on these guys so I can channel my inner donutdawg and tamper my expectations again
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Ladd last 8 games

He's been solid all year but man he's turned it on the last 8 games, with the Chargers going 6-2.

He's also catching almost everything they throw at him. He's had 55 targets, 45 catches, 695 yards, and 3 TD's. That's an 81.8% catch percentage which would only be behind Amon-Ra St. Brown's pace for the whole year. ( https://www.statmuse.com/nfl/ask/highest-catch-percentage-wide-receiver ). He's killing it and an easy guy to cheer for for sure.

Portal inactivity

If you're frustrated with our lack of activity in the portal, just simmer down. For one, other than the Washington State QB, there aren't any real super stars in there. There are a bunch of nice to good players. As good as we make Singleton or Key out to be they both had 700ish yards receiving last year. Yes I know they didn't have ideal Qb's at either program but the numbers are what the numbers are. Ask yourself who in the portal right now is worth breaking the bank over to bring into your program and possibly blowup your team because of jealousy and infighting because they're getting paid more than anyone else? I don't see anyone who fits that description.
Kirby is great at a lot of things. I would say roster management is at or near the very top. Trust that if we do lose out on someone there is a plan.
This is also only the first wave of college free agents and more keep getting added to the list all the time. There will be another wave coming. So if we don't get something now we still can later. We didn't get Derion Kendrick until the summer if I'm not mistaken (I'm like 90% sure my memory hasn't failed me there but it's also finals week so....).

The last time we played the Vols in Knoxville, they trotted out Dolly Parton who attempted to sing "Rocky Top". I contrast that with...

... UGA having James Brown at its disposal for practically the entirety of the 1970's and into the 1980's. The "Dooley's Junkyard Dogs" is a funk masterpiece that should STILL BE A STAPLE of the Redcoat Band's repertoire. To this day, there is no equivalent to James Brown. Some near copycats (think, Bruno Mars), but no equals.

Am proud to be of a vintage that saw The Godfather of Soul on a regular basis at Georgia games. Even got him to autograph a ballcap of mine. He wrote, "Soul Brother #1, James Brown, Go Dogs!"

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