People keep laughing at Kirby for saying the SEC might secede if this playoff expansion nonsense keeps going. But let's be real about what's actually happening in Athens right now while everybody is distracted by that headline. Our defense is gonna be absoultely filthy this season and nobody is talking about it. The spring dead period is when champions are built in the weight room and our guys are putting in work. We lost some dudes to the draft sure but Jon Sumrall has these linebackers flying around like they got something to prove. The front seven is gonna be the most disruptive group we have had since that 2021 unit that shut everybody down. People want to talk about Oregon's flashy transfers and Colorado's 43-man experiment but they forget that we develop talent differently in this program. We don't need the portal circus because we actually know how to coach up high school kids and keep them. The secondary might take a game or two to gel but by the time October rolls around this defense is gonna be suffocating. Kirby has been building this culture for a decade and the standard does not change just because some talking heads. Sumrall is going to prove why he was worth every penny of that $11.2M assistant pool and the rest of. Mark it down.