Kirby Smart hinting at the SEC seceding if these playoff expansion talks dont go our way and I am sitting here thinking about the 1992 sseason when the SEC Championship Game was born. We fought for years to get that game and now they want to water everything down so every conference gets a participation trophy in the playoff. Coach Dooley would have laughed at the idea of the SEC needing to threaten walking away but here we are. The conference built this sport from the ground up and now we have to listen to Greg Sankey negotiate with people who have never coached a down of football in their lives.
You watch Josh Brooks talk about having a thousand nieces and nephews meaning every athlete in the program and that is the Georgia way. That is what we built under Coach Dooley and Coach Goff and Coach Donnan and now Kirby. Family atmosphere. Not whatever Colorado is doing with 43 transfers or Oklahoma State bringing in 50 new faces like they are running a hotel not a football program. Our strength has always been developing kids who want to be Bulldogs not mercenaries looking for the next NIL bag.
The SEC seceding sounds drastic but you know what I remember? I remember when the SEC was eight teams and every single one of them hated each other with a passion. We played Auburn and Florida and Tennessee every year and that meant something. Now we have Texas and Oklahoma in the conference and people are talking about removing the SEC Championship Game entirely. If the SEC walks away and takes Georgia and Alabama and LSU and Texas with them then the rest of college football can figure out what they want to be without us. We were fine before the playoff existed and we will be fine after it crumbles.