Will Georgia Open the 2011 Season Against Boise State in the Dome?
I have mixed feelings about this possibility.
On the one hand, Mark Richt-coached teams typically have performed better when opening the season against quality opposition. On the other hand, when the Bulldogs have beaten out-of-conference opponents in non-rivalry games between the hedges, rematches outside of Athens haven't always ended well (Oklahoma State in Stillwater in 2009, Colorado in Boulder in 2010).
On the one hand, I'd love to get out of the now-pointless series with Louisville. On the other hand, I'm not anxious to hose Ole Miss by yanking the Rebels' marquee non-conference matchup out from under them.
On the one hand, the Broncos have never beaten an SEC team. On the other hand, Boise State is a program on the rise, and Georgia will head into 2011 after the worst two seasons of the Mark Richt era. Right now, we don't even know if the Bulldogs will make a bowl game this season, and, if they don't, that's a few weeks' worth of extra practices of which they will be deprived, while the Broncos likely will be coming off of back-to-back BCS bowl campaigns.
At the end of the day, I would prefer it if this move didn't happen in this way at this time. I don't see the logic of playing a regular-season game in the Georgia Dome against anyone other than a traditional rival from the ACC, I don't see the urgency of rearranging everything so hurriedly rather than arranging a future matchup down the road, and I don't see how this can be squared with Greg McGarity's stated objective of scheduling more home games. In principle, I'm for this matchup; in practice, in this specific instance, I'm against it.
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I agree.
If McGarity puts such a value on a seven game home schedule, why give up one of those games to a game we would enter as underdogs?
by Torgo's Executive Powder on Nov 18, 2010 11:10 PM EST reply actions
I don't know, the Georgia Dome would be
close to home field for us, and I’m getting sick of recruiting rivals (particularly Bama) coming into Atlanta and putting on a show for metro area HS recruits.
Plus, Boise has a ton of seniors this year, so it should be a game we can win.
Wrong
bsu only loses like 4 starters next year and have players with experience at every position. Wr is where you lose the most and the back-ups are very good to. They bring back Kellen Moore and with that said it is a Georgia L
by Ryan McDonald on Nov 19, 2010 6:18 PM EST up reply actions
Boise State fan, are we?
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
You're still cool with us actually playing the game and . . .
. . . seeing what happens in the nine months between now and kickoff, right?
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Nov 19, 2010 6:49 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Look at BSU's depth chart.
4 seniors on offense. 5 on defense.
Unless the abbreviation “Sr” actually means something different in Idaho, such as Spud Romper, pretty sure they are guaranteed to lose 9 starters. And don’t count on Kellen Moore coming back, either.
My excitement for this game has now been tempered by the realization that all of the BSU apologists/fanatics will troll for the 8 months between their non-championship BCS game and this game.
Absolutely agree
Would love to play in the Dome, would love to play Boise, would love to cancel the Louisville series… But not all at once, not coming off this season anyway.
It’s a big risk: Either you beat them and get the swagger back where it belongs… or you lose and the fanbase and team totally melt down. Not worth it.
I think if we were in better shape, I would love it. However, the way things are right now, it would scare the daylights out of all of us.
Losing in the dome, opening game to Boise – not how I want to start 2011.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
out of curiousity
is there anything that doesn’t scare the daylights out of all of us at the moment? I’m not sure there’s anything happening or contemplated that doesn’t scare me right now. I’m not saying I don’t love my Bulldogs – my level of fanaticism borders on unhealthy obsession, but if i’m being honest – the team scares me. I’m never sure what horrible thing is going to happen next, or how to prevent it. I know I sound like Chicken Little here and maybe it’s the cold meds talking, but let’s be honest, sometimes you aren’t just paranoid – they really are out to get you.
I can bake like a demon.
Mercer and Idaho St
don’t scare me. As to Boise St, we’ve had our home and home with them (and owned both). I’m all for replacing Louisville (coached by a dude that OWNED US as a DC), but not with and up-and-comer who still has something to prove. Let’s give Mercer and Ga State payouts to get trounced by us in warm-up games. It could help recruiting, probably won’t hurt, and if Charleston Southern is good enough for the Gators…..
I’m not fooled by BSU’s senior class. Most of these kids won’t see the Arena League (or whatever they renamed it), much less the NFL. Boise State’s success is all about kids buying into the program and the scheme. 3 and 4 years ago, I’m okay with playing them. Next year and the next, I’m scared to death of them. They (rightfully) believe they can hang with AQ schools after trouncing VT. I’d rather we not become a statistic BSU repeatedly quotes while whining about having to go to the Fiesta Bowl again
by Just Some Dawg on Nov 19, 2010 1:01 AM EST up reply actions
And we have done very well in the "being a satistic" category.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
Minor correction, Just Some Dawg:
We only played Boise State once, in Sanford Stadium to open the 2005 season. Georgia has never been to Boise. You may be thinking of Arizona State, another program that parlayed regular double-digit win seasons in the WAC, frequent upsets of Pac-10 teams, and Fiesta Bowl appearances into upward mobility in the college football firmament, including a conference upgrade.
The rest of your points, though, are well taken. This just isn’t the time.
Go 'Dawgs!
To be fair...
… I was incredibly scared concerned about the 2005 game we scheduled with the Broncos. It was a no-win game then and it would be a no-win game in 2011.
If we pummel Boise State, well then we’re just punishing a poor mid-major. If Boise beats us, it’s the biggest win of their season… in week 1. At least in Boise’s case, it wouldn’t be the biggest win in their program’s history… so that’s something, at least.
by vineyarddawg on Nov 19, 2010 8:13 AM EST up reply actions
If it happens
It cements McGarity as a hypocrite with regards to scheduling policy. He was already on shaky ground when you combine his stance of 7+ home games per year with his staunch support of the WLOCP remaining in Jacksonville.
I hope it’s not true and that the entire Georgia football program spends the off-season working on getting better rather than worrying about its national perception. The latter will follow if the former is successfully addressed.
(clicks stopwatch)...
… and that’s two months, eighteen days on the job before someone on this blog calls McGarity a hypocrite.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a new school record.
by vineyarddawg on Nov 19, 2010 8:11 AM EST up reply actions
And it took you 7 minutes
To misquote me. I said If it happens.
by Hobnail_Boot on Nov 19, 2010 8:20 AM EST up reply actions
When you start launching such strongly-worded mortars at the leaders of the university...
… using a qualifier like “if it happens” hardly matters.
By using that 3-word header at the beginning of such a rant, what you’re implying (whether it was intentional or not) is, “This is what I already think Greg McGarity is, and this particular situation gives me an excuse to state this opinion with a measure of credibility.”
If this was not what you were trying to say, then I apologize for misinterpreting your comments. That mistake was easy to make, however, given the tone that was used.
by vineyarddawg on Nov 19, 2010 8:55 AM EST up reply actions
Ok let me try another tone
I don’t think that it makes sense for Georgia to play Boise State in the CFA Kickoff (or on Labor Day) in light of the Greg McGarity’s recent comments on his football scheduling philosophy. He has stated that Georgia should be playing at least 7 games in Athens each year.
Currently, our 2011 schedule includes home games against Louisville, South Carolina, Coastal Carolina, Mississippi State, New Mexico State, Auburn, and Kentucky. 7 games.
If the Bulldogs were to play their opening game in Atlanta instead of Athens during the first season Greg McGarity has real scheduling influence, then he is sending mixed messages.
by Hobnail_Boot on Nov 19, 2010 10:32 AM EST up reply actions
I completely agree with you, in that case.
Scheduling Boise is a “no-win situation” game, and does take away one of our home games, which McGarity did make a point to emphasize earlier this year as being important.
by vineyarddawg on Nov 19, 2010 11:36 AM EST up reply actions
What makes it hypocritical? We’re not losing a home game (losing one in 2011 but gaining one in 2012 – swapping which year is 6 home and which is 7) and we’re not traveling out west. I know he has a sweet tooth, but we’d be dropping two games against Louisville (who I expect to be pretty legit by 2012) for one against Boise and one against a cupcake.
"It'll only be reviewed because the guys up in the booth want to watch it a few times too." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf16_mw0nxs
We should play this game:
Senator Blutarsky’s take is mine as well.
The winning attitude has to begin sooner than later. Might as well be sooner.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
Yea...wasn't Bama comming off a 7-6 campaign when they went with the VT matchup?
The bench INSPIRES...
Well...
I see this:
McGarity is thinking to himself how do I tell if Richt can get something done?
-If we play Boise it puts the pressure on Richt to really get the team lit up this Offseason.
-I think McGarity sees it as a measuring stick game. If Richt cant get the team up for Boise and we lose then have a crap season then debating replacing Richt will not be that hard. If Richt gets the team up and beats Boise it proves that Richt is still able to get the team together and win the big games (Say what you will, but Boise is gonna be comming in at like 40-3 or some crap the last 3 years. Ask VT what happens when you sleep walk to the game.).
-Also the publicity UGA will get will help a lot. Gameday, ESPN selling the game hard for a month prior to the game, SI talkin bout it, and pretty much anyother notable sporting sites will talk about it. If we play Louisville we will get a 2 paragraph preview of the game on like ESPN and SI.
-If we play Louisville we have a chance to lose to them since they guy coaching has played UGA a crap ton and knows how our Off opperates. Even if we beat the crap outta Louisville no one will care…*(unless we win like 80-3 or some crap that would not happen..Cause Richt would just start taking knees if we got past 60 pts).
The bench INSPIRES...
ESPN pushed the crap out of the 2005 game, too...
… and when we whipped those boys like a creamsicle-wearing red-headed stepchild, we got all of about 30 seconds on SportsCenter for it.
Oh, and Rece Davis gave D.J. Shockley a helmet sticker on College Football Final. So there’s that.
It’s just a no-win situation for Georgia. Which doesn’t necessarily mean that I think we shouldn’t do it, because it seemed to work out for us ok in 2005. It just makes me wary.
by vineyarddawg on Nov 19, 2010 8:49 AM EST up reply actions
It was more of hey this upstart team could upset UGA back then.
Now ESPN will have 3 seasons in which Boise St. has gone to BCS Bowl games. I am sure they will win this years game to make them 2-1 in those games,
The key is that the game is on a Monday nite which means EVERYONE will be watching.
I’ll take playing Boise in ATL over another BS home n home vs some .500 team that could beat us if we are in a slump when we play them (See Col for how awsome that is).
The bench INSPIRES...
Monday night?
I don’t think so. These Ga. Dome games have usually been on Saturdays, haven’t they?
Boise-VT was a Monday night, but that was in DC, not Atlanta.
And there is no way on earth that Richt is going to agree to play Boise on a Monday night and turn around to play South Carolina on the Saturday. Not if he has any sense, that is.
3-0
If Boise wins a BCS bowl this year they’d be 3-0. They lost 2 years ago to TCU in the poinsettia bowl. Also, if they manage to win out their 3 year record will be 39-1. The loss being by 1 point to TCU.
Lou Holtz then promptly praised D.J. Stokely, thus adding to the conspiracy...
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
by DavetheDawg on Nov 19, 2010 10:24 AM EST up reply actions
I disagree...
-I think McGarity sees it as a measuring stick game. If Richt cant get the team up for Boise and we lose then have a crap season then debating replacing Richt will not be that hard. If Richt gets the team up and beats Boise it proves that Richt is still able to get the team together and win the big games (Say what you will, but Boise is gonna be comming in at like 40-3 or some crap the last 3 years. Ask VT what happens when you sleep walk to the game.).
I don’t see McGarity scheduling this game as a “test” for Richt. I believe McGarity’s motivation for this is to get us back into the National stream of thought, give us some Atlanta exposure for recruiting, get us out of a dead-end home/away series with Louisville, and money. This one game, win or lose, will not make or break Richt. Overall improvement, wins and losses, discipline…those are the big-picture items which will dictate Richt’s employment in 2011 and beyond.
Richt is being evaluated right now. This game, if it comes to fruiting, is just part of that process.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
"fruiting" is actually
part of the canning process. I loves me some fig preserves.
What I meant to say is “fruition.”
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
I hope not...
for the sake of the conference. I’m not excited about Boise playing Ole MIss. They will not beat Boise, and I really don’t want to hear how Boise is good enough to play in the SEC, because of a win over Ole Miss. A win over UGA would make it so much worse.I think UGA can actually beat Boise, but that is a tall order coming off of this year. We know the UGA would have the edge in athletes, but Peterson is a great coach, and Boise seems to always play pretty well in big nationally televised games…I would be rooting for hard for the Dawgs, should this happen
You mean how we dropped a bunch of close games due to mistakes?
We are literally like 3 fumbles and a fumble recovery that did not happen from being 9-3 or better right now. I’m sure the coaches teach recovery and ball handling skills, but fumbles happen. For us this year they happened at the worst possible times.
For all the people who said UGA would suck this year cause of a new QB and a new DC…how many got that call right? Yea we sucked, but it was cause our OL did not show up, RBs fumbled 3 times when would should have scored to win/;take the lead in game, Star WR gets a 4 game suspension.
Cause the only game our DC really cost us was the Aub game and the only game the QB cost us was the Fla game.
The bench INSPIRES...
This pretty much goes with what McGarity said
This is effectively a home game in that we’ll be likely making over 2.3 million by participating in the game. We don’t have to do play at Boise State either, so it’s staying in the region. I think Boise State will be a quality opponent, but I’m not as concerned with them as some here as I remember how much they were talked up in 2005. Granted, we won’t be able to win by just showing up. They have to come out and dominate them. We’ll look great if we do that and Boise State finishes strong this year. And we’ll make out well on national TV and well with all that money.
I’d love to play this game next October. I’m not at all interested in it before we’ve had a chance to warm up. When we spend 8 months prepping for a season, and they spend it prepping for a game, there’s a pretty real advantage to them. I’d be glad to play them the week after they get TCU, when they haven’t been able to look ahead. I don’t know if they’ve played 2 games in a row in a while.
"It'll only be reviewed because the guys up in the booth want to watch it a few times too." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf16_mw0nxs
I would like to see it....
the result would be problematic but I think we can beat them. Maybe (probably) I’m overly optimistic as usual.
I hate to see teams like Alabama and LSU start their seasons on a big national stage right in our own backyard. Of course they’ve won their games in the Dome. If you fall flat on your face, well, that is pub you obviously don’t want. Still I’d like to see it, I think it would pump a bit of life back into the program & we don’t have to go to Eugene, Boise, or other some place first discovered by Lewis & Clark to do it.
Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the Dawgs of war; - Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 1
Think we need Boise OUTSIDE at 1pm.
And I don’t think we should play them until we obtain a defense from somewhere.
Good grief guys
you sound as if we have no chance (save a few of you) to beat Boise. If playing them is that frightening then we need to cancel the season. I see much more adversity in our regular SEC games than Boise would offer.
I hear this “Oh it is our first game of the season blah blah blah” well it would also be their first game. Quick lets hide in the closet – good grief. Truth be known I think we have a better chance against Boise than Louisville.
I really don't want us to play anyone else until we obtain a defense from somewhere.
It is just embarassing.
It won't be any worse than this year
And we were statistically much better than in the past couple. Next year with another year under their belts I think we’ll see some pretty decent improvement. Biggest shopping item for Richt and Garner needs to be a massive nose tackle. That cannot be emphasized enough, we must have that for the 3-4 to work correctly.
by andycapps on Nov 19, 2010 11:17 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
As stated in another thread
by tankertoad – Losing in the dome, opening game to Boise – not how I want to start 2011.
Yes, I am frightened by many things going on in our program – this is just one of them.
I can bake like a demon.
With you all the way that the massive NT needs to be at the top of the Christmas list!
I know we are statistically better last year. But the defense we have now is a mere shadow of the defense we had last time we played Boise.
I'm with you JRL, except for your Louisville comment
I admittedly haven’t studied too much who all each team has coming back. Anyway let’s do the Dome deal.
Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the Dawgs of war; - Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 1
by Vietnam Dog on Nov 19, 2010 12:44 PM EST up reply actions
I agree with andycaps and JRL
Why would we not schedule a high profile game in another season because we are scared? Thats a horrible reason not to play a game. It also means that we are all waisting our time with this whole football fandom nonsense.
Do you think Alabama, LSU, or Southern Cal would come off of a bad season scared to schedule a high profile game. Hell no. They would look at it as a chance to redeem themselves. If our program is scared to take a chance, is scared to play teams even when they know that the other team might be better, then it is destined for perpetual mediocrity.
Have you seen Florida's non-conference schedule for the last 20 years?
While I take Boise State seriously (as I did in 2005), I’m not “scared,” I just don’t think it’s a good idea for the 2011 season opener. I also don’t like the way we’re bailing on contracts. We all groused and griped (and justly so) over the way Tulane did us after we fired Jim Donnan, and, although we’re looking to do these things by mutual consent, I don’t like the way we’re bailing on our scheduling commitments. If we want to schedule an opener in the Dome against the Broncos for the next year we don’t already have obligations, fine, but giving up a home game one year to get one the next year doesn’t put us in any better a position than we were in already. Don’t mistake prudence for fear.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Nov 19, 2010 12:48 PM EST up reply actions
Agree on the breaking committments part. "Agin" that
Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the Dawgs of war; - Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 1
I'll give you that.
But isn’t a game in the Georgia Dome against a team from Idaho pretty close to a home game? Seems that is about as close as it can get without actually bringing hedges into the Dome.
Also, I realize your point. I suppose my comment was more directed at other commenters that would avoid risk in favor of a lower return. I could go to Vegas and play penny slots, but that isn’t near as much fun as the roulette table.
Again, I’m not saying we have to do this for any reason, just saying we shouldn’t “not” do it because we don’t think our team is good enough. I’ll root for them whoever they play. :-)
I'm sure we all agree upon that last point, mbrd71.
Heck, if we play Boise State in the Dome, I’ll probably go to the game.
As far as it being “pretty close to a home game,” it depends on what you mean by “home game.” Certainly, it will have more of a home game atmosphere than either team enjoys in Jacksonville, since there are equal numbers of Georgia and Florida fans on hand on Halloween weekend, and there surely would be a large majority of Bulldog fans on hand in Atlanta on Labor Day weekend.
In terms of home game revenue, I’m not sure how it would shake out, although I gather that the total two-season revenue would be better if we did the Boise State deal rather than sticking with the Louisville deal. (I, however, am not a disciple of the Richard Posner “efficient breach” approach to contracts; I think you ought to keep your word because you gave your word, even if it’s not the most economically efficient thing to do.) It certainly won’t be a home game to the thousands of Georgia fans who will be left without tickets when a game is moved from 92,000-seat Sanford Stadium to the 75,000-seat Georgia Dome.
Go 'Dawgs!
With no skin in the game, its easy for me to make those comments.
However, if I, like you, had contributed years worth of donations and had season tickets, then I might be singing a whole different tune…and would probably be on here complaining very loudly, LOL.
I went to Vegas
I played the penny slots. I even got all crazy and I played the e2 penny slots. and even crazier – I put $20 into a nickel slot machine I left the slots with more than i put in – in my book that’s a win. Then again, I’m not much of a gambler when my money is involved. If you want to give me YOUR money to go play roulette, then I’m much less risk averse. See how that works? When it’s my stuff involved, I want less risk, when its your stuff on the line, i’m far more willing to run the risks.
So here’s my thing -I want give the team the best possible chance to be undefeated. That patsy out of conference scheduling took the Gators to the MNC twice and the Sugar once during Meyer’s tenure, and you know what? I’d be perfectly ok with that. Truth is nothing puts a program on the national radar like going undefeated, and the pundits don’t really care about your strength of schedule.
I can bake like a demon.
Boom goes the dynamite!
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
I don't know if you meant to do so, podunkdawg, . . .
. . . but you more or less just summarized a significant chunk of the economic outlook that won Milton Friedman the Nobel Prize (four ways of spending money, and all that).
Go 'Dawgs!
I'm familiar with Friedman
actually quite familiar with Friedman…..so yes that was kind of intentional :)
Friedman’s 4 ways of spending money also forms a large chunk of my political theory – I don’t want to give the gov’t my money because they are wholly inefficient at spending it, regardless of their stated intentions on it’s use – see government run low income housing for an excellent example. I’m well aware of attempts to increase competition in government contracting, and I’m also well aware of the loopholes if you will. For discussion – look up the sole-source contracts rules to Alaska Native Corporations. That said, I do think the feds need to be in charge of “providing for the common defense” and those other few powers provided to it by the Constitution.
But I was being quite honest about my gambling in Vegas. For me to play nickel slots was a big deal, and to be honest, came from some friendly ribbing from someone when I said I only play penny slots – they suggested Craps. I honestly looked up how to play Craps, I even watched people playing – it was all quite complicated so I declined to put my $ down until I know a bit more about the game.
I can bake like a demon.
other people spending other peoples money, i love that...
And, not many people know he coined the phrase “There is no such thing as a free lunch.”
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
Not only did he coin the phrase, but he indicated that it summed up . . .
. . . his entire economic philosophy. The rest, he explained, was just explication.
Go 'Dawgs!
Man up, folks
It makes sense because UGA comes out ahead in the accounting books with the income from the neutral site game exceeding the income of one home game over two years with L’ville (that you get back in ‘12) and the price of buying out the L’ville series (if you even have to do that since ESPN is brokering the whole deal).
Don’t lose sight of the reasoning behind the 7 home games: more income for UGA football. (It’s got nothing to do with keeping ATH merchants happy). If you get a double pay-day at the Georgia Dome and your 7th home game in ‘12, then it perfectly fits McGarity’s strategy. He’s only a hypocrite if you don’t know why he wants 7 games in ATH.
It’s the same deal with Jax. We basically get twice as much money to play that game in Jax every year then we do every two years with a home-and-home.
"I don't wear no Stetson..."
by Gen. Stoopnagle on Nov 19, 2010 12:40 PM EST reply actions
We had a lot of national press heading into the 2008 season, too.
Personally, I’d prefer getting a little less national press in August and a little more national press in December.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Nov 19, 2010 12:55 PM EST up reply actions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI7YzUKE_wI
"You can't print what I said, but they have to catch us." - Chipper Jones
Let me clarify:
I would be afraid of this game – but that is not why I don’t think it should be scheduled.
I don’t think it should be scheduled because it garnishes nothing in total. Don’t confuse media love with the cold hard truth that by week 12, no one will care if we beat BSU. We beat ASU and PAC 10 fans forgot about it by the next year, along with ESPN. The ASU series was very cool and garnished very little. We beat BSU already into a pulp and it garnished nothing. It’s like the Tech game being at the end of the year – win, so what, lose, we are screwed.
How about GA – GT in the dome opening weekend? Now, that, I am down with.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
by tankertoad on Nov 19, 2010 3:12 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
We are absolutely in 100 per cent agreement, tankertoad.
Every word of what you just wrote is exactly right.
Go 'Dawgs!
well darn it
I don’t think we were quite through discussing this yet. I think we need to call ’em and tell ’em to put off the announcement until we are done debating.
I can bake like a demon.
by podunkdawg on Nov 19, 2010 4:08 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Georgia is playing patsy again, just like with Hawaii. Why don
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
Why don't they get UF or Bama or LSU to play them. We are being used.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
I don't like the tone of all these posts
as I skimmed through.
I mean, come on. Let’s beat down Boise! I’m all for it!
I'm all for it, as well
Financially: We back out of the home and home series with Lousville and get a game in Atlanta in 2011 and a game at home in 2012. (With the hopeful destruction of Auburn’s football progam, Clemson could be looking for someone to play that year as well…hint*hint)
In terms of Football: Boise will be coming off of their best year in school history, in which they’ve garnered more press than ever, and Georgia will have a chance to send them spiraling back to mediocrity/college football afterthought. They will graduate 9 starters this offseason (4 offense, 5 defense) and could lose more (like QB Kellen Moore) to the draft.
My notes on scheduling into the future:
Part of me supports the cupcake/home-game route that McGarity is pushing, but another part of me likes the BCS non-conference games. I just don’t think they should be against teams from out west. Plug an extra ACC/regional game (Clemson, Florida St, North Carolina, West Virginia) on the schedule each year and I couldn’t be happier. I’m sure most UGA grads/fans interact a lot more with fans of those schools than we do with fans of teams like Arizona St. or Oklahoma St.
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