Please give us a phonetic pronunciation of his name. Thanks.
NEE-kah // METS-klah-REE-shuh-VEE-lee
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Hereโs a spoken pronunciation of the Georgian surname: 
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Lets call him NEE-kah
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Rothstein has UGA as his sleeper pick in the SEC:
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Excited for basketball season, so I donโt want to shit all over this too much, but itโs steeped in irony that itโs for โcharityโ and the donations go to the food pantryโฆ For the students who canโt afford foodโฆ Meanwhile each student is paying $1,000 a year in athletics fees to subsidize the athletic department.
If we arenโt going to win championships in basketball and football we donโt need a $40MM budget. Period. If we wonโt be serious about revenue sports then stop sacrificing studentsโ futures for sports that add no cache or prestige and bring little in the way of experiences for students that arenโt student athletes.
Just an FYI - that $844 athletic fee will generate $26,000,000+ this year.
Th athletic fee is the dirty little secret of many athletic departments.
You can make an argument both for and against an athletic fee.
I would suggest that the fee is too high.
And therefore we should drop down a level in athletics to reduce costs.
However. No school like us is going to drop down when our peers like ASU and ECU do not because of image repercussions.
I believe the only realistic way out of this is that all athletic fees over and above support for student athletic facilities and programs (ie the pool, the weight room, the basket ball and tennis courts the intramural fields and intramural programs) be eliminated across the state which will force change on all institutions, all schools eliminate them voluntarily in solidarity or we just eliminate all sports altogether. And thatโs no fun!
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clt says they should have a xbox instead
Weโve made really illogical hires and weโve reaped what weโve sowed. I said we shouldnโt charge the fees if we arenโt going to be serious.
We have yet, in Hills entire tenure, to hire a successful coach from a lower level in the only two sports that matter. The only two sports that justify such a big budget. Sanchez may have been a top assistant at a good program but one only needed to spend a few minutes with him to realize he was a career assistant type that was full of platitudes and a low integrity guy that wouldnโt hold himself accountable. He literally had no idea what he was doing and was never going to hold himself to account.
Either be serious or stop wasting kids futures in the name of student athlete experience.
Out of curiosity has anyone seen a TV/Streaming schedule for our games this year? I try to watch whenever I can, but I didnโt know if I needed to purchase a plan for ESPN+ like I did last year.
Will keep on the lookout for that, but itโs a fair assumption that if you want to see all of our games, ESPN+ is going to be necessary.
Tip-off times and television designations will be announced at a later date.
This was as of 9/26.