Tyler, you must have taken a sip from the fountain of youth or something dude. Lookin like it's still 2002 or something. And I thought I was holding up well.
I love this new energy in the booth. Chris has been my favorite radio guy since he started calling bball games. IDC what anyone says. Having an absolute Bammer on the mic makes the games so much more exciting
Great highlights! I saw a lot of the full game as well while watching on TV. Tyler, like all of us, looked like he was close to heart failure many times. So glad for this win!!
The problem is Bama always has a better coach & a higher standard than everyone else, including Georgia. This bleeds out in they only bring in the most elite QBs & WRs and other positions. Kirby stated before, "We will hunt, and not be hunted". That sounds great, but when other programs have a higher level of excellence in every facet - defense and offense- you'll be hunted like you did against Bama, and dare I say Kentucky. As Georgia has allowed its offense to be an area where championship-level excellence is not being met, the past 2 years from coordinators to players/personnel has been declining. Would this be allowed at Bama. I think not. Read below.... Kirby is a great coach. But Bama has always been a forward-thinking program that is championship-minded or bust mentality. They demand their coaches to dominate and be great, or they don't hire them, and if their head coach even has a bad game or two (they're all over them and the coordinators). A bad coordinator doesn't last more than a season at Bam; he has to produce and dominate each gamee. At UGA winning is enough. If that is our standard, then you'll never be at our above Bama's level. When they hired Nick & DeBoer, they went out and said, what coach out there wins the most championships, and dominates other teams. Also, Deboer & Saban (prior to Bama) consistently takes less talent at lesser programs and dominates teams at their level and above. Nick and Kaleen both did that. Kirby was an experiment based on the Bama dynasty. Yes he a great coach. Yes, he the best coach Ga has ever had. Is he IMO a legendary college football coach, No. He is more on par with Dabo Sweeney than Nick Saban. I argue that Kaleen's ceiling is much higher than Kirby's. Kaleen is 6-0 against Sarkisian, Lanning, and Kirby. He also dominated teams at Washington, with much less talented rosters, as mentioned above. So, what can be done at GA? Well, since I'm just a RU-vid poster, it means nothing. But as a former player/coach. Kirby will not listen to anyone but maybe a few people in his circles, and the AD being one of them. He needs an advisor on his offense, and I'm not a Bobo basher, but Bobo needs to catch up on his offensive concepts and style of play. Bobo, should be an OC at Furman, Ga Southern or move on as the game has passed him by. He is only at UGA due to his ties in recruiting, being a Ga player and being a friend of Kirby. Kaleen will take Bama where Nick was falling off; his innovation and killer instincts to dominate are at another level compared to Saban/Kirby. He is also going to bring in innovative coordinators, the best that is out there. There are a lot of coaches/coordinators at smaller programs that can outcoach big-name coaches. Kaleen will bring in these guys. The problem is Kaleen is only going to get better, he just beat Kirby with his established program, and this will be the most down Kaleen is (regardless if he has Milroe or not). So why Kirby is mired down and determined to beat a square peg into a round hole? I'm afraid he is sabotaging himself and the program by not doing a Nick Saban/Alabama and saying, "What changes do/did they Bama/Oh State make on offense and as a staff to be #1" you can learn a lot from your competition, especially one that is considered a dynasty nobody can catch. Harbaugh did it and won a championship, he built his D like Ga and combined that with a great OC and succeeded. As a GA fan to beat the Bama drum: The greatest difference between Bama and UGA is because their AD, boosters and fanbase, would not allow even mediocrity from game to game. You can bet if they had a few games on offense like UGA has had (they would already be demanding change). It might not be fair or reasonable, but it explains why Bama has created a standard of excellence that UGA is afraid to enforce. Because we're more scared of losing than constantly creating an environment that demands excellence and winning. It's like going to war against your most significant enemy each year, and you continuously sit back. He annihilates you every time by getting the best fighters at critical spots and running better offensive and defensive maneuvers, and you keep trying to do the same thing and wonder why you can beat them. This is precisely the UGA problem; we need our standard raised, and we need to have the right resources to get it done (coordinators/players personnel). Kirby can be our great leader (maybe the two championships is all we get with him, and maybe 9-11 win seasons from here on out), but unless he gets the right talent around him (coordinators/players), I would argue offensive coordinator we're never going to get where we were and stay there. The problem is that UGA has a don't lose mentality, and a post like this is overreacting, but at Bama, it is a normal sentiment. Therefore, everyone demands and holds everyone accountable to that standard from week to week, not just every few years, once things start declining. It burns me to say, but when I see the Bama slogan/creed "Where Legends Are Made" all over Bama ,it lets me know they have a higher standard than GA. Bama is willing to publicize and hold their coaches accountable to this standard on a much shorter leash (namely, you perform and dominate this season, or you are out, even coordinators and assistant coaches). Unreasonable, maybe. Does it work. ..Yes! Is Kirby willing to make the changes necessary on a shorter leash with a friend in Mike Bobo, or with anyone on the staff to make us legendary? If not, who will demand we take the next step at UGA and hold Kirby accountable to the same standard he would be held to if he were the coach at Bama? Until we do, we don't deserve to have expectations like Bama.
I said, before the season, I'm worried about our defensive line. The Linebackers are horrible also. They can make this team dangerous if they had pass rushers.
Can anything be done about Stewart's mic overmodulating every time he gets excited? Also...no one else in the booth should ever get so excited that they step on the play-by-play announcer. This is just a lack of discipline. It's something that goes on in high school booths and sounds totally bush league.
I loved Eli as much as any other Bama fan and grew up listening to him call Bama games and NASCAR races. That said Chris is great and has put in the time and I am very happy with him as our now long term caller. We get him on both football and basketball and its awesome.
