I like your swag. I mean, Georgia was basically irrelevant for 35 years, then receives a couple Nattys and all is well
THAT'S because we didn't play in the BUSH LEAGUES in the NORTH of the SOUTH! TRY THESE of fer size and see if they float your boat, as to why we weren't very relevant. (FLORIDA under Spurrier, Tennessee under Majors and Fulmer. Bama under Da BEAR and Satan, HELLSU under McClendon, and Georgia Tech under Bobby Dodd) UGA is surrounded by top twenty five powers.
But in Vince Dulleys FIRST season, we did raise a few eyebrows. Them UGA DAWGS traveled to Ann Arbor, to do business with the Fightin Watermelons, of Bo Shimbeckler. A fellow from Sports Illustrated came up to our QB, and told him about the largest stadium on the planet, and the intimidation factor for his por lil JAWJA DOGS. WELL sir said our QB. ACTUALLY, we'll be WINNING this here game today, against your Rose Bowl Champions. Ralph Underwood had a stunned look on his face. FINAL SCORE, MEEEchigan 7 THE Georgia Bulldogs, 16.
And in the Fall of 1976, a tall, lanky kid from the HOG PEN of Moultrie, Ga., ran into the Southern history books. Being crowned Offensive Player of the Year from the QB position, for the SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE, Rayford Goff!
And as for your knowledge of the UGA Bulldogs in the 80's and 90's. We DOMINATED the early eighties with a kid from Wrightsville, Georgia, HERSHEL WALKER. And had Donald J. Trump not changed the face of college football, with his acquisition of Sophomore Walker, UGA just may have won three straight natty's. As it was, we went to the 1983 Cotton Bowl, and BEAT #1 Texas in the OWN BACKYARD, 10-9, when former Valdosta QB John Lastinger, went around right end, twenty yards to V I C T O R Y!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And WHO KNOWS what would have happened, if UGA had been able to land homegrown talent like William Andrews, Lionel James, Sterling and Shannon Sharpe, Barney Bussey, Jamal Lewis, Len Hauss, George Rogers, Chip Banks, Manny and Otis Sistrunk, Alexander Wright, Deon Branch, Rashad Greene, and Stump Mitchell. Georgia has ALWAYS had the hosses. But until Kirby came home. The powers that be just didn't want to walk the walk. NOW, it's Katie bar the door.
And we NEARLY missed out on a slow white kid from the North Georgia Hills of Murray County. He was a Tennessee fan throughout life. But the VOLS said, they didn't have room for a hillbilly from Nawth Jawja. So, the kid ended up going to Athens, Ga., and was two spots from being the 32th pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, LAD McCONKEY!