Georgia Football: Rivals get feisty at SEC media days

Georgia Football comes into the 2018 season as the clear favorite for the SEC East, but a few of its rivals are really enjoying ‘talking season’.

Maybe I’m just a bit too eager to see the disrespect. But if there’s one thing that this Georgia Football fan is going to take from the past few SEC media days it’s this. Our rivals really do not respect our program at all, despite what happened last season. That is going to hopefully make the next couple of years a whole lot more fun.

I should stress that I don’t like it when rivalries get petty. I enjoy watching teams show respect for one another and shake hands after games. But if other teams want to throw down, then dammit, we’re going to do just that.

Dan Mullen is a really solid hire for Florida. I for one think that he could potentially heal a lot of the wounds that the Jim McElwain regime left. But it probably wasn’t a good way to start his career by making fun of the program that won the SEC East last season. The whole ‘Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes’ quote remains a contentious moment for UGA fans. It’s hard not to see it as disrespectful to a team that was a whisker from the national championship.

Then there’s Tennessee who hired Jeremy Pruitt, a man who we can probably say has an ‘interesting’ background with Georgia. What that makes for is a potentially fantastic rivalry for UGA with a school that was a laughing stock under Butch Jones.

So what did these schools do at media days that has fired me up so much? Well, let’s start with the Gators, who sent out their players with a very specific message they wanted to get across.