What is the point of being UGA's b*tch 90% of the time?

ee8384 said:
Rice stopped playing Texas annually in 1995 and has only played them once in past 7 seasons.
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That's actually the point. With the end of the SWC, Rice dropped down to G5 status. They essentially agreed that they couldn't play at the top level anymore. That's what dropping UGA means – acknowledgment that we're just not going to run with the big boys. That would be worse than any one bad loss.
 
18in32 said:
That's actually the point. With the end of the SWC, Rice dropped down to G5 status. They essentially agreed that they couldn't play at the top level anymore. That's what dropping UGA means – acknowledgment that we're just not going to run with the big boys. That would be worse than any one bad loss.
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Tech continues to be competitive in the ACC. Totally different situation than Rice, who was perennially horrible - essentially Duke with no sports history.

I'd trade UGA for ND on the schedule every year. Tech may lose 75% of the time to ND, too, but it wouldn't be in Tech's recruiting backyard.
 
ee8384 said:
Tech continues to be competitive in the ACC. Totally different situation than Rice, who was perennially horrible - essentially Duke with no sports history.

I'd trade UGA for ND on the schedule every year. Tech may lose 75% of the time to ND, too, but it wouldn't be in Tech's recruiting backyard.
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I guess the point of the haters is that ACC should drop to G5, too. I mean, did you see the Duke/Wake game?
 
18in32 said:
I guess the point of the haters is that ACC should drop to G5, too. I mean, did you see the Duke/Wake game?
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Who's saying that? Every major conference has its share of also-rans, including the SEC.

I don't understand those who call for CPJ's head and/or say the program needs significant changes but want Tech to continue to take a high-probability loss every year to an out of conference national powerhouse.

I also don't understand why Texas/Oklahoma, Clemson/USCe and Florida/FSU continue to play each other every year.
 
Like it or not but this series is going to end in the next decade. Once the Sec or ACC goes to a 9 game schedule, this series will no longer be viable.

I'm all for too. It's time to get out of their shadow and to stop our fans basing the entire season on a meaningless out of conference game.
 
I'm a T-shirt fan in Texas and I really like Georgia Tech football. I don't know the ins and outs of who controls the budgets and curriculums of GT and Georgia. I would guess that the financial deck is stacked against GT and I know GT can't get just anyone or keep just anyone in school.

It is not realistic to expect Tech to match up with Georgia in football given these financial and academic limitations. I say either fully commit to a making the playing field with Georgia more level or quit playing the series.
 
ee8384 said:
Who's saying that? Every major conference has its share of also-rans, including the SEC.

I don't understand those who call for CPJ's head and/or say the program needs significant changes but want Tech to continue to take a high-probability loss every year to an out of conference national powerhouse.

I also don't understand why Texas/Oklahoma, Clemson/USCe and Florida/FSU continue to play each other every year.
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To me, rivalry games are the absolute best part of college football, and probably the strongest argument for college football over the NFL. The passion, the pageantry, the tradition, the drama...college football rivalry games are some of the best spectacles in all of sports. They are the reason why fans are so obsessive and put their hearts and souls into their teams.

I don't understand why some people would want to take them away. College football without rivalry games would be a sad thing indeed -- a colorless tracing of the sport we currently know and love.
 
andrew said:
To me, rivalry games are the absolute best part of college football, and probably the strongest argument for college football over the NFL. The passion, the pageantry, the tradition, the drama...college football rivalry games are some of the best spectacles in all of sports. They are the epitome of why fans follow sports so obsessively and put their hearts and souls into their teams.

I don't understand why some people would want to take those away. College football without rivalry games would be a sad thing indeed -- a colorless tracing of what we currently know and love.
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Why don't Nebraska and Oklahoma play every year? Not in the Big 8 anymore.

I dare say there are only a handful of rivalry games that are OOC. No one is saying eliminate all rivalry games.

Success measures have changed with the Big Six and the Playoffs. Gonna get worse when the playoff expands to 8 teams (which it will, soon).
 
How many OOC rivalry games are there now, outside of the ACC-SEC ones? ACC-SEC has GT-UGA, CU-USCe, FSU-UF, L’ville-UK.
 
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ee8384 said:
Why don't Nebraska and Oklahoma play every year? Not in the Big 8 anymore.

I dare say there are only a handful of rivalry games that are OOC. No one is saying eliminate all rivalry games.

Success measures have changed with the Big Six and the Playoffs. Gonna get worse when the playoff expands to 8 teams (which it will, soon).
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You said you don't understand why people want to keep playing GT-U[sic]GA, Clemson-South Carolina, Oklahoma-Texas, and Florida-FSU.

I was telling you why people want to keep playing those games.
 
ee8384 said:
I also don't understand why Texas/Oklahoma, Clemson/USCe and Florida/FSU continue to play each other every year.
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Then I'm not sure you really understand college football. Because at its heart its about being better than your neighbor. That's what I really hate about the ACC. Outside the heartland teams, there aren't any genuine rivalries. I mean... nobody really cares. "It just means less."
 
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