todd-grantham Stories - Team Speed Kills
The Second Year Grantham Surge
Second year surges for head coaches have become common enough that people almost expect them. Coaches like Bob Stoops, Jim Tressel and Urban Meyer have won national titles in their second seasons; coaches like Pete Carroll, Nick Saban at Alabama and Mark Richt went from middling records to 11+ win...
Georgia 24, Florida 20: That's How You Break a Curse
I don't believe in curses. Well, maybe curses exists, but certainly sports curses don't. People win and lose games without supernatural help one way or the other. However, if I had told you that against Florida that Georgia would: Allow a pair of long kickoff returns, one of which went for a...
SEC Suspends Three From Georgia-Vanderbilt Game
Most of the focus after the Georgia-Vanderbilt game was on the kerfuffle between James Franklin and Todd Grantham. While that was a newsworthy exchange, nothing much has actually come of it. Contrast that with this particular exchange: What you see there is Vandy's Logan Stewart diving into the...
Tennessee Might Be Unbalanced Just The Right Way to Beat Georgia
After two games, it looked like Georgia's projected defensive renaissance for this year was not meant to be. Boise State clinically dissected it throughout the opener, and South Carolina beat the Bulldogs in a shootout in the second game. A couple games later, it's not looking quite so bad. Boise...
Year2 Brand SEC Picks: 2011 Edition
See here for last year's picks and here for the evaluation of them. Timing is everything in college football. It's going to be a major theme of my picks this year, as there are some outcomes that I don't think make that much sense in any other light. Honestly, I don't really like this set of picks....
Georgia Nose Tackle Situation In Flux
If you're going to run a 3-4 defense, it's best to have a dominant nose tackle. The canonical example in recent years in the SEC is Terrence Cody, the mammoth in the middle of Alabama's 2009 national championship defensive line. When Georgia transitioned to the 3-4 under Todd Grantham last year,...
South Carolina and Georgia Race for the East // SEC 2011
When you think about it, Georgia and South Carolina are two very different programs to be competing for the East division title. UGA was a charter SEC member; South Carolina joined up in 1991. The Bulldogs are 12th in all-time winning percentage; the Gamecocks are 73rd. Georgia has 12 SEC titles;...
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