Mark Bradley

By Huh?

November 24, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

Trading places? I don’t see Tech going to a BCS bowl and finishing #2 in the land do you Mark? Didn’t think so.

By Kendawg

November 24, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this

I don’t see how anyone could put Oklahoma ahead of Texas in the polls. But I can understand why Dooley could. He’s not as bright as you writers have always contended he is. Herschel won the NC. Without Herschel, he would have had 3 SEC championships in 22 years. That’s a great coach??? Sounds fairly average to me.

By George P. Burdell

November 24, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this

the dogs are on the decline and the Jackets are on the rise…get over doggie fans! Reality will hit Saturday for you!

By Tron5000

November 24, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

Huh, Huh? Apparently you don’t know how this whole BCS thing works. See, if Virginia beats VT this weekend (a very real possibly considering the pathetic showing against Duke), then GT travels to Tampa for the ACC Championship game. And if they win that game (against either FSU or BC, both of whom were beaten by GT earlier this season), then they play in the Orange Bowl. And the Orange Bowl is one of the BCS bowls. Perhaps you should do some research on the BCS process. Not that it matters much for you, since the Bullpups won’t be participating in a BCS game this year.

By Herschel Talker

November 24, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this

George P. Burdell is g@y.

By Tom

November 24, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

One correction on the A-Mo record, Mark….

His 37-pt game set a record for an NBA rookie undrafted free agent…..not all rookies.

By Bo

November 24, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this

Thanks Mark! Man you gotta love it. GT wins, Falcons Win, Hawks playing well, UGA playing well, and GT & UGA coming up!!

Believe if GT’s QB stays health it will be a he!! of a game. I pull for both teams during the season but I gotta go with GT although they’re the underdogs.

Time for another Post on the Braves. I know DOB is the Braves Man but you do a great job of adding to info. Have a great Thanksgiving!

By Pi$$onaDawg

November 24, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this

HUH Beating Hawaii last gave UGA Writers CRED(haha) to be RANKED #1 to start this year. Do you really see UGA winning a BCS game against a TEAM? UGA play BALL STATE, BOISE STATE, BYU, or UTAH and UGA might win but you had better find a D. UGA can’t hang with Bama, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, USC, Texas Tech, Penn State, or Ohio State and you are crazy if you think the MUTTS can outscore these teams because UGA’s D can’t stop any of these teams.

By FD

November 24, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this

And Herschel is a cross dressing schizo…

Thanks for your words of wisdom H. Talker

By HUH??

November 24, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this

Only a Dawg fan would brag about “finishing #2” in the land. And what kind of trophy do you get for that? Honestly it would have saved you alot of embarassment this year had you not finished there.

By Billy

November 24, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

Hate to disagree with you Mark, but Ole Miss also beat Florida. Should they be ranked higher? What happened 1+ months ago is sorta irrelevant. Texas hasn’t looked nearly as good since the Shootout. Oklahoma is bada$$. Of course, I’m a Texas A&M fan. After this Thursday, I may agree with you…

By Herschel Talker

November 24, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this

FD is g@y.

By murfdawg

November 24, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

George, are you still in school? How long have you been at Tech and are you ever going to graduate? Uga was at 9 wins at this point last season and finished 11-2. We are on track to do it again this year. Two straight years of 11-2 signifies a decline? Wake up and graduate?

By Tron5000

November 24, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this

Hey muffdawg, I think the “decline” to which he was referring was your decline from SEC contender, #1 in polls, to SEC also-ran and out of the top 10.

And yes, the little doggies are currently 9-2. They could possibly end up 11-2, but there’s just as good a chance they finish the season 9-4. But just as last year, there will be no conference championship for them.

By kauai dawg

November 24, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this

I think there is a feel to the game that makes you think that way. Tech on the way up and Georgia maintaining at best. GA lost a little luster when the goal of the season was lost. I hope GA gets refocused and it is a great game. Kind of looks like the GA/KENTUCKY game from this year. A barn burning shoot out. I hope so and that TECT doesn’t run all over us like they did against MIAMI. Happy Thanksgiving!

By Old Gold

November 24, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this

“Huh?,”If you had an IQ anywhere above a dead cat you’d understand that Mr. Bradley is speaking on the two teams trading places in their positions in their prospective conferences. It’s a situational comparison between the two teams positions going into their last game of the season from UGA in 2007 to GT in 2008. Typical mutt. If you get internet at your trailer park, you should take some online classes to get your GED.

By Jerry

November 24, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

Georgia’s losses were against some great teams. Tech’s losses were against teams they should have beat, and had them beat, except North Carolina. I look for a good high scoring game (38-37), you heard it here, in favor of the Jackets.

Here’s hoping everyone stays healthy and good luck to all.

Texas should be ahead of Oklahoma whether they beat them last week or last month. I’m just tickled pink I don’t have to see Ohio State play for a title again.

By Jawgadawgs

November 24, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this

If CMR loses to the NATS, its time to move on. I’m tired of being embarassed in every big game. Anyone can blow out Hawaii or squeak by Vandy.

By SlimG

November 24, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this

Dawgs cover. Best investment out there. Hope everyone made a ton on the Oklahoma-TTU game. Here’s another lock, sooners kill the overrated cowboys.

Too much talent on both sides of the ball for tech to handle.

Try playing Florida, Tennessee, and Auburn every year. Not to mention ranked out of conference opponents. Last year the dawgs beatup Ok.St. and this year it was ASU both were suppose to be decent. Noda.

What happens if tech gets down by 14 and has to throw the ball?

By reebok

November 24, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

I hope I’m wrong, but I think the Dogs have too much offense for the Jackets. In my nightmares, I see Moreno ripping off huge chunks of yardage, and then Stafford throwing darts to AJ Greene. But I do think Tech showed a lot of desire and energy against Miami last week, a lot more than the Doggies have shown in their last 2-3 games. It may well come down to turnovers (Tech) vs. stupid penalties (UGA). See you Saturday!

By ladyluckjc

November 24, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

Mr. Bradley,

As they say, you couldn’t hold Pat Dye’s jock, at anything, much less, clear thinking.

By ATLFan

November 24, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this

Dooley and Dye also have LSU at #24 - I think the only ones shown on that link still ranking LSU

By Tech Fan Since 1950

November 24, 2008 1:28 PM | Link to this

As usual, the SEC is overrated. Sagarin this week lists the ACC, top to bottom, as the strongest conference in America.(you would never here this from the local or national media, of course) Yes the SEC has the perception and the elites (Florida and Alabama), but overall none of the teams have played tough schedules. Still, Tech’s young, injured and beat up secondary play will be the key to the game Saturday. I suspect Stafford, A.J. Green and Moreno will be the differences for the Dawgs. BUT, I can hope not can’t I? Go Jackets!

By ATLFan

November 24, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this

ok- the only ones on that page - I think maybe 2 others also still ranked LSU. Just goes to show that even coaches make mistakes.

By Gene

November 24, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this

Richt is Pat Dye, pretending to be an Alter Boy. Richt should try yelling at his players instead of the referees.

By M&M

November 24, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this

UGA has a bigger stadium, a bigger fan base, bigger players, better players, more experience, tougher conference, tougher schedule and on and on and on….but you are going to lose Saturday!

GT wants it more than UGA and they are smarter. Get used to it. UGA will never win anywhere near 7 in a row again!

By wordy

November 24, 2008 1:59 PM | Link to this

Gslim- I’ll give you playing UF, but Tennessee and Auburn and Arizona State??? Combined record of 12-19.

Ranked by CFN that is numbers 76, 48 and 64.

By Mark Bradley

November 24, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this

You’re right, Tom, and I knew that. (I had it right last week.) I just omitted the word “undrafted.”

I’m fixing it now. Thanks.

By carmatter

November 24, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this

Just goes to show that Sagarin isn’t so bright. I think any unbiased observer can see that the SEC is a better conference than the ACC in football.

By DawginLex

November 24, 2008 2:41 PM | Link to this

I love all of you idiots trashing UGA’s schedule AFTER THE FACT. The facts are that if UGA had lost to any of those teams, they would be better teams W/L wise.

UGA lost to the #1 and 2 teams in the country and won all the rest. If WM can slow Tech down saturday, it will be another 2 or 3 TD margin W for the DAWGS. Play soft,crappy,undisciplined D and it will be an ARENA LEAGUE game.

I predict the latter.

49-45 DAWGS

By Keep it up Tech Fans...

November 24, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this

I love all this new-found confidence. Hey Tech, in case you haven’t noticed (and you haven’t) UGA is yet to play a complete game to it’s potential. Keep talking like they’re no good. Keep flexing your chest. YOU MAY JUST WAKE UP THE MONSTER.

By Tron5000

November 24, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

Keep it up, potential is nice and all, but I’m really only concerned with what actually happens this weekend. You know, the score of the game, not what it potentially could have been.

Typical UGAY whiner. “We played really good teams!” “We haven’t played as well as we can!”

If UGAY has “yet to play a complete game to it’s [sic] potential,” doesn’t that say something about the guy who runs the program, Saint Richt? Or is it just too difficult to play your best when you have to miss practice time and film sessions for silly things like arraignments and probation meetings?

By shut up

November 24, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this

0-7 0-7 0-7 0-7 0-7 0-7 Stop living vicariously thru Bama an UF you cute little buzzers. They hail from a conference where men play, tickets are actually sold and girls flock to. 0-7, nuff said.

By WHat?

November 24, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this

How do you flex your chest?

By Rid*A*Bug

November 24, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this

This is the most excitement I’ve seen at Tech since one of those Lord Of The Rings movies won Best Picture. Primatene Mist stock must be skyrocketing. Even if hell freezes over and your gnats prevail, you will still wake up with the same night terrors about the guy in your high school band who use to kick the crap out of you. When you are lying there all alone, crying yourself back to sleep, you can find comfort in your battle cry: GO Jack-It!

By reebok

November 24, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this

It seems to me that if a team hasn’t played up to its potential yet, and it’s going into the 12th game of the season, that says a lot about the team and the coaching. And I’m not sure why that team would suddenly go ahead and become an elite unit in one game.

By Tron5000

November 24, 2008 4:03 PM | Link to this

See, Rid-A-Bug, some people don’t live in the past. Most Tech students prefer to think about their future; you know, the future in which they are your bosses. So keep reliving how you use to pick on nerds in high school, but be glad they don’t take it too personally, for they are the ones who sign your pay check.

I’d come to Athens for the game, but I’m not crazy about hanging out with 80,000 idiots who are drunk by 8 am. Call me crazy, but that just ain’t my scene. Enjoy the game, though. Hopefully you’ll remember some of it.

By Neither team is perfect

November 24, 2008 4:03 PM | Link to this

Georgia lost to two very good teams. tech Lost to three not so good teams and slipped past several decent teams.

Georgia can only play the teams on their schedule and heading in to the season it looked like a very tough schedule.

Tech should be proud of the progress they have made this year. If they beat Georgia it would be a truly remarkable year. If Georgia win it willl still be a disappointing year.

But if you carry the gist of Mark’s article further it is very possible that Tech will be entering next year the way Georgia entered this year. Expect them to be saying “only the ACC championship and a BCS bowl is good enough”. In fact if Georgia lose Stafford and Moreno to the NFL they may truly swap places with Tech and be looking at a rebuilding year in 2009.

No matter what it is good to see both programmes looking in such good shape.

By Georgia Fan

November 24, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this

reebok, why does Georgia have to be elite to beat Georgia Tech? Tech has lost to 3 teams this year that aren’t anywhere close to elite. One of them even has a losing record. Tech drilling a clearly overrated Miami is the best thing that could have happened to UGA. Your heads are in the clouds like I have never seen before. The pain Saturday afternoon will be unlike anything you have experiened in the past 7 miserable years. It will be priceless.

By Boo Boo

November 24, 2008 4:18 PM | Link to this

I can’t help but remember an old sage telling me, “Grasshopper, opinions are like a*******holes. Everyone has one.”

Nice to see the happy-slapping of other opinion writers around the world. Isn’t it wonderful to be free to write a “Second Coming of Christ” article in September, then spend four months berating the one foretold to be Jesus as some tricky pretender who should be hated and despised. Or, in the opposite extreme, to write an article in September, about how second-rate a team will be, only to spend four months jumping on the band wagon and pretending you were simply trying to not get anyone’s hopes too high, too early.

Yup. That old sage was right on the money. If sports writers had a better than 50% history of correctly predicting the future, we would all be reading the “Prophet” section of the newspaper; but not to see who the next B-sCS champ will be. We want lottery numbers baby!

P.S. If Mizzu were to sneak up and beat whoever is annointed the Big Six champ (half of the Big 12), Dooley’s and Dye’s opinions would (like most) be moot.

P.P.S. A root for the Bulldogs on Saturday is a root against the Falcons on Sunday. There is a strong correlation between the yellow bees’ record and the Falcons’. Sunday might be the Falcon’s last chance for a W, unless Tech gets a December bowl bid. Either way, Tech has to win at least one more time for the Birds to have a chance at 8-8.

Disclaimer: The preceding has been nothing more than the opinion of someone who really knows nothing but partial recollection of the past.

By lance

November 24, 2008 4:20 PM | Link to this

RidABug - while you were at UGA getting a third rate education, some of us were out there getting degrees that are actually respected in the real world. So any UGA grad that may have beat up a GT grad in high school is probably still living in high school, which is why he also probably works for that GT grad now.

i know, i know - GT’s football program isn’t as good and UGA has hotter girls. Well, as you’ve no doubt learned by now, a school’s football program doesn’t really get you very far in life. And if you think UGA has hotter girls, i’d invite you to go to the game this weekend and look at the GT alumni’s wives vs. the UGA alumni’s wives to see who really got the last laugh on that one. (Hint - women like guys who have succeeded in life, hence the reason the UGA alum section always looks like a lepor colony)

By Rid*A*Bug

November 24, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

Tron? As in the science fiction movie Tron? Shocker. The only time a Tech grad ever signed a piece of paper for me was when I returned something at Radio Shack.

Don’t waste too much time thinking about the future. It will be the same as your past and your present. It will be filled with lonely nights with just you, your pocket protector, and your favorite lubricant.

By PhotoBuzz

November 24, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

Vince Dooley is smart?

By Trailer Trash

November 24, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this

Us’uns over here at the Leper Colony Mobile Home Park, in Athens, USA, take exception to our’un wifefolk lookin the way that they do. Ifin we didn’t have to drink from that dadgum nuclear power plant’s waste runoff into the Oconee River (engineered by Tech grads), they would still look cheerleader pretty.

By reggie ball

November 24, 2008 4:34 PM | Link to this

Georgia Fan, it will be priceless when UGA’s undisciplined defense plays like “the U”. can’t wait to come home with my piece of the hedge.

By Rid*A*Bug

November 24, 2008 4:51 PM | Link to this

Lance? Is that your real name or the pet name your math team boyfriend gave to you? I have friends who graduated from Michigan and they did not know that Tech was an engineering school. Apparently, you are the best kept secret in the world. If you were such a great engineering school you would have thought someone could have figured out the parking situation there. I guess NASA is getting all of that brain power. Go back to your D&D game and stop fuming over this.

By Jets GM

November 24, 2008 4:59 PM | Link to this

Hey, Reggie. I would like fries with that. And someone says that Tech players are smart. LOL. You know they don’t do their own homework. And speaking of the future, I’m sure a lot of the Tech grads who work for me were saying they were looking forward to having Georgia grads working for them. It’s funny how stereotypes can be totally untrue when it comes to the real world. Of course, saying that Tech grads have any clue how to operate in the real word would be a stretch. You know how the saying goes. If it’s not math and science related, Techie doesn’t understand.

By Jets GM

November 24, 2008 5:16 PM | Link to this

Hey, Lance. I was at the game, and if those GT wives are what you call good looking, then you have some pretty low standards. Everyone knows that if you see a Tech guy with a hot girl, it’s not a girl who went to Tech. More than likely, it’s probably an employ from an escort service. And of course, my business degree has gotten me further than the Tech engineering grads who work for me. But keep spitting out the numbers. We will keep signing your paycheck.

By TRUTH BE KNOWN

November 24, 2008 6:34 PM | Link to this

Mark,

What is it that you don’t understand about OU being ranked ahead of Texas. Sure, Texas beat OU head to head a month and a half ago. But OU just plastered the only team to beat Texas by 51 pts. Do you honestly think that Texas could have beaten the OU team Sat. night that obliterated Texas Tech which beat Texas? The truth is that all 3 have the same record and one beat the other which beat the other which beat the other. The question then comes down to out of conference in which OU definitely has a better slate having beaten Cincy which will likely be the Big East champion. It also comes down to the margin of victory that the 3 teams had against each other. OU wins hands down in that argument between the 3 big 12 south teams since they won by 51 over Tech.

And what is it that you have to insult Pat Dye? This was a man who brought Auburn back from being a doormat to national prominence. He was probably the best coach to ever coach at Auburn. Shame on you!

By SickandTired

November 24, 2008 8:08 PM | Link to this

For all of the things Georgia has going for themselves the entire year: the beautiful campus and co-eds, the 92,000 seat stadium the large fan base that has to donate enourmous amounts of money to the preseason #1 ranking and more, none of that matters come Saturday. All the 5 star recruits that Tech didn’t even try to recruit that are on the Georgia roster don’t make a hill of beans because Paul Johnson is bringing his team to town that has showm more desire and character this season than the Dawgs have the last two seasons. No discipline in the players, a head coach that preaches honor and character and yet he continues to allow his team to lead the known universe in personal foul penalties and last season sent them on the field to celebrate a touchdown against Florida. Two faced comes to mind, Mark Richt says one thing but right under his nose let’s his players do as they please. Tech may lose Saturday, but the coach that is respected will be on the visitors sidelines and his name is Paul Johnson.

By blackswan

November 24, 2008 8:18 PM | Link to this

Debate about which team has performed better can be solved by playing each other…oh wait…we are. Game Saturday, GT, and no wishful thinking is going to help you escape the barrage of offense that will be rained upon you. I will relish every wrinkle of frustration I see through your horn rimmed glasses. Go Dawgs

By The Grinch

November 24, 2008 8:24 PM | Link to this

The ACC isn’t comparable to the SEC; y’all honestly want to tell me whatever 3 or 4 loss team from there deserves a BCS bowl bid over a 1 or 2 loss SEC or BIG-12 team? Please. That said, I’ve watched enough Paul Johnson in the past to know Tech’s on the rise. They shouldn’t be overlooked this year, but they’ll still lose to the Dawgs. Underachieving or not, UGA has more talent.

By alan

November 24, 2008 9:54 PM | Link to this

To Huh?:

You clearly don’t know it, but the missing letter that “?” replaces is “a”, and HUHA is an acronym for “head up his a$$”, which is quite fitting in your case, don’t ya think?

If it wasn’t, you would have gotten Bradley’s point, which simply was that GT is in the same situation this Saturday as UGAy was in last year the Saturday they played GT in Atlanta - with their attention elsewhere when it should have been on the game at hand.

But I realize I’m wasting my time trying to clarify something for someone to whom clarity of thought is rare.

Anyway, great article Mark, and hopefully the Jackets will take care of business on Saturday in Athens. If they do, Huh? will be saying Huh? until this time next year - as in what just happened?

And to JetsGM, bite me - if you really do employ engineers from Tech, which I highly doubt, it doesn’t make you better than them, does it? After all, if you do employ them, they are likely to be essential to your business, which means you likely would not have your business without them - so keep insulting us and see where that gets you - we are not a dime a dozen, unlike you business school grads, and don’t begin to think for one minute that we wouldn’t have jobs if it weren’t for people like you - you wouldn’t have a pot to pi$$ in if weren’t for engineers, or cars to drive or streets to drive them on.

By JL

November 24, 2008 10:24 PM | Link to this

Looking at UGA’s results, which of their games is the one that demonstrates their superiority? There are only 3 other ranked teams in the SEC, and UGA got crushed by them. 4 point wins over Kentucky and Auburn, a 10 point win over Vandy (who lost to Duke), they just don’t suggest anything special.

By gtsux

November 24, 2008 10:32 PM | Link to this

i don’t understand why tech fans try to smack talk. just say tech wins. they have a pretty good team, a good coach,but they will always be second. period. and they know it. no disrespect. i like p.j. and there is tons of history. it is what it is.

By MisterT

November 24, 2008 10:33 PM | Link to this

Hey Huh? But if uga drops this week to Tech they very well could find them selves playing in Nashville or maybe even the Blue Turf of Boise. Now that would be hysterical! It couldn’t happen to a nicer group of fans. I can already see you guys getting your blogs down to say things like, “Well it has be seven years!” “We are still better.” “BCS…BCS…BCS…” But wait! A BCS Bowl could be exactly where Tech ends up. They could end up even playing the loser of SEC Championship.

Now what would the doggies have to say if Tech were to manage to upset that game? It would be difficult to say that the SEC was dominate to ACC if Tech were to defeat three SEC Teams along the way.

Hey get this…What if Tech does manage to upset the pups, Clemson takes out the Ole Ball Coach, and FSU manages to win one for ole Bobby…OK that last one was a real reach, but UF got caught by Ole Miss looking forward to LSU. They could be looking forward to Bama. That’s why we play the games.

By GT GRAD

November 24, 2008 10:37 PM | Link to this

Response to “The Grinch” and any other SEC loyalist who believes “the ACC isn’t comparable to the SEC”. What a load of simple minded biased crap!

If we had the opportunity to play an ACC vs. SEC football challange this year (similar to the ACC vs. BIG10 challenge in Basketball which we have dominated each and every year), the ACC would without a doubt win more than 6 of the games (probably 8 or more ACC wins!). As weak as the SEC teams are from #4 to #12, any fan who truly believes the SEC would win more than 6 of the games is blind, ignorant and crazy biased. Rank both conferences top to bottom and then match them up 1-12; make an attempt to honestly determine the winner of each game. You will probably see what I mean; unless you are completely biased and unable to use common sense and/or face facts of course.

The record is currently 3-3. We have 4 ACC vs. SEC match-ups this weekend and we will inevitably have more head to head games during the bowl match ups.

The only problem so far (regarding a fair comparison) is that the SEC gets to use Florida twice, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina twice for 6 of the 10 games. The ACC has the honor of using Clemson twice, Duke, NC State and Wake Forrest twice for 6 of the 10 games! Not exactly a fair test between the conferences if you want my biased opinion.

Summary: The SEC is overrated and the ACC is a much better conference than the SEC top to bottom!!! The SEC has two great teams and two good teams; after the top 4, the conference falls fast. Hell……..even DUKE beat VANDY and VANDY is probably the 5th best team in the SEC this year! DUKE is our #11 or #12 team!! WOW

By MisterT

November 24, 2008 10:45 PM | Link to this

SlimG, Did you actually just throw up Tennessee and Auburn as your basis for a tough schedule this year? I would say that not only was uga overrated this year, the whold conference has been overrated.

Why is it that when the SEC beats each other you guys get away with saying that they beat each other up, but when it happens i nthe ACC it is because they are bad. Crap! Even Duke beat Vandy!

This weekend has the most ACC vs SEC matches of the year. It could be very interesting. Have you pups already got a spin for the eventuality of losing to potentially three conference match ups?

By AltamahaDawg

November 25, 2008 7:44 AM | Link to this

lance, haven’t you figured out that the trully intellectually superior person probably doesn’t need to proclaim it with a sophomoric rant in a rivals sports blog?

By Pi$$onaDawg

November 25, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

I want some of the STUFF that you people are smoking if you think this will be a 5 TD on either side game. Check the records and see few GT vs UGA games get to 35+ points for either side. Yes, ther have been big scores but that is the exception not the RULE. 13-17 GT wins as the DUST settles from the DIESEL running all over the Dawgs. Last year KNOWSHOW was just that T. Brown did all the work for UGA because KNOWSHOW is a Leg Humping B*tch.

By GTMike

November 25, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this

AltamahaDawg

That was funny. And true.

By Preseason #1

November 25, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

It looks like I’ll have the final say before this blog goes blank

The University of Georgia football team embarrassed itself, its school and its state this year with its sorry performance. Each member of the team, the coaching staff and the athletic department administration has every right to be very ashamed. Disgraceful.

In any event, good luck next year guys. I’ll be rooting for you!

By Preseason #1

November 25, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

It looks like I’ll have the final say before this blog goes blank

The University of Georgia football team embarrassed itself, its school and its state this year with its sorry performance. Each member of the team, the coaching staff and the athletic department administration has every right to be very ashamed. Disgraceful.

In any event, good luck next year guys. I’ll be rooting for you!

By Unranked (so far)

November 25, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this

Amen, Preseason #1. Georgia, tsk tsk tsk.

By Bo in N.C.

November 25, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this

Altamaha Dog. Thanks!

By lance

November 25, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this

RidABug - interesting that Michigan isn’t aware GT has an engineeering program, and yet our engineering school is ranked higher than theirs. I also have a hard time believing anyone who went to a quality school like Michigan would be able to stand dumbing themselves down enough to talk to (much less befriend) someone who went to a joke of a school like UGA, but who knows… maybe they just feel sorry for you?

AltamahaDawg - haven’t you figured out that this is a sports blog and part of the fun of it is for fans to come here and rip on each other? if you’re that sensitive to someone making fun of your school, maybe you need to go hang out on the Living section

By GT

November 25, 2008 4:59 PM | Link to this

You have got to love the first post. Obviously Georgia wasn’t the number 2 team in the country last year; they didn’t play in the National Championship and were no more number 2 beating a Hawaii team than App State was beating Michigan. The same team this year is not even in the top 10. The name is not matching up with the hype. The homecoming queen that never marries, the Harvard grad unemployed, something ain’t right and all Bradley is trying to do is point it out to you. The only thing you got right is the huh part..

By Rid*A*Bug

November 26, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this

I stand corrected Lance. I had this conversation 16 years ago with my wife’s friends from Michigan. They had engineering degrees and had not heard of GT. I looked up the rankings today and you were correct. I met my wife, a Michigan grad, while she was at law school at UGA and I am very fortunate to be married to her. There maybe some degree of truth in what you said. I am blessed.

I am amazed that this rivalry can still bring out such a sophomoric passion in me. I am sorry for the less than Christian things I said about you and Tron5000. I use to let this stuff make me crazy. There are more important things in life. It’s just a bunch of 18-22 years playing a game. I can promise you this, those kids and those coaches are not doing any of this for you or for me. Good luck to you and to Tron500 in your future endeavors. I’m sure that they will be very fruitful.

By lance

November 26, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this

wow RidABug, way to make me feel like a complete jerk :) the rivalry is all in good fun though, so no need to apologize… i get carried away with these things too obviously. best of luck Saturday… but not too much luck :)

By zone1atl/borngator

November 26, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

Just a reminder to all you garbagedawgs. GATORS 49 uga 10. 10!

By Blackberry Cobbler

November 26, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this

I’m a huge Dawg fan, but let’s get real………. UGA has looked absolutely horrible against 2 very good teams and performed just well enough to win (lucky) against many not-so-good teams.

I look for a close but high scoring game and unless UGA’s defense can get it’s act together, IF UGA wins it will be like it did against UK and Auburn.

I put the Dawgs chance of winning this one at no better than 50-50.

By Pitbull

November 26, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

Tech’s offense is not that different than the Single Wing run in the 1940’s and 1950’s. Defenses figured out how to stop it and it was junked for the pro set.

In the 1960’s the Wishbone became the rage, but again defenses figured it out and it is gone. In the 1970’s the Veer was popular, only to disappear in a few years. Johnson’s offense will be gone soon and so will he.

I would much rather have a coach who runs a balanced offense where the run sets up the pass, and where the pass sets up the run. Coach Richt has won 81 games in less than 8 full seasons and if the Dawgs come through on Saturday and in the bowl game he will be 83-20 in 8 years.

Tech could only dream of a coach that good. I will take Coach Richt any day of the week and he reminds me of Coach Dooley in one other respect.

Coach Dooley almost only lost to teams with superior field talent. There were only a handful of exceptions when a Georgia Dooley team was not prepared to play a team of lesser talent and got beat.

The 1979 Wake Forest game, the Miami of Ohio Citrus bowl, the Stanford Bluebonnet Bowl and the two Sugar Bowls against Arkansas are 5 of maybe 10 exceptions over 25 years that come to mind.

Coach Richt is thus far a better coach than Coach Dooley was (and I loved Coach Dooley as Georgia’s coach).He has had only loses to teams with superior talent (like Alabama and Florida this year) and beats the teams that he should.

He gets his teams ready and he will beat Tech Saturday. Tech plays a weak schedule and has not played a team as good as Georgia all year. Tech will fold under the pressure and Coach Richt will have a few surprises for Tech.

BTW, Georgia’s defense is much stronger than folks realize. We could have lost the Kentucky and Auburn games due to offense miscues and special teams errors that put the defense in bad situations, just as they did in the Alabama and Florida games. The defense has been much better than people realize.

PS Remember that Tech has not beat UGA without using academically ineligible players since 1990.

By DBCOOPER

November 27, 2008 7:27 AM | Link to this

Bend over and assume your usual position Techsters. You’re about to get your annual A$$ SPANKING!

By Fratuszewski

November 27, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this

I don’t really think we want to compare the classiness of coaches. Mark Richt has never ran the score up on any opponent. Paul Johnson went for it on 4th down during the 4th quarter of an Army-Navy game in which his Navy team was absolutely destroying the Army team. It’s not like he had a BCS Championship game to play for either with Navy. Mark Richt spends his off-seasons doing mission trips, trying to help out the less fortunate. Paul Johnson looks like he would probably steal food from starving children in Africa. Bottom line, don’t talk about the class of our coach until you get a classy one yourself.

By Mike

December 1, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this

Maybe its about time to change head coaches not just defense coaches. I’m a big ga fan i don’t believe we can win a national title with CMR he to devoted to his coaches and not hard enough on the sorry players we have at GA.

By MannyDeLoria

December 3, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this

Mark Bradley: Im a regular blogger on your online ajc paper and I wanted to make a suggestion just to see what some of your colleagues might think of this. A lot of us bloggers go about our day just firing blogs after blogs, some folks blogs are totally misguided because some people are jerks and this is the only way for them to express themselves to the general public. On the other hand, there are some bloggers like myself who think of blogging as an art, and do a very reasonably good job at being extremely effective at it. How would you and some of your colleagues think about having a contest that you could secretly hold, it would be hidden to public, but basically however you see fit to have a contest for maybe a blog of the week, blog of the day or maybe even blog of the month and ultimately blog of the year and maybe reward the person who in you and your colleagues opinion the person who has the best blog of those respective categories maybe give that person a cash prize or an appearance at a sports talk show where that person might get a chance to interact with fellow sports fans and give those winners a chance to expand their skills. Just a suggestion —-

By Mark Bradley

December 3, 2008 9:00 PM | Link to this

Manny, you’ve struck a chord. I’m going to think about this and see what I can come up with.

Thanks very much for the suggestion.

By Blogfather

December 4, 2008 6:59 AM | Link to this

How about sociopath of the day, week, month or year, bradley, and the prize will be a set of steak knives.

moron.