Et Tu Brute.....

It's not expecting us to win NC's every year....

It's expecting a program that did rise to prominence... that attracts top 10
recruiting classes almost every single year... a team with a reputation in the
past of playing tough.. to be a ranked, competitive team.

BulldogShannon wrote:

I'm with sadlerdawg on this one. I don't care that we don't have Bama's pedigree--go get me someone who can GET us to that point.

At one point in time, bama had to grow into that pedigree.

We actually have advantages over Alabama.

1. More $$$ overall flowing through.
2. More talent in high school here than in Bama.
3. The airport in Atlanta.
4. The ATL TV market.
5. No other SEC team in our own state competing with us like they have in Alabama.

Look at Bama under Shula and the others before Saban--they stunk. now, IF Bama had stuck with bad coaches, there wouldn't be anyone under 30 alive who remembers the Bama Glory Years. Where would they be??????

A kid who is 15 and being recruited by bama knows the saban success there---not the Bear's success.

BAMA..

The 13 NC's or whatever it is.. is mainly from another era. An era long gone when
places like the University of Georgia didn't even have a TV game until game 7
of the regular season and would do well to get 2, maybe 3 games televised all
season.

Big time recruits needed to go to one of the 4 or 5 major programs. It was a time
of legendary coaches when only those 4 or 5 teams attracted the talent necessary
to be a national champ.

That era is long gone.

RxCowboy wrote:

southernlover wrote:


3) This team is going to get better each week.

How could it do anything but get better? But it still won't reach UGA standards.

UGA has averaged 6.3 wins per season historically. In 117 seasons, we've had 17 seasons of 10 wins or more (of course, we didn't start playing 10 games regularly until 1941). We have exactly 3 perfect seasons, with 2 of them coming post 1940. Um, our "standards" don't exactly set a high bar.

Alabama has 802 wins in their history.

UGA has about 737 or 738 I think depending on whose history you choose to believe.

I believe the length of time is the same for both. 117 years. That averages out to
Alabama winning about half a game a year more than UGA

802 wins divided by 117 seasons = 6.8 wins a season.

Just looked at USC - In 122 years they have 762 wins.. that's right about 6.3 per year.

Just looked at Michigan - In 131 years they have 886 wins.. that's 6.7 per year.

WINNING PERCENTAGES BY UNIVERSITY SINCE 1980 - 1A level


1 Nebraska 0.78333 305 84 1 390
2 Miami-Florida 0.77128 290 86 0 376
3 Florida State 0.75603 280 89 4 373
4 Ohio State 0.75000 275 90 5 370
5 Florida 0.74805 286 95 4 385
6 Oklahoma 0.72382 274 103 5 382
7 Michigan 0.71974 271 104 5 380
8 Penn State 0.71693 270 106 2 378
9 Georgia 0.70767 265 108 5 378

Since 1940

1 Oklahoma 0.75155 600 193 16 809
2 Ohio State 0.74571 554 182 21 757
3 Penn State 0.73274 567 203 12 782
4 Texas 0.72429 578 216 13 807
5 Michigan 0.71742 548 211 16 775
6 Notre Dame 0.69821 537 227 18 782
7 Southern Cal 0.69216 542 233 29 804
8 Nebraska 0.68665 551 249 9 809
9 Georgia 0.66502 528 260 24 812
10 Miami-Florida 0.64559 501 273 9 783


Y'all can keep saying we don't have a high standard all you want, but I would say the numbers
say we have had a top 10 or so program for a very long period of time.

UGA is #11 in all time wins. Of course there are high standards. And there should be.