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During the 1925 World Series between the Pittsburgh #Pirates and the Washington Senators, the grounds crew needed to quickly dry the infield before game 7 as it had rained heavily that morning. This was how they “dried” the infield.

Interesting.  After racing he went on to be the most decorated US fighter pilot ace in WWI with 26 shootdowns and a Medal of Honor.

The Northeast Expressway at Piedmont Road in October 1958.

This is pretty near me today.  I hadn't realized it had no median back then.  Some of the concrete in the exit ramps still exists.  This section of ancient freeway was preserved while the new I-85 was built parallel to it. 

This shot is looking southbound with the construction of the new freeqay just starting to right.  This is where a portion of the new freeway collapsed a few years back due to a fire under it.

“Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to the point where this makes me quite uncomfortable.”

― Albert Einstein


I think Albert was the first really famous scientists (outside scientific circles).  He was a global phenom.  The break came when the position of a star that appeared near the Sun during an eclipse was displaced just as his theory of General Relativity had predicted (it also resolved a problem with the apparent orbit of Mercury).  That got publicized and zoom ...

Then the myths sprung up of course.  But by any metric, he was/is one of the greatest.

Kirby may have walked into a better situation than Saban or Dabo

Kirby may have walked into a better situation than Saban or Dabo

I think you are right.
Georgia's history is about even with Clemson's pre-Dabo. Georgia obviously doesn't have Bama's history but Georgia in general and the Atlanta area specifically have grown incredibly rapidly.

When my dad visited family in Atlanta in the 1940's, Atlanta's population was barely more than Akron's and Georgia’s population of 3.1M was less than half of Ohio's population of 6.9M.

More relevant to the comparison you made, here are the populations of Georgia, South Carolina, and Alabama over time.
2020:

• 10.7M Georgia
• 5.1M South Carolina
• 5.0M Alabama

1990:

• 6.5M Georgia
• 4.0M Alabama
• 3.5M South Carolina

1960:

• 3.9M Georgia
• 3.3M Alabama
• 2.4M South Carolina

1930:

• 2.9M Georgia
• 2.6M Alabama
• 1.7M South Carolina

When Alabama was building their brand their state had a population larger than South Carolina and comparable to Georgia. Today Alabama's population is smaller than South Carolina and Georgia’s population is more than AL and SC combined.


That population ultimately contributes to HS talent and also fanbase size.

UGA is somewhat comparable to Ohio State in that it is the major program in a large state with a LOT of HS football emphasis.  When I was in HS here, football was big, but poorly resourced, and schools now with major programs were even more underfunded because they were out in the boonies.  Yes, it's a good HC job if you work hard and can handle the stress and media and expectations etc.

The striking thing now, to me, is how many players are coming from outside the state and region ...  I guess I can understand why.