Some schools are football schools.
Some schools are basketball schools.
Vanderbilt is a bowling school, and good for them I guess.
But as this graphic making the rounds on Twitter makes clear, there are a vanishingly small group of athletic programs currently firing on all cylinders across the college sports landscape, and Georgia is one of them.
It’s also worth noting that if you include gymnastics (in which both the ‘Dawgs and Tide made the “Sweet Sixteen” group of regional finalists) the list would still be only those two schools. But if you include the NCAA men’s tennis tournament (in which Georgia made the round of 16) and women’s tournament (in which the Red and Black made the final four) the Classic City Canines stand alone in athletic excellence.
There’s another SEC athletic program that weirdly bills itself as the “Everything School” because they won a baseball championship that one time. I hope you’ll take this opportunity to laugh at them just as you have for every one of the 27 seasons that have passed since the last time they won a conference football championship.
But this is also a good time to say a hearty congratulations to Josh Brooks and the rest of the team in Butts-Mehre for the work they’ve done to build an elite athletic program. In this day and time when some league schools are even cutting non-revenue sports programs fielding nationally competitive teams across the spectrum is perhaps an even more amazing achievement.
Go ‘Dawgs!!!
