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By garrett

October 4, 2007 8:23 PM | Link to this

Great column as usual. It is one of my favorite parts of every football season.

Anyone who booed Harrington last week is an idiot, plain and simple. Probably the same people who thought this team was going anywhere with Vick as the QB.

By 1st dawg

October 4, 2007 8:30 PM | Link to this

1st

By PlusSizeModel

October 4, 2007 8:32 PM | Link to this

Hey Jeff, don’t feel too bad about your crappy pick record. The Sports Guy lost to his oblivious wife picking the whole season last year. He’s losing again this year too.

By Huskdawg

October 4, 2007 8:34 PM | Link to this

Cuz, Alt, Gdawgkali,GTDC,War,Shane,Buck,Dorsey, Atl Gator, and of course Gen….Man, what an upcoming weekend. We’ve got the evil up on KY right now, so WTF???? We really need SC to lose. Toby, what pipe are u smokin? Yessir, we lost to u guys, and I applaaud u, but dam dude,…you’ve got u guys winning the MNC this year. He11 man we might just as well cancel all the other games. Let’s say me and u fight as cube mates……..man, I’m gonna fill you’re cube with uppercuts!!! Dude…..If you’re on the phone with God and I call, you better click the f$ck over and see what the f$ck I want. If I’m fighten’ a Bear,you better jump in and see how the f$ckin bear’s doin!!!!! Just do it.

By Huskdawg

October 4, 2007 8:44 PM | Link to this

Good lord, I screwed up so much, it should have been done on south carolina site.

By Joe Hamilton

October 4, 2007 8:58 PM | Link to this

How are these graduation rates relevant at all now? Does Quincy Carter count as a non-graduate for both schools during this time period?

By gtne80

October 4, 2007 9:31 PM | Link to this

El Jeffe’,

Taylor may not throw 3 touchdowns for the rest of the year. If Tech stays within 4, Gailey will be on the headphones telling Bond to “stay conservative.” Maryland won’t be in the gift giving mood like Clemson was. The Fridge flattens Tech. Take the Terps and the points.

The boys in Sin City that set the lines are smoking rope. The Dawgs are getting points against the famous rocket scientist Werner Von Fulmer and his orange astronauts? Take the puppies, the points, and laugh your way to the bank.

LSU’s for real, Florida whizzed away their season last week. It’s Baton Rouge baby. Take the Tigers and lay the points.

By Gmoney

October 4, 2007 9:45 PM | Link to this

Thanks for printing this. I just ran out of toilet paper.

By SugarHillDawg

October 4, 2007 9:53 PM | Link to this

Hey Schultz, Keep your leftist views to yourself! What is a LIBERAL Pansy like you picking football games anyway? People like you don’t want kids to keep score in soccer games.I almost wish you would pick against my beloved Dawgs just so you won’t agree with me!!!!!!!

By rw

October 4, 2007 9:54 PM | Link to this

Shouldnt we be more concerned about Florida’s extraordinarily high graduation rates? 100% in basketball? Come on!! Are they taking any classes? Seems to me that UGA is treating players like students and actually failing those that can’t pass their exams.

Oh yeah, Jeff, keep your leftist liberal comments to yourself and stick to sports. At least half your audience is Republican, probably more - why do you want to tick them off?

By SugarHillDawg

October 4, 2007 9:55 PM | Link to this

Oh yeah btw, I wonder if the players who left early for the NFL counted against Georgia’s graduation rate? Methinks so!!!!!!!!!!1

By joe

October 4, 2007 10:07 PM | Link to this

nope they were not counted!!!

By Buck in the NW

October 4, 2007 10:27 PM | Link to this

People have had a lot to say about which Dawg team will show up to play, I’m a lot more concerned which type of coaching philosophy will show up. I wouldn’t know what to do if CMR said that he was going to ask the team to win(just kidding). That’s why I’m going to really enjoy this one. Now will Ky completely choke or will they come from behind and win. This would be the “Game of the Week”! SOS having a 14 pt. lead at home and losing? I doubt it.

By Dandydawg

October 4, 2007 10:29 PM | Link to this

terrible article. grade the schools on what they are doing now. ajc really is getting to be a terrible newspaper! i am about to give up on it!

By Brandon

October 4, 2007 10:32 PM | Link to this

Jeff you are so smart!HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

By sw

October 4, 2007 10:49 PM | Link to this

NEWT FOR PRESIDENT!!

By DWG

October 4, 2007 10:59 PM | Link to this

I’m with you rw. If I were the NCAA I would be look into programs like UGA and say “why are you not graduating enough?” and programs like UF and say “why is EVERYONE graduating?” Don’t mean to sound like sour grapes but it seems a little fishy. Also, why in the heck can they not come out with grad rates that are more current? It doesn’t seem fair to come out with headlines about grad rates from 7-10 years ago. Headline should read “Coach Donnan’s players have poor graduation rates!” No one would buy that paper though would they AJ-FREAKIN-C. I’m sure they just want to distract from the positives that CMR has brought to this program. Go DAWGS!

By DWG

October 4, 2007 11:34 PM | Link to this

Wildcats meet reality. They’re a good football team but not ready for prime time yet. Unfortunately for them and the SEC the coaches poll will probably drop them behind teams they should be in front of. Good game SC. Remember, you made a deal with the devil. Feels good now but sooner or later it’ll catch up to you.

By Ben Burgess

October 4, 2007 11:57 PM | Link to this

DWG, You read my mind. Kentucky losing like they did tonight is more proof that the polls are complete garbage and voters simply don’t watch all the games they are supposed to. Who did they beat? A 1 dimensional Arkansas team with a bad D and a HORRIBLE Louisville team? #8? Give me a break. That being said, they may still get a win over UF, UF, or UGA but come on.

By Pago Pago

October 5, 2007 12:15 AM | Link to this

Do the DAWGS have to play the Gamecocks next year? Did you see what they did to UK!

By Ed

October 5, 2007 12:42 AM | Link to this

Slamming Newt Gingrich is Schultz’s way of needling all of the conservative Republican boys that use to whip his pansy liberal hiney in grade school. We could do a lot worse than Gingrich - any Democrat, for example.

I’m sure UF is recruiting all of the scholars, right? What a joke. Are they actually required to show up for class down there?

By DWG

October 5, 2007 12:42 AM | Link to this

UGA, UK and USC are all good teams. Not great but will give ANY team a good fight on any given day. That being said, there’s a lot of football to be played and we’ll see how big this win is later on in the season. UK got there first test tonight and got exposed a little. Just like the UGA teams in the 90’s that would beat inferior opponents and then get our back sides handed to us by UT. I think the SEC east winner could have 2 conf. losses this year. This happens when you play in a competitve league like the SEC.

By DWG

October 5, 2007 1:00 AM | Link to this

“Georgia fans will not blame Mark Richt. He didn’t get here until 2001 and, besides, like, he’s winning.”

Yes Jeff, Georgia fans will not blame Richt because we’re winning. I on the other hand think he should have been doing something about our graduation rate while taking care of the offensive coordinator duties at FSU.

Jeff, I ususally like your column but this is a stupid statement meant to rile us up. You seem to be hell bent on getting UGA fans ticked off with this column. Maybe to deflect all of the hate mail you’ll get from Vol fans for picking the dawgs. You shouldn’t take that side just to sell papers. It’s just the AJC for god sake. I believe you’re better than that and will hopefully get a job at a respectable newspaper one day.

By shane

October 5, 2007 1:09 AM | Link to this

the data on graduation rates is too outdated to be of any importance.mark richt{uga has a new coach now schultz}is in his seventh year and we have no report card on his academic performance?i am close to my sixtyith birthday,i hope i live long enough to know how richt is doing!donnan’s players didn’t do well in the classroom,what a scoop!next you will tell us donnan was fired!that will never happen at uga,after all,he has a winning record!the ad,coach dooley,would never fire donnan,right schultzie?no wonder you are so lousy at picking games,you are 10 years behind the times.did you pick notre dame to win the nc again?

By MV7 fan

October 5, 2007 1:30 AM | Link to this

How can Joey be the best QB for the position if the Falcon’s have only won one game? QB is the leader right?

Atlanta Falcons have 52ish players on the roster, why is it the sports pages and columnist only write about Michael Vick “Falcons Quarterback” is there no one else on the Falcon’s team worth writing about?

GO VICK GO, YOU STILL STEALING THE SHOW!!!!!!!!

By shane

October 5, 2007 2:06 AM | Link to this

mv7,you are right,vick is still stealing the show,along with the pot,stray watches,blank’s wallet,and anything else he can get his hands on.good post!

By russ

October 5, 2007 2:50 AM | Link to this

i was at the game and i don’t remember anyone booing harrington. actually, i heard cheers and applause. jeff, are you sure you were at the dome?

By George

October 5, 2007 6:02 AM | Link to this

Data are plural.

By frank

October 5, 2007 6:27 AM | Link to this

i agree schultz, vick is a joke! and everyone thinks it’s about race. tell ‘em like it is, schultz!

By Bud Wiser

October 5, 2007 6:31 AM | Link to this

So now nobody at AJC can write unless they interject some cutesy leftist remark, even alleged sportswriters?
Can’t wait to read the obits on Sunday. Tech will be flattened for sure by the Terps, as the Fridge has been seen exiting the Golden Corral the past three nights. Dogs learn to spell O F F E N S E against the Vowels, and LSU takes Gators to the shed. Titans too big for birds, Joey tastes the dirt several times again. Points covered all games. Ola. (hic)

By bamadon

October 5, 2007 6:34 AM | Link to this

Who cares about what happened ten years ago. This column is worthless!!! Coach richt has done a wonderful job in turning around the football program. Wish we had him at Bama!!! Reading this column makes be dislike liberals even more!!!

By Lane

October 5, 2007 6:43 AM | Link to this

Woodson, did not look like and All-American to me, poor decision making. Ideal example of how the position SHOULD NOT be played.

Havercamp, did not practice this week, Vance will be the number 1, sub. Would be great if there were more guys ready too play on the OL.

Game will be determined by Stafford’s decision making ability. At this point not sure if Stafford is comparable to Greene, in his RS Freshman year. Stafford has the cannon-that does not win games.

Pat Dye, expressed concern about playing freshmen on the OL. These guys have made tremendous progress, my concern will they “wear down”, physically and mentally over the last half of the year. These guys are 18/19, and were not given time to develop physically mentally.

By treylortrache

October 5, 2007 6:51 AM | Link to this

Jeff, The graduation data you stole from USA Today is not about the graduates from 1997 to 2000, but for the classes entering school during those years. Those student/athletes would have typically graduated from ‘01 to ‘04, therefore, Richt is involved. Take special note to Florida basketball that had a 100% graduation rate during that time span, and Maryland basketball had 0%.

By Big Ed

October 5, 2007 7:05 AM | Link to this

Not so fast my friend. I didn’t think I would see the day where the Georgia/Tenn. game is the third tier SEC showdown behind LSU/Fla and Kentucky/SC this week. Playing at Tenn. will be tough for the young Dawgs. They will grow up a little but not enough to win. Hillary will be a 6 point favorite going into the election but Rudy pulls the upset based on an injury to her throwing hand while she’s trying to stick it to us.

By Danimal

October 5, 2007 7:06 AM | Link to this

All University’s give their student athlete’s the opportunity to get a degree. All of them must maintain good grades to play. The fact that they leave early for the NFL, or play their 4 or 5 years and never graduate should not be a “negative” on the school. It should be a negative on the student or maybe their parents for not pushing their son to get a degree.

By Colonel Klink

October 5, 2007 7:15 AM | Link to this

SCHUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLTZ, YOU IDIOT!!

By Jim

October 5, 2007 7:24 AM | Link to this

You have lived here too long. Maybe it’s time to move on?

By Dawgy

October 5, 2007 7:35 AM | Link to this

You’re absolutely correct. You’ve lived here too long! Please move and take that liberal a*-wipe newspaper with you.

By southga sawg

October 5, 2007 7:38 AM | Link to this

All conservatives, republicans, and other wise idiots who the hell cares about any of that sh*t on a UGA blog can’t we all just be dawgs? Besides if you voted for Saxby there is a good chance you did not graduate from any college let alone UGA! Good luck with Mitt the Mormon!

By GiveHim6

October 5, 2007 8:10 AM | Link to this

Do all you yahoos who b*h and moan about hearing Rocky Top so much think it’s any easier for us Vols to endure your endless Phat Phil jokes?

By republicans r stupid

October 5, 2007 8:13 AM | Link to this

Republicans just plain out suck! Go dawgs!

By Large Orange

October 5, 2007 8:20 AM | Link to this

Jeff, you must be related the Sgt. Schultz of the TV series “Hogans Heroes”. With the prediction of a Georgia win in Knoxville, you have proven that you “Know NOTHING”. Quit being such an obvious “HOMER” and call it right. The Vols whip the Pups with a rolled-up newspaper and send them limping back to Athens, where most of them will not graduate. LMAO!!

By SickAndTired

October 5, 2007 8:22 AM | Link to this

Kinda funny that Georgia has a big nice building donated by the Rankin Smith family for giving athletes at Georgia a leg up on academics…guess it’s working about the same way the Falcons did when they owned them.

By john

October 5, 2007 8:31 AM | Link to this

CAROLINA THE NEW BEASTS OF THE EAST!!!!NOW YOU DOGS CAN WOOF ALL YOU WANT.

By Joe Colvin

October 5, 2007 8:33 AM | Link to this

Taylor Bennett is a good quarterback. He gives Tech the unusual look of a left handed passer and he has thrown the ball to many different receivers. He also has thrown the ball over the middle. The fact that he can throw to the entire field has forced defenses to play balanced and has opened up the running game.

He has started 6 games and has won 4. Games won include Conn., Notre Dame, Samford, and Clemson. Losses to Boston College and Virginia. Last time I looked BC was undefeated and Virginia after losing their first game is also undefeated.

Games at the level Tech plays at are often lost by the team that makes the most mistakes.

By mistakes, I mean penalties that stop a drive or take a team out of scoring position. Interceptions and fumbles that give the other team the ball and field position. (Check the Virginia game.)

The same is true on the defensive side of the ball. Roughing the punter or passer is a big deal and can cost the game. Blow pass coverage and the other team has a touchdown.

Putting a freshman QB into the game increases the risk of a mistake that will cost the game.

Chan and his staff want to help their team win games. And, it is a team game. Any guy on the team can cost the game but only working as a team will they win.

Get off Taylor’s back and start supporting him and the team. He is a smart guy with a strong and accurate arm and he has only made a couple of mistakes. He did not cost us the game at Virgina or Boston College.

By Heath

October 5, 2007 8:36 AM | Link to this

Enough of the Phil Fulmer fat jokes…Its not funny anymore. Get some new material Jeff! If the Vols can step up and play some defense and avoid giving up a long punt return to Henderson, I like their chances. We shall see.

By Objective Observer

October 5, 2007 8:40 AM | Link to this

Folks, calm down. The graduation report was released two days ago. This data was just given to the world. This isn’t Schultz coming out with it right now - IT IS JUST NOW BEING REPORTED EVREYWHERE. So - clam down. Take a deep breath. It’s a legitimate statement in the article. And he even covers it by admitting that the data is old and not created by the current regime. Yikes. You people need more sleep or a stress ball or something.

By Mike Bobo 17 INT

October 5, 2007 8:41 AM | Link to this

UGA is nothing more than and Minor League/Single A farm team for some mediocre professional football teams. No one can name one decent QB to play pro from UGA except for Fran The Man Tarkenton, who proved he would not win the big one either.

UGA continues to grind out players year after year, that cannot read or write and are part of a program that has not won a national title in 27 years, which is the only national title to their name.

The least UGA could do is produce some academic athletes who contribute to society. Brining up the rear in academics in the SEC is pathetic. Everyone knows the SEC brings up the rear on academics as compared to all conferences, and to be last in the SEC is saying “we are the worst of the worst.”

The UGA program is pathetic in so many ways and the football needs to be scrubbed and replaced with women’s soccer, maybe they could win a national title and some students could actually graduate.

UT vs. UGA

UT 35 UGA 21 Stafford goes 12 for 28 with 121 yards, and 3 interceptions. Dogs defense gets hammered by Ainge and the UT defense stuffs them in Knoxville.

Hmmmm…looks like South Carolina is ranked higher than the Dogs and Spurrier still owns you….what else is new. Spurrier is improving his program while the UGA program is going down the crapper. Well, maybe all those Dawg fans can get a refund.

I love the UGA ticket office, they are laughing all the way to the bank with their booster fees and cost for season tickets. What a waste.

By RK

October 5, 2007 8:55 AM | Link to this

Ever consider that UGA and GT graduation rate is so low, because they actually require their athletes to attend class and do their own work????

By Mike Bobo 17 INT

October 5, 2007 9:17 AM | Link to this

Where is Chase now when it comes ot backing up his mouth regarding his great program. 5 straight losses to SEC East teams, and the program is improving? A win over Old Miss and UA, of which both are weak, just affirms Spurrier’s comments after his win over UGA: “it is not like we beatsome powerhouse.”

By the way, Spurrier has a more recent national title, and UGA does not.

By shane

October 5, 2007 9:21 AM | Link to this

mike bobo,you did not mention what team you support,if any,or what college you attended,if any,merely hurled baseless insults.you should know a waste when you see it however,as your post,like your person,is a complete waste.schultz’s blog is only meant to incite insects like you sir,to come scurrying out of dark corners.like roaches when a light is turned on in a flophouse room.

By pj

October 5, 2007 9:22 AM | Link to this

SYBIL!!! I Love it it.

By Neal

October 5, 2007 9:23 AM | Link to this

We beat Maryland and another great Tickle Pile! Life is Good.

By TSteaks

October 5, 2007 9:23 AM | Link to this

Hey Jeff, stick to sports, and stay off politics. Newt would be a great president. If you like Hillary it would explain 7-15-1.

By Vasily D' Efferins

October 5, 2007 9:25 AM | Link to this

Falcons 23 Titans 18

By 'ol dawg

October 5, 2007 9:37 AM | Link to this

To: “Mike Bobo 17 INT” You are one pathetic individual. Are you so insecure that you have to get your encouragement from you own frustration. Since you spew this venom like some of the Tech students and supporters who are too young to have a brain, you can’t comprehend how very stupid you sound. The GA. Institute of Technology and UGA are institutions that you probably could not pay your way into, and if you ever set foot in a college classroom I would be surprised. If you have, however, your parents possibly are saddened by what you have become and the way you act. When the day comes that you finally mature (assuming it will), you will look back on this kind of occasion and think how stupid you sound. One thing for sure - you sound pathetic and stupid and quite possibly you are the only one who doesn’t know it! Makes sense.

By blake

October 5, 2007 9:40 AM | Link to this

Carolina the beasts of the east? PUULLEAASSE! You guys scored 21 points off uncharictaristic turnovers and won ugly against a team with no defense whatsoever. Don’t get too cocky, you will lose an East game before it is all said and done.

By BUSHWACKER

October 5, 2007 9:44 AM | Link to this

Maybe the low graduation rate is partly because of the number of players who leave before graduating to sign $MILLION DOLLAR contracts in the NFL!!

Also, is the one person in Atlanta who thinks VICK has the gray matter it takes to run Petrino’s offense?

By VickBeliever

October 5, 2007 9:48 AM | Link to this

I think the Vols will squeeze by the Bulldogs. I am curious to see how many times Stafford will go after the freshman Eric Berry. If they have seen what I have seen out of him that may not be a good idea. That kid is a big play about to happen. The SEC better be happy that Phil Fulmer is afraid to play Berry on offense. Trust me this kid is going to be a star and will be playing on Sunday’s in a couple of years. Mr. Blank you may want to check him out he is number #14 for the Vols.

By BUSHWACKER

October 5, 2007 9:48 AM | Link to this

Newt in the White House would be the smartest man to occupy it since Thomas Jefferson.

Don’t fall into the the liberals rap by assuming Newt would be bad fir the country becaused they demonizes him and Bob Dole in 1996 with flat out lies.

Seek the truth!

By ChampDawg

October 5, 2007 10:03 AM | Link to this

Schultz— You are a MORON. A coaching/athletic staff can only do 3 things— recruit quality players, encourage them to attend class and study hard, and arrange for tutoring when needed. It’s then up to the student-athlete to do want it takes to make the grades and progress toward graduation. Blame the players themselves, not the coaches you idiot.

By ChampDawg

October 5, 2007 10:06 AM | Link to this

Another thing Schultz— did you even bother to investigate what goes into computing the graduation rate, what factors are included? I didn’t think so. The “graduation rate” does not mean what you think it means.

By Jimmy

October 5, 2007 10:08 AM | Link to this

Who gives a flying you know what about graduation rates?! I’m not an alumni of the University so it doesnt matter to me. I’m just a fan of the athletic program. To us, all that matters is winning. As far as producing “outstanding members of society,” who cares. Just win baby!

By Roswell Ed

October 5, 2007 11:01 AM | Link to this

Jeff please stick to football.

If we had the AJCs staff pick our politicians we would have to change the name of our country to FRANCE!!

By MariettaDawg

October 5, 2007 11:12 AM | Link to this

Hey,Mike Bobo 17 INT, if you said any of that trash to my face, I may just slap the taste out of your mouth. I love how you bad-mouth UGA academics, when reading your post it is apparent that you can barely read and write yourself. Maybe you should re-enroll at Pigeon Forge Tech and take a typing class. Until then, go back to your trailer and convince yourself that people give a sh!t about your opinion.

By Pepino

October 5, 2007 11:16 AM | Link to this

BUSHWACKER @ 9:48 AM

Vick went to Virginia Tech. One doesn’t become an engineer by being a moron with no gray matter.

By bamadon

October 5, 2007 11:21 AM | Link to this

HEY ROSWELL ED, WATCH OUT FOR THE DORES SATURDAY!!!

By Gene

October 5, 2007 11:24 AM | Link to this

Coaches have more power over football players than anyone, except the police. Under Michael Adams’ “leadership”, we have had Tony Coles, Jim Harrick, Basketball 101, crime blotters that rival FSU,the Pharmacy School fiasco, and unreported assaults on women, all the while Adams has crowed about academic performance and higher standards. Richt is a decent person and ok coach, but he is no disciplinarian, and Adams calls the shots anyway.

By MariettaDawg

October 5, 2007 11:27 AM | Link to this

And as for you Pepino, just because Mike Vick went to VT doesn’t mean he’s an engineer. That’s just about the most ridiculous post I have ever seen on here. You do know that VT offers different programs of study…right? Mike Vick is a moron! Don’t believe me? Just watch the news!

By Roswell Ed

October 5, 2007 11:41 AM | Link to this

Hey Jeff!!

What’s the Obama-Hillary spread?

Of my god did I just say

Hillary spread?

I think I just threw up in my mouth.

The thought of her in anything but I pantsuit is unbearable!!

By The truth...

October 5, 2007 11:45 AM | Link to this

UGA 47 UT 38

By NotSchultz

October 5, 2007 11:54 AM | Link to this

Man, I was really sweatin’ this Titan game Sunday. I just knew the Falcons were going to lose. BUT THEN A MIRACLE HAPPENED! SCHULTZ PICKED THE TITANS TO WIN! ALL YOU READERS KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS, DON’T YOU! YES, THE “SCHULTZ PICK INVERSION” RULE GOES INTO EFFECT! SPI! SPI! SPI! FALCONS WIN! FALCONS WIN! FALCONS WIN! Thanks Jeff. Keep up the good work.

By duward

October 5, 2007 11:56 AM | Link to this

the graduation rate for university system institutions for 4 year regular students is slightly above 40%. so whats the big deal if athletes are just the same…

By Alpha Dog

October 5, 2007 11:57 AM | Link to this

Looks like most, so called experts, are picking UT over UGA. You would think UGA was the underdog in this one.

By Westcoaster

October 5, 2007 11:57 AM | Link to this

Keep your focus on sports, Jeff. We don’t need your lame leftist attempts at political humor. If I want political commentary, I’ll go to a political website.

By america in the south

October 5, 2007 11:59 AM | Link to this

UGA you failed the players in the state. Black player go where you can play and get your degree. your lives depend on a degree not football! Do the math brothers!Fvsc would be better for you in the end!!

By Dawgggggggggg

October 5, 2007 12:11 PM | Link to this

Dawgs have the best traditien of any football team in the country. We have won six national football champieonships and many SEC chapieonships. We have the best players from the best high school football programs in the counry (I know, I played in Cobb Co. before I blew out my knee - I would have been a Dawg). We own the SEC and will easily win out this year. We didn’t really lose to USC, we gave them the game - and we should still be ranked higher becasue of our incredible tradetion, stadium and facilitees - GO DAWGS

By exGeorgiaThankGod

October 5, 2007 12:11 PM | Link to this

The comments section for these AJC sports stories are hilarious — talk about taking *hit too seriously! Jeff, thanks for the picks and the Newt comment, if for no other reason than it stirred the right-wing moron hornets’ nest. I’m a Georgia native and still love my Dawgs, Braves, Falcons, etc., but any state where a high percentage of people think Newt Gingrich would make a fabulous president is a state with some serious problems. On one side you’ve got the defend-Michael-Vick-no-matter-what loonies, on the other the hardcore Republican nuts. 10 years ago I decided to get the hell out of GA and head out west as soon as I graduated UGA (a fine institution of higher learning, by the way), and the decision looks better and better each day. Falcons lose a close one on Sunday. Dawgs kill Vols.

By dawgster

October 5, 2007 12:14 PM | Link to this

“Maybe I’ve lived here too long.” Definately. Go back where you came from, Scultz.

By Mike Bobo 17 INT

October 5, 2007 12:15 PM | Link to this

Hey MariettaDawg:

Thanks for galvanizing the fact that you are a redneck UGA fan, who has not guts to admit your program is in the tank and not coming out anytime too soon.

My previous comment was not an opinion, but fact, thus the reason you got so rabid with your undefended comment about your program, which is average at best.

CMR will be gone in 5 or less, when Shannon gets fired from UM. Who the hell wants to work in Dixieland Athens, when he can return to his roots in a more diverse atmosphere (UM) and welomes everyone.

Back to the single-wide for you, mama is calling and needs you.

By DAC

October 5, 2007 12:16 PM | Link to this

This is not football but * TBS has done a great job with the MLB Play-offs. Much better than FOX, ESPN, and other networks. Great job by all Sports Broadcasters, no favorites. Thanks TBS. Boy, it would be great to see the Braves play the way D-Backs and Rockies have. Fun to watch..The Braves are dead with Cox. Go Dogs and Jackets.*

By sad sad

October 5, 2007 12:17 PM | Link to this

What a horrible comment by Sonny Perdue. You must live a hard life with all that hate and venom inside you. It’s just a blog folks. Why can’t we just root for the Dawgs or whoever you like and relax a little. Jeff…they don’t pay you enough to take this kind of abuse from such a group of uneducated bigots. God bless you brother. I can’t take the hate on these blogs anymore.

By BUSHWACKER

October 5, 2007 12:22 PM | Link to this

Dude,Pepino are you telling us everyone who played at VA TECH graduated with a degree in engineering?

If you believe that you are dumber than VICK.

Just because VA TECH is an engineering school does not mean you have to take engineering classes.

I bet you $100 that Vick probably never went to class the 2 years here was there.

Quit drinking the kool aid, if you noticed you are the only one that thinks VICK is brilliant!

By Lou Vales

October 5, 2007 12:24 PM | Link to this

The only people who care about the graduation rates of college teams they adore are the people who ACTUALLY WENT to the school. To those individuals the perception of the school across the country matters because they will justifiably realize their academic achievements are devalued if people think they went to a “joke” institution.

This is one of the reasons why I don’t even discuss or listen to garbage from people unless they ACTUALLY WENT to the school they care about. I would like them to have matriculated at least a semester—but if they even GOT IN and then flunked out I deem them worthy of discussion, BUT!!!!!!!! if you MAYBE had the requirements to attend North Florida Community College College—Well, to me that is like those punky 9 year olds who live in Irmo, South Carolina and are New York Yankee fans.

Attend the school, hopefully graduate from the school, parlay that degree into a productive and enjoyable career, and donate money to the institution and you can talk all the smack in the world to me if YOUR school beats my school—of course graduates of the schools are usually sportsmanlike and civilized———but if you are a short order cook at Waffle House, are in lawn maintenance(and don’t own the company) or work at a mall selling shoes THEN I’m not discussing the merits of the team you root for because in reality you have as much basis for identification with that team as we all would have of rooting for Argentina in the next World Cup.

By sonny

October 5, 2007 12:25 PM | Link to this

Mike Bobo 17 int. I guess you are going to claim a national championship for your school just because your coach won one 11 years ago. He also beat your team that year on Florida’s (not usc) way to the championship. Why don’t you and the rest of you lamecocks go celebrate your 1969 ACC championship and the entire four bowl games your team has won.

By MariettaDawg

October 5, 2007 12:33 PM | Link to this

Mike Bobo 17 INT, you really are an idiot. You have just proven that you can’t read, because I didn’t make a single comment about our football program. My post was more or less a personal attack on you…the uneducated hillbilly that isn’t creative enough to come up with an informative post, or even an original comeback line. Have a nice life loser!

By jimmy mullis

October 5, 2007 12:33 PM | Link to this

jeff, if you would educate your self for accurate reporting(like the SAT) you would know that CMR’s players are 2nd in the SEC and are graduating at a rate of 95%. It’s about report the truth and not with an slanted agenda as all liberals do.

By sammie

October 5, 2007 12:42 PM | Link to this

tooo many players going pro to graduate…darn it…Newt has more wisdom in his pinky than in all your gray matter :)

By Plainspeak

October 5, 2007 12:46 PM | Link to this

  Jeff Schultz = idiot

By cdawg

October 5, 2007 12:48 PM | Link to this

They just announced on the radio that Tony Joiner the safety from Florida had prior arrangements to getting his girlfiends car out of the tow yard….Yeah sure he did…Urban Cryer got to him and the rest of those cheating Gators and probably held him upside down until he changed his story…Just gos to show these kids are there for one thing and one thing only TO WIN FOOTBALL GAMES..but dont worry Meyer will get caught sooner or later CHEATING B*******……

By Fiddyone

October 5, 2007 12:58 PM | Link to this

Yep, were back….

By MariettaDawg

October 5, 2007 1:10 PM | Link to this

I have actually met Newt and heard him speak at a small fundraiser for a local elementary school. This guy is the real deal. He actually has strategies to solve all the problems that the Dems continually cry about. Don’t hate him because of his moral integrity… Listen to what he has to say. He makes more sense in a paragraph than Hillary or Osama Obama could make in an entire speech. On top of that, he’s a heck of a nice guy. GO NEWT!!

Dawgs will be running downhill on Rocky Top with 200+ yards rushing and 175+ yards in the air. Watch the two-headed monster set up the passing game. It’s gonna be a whipping! Dawgs 31, Vols 20. GO DAWGS!!

By Gamecock Chrissy

October 5, 2007 1:14 PM | Link to this

Hopefully your tradition will comfort you when UGA ends up with 5 loses this year.

Beat an SEC EAST opponent please.

Nice thursday night game, ehh?

By Rick

October 5, 2007 1:14 PM | Link to this

Jeff, how you have job with a major market newspaper is a puzzling thing.

By Pepino

October 5, 2007 1:19 PM | Link to this

The poise Vick continues to demonstrate throughout his persecution is illustrative of his college trained intellect.

By VickTheLiar

October 5, 2007 1:22 PM | Link to this

Heard u hang out at 5 points late at night. Is it true? Dem f* u sleep with done hit the back of your brain boy.

By MariettaDawg

October 5, 2007 1:28 PM | Link to this

Pepino, now I’m catching on. You’re just trying to be funny! Yeah, you got me on that last one… That was freaking hilarious! I especially like the use of the word “persecution” and the term “college trained intellect”. Stop it, you’re killing me!!!

By KrisG

October 5, 2007 1:42 PM | Link to this

Gingrich, while likely far more competent than our current president and certainly a truer, more honest conservative, would be so petty and mean-spirited it would kill the country’s morale. We’ve seen this guy before… Man, you neo-conservatives are so dishonest with yourselves.

In any case, Joey should not take booing as personal… it’s an organizational thing, the way the Falcons find impossible ways to gravitate to sub-mediocrity. Vick, whom I hope doesn’t spend the next 50 years in jail because his stupidity makes him the perfect target for simultaneous legitimate, biased, and opportunistic prosecutions, does bear responsibility for the lowered expectations here… However, don’t look now, they get better every game. Petrino is earning my respect.

By sonny

October 5, 2007 1:53 PM | Link to this

Lou Vales I think George Rogers is working at a Waffle House

By Ty

October 5, 2007 1:59 PM | Link to this

Jeff,

One clarification ….. Alabama did not “rat”ify the constitution. To quote legendary ‘Bama statesman Buford A. “Auburn” Tuscaloosa, “Why in ‘tarnation would someone take a wonderful document like that and ask us to put RATS in it??”

There are some fine schools in ‘Bama, but give me Georgia any day.

By Melissa

October 5, 2007 2:07 PM | Link to this

[No one would buy that paper though would they AJ-FREAKIN-C. I’m sure they just want to distract from the positives that CMR has brought to this program. Go DAWGS!] DWG, Surely you aren’t complaining that the AJC is not biased enough in favor of the DAWGS. Gimme a break! Other SEC teams can’t get an accurate description of a game to save their lives. For an outsider reading the AJC you would think the DAAWWGGS were national title contenders! Find a realistic place to put your indignation.

By blake

October 5, 2007 2:07 PM | Link to this

I love how the Gamecocks have been silent for the better part of a decade and now all of a sudden they are everywhere and love to be heard. Your team is just as average and beateable as every other team this year (with the exception of Lsu and the real Usc). Get a grip on reality SC.

By Master of Flatulence

October 5, 2007 2:11 PM | Link to this

Jeff, you got one thing right in your column. You have live here too long.

By Democrats are Socialist Sissies

October 5, 2007 3:38 PM | Link to this

Dawgs, a red team in a very red state, over the Vols, a team in a red state that nevertheless produced Al “the sky is falling!” Gore, by 10.

Democratic Party voter registeration tomorrow. Register yourself, your dog, your cat, and your long-deceased Aunt Edna as a Democrat eligible to vote next November. On election day, vote early and often, then claim that you were “disenfranchised” and demand a recount when the unhappy results come in. Check your common sense and patriotism at the door.

By willdave

October 5, 2007 3:53 PM | Link to this

Although this isn’t supposed to be a political column, I was relieved to hear that Newt has decided not to run for president in 2008. We have so many misguided voters in this country (see George W. Bush, 2000, 2004) that he probably would have won.

Anyway, as a lifelong Falcons fan, I am proud of the way Joey Harrington has played under these extremely difficult situations. If he keeps playing the way he has, people will soon forget about that cold-blooded criminal who used to be our QB. What’s his name? Mike something. I can’t remember his name right now.

By Ed

October 5, 2007 4:03 PM | Link to this

KrisG,

Gingrich is mean? Why, because he speaks truth to left-wing kooks? Gingrich isn’t mean just because he doesn’t spoon feed big government b.s. to you.

Here’s what’s mean and intellectually dishonest: Gingrich warning about the demise of Social Security, and Democrat spin-meisters taking his words out of context and claiming that Gingrich was promoting the death of SS. The same Dems who ardently oppose any reform to the failing system.

Sort of like Rush Limbaugh slamming Jesse McBath, a true “phony soldier”, and those words being spun into an attack against any soldier who disagrees with the war. That kind of meanness, and intellectual dishonesty (Rush is a hero among the non-phony soldiers, by the way.)

When Dems complain about the “mean” Republicans, me thinketh they doth protest wayyyyy too much.

By Jim B

October 5, 2007 5:12 PM | Link to this

Jeff—Nice jab at Newt Gingrich—glad you are a sports columnist and not a columnist in a more important area. However— I will stick with Clark Howards opinion on Newt Gingrich—That he is a guiness. Just write the sports stuff and stay out of politics because you don’t know that subject obviously

By FLA DAWG

October 5, 2007 5:12 PM | Link to this

Typical Democrat Garbage - mixing politics with sports. You are so bad in the sports column that you have to resort to this to get readers. Since your picks are so outstandingly poor, quit your day job and get one as a Democrat Advisor. They hire guys like you.

By David

October 5, 2007 6:08 PM | Link to this

(graduation rates and body fat).

Fat jokes from a bald guy. How amusing.

By LoveThoseDawgs

October 5, 2007 7:59 PM | Link to this

for Democrats are Socialist Sissies :

Yes, Tennessee produced Gore, but we produced Jimmy Carter. :-(

By Rush's Probation Officer

October 5, 2007 11:27 PM | Link to this

Why do I tend to have a higher opinion of comments relative to defense issues that come from people who have HONARABLY served our country and are not habitual, convivted drug abusers who received more military deferments than you could shake the proverbial stick at.

I’ll listen to McCain, Cleeland, Clark, Dole, Bush#1 and people who showed some guts and not some paunchy piece of garbage who visits grocery store parking lots late at night to make illegal drug buys. Toughen it up Fat Boy!!! Live with the little pain and lose the HABIT!!

By Jove

October 6, 2007 1:41 AM | Link to this

So what’s your problem with Newt Gingrich? You ought to take the time to hear what he has to say.