Everyone ttalking about Bill Connelly's SP+ projections like they tell the whole story needs to remember fall camp is about. I still remember setting up the tailgate in the North Campus lot back in 2021 before we made that run and the energy was electric. Same feeling right now seeing this roster take shape. Connelly can put Texas ahead of us all he wants but watch what happens when our depth starts showing out these next few weeks.
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You see ESPN ranking Kirby Smart number one and all I can think about is how different building a roster was back in the 2002 season when you actually developed kids instead of shopping the portal every winter. We landed a five-star tight end the old fahioned way this year bu...
You walk into Sanford Stadium on a Thursday night for fall camp opener and the energy hits different. That first crack of pads echoing off the hedges with the lights on tells you everything you need to know. We don't do the whole "wait and see" thing around here. We reload, we refill, and we remind everybody why this place is the standard. Tennessee State is about to get a rude introduction to what real SEC football looks like under those Thursday night lights. htts://www.on3.com/teams/georgia-bulldogs/
You see Bill Connelly's previews and ESPN's coach rankings and all I can think about is how NIL has turned this sport into free agency. Back in the 1980 season we built teams through four years of development, not a checkbook. Now these kids enter the portal faster than you can say "SEC Championship" and we are left wondering who is even on the roster come August. The loyalty is gone and I do not see it coming back.
ESPN can rank their coaches all they want but Kirby Smart is the best coach in this program's history and it is not even close. I will die on this hill. I watched Vince Dooley win a national title in 1980 with Herschel and that was special but the game was completely different. Dooley coached against option offenses and wishbone teams where you could line up and run it down their throats. Kirby has had to adapt to spread offenses, tmpo, the transfer portal, NIL nonsense that destroyed roster loyalty, and still won two national titles in a four year stretch.
You want to talk about building a program? Dooley had the same 22 kids for four years and could develop them slow. Kirby has to replace half his roster every offseason because these kids chase a bag or transfer for more playing time. He won a national title in 2022 with a defense that had five guys drafted in the first round and then turned around and won another one in 2024 with a completely different group of players. That is coaching. That is program building.
Mark Richt won 10 games every year and we loved him for it but he never got over the hump. Kirby has taken us to three national title games in six years. The man has built a machine that reloads instead of rebuilds. I do not care what ESPN's list says or who they put at number one. Kirby Smart is the best coach in the country and he is the best coach Georgia has ever had. Period. End of story.
ESPN's coach ranking list is out and I already know where this is going but let me tell you what. This is not the Mark Richt era where we won 10 games every year but could never get over the hump in big moments. This is not the Jim Donnan era where we had talent but not the depth to survive an SEC grind. This is not even the early Kirby years where we were building the foundation but still had those moments where you could see the cracks. We are in a completely different stratosphere now and the numbers prove it. Calling it now: by the time this decade is over. We are talking about back-to-back national titles. We are talking about a recruiting pipeline that has not dipped below top three in six years. We are talking about NFL Draft classes that are setting records for defensive players taken in the first round. And the best part is that people still want to act like we are just some flash in the pan. I remember sitting in Sanford Stadium during the 2019 season watching us lose to South Carolina at home and thinking we might never get there. That was the game where everything changed honestly because you could see the frustration in the program and you could. From that moment forward, we have lost what five rgeular season games total? Six maybe? The consistency we have built is something that programs like Alabama had for 15 years under Saban and we are. The difference between us and every other program in the country is simple. When we lose players to the NFL, we do not rebuild. We reload. Look at what we have done in the portal this offseason. Look at the 2026 recruiting class we are putting together with Kaiden Prothro and the rest of the haul. Look at how the staff develops three-star guys into first-round picks like it is a science. This is not luck. This is a machine that Kirby built...
Just saw Bill Connelly's preview and I guarantee he's got Texas ahead of us again. You know what I remember? The 2005 Georgia-Tennessee game where we beat them 27-14 in Knoxville and they had no answer for our defense. These projection guys don't understand what it means to ha...
Just saw Connelly's SEC preview and I already know he's got us behind Texas again in the SP+ projections. Whatever man, let them sleep on this defense for one more offseason. I've been watching fall camp clips and the front seven looks absolutely terrifying. We lost some guys to the draft but that's what happens when you've been putting D-linemen in the league every single year. The pipeline doesn't stop, it just reloads. What nobody wants to talk about is how this defensive staff has been developing second and third-year guys in the. We've got guys who have been in the system for two years now, learning the scheme, adding weight. The interior push is going to be nasty. Teams think they can just run right at us because we lost some names? Good luck with that. And the secondary is deeper than people realize too. We've got ballhawks back there who have been waiting for their moment. Oregon fans want to talk about their five-star class and Colorado thinks 43 transfers is the answer. Fine. We'll keep doing what we've done since Kirby got here - develop monsters, win the line of scrimmage, and let the results speak. Fall camp energy is different when you know what you've got brewing up front.
Fall camp is finally here and I already know exctly how this season is going to go. We are going to get flagged for every ticky-tack hold while the opposing offensive line gets away with murder every single down. The SEC officiating crew that loves to "let them play" until we have a key third down stop and then. It has been three years of watching our edge rushers get blatantly held with zero calls while our tackles get. I need the league office to actually do something about the consistency because it is getting ridiculous watching games get.
How is nobody talking about the fact that we landed 5-star TE Kaiden Prothro in the 2026 class and ESPN. I saw the breakdown of how every five-star "fits" their system and I just had to laugh because our staff. We do not need a fit. We recruit the best players in the country and we devlop them into first round picks. Period. That 2027 class with 23 five-stars is getting all the hype but people forget we literally had the number one. Oregon got five five-stars in their 2026 haul and good for them. I will take our development track record over their hype train any day of the week. We have been the standard for a reason. Fall camp is fixin' to open and all I keep hearing is about how Texas is loaded and Oregon is the next big thing. Meanwhile we are sitting here with a 5-star TE who is gonna bully linebackers and safeties for the next three years. The disrespect to what we have built in Athens is unreal. We are not going anywhere.
You see Bill Connelly put out his conference previews and I just have to laugh at how this sport has changed. Back in the 2002 season when we won the SEC with that defense that held Tennessee to 13 points in the SEC Championship, you knew exactly what you were getting from every team in the league. Now we have Texas and Oklahoma in our conference, the Big Ten is a coast to coast mess, and nobody can keep a rooster together for more than one season. I miss the days when you could name the starting lineup in April and they would still be there in November.
Three portal losses in one week and our depth chart looks different than it did at the end of spring practice. That never happened when Coach Dooley was running things. You had walk ons who would bleed red and black for four years just to get a chance to play on special teams. Now these kids see a bigger NIL bag somewhere else and they are gone before the leaves change color. The 1980 team that won it all with Herschel had the same 22 starters every single week. You cannot build a program when your roster turns over 30 percent every winter.
I watched our spring game and I saw some good things from the new guys we brought in through the portal. But I also saw a lot of confusion on the offensive line and that worries me. We lost some real dogs up front to the NFL draft and I am not convinced the replacements are ready for SEC football in September. The 2005 team had that offensive line that opened holes for Thomas Brown and Danny Ware and those boys played together for three years. Chemistry matters. You cannot buy that with NIL money.
The recruiting rankings have us sitting at No. 11 in the 2027 class with zero five stars and people are panicking. I remember the 2002 team that had five guys drafted and only one of them was a five star recruit. That team had Max Jean Gilles and David Pollack and Boss Bailey and none of them were handed anything. They earned it in the weight room and on the practice field. These recruiting services are a joke anyway. They had us ranked 15th in 2017 and that class won a natty.
I will say this about the new staff. They are working hard in fall camp and I like the way they are rotating guys through the two deep. We have a Wednesday night game against Tennessee State to open the season and I remember when we used to open against Georgia Southern or Arkansas State and you could empty the bench by the third quarter. Now every game is a dogfight because of the portal and NIL and everybody has talent. But I still believe we have the best program in the country when it comes to developing players the right way. We just need to keep our guys home and build through the high school ranks like we always did.
Bill Connelly dropped his conference previews and I just want to know how many times he mentioned Sanford Stadium being. Because that atmosphere is why we keep reloading instead of rebuilding. Other programs have to beg recruits to come watch them play. We just turn on the lights and let the crowd do the talking. You cannot replicate that energy anywhere else in college football.
You see ESPN running that piece on the 23 five-stars in the 2027 class and I just have to shake my head. Back in the 1992 season when we joined the SEC East, we didn't have 23 five-star players in the entire country, let alone one class. Coach Goff had to go find kids from the Georgia high school ranks who wanted to play for the G on their helmet, not for the highest bidder. We built the 2002 SEC Championship team with three-star kids from Valdosta and Lowndes County who stayed four years and developed into men. Now these 23 prospects are being scouted like they are NFL veterans before they have even played a down of college football. The pressure on these kids must be enormous. I remember when a five-star rating meant you were Herschel Walker or Champ Bailey, a once in a generation talent. Now they hand those stars out like candy at a parade. NIL has turned these 23 prospects into free agents before they even sign a letter of intent. The new revenue sharing cap at 20.5 million is just going to make the bidding war more organized but no less disgusting. We used to win recruiting battles because a kid wanted to run through that hedges and hear the Chapel Bell ring after a win. Now it is about who can put together the best package of cash and promises. Kirby has done a good job navigating this mess but I miss the days when you earned your stars by what you did on Friday nights, not by how many Instagram followers you had. The 2027 class will be decided by which program has the best NIL collective, not which program develops the best men. That is just the reality of where we are now.
People keep questioning whether we can reload after losing so many guys to the NFL draft. Kirby and the coordinators have this program running like a machine where you don't rebuild, you just reload. While other teams panic and grab 43 transfers from the portal, we trust our development and our scheme. Mark my words: by week four of the 2026 season, people will be saying our new offensive line coach deserves a raise ...
Four Bulldogs on the SEC All-Decade team and I just think about the 1980 defense that held three teams to single digits. Those boys played through broken bones and never complained. These modern kids wouldn't last a quarter in that era. Toughness is earned in August heat, not ...
Four Bulldogs on the SEC All-Decade team and people still act like we haven't been running this conference. That's just the tip of the iceberg too. Our pipeline keeps producing and this fall camp is loaded with guys ready to step up and prove the next decade belongs to us too....
You watch these spread offenses now and nobdy runs a true option anymore. I miss the 1980 Georgia teams with Herschel and the Wishbone, where you had to read the end and make a split-second decision. That was real football, not this RPO handoff nonsense where the QB just look...
You watch fall camp open and see these kids showing up with their NIL deals already signed and I just think back to the 1982 walk ons who had to prove it every single day in the Georgia heat just to earn a practice jersey. Coach Dooley would have laughed in your face if you as...
You walk into Sanford Stadium on a late summer afternoon and the heat hits you like a freight train. I remember the 1985 season when we had the same offensive line for four straight years and you could feel the grass and the humidity and the noise all at once. These kids today with their air-conditioned locker rooms and synthetic turf don't know what real football felt like.
You see Georgia sitting at No. 11 in the 2027 recruiting rankings with zero five-stars and I just think back to the 2002 SEC Championship team. That group had maybe two or three blue-chip guys total and they went to the Sugar Bowl and beat Florida State because they played together for three years under Coach Richt. These kids today look at a depth chart and transfer out before fall camp even starts. We landed Kaiden Prothro in the 2026 class and that was supposed to be the foundation but now we are watching Texas and Oregon stack five-stars like they are collecting baseball cards. I miss when recruiting was about finding the kid from Valdosta or Bainbridge who wanted to be a Bulldog since he was ten years old, not about who writes the biggest check. The poratl and NIL have turned this program into a rental car agency.
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