Oh the drama. It’s a remnant of a couple years ago which yeah looks like will create a new era of shite. And as for those who are “he’s a professional blah blah blah” well what is right for him might be to stay where you are when you’re winning for you. Why change it up? We made a deal with him. You come play for us and you’ll be the best. He’s the best so yeah, count me in with the people that think he’s a punk and hope his hopeful failure changes minds of the future. He’s the #1 RB in the portal. Did he want to be higher? Not good enough. Flake off.
He also literally has our play our playbook on offense. If he ends up in UGA, I will actively root against him, something I’ve never in my life done against a player.
Don't judge them by 2023. UGA had some injuries at rb in 2023. Most notable is Branson Robinson who was hurt for the season and rated higher than Etienne coming out of HS. Included in their rb are; Branson Robinson, 5'10" 220lb. So 94 Rating (247) (#4 RB in 2022, ETN was #14) Roderick Robinson II, 6' 240lbs. FR 92 rating (247). Had some injuries as a true FR, but same rating as ETN out of HS. Note the size. They just signed; Nate Fraziar, 5'11" 208lbs, #2 RB for 2024 (97 rating). Yea, there will be competition for touches for ETN, but he'll get a few for sure.
It was pretty hot between Bowden and sos but that’s the only decade the rivalry was close to Georgia. When I went to my first cocktail party in 76 or 77, nobody gave two shits about fsu. I can say that over in pcola, we don’t have to deal with Georgia fans so there is that. Holes came out of the closet this year and I’m so tired of hearing roll turds. There so many of both of them.
The teams do not need a former player/turncoat to get their hands on the opposing teams playbook. There are many sources available to get videos on all of the games/plays of all the colleges (specifically DIV ! teams). From those videos, any football savvy football analyst can extract an encyclopedia of information. They will know not only the playbook, but also all the strengths and weaknesses of a team.
You've obviously never read a miami board when they lose out on a recruit. For example when we landed Marshall 3/4 of those posters were wishing career ending ACL tears on the kid. One of our more talented players left to our biggest to 2nd biggest rival depending on our ages. It's not like he was rotting on the bench, he got a lot of playing time, but apparently his family got involved so that makes the optics look even worse. There's hundreds of other colleges NOT on our schedule and are NOT our rivals, yet he willingly threw away all good faith going where he went, and a cherry on top with a "forever a Gator" on a tweet. Did you know he even had conversations with Steven Harris and was warned about all this beforehand..... but STILL chose kirby.... now he's covered in fleas and he can live with that forever.
Well.... look who their HC is. He was doing that at Ole Miss too. If he beats Saban a couple times & Kirby he'll be blackballed from the SEC stat.
UGA has waxed us in the last 3 years in all facets of football, I don’t think having our playbook via Etienne’s memory is going to change things. He wanted bigger exposure, sometimes being on a winning team and scoring TD’s during big games, like Championship games, can boost his stock for the draft.
The team he plays for has very little to do with draft position. AR wasn't hurt at all by playing for a sub-par team. What will hurt TE is his pass blocking struggles unless he really works on that part of his game. He needs to learn at minimum to be a speed bump for blitzing defensive players.
Jamyr Gibbs most likely made money in the draft going from GaTech to Alabama. But drafting RBs high is always a weird situation where it’s not like every team is about to use a pick on you like they might for a DL. Usually it is just one team who falls in love with you and picks you or else you’re going to slide another 20 spots. Why did Gibbs get picked so much higher than Derrick Henry? Probably only because of that one team who fell in love.
