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DEL.ICIO.USRicht not bothered about Georgia’s hype
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Athens — Mark Richt is basically a calm man, not that crazy guy who sent his whole traveling squad surging on the field like a bunch of wild warriors in celebration after Georgia scored its first touchdown against Florida last season. He still apologizes, in a way:
“I just meant the offensive team,” he said. “The rest of them ran out on their own,” not that he’d like to have it done any other way now. “It cost us a 15-yard penalty, then half the distance tacked onto that. We’re probably the only team that ever started a game kicking off from the seven and a half yard line.”
He had noticed something missing in the loss to Tennessee, which was more than a loss — a solid butt-kicking. ” Passion,” he said. “I realized it after the Tennessee game and we went to work on it.”
Not so fast there. First, there was Vanderbilt to be dealt with. The Bulldogs were on the ropes, the Commodores on a drive near Georgia’s goal line when their tailback fumbled. The Bulldogs recovered and eventually kicked the winning field goal, and they were off on a seven-game winning binge that ended in the Sugar Bowl. Little did they realize that what they were doing would have such implications on the season ahead.
“No. 1 in the Nation!” The trifecta! Coaches poll, Associated Press, Sports Illustrated! Everybody’s No. 1 but Playboy, the magazine, whose polling standards vary somewhat from popular football tradition. For instance, Amos Alonzo Stagg would never have been its cover boy.
Usually, coaches react restlessly, shush all that talk and downgrade such a flood of exposure. Not Mark Richt. “We talk about it,” he said. “We’re excited. That means they’ve got respect for us. With such a ranking comes responsibility, and that means that’s up to us.”
Expectant fathers don’t carry on with such poise as did Richt, the expectant coach. He realized this situation was far more to be desired than had he been engaged in the career he’d have chosen if football hadn’t come his way. “I’d have been a builder, either that, or in real estate. My dad was a carpenter before he got into electronics,” he said, “and that sort of rubbed off on me when I was young.”
Actually, it had been Richt’s plan to become a great quarterback. The coach at Boca Raton High School in Florida had him pointed in that direction, Roger Coffey. The Richts originated in Nebraska but moved to Florida when his father’s company transferred him. Mark was about 13. He had gone out for baseball, but the baseball coach’s son was the rival at the position he played, and he never saw the light of day. Enter Roger Coffey: “Come with me,” he said, “I’ll show you the ropes, and I promise you’ll play college football.”
Baseball was his real love, but he took coach Coffey at his word, and sure enough, he became a quarterback at the University of Miami. Unfortunately, a kid named Kelly, from a coal-mining town in Pennsylvania, also played quarterback at Miami, later in four Super Bowls, and Jim Kelly is now in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Surely not having as much fun as Richt now.
“It’s a challenge for us all,” he said, speaking of the surge to No. 1. He could have been speaking of the Georgia schedule, which appears to have been put together by a mad masochist. Check it: South Carolina at Columbia, then Arizona State in Tempe, followed by Alabama and Tennessee, with Vanderbilt next, then crunch time: LSU at Baton Rouge and Florida at Jacksonville, then Kentucky, Auburn and Georgia Tech, not exactly whipped cream and cherry on top.
“If being ranked high can motivate, then we’ve got all the motivation we need. Use it. Go a little harder,” Richt said.
He’ll have his own family gallery cheering him on. He’ll be surrounded by a chorus of Richts. His mother now lives in the region. So do a brother and two sisters, one wed to Brad Johnson, the Super Bowl quarterback now with Dallas. And, his father has joined the fun and now lives nearby. (His parents are divorced.)
How do you get to be No. 1 before the football has even been pumped up? (Georgia’s previous preseasonsà best has been No. 3.) “Well, I guess it’s how you finished, who you have leaving and who’s returning to fill the holes, and star power. It gives you confidence when you have a Knowshon Moreno and Matthew Stafford, and a lot of impressive receivers. Other than that, I can only tell you what I tell my wife before a game: ‘I hope we can make a first down.’ “
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By Dirt Dawg
August 22, 2008 9:22 PM | Link to this
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By Cuz
August 22, 2008 9:36 PM | Link to this
Thanks Furman for a great article on my favorite Coach. I guess thirty years from now he gets his own statue and garden. Go Coach, Get After Them Agressively!
By uga's favorite tick
August 22, 2008 9:49 PM | Link to this
Go ahead on, Furman! You ain’t lost nuthin on your fastball. Great reading. One of my life’s idols writing about another.
By Cleve
August 22, 2008 10:16 PM | Link to this
Go Dawgs, Mr. Bisher!
By Hayes
August 22, 2008 10:22 PM | Link to this
It’s Get After Their Asses.
By bh
August 22, 2008 11:40 PM | Link to this
Thanks for a great article. Not like the negativity of T. Moore (how does he keep his job?). You, Mr. Bisher, and coach Richt, dont take yourselves too seriously, which is a breath of fresh air. Coaches like Meyer at UF are so pompous and self righteous it makes your skin crawl. Not to mention writers like T. Moore, who stir up and feed off of negative journalism. Again, thanks for the breath of fresh air!
By southjawgadawg
August 23, 2008 12:05 AM | Link to this
Good job mr. Bisher. Gotta love everything about our coach. And even though we have to stay humble, we are just absolutely better than everyone on the schedule. Its hard to stay humble.
By USAFdawg757
August 23, 2008 12:32 AM | Link to this
I am a fan of you Mr. Bisher. Your articles are potent and thought provoking. You paint the perfect picture of Coach Richt. A MODEL coach, a CLASSY person and a HUMBLE servant of the LORD. Thank you.
By Bill
August 23, 2008 6:48 AM | Link to this
Richt has wasted the finest talet in the land year after year. No one has done less with consecutive consensus top 5 recruiting classes than Richt. It will come tumbling down on him in Columbia. Spurrier has players now.
Nice man, though.
By yellowblood
August 23, 2008 7:47 AM | Link to this
Richt is a joke and a hypocrite with all those criminals in Athens. I’d 10 to 1 rather have our kids even if they do participate in Tickle Piles. At least a Tickle Pile is not against the law!!! THWG!!!
By UGA'91
August 23, 2008 7:51 AM | Link to this
Bout time you wrote a somewhat positive article about the dawgs. I guess you owe owe it to us since you destroyed coach Butt’s career.
By northwestgeorgiadawg
August 23, 2008 8:02 AM | Link to this
yellowblood are does that yellow mean that you are a coward. hypocrite is a strong word for a coach that has constantly disciplined players at a school which lacked discipline. you must be a hypocrite yellowblood because you evidently think tech is perfect in its own definition of morals. lying for instance. i have met many a tech fan that has lied to me and told me that you guys have a good football program. now i am sorry yellowdawg but that is simply not true. crawl back in your hole or come out of the closet you are probably a closet dawg fan anyhow see you in november coward
By BigDawg63
August 23, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this
Bill,
What are you smoking. Every class Richt has had has done something good and built towards today. Georgia has been putting some great talent in the NFL in case you gave not notice and we will see what happens when Georgia comse to South Carolina and Treats The COCKS like Hawaii you moron.
By Tech is better??
August 23, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this
Yellowblood, before jumping on the pile and pointing fingers at UGA, here’s a “Cliff Notes” version of Tech’s “history of etiquette”:
• In 1978 Georgia Tech students throw thousands of dead fish at Notre Dame for beating them.
• In 1981 Georgia Tech players spit on Herschel Walker and call him racist names!
• In 1981 Georgia Tech students throw liquor bottles at Georgia players on the sidelines. Several UGA players have to receive stitches. Tech head coach Bill Curry apologized to Georgia.
• In 1987 Georgia Tech students by the thousands in unison scream curse extremely vile words diring the prayer and national anthem. Several instances of Tech fans thrwoing drinks at UGA fans. Some UGA fans are hit from above by Tech fans tossing cups filled with urine!
• 1988 Several Tech football players get arrested for beating up a petite female student.
• 1993 Georgia Tech players start a bench clearing brawl with Georgia. The Dawgs whip them and chase them back to their side of the field.
• 2003 Georgia Tech gets caught for fixing athletes grades to make them eligible during the 1998-2000 seasons. The NCAA puts Tech on probation. 11 athletes were starting football players.
• Tech student makes bombs and tooses them out dorm window
• 2007 Tech student arrested for terrorism and aiding terrorists.
• 2008 drug use by Tech athletes has sad and tragic results.
• 2008 Tech great, Joe Hamilton, director of player personnel, charged with DUI, Hit & Run and marijuana possesion.
• 2008 Tech football player arrested for rape. Other Tech football players arrested for underage drinking.
Unlike Senator Joe Biden I won’t take credit for this post. I saw it elsewhere but thought, perhaps, you had not.
By quitman dog
August 23, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this
tech sucks
By hdh
August 23, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this
Furman,
Coach Richt is a first class person as well as coach. UGA is lucky to have him. Having said that, your column is “old news”, nothing that any college football fan has not read several hundred times by now.
By Wild Bill
August 23, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this
GT transgressions listed above, dating from 1978, are true, however Georgia has exceeded that list since last January, and Richt’s thugs have turned Athens into Dodge City or Deadwood.
By DirtyDawg
August 23, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this
You left out Bear Bryant wearing a helmet - that’s right, sans herringbone hat - on the sidelines in front of the Tech student section to avoid the liquor bottles…or the Tech freshman football player that tried to clean out the Beer Mug with a real beer mug that he broke over the bar, threatened to cut anybody that came close, then threw it into a crowd of people cutting a girl’s face, AND when the cops came they patted him on the head and sent him home (if there’s a God he tore his knee up and never played a down, and, oh yeah, he did get his butt kicked by one of the patrons about half his size first).
That’s enough of that in response to somebody that’s proud to say he bleeds yellow - which says a lot about his/her character. The point is we’re in a hellova spot with these ‘# 1s’ hung around our neck. Watching College Game Day our good friend Lou Hottz - that’s right he ain’t dead yet - pointed out that since they started the pre-season rankings, in the 50s, only two teams have, in fact, finished #1. That’s the jinx of all jinxes. Then again, everyone of the twerps on CGD picked Georgia NOT to make it either…they picked Florida, Tennessee, Holtz picked Auburn and South Carolina, to beat us (I don’t know what we did to Holtz, other than beatin’ his a* while he was the coach there, but he’s had a hard-on for us forever). What I mean is that if there’s a way to overcome ‘The Big Jinx’, along with playing great, then having all the CGD ‘know it alls’ against you just might do it.
By 1eyedJack
August 23, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this
If kids drinking alcohol makes them thugs then we are are all thugs.
By Ed
August 23, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this
Bill apparently hasn’t noticed the 10+ wins per season, 3 BCS bowls, 3 SEC East titles, and 2 SEC Championships. If that’s underachieving, let’s have 7 more years of it.
By vern
August 23, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this
I’ve got nothing against coach Richt personally but why on earth do people think this guy is some kind of saint? He is in his 8th year now at UGA and has had 8 players arrested now and we’re only halfway through the year. He had 7 arrested last year. It seems like he’s making UGA just like the Fla. State criminoles of the 90s. I mean let’s face it. This team has a lot of talent but it looks like he recruits solely for talent without any regard to character. He is quickly turning this team from UGA to THUGA and there is no question that while Miami was the thug team of the 80s, FSU the thug team of the 90s, it looks like Richt is making THUGA the thug team of the 2000s. Facts are facts and the fact that he is in his 8th year at UGA and has had 15 players arrested in the last 2 years speaks volumes about his teams character and the kind of players he is bringing to Athens.
By Vince
August 23, 2008 3:11 PM | Link to this
Vern, I think that is overstated. Most of the offenses are relatively minor infractions rather than violent crimes, theft, weapons offenses, that we normally think of as what “thugs” do. I just don’t think that is a fair assessment of the situation.
Of course, alcohol and driving is very serious, but there have only been a few of those, without the precise counts in front of me.
Seems to me most of the kids are good general citizens and I believe the staff are good at not recruiting people likely to mess up badly based on backgrounds.
I don’t think its fair to say they are recruiting “thugs” without paying any attention to character. In addition, they do a lot to help them in every dimension, it seems to me, with discipline as well as with trips to Honduras and the like whereby they can learn about life more broadly.
It would be great if the media would do a bit more about how they do this, not sayhing they don’t cover it, but it would be interesting to know more about how Garner et al. counsel/workwith/mentor/coach.
Vince
By Forrest Gump
August 23, 2008 3:29 PM | Link to this
Anyone who thinks Richt’s kids are just boys having fun should read Odell Thurman’s and Danelle Ellerbe’s felony rap sheet. Richt’s “kids” carry handguns and have put a number of people in the hospital. They engage in bar-room brawls where beer bottles are smashed over people’s heads and destroy public property. The hospital episode would have been another felony had Richt not fixed it prior to any arrest. What happens at UF, Alabama, or TN is no justification for what happens at Georgia. These activities and the attitudes that foster them are going to jump up and bite this team.
By hop
August 23, 2008 5:14 PM | Link to this
no, uga91… coach butts destroyed his own life and put uga through the mud.
he was a disgrace to uga.
By Is this thing on?
August 23, 2008 8:38 PM | Link to this
Furman,
The years have been kind to you. You’ve lost none of your yellow journalism style over the last 40 years.
By LA Dawg
August 23, 2008 10:08 PM | Link to this
Mr. Bisher, sometimes I think the bloggers on here are a little harsh on Bradley, Moore, et al (and of course they are) but while reading your stuff it only reminds us all how the others pale in comparison - and not just by a little bit. You’re a sure fire First Ballot Hall of Famer in any sports HOF that exists and that is not easy for the others to live up to, to be sure, but take it easy on them. You seem to showing off lately. God bless you and your talent and may your pen have ink in it long after ours have all run out.
By DisneyDawg
August 23, 2008 10:36 PM | Link to this
Dirty Dawg, since you brought up the subject about preseason #1’s finishing up the same, I looked up some info on the AP poll. Since 1950, when AP started preseason rankings, 10 teams have started at the top and finished there as well. Seven #2’s have won AP’s NC. Numbers 4,6,8, and nine have four NC’s each, tied for third. If the Dawgs take care of their own business, it won’t matter what number is in front of them.
By DisneyDawg
August 23, 2008 10:46 PM | Link to this
LA Dawg,
There’s not much to like about Terence Moore. He repeatedly antagonizes his newspaper’s readership, as opposed to being an impartial observer. People have long tired of this style of writing, particularly by an ousider (surely you know Mr. Moore is from South Bend, as he never lets the opportunity to inform others of this pass by). He is now justifiably viewed as an uninvited boor.
By GaDawg
August 24, 2008 8:32 AM | Link to this
I got my jort shorts and a AK-47, Urban’s gonna let us play you betcha! Nuff said.
By D'Marcus Jefferson, Kappa Alpha pledge at UGA
August 24, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this
What’s a shame is that the skill positions are filled by a dude from NEW JOISEYYYY (“WHICH EXIT”) and a Pudge from the LONE STAR STATE.
Georgia high school 5-stars, forget about automatically playing at UGA just because you are a stud HS player from Georgia! UGA is now a National Program and it will have to recruit nationally.
Could there be a trend developing soon with many of the 5-star HS players going to GA. Tech, Clemson, Auburn, Tenn., South Carolina.
Welcome to the National Recruiting Club Ohio State, USC, Notre Dame, and Florida.
By old timer
August 24, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this
Thanks,Vince.You are still my man. Glad to hear how they work with these kids. “long LIVE VINCE’.
By Bob
August 24, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this
“How do you get to be No. 1 before the football has even been pumped up?”
Uh, pretty much the same way any other preseason #1 has gotten there. The voters put you there because they think you’re the best team. Is there some rule that I am not aware of that says Georgia can’t be a preseason #1? I’m sick of people acting like Georgia doesn’t have the right to be a preseason #1. Nobody would be asking these ridiculous questions if Ohio State, USC, or Florida were #1.
By Bob
August 24, 2008 10:26 AM | Link to this
Yeah, real shame UGA has one of the best running backs in the nation toting the rock this year. What are we to do? rolls eyes
Man there are some dumb people out there.
By UGA'91
August 24, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this
Hop, that’s the problem with a lie from a “trusted source”. The allegations that Bisher made against Coach Butts and Bear Bryant were never proven. In fact Butts won a 3million dollar judgment! Yet, the perception is that he somehow destroyed his own life and career. That’s why I’m baffled by people who get on here praising Bisher. He is a man of very low character, and sooner or later the truth will come to light. Did you know that Bear Bryant was considered to be the first Falcons’ coach? He turned the offer because he did not want to be in the same city as Bisher!!!
By UGA'91
August 24, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this
Hop, that’s the problem with a lie from a “trusted source”. The allegations that Bisher made against Coach Butts and Bear Bryant were never proven. In fact Butts won a 3million dollar judgment! Yet, the perception is that he somehow destroyed his own life and career. That’s why I’m baffled by people who get on here praising Bisher. He is a man of very low character, and sooner or later the truth will come to light. Did you know that Bear Bryant was considered to be the first Falcons’ coach? He turned down the offer because he did not want to be in the same city as Bisher!!!
By DisneyDawg
August 24, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this
UGA’91,
I always wondered how it was that Butts supposedly wrecked his own life and career while his alleged co-conspirator was left virtually unscathed. There is no doubt that Coach Butts had his reputation sullied unfairly. He was vindicated in court for a reason.
By Paddy
August 24, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this
Bill… CMR the most underachieving coach in America? When you make over-the-top statements like that you lose credability and sound stupid.. If you think he is a bad coach, you are entitled to that opinion. What I think he is doing is called building a powerhouse and winning alot of games. He is at the top of his game and an elite football coach. Dawgs are glad they have him.
By DisneyDawg
August 24, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this
Bill,
See below re Coach Richt:
A record of 72-19 puts him fourth in winning percentage among active head coaches. Two SEC titles, three SEC East crowns and a 5-2 Bowl record make for a nice resume.
Georgia under Richt is 29-2 against non-conference opponents, and 25-4 when playing on an opponent’s home field. Coach Richt is one of only nine coaches in history to win 60 games in their first six seasons, and 70 in their first seven seasons.
Only six Coaches have won two SEC Championships in their first five seasons, Coach Richt makes that list as well. The list goes on and on.
Please do some research before posting. Thanks.
By UGA'91
August 24, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this
DisneyDawg, an interesting read on the subject can be found in Bear Bryant’s autobiography, Bear; he claims that he (Bryant) voluntarily took and passed a lie detector test. It seems the Uga administration, asked Butts to take one and Butts took it as a personal affront that his word wasn’t good enough and resigned in protest. The interesting thing to me was that at the time they were accused of conspiring to “fix” the game Butts was the A.D. and Johnny Griffin was the coach at Uga. How in the world can an AD “fix” a game that he isn’t actively involved in? Beside’s I believe back in that day the qb called the offensive plays so an awful lot of people would have been involved in the “fix”. Yet, Bisher, passed this “information” to the Saturday Evening Post for (according to Bryant) a $1,000.00, with no investigation and no proof. Bryant settled with the Post for a reported $500k and a jury awarded Butts 3million. All the losing in court drove the Saturday Evening Post out of business…but Bisher is still a columnist?! Meanwhile, coaches like Frank Howard and General Neyland get stadiums named after them, while Butts gets the Butts-Mehre Building? Something ain’t right.
By DisneyDawg
August 24, 2008 5:17 PM | Link to this
UGA’91,
Thanks for the information. I actually looked up the Supreme Court decision (it was a landmark) and gleaned some info from the basis for their finding. It seems that there was a phone conversation between Bryant and Butts, but the topics were apparently so general that there was no foundation for a “fix”. Experts agreed that the conduct of the game showed no bearing from the call. Interestingly, while the Saturday Evening Post is mentioned prominently several times regarding the article, there is no mention of the author’s name.
And I agree that Wally Butts deserves better from the University.
By asswipe
August 24, 2008 5:48 PM | Link to this
You Tech and Ga people both showed your a* by making both schools look sorry. I hope your proud of yourself.
By Jason
August 24, 2008 6:35 PM | Link to this
Mr. Bisher,
Thanks so much for showing the Commodores a little respect. Vanderbilt will be the surprise of the SEC this year. Coach Johnson is building a real program in this blast furnace of a conference.
By The Sky is Falling
August 24, 2008 8:45 PM | Link to this
OOOOOhhh!!! Looks like we’ve got us some AJC-bashers at full throttle here. Warning us of the L-I-B-E-R-A-L media, represented this time by Mr. Bisher. He “ruined that class act, Wally Butts’s career”. OOOOOhhhh !!! Guess what, dumb-a*******es. It ain’t workin. Go back to watching the Fox News Channel.
By You got to be kidding me
August 25, 2008 2:15 AM | Link to this
Furman, what the hell… all the things you have written have been printed in one way or another in this very paper over the past two weeks! Do you just sit at home, read the news online, and then plagerise it into an article then email it in? Your journalism sucks!
By You got to be kidding me
August 25, 2008 2:32 AM | Link to this
Vern, a crucial point i feel you overlook is this… when you compare georgia and its off field distractions with Miami of the 80’s, and Florida State of the 90’s, each were the most dominant teams of those decades… high profile if you will? If a player breaks wind it makes the news! If your son or daughter (assuming you have one or ever will) gets caught drinking underage do you want them to be thrown out of college, sent through rehab, have their name slandered throughout the media, and have to run stadium stairs until they throw up?
By benjamin carey
August 25, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this
if the dawgs were not any good no one would say anything. but they are so everyone is jealous and florida fan i think god chris leak is gone cause tim tebow is the most overated quarterback in college football history
By bali smith
August 25, 2008 6:18 PM | Link to this
great article about a great coach,we can always count on you to write great articles on a variety of subjects. thank you Mr. Bisher.
By KingGator
August 25, 2008 11:21 PM | Link to this
Like I’ve told you boys MANY Times through these Blogs, you have to remember where Richt came from, and who he coached under. He played at the thuggiest of programs (Miami) in the history of college football, and coached under one of the sleaziest coaches (Bowden) of all time (Criminoles ring a bell?).
Just like with Dubya, and Iraq, you can spin the facts however you want, but the truth eventually will manifest itself. With Richt it came out in the FL game last season, and his desperate decision to pull off an on-field celebration during a game. I mean let’s think of some classy coaches like Tom Osborne, Tom Landry and John wooden. Could you see any of them asking their players to run out on the field and celebrate after a score?
Well, need I say more ladies and gentlemen? The truth always wins out regardless of how it makes us feel
KINGGATOR
By UGA'91
August 26, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this
Okay Kinggator, since you brought it up…Tom Osborne’s teams were criticized for repeatedly running the score up on weaker teams, Landry coached the “cocaine Cowboys” do the names Bob Hayes, Thomas “Hollywood” Henderson, ring a bell? And Coach Wooden didn’t start winning until he hooked up with a shady booster, who was accused of paying for the top talent heading to UCLA. I respect all of those coaches, but none of them are saints. Since we’re on the subject, whatever happened to Charlie Pell and Galen Hall after their cheating scandals at UF?
By KingGator
August 26, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this
UGA’91,
Excuses are not an acceptable answer to this type chicanery on any level.
Would Urban getting payback against Richt by doing a similar dirty trick make it right? I don’t think so.
Like I said, the truth always says alot about a person’s actions, and recognize that there are consequences involved. Richt will always be tied to that move, and will take it to his grave. Just like dubya will never be able to shake the spinning propaganda leading up to Iraq.
It all boils down to what a person is willing to live with? if winning is the answer at all costs, then don’t worry about it. But if character and winning the “right way” mean something, then people should think through their actions. In essence Richt knew before he ever called the play that the backlash would be steep, and that what he was doing was against the rules and wrong. He basically premeditated the entire move.
Last question to you. Do you see Vince Dooley pulling that type stunt in his prime? I sure don’t.
KG
By Florida=JOKE
August 26, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this
Backlash? I don’t remember any backlash after the excessive celebration incident. Quite the contrary, I remember the paper Gator defense getting worked like a two cent mule for another FIVE touchdowns. I remember Gator special teams players hitting Georgia players after the play was over. I remember a Gator defensive lineman taking an obvious cheap shot on Matthew Stafford. I remember Urban Crier pouting on the sidelines after he realized yet another SEC team wasn’t going to bow down to his paper Gators. I remember Georgia winning the rest of its games and going to a BCS bowl. I remember Florida choking against a mediocre Big 10 team in its irrelevant bowl game. And last but not least, I remember scores and scores of sniveling Gator fans and media talking heads crying like little girls for months on end over a stupid and harmless penalty.
So I ask you KingGator, what BACKLASH are you talking about?
By UGA'91
August 26, 2008 7:04 PM | Link to this
Thanks Florida=joke. KG, you seem concerned about coaches behaving in a certain manner, but where were all these calls for chivalry when Steve Spurrier was your coach? Ray Goof?, Free Shoes U? were those things that a coach who “does it the right way” would do? I don’t remember UF fans begging to fire him when he ran the score up on Uga, or when he threatened Vandy (if I hear 1 boo, I’ll leave my starters in). Rather than asking what would Dooley do, ask if Spurrier would have done the same..or worse. BTW, please don’t compare Richt to Dubya.
By GREER, S.C. DAWG
August 26, 2008 8:15 PM | Link to this
Thanks Mr. Bisher for another great article in the style only you can bring.
By takeittothe ...grave
August 27, 2008 12:20 AM | Link to this
yeah he’ll take the celebration to the grave….the celebration after we spanked you lizards in the gator bowl last year…..tell urban to eat his gerber food for breakfast and have his mother change his diapers…stick a pacifer in his mouth too… along with all the florida gator fans