Kirby Smart complaining about the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party being held at a neutral venue is next level stupidity. It is right up there with Adam Silver’s NBA midseason tournament in terms of pure ridiculousness.
The Georgia Bulldogs Head Coach believes he is at a recruiting disadvantage losing a home game once every two years. Here is what he had to say about the subject in a recent interview:
“When it comes down to it, there’s a very, very basic element of everything comes back to, number one money and number two, recruiting and getting good players. I firmly believe that we’ll be able to sign better players by having it as a home-and-home because we’ll have more opportunities to get them to campus.”
Here’s the issue with Smart’s take on the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party. It is total nonsense. For starters, Georgia has opened the past two seasons with neutral site games in Atlanta. If you want more home games, why not play those in Athens?
There is another issue behind Smart’s argument for moving the Florida-Georgia rivalry matchup from Jacksonville. Simply put, SEC teams no longer need money. The conference is paying universities hand over fist. That US$3.3 million annually the game pays both schools isn’t as appealing or necessary as it once was.
Kirby Smart wanting to move the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party is everything wrong with college football in a nutshell. It is nothing more than taking a fat, stinking dump on fans. Screw what you guys like; we are going to do whatever the hell we want.
For a sport that prides itself on traditions and history, nobody running college football seems all that motivated to protect them. Since 1933, the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party has been played in Jacksonville for all but two years. But that doesn’t matter because Smart wants one extra home game every two seasons.
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