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Here's your host, Brandon Adams.

All right, coming up in a couple of minutes, I do believe we've seen what I think is maybe the most interesting development from Georgia Spring practice thus far, at least based on the rumor mill, the

innuendo stuff, the whispers, the available information. I do think we have something interesting

perhaps unfolding at Georgia Spring practice, and I'll tell you why I think it's interesting

and what it is. All of that is coming up in just a moment. Let me instead, though, start with

something completely different, which is what I think the perspective around Georgia football is right now. I do think it's a really strong one, and I want to make sure we're all on the same page about this. I want to explain it this way. If you're about my age, I think one of the things you'll remember is, especially if you've been a big sports fan, and especially if you've been really involved in consuming a lot of sports media. Let's go back to the early 2000s for a moment. Arguably most influential guy on the internet in the early days of sports on the internet was Bill Simmons, who at the time worked for ESPN. Do you know what I'm talking about? Now, Simmons is still around doing things. I don't know that his influence in sports is quite as great as it once

was, although he's still pretty, you know, relevant figure. But if you want to go back to what

sports writing was in the early 2000s, Bill Simmons completely reinvented it. And pretty much

anything you read now, in some respects respects feels like it's coming from the way in which he kind of blended pop culture and sports, all that.

If you're alive, then you remember what I'm talking about, hugely influential figure.

And one of the things that Bill Simmons used to say was, and this was the kind of thing that made him popular, these sort of theories. He said that if your

team wins a championship, whatever sport, whatever team, whatever league, if your team wins a championship,

he said he thought there'd be a five year grace period for that team after that. That if you were

lucky, because very few fans ever really get to see their team win a championship across all sports. But if you're lucky enough to see your team won a championship, that there ought to be about a five-year grace period where after that, you don't have too much room to complain. Nobody wants to listen to your whining that if you get a championship, you just have to put up with whatever else for a few years because your team won a championship. Now, I don't know if that's true and I don't know if it's not. I don't know if five years is not long enough, too long, whatever else. That's just a thing that Bill Simmons used to say. I do know this, that there is an aspect of this that feels directionally accurate to me, which is here for those of us who care about Georgia football. We've been very lucky to

see our team win one in 2021, which ironically is this fall going to be five years ago, and then a

back-to-back national championship in 2022. If we are blessed enough to see our team win back-to-back

national championships in life, let me tell you something, then we are blessed enough. And simple as full stop, we have seen some very good football around these parts.

And if it never gets any better than that, then we have seen far more than most people

will ever see.

And most of you would agree with that.

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