Schultz Strikes Again

Who gets in better Bowl? Tech or UGAy

  • Tech

    Votes: 37 63.8%

  • UGAy

    Votes: 15 25.9%

  • Neither

    Votes: 6 10.3%
  • Total voters
    58
  • Poll closed .
bbradley

bbradley

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Sometime today, Mark Richt and Paul Johnson will speak at their weekly news conferences and assess for the world their respective football teams to this point. And if either has actually figured them out, that puts them ahead of the rest of us.
I’ve covered two Georgia games (Oklahoma State, Arizona State) and two Tech games (Clemson and Miami). I saw most or all of the other ones on TV. Both teams leave me thoroughly confused. Also somewhat dizzy.
Tech has extended its personality changes from half to half (vs. Clemson) to game to game (awful vs. Miami; great vs. North Carolina). So I guess that’s progress. At least it leaves a week between games for therapy and makes for easier billing with the insurance company.
The Dogs can’t seem to figure out what they want to be: a solid defensive but offensively inept team (Oklahoma State, Arizona State), which makes it easy to dump on Mike Bobo or Joe Cox (or both). Or a relative video game (South Carolina, Arkansas), built for thrills and maybe the WAC, which makes it easy to dump on Willie Martinez.
Bottom line: Both have issues. Neither looks like a BCS bowl team. But if I had to take one over the other right now, I’ll take Tech. Here’s why:
♦ The Bulldogs are too erratic, too sloppy (minus-nine in turnovers) and still take too many penalties to lead me to believe they have any shot at beating No. 4 LSU this week, or certainly upsetting Florida. Two other games that once looked like gimmes — Tennessee on the road and Auburn at home — now look like potential landmines. And Tech has to be favored to win the last game of the season at Bobby Dodd.
♦ For Tech, I’m assuming the Jonathan Dwyer we saw before the North Carolina game was an aberration, and the one from last week is the norm. The defense is not great and probably won’t get a lot better. But if the Jackets run the ball, that keeps opposing offenses off the field. Further, Tech doesn’t have a can’t-win game on the schedule. The toughest opponent is No. 6 ranked Virginia Tech but that game is at home in a few weeks. The next most difficult game on the schedule is at Florida State, which just lost to South Florida.
The Jackets could always blame fatigue (three games in 13 days) on their worst performance of the season at Miami. I’m not sure what Georgia blames its worst moments on, other than just not being very good. (If Cox had the flu in Game 1, what did he have in Game 4?)
Right now, it’s looking like Tech will be the better team at season’s end. Agree or disagree?
 
bbradley said:
The toughest opponent is No. 6 ranked Virginia Tech but that game is at home in a few weeks. The next most difficult game on the schedule is at Florida State, which just lost to South Florida.
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So if I'm reading that right, FSU > Ugag
 
If you want to avoid losing a few brain cells, I recommend NOT reading the comments section. The stupid - it burns...
 
Enuratique said:
If you want to avoid losing a few brain cells, I recommend NOT reading the comments section. The stupid - it burns...
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I always try not to read the comment section. I say to myself, I have a good job, make solid money, and I know that most UGA fans don't have that, but I wonder, in the totally irrelevant category of talking smack, who would win. Then I start reading and my soul starts to die.
 
Sorry but UGAg gets a better bowl because of SEC bowl tie ins. I still think we end up with a better record but the ACC bowl tie ins suck.
 
Unless we make the Orange, or can finish with a record strong enough to command a BCS at-large, then UGA will go to a better bowl for this reason:

turbanicusgt said:
Sorry but UGAg gets a better bowl because of SEC bowl tie ins.
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Although "better" is rather qualitative when it comes to non-BCS bowls.
 
I agree with beej and turbanicusgt. UGA can have a worse season than us and get a better bowl because of the tie-ins. Just another reason why BCS is stupid.
 
cajunjacket said:
I agree with beej and turbanicusgt. UGA can have a worse season than us and get a better bowl because of the tie-ins. Just another reason why BCS is stupid.
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That doesn't have anything to do with the BCS.... The BCS just made it so that all the conference winners are guaranteed big games and that #1 and #2 go against each other. The bowl tie-ins have always existed.
 
gth816f said:
That doesn't have anything to do with the BCS.... The BCS just made it so that all the conference winners are guaranteed big games and that #1 and #2 go against each other. The bowl tie-ins have always existed.
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I meant to say the bowl system. But the BCS is still stupid.
 
MEwreck02 said:
It is all about the money and the potential dollars that uga can bring in for them with attendance.
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Yep. And just think if the NFL did that each year. The NFC East would get an automatic bid in the Superbowl.

The moment that a league starts caring more about money than what occurs on the field is when the integrity of the game begins to cheapen. This has been the case for the CFB post season for quite some time.
 
After almost a decade of bowl frustration, I'm all for skipping them completely.
 
cajunjacket said:
Yep. And just think if the NFL did that each year. The NFC East would get an automatic bid in the Superbowl.

The moment that a league starts caring more about money than what occurs on the field is when the integrity of the game begins to cheapen. This has been the case for the CFB post season for quite some time.
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CJ, don't buy into that bs reasoning. You're first sentence disproves it. The NFL is the most profitable sports league by huge leaps and bounds. The playoffs are a huge part of it.

A college football playoff would generate much more money than the current system. The problem is that the money would go to different people than it does now, so the current people will not support it.
 
BHP12345 said:
CJ, don't buy into that bs reasoning. You're first sentence disproves it. The NFL is the most profitable sports league by huge leaps and bounds. The playoffs are a huge part of it.

A college football playoff would generate much more money than the current system. The problem is that the money would go to different people than it does now, so the current people will not support it.
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BHP, I support a playoff. The reason a playoff won't be enacted is because it won't make as much money as bowls in the proposed playoff system.

Can the playoffs be set up to make more money than the bowls? Yes

Can the platoffs be set up and not keep out the little guys? Yes, you still preserve some bowls for teams not making the playoffs ... much like the NIT in basketball.

Have they proposed a system that does either of these? No.

Why haven't they? Because conferences such as the SEC don't support it due to their conference champion making the BCS championship each year. They are becoming preferentially wealthier due to the bowl system and BCS, so of course they don't support a playoff. I would love to see other conferences like the ACC and Big East start to step up and get into the BCS-NC over SEC teams for a few years and see if those greedy basterds change their tune. For a playoff to happen, the big 6 conferences have to be on board. SEC isn't on board because their SEC championship is considered a qualifier for one of the two teams in the BCS now.
 
I would settle for a UVA victory, a UGA victory, and a Peach Bowl victory right now. Nothing short of 9 wins though.
 
wesleyd21 said:
I would settle for a UVA victory, a UGA victory, and a Peach Bowl victory right now. Nothing short of 9 wins though.
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If my memory serves me correctly, we've never won that bowl. I've had a couple bad experiences there, I'd be just as happy to never return there again.
 
The comment section is like a sis pool or a whore house. Nothing but spewing for all woods of the UGAy nation. It's like they do best talk all the trash they can behind a keyboard... oh so bad they are blah blah blah.. I just don't even go scroll to the cooments.
 
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