If true that UGA is now including buyouts in player contracts, that's a massive and needed evolution in college football.

You can't just hold your program hostage every year. You bail, you pay the money back.

Also filters out who is truly committed long term. We are happy to pay, and pay well. But you're going to make a true commitment to UGA.

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Any info here? Has he actually signed with UF? @HHolland92

...it's also one reason we love the sport.

How can a team that barely beat Kentucky and took 8 OTs to beat Georgia Tech also win the SEC? Because it is a team game played by 18-22 year-olds.
How can a team that lost to Northern Illinois at home beat the latest dynasty at its own game? Because its a team game played by 18-22 year-olds.

Three thoughts from me as we try to contextualize the Sugar Bowl and moving forward:

• This is not Notre Dame from 2012 that didn't belong on the field in meaningful postseason action. It is a fast, physical, talented team with a gamer QB and a really good head coach. Marcus Freeman has been good everywhere he has been and he has transformed Notre Dame to look like a championship contender. They don't make many mistakes. They win on special teams and have a consistently solid rushing attack. Sounds like a similar formula to what got Kirby Smart here. Georgia will face Notre Dame more in upcoming postseasons, I suspect.
• Georgia is a really good program that was a championship contender this season. You don't win the SEC without being damn good. The new format requires being your best now. Georgia wasn't in the Sugar Bowl. Ohio State feels like it is. Just five weeks ago, it seemed like they wanted to fire Ryan Day after the Michigan loss. The tenor of a team can change so quickly. I'm sure more research and discussion will center around how to get your team to peak in mid-December.
• We'll chronicle the roster management to come and the draft process for the guys leaving. There is plenty more Dawgs talk to come. I'm so grateful for you all for supporting this site and our staff for the 2024 season. You all show up for us every single time. Thank you.

I thought you weren’t supposed to.

This is a great article describing what is going to happen later this year.


;TLDR

- Each school can spend up to about 20.5 million from their revenue, direct payments from the school to the players.
- NIL as we know it will change - no more pay for play - the NIL payments have to pass through a Clearinghouse and arbitration process to determine if they are real NIL deals.
- Lawyers are lined up to challenge this part of the House settlement, and I'd be shocked if it isn't immediately enjoined.
- That it won't work is unfortunate - the idea of revenue share is great, and making NIL real is great - top programs would be able to supplement the 20.5 million by about 3-5 million which means the top teams would stay the top teams.
- The article did not mention anything about state laws which will also be problematic.
- The article doesn't mention the transfer portal which is also a big part of the problem.

My take on this is that it is a great idea that just won't work. Instead of $20.5 million, it will be $20.5 million plus the tens of millions they are spending now. Does anyone thing that the top teams will stop doing what they are doing as soon as the injunction is in place? So now there will be $40 million in place. The only answer, and it is mentioned in the article, is collective bargaining and the schools just don't seem to like this.

I haven't found anything on this, but the transfer portal issue may get taken care of at some level. Once the schools are doing the actual negotiating, it may be possible to have contracts with the players that have a term to them. In other words, the contract for Athlete A could be $X for 2 years, with penalties if they decide to transfer. This may make the transfer problem a little less problematic.

Per Sugar Bowl official at NOLA press conference just now.

ESPN, CFP, SEC, UGA and ND all collectively agreed to the 24-hour postponement.

Let's win.

Q. You had a long completion down to Arian Smith and got a sideline warning -- sideline interference there. The ball comes back. Walk us through what happened there. What were your thoughts?

COACH SMART: "Yeah, very unfortunate. We had -- they said a coach but I think it was a player, fromwhat I've been told -- in the white, and the white is reserved for the officials. That's a safety concern.Most of the time, they'll grant you a warning on that; but it was not a -- it was a situation where it costus 15 yards. We still had first and ten and didn't take advantage of it.But, again, I call those things undisciplined, self-imposed wounds that you lose momentum on. So, it'sjust something you can't have happen."

NSIAP

So, apparently there’s this “T-Bar” signal that coaches make toward one another to indicate that “hey, we’re just gonna fair catch this kick” in order to decrease the threat of injuries on the play.

Beamer tells the refs pre-game that he is going to give the T-bar signal and do a lateral play anyways. He does this, and an opposing player gets hurt on the play.

Bielema walks toward the South Crackheadlina sideline to check on his injured player, and while over there does the T-bar signal several times towards Beamer as if to say, “hey, gonad breath, you gave me the signal and lateraled anyway and now my player is hurt - WTF?”

Beamer then goes ape shit as if he is the one who has been wronged. Sounds like to me that Beamer needs to have his ass beat every day and twiced on Sundays.

What am I missing here?

Watching these Ohio St. receivers.

That could get drafted and how does affect portal?

I’d love to realistically keep
Fairchild
Everette
ETN
Starks - seems like the kid loves UGA even though he is a first round draft pick, I know it’s not happening.

Also can Arian come back one more year? I know he has a ton of drops but a DGD and was our leading receiver

Penn St. will rush for over 200 yards. Why did we struggle so much running the ball?

your tenure in the 1960s?

Has to join a conference or no playoffs.. reading this morning how much money they get, and unlike the rest who split the proceeds, the playing field is far from equal... and with all the NIL money they are getting, they can buy titles for years.

I hate NIL and where college football is going...