Han Vance on Georgia football: The key classes at any college used to be the seniors, who were back for another go of it, and actually the sophomores, who were finally ready to go and be the infusion of tip-top…
Han Vance on Georgia football: HV#1 ~ I never projected Jamie Newman to start for UGA, in fact publishing an article I took a little heat for called “Jamie Newman Hype Puzzling” back on August 21st. Hello, Newman. So unlike…
Han Vance on American college football: Scrap the sucky system. If the relatively ancient American team sport of pro baseball can quickly change, there is no excuse left for college football carrying on with this charade. Sad as it is…
Han Vance on American college football: What I haven’t heard people say is that the inordinately long break between the typical college football season, which ends in late November or early December, and the too-long bowl season, which does not…
Han Vance on SEC football: The top two football programs in the SEC are not in Baton Rouge, where a depleted roster and org chart somehow still has drunken fans clinging to a false narrative wrong notion of a sudden…
Han Vance on American college football: For the first time, college football players will soon be allowed to use their image, name, personal brand for commercial financial benefit while retaining full amateur eligibility standards. Tip of the iceberg toward paying…
Han Vance on American college football: Greatest game/spectacle/events in the whole wide world. DAWG DAYS OF FALL ~ it’s official, my new podcast debuts soon. More info to come. Like, lots of info, football, fun. Packing your (virtual) bags for…
Han Vance on Georgia football: It’s a college football Saturday in America, just as I projected, against many smart enough naysayers and doom-pickers. Short of an enforceable law stating there can be no football played, the SEC was always going…
Han Vance on college football: The NCAA has waived this year as it regards to class-statuses for individual players, completely. While there will be an American college football season in summer/fall 2020, thankfully. With the Big Ten and Pac-12 (of…
Han Vance on Georgia football: This is so strange. Here I write to you, fair reader, on into September after turning 50, and I’m waiting, waiting, waiting for my Dawgs…actually, that’s what I would have been doing today, anyway. See,…
HAN VANCE on Georgia football: Here we go! I have my birthdays in late August, then it’s ALWAYS college football season, Between the Hedges summer heat. Not always. Georgia opens at new head coach Sam Pittman’s Arkansas on 9/26, surely…
Han Vance on Georgia football: And that’s the nicest way I can phrase it. Newman hype unwarranted was a harsher title I contemplated, when digging deeper into his numbers. But that’s just typical of a program with this much (wishful)…
Han Vance on American college football: The preseason Amway Coaches Poll Top 25 was utterly ravaged by the recent departures of Power 5 conferences the Big Ten and Pac-12 from the upcoming – IT IS HAPPENING – fall football slate…
Coalition of the Willing, Hanging On by a Thread, but It’s a Strong One, Especially in the South…or As the World Turns: American College Football Edition, EXTRA, EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT! And, thanks for reading… Han Vance on American…
Han Vance on American college football: It is still on, y’all, for this fall. And, per usual the Natty runs right through the South. The Big 12 (Texas/Oklahoma) and SEC (Deep South and Middle South) and all-over-the-East ACC – who…
HAN VANCE on American college football: Peril. Peril, peril, the season is in real and immediate jeopardy, with the Big 10 (of the Power 5 conferences) meeting immediately on a Sunday – not insignificant in and of itself – to…
Feature photo of writers Loran Smith and Han Vance, taken by (6th-generation) UGA man Richard Hilley. The three of us have had so much fun watching our Dawgs and more than our fair share of heartbreak. MY TOP 5 PROGRAMS…
Han Vance on Georgia football: Hit Athens, Ga., yesterday for a look see at the old town. Couple beers outside street patio in Normaltown, digging that Prince Avenue vibe again, first neighborhood I lived in in Athens. Then the three…
HAN VANCE on Georgia football: Being George Pickens: IT’S GO TIME, he may have thought off the Flats of Tech. The blows rang out almost like shots in Atlanta as an ejection or short term suspension was clearly coming down….
HAN VANCE on Georgia football: NFL Draft 2020 has been as expected the most-watched in NFL history. While Georgia under Kirby Smart has been twice crowned for top recruiting classes in the whole country, Kirby completes his first full cycle…
