Georgia-Florida in Jacksonville: Stop Whining Already

Georgia-Florida will be in Jacksonville until at least 2015.Good.The Georgia Athletic Association Board of Directors met Wednesday and agreed upon AD Damon Evans’ proposal to keep the World’s Largest Cocktail Party off campuses, out of Atlanta and in the state of Florida.Good. The Georgia football team will continue to travel 363 miles to its annual matchup with Florida. The Gators will go 71 miles north. Good.It’s not that I feel that strongly about keeping the Jacksonville tradition alive — I’d love to see the game moved to campus. It’s that it’s not the huge, mind-numbingly terrible disadvantage that (not all, but) many Georgia fans make it out to be.Mainly, because the players don’t care.I have asked somewhere around 10 to 15 Georgia football players about their preference surrounding the game. Sure, some said that playing on campus “would be cool,” others that a game in Atlanta “would be fun.”But every one ...