It Just Meant More: 2008 Georgia Basketball's Post-Tornado SEC Tournament Run (ep. 269)

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Connor O'Gara

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🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Because you're probably missing college basketball right now, the guys offered up something that will hopefully ease the pain. They looked back at the bizarre circumstances that led to Georgia's 2008 SEC Tournament run. The unprecedented tornado that ripped through downtown Atlanta and hit the Georgia Dome meant that the Dawgs, as the worst team in the SEC, had to win 3 games in 2 days. The SEC Storied documentary "Miracle 3" set the stage for the recap the guys offered up. They dug into the characters (director, A-Listers, prominent extras) and the story arc (favorite line from the doc, thing you didn't know or forgot until re-watching this, what would've happened if the result was flipped and the image we'll always remember from this). Take a stroll down memory lane with a recap of one of the strangest SEC events of the 21st century.Hosts: Connor O'Gara, Chris MarlerLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And then.
0:01.0	The Hello and welcome to the Saturday Down South podcast. He is Chris Marler. I am
0:29.2	John O'Gera. Marler, it is time for Just Memmore.
0:34.0	Jettie up. Today, very, very special day.
0:38.0	We have never done basketball before, but that is what we are doing today
0:42.0	because right now, if you're listening to this on Thursday not to depress everybody
0:47.8	But this would have been the opening round of the NCAA tournament now.
0:52.2	I don't mean to be a downer. We're
0:53.7	going to take your mind off of the fact that you could be watching games right now and
0:57.2	instead we're going to go back in time and instead we're going to go back to a time
1:01.5	2008 when Georgia completed this run in the SEC
1:06.0	tournament that was just unlike anything we'd ever seen for a variety of reasons.
1:11.2	A big one being, oh by the way, a tornado ripped through downtown Atlanta.
1:16.8	Yeah, that was a thing. That was a thing. That was a thing. Still even weird to go back and think about that.
1:22.2	But for preparation for this, usually with
1:24.9	it just meant more, we will go back and we'll watch an old game. And originally when we
1:28.8	were throwing out the idea of how best we could cover this, the timely elements and you know given the
1:34.2	similarities I think that kind of made people think of the 2008 tournament
1:39.2	when all this talk about you know playing the the 2020 SEC tournament and the NCAA tournament in front of no fans,
1:45.7	I think a lot of people are like, hey, you know, we found a way to make this work back in 2008.
1:50.2	The difference, of course, being that in 2008, they still continued the tournament.
1:53.5	They just moved it to Georgia Tech.
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