Randolph Freelander
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Burn it with fire.
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Burn it with fire.
Yep. GATA belongs to the state of Georgia. I love the alternative uniforms and the focus this year of honoring our traditions, most of which were started by Erk.Yeah, Erk Russell started that at Georgia and then took it to Southern when he went there. He took it from the Georgia Tech Athletic Association and hated Tech so much that he wanted to change around the letters and come up with a new saying. Stands for Get After Their Asses. The politically correct way that you'll hear Richt still say it is Get After Them Aggressively, but we know what the acronym really means.
UGA actually had GATA on the goalposts this year on the padding for the first game, and then they were gone after that. I think the conference asked them to remove them for some reason.
Erk had tons of those sayings. My favorite is probably "If we score, we might win. If they never score, we'll never lose." He liked to headbutt his players (while their helmets were on) before the game to get them pumped up.
Yea, I'd assume that also is taken into consideration when picking GameDay locations. It airs 9:00-12:00 where I am (Eastern time), so that means it starts over in California at 6:00 AM. It can be tough to get a good crowd in the half-darkness over on the West coast.
Definitely, Erk made that program something. I like to see Southern succeed, look at them as a little brother. In a good way.
GoldenEye 007
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That's cool about the tradition and everything. It's just unfortunate the state rep in Florida sullied the GATA tradition forever.
That's cool about the tradition and everything. It's just unfortunate the state rep in Florida sullied the GATA tradition forever.
There's Gatas and there's GATA.
PlayALLtheGames
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How do you NOT have Tennessee in that????? That was by far the worst meltdown of the week.
Mac the KNife
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theprodigy
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Frustrated_Grunt
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lol
BertramCooper
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What's "donut juice?"
I'm always tempted to say ":jnc" in another thread but I remember that nobody will get it. Also, I would laugh at your joke, but I'd be one of the only ones.
Looks like Florida QB Skyler Mornhinweg got in a fight with a DL last night. Mark Richt has lost control of the Gatas.
I think we're underestimating Driskel. I think he might just be this mastermind boss of a criminal syndicate, working from the shadows to sabotage any challengers to his role as QB for the Gatas.
Seriously. Dude has mad shadow puppetry skills.
The OU fans parity comments were the best. Losing to TCU has ended the very existence of college football.
timetokill
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Randolph Freelander
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They've taken to calling him Palpatine
Thievery among teammates? Willis might have a future at Auburn!
Randolph Freelander
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The force.
God is evil and he's decided that we should be trapped in an Infinite Driskel Loop.
Also, why has no one suspected Grier? He's clearly sabotaged Driskel who is only getting worse, and all of his backups are going down the drain. Grier's just trying to get them to burn the redshirt as soon as possible. #followthemoney
:jnc
Seriously, though. Can you guys just picture Driskel buying a prepaid cell phone and making an anonymous call to UF about Treon Harris sexually assaulting a student. Then, grabbing Morninwheg's cleats and making an offhand remark to another player (in earshot of Morningwheg) about how he heard Willis make a comment about stealing some guy's cleats.
Makes me wonder what he did to Brissett.
Holy shit, forget about football, I hope he'll be able to walk properly again.
I didn't even realize it was a penalty to purposely try and deceive an offensive snap.
Let's be honest Michigan state clearly did that on purpose to throw off the offense. Of course the coach isn't going to admit it though.
chicko1983
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My long multi bet for this week:
central florida straight
stanford straight
oklahoma straight
northwestern +4pts
clemson straight
Miss state +2.5pts
NOtre dame straight
Arkansas +10.5pts
Arizona +2.5pts
$20 @ 41:1
central florida straight
stanford straight
oklahoma straight
northwestern +4pts
clemson straight
Miss state +2.5pts
NOtre dame straight
Arkansas +10.5pts
Arizona +2.5pts
$20 @ 41:1
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Funnily enough, the slogan for the MSU D the past few seasons has been "Spartandawgs gotta eat!" You can see defensive players pretending to scoop food into their mouths after making big plays.
(I believe the above posts are referencing this thread. If not, I'm a dumbass.)
Mac the KNife
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Like a Boss.
He got a redshirt last year after breaking his leg in the 3rd game. This is currently his 4th year playing.
Is there a petition anywhere that we can sign to get him a few more years of eligibility?
JJDinomite
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Hey guys I'm back from my month long ban!
I still plan on winning Pick 'em
Georgia @ Missouri by 10
West Virginia @ Texas Tech by 7
Northwestern @ Minnesota by 14
Duke @ Georgia Tech by 21
Auburn @ Mississippi State by 35
TCU @ Baylor by 21
Oregon @ UCLA by 17
Washington @ California by 10
Penn State @ Michigan by 42
LSU @ Florida by 3
Ole Miss @ Texas A&M by 10
USC @ Arizona by 7
I still plan on winning Pick 'em
Georgia @ Missouri by 10
West Virginia @ Texas Tech by 7
Northwestern @ Minnesota by 14
Duke @ Georgia Tech by 21
Auburn @ Mississippi State by 35
TCU @ Baylor by 21
Oregon @ UCLA by 17
Washington @ California by 10
Penn State @ Michigan by 42
LSU @ Florida by 3
Ole Miss @ Texas A&M by 10
USC @ Arizona by 7
I don't. Fuck Georgia Southern. I remember when they came to Athens in 2000(back when I was a student) their fans talked SOOOOOOOO much shit about how they were big-time now and that they were going to surprise Georgia, Adrian Peterson (their all-whatever RB at the time, ended up playing in the NFL for a bit) was a heisman candidate, etc etc etc. And I believe we spanked them like 35-0 or something. South Ga rednecks. Ga Southern is where you go when you can't get into UGA.
Geez that .gif is 35 MB. These guys need to learn about webms. Or at least compression.
theprodigy
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Georgia @ Missouri by 7
West Virginia @ Texas Tech by 4
Northwestern @ Minnesota by 4
Duke @ Georgia Tech by 7
Auburn @ Mississippi State by 4 (believe)
TCU @ Baylor by 7
Oregon @ UCLA by 7
Washington @ California by 4
Penn State @ Michigan by 14
LSU @ Florida by 6
Ole Miss @ Texas A&M by 4
USC @ Arizona by 7
West Virginia @ Texas Tech by 4
Northwestern @ Minnesota by 4
Duke @ Georgia Tech by 7
Auburn @ Mississippi State by 4 (believe)
TCU @ Baylor by 7
Oregon @ UCLA by 7
Washington @ California by 4
Penn State @ Michigan by 14
LSU @ Florida by 6
Ole Miss @ Texas A&M by 4
USC @ Arizona by 7
I remember that. Eh, sometimes little brother gets a little cocky, that's when you put him back in his place.
Yaboosh said:
Cosigned.
Sirpopopop
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Bama Fans - Any thought on this Daisha Simmons' situation?
http://www.si.com/college-basketball/2014/10/06/alabama-president-daisha-simmons-transfer-denied
http://www.si.com/college-basketball/2014/10/06/alabama-president-daisha-simmons-transfer-denied
Yes. It's bullshit and an embarrassment to the University. The hypocrisy exists on two levels which makes it even worse: (1) the whole Jacob Coker situation and (2) Daisha Simmons herself was a transfer student from... Rutgers I think.
That is awful. They need to reconsider their stance.
He won't. Bill Battle is an awful, awful AD, at least when it comes to situations like this. He's also the ass responsible for stripping our club teams of the "privilege" of using official UA logos.
Edit: I hadn't read this article yet. Bonner is also an ass for not lifting the block, but I get that she's backing Battle's position. Battle is still the bad guy here.
BertramCooper
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Reminds me of the shit Wisconsin was pulling a couple of years ago.
I hate the idea of the NCAA or universities limiting transfers on student-athletes in any sort of way. A normal student wouldn't be denied the ability to transfer to another school, and I don't think athletes should be treated any differently, regardless of whether or not they intend to compete in varsity athletics.
I don't think we can go that far, unless you want recruitment of ALL players to continue even after they're at a school.
I think the transfer rules are more or less fair, though I would eliminate a school's ability to block transfers. Athletes are free to transfer schools but they have to sit a year before they're eligible to play unless they obtain a waiver from the NCAA. I don't think the former school should have a say in this waiver, unless they want to testify on behalf of the athlete.
There's always going to be athletes punished. Several years ago we had a TE, Colin Peek, transfer from GA Tech. Paul Johnson had just arrived at Tech and had, essentially, eliminated the TE position due to the system he ran. Peek got hosed and had to burn a year of eligibility when he transferred. Ideally, the rules would provide for athletes in similar positions to become immediately eligible to play, but then you open up the whole can of worms regarding determinations as to whether a new coach's system eliminates or makes redundant a current player's position or skill set.
Honestly, some schools may have restrictions on where players can transfer if they're a rival, but I don't think that's the case here. I agree, it seems like they're trying to back each other here in a bad decision.
I think I posted about this a few weeks ago, but a UGA recruit stole a girl's cell phone while he was on a recruiting visit in a dorm. It's actually really creepy, she woke up and he was just standing there and said
He is apparently still using her phone, despite denying that he stole it. She's fortunate she woke up when she did or things could have been much worse, I'd guess. Needless to say, UGA has dropped their recruitment of him when the student filed the complaint which led to a warrant.
He's still being recruited by everyone else, as far as I know, and it's a very extensive list. Keep an eye out for this kid, this isn't the last you'll hear of him in a negative light, I'm pretty sure.
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