Episode 2362: Damon Wilson's portal announcement leaves UGA facing big questions

DawgNation Daily

Brandon Adams

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4.8 • 914 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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DawgNation Daily -- the daily podcast for Georgia Bulldogs fans Beginning of the show: A look at UGA edge rusher Damon Wilson's decision to enter the transfer portal and the Bulldogs' pickup of Miami safety Jaden Harris. 15-minute mark: I discuss why Christen Miller's return in 2025 should be valuable for Georgia's defensive line. 25-minute mark: DawgNation's Connor Riley joins the show. 50-minute mark: I take a look at other SEC headlines including UGA's chances of adding another transfer wide receiver. 55-minute mark: I share a brief preview of UGA's basketball game tonight against Kentucky. End of show: I award a Golden Shoe winner and share the Gator Hater Updater.

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0:00.0	Today's episode of Dog Nation Daily is brought to you by Surf Pro. Cleaning, restoration, construction.
0:09.1	Presented by Dog Nation.com. This is Dog Nation Daily, the daily podcast for Georgia Bulldogs fame.
0:15.5	Here's your host, Brandon Adams. So much to do here today. Before we're done, rumors of perhaps Georgia not quite being done when it comes to transfer wide receivers. We'll have some fun with that. George has also added a player here recently. We're going to get to that. There are draft declarations taking place literally as we're coming on the air. We're going to cover all of that. We'll have some phone with an announcement
0:37.8	from yesterday, a Georgia player announcing his intention to run it back for 2025. So we knew it would be
0:43.6	like this. We're not surprised. We're not caught off guard. But we are also doing everything we can
0:48.7	just to sort of hold on and provide some sort of commentary and analysis for the news as it's coming out.
0:56.2	We'll do our part on all of that here today.
0:58.2	Connor Riley will help us coming up in a couple of minutes.
1:01.3	But let's begin right here.
1:03.5	Yesterday, it's the kind of thing you sort of brace for.
1:06.8	You've kind of come to expect it as a possibility.
1:09.5	That one transfer name that you're like,
1:11.8	oh, that's not really one that I was hoping to hear.
1:14.4	You know that every team is going to lose double digit transfers off its roster every single season.
1:20.5	That is just unavoidable.
1:21.9	Kirby Smart himself has said that their goal in all of this is kind of really only to keep about 70% of the players they sign out of high school.
1:31.2	So they are resigned, you know, right from the word go that they're essentially going to lose about a third of the guys they sign off of every one of their high school classes.
1:41.9	That's just the nature of the bees in the transfer portal world and the transfer
1:45.9	that are kind of enticed by the NIL and all the stuff that's out there.
1:49.8	You just know you're going to lose people.
1:51.7	Some of those you kind of expect and some of those you're, if we're being on it,
1:55.5	sometimes kind of okay with because maybe it creates some space for somebody else to get
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