Just getting the dome.
Security is tight as you might imagine, but we moved in pretty quickly.
Lots of bomb-sniffing dogs.
For those here, pack your patience but folks I’ve come across have all been very cool.
As usual, we will post all of our pregame notes inside this thread.

Pregame Notes

2 p.m. The Bulldogs have arrived.
Login to view embedded media 2:05 p.m. Branson Robinson made the trip. He is on crutches, as we believe he did have surgery on his knee.
2:24: Nitro Tuggle out for early warmups.
2:24: Early Enrollee Mason Short is here.
2:26: Joseph Jonah-Ajonye appears to have ditched his boot. That's good to see.
2:31: Carson Beck made the trip.
2:47: Funny moment during tight end drills, Coach Hartley threw an over the shoulder pass that hit Colton Heinrich right on top of the head.
2:53: Dawgs in Red tops and gray pants. Irish in white tops and gold pants.
3:01: Colter Ginn holding for field goals, at least in warmups. UPDATE: Gunner Stockton is as well now
3:06: Peyton Woodring having no trouble in warmups....booming his attempts, 50-plus
3:10: Early enrollees who are here:
Chase Linton 85
Isaiah Gibson 9
Ethan Barbour 8
Bo Walker 0
Elyiss Williams 0
Jonate Gilbert 0
Anthony Kruah 8
Cortez Smith 76
Dominick Kelly 23
Todd Robinson 2
Hezekiah Millender 4
Darren Ikinnagbon
3:11: Ryan Puglisi warming up as the No. 2 QB
3:22: Starting OL the same - LT Monroe Freeling, LG Dylan Fairchild, C Jared Wilson, RG Tate Ratledge, RT Xavier Truss.

What is his estimated ceiling. I mean nobody knows obviously, but what’s the estimated ceiling?

Maybe a player comp discussion?
Is he a scatback only? 3rd down back?

Another coach not valuing early points.

@1 tenn
Home vs 2 auburn
@ ark
@8 fla
Home vs SC

If we can go 2-3 in this stretch it will be a win!

Gonna be tough. We have a squad. If we do have a rough stretch, the next question is will we fold or get back up?

I imagine most every sec team is gonna have a three-four game losing streak at some point but can you then have a 3-4 game winning streak after is the key.

Supposedly Kelly and Matthew set up and paid for a ton of charter buses to get their fans from LA to Glendale today. Pretty damn cool with everything going on. I’m sure they had to evacuate their home or were really close to the fires since they live just north of Malibu (Hidden Hills area). Hopefully the Rams can pull one out tonight for LA

Is Kirby going after one of the Texas QB? There aint no way all these WRs are coming here to catch from Gunner
me thinks something is going down

It seems more and more programs are going with the GM model. As far as I know, Georgia does not have a GM (correct me if I am wrong). That said, do you see Georgia hiring/naming a GM in the future? If so, is there anyone you would like to see become Georgia’s GM?

Winning in Knoxville is tough but not impossible. They have dropped two home conference games each of the past two seasons. I was a lot lower on UT coming into the season than most, and they have proven me wrong and some. They are a really good team, specifically on defense. But I still do believe they are worse this year than they were last year, and obviously we are much improved.

Without Knecht, they run the offense even more through 5'9" PG Zakai Zeigler this year. He is the engine that makes them go, on both ends of the floor. Best passer in the league, non-stop motor, and an elite perimeter defender. His weaknesses are being prone to turnovers and not being able to shoot the ball (27-93 for 29% from 3 this season). He is a crafty finisher at the rim, but he definitely struggles against bigger teams. He's 7/15 on attempts at the rim in his 3 conference games this year, which is pretty bad.

The Knecht role is filled this year by transfer SG Chaz Lanier. He's up there with Koby Brea from UK as the best shooter in the league. If Lanier sounds familiar, it's because we played him last year when he was at North Florida (he had 16 points 4/8 from three in a 78-60 loss). The thing is, Lanier is not close to the overall player Knecht was. 82% of his 3 point makes are assisted on. He shoots 50% at the rim and 38.5% on other 2's (mid range, floaters, post ups etc.), which are both slightly below average numbers. He is one dimensional compared to Knecht who could single-handedly take over a game, as he did against us last year. Still, he needs to be blanketed at all times as he shoots 44% on a very high volume of 3's. One last thing worth note is that his numbers dip vs tougher competition. Per BartTorvik, in UT's 5 "Top 50 Quality Games" he shoots 40.5% from 3 and he is only 33.3% so far in conference play.

Outside of those two, they have a platoon of athletic guard/wing types who are great defensively. Jordan Gainey is a name to watch and is the second best shooter for them. Milicic is a skilled big who can really score and rebound but will be giving up athleticism to our big guys. He also tends to settle for 3's though he's a decent shooter. We out-athlete them in the frountcourt across the board, outside of their Center, Felix Okpara.

The recipe to winning the game is available, just watch the Florida film. Take away open 3's and beat them up on the glass and in the paint. Florida had double the amount of shots at the rim as UT and outrebounded the Vol's by almost 20 boards. Good thing that The Dawgs have been really good at defending the deep ball and rebounding. The biggest worry is our ability to score on their defense. This will be the best D we've played since the Ole Miss game. Can we score the ball enough this time? Can we finally start to hit some open jump shots? If we can get to 70 points we'll have a real chance to win the game IMO. I'm not outright predicting a win here, but I do like the matchup and think we have a better shot than most will probably give us credit for.

He announced on Instagram

What’s the point? Nobody on here has the power to hire or fire anyone. Just tired of eating our own. It’s pretty bush league if you’re a true fan.

I’m a true Dawg fan. Not happy about how things went but it was far from CMB’s fault. OL sucked. QB play was dysfunctional. Everything went wrong this year. Let’s just get over this and move on.

Shit. Had to be helped off field. 😔. Hope it’s not too bad