We've all heard the debates surrounding the 8 game SEC schedule vs. the 9 game SEC schedule. These debates are highly passionate due to some of the traditions potentially on the line. With that in mind, I wanted to guage the readers of Dawg Sports' feelings on three huge UGA traditions that could potentially be impacted. If you could "protect" one of the following traditions from being lost, which would it be.
1)Georgia/Auburn as a yearly game
2)Georgia/Georgia Tech as a yearly game
3)WLOCP in Jacksonville yearly
I personally rank them in that order of value. What say you?
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Drop the Tech game
We don’t need an ACC opponent in the state to gauge the success of our program.
Dawg2011 - February 15, 2012
I can understand that sentiment
one could also argue that their entire athletic program could suffer greatly financially if we dropped them. Another positive.
Dawg in Beaumont - February 15, 2012
If A & M
Can drop UT from there yearly schedule, I don’t see why we can part ways with the trade school.
DawgShark - February 15, 2012
This reminds me a little of Kyle's argument about playing Tech at the end of the year.
It’s a lose/lose. I would not want to ever lose the south’s oldest rivalry. Considering the dismal homegame selection I am becoming more inclined to do home and homes with UF (I know, I know). But I really don’t care about the Tech game. If we win, we just beat tech. If we lose, we’ll hear about it for a decade.
tankertoad - February 15, 2012
Pretty much
I’m all for getting rid of the Tech game. It serves no purpose than for a 365 day period in a decade to deal with Tech fans telling us how the tides have changed. I’ll put losing Auburn yearly at the top of my “This aggression will not stand” list. The home/home with Florida would certainly help bolster the argument for a nine game conference schedule, but under the current contract each school stands to make $7M/school each two years. I’d think it’s virtually impossible to replicate that in a home/home scenario.
AuditDawg - February 15, 2012
It's a tough call.
I’d have to put them in this order of importance: (1) Tech; (2) Auburn; (3) WLOCP. 1 and 2 are neck and neck; 3 is a very close third. Honestly, I’ll be ticked as hell if we lose any of them.
NCT - February 15, 2012
I'd probably go Tech first as well for purely selfish reasons
I have lots of friends that are Tech fans (plus the dreaded in-laws). I don’t have a single Auburn or Gator friend because I refuse to associate with those people :-)
Getting rid of the Tech game would result in
A) the loss of a prime opportunity for trash talk
and
B) Tech fans going on ad nauseam about how we backed out of the game because we are teh scaredz.
We all know the latter is ridiculous… But we also all know that wouldn’t stop them for a second.
RedCrake - February 15, 2012 via mobile
I'd protect the Auburn game first.
Then the yearly Tech game, then the WLOCP in Jax. However, it should be noted that 2 and 3 are distant to number 1, and I don’t actually care that much about keeping Tech (for the reasons others have listed above). It’s just that if I’m choosing between losing a rivalry entirely versus changing where the rivalry game takes place, the location change will lose every time.
MidnightFrost1701 - February 15, 2012
Drop Tech
I’ve never really understood this about myself: I care very little for the Georgia v. Ga Tech game. I moved to Georgia at the age of 12, never contemplated going to Tech, loved Georgia from the beginning and have no connections to Tech. I never, at any point, felt the Georgia/Georgia Tech rivalry lived up to its hype. It is no longer a good game, in my opinion.
Make Florida a home and home.
Protect Georgia v. Auburn at all costs.
WindyCityDawg - February 15, 2012
I grew up in the shadow of tech, and my mother still lives there.
What most people dont know is how international tech is. It’s not your normal college or college town. It’s a great educational place, but it’s not going to be a place that meets traditional college type things (like having a band, or cheerleaders, or americans). I never got the “hate week” thing myself.
Now, I have agreed with Kyle that I don’t those Florida folks back in our stadium ever again, but I am so saddened by our home slate this year I am rethinking it. We need more big home games. Being able to walk around and drink in Jax is highly overrated anyhow.
Losing Auburn simply means football ends in my mind. Play Mizzou but not Auburn? That’s like landing on another planet.
tankertoad - February 15, 2012
Another planet more akin to Rura Penthe than Risa.
(Even though Rura Penthe was technically an asteroid, not a planet.)
/geek’d
MidnightFrost1701 - February 15, 2012
The problem with dropping Tech
how much the Nerds would use that as a slight trying to lord over “You ran away from the game”. Besides, as the past 20+ years shows, there isn’t much difference in record between that game, and cupcakes.
Mr. Sanchez - February 15, 2012
30-10
In the last forty years if Wikipedia is correct. It just is not competitive anymore. If Tech fans say we “ran away from the game” I would just respond that we walked away from the game because we were bored.
WindyCityDawg - February 16, 2012
How about we drop Mizzou
and go back to the way things were before we added 2 teams we didn’t need?
Cherokee's Grip - February 15, 2012
I know right?
tankertoad - February 15, 2012
This. So very, very much this.
I’m going to go create three more SB Nation accounts, just so I can singlehandedly rec this until it goes green.
Even better, how ‘bout if we’d stayed at twelve, traded Arkansas for Texas A&M, and traded South Carolina for Clemson?
T Kyle King - February 15, 2012
Dangit, Kyle...
… stop stealing the thunder of the article I’m writing for tomorrow. :-)
vineyarddawg - February 15, 2012
Oops!
My bad, man. I’m shutting up now.
T Kyle King - February 15, 2012
I would be fine with a reset to 1990 membership rolls
The984 - February 15, 2012
I would rather have that than lose Auburn, Tech, or Florida in Jacksonville but...
I like the South Carolina game and am conditioned for that to be the first conference game. Even that change will be strange to me.
JoeinSavannah - February 16, 2012
We have a long standing series with SCAR that predates them joining the SEC
If a hypothetical reset were to occur (which we know it won’t), we wouldn’t lose the South Carolina game.
The984 - February 16, 2012
Correct.
If we played six conference games, we’d have room on the slate for Clemson, Georgia Tech, and South Carolina as traditional non-conference rivals, and we’d still be able to schedule three patsies.
T Kyle King - February 16, 2012
Drop Tech.
Don’t need ‘em. The collective in Atlanta already can’t stand the fact that we essentially view them as a lesser rival. It’ll be the ultimate diss.
DavetheDawg - February 15, 2012
Drop Tech.
It’s proven that we can beat them almost every single year. We need SEC opponents.
I think it will help us to play WLOCP, more than Auburn, though I love the Auburn game more. Beating UF can help us cement an SEC East Championship, while playing an SEC West opponent will only help our conference record, but an SEC East opponent can help our conference record and easily get higher in the East.
ChopMaster - February 16, 2012
I dont think anyone is talking about dropping UF, just a matter of when it is scheduled and where.
We have the same number of SEC opponents as everyone else, just a question of who we play in the SEC, and who we keep (GT) out of conference.
tankertoad - February 16, 2012
As I have stated (well, perhaps implied more than directly state) in my just-posted story...
… Auburn, Tech, and Florida are our 3 most traditional, oldest, and most-played rivalries. We cannot give up any of them for any reason.
if we didn’t play Auburn, Tech, and Florida, then in my opinion, we wouldn’t be Georgia. We’d be some team playing an SEC schedule with some patsy non-conference opponents. And I’d rather not be just like Alabama and Florida in that regard.
vineyarddawg - February 16, 2012
Devils advocate...
did Nebraska and Oklahoma feel the same when their rivalry ended? How do they feel now?
Mr. Sanchez - February 16, 2012
I can't speak for the Sooners and the Huskers...
… but, in my opinion, their problem was that they hitched their wagons to Texas’. They should never have given up the Big 8 without preserving the rivalries that were most valuable to them.
I would imagine that there’s no doubt they have buyers’ remorse now… and they were in a buyer-friendly market, as well, with the SWC collapsing. But that’s just my $0.02
vineyarddawg - February 16, 2012
It'd be an interesting poll
how many of the fans on both sides miss that rivalry?
Mr. Sanchez - February 16, 2012
speaking from Oklahoma
OU fans don’t seem to miss it – they see Texas as their biggest (and normally only true) rival, with Okie State a rival to a lesser degree in that OU normally beats the pants off OSU.
podunkdawg - February 20, 2012
"hitch their wagon"
How in the world did “… to Texas’s Lone Star” not flow from your keyboard of its own volition?
NCT - February 24, 2012 via iPhone app
I blame the weed.
/Dawg Sports staff’d
vineyarddawg - February 24, 2012
I have said this before
I think we should go to a 9 game schedule and rotate Tech in every few years (like next year) when our SEC schedule isn’t all that tough. In years where we play (as they stand now) LSU, BAMA, AU, SCAR, UF, UT, UK, VU, MIZZU then we can schedule 3 cupcakes. Make the Tech game a once every 4 years thing, and we only play them in Athens.
RocketDawg - February 22, 2012
To me
Tech is most important to me.
Auburn is second.
I don’t care at all about jacksonville. It’s a shitty city and I don’t understand why we play there because it DOES give an advantage to Florida. I’d rather have a home/home with Florida any day.
Jeremiah Johnson. - February 24, 2012
But how do you really feel?
:-)
vineyarddawg - February 24, 2012
I have a serious question for you, Jeremiah:
I respect your position, but I’ve never understood the argument that playing in Jacksonville gives Florida an advantage. I’ve heard several people say so, and they all say so in exactly the way you did; namely, merely by asserting it emphatically.
I’m not calling you out individually, because I know a sizable segment of the Georgia fan base feels that way, but I truly don’t understand the argument. We get as many tickets as they get, so they don’t get an advantage from having more fans in the stands (or, if they do, it’s our fans’ fault). We travel down in advance of the game, so it isn’t as though we’re tuckered out from the trip the way the Georgia Tech football team was after Auburn fans greased the railroad tracks prior to their arrival, and the last contract renegotiation with Jacksonville provided for the Bulldogs to be flown down to Jacksonville, thus addressing any concern that we’re tireder because our trip is longer. We recruit the Sunshine State and South Georgia heavily, so any differences in heat and humidity (which shouldn’t be a factor in late October, anyway) are not only minor for most Georgia players, they’re nonexistent for the many Bulldogs who grew up in that region. To top it all off, despite the Gators’ supposed advantage in Jacksonville, Georgia has a winning record against Florida by the banks of the St. John’s River.
Accordingly, I’m asking, in all sincerity, what advantage you believe Jacksonville affords Florida. I’ve heard this argument for years, and I’ve never understood it, and I’ve never heard it explained. If you would spell out your thought process in arriving at that conclusion, I would be most appreciative. Thanks in advance for taking my question in the non-combative spirit in which it is intended.
T Kyle King - February 25, 2012
Because florida sucks.
tankertoad - February 25, 2012
rec'd.
I hate Florida. And I ain’t crazy about Jacksonville, neither. (Even though the game should stay there, because HISTRY AND TERDITION PPAAWWWWWLLL.)
vineyarddawg - February 25, 2012
True, . . .
. . . but won’t Florida suck just as badly in Athens? Indeed, isn’t the fact that Florida sucks reason enough not to invite them back to Athens, lest the Classic City be sullied by the Gators’ suckitude?
T Kyle King - February 25, 2012
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