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Ya Got Beat. So What.

HornyWartyToad

Active Member
The lesson here is we have to find out what we need to do to keep more of those home-grown stud linemen at home. I can't remember how many of GA's big beasts up front were from Texas, but it was irritating to hear.
For us to ever beat a team like that, unless it's a fluke, we have to massively upgrade the quantity and quality of our lines.
If any of our Georgia posters can tell us how Kirby has done such a masterful job building the recruiting during his tenure, I'd love to hear about it.
 

Limey Frog

Full Member
the dawg fan seems to have more faith than some of the frog alums on this site
I'm a believer. We're heading in the right direction. No result last night could have changed that in a single game.

I live in southern Michigan. MSU just went 5-7. How many Sparty fans, if offered it right now for 2023, do you think would accept a 13-2 season next year if it ended in a 65-7 CFP final blowout loss to Georgia?

The answer is "all of them".
 
Agree completely, and guessing it relates at least somewhat to a few decades of humility. Between their 1980 NC team and Kirby's tenure, they had been a very middling program, so they can better appreciate having earned it. Hoping we can learn from them.
Kirby is a great example for their fan base as well - amazing how players and fans emulate their coach so much
 

Hoosierfrog

Tier 1
TCU is a good football program. Ya hit beat by a superior program, but dang if ya ain’t headed in the right direction. You’re recruiting well, and dang if you ain’t coached well. Dykes knows why he’s doing, but getting into the title game isn’t an easy feat. Yeah, this was a whoopin of extraordinary proportions, but I still say that once Dykes gets a couple of classes under his belt, that TCU becomes a perennial CFP attendant. As long as TCU keeps their focus they will be fine. Too much talent in their backyard to not stay competitive. Yeah, tonight was a hard lesson, but a necessity for TCU to understand how important recruiting is to the future success of a program. I do believe TCU will be just fine under Sonny Dykes, but this a bit too soon for what ya have now. All in all, I believe wholeheartedly that TCU will make this trip again. Congratulations on a fantastic season and hopes that you make this trip again soon .
So I leave you with this
Go Frogs!
The Hypno Toad rules the Big 12!!
At least we’re Big 10 Champions…
 

DelFrog

Active Member
UGA has elite talent and that talent performed flawlessly last night. Unfortunately TCU was far from their best and as a result you get an epic blowout. UGA may be that good, but the Frogs are more talented than we saw last night, but when the wheels come off vs a power like UGA, things get ugly. Congrats to UGA, that was as good a performance as I’ve seen and I’ve seen a whole lot of college football.
 

Eight

Member
The lesson here is we have to find out what we need to do to keep more of those home-grown stud linemen at home. I can't remember how many of GA's big beasts up front were from Texas, but it was irritating to hear.
For us to ever beat a team like that, unless it's a fluke, we have to massively upgrade the quantity and quality of our lines.
If any of our Georgia posters can tell us how Kirby has done such a masterful job building the recruiting during his tenure, I'd love to hear about it.

recruiting matters and it isn't hard to find receivers and defensive backs

the true difference makers always have been in the lines and will not be surprised to see an emphasis placed on transferring interior offensive linemen in the next few weeks
 
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Hemingway

Active Member
TCU is a good football program. Ya hit beat by a superior program, but dang if ya ain’t headed in the right direction. You’re recruiting well, and dang if you ain’t coached well. Dykes knows why he’s doing, but getting into the title game isn’t an easy feat. Yeah, this was a whoopin of extraordinary proportions, but I still say that once Dykes gets a couple of classes under his belt, that TCU becomes a perennial CFP attendant. As long as TCU keeps their focus they will be fine. Too much talent in their backyard to not stay competitive. Yeah, tonight was a hard lesson, but a necessity for TCU to understand how important recruiting is to the future success of a program. I do believe TCU will be just fine under Sonny Dykes, but this a bit too soon for what ya have now. All in all, I believe wholeheartedly that TCU will make this trip again. Congratulations on a fantastic season and hopes that you make this trip again soon .
So I leave you with this
Go Frogs!
The Hypno Toad rules the Big 12!!
Thank god for the expanded playoff. We will being seeing eachother in the future because of it. We also might be thanking you for the education in a few years.

Go in peace McDawg
 

tjcoffice

Active Member

Sometimes you just don't know what happened at a game. In 1940, the Bears beat the Redskins 73-0. Yet, just two weeks before, the Redskins beat the Bears 7-3. What heppened in those two weeks that the Redskins would lose so badly? Who knows? And, then in 1942, the Redskins won the NFL championship. They did not let the 73-0 whipping define them and the Frogs will not either. Those Redskins teams were QB'ed by our own Sammy Baugh.
 
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hfhmilkman

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There are many prerequisites for running a successful program. Local access to a lot of talent, a good coaching staff that knows how to identify talent both player and coach, coach it, present a superior game plan, have great facilities, and convince kids your school is where they want to go. However, if you look at the five programs that have won a NC since the move to four teams, they all spent heavily on players. There are going to be players that are not motivated by money. However, removing the set of players motivated by money caps a team. Throwing money at the problem is not enough. A great example is Kentucky. They had the cash. But they did not have most of the other things. All of their money has them still at square one. I do not know Kentucky's NIL network. Bagmen are like blackholes. There is no instrument to measure them directly. But you can measure them by the strange conduct of a set of recruits over time.

Two movements are opening up variance. The first is NIL. NIL makes payments above board, legal, and of a scale much greater than what a bagman can afford. Billionaires can play and pay and do it legally. This is introducing other players like Texas, Texas A&M, USC, Miami, etc. It has not panned out yet because you still need to do all of the other things right also. The core SEC teams are not the wealthiest programs. There are alumni bases that are bigger and wealthier. If it comes to pure dollars some of these schools can compete. But will take time as its more than money as we see with Texas A&M. All of those other things are sort of important also. The second movement is the 12 team expansion to the playoff. Less time and more games means more variance. Just like the NFL a team not playing its A game may get upset. There is more of an opportunity for the best team to lose.

But back to the first theme, to win you have to do all of the above and that means pay. NIL is changing the landscape. I find the contrast between Colorado and Stanford interesting. Both are great academic schools. Stanford is accepting that they will not make the changes required of them. This means a stricter adherence to NIL interpretation and a refusal to relax rules on credits being accepted towards a degree. Colorado is taking the opposite approach and are all in.

College football is like climbing Mt Everest if you want to replace someone at the top. As of today it is Georgia, Alabama, and OSU. A program that wants to replace a king has to be all in if they want a shot. If you don't want to pay or can't pay, does not mean a team can't have a great season. I think conference champions and meaningful games can be won. One just can't be whatever is Georgia or its equivalent in the future in a NC format.
 
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