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By Hairy Dawg

February 9, 2006 04:10 PM | Link to this

“— and with a couple more moths of healing under his belt —”

I didn’t know there were healing moths. Where can I buy some? I have this nasty sinus infection that I can’t seem to shake.

Seriously, just go with Brown and Lumpkin. Ware can be the third option. Redshirt Moreno.

By godawg

February 9, 2006 04:21 PM | Link to this

Do you keep healing moths under your belt? Do they fix holes in wool? I am very interested in learning more. We need some help from an entomologist. Quick, is there an entomologist in the house?

By UGAHydro

February 9, 2006 04:25 PM | Link to this

With an inexperienced QB, whomever wins the job that’ll be the case, go with the back who can best pick up the inevitable flood of blitzes. All three (assuming Moreno is redshirted) are capable of running the ball effectively.

By Mike

February 9, 2006 04:26 PM | Link to this

Moreno will have a hard time surpassing 3 guys for the number 1 spot. Should be a definte redshirt, after Ware, Brown and Lumpkin leave there won’t be much left.

By Brandon

February 9, 2006 04:29 PM | Link to this

I am just glad we have the 3 best backs in the SEC playing for UGA. Any of the 3 will do a great job.

By jg

February 9, 2006 04:45 PM | Link to this

What about leeches, there’s a medical practice they should never have gotten away from.

He’ll have to earn it but I doubt there is any question that Lumpkin will be the starter. He is the best back on the team and he was originally the #1 back till he was injured. Richt has always stated that injuries should not drop any player on the depth chart once they return.

By J-Dawg

February 9, 2006 04:51 PM | Link to this

Let Moreno have his shot the same as Stafford. Get the best players on the field regardless of their age or position. Moreno has the size at 200+ lbs to take some SEC punishment. You never know what type of fresh air he could breath into an offense looking for an identity. It doesn’t pay to redshirt, especially skill players, when they can compete right away. Offensive lineman are usually a different story with size/technique issues to address. As long as Moreno can hold a block, give him a shot.

By gdawginkalamazoo

February 9, 2006 04:51 PM | Link to this

Are those healing moths like the big green ones on that sleeping pill commercial. Those are pretty cool. Can they heal hang overs? Do they eat hedges for breakfast?

Seriously, If Moreno is one of the top backs to ever come out of Jersey and is the hoss they say he is, give him a shot. I like Brown and Lumpkin (no preference) alot they are pretty solid, different styles but we need a spark there. Get some pressure on these guys to step it up. I like Ware a lot too but he fumbles too much.

Maybe some healing moths to cure the drops our WR’s have?

Sorry Carter, but those healing moths were too funny. LOL.

By geechee

February 9, 2006 04:52 PM | Link to this

I concur with jg,Lumpkin will be the starting RB.

By Bryan G.

February 9, 2006 05:08 PM | Link to this

I think Ware and Brown underachieved last year considering how well they played as Freshmen. Lumpkin really did play well the end of the year against Tech and WVU. Ware didn’t seem to run with any speed (other than his long TD run vs. UK) and Brown didn’t seem to finish runs the way he did in 2004 (remember him bowling over a defender in Lexington and against LSU in short yardage?)

I think it’d be a little silly to waste a year of eligibility on Moreno unless he was really a gem. However, Brown and Ware REALLY need to step it up.

You guys remember that Lumpkin was the #2 back in the country? Remember who was #1? Reggie freaking Bush. I’m guessing USC doesn’t want to trade….

By Bryan G.

February 9, 2006 05:09 PM | Link to this

(the last paragraph was addressing when they were recruited in 2003…sorry)

By MountainDawg

February 9, 2006 05:10 PM | Link to this

Decent assessment by Strickland for the most part. I think Moreno would have to be an Adrian Peterson caliber TB to displace Lumpkin or Brown during his Freshman season. When 90%+, Lumpkin has the running skills to be #1 & Brown has the speed. It’s a toss-up between those two. Ware should be 3rd string & I anticipate a redshirt for Moreno (since we’re so stacked at TB). Things will obviously change if injuries become a factor. GO DAWGS!!!

By Jeff

February 9, 2006 05:11 PM | Link to this

Our backfield is solid, but unspectacular. All three of our existing backs are interchangeable and each is capable of 1,000 yards if given enough caries. That said, what UGA lacks, and has lacked since Garrison is a superstar at the running back position. Until we sign a back like McFadden from Arkansas (anyone at the UGA vs. Arkansas game knows what I’m talking about), UGA fans will continue to wonder what if.

By C.J.

February 9, 2006 05:12 PM | Link to this

you know we never saw that wishbone formation that everyone was drooling over…

By Hairy Dawg

February 9, 2006 05:12 PM | Link to this

I think Moreno definitely deserves a shot to prove what he can do, but unless he’s the second-coming of Herschel, he should be redshirted.

By geechee

February 9, 2006 05:19 PM | Link to this

Everyone that Richt recruits is given a fair chance to play. Red shirting is not something that has to be declared at the start of the season but I agree with Bryan, with all our RBs it would be a wasted season to play Moreno only sparingly and lose a full year of eligibility because of it.

By doug

February 9, 2006 05:26 PM | Link to this

Jesus Christ, people, cut Carter a break. I know y’all haven’t been crazy about some of the stuff he’s posted in the past, but jeez, he’s not that bad and “moths” was clearly a typo … move on. There’s more important stuff to talk about, isn’t there? Like, I don’t know, Georgia football?

Anyway, I second the people who think that Moreno should be redshirted. I agree that Brown and Ware didn’t quite live up to their preseason hype in 2005, but between those two and Lumpkin, who should be a force in ‘06, we’ve still got a deep and talented RB corps — we shouldn’t have any need to go taking a redshirt off Moreno’s back this year. No point in panicking and wasting a year of his eligibility.

By Ced

February 9, 2006 05:31 PM | Link to this

We need a real running back coach plain and simple.

By geechee

February 9, 2006 05:36 PM | Link to this

Carter can handle it doug. If you choose to be a sports writer you are going to have to deal with idiots like us your whole career just ask Schultz. Fan is short for fanatic and most that post here are UGA fanatics. There is nothing personal about it and should not be taken that way.

By godawg

February 9, 2006 05:40 PM | Link to this

Besides, “moths of healing” is pretty funny. Carter might have done it intentionally which would make him a comic genius.

I agree, redshirt Moreno, no guarantees on recruit a top RB next year.

By godawg

February 9, 2006 05:43 PM | Link to this

recruiting. See, I do typos too but not with anywhere near the creativity or Carter.

By Ron S.

February 9, 2006 05:56 PM | Link to this

The three backs we have now are good, not great. If this Moreno is truly a stud, Georgia should give him a chance. We tend to be too conservative with our talent. With a new quarterback, it would be nice to have a running back with breakout speed to take the pressure off.

By geechee

February 9, 2006 06:02 PM | Link to this

“The three backs we have now are good, not great.”

People seem to have forgotten how great Lumpkin was as a freshman before he got hurt. It takes at least a full year to recover from an injury such as he had. Kregg showed at the end of the season he was close to reaching the point of full recovery

By GW

February 9, 2006 06:48 PM | Link to this

How about some blocking moths up front regardless of the back.

By BIGNCDAWG

February 9, 2006 07:02 PM | Link to this

I am not as concerned about the backs as I am about the offensive line. The backs are only as good as their blocking.

By geechee

February 9, 2006 07:10 PM | Link to this

BIG, you are right but I think we’ll be alright. They will be young but they are huge, Nebraska huge and they’ll get chances to play as frosh.

By Bryan G.

February 9, 2006 07:20 PM | Link to this

I hope next year’s O-line isn’t like 2003 all over again. I’ll cross my fingers! It’s a bad combo to have a young O-line and a young QB!

By SugarDawg

February 9, 2006 07:38 PM | Link to this

If Moreno come into spring practice and shows the breakaway speed that is advertised, I say give him a shot. Lumpkin kept getting better toward the end, and we finally got to see Brown bust a long one. Ware is tough, but the fumbles have got to stop. I would think Lumpkin would be the one to beat, but with the rotation of the backs the way it is, it’s really hard to say which one is the best. No one really had a chance to get hot or in the zone as you might say. Also, with the veteran line we had last year, I was a little disappointed in the way we run the ball at times. Was this line not as good as we had hoped or were our backs just not that great? Well, just a thought. I wish the season started tomorrow. Gotta run, the moths have the computer screen covered up trying to get to the light. GO DAWGS!!

By Skydawg

February 9, 2006 07:39 PM | Link to this

Carter, it seems you forgot about 1 very important tailback and thats Kregg Lumpkin. Although he had a slow start last year. He ran extremely well the last 3 games of the year and had more carries than Brown and Ware. Even though we know how arbitrary recruiting services can be, we must remember that Lump was the #2 rated tailback in the nation by Rivals coming out of HS and is really the only back we have that has break away speed at 4.4 forty. I like Brown alot but I still believe that Lumpkin has a higher upside and greater potential. So our tailback position is fine. My worst fear is that we continue to tailback delays and counters instead of just lining it up and busting people in the mouth. You look at your best rushing offenses in the SEC the last few years and its none of the cute spring draws and delays. Take Auburn, Alabama and Arkansas for example. Good backs that they just line up and force you to stop them. I would like to see more power offense with the running game opening up the passing game. The last year I remember us being a power running team was 2002 with Musa and it opened up the passing game with David Greene’s great fake hand off and BOOM go deep. I think its a necessity next year with an inexperienced QB that we emphasize the power running game first. Just my 2 cents.

By Skydawg

February 9, 2006 07:43 PM | Link to this

Ok so I missed the part about Lumpkin LMAO..but you get the point. Lump will be the man.

By AltamahaDawg

February 9, 2006 07:56 PM | Link to this

Doug with that intro, you really set us up expected to hear something great in the rest of the post, and then you went on to agree with the 7 people before you. Rb need to be better, redshirt Moreno. huh.

Picking on carter was more fun.

By Jim Davis

February 9, 2006 07:59 PM | Link to this

Good blog Carter. I agree 100% with your comments. Lumpkin did appear to be the best at the end of the season, but I think there is a role for all three backs. I like Brown out of the backfield with swing passes. I like Ware and Lumpkin to pound it between the tackles. As far as Moreno goes, get him ready for Fall ‘08.

As far as I’m concerned, it’s a great problem to have. Sort of reminds me of AU 2004, maybe better.

By tdawg

February 10, 2006 12:01 AM | Link to this

I think Lumpkin is the better back but with Mark Richt’s tailback by committee philosophy we will never know what type of back either guy can be. In almost every game this year a back would seem to get into rhythm and make a few great runs and the next thing you know he’s taken out of the game and in comes someone else. If a back scored he would not even be in on the next offensive possession. What since does that make? I feel Coach needs to pick a number one back and give him 9o% of the carries. Most good backs run better as the game goes on. The three headed monster looked good on paper but but it didn’t pay off on the field.

By D.S.G.B.

February 10, 2006 06:15 AM | Link to this

JUST START LUMPKIN AND ROTATE WITH BROWN AND WARE AND REDSHIRT MORENO AND PRAY THAT THE OFFENSIVE LINE GELS TOGETHER!!!

By BuLLdawg

February 10, 2006 06:32 AM | Link to this

Kregg Lumpkin is not the Starting Tailback at Georgia; Thomas Brown is Carter Strickland. Perhaps this URL Link will help you know this before you write that Kregg Lumpkin is : http://georgiadogs.collegesports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/030205aae.html

Kregg Lumpkin is very good and certainly has taken the # 2 spot from Danny Ware who continues to have problems holding onto the football, not the least of which with the score already 14 nothing in the last game (35-38 Loss) made the score 21 to nothing and instantly made me friends with all the West Virginia Fans at The Sugar Bowl in Atlanta.

It would seem to me that knowing something about the topic you are overpaid to write about, should be a prerequisite.

Thomas Brown led the team with 736 yards rushing and 4 TDs to Kregg Lumpkin’s 338 yards and 3 TDs. Danny Ware is the only tailback of the 3 who averaged under 5 yards a carry in their Sophomore Years, all 3, and he had 1 TD.

DJ Shockley also had 4 rushing TDs last season which brought his All-Time Leading TD Single Season Record for The Bulldogs in 114 years of UGA Football to 28 TDs in the season just ended, as he also set the TD Season Passing Record also with 24 of those.

Brannan Southerland also had 3 Rushing TDs last season.

In receiving last season, Brannan Southerland had 13 catches, Danny Ware also 13 catches as did Kregg Lumpkin, and Thomas Brown 12. So, there is no difference at that, is there Carter Strickland ?

Here is the URL Link to these facts, misrepresented in your short article once again Carter Strickland : http://georgiadogs.collegesports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/030205aae.html

You might want to actually reference some URL Link sometimes yourself for us all to learn as much about the Bulldogs’ Running Backs as you know, ok ?

As for your musing about a young inexperienced Quarterback, you might want to study the depth chart of Coach Richt and see that he has a 5th Year Senior Academic All-SEC cum laude graduate of The University of Georgia listed # 1 on his Depth Chart, URL Link provided already. I hardly think Joe Tereshinski III, who is 23 and a half years old this season, is young - even by your own measure of it.

As for this middling statement by you in your typical framing of Bulldogs’ News in the AJC Carter Strickland : “Whether he has the breakaway speed the Bulldogs so desperately need remains to be seen.”

I would like to point out that Thomas Brown is far faster than is Knowshon Moreno, who has little hope of not being redshirted with so much talent all hitting their Junior Season next year. Even Knowshon himself allowed on Signing Day that he would learn the position this season and see PT next year and then take over the year after that.

As is obvious to anyone who knows anything about Bulldogs College Football.

There are Redshirt years left for our existing Tailbacks and Kregg Lumpkin obviously gets his 6th Year Petition to the NCAA also approved.

We are set at Running Back for many years to come.

As far into the Future as we can possibly see on this day sir.

Knowshon Moreno is 4.55 in the Nike 40-yard dash. Here is the URL Link to that fact sir : http://scout.scout.com/a.z?s=135&p=9&c=8

Thomas Brown is 4.35 in the 40-yard dash Nike time. Here is that URL Link to that fact sir : http://scout.scout.com/a.z?s=135&p=9&c=8&yr=2004

Thomas Brown is not only our fastest running back, but also our # 1 Athlete.

Not pound for pound, but total sir.

Jeez Louise.

I see that the AJC won’t let us type responses to the blog from 2/7 today, so I will follow up with the rest of the folks who think the AJC has a beat writer for us not making proper Bulldog points :

geechee: I certainly agree that Coach Richt will have yet another Great QB he coaches as his Starter. If you think that is not a problem of gargantuan proportion to have to choose a starter among Matthew Stafford, Joe Cox, Blake Barnes and Joe Tereshinski III, then just watch this Fall as we lose some of these after the Starter is chosen. Those 4 represent the best Quarterback situation in Football, for any coach to choose among.

Surely, Coach Richt has proven by now in his 2 decades of this now that he is the Best Quarterback Coach in 1-A. Yes, DG was the Winningest 1-A Starting QB at 42-10 in Wins, and yes DJ set The BuLLdawgs’ Season Record in both Passing Touchdowns with 24 and Total Touchdowns with 28.

The next Quarterback will be equally as good as Coach Richt’s previous Quarterbacks.

Coach Richt has proven that both here and at Florida State for 2 decades, where since FSU hasn’t done diddle-e-squat at QB by comparison.

We did not prepare a Starter for this year up-coming as Coach Richt has in the past, and we have not prepared a backup QB either.

gdawginkalamazoo: I agree with you that we need to keep Rodney Garner as long as we can. I felt the same about Brian VanGorder, but no I’m not Rodney Garner. But, I am concerned about the pool of salary we pay our Football Coaching Staff. I consider certain coaches to be worth considerably more than $231,000 while the pool includes Coach Richt’s Salary itself. We are tying the hands of Coach Richt with $231,000 to keep Rodney Garner. Thank you for the compliments about the facts on the UGA Football Program. Why the AJC can’t cater to us, I have no idea.

gator the dog catcher: Your list you present of the only good college football coaches at teaching and getting results from his QBs is fascinating. I’ll reprint your list as you typed it to review :

Chuck Long (sdsu) I didn’t realize San Diego State was any good at all.

Al Borgues [SIC] (auburn) They lost 3 games when the Offense didn’t score last season Tech, LSU and Wisconsin - and Coach Richt was much better than them against the common opponents. His is a good QB Coach, but looking at last season Coach Richt did better with his Starter than Al Borges.

Rich Rodrigues [ALSO SIC] (wv) Now, he is a good QB coach. Even if he plays in a weak Big East (Easy) Conference, he did beat Coach Richt 38-35.

Chris Hatcher (vsu) [WHAT IS “VSU” ?) This is not in the same class as Coach Richt either. Or he would be making $19.4 million the next 8 years as Coach Richt is.

Ralph Friedgen (maryland) He has sucked at Maryland, and played cupcakes in so doing.

Charlie Weis (nd) Why if he gets so much from his Offense, can’t he coach a defense too ? Who in the blazing heck did Charlie Weis beat last season ? While you cannot think of a team such as # 6 Final AP Poll and # 5 Final Coaches’ Poll LSU that Coach Richt beat by 3 touchdowns, I’ll point to also that Coach Richt didn’t lose to Michigan State either, a very poor loss to a team ranked not in the Top 50 with a 5-6 Losing Record for Michigan State Charlie Weis lost to while the worst loss by Coach Richt last season on this direct comparison, was # 14 Auburn (# 12 Florida and # 5 West Virginia.) Charlie Weis has not recruited as well as Coach Richt and Rodney Garner have, yet he recruits for Notre Dame ! And, that is what this short article about Georgia’s Rodney Garner is all about : Recruiting. Or, it should be, as I see it about Recruiting - for this is the Prowess of Rodney Garner according to Coach Richt who has a Great Reputation.

David Cutcliff [SIC AGAIN, WHAT DOES A GUY KNOW WHO CAN’T EVEN SPELL THE NAMES OF HIS TOP 1O QB COACHES?) (tenn) David Cutcliffe hasn’t the type reputation for QBs that Coach Richt has and a lot of that has to do with whom it is the vols have this coming season for David Cutcliffe to choose from compared to these 4 QBs Coach Richt recruited each one of to Georgia for him to chose from by September 2nd.

Hal Mumme (nmsu) What a bloody joke listing Hal bloody Mumme ahead of Coach Richt. Where is Urban Cryer on this list gator dawg catcher ?

Mike Leach (tt) Mike Leach loses 5 games a season most years and has been ranked only 2 of his 6 years at all : once # 18 and once # 20. I hardly think that Mike Leach is on par with Coach Richt. Maybe you would like to compare the salaries of these coaches you think are so bloody great to Coach Richt’s $19.4 million over the next 8 years with incentives ? Surely you jest listing all these 10 Coaches better than Coach Richt.

Steve Spurrier (sc) Coach Richt and his QB DJ Shockley certainly beat Steve Spurrier this last season, and won his 2nd SEC Championship in the last 4 years to give us now 12 to Florida who has half that number all-time.

You are just bloody jealous as heck of Coach Richt’s success at FSU and at Georgia with his QBs. Surely, there are other great QB coaches as well, but if they do not have the talent to work with that Coach Richt does this up-coming season, or had at FSU or at Georgia before this year the last 2 entire decades, then they are not considered better than Coach Richt by the kids themselves who make that determination.

And, not you.

Frank: You are as full of it as is gator dog catcher. Coach Richt has suspended many football players (and for much more minor items than at Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech and FSU) who did not suspend their players. You are confusing Coach Richt with Bobby Bowden who does not believe in suspending players. If you don’t know Frank, then don’t act like you do. Seems to me that I saw Marcus Vick playing for Virginia Tech this year when the president of Virginia Tech said he should not have played. Seems to me also that I saw Reuben Houston playing for Georgia Tech against us for example also. And, it seems to me that Bobby Bowden is clearly also another coach absolutely on record that he will not suspend a player because that punishes the whole team he says. This when these players most assuredly should have been suspended. Coach Richt is a good man who clearly dishes out suspensions more frequently than others for far smaller offenses than they.

chuck: You got the point right that Coach Richt has with Rodney Garner brought himself the best situation in 1-A with his 4 QBs this season and the 2 whom he graduated both of cum laude.

Dawgventer: I hardly think that giving Rodney Garner his raise yesterday $21,000 dollars this season, has any affect on us raising our ticket prices since it is just 23 cents for just one game to pay it. Clearly, anyone who reads the recruiting knows exactly that Rodney Garner is worth a lot more than 23 cents a season raise and that for just one game. Since we play 6 home games in a season that is less than 4 cents per person. Excuse me, but in a budget at The University of Georgia that is in the billions of dollars a year, less than 4 cents a game is fine with me. When we were at the Sugar Bowl, we all booed loudly at Michael F. Adam$ and he wastes more than $21,000 in one night taking out just his cronies none of whom contribute one penny to the budget. Rodney Garner is one of the best investments of my monies that I donate to The University of Georgia. I did detail above both his strengths and his weaknesses also, but all in all, I think he is as fine a College Football Recruiter as there is in America today.

This is his Job on Coach Richt’s Staff, and why Coach Richt wants to keep him here. I too would like to see more tackles from our Defensive Tackles and more Defensive Tackles actually recruited. But, if he is good enough for Coach Richt, then he is absolutely good enough for me.

I’ll cough up your 4 cents this year for you Dawgventer if the 4 cents is too much for you son.

gator the dog catcher: “assault a teacher” : Kearney was run out of this Program by Coach Richt who most assuredly suspended him for it as well but he didn’t assault the teacher but did take his cell phone back that she took from him.

Ellerbe did drive drunk but it was no law enforcement vehicle and he too is suspended indefinitely by Coach Richt.

I thought you were naming the players that Coach Richt did NOT suspend, as you said *gator the dog catcher? There was nothing wrong with the basketball classes before Michael F. Adam$ insisted on going around the State Nepotism law for Harrick Junior which Vince said he would not do for him as Adam$ had him teaching the basketball team (All except Cole who had a B Average and did not need the class). None of the football players did a thing wrong and any of the athletes that did do wrong in that class were suspended as well. Try making a point gator the dog catcher, sir. “Fighting with fans in bars” : Those players were also suspended. Surely, you have an example of one single situation where Coach Richt did not suspend a player as you said, as these are none of them situations where Coach Richt did not suspend the players. Drug users at Georgia are clearly suspended; perhaps you would like to name one Coach Richt did not suspend ? Or, perhaps not, since you cannot make that point. The NCAA ruled there was nothing wrong with “eBay sales,” but again Coach Richt suspended those players too. All of them.

“Be a thug” is just your usual ostentatious hype of your football team at Florida who has for the last 4 years in a row now lost 5 games, lost 5 games, lost 5 games and last year lost 4 games.

Nice Program you got there at Florida. As for this not learn English statement by you gator the dog catcher, that is a hoot coming from you on this Blog, as your posts are the worst of any poster on this entire page. “Skipping classes” at UGA is also a suspension, but not at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville : So, when do we get just one now situation where Coach Richt did not suspend the player ? As for you comment about us losing in Jacksonville at the Gator Bowl to you :

I am certain that that is some consolation to a Football Program who has lost in the Coach Richt Era at Georgia, 21 games Florida lost while Coach Richt has lost only 13 here at Georgia.

That by the way is the same number of losses, 21, that FSU has had since the day Coach Richt accepted this gig here at UGA December 20, 2000 also compared to our BuLLdawgs’ Program having lost only 13 games since he accepted this gig here.

And, I will have you note just what it is that FSU has not done at QB since Coach Richt accepted this gig December 20, 2000 (And, refused to tell Bobby Bowden about for 6 entire days.)

Both FSU and Florida and Miami are down football programs in the state of Florida. Face it. Georgia has been far better the last two years than every team in Florida.

With two Award-Winning QBs Coach Richt taught everything they knew to. While Florida, Florida State and Miami have not done nearly as well. And, it is because of your QBs.

By the way gator dog catcher, Steve Spurrier, who lost to Georgia on a great TD run by DJ Shockley as the Whirling Dervish into the end zone, is no longer at the University of Florida. Quit trying to claim him as if he is. He quit that gig down there in Gainesville and refused to come back to work with you. Yet, you list him one of the top 10 college coaches of quarterbacks today and refuse to acknowledge the prowess of Coach Richt for his 2 decades at the top of this list.

And, don’t list Urban Cryer.

War Eagle: Thank you War Eagle : “I would hate to get into a stats argument with buLLdawg, probably one of the most interesting blog I have read.” But, no other than one coach, we don’t give our assistants 2 year contracts. I would not consider our record against Auburn all that bad, but you all are a great program under Coach Tommy Tuberville who is every bit as good a man as is Coach Richt, recruits well (especially in the state of Georgia) and who has every bit the reputation for not putting up with players’ actions that are wrong. Florida, now that is a different matter. While we enjoy an All-Time lead in the Florida-Georgia Series of 10 games ahead for Georgia (We also have a Winning Record against every school in Florida.), we do not against Auburn whom we are 5 games under at. I am, however, certain that Georgia in the Coach Richt Era is considered the # 1 Football Team in the # 1 Football Conference and not Florida by any means, nor Auburn. Auburn has been for the last 2 years, but not over the last 3 years, 4 years, and 5 years of the Coach Richt Era.

In fact, starting 1997, only FSU has done better than The Georgia Bulldogs Football Program, and they have not won more games, just lost 2 fewer. While both have been ranked every single year in the Final AP Poll of the last 9 consecutive seasons.

Georgia has more players in the NFL than does Auburn and Florida as well, and more than the vols too. Much of this is attributable to Rodney Garner.

We have won 2 of the last 4 games against Auburn, which is quite a bit different from what we have not done at the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, 45 minutes from their campus and 9 hours from our campus.

Yet, that is a neutral site according to the AJC, while The Dome in Atlanta is not neutral for The BuLLdawgs in SEC Championship Games.

And, yet, the AJC frames The Georgia Program as us here in Atlanta against them in Athens, like we are supposed to want to root for Georgia bloody Tech, On Probation in Football for the Next Two (2) Entire Seasons, whom Georgia has NOT LOST to in 15 consecutive years according to The NCAA.

Take this last season for example, War Eagle? Georgia scored the most points that Auburn gave up all season long, 30. We lost on a fumble by our Punt Returner who fumbled in fact 15% of the punts he returned and on a fumble by our True Freshman Fullback who was pressed into service when Des Williams was injured for the season. But, we beat LSU by 3 TDs Auburn lost to and as a direct result, won the SEC Championship, not Auburn – who did not even play in the SEC Championship because of your loss to LSU whom you could not score on on Offense. In fact, in our last two games before the bowl game loss to # 5 Final AP Poll West Virginia 35-38, we beat both of the opponents who beat Auburn this year since we also beat Georgia Tech for the 12th straight time this season. We doubled Tech’s score. Auburn therefore in every poll is ranked # 14 while Georgia in every poll is ranked # 10.

That is what is recorded about Georgia with regard to Auburn.

Florida ?

That is an entire other matter altogether, as this has been embarrassing losing to such a crappy football team as Florida Crocodiles have been since Steve Spurrier so abruptly left Florida. Our Field Goal kicker who had hit 9 in a row before the Florida game missed 2 field goals at the Gator Bowl against Florida and so we lost 10-14 instead of winning 16-14. In our other SEC Championship Season of the Coach Richt Era, we lost when our Starter converted zero of 11 third down opportunities. It has been maddening to lose to such a crappy football program as all 3 Florida schools have become in recent years.

Georgia has a better recruiting average ranking with Rodney Garner on Coach Richt’s Staff responsible for JUST THAT at # 5 in the nation for the 5 years’ Rankings available at Both Scout.com and at Rivals for you to average for these most recent 5 years worth of Rodney Garner’s Responsibilities as The Recruiting Coordinator of The Coach Richt Era.

In fact, Rodney Garner has better done his job than has FSU or Miami or Florida. Is this because of Coach Richt ? Certainly, it is because of Coach Richt, but Coach Richt’s Coordinator for Recruiting is Rodney Garner and Rodney Garner is one of the nation’s most recognized Recruiting Coordinators. It is the combination of the 2, not just Coach Richt or just Rodney Garner.

And, the players including the Redshirts that make up our Football Teams this up-coming 2006-2007 Season most assuredly are made up of these 5 years worth of Recruiting Rankings that Georgia with Rodney Garner as our Recruiting Coordinator for The Coach Richt Era.

By BuLLdawg

February 10, 2006 06:39 AM | Link to this

I don’t know why the AJC doesn’t just give us a BuLLdawgs’ Football Forum like every other newspaper in the nation does ?

I had to split up this blog of mine today, which is why I guess it wouldn’t take earlier at the blog of Carter’s from the 7th of February about Rodney Garner :

We have not had a poor year in recruiting.

If Rodney Garner wants to hold me hostage for 4 cents a season raise, consider me in for whichever ones of you can’t afford 4 cents a year.

Now, I do agree that our Defensive Tackles are our weakest position and have been. They do not tackle, get pushed around, give playing time to Defensive Ends at these Defensive Tackle positions, and were # 52 in the nation against the run this last season. And, I do believe that Rodney Garner has practiced a philosophy of Tough Love of his Defensive Tackles berating them at his every opportunity in the Press. I was on Record in the George O’Leary Era at Georgia Tech that that was incorrect on O’Leary’s part to put down his players in the newspapers. What are the players to say ? Clearly, this was followed both at Tech with O’Leary and at Georgia with Rodney Garner with failures by those players to do their duties. In Rodney Garner’s case, tackle, at Defensive Tackle Positions. Perhaps Rodney Garner would be a better fit in the NFL in this one regard, but his Strength is his Primary Responsibility and how he is judged by Coach Richt : Recruiting.

At that, his is one of, if not arguably in the nation, the absolute best.;

You cannot support Coach Richt, and say audios to Rodney Garner. Not when Coach Richt is desperate to keep him here.

SugarDawg: Good One about Coach Urban Cryer. I might have added that the spread offense was as ineffective at Florida against good teams as it was at Utah with a lot better QB at Utah. Coach Urban Cryer never beat a Final AP Poll Top 25 team with his spread offense except against Georgia this year (# 10 Final Polls to Florida # 12) in his entire career ever in my opinion. I say this because certainly FSU does not deserve to be ranked in the Top 25 with 5 losses this last season and because certainly Pittsburgh who didn’t even play one single game against any Top 25 team did not deserve to be ranked last year either in the Top 25 having lost 4 games last year.

And, I think I would also have to add SugarDawg (I was at the game.) that Coach Urban Cryer of the Crocodiles certainly makes a big deal out of his recruiting average at Florida of # 15 Rivals last year to UGA # 10 last year : http://uga.rivals.com/TeamRank.asp?type=0&sort=0&year=2005 And, # 2 Rivals this year Urban Cryer which Rodney Garner and Coach Richt are # 4 in : http://uga.rivals.com/teamrank.asp?SID=878&Sport=1

So, if Rivals and Scout.com are more adroit at Ranking Recruiting Classes than Dawgventer is, then Rivals ranks gator dawg catcher’s crocodiles an average # 7.5 in the Urban Cryer Era compared to Coach Richt in the same rankings averaging with Rodney Garner as his Recruiting Coordinator # 7 in Rivals in the Urban Cryer Era.

Note that Florida recruiting under Urban Cryer were # 11 last year in Scout.com to Georgia with Rodney Garner and Coach Richt # 4 : http://scout.scout.com/a.z?s=135&p=9&c=14&yr=2005 . And, that this year, while Scout.com has Florida # 1, Georgia with Rodney Garner and Coach Richt are # 4 again : http://scout.scout.com/a.z?s=135&p=9&c=14&yr=2006

So, if Scout.com and Rivals are better adept at Ranking Recruiting Classes than Dawgventer is, then Scout.com ranks gator dawg catcher’s crocodiles an average # 7.5 in the Urban Cryer Era compared to Coach Richt in the same rankings averaging with Rodney Garner as his Recruiting Coordinator # 4 in Scout.com in the Urban Cryer Era.

The bottom line is that Rodney Garner is Coach Richt’s Recruiting Coordinator and His Assistant Head Football Coach at Georgia and that he has done better than Bobby Bowden, better than Larry Coker, and better than Urban Cryer. Indeed, These are The Good Ole Days at Georgia Today because Georgia is doing better than The Florida Schools. Yet, the State of Georgia is 4th behind only California, then Florida, then Texas and then Georgia in having our High School Football Recruits play in the NFL.

I don’t have to remind Dawgventer of the players that Rodney Garner recruited from the State of Georgia for Phillip Fulmer do I ? Or, the ones he recruited from here in this Proud State of Georgia for Auburn ? Or, maybe I do. I guess that Dawgventer does beg that question that Rodney Garner is given no credit of what he and Coach Richt have accomplished here at Georgia in recruiting as a team. A team Coach Richt wants to keep together.

Did anyone notice that gator the dog catcher did not rank Urban Cryer as one of his Top 10 Best College Coaches of Quarterbacks Today?

Or that he would even bring that up with the Quarterbacks Coach Richt has had here at Georgia or at FSU or what they have not done in that state of Florida at Quarterback especially at FSU and Miami and at Florida compared to what Coach Richt continues to get every year out of his Quarterbacks.

Rodney Garner is not being interviewed as young Carter Strickland said because the NFL is “scrambling.”

And, Thomas Brown is 5% faster break away speed than Knowshon Moreno, not the other way around as Carter Strickland today blogs on here.

And, Joe Tereshinski III at 23 and a half years old this up-coming season is also certainly not “young” as Carter Strickland said either.

Sorry for the e-mail to you this morning Carter, from me : I figured out my response was as long as your articles should be about one of The Nation’s Top Football Programs. So, I broke it up for the several who said they liked reading my blogs.

By Gator the dog chaser

February 10, 2006 08:16 AM | Link to this

I told you Billy Ball would rule. Check it out….2 whole games in front of Georgia holding firm for second place in the division…yea….Awesome!

By gdawginkalamazoo

February 10, 2006 08:17 AM | Link to this

Good job BuLLdawg!

By godawg

February 10, 2006 08:44 AM | Link to this

AWESOME POST BuLLdawg! You can really bring it.

By gator the dog catcher

February 10, 2006 08:44 AM | Link to this

BuLLdork - You sure know how to make an argument. From ALL of that I got that Richt recruits better than everybody which makes him a better qb coach. That was my point you idiot. You are giving him credit for turning blue chippers into blue chippers. Lets see him take the talent that Leach has (avearage) and turn them into blue chippers. Oh and by the way Chuck Long has not started coaching at SDSU yet, and beating Spurrier in his first year does not make Richt a better qb coach. You UGAY fans must be proud of your long winded no sense making angry blogger named BuLLdawg.

By shep

February 10, 2006 09:07 AM | Link to this

Kregg has proven that he is the best back. He worked hard to recover from his devestating injury. The backfield is crowded, I am sure that at least one of these guys is going to entertain transferring to get more carries somewhere else.

By gator the dog catcher

February 10, 2006 09:11 AM | Link to this

Yeah, the qbs and rbs should use the “Garner Method” and threaten to leave in order to get more playing time.

I nominate Mark Richt as a “Damn Good Dawg”. He sure knows how to “roll over” and “play dead” against Florida.

By Dbow

February 10, 2006 09:11 AM | Link to this

Mike Bobo is the QB coach!

By Mcdonoughdawg

February 10, 2006 09:30 AM | Link to this

The folks who think the back from Jersey is headed for a sure Redshirt are dreaming. Two backs are not enough to keep him off the field.

By Gator the dog chaser

February 10, 2006 09:38 AM | Link to this

yes that is a cute trick , play dead and jump up and run away with the SEC crown , while the gator nation is busy counting its “chickens”.

By Bill

February 10, 2006 09:43 AM | Link to this

And Coach Felton thinks he can co-exist with football. After two pretty good wins over Bama and Vandy, the local Athens rag sheet had a full page photo of the guy from Texas who has never played a minute for Georgia. If an MRI was done on the above clowns, it would say “Wilson” and have pointy ends.

By BIGNCDAWG

February 10, 2006 10:22 AM | Link to this

Sickum BuLLdawg. I love it

By BirdDawg

February 10, 2006 10:24 AM | Link to this

Why do Gaytors feel it is necissary to inject themselves into the Dawg Blog? Gaytor the VD catcher, do we drive down to northern Florida and bang on the door to your single-wide and bother you when you’re blow drying your mullet or messing around with your rusted-out 1979 Camaro? No, we don’t. So please, go bother your other Gaytor pals, okay?

Does anyone else here, WarEagle, SomoaDawg, etc, believe Ware made a huge mistake in not transfering to Southern? He’s the odd man out in the Lumpkin/Brown rotation, and with Moreno on board, he’s about to be as forgotten as Tyson Browning (remember him, he was still on the team last year!). I want to see Ware suceed, and the best chance he would have had was to transfer to Southern and help them adjust to the pro-style offense while he ran all over those 1-AA players. It would have made his road to the NFL a little clearer, that’s for sure. Now, he’s just the forgotten man on the depth chart.

By BirdDawg

February 10, 2006 10:28 AM | Link to this

Oh, and it sure is nice to come on this board and speak with well-informed football fans (accepting, of course, Gaytor the VD catcher) even the one’s I disagree with. That blog about Vick was filled with the absolute bottom-rung of humanity hating on a player because of other reasons entirely having nothing to do with football. And then the ones who tried to make it sound like they knew anything about football invalidated their own arguments and proved themselves to be ignorant fools of the lowest possible character and calibur. It’s good to be around the some Dawgs, is all I can say!

By matt

February 10, 2006 10:40 AM | Link to this

Did I miss something with the “moths” thing?CS’s column clearly says “months.” Either I missed something or we just a few illiterate morons who were trying to be funny! GOOD ONE GUYS! Next time be sure that you can actually read before you publicly humiliate yourselves….oh wait you already did!

By gator the dog catcher

February 10, 2006 10:42 AM | Link to this

Here we go again __ is the next Hershel Walker! Moreno is good, but he is just a smaller version of Danny Ware. The reason your current RBs have not lived up to their billing is because 1) they are in Athens and 2) Richt’s scheme is not built to feature a RB. The RB is simply used to keep the defense honest with sprint draws. In turn this is why the UGAYers continue to say Richt “abandons the run to quickly” and “maybe this rb will do the trick”. And yet Richt continues to sucker new rbs in every year. Its sad! Learn football before you complain.

Oh and I think Urban is the one who made UGAY cry (all the way back to Athens). As a matter of fact Zook (our version of Ray Goof) did too. And so did Spurrier. At least Columbia is a little closer to Athens.

By gdawginkalamazoo

February 10, 2006 10:46 AM | Link to this

Birddawg, didn’t Browning get injured last year? I agree Lumpkin and Brown are the guys but give Moreno a shot. Ware needs to tighten his grip on the ball and he will be fine. I do believe that at either place he will get drafted.

gator the garbagetalker, Leach? a good QB coach. You friggin’ kidding. I would bet that if you throw the ball 500-700 times a season like his QB’s do even you would complete some of them.

By gator the dog catcher

February 10, 2006 10:54 AM | Link to this

Yes Leach’s qbs throw the ball alot, but they throw alot with few INTs. You would think that it would be easier for the defense if they knew a pass was coming every time also. His system and education of qbs is why they throw and throw extremely well. Oh never mind, you are right, he doesn’t get paid $2 mill a year so he can’t be better than Mark Rectum.

By mark

February 10, 2006 11:01 AM | Link to this

BULLdawg take a deep breath and let it out slow! Geeeeeez that blog was so long the computer screen made my eyes hurt. You had some good points though. Why waste a year for Moreno when there are three guys who have experience in front of him. I like Lumpkin/Brown as the backs and tell Ware to practice hanging on to the football on the bench. Your telling me that Auburn can run two backs the way we did and we can’t? Does anyone remember the names Patrick Pass and Jasper Sanks? Those two were supposed to be the answer we’d been lookin’ for and they didn’t do sh** while they were at UGA! Let this Moreno kid prove himself before be start giving him hummers, and I don’t mean a car!

By DawgBite

February 10, 2006 11:01 AM | Link to this

Lumpkin is showing signs of becoming the stud he was projected to be before his injury. Yes, give Moreno his shot but if he doesn’t go head and shoulders above Brown and Ware, what is the logic in not redshirting him? I saw a thing that said if a back can get 5 yards into the secondary consistently, follow his blocks and be patient, that his having breakaway speed becomes overrated. Lumpkin showed signs of getting to that point. He is finishing runs and goes north and south primarily. Brown can take it to the house. Was he nicked up at the end of last year? He seemed to be less productive at the end. Anyway, maybe the question should be will our line be able to create the opportunities for our backs to succeed next year.

By Matt

February 10, 2006 11:04 AM | Link to this

I think we’ll be fine at tailback fellas!We have 3 guys with plenty of game experience! Is nobody worried about the QB position? Joe T. III has the most experience of anyone at that position! GOD help us!!

By gdawginkalamazoo

February 10, 2006 11:04 AM | Link to this

garbagetalker,

You would think that it would be easier for the defense if they knew a pass was coming every time also

Must be why those 4-7 OSU Cowboys were able to beat the powerful fire thowing Red Raiders last year.

By gator the dog catcher

February 10, 2006 11:22 AM | Link to this

Ok Kalamazoo I did some figuring.

TTech QBs 391-587, 67%, 32 TD/ 12 Int

UGAY QBs 200-362, 55%, 24 TD/ 5 Int

Int ratio was same at every 44 passes

If Richt threw 587 times as Leach did he would complete only 322 (Leach 391) -69 completions

If Leach threw 362 times as Richt did he would complete 242 (Richt 200) +42 completions

That is a huge difference! Oh and Leach has yet to have a player as highly touted as DJ Shockley play QB for him. So yes Leach is much better at coaching QBs than Richt!

By James Neismath

February 10, 2006 11:33 AM | Link to this

Hey stupid Dawg fans…its basketball season.

Boast about your football team all you want, but the fact remains that UGA has always had great football talent but yet can’t seem to get that crystal football to Athens.

By Dr. Phil

February 10, 2006 11:41 AM | Link to this

Sure looks like a lot of angry Dawg fans here, what gives?

By Gator the dog chaser

February 10, 2006 11:49 AM | Link to this

Its called editing Matt. Yes you you missed something. care to retract? try not to be a day late before you humiliate yourself. oh wait…..

By gdawginkalamazoo

February 10, 2006 12:02 PM | Link to this

Dr. Phil, No angry fans here. Just a few UF idiots running smack because they are jealous of our two SEC championship trophies and program on the rise. The swamp lizards are getting nervous.

Jimmy, so what? our basketball program is working its way back after a few rough years? And you have how many crystal footballs on your shelf on your shelf?

garbagetalker, and Leach has coached how Heisman winners? And who has coached the winningest QB in NCAA history? You will get to find out how being a “highly touted” blue chipper QB ends up after not having a coach for four years when your boy Timmy Tebow gets drafted in the third round.

By RogerL

February 10, 2006 12:44 PM | Link to this

Don’t Redshirt Moreno or any highly skilled player. Why? They won’t be around for their senior year anyway because of NFL. Also Redshirted players hinder and may even stop future signing of blue chippers at the position since they know skilled players are ahead of them with a possible full college career ahead.

By crs

February 10, 2006 01:20 PM | Link to this

I’m sure of Moreno is a stud he will play - running back is the one position you don’t really get better - you may learn the blocking schemes better but you can either run the ball and hit the holes and make people miss or you can’t. I believe when it all shakes out Lumpkin will be the featured back and by midseason be getting most of the carries similat to Musa’s final year.

By JDawg

February 10, 2006 01:46 PM | Link to this

If the O line doesn’t start opening holes instead of cracks it won’t matter which running back is 1,2 or 3. Look at the players Georgia has in the NFL. How many are offensive lineman? We either have a coaching problem or scheme problem or both since we are supposed to be getting top notch recruits. This is one area that has not risen to the level of the rest of the team. Our offensive line is average at best and has been that way for years.

By ConyersDawg

February 10, 2006 01:52 PM | Link to this

Hey Byran G, Demitrius Summers a RB that went to South Carolina was the #1 back in the country when Lumpkin was recruited to Ga as the #2 back in the country, not Reggie Bush.

There is no way Moreno comes in and pushes for time. The offense will look totally diffent with whoever becomes the QB, which I believe Stafford will win. Richt tailors the offense to who his qb is. If Tony Wilson can catch the ball like they say he can, expect some Peter Warrick type of routes and plays.

I almost forgot what the blog was about. Our backs will need to step up in blocking more then anything. Our backs all average around 4 ypc. What we need is one who will just dominate. I think Lump will fill that role and you will see Thomas Brown really emarge this year as well. Ware is a hard runner and I hope with the offense going back with the way it was with Green that these guys will again show the dawgnation what Tailback U is all about.

By matt

February 10, 2006 01:59 PM | Link to this

Gator the dog hater- As much as you act like a know it all about football on this blog I would think you had several state titles coaching football. However anyone who has the time to post 8 blogs before lunch obviously doesn’t even have a job. My guess is your a college student who thinks he knows everything about college football because he beats the computer in NCAA for XBOX. Judging by the time it probably took you to get those stats together and the fact that you actually cared enough to take the time and effort to do this just to prove someone wrong on this blog tells me you don’t get out much. My advice is to get yourself a girl and then get yourself laid! If there’s another 8 responses before dinner we’ll all assume you didn’t take my advice.

By crs

February 10, 2006 02:01 PM | Link to this

Don’t disagree at all with O-LINE, they were very soft last year - Pat Dye’s comments a couple years ago were not unfounded - it is a shame when an old drunk has to motivate another team’s players.

By ConyersDawg

February 10, 2006 02:01 PM | Link to this

Het J dawg we have plenty of O-line men in the NFL. The Stinchcomb’s, George Foster, I think it was Chris Terry, and more.

In case you missed it Jdawg, just because you are a great recruit does not mean you are bound for the NFL. Coach Callaway has put plenty of Line men in the nfl at georgia and at Alabama.

And while I’m at it, quit calling a Georgia great like Ray Goff a goof. His teams played hard and he was a great dawg himself. The Harricks are a differnent story. They destroyed our basketball team and have no root in our state or program.

By gator the dog catcher

February 10, 2006 02:19 PM | Link to this

Richt has always had better QBs, but none of the qbs Richt has ever had, has had any stats comparable to any one of Leach’s 4 different SR qbs in 4 years! Shockley and Ward were Parade All Americans to begin with. I don’t think Kliff Kingsbury, BJ Symons, Sonnie Cumbie, or Cody Hodges were anywhere near being Parade All Americans. But all did have much better numbers than Shockley (yards, comp, comp %, TDs, etc…). And yes each of those guys only got to start for 1 year just like DJ Shockley!!! No contest, Leach is better than Richt, and so is Urban for that matter.

By geechee

February 10, 2006 02:21 PM | Link to this

“Don’t Redshirt Moreno or any highly skilled player. Why? They won’t be around for their senior year anyway because of NFL.”

Roger you say don’t redshirt Moreno but then you follow it up with one of the best reasons out there why he should be redshirted.

By J-Dawg

February 10, 2006 02:26 PM | Link to this

looks like somebody has come in and taken my persona….JDawg- look at the 7th post from the top…we need to get this sorted out. I was a huge fan of Max since his freshman year and have never used the “Goof” thing. Find an original post name.

By Greg Panter

February 10, 2006 02:27 PM | Link to this

Oh mighty GAYTOR the dog catcher.

On here spewing more crap about your lovely team ? The one that beat us with our punt cover guy playing QB ?

The team that hasn’t sniffed anything close to a title game in 5 years ?

The one that won’t be winning anything of any significance as long as Richt is in Athens and Crier is in Gaysville ?

Keep typing numbnuts, your stupidity just flows like a river.

By matt

February 10, 2006 02:28 PM | Link to this

Ray Goof, Ray Goof, Ray Goof, Ray Goof, Ray Goof, Ray Goof, Ray Goof, Ray Goof, Ray Goof!

By geechee

February 10, 2006 02:29 PM | Link to this

“Boast about your football team all you want, but the fact remains that UGA has always had great football talent but yet can’t seem to get that crystal football to Athens.”

Hey James, I know we are doing good when fans of teams who will never win anything are giving us that old line “If y’all are so good how come you haven’t won a national championship crap” It gives me the feeling that we must be getting closer to the big prize.

By mcdwag

February 10, 2006 02:38 PM | Link to this

Brown was worn down by the end of the year-size catching up but what a great back great back- i think we saw a fresh gregg lumpkin at the end of the season -i still think of the three ware has most potential-why they took him out of FL games i don’t know-coaches don’t seem to have confidence in him and has affected his own confidence-just needs to hit the holes a little lower

By ConyersDawg

February 10, 2006 02:39 PM | Link to this

Het gator thr dog catcher, Leach runs a fun and gun type offense. I could put up yards in the offense.

By gator the dog catcher

February 10, 2006 02:40 PM | Link to this

**Quote:  It gives me the feeling that we must be getting closer to the big prize"**

No geechee, you are actually getting further and further away from the big prize……26 YEARS, 1 MONTH, AND 10 DAYS FURTHER AWAY TO BE EXACT!

By gator the dog catcher

February 10, 2006 02:46 PM | Link to this

Conyersdawg - did the pynacyllin kick in yet? Or are you still “LOST”. You might could complete some passes….if Leach was your qb coach. But I gaurantee that you wouldn’t be able to complete 67% (like Leach’s qbs do) of your passes in any offense! And trust me its far from the fun and gun and run and shoot offenses of old.

By dawgsrulegatorsdrool

February 10, 2006 02:50 PM | Link to this

Trust you ?

Why would anyone on here do that GAYTOR ?

Trust me…………

your mighty gaytors have seen the last of any championships for quite some time

Charlie Pell=Urban Crier

By gator the dog catcher

February 10, 2006 02:52 PM | Link to this

Don’t hate cause we dominate!

14 OUT OF 16.

By geechee

February 10, 2006 02:54 PM | Link to this

gator, is that all you have to do at the AJC, just sit in your little cubicle and monitor the UGA blog? It is like the AJC is just paying its people to troll their own blogs. This is becoming quite comical. Where is “hang half-a-hundred on you” Larry? He at least was funny. You are just a sad sack of s*#t living back in the “ole ball coach” days. Get a grip, he’s gone gator and he took any chance of UF ever having glory again with him to Columbia.

By dawgsrulegatorsdrool

February 10, 2006 02:56 PM | Link to this

What kind of trophy do they give for the 14 out of 16 ?

Do you hang that in the Swamp ?

Where were the Gaytors during the last FIVE SEC title games ?

SITTING AT HOME IN THEIR TRAILERS WEARING THEIR MULLET SHORTS,DRINKIN WARM BEER AND WATCHING IT ON THE DISH NETWORK

UGA 2002 and 2005 SEC Champs

Gaytors-nowhere to be seen from 2001-2005

By gator the dog catcher

February 10, 2006 03:11 PM | Link to this

When was the last time you won a “Real Championship”? Only UGAY would be content winning only the SEC, and not the big one in the last 26 years.

UGAY fans remind me of the uncle from Napoleon Dynomite……..Always trying to get back to the early 80’s! And dawginkalamazoo even went up to Michigan to hunt Wolverines.

By J-Dawg

February 10, 2006 03:18 PM | Link to this

Is gator really an AJC employee? Thats about the funniest thing that I have heard yet. He sure is thriving on the attention he’s being paid. I wonder if its really Carter?

By dawgsrulegatorsdrool

February 10, 2006 03:18 PM | Link to this

Last time I checked, you have to win the conference first, then play for the national title.

This is a foreign idea to you GAYTORS since you haven’t sniffed a championship of any kind for 5 years.

I’m through debating with a loser. Good luck making your sweet 32 run in the NCAA’s.

By gator the dog catcher

February 10, 2006 03:21 PM | Link to this

And good luck to you in the NIT.

By geechee

February 10, 2006 03:22 PM | Link to this

I take back what I said about you not being funny gator. You are hilarious. When was the last time you limp wristed lizards won anything? You and some Dogs’ fans have to realize that if a team, year after year, has one the best recruiting classes in the country like UF does and sets as its goal every single year to just beat one team, there is a good chance you could beat that team. Yes we would like to beat UF more but not at the expense of losing the SEC title. Our season is not just UF. On the other hand your entire season comes down to one Saturday, the last one in October.

By gator the dog catcher

February 10, 2006 03:26 PM | Link to this

Quit trying to downplay the game. We don’t have to worry about beating Georgia, its like 2nd nature to us by now.

By chuck

February 10, 2006 03:27 PM | Link to this

gator, you are just like those Florida “fans” who sit in the parking lot during the game in Jax (I guess tickets are too expensive?)and if Fla wins you go right up to the exits and taunt every Georgia fan that walks by no matter how old or young they are. However, if Fla is even close to losing you tuck tail and run just like half of the fans in the stadium. You come on here and say the same stupid comment at least 15 times a day. Go find a Florida blog and congregate with all of the other fair weather Florida Yankees.

By the way, I would downplay the SEC championship as well if my team had only won the SEC during one coach’s tenure which is a brief stint compared to all of Fla history. Florida won absolutely squat before Spurrier and since. By the way it looks like S Carolina owns Florida right now, why don’t you go talk some smack in a Columbia blog and stop wasting our time, we got a championship to defend.

By geechee

February 10, 2006 03:48 PM | Link to this

The Meyer pregame speech against ‘Bama; “guys we are a good team but we only have the juice to beat one good SEC team this year and I don’t want you to forget, while we might be playing ‘Bama today, we have to play UGA in a month so lets keep our minds on that”

By gdawginkalamazoo

February 10, 2006 03:49 PM | Link to this

gator the garbagetalker, Full of swamp gas eh! Hallucinating again. Must be some good stuff.

By gdawginkalamazoo

February 10, 2006 04:01 PM | Link to this

Win an SEC crown then come back and run smack. You got nothing, dude, nothing except what dawgsrulegatorsdrool wrote, a chance to be: SITTING AT HOME IN THEIR TRAILERS WEARING THEIR MULLET SHORTS,DRINKIN WARM BEER AND WATCHING IT ON THE DISH NETWORK LOL dawgsrule. good one.

Matt, Did I miss something with the “mothsâ€? thing?CS’s column clearly says…. You did miss something and Carter went back in corrected.

By gdawginkalamazoo

February 10, 2006 04:04 PM | Link to this

geechee, you forgot to punctuate the speech with the crying and sniffles.

By ConyersDawg

February 10, 2006 04:08 PM | Link to this

Can we quit entertaining these gators and talk dawg ball.

By ConyersDawg

February 10, 2006 04:13 PM | Link to this

never mind, it’s fun making fun of the gayturds.

By J-Dawg

February 10, 2006 04:14 PM | Link to this

Kirby to the Dolphins…good luck!

By geechee

February 10, 2006 04:30 PM | Link to this

J-Dawg, we agree again, good luck Kirby. It might be a blessing to get a new RBs coach.

By gdawginkalamazoo

February 10, 2006 04:32 PM | Link to this

Is Kirby going there to learn or teach?

By SugarDawg

February 10, 2006 09:01 PM | Link to this

TOP 10 REASONS “GATOR THE DOG CATCHER” CHOSE “GATOR THE DOG CATCHER” AS HIS NAME:

1. He just absolutely hates dogs with a passion.

2. His parents tied a gamecock around his neck so the dogs would play with him.

3. He couldn’t keep up with his dog as a boy, he kept tripping over his webbed feet.

4. As he got older, he became aware that all the dogs in the street were getting more action than him.

5. He seen the movies “Gator” and “Cujo” the same day.

6. Steve Spurrier came along and said, “I want to beat Georgia!” Hmmm… I have webbed feet, their nickname is dogs…

7. Jim Donnan

8. Accidently drank “Mad Dog” at the “Worlds Largest Outdoor Coctail Party,” thinking it was Gatorade.

9. After waking up from his drunken coma after 5 years, seen who was the elite of the SEC.

AND THE # 1 ANSWER:

1. He finally realized what Gayturds would be doing during the Richt era… chasing DAWGS!!

By Kevin

February 10, 2006 10:31 PM | Link to this

To gator the dog catcher—you sure do talk alot of smack! Second, oops, I mean third place in the SEC East never felt so good, did it? The truth is UGA doesn’t “need” to beat UF anymore to win the SEC—we will, but we don’t need to. So why don’t you go blog with the Bugs where mediocrity is normal?

By Rob

February 10, 2006 11:05 PM | Link to this

Sugardawg, that was priceless!

By Roderick

February 11, 2006 04:38 AM | Link to this

I doubt that the Gator Dog Catcher has ever even touched a football so his comments really don’t mean a thing, just a loser that has nothing better to do than to try an put down Georgia Athletics!

Georgia rules!!!!!!!

By BuLLdawg

February 11, 2006 05:09 AM | Link to this

By gdawginkalamazoo: “Good job BuLLdawg!” Thank you gdawginkalamazoo.

By godawg: “AWESOME POST BuLLdawg! You can really bring it” Thank you godawg.

By gator the dog catcher: *”You sure know how to make an argument. From ALL of that I got that Richt recruits better than everybody which makes him a better qb coach. That was my point you idiot. You are giving him credit for turning blue chippers into blue chippers. Lets see him take the talent that Leach has (avearage) [SIC] and turn them into blue chippers.”

I see that you have no response about your top 10 QB Coaches today in the college game not having Urban Cryer on it but yet you still are trying to claim Steve Superior as your Coach there for the crocodiles instead. And, we all note gator the dog catcher that you have no response either to your statements that Coach Richt does not suspend players when I took every single one of your ostentatious statements of superiority of a Florida Program with 21 losses in the Coach Richt Era here at UGA to his only 13 losses in the same timeframe, listed them each, named the players of each and gave you their suspensions for each offense, however minor compared to what Florida State, the vols, Miami Hurricanes, Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech did not suspend their players for which were all far worse offenses.

Yes, gator the dog catcher we also all note that you have no response to the fact that it must be some consolation beating Georgia every year and then still having every year since Steve Superior left the crocodiles so abruptly 5 losses, 5 losses again the next year, 5 losses again the year after that too and finally last year 4 losses.

gator the dog catcher I do consider the kids themselves a far better judge of what Coach Richt gets from his QBs both here and at FSU over the last entire 2 decades that what you say he doesn’t get from them, yet concede that indeed he has gotten a heck of a lot from his QBs including here at Georgia now too the winningest 1-A Starting QB in history DG at 42-10 followed this last season with the Most TDs passing in a Season of 24 for DJ and Most TDs combined Passing and Rushing in a Season of 28 for DJ.

It is true that David Greene was AJC Super 11 and Bill Hodge Super Prospect, but Coach Richt gator the dog catcher did not recruit David Greene here, Rodney Garner did. And, Donnan redshirted him. Then, Coach Richt took this gig here and made him the Starter for the next 52 games in a row.

And, yes it is true that DJ Shockley too was a highly regarded QB from the state of Georgia. But, Coach Richt’s impact on college football is far more reaching. Matthew Stafford out of Texas Coach Richt and Rodney Garner recruited here the # 2 QB in the nation. Blake Barnes 3 years ago now today, was the # 9 QB in the nation out of Mississippi. Joe Cox 2 years ago now today, was the # 3 QB in the nation out of North Carolina. And, Joe Tereshinski III who had already been offered by Jim Donnan before Coach Richt took this gig. One of the most heralded facts about Coach Richt in his 1st move as our Head Coach was to state in public (Unlike your Sainted Steve Spurrier at South Carolina) that he would stand behind the Offers already given by the previous Coach, who as it turns out was 40-16 at UGA, according to the NCAA.

Specifically, Joe Tereshinski III the # 20 Dual Purpose QB in the nation that season.

Indeed, if Coach Richt is not one of the top 10 best coaches of college quarterbacks, as you say both he and Urban Cryer of Florida are not : Then, yes sir we have an opportunity for a most impressive comeback to your framing about UGA Coach Richt in that the kids obviously do not agree with you, or why would so many of the Top QBs from all over this nation, choose Coach Richt to teach them ?

Because he is not one of the Top 10 QB Coaches in College Football today gator the dog catcher ?

But, you make my point by ducking your point gator the dog catcher sir. You said Urban Cryer is NOT one of the top 10 Best College QB Coaches Today.

That is because despite Chris Leak being in fact rated higher than all the QBs at Georgia before Matthew Stafford, Urban Cryer did diddle-e-squat with him as the QB. You readily admit that Coach Richt did better with the QB here at UGA this year and before this year compared with Chris Leak.

So, go ahead. Put heck on Urban Cryer and on Chris Leak. See if any of us care that you do that in public to your own team.

Duck every point you made when hit with compelling facts to the contrary about your own so-called top 10 college QB coaches Today leaving off Coach Richt and Urban Cryer.

David Greene’s Senior Class went 42-10.

DJ Shockley’s Senior Class went 44-9.

Florida has lost 5 games 3 years in a row before last season when you lost 4 games.

Duck the point.

Hope we don’t notice that you have no response ?

Coach Richt has done better with his QBs at UGA than Florida has including Urban Cryer, and yet Chris Leak was higher rated than Coach Richt’s QBs before now Matthew Stafford.

See if you can keep on point.

Try to keep up son.

The point is that Coach Richt, according to the kids themselves and not you, is one of the top 10 coaches of college QBs for the last 2 entire decades.

And, his results with them are better than the higher rated QBs at your school.

Stick that in your pipe and try ducking the point while the rest of the readers note you have no response except that I : ” sure know how to make an argument.

No. I just know a lot more about Coach Richt than your lies to the contrary. And, caught you at them on suspensions and your framing that Coach Richt just gets top QBs to play for him. Waaah, you whine.

Yes, Coach Richt got a better QB from Texas than Urban Cryer got this recruiting season again from Jacksonville. And, Coach Richt last year got Joe Cox from North Carolina while Urban Cryer got no one. In fact, one QB quit that gig again down there. Ongoing saga at Florida of losing QBs who should be playing. Because the ones you are playing are not getting the job done according to everyone.

Including Urban Cryer who in addition to being a crybaby at Press Conferences tells the world the reason why waaah, cry, cry, cry, we lost is because Chris Leak isn’t any damn good.

He isn’t ?

Or, you cannot coach QBs down there to get from them what Coach Richt gets from his QBs every single year for two entire decades ?

Yes sir, I “sure know how to make a good argument” on your point.*

You don’t know and the kids do know.

And, that is the same argument I make about Rodney Garner, that Coach Richt wants him on his team for his recruiting prowess as well.

And, it is the same argument I make about Thomas Brown that he did far better than Kregg Lumpkin and is the Starter and has far more speed 4.35 than Knowshon Moreno 4.55. And, that therefore Coach Richt has Thomas Brown the Starter.

The difference between reading my points and those of you and Carter Strickland gator the dog catcher is that I look things up before I make them up. And, give you the URL Link to the facts.

Does that make my argument compelling compared to your argument ?

You say it does.

I am just trying to make my point that you don’t know and haven’t bothered to look up what you state as fact which is nothing more than your biased framing opinion.

If you are going to state that Kregg Lumpkin is Coach Richt’s Starter, then I should be able to go to the Official Bulldogs’ Football WebPages and click on Depth Chart and see that. But, it shows in fact Coach Richt says clearly that Kregg Lumpkin is # 2.

I love Kregg Lumpkin. Yes, Coach Richt has stated many times, not recently, that you don’t lose your Starting job because of an injury. What do you want to do ? They all 3 are Starters and have been here for Coach Richt.

I hear this rhythm theme about Running Backs from fans every year, and then I look at their points about Musa Smith and note that averaged no better than our Running Backs last season in a Tailback by Committee because Danny Ware qualified from the year earlier when Coach Richt had already told Thomas Brown, 4.35, and our # 1 Best Athlete, that Thomas Brown was going to be our only Recruit 3 years ago now this season.

You are going to take the job away from him because Carter Strickland says that 4.55 of Knowshon Moreno is faster he says than Thomas Brown’s 4.35 or stronger than Thomas Brown ?

Musa Smith, Kregg Lumpkin, Thomas Brown and no doubt Knowshon Moreno will too all average over 5 yards a carry. 5.0 or 5.1.

So ?

Lumpkin caught one more pass than Thomas Brown 13 to 12 last year.

Lumpkin is the real deal.

Thomas Brown is the Starter.

We as BuLLdawg fans have had to split these hairs for years now of the Coach Richt Era.

David Greene or DJ Shockley ?

Thomas Brown or Kregg Lumpkin ?

Brannan Southerland or Des Williams ?

It is never ending.

Hey guys, this is a good situation to have.

Our practices are tough.

It is why Coach Richt did not lose to bad teams. (loss to # 5, # 12 and # 14 only last season of the Final AP Poll Teams and beat # 6 LSU.)

Coach Richt played last season 5 teams listed by The Sporting News last week on the Top 14 teams next season in the nation. Why he only lists the Top 14, I have no idea, but we play a tough schedule.

Our recruits like that.

And, we don’t lose to poor teams.

And, beat good teams.

Did you know that Georgia has won 15 games against the Final AP Poll Top 25 teams in the last 6 years now ?

The vols have not beaten that many in the same time.

These Are The Good Ole Days, as ClassOf51 used to tell us all as Bulldog fans.

9 years of Final AP Poll Top 25 finishes in a row that only FSU has also accomplished.

7 of the 9 years, we won our Bowl Game.

87-27 Starting 1997, the year before Rodney Garner was stolen from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville to totally obliterate that Program and to Raise the Bar here very high.

At ever position, depth, depth, depth.

Except for maybe Defensive Tackle.

While we are discussing these points, I would like to add too that John Jancek is the real deal as Linebacker Coach for Coach Richt too. Look at his players and the play he got from them. And, now whom it is he added.

Kirby Smart is a Bulldog, so excuse me if I defend him :

By Ced “We need a real running back coach plain and simple.’

Well Ced, the facts of the matter are that Kirby Smart too is a great recruiter. This is the lifeblood of any Program. Look at Florida’s rankings in the recruiting for the 5 years available for you to average at both Rivals and Scout.com compared to those of Coach Richt and Rodney Garner and now too Kirby Smart and you will see that Coach Richt averages a better recruiting class these 5 years worth that make up the teams this season, including redshirts, than do Florida, Florida State, the vols, Auburn, Miami – who should we compare Coach Richt’s Recruiters with for Heaven Sakes ?

Here is the URL Link where you look up that fact you present about Kirby Smart, Ced :

http://web1.ncaa.org/d1mfb/Internet/conf%20stats/2005000000911TD.HTML

Kirby Smart has demoted Danny Ware for it and elevated Kregg Lumpkin who with Thomas Brown, neither fumbles the football. Ever.

And, as for the comment about Reggie Bloody Bush (Or, their recruit who strung us out and chose Southern Cal where his mama could watch him play there that we don’t take it to the house), Southern Cal played last season – including Texas Longhorns – 13 teams who combined averaged the # 81 Total Defense last season.

You will take it to the house more often against such cupcake Defenses as Charlie Bloody Weis put up last year, for example for Reggie Bush.

Now, Rushing Defense UGA was # 8 of the 12 SEC teams last year, and that was # 52 in the nation.

6 of the Top 19 in the NCAA in Total Defense are SEC Teams for this past season.

The SEC has Defense, and the PAC-10 and the Big XII do not.

In fact, 7 of the Top 18 Scoring Defenses last season in the NCAA are SEC Teams. That’s more than half the league. We play Defense in the SEC. Georgia was # 8 in the nation in Scoring Defense last season and Florida was the dead last worst of the 7 SEC Teams in the Top 18 Scoring Defenses in the NCAA last year.

Only our Field Goal Kicker missed two field goals when he had hit 9 in a row before that game in the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville where we have one redshirted freshman on our roster from. (He is a good one and will be our Cornerback, but Florida signed the QB from there and it is Florida territory, despite any ruse by their fans that it is neutral.)

So, enough about Kirby Smart. Please. Kirby Smart is a great Bulldog. And, a wonderful coach and even better recruiter. At LSU, he brought them the players that put them over the top as better recruiting than Georgia. Now, that he is here with us on our Recruiting Team, we are better than LSU at recruiting. This is no coincidence.

Kirby Smart is a 4-year letterman of The Georgia Bulldogs. 1st Team All-SEC Kirby Smart. By comparison David Greene was not 1st Team All-SEC his Junior or Senior Years. Kirby Smart is a Football Player. 2nd Team All-America Academics, Kirby Smart was no P.E. Major but a Finance Major. Trust me when I tell you, as I too was, that these are very difficult classes at UGA, and that Kirby Smart is, as his name reads, Smart.

Kirby Smart also has a Master’s Degree.

Kirby Smart has some limited NFL experience and can speak to recruits about Indianapolis Colts who gave him the big bucks to jump start his Coaching Career. This is an up and coming coach Coach Richt chose to put in charge on his Running Backs.

Anyone remember second-guessing Coach Richt about Brian VanGorder as his Defensive Coordinator 6 years ago in December 2000 ?

This is the 2nd time Kirby Smart has been a Football Coach at The University of Georgia where we all watched him play so well with 13 interceptions for us.

His 3.5 Grade Point Average at UGA is well above graduating with Honors. And, in a tough Major.

All 4 years here, Kirby Smart was Academic All-SEC, as was David Greene and as was DJ Shockley, for example too.

This is most important to the kids Coach Richt wants to Recruit here.

And, they look up to him.

Guys like Knowshon Moreno, an Academic Honor Student-Athlete himself, like Kirby Smart. The fact that Kirby Smart recruited Knowshon Moreno here is no small feat.

29 years old before Christmas, this guy Kirby Smart is a very impressive addition to The Coach Richt Staff and a huge loss for LSU stealing him from them when they made their error of bringing in a horrible coach from Oklahoma State who has never done a thing.

With talent or without it.

Ok, so they beat Miami.

Who didn’t ?

LSU every year was far better than us in recruiting. They bring in Les Miles with his 28 wins to 21 losses playing cupcakes and what happens ? He loses Kirby Smart to Coach Richt and instantly their recruiting drops way off. This is no coincidence either folks.

How could Les Miles be hired with that kind of record of only 28-21 ?

Can’t see it myself personally and LSU’s strength under Nick Saban (St Nick for his Christmas Eve gift to LSU of leaving them.) was his Defense (Coached by Kirby Smart) and his Recruiting (Recruited by Kirby Smart.)

Smart move getting Kirby Smart.

Framing on the Rushing Offense ?

If he sucks at it, I think I would be able to articulate to that to you Ced.

What do you think ?

Explain how Les Miles (Less Miles) Lost to Coach Richt by 3 touchdowns ?

Explain that ?

Explain how Less Miles Lost to a team with a Losing Record, the vols ?

Les Miles was ahead by 20 points, and refused to run the football.

Up by 3 touchdowns, that is exactly when you do run the football.

So, what did he do after that ?

Ran the football more times than Kirby Smart did on Coach Richt’s Offense, and actually had to show for it a lot less production for the more carries in the Les Miles Offense reading my berating of a football coach with a 28-21 record who had never recruited well going to a school who made their reputation by recruiting well and having a record, albeit worse than The University of Georgia All-Time and in the SEC worse than UGA, a record none-the-less that is very impressive.

Less Miles played a weak schedule.

But, he lost to us by 3 TDs and lost to a Losing Record vols’ team (5-6) who didn’t even qualify for one of the 56 teams in a bowl game even nowadays.

Heaven forbid such a Loss.

And, the way he did it.

Look, this is Basic Football 101, ok ?

Up by 3 touchdowns, you run the clock.

You speed the game up.

You do not throw passes.

He lost the game because they not only ran fewer rushes for the game against the vols, than the vols did, but because he had his QBs passes intercepted.

Double-Whammy.

Not Smart.

Coach Richt’s Offense requires a smart guy.

Kirby Smart is that guy.

David Greene was that guy. DJ Shockley was that guy. All 3 of them graduated from my alma mater as I, with Honors.

In Tough Majors, not P.E.

If we were # 12 in the SEC in Rushing, maybe you would have a point Ced that Kirby Smart sucks as a running back coach. But, the facts of the matter are that Kirby Smart competed against the # 15 Toughest Schedule in America, a long list of great opponents and was 3rd best in the SEC in Rushing.

Let this young Carter Strickland frame that that Georgia does have break away speed with Thomas Brown’s 4.35 to Knowshon Moreno’s 4.55 young Carter Strickland says is faster for Knowshon and no break away speed for Thomas Brown.

I’ll balance that garbage too.

I like our Strength of Schedule. I like it that 7 of the SEC Teams are in the Top 19 in the nation in Scoring Defense.

This is good.

But, don’t judge our running backs, or their coach, by some framing that Kirby Smart isn’t a good running backs coach. He is 30 years young for this entire regular season for The Bulldogs this season, and a very smart man.

Just as Howard Schnellenberger of Coach Richt’s alma mater Miami Hurricanes said of Coach Richt’s $19.4 million dollar 8-year contract with incentives last week that Coach Richt he said would have been successful at whatever he did, so too will be and is Kirby Smart.

And, has been.

And, will continue to be.

Well, he had some Special Teams experience coaching and the Good Lord Knows we need that too, but Kirby Smart did really really really well with his Running Backs in his 1st year # 3 in the SEC and promptly went out with 3 Junior Running Backs who all 3 could be here for 3 more calendar years (2 have Redshirts remaining and 1 has a NCAA Petition for 6th year of eligibility already in front of The NCAA and surely to be granted.) and Kirby Smart talked a Smart Guy in Knowshon Moreno to come here.

Good stuff folks.

Let Carter Strickland tell you that ain’t no good.

Let Ced suggest it is the fault of the running backs coach.

Then, look at the facts ?

We ran the ball well last year and Carter Strickland is also totally incorrect on who is the Starter and that he says 4.55 is faster than 4.35.

So, who wants to tell us the story of Carter Strickland ?

Or, Ced ?

We certainly have seen the story of gator the dog catcher that he is totally unable, except to state that I am great at making my point, to address any point he has made.

The same is true of Carter Strickland, whom I have sent private personal e-mails too.

I think Kirby Smart is another great choice of Coach Richt for his Staff.

I think that Coach Richt has put together an impressive beginning to his career as Head Football Coach, and like the guy who taught him the game of football, Howard Schnellenberger who taught it to him with the Miami Hurricanes where so many Great Football Coaches Came From, I think Coach Richt would have been successful in Life at whatever he wanted to do.

Kirby Smart too.

And, my point is compelling not because I have some knack in saying it, but because of the facts that indeed Kirby Smart is a Great Bulldog.

I would know.

So, would the kids.

When an Internet Poster, or an AJC “Sportswriter” knows more than the kids themselves about the topics Internet Posters and AJC “sportswriters” write about in blogs, than The NCAA, or the Recruiting Services Paid Millions to Rank their Classes every year and keep 5 years worth on all their sites to average to see how good a team is, including redshirts that the 5 years worth of recruiting make up on that team, then let them provide a URL Link to their fact.

Or, NOT duck the points they themselves made and then conceded they were obliterated in trying to make them to us.

9-4 The Georgia Bulldogs will go. Try not to say 8-3. If we play in the SEC Championship Game, we could go 10-4.

I’ll get around to our Offensive Line for you too. It is very good this year and it too is NOT YOUNG. Our entire OL this year is composed of Senior Offensive Linemen. Good ones. Big Ones. Experienced ones, who every year play a Top 15 Strength of Schedule and beat good teams, and do not lose to poor teams, and run the football and have yet another Coach Richt QB for the 3rd time in a row who is Academic Honor Student at my alma mater.

I’d like to be better than 10-4 if we play in the SEC Championship Game for the 4th time in the last 5 years, or better than 9-4 if we don’t.

But, we play too many good teams.

Leave that to teams like Southern Cal claiming a 3-Peat when the Entire PAC-10 has won 1 mythical championship Pick Two (2) Game ever, while they played 13 games last season against the Average # 81 Total Defense.

Easier to take it to the House.

I’ll settle for 3rd best in the SEC in Rushing, and suffer away as we are at 9 years in a row in the Final AP Poll and # 5 Average Recruits of Scout.com and Rivals combined for the last 5 years of recruiting rankings that make up this 9-4 team this year.

The OL is not young and neither is the Starting QB, another Graduate with Honors whom Coach Richt currently has # 1 at that Position as he has Thomas Brown with his 4.35 speed and top athlete status on our team as # 1 at his position.

Carter Strickland, if you have a point, I suggest that you soon begin to make it.

So, far, you have not impressed me with your knowledge.

And, that is not a good thing.

By BuLLdawg

February 11, 2006 07:59 AM | Link to this

And, of course Kirby Smart not only came in 3rd in the SEC as the top running football team in a running football conference, but took the extra monies to run out on Knowshon Moreno and go back to work for Nick Saban where he doubled his salary to not only coach in the NFL which his career needs very badly but also to return to his position as secondary coach.

But, that doesn’t me he wasn’t a good coach of running backs, or not smart enough to do so for Coach Richt’s Offense.

By BuLLdawg

February 11, 2006 11:21 AM | Link to this

• * By BIGNCDAWG: * * “Sickum BuLLdawg. I love it” *

Thank you BIGNCDAWG.

No, I don’t think Danny Ware made a huge mistake not going somewhere else. I like Danny Ware and think the world of his running ability and blocking ability. And, to the other poster * Mcdonoughdawg * who said that two (2 mind you he said) running backs won’t keep Knowshon Moreno off the field for one silly season of not wasted redshirt year, just what is Danny Ware ? Chopped Liver ? Excuse me, Georgia BuLLdawgs have 3 tailbacks and two Fullbacks along with our 4 Quarterbacks any school in the nation would love to have on their roster.

Danny Ware worked very hard to get into Georgia and is damn Proud to be in the BuLLdawg Nation, trust me. Ok, so he is 3rd string by everyone’s calculation at this point. So what ? Won’t to measure him against 3rd string on Florida’s lousy running team ? Or, LSU’s lousy running team ? Or, anyone else’s team this coming season either. I still would like to (not think Knowshon Moreno isn’t good enough to play) redshirt Knowshon Moreno. And, we will with our new running backs’ coach Coach Richt now gets to hire, teach Danny Ware how to hold onto the football to achieve his goals here at Georgia, which is all he is really lacking averaging 4.9 yards a carry as he is all on inside running. Don’t forget that I suggesting that if we lose a tailback (Just because we didn’t lose Thomas Brown or Danny Ware and they are now true Juniors, doesn’t mean we might not lose one this up-coming season.) we really do not need to throw away the redshirt year of Knowshon Moreno.

Kirby Smart is not the only Coach at Georgia who recruited Knowshon Moreno, nor the only one judging by all our accolades here in this blog about him, that thinks that Knowshon will be a star for us too.

These kids came here to win.

They expect that of this Program.

44-9 was a nice run by our 26 seniors, 23 whom played, 17 of whom were on Scholarship last year and 14 of whom were on the 2-deep on both sides of the football.

So, too was the 42-10 run the year before for those 8 senior and juniors who went to the NFL for now 42 BuLLdawgs in the NFL, a nice run too.

I like having capable players 3rd string.

While we are commenting about posters in this blog stating that a running back will leave this Fall, I think it is highly more likely that a QB will.

There will be plenty with 14 games to play next season with just the bowl game and 15 if we make it the SEC Championship for the 4th time in the last 5 years now this coming season to get plenty of meaningful chances for Danny Ware to show us that the Sugar Bowl Fumble is not something we should get used to.

You see ?

This stuff about being in rhythm carrying the football and how Musa Smith did that for us, begs the question did Musa Smith at 5.1 yards a carry get in any more of rhythm than did Kregg Lumpkin, Danny Ware or Thomas Brown last year who only Danny Ware ran for less than 5.0 yards a carry and he 4.9.

We have to realize what we are saying when we post, for this is Coach Richt’s philosophy on Offense that we keep a fresh back in there.

It is a sound philosophy and hard to argue against, using Musa Smith’s production compared to the 3-headed tailback we already have this season.

We could not possibly be in better shape at Running Back and whoever takes over as Running Back and Kickoff Return Coach will have an opportunity to be one of the most successful coaches at his job this coming season and for the foreseeable future.

I’d love that job. I couldn’t possibly fail.

Des Williams back.

Sophomore Brannan Southerland the # 1 Fullback in the Freshman Class in the SEC and perhaps the nation.

Very solid recruiting at all Offensive Line Positions, although we have to break in a Center for the New Quarterback or Quarterbacks chosen.

I would not be surprised to see Joe Cox Shine, push Joe Tereshinski III and get lots of playing time and see Blake Barnes continue to be one of the BuLLdawg Nation’s favorite players. His G-Day Game 3 years ago was a game of beauty and spurred David Greene on in the Game, according to David Greene.

Sorry Knowshon and Sorry Matthew Stafford, but you have your bloody work cut out for you to jump ahead of your older more experienced upper classmen in this Coach Richt system Offense.

It is as it should be.

Ask yourself this, those who insist on Coach Richt not being loyal to the upperclassmen who have paid their dues ?

1-When has he ever not been that way ?

2-When do you think a player is at his peak ? His True Freshman Year ? Or, his Junior and Senior Years ?

If it is the latter, in his Junior and Senior Years that a player is most likely to be All-America and All-SEC 1st String, up for Awards, then why give that year up now by playing him when you do not need them either one this season ?

Don’t get me wrong.

I’m just as excited to see them play as anyone else, but if I were wanting to get on the field as a Freshman, a true Freshman this season, it would not be at Running Back nor at Quarterback this 9-4 coming season or 10-4 coming season if we make it the SEC Championship Game for the 4th year of the last 5.

It would be in the secondary. Or, as a guy to get better minutes at Defensive Tackle or even the OL or Receiver, or backup to Martrez Milner at TE.

Look, these college kids nowadays are very savvy. They know this. You know it too.

No one from Georgia Southern has jumped from being the # 1 Running Back there ever to being a player who got the reps in the NFL. That too is why Georgia has 42 in the NFL already and the NFL Draft is sure to put a huge number in next year to join them.

Danny Ware’s best shot is right here. He worked hard to be here. He is a loyal Bulldog.

And, Proud to be here.

And, doing the best he can.

It is not his fault that were he able to get in the year before, that perhaps Thomas Brown would not be.

Coach Richt promised Thomas Brown we would sign or offer no other RB last year. But, Danny Ware was recruited the year before and finally got qualified through his hard work.

I’m not disappointed that all Kirby Smart could get was 3 running backs with 5 yards a carry all 3 who all 3 were sophomores with a year each can add to the lengthen their careers here.

You have got to admit that there is a huge opportunity for more touches for two of them in doing far better on Kickoff Returns. Thomas Brown has already put his helmet in that battle. Kregg Lumpkin and Danny Ware both should too. And, punt returns. I want someone to catch punts who catches them.

Seen enough of that already for my liking.

If you are going to recruit an average Top 5 Recruiting Class for 5 years in a row as Coach Richt and Rodney Garner have, then you have to as the Head Coach figure that you have to get them touches.

Please do not forget who Coach Richt is.

He never had a shot in life.

This overwhelming story of his behind so many other great QBs everywhere he went is huge in his success at Recruiting for you so much depth at every position.

Hopefully, they are committed BuLLdawgs.

I can tell them each that I where my Ring Daily and run into half a million in this city who say to me that they attended Georgia, graduated Georgia, or who have children at Georgia today.

There indeed is more to Life than Sports after college.

Please don’t make Danny Ware think he or Joe Cox has to leave or Blake Barnes or Des Williams or Thomas Brown or Kregg Lumpkin, or Matthew Stafford or Joe Tereshinski III, or Brannan Southerland, or Knowshon Moreno. These guys are consummate BuLLdawgs all the BuLLdawg Nation is Proud to have here for Coach Richt to give them the chance he never had in Life to play the game.

He will, you know ?

All you have to do is to look at DJ Shockley.

DJ Shockley is the Legacy of Coach Richt’s Era at Georgia. He defines it. If Coach Richt is to continue to stock this Program as he is and has been doing, then inevitably The Team will have to be Bigger than one guy rushing for 1,324 yards.

DJ is being given his shot. He might be a little lacking in experience but what was he to do with David Greene getting 89 percent of the plays in the Coach Richt Era when both were here together ?

Football is not always, me, me me…

It might be for the vols.

But, here in Coach Richt’s Era at Georgia, it just has not been, cannot be this year and will not be.

By lifelongdawg

February 11, 2006 12:00 PM | Link to this

Somewhere back up the blog, gayter the dog catcher stated it had been 26 yrs yada yada yada since we had won a real championship. Last time I checked, the SEC Championship was won on the field, the national championship was voted on. As much as I hate to agree with Steve Spurrier on anything, I have to agree with him when he said “I’ll take the SEC over the national anyday. You win the SEC on the field” One is real, the other mythical.

By BuLLdawg

February 12, 2006 03:52 AM | Link to this

Here are the guys our Running Backs are counting on this year, or is it here are the guys counting on Our Running Backs this season to carry them ?

Justin Anderson is not going to be redshirted because we cannot afford that luxury at his position. I see him getting playing time in Game 1 at Offensive Guard, and he could be the Starter at Split Guard this season.

I like our Tight Guards with Big Cheese Chester Adams and Seth Watts a lot.

Nick Jones has played some Center, and so I see him moving over there to open it up for Justin Anderson at Split Guard.

Our Split Tackle is in fine hands with Daniel Inman for his Senior Season this year.

Seniors Ken Shackleford and Michael Turner can play either Tackle position, so this year there is plenty of good experienced Offensive Tackle Depth, if there are no injuries.

If there are injuries on the OL this season, and there will be with our grueling schedule of 9-4 if we don’t play in the SEC Championship Game for the 4th year of the last 5 and 10-4 if we do, we will be as tenuous on the OL as we are this season in our Defensive Tackle Positions.

We have been practicing Ian Smith at Backup Center for Nick Jones as the Starter, and I believe Ian Smith is going to be a good Center after Nick Jones graduates this season. Ian Smith is the only OL we signed last year, and that is a problem going forward.

Chester Adams and Seth Watts are the only OL we signed the year before last, and that is a huge problem for us for many years to come with these two classes back-to-back, and it is even more exasperated by the fact that we were forced to play Chester Adams his True Freshman Season the year before I really wish we had, which leaves only Seth Watts of OL in this Class by himself and the year after him only Ian Smith at OL in his Class by himself at OL.

I fully expect The Georgia Bulldogs to have significant Walk-Ons this season and at these OL Positions, maybe even some upper classmen from other schools might transfer in to be ready for next season. But, this season, we are good at Offensive Linemen Positions. Justin Lyles is a Walk-On Lineman who played Defensive Tackle last year against Louisiana-Monroe, and he is a Senior this coming season. We should have more recognition of these Walk-Ons and maybe they would fill a hole for us in giving our Starters a quick blow in a game or two. Trust me, this is all these guys live for.

I don’t have to tell anyone that you cannot have 1 OL in 2 consecutive classes by themselves; I don’t care how good the 2 are. And, they are. But, we have a problem on the OL, but it is not this season but all of the years hereafter for the next 5 years. Well, the for the next 4 years it will be a huge issue, because I see 6 of the 7 OL signed this recruiting Class to be ready to play next year along with the 1 who is as ready as we can afford to have him be to play this season.

It is good to have 7 Offensive Linemen in this year’s recruiting Class, as now we can have practices this year; but, honestly, we will have to redshirt the rest of the lot except for Justin Anderson, as I see it because I just don’t think that John Miller will be ready to play before the end of this season. Ben Harden either, and we may have to play one or the other to get through the season, as grueling as this season will be.

Chris Davis will not be ready this year at all. And, neither will be Josh Davis. I doubt Kevin Perez will be either, but he might. Kiante Tripp might be a good one for us, but he needs a year of Redshirting to be at his peak.

Chester Adams played all 13 games last season, and as I see it might be The Starter all 14 games this season, or all 13 if we don’t play in the SEC Championship Game.

Daniel Inman Started every game of his 4 year career for us, and will again this Season. He will be up for Awards at the end of the Season at his Split Tackle Position. Has 37 Starts already for The Bulldogs on OL.

Nick Jones Started the last 5 games of his Freshman Season at Center and will this year as well as a Senior. His Sophomore year, Nick Jones Started 11 games, and last season Nick Jones Started all 13 games. Has 29 Starts already for The Bulldogs on OL.

Zeb McKinzey played in 12 of the 13 games last season as a Redshirt Sophomore who had injured his shoulder as a Freshman but gutted it out and saw action in 9 games his Redshirt Freshman Season too. Redshirt Junior, and he could lose his job this year to Justin Anderson by season end, but might be counted on as a Starter to Open this season September 2nd at Split Guard. I do not think that just because Nick Jones ahead of him at that position on the latest Official Depth Chart, moves back to his Center Position he held previously, that Zeb McKinzey will be handed this job, but when he was recruited here I thought he would be a lock. He feel behind with his shoulder and like it or not, you don’t lose you job because of injury but then again neither does a guy who comes along and does his job in his absence give up his role either. Something has to give. Hopefully, Zeb McKinzey will be the Player I saw in him when we Signed him. He is a stud. Zeb has zero Starts in his Career.

Ken Shackleford is a Senior and he played in 11 games last season as Daniel Inman’s backup at Split Tackle. I would think that we might be grooming him to move over to Tight Tackle this season and possibly as the Starter. Ken Shackleford is a competent Offensive Tackle, and is a key member of this OL this season for our New Quarterbacks.

I say Quarterback(s) because I think we need to get back to having a ready to play backup QB as Coach Richt normally does, unlike last season when we did not get our Starter this coming season ready. Nor his backup.

And, if we have any injury on this OL this season, we are in trouble protecting our Starting QB. We have no depth on the OL. None.

We are thin on the OL this one season, and next season, we don’t have anyone ready.

No one.

Michael Turner played in all 13 games last season for the first time in his career for us, marred by injuries first to his shoulder and foot and then to both his ankles, whom I am completely certain that The NCAA will approve his Petition for a 6th year of eligibility. Michael Turner also plays the OL very well and can play any of the positions, ending last year as # 2 on the Depth Chart at Tight Tackle, but plays guard and center too. With the Starter ahead of him at Tight Tackle graduated, he might figure that that job is his – And, he could be right.

Seth Watts played in 3 games last season, and most observers feel that he is your starter the year after this season. When Big Cheese was not redshirted his Freshman Season and Seth Watts was, Seth fell behind Big Cheese at Guard, but if you want a feel good story and are looking for a break-out season from an OL this year, you might want to consider Seth Watts. I know I am counting on Seth Watts to be a hoss for us this season playing Guard and I fully expect him to compete for a Starting Role.

So, we really are ok at OL this season; it is those two Classes back-to-back of 1 OL that will catch up with us in earnest after this season. And, that will continue for the next 3 years after this season. And, maybe that is the reason that more than just only Justin Anderson will have to play this season as True Freshmen on the OL. But, that is not a good sign for Our New Quarterback(s).

By geechee

February 12, 2006 06:39 AM | Link to this

BuLLdawg it would be hard to argue with anything that you have written above though some of it is hypothetical. You obviously have put a lot of thought into it.

One thing is for sure the OL has now moved to the forefront in our recruiting of late. We did well this time and we already have an ‘07 commit from one of the top in state kids who is huge and still growing.

One of the things that makes the NCAA so special is the importance of the coaching. We have to wait and see what our coaching does with what we have and as you say, how the injuries play out.

Every year this team seems to get younger yet more athletic.

By BuLLdawg

February 13, 2006 06:06 AM | Link to this

Yes, our coaches have done well, especially what Coach Richt has gotten from his Quarterbacks so far at Georgia.

Rumors are we kept Rodney Garner to continue this recruiting run we are on for Coach Richt too, geechee.

By Joey

February 15, 2006 08:30 AM | Link to this

I know how the overall running game appeared this past season. However, I blame most all of it on the O-Line. For us to have had such an experienced O-Line, they sure seemed to suck at opening holes. It always seemed as if our backs had to do everything on their own. It made me think back to Barry Sanders. Could you imagine what he could have done behind the Dallas Cowboys O-Line? Anyway, for a while, I was thinking our backs were powerful but had no break away speed. However, Sugar Bowl, Thomas Brown’s TD run. That was impressive. He blew past the DB’s Of WV. I am convinced the O-Line was the problem. Give our backs just a small hole and see what they can do.