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By BirdMahn

January 9, 2007 04:32 PM | Link to this

Even though I don’t like the Gators I say good for them and congratulations! I DO think UGA needs another football national championship to even things up with the swamp rats. Oh, does UGA have a basketball team? Wow!

By Doug

January 9, 2007 04:52 PM | Link to this

Well, it’s going to suck to have to listen to the Gator fans brag about their titles, but what can you do? They earned it. They laid a hellacious beatdown on a football team that was supposed to be invincible.

In the short term, that’s a good thing for Georgia, because it further validates the SEC’s toughness. Maybe nobody else cares that Georgia actually gave Florida a game this past year, whereas Ohio State was done for before the first quarter was over with, but we do.

In the long term, whatever post-Spurrier reprieve we were hopng for is officially and emphatically over. But let’s not forget what happened the last time Florida was coming off a national-title season: Mike Bobo, Robert Edwards and the boys went down to Jacksonville and hammered the Gators 37-17. Florida is poised to put together quite a dynasty over the next few years, but so is Georgia, and recent history aside, we won’t be conceding anything else to them until the games are actually played.

By tracie arrington

January 9, 2007 04:53 PM | Link to this

Oh well, think I can live with the Gators winning the NC once every 10 years - just glad it’s over. Go Dawgs 07’

By Gator Guy

January 9, 2007 04:55 PM | Link to this

Chip——What effect will the Gators winning the national football and basketball championships have on UGA and its sports programs? IMHO, not much. Next year’s strengths and weaknesses of Dawg football and this year’s strengths and weaknesses of Dawg hoops have little to do with the Gators.

The UGA basketball team is about half way through what appears to be a successful rebuilding program. Again, the Gators’ recent basketball success can only marginally impact the Dawgs (max two games of 16 SEC and 30 total played this season). UGA’s RPI and potential seeding in the NCAA or NIT probably even benefit from having UF on the schedule.

As for Dawg football, UF will be young next year, so take your best shot at bumping off the Gators in Jax. Heck, UGA even has the coveted “off week” next season, and UF does not. Pull off the win against the defending national champions, and it could be a program-elevating game for UGA.

Bottom line: I can’t see how UF basketball and football success hurts UGA (apart from some unseemly fan envy), and may even provide marginal RPI assistance to them if they remain competitive in basketball and a big psychological plus in football if they finally score a breakthrough win in Jacksonville.

Good luck with that. : ]

By UFownsUGA

January 9, 2007 04:58 PM | Link to this

Where are all you UGA fans who said UF will NEVER win a SEC or NC without Spurrier Urban Meyer will flop in the SEC The Spread Option will never work in the SEC

Where are you all now?

At least you still have Jean Short jokes and overall series records to talk about. If you think thats some sort of trump card like most foolish UGA fans do.

By Dawgtime

January 9, 2007 05:02 PM | Link to this

As I have said, UGA’s athletic programs are rising. Coach Mark Richt will lead the Dawgs to the SEC title in 07 and the national title in 08. Congrats to the Gators, but Tebow is no replacement for Leak. All Tebow did was play fullback this year. Let’s see what happens when all the heat is on him. The fact is that Matthew Stafford is better. If we can develop an OL, then we have something special. Sean Bailey, Kregg Lumpkin, A.J. Bryant, Knowshon Moreno, Tony Wilson, NaDerris Ward, Caleb King, Israel Troup, Mohammad Massouqui, Walter Hill, Kenneth Harris, and Aaron White are all special talents. They will develop into a great offense. Throw in Mr. A.J. Green, the number one junior in America, and dominance awaits. The defense will be great. I’m proud of the basketball team. Coach Felton took over a program in shambles. Harrick left a mess. I believe we will make a deep run in the NCAA tournament next year after making the tournament this year. Mike Mercer is a special talent. Throw in the young kids that are developing and UGA will have a fine basketball team in a year.

By Bryan G.

January 9, 2007 05:02 PM | Link to this

I hate the UF won because I don’t want Meyer in Atlanta living rooms showing off his ring. I could care less about the basketball team.

Is it just me or does it seem like the basketball team is really underachieving this year? I know it’s still early with the conference slate left, but we need to start actually winning games. It IS year 4.

By GT

January 9, 2007 05:03 PM | Link to this

Color me southern and I am happy one of us won. You couldn’t find an ESPN announcer or a writer at any post that wasn’t convinced Ohio State would win that game. The blogs were giving postmortems about the rise of the Big 10 and the overrated SEC. People were getting tossed up about it, and I remember writing there is no better argument than to beat them on the field. Now that we are at the funeral of the Big 10, that name cracks me up, there are those who claim that is the worst they have seen OSU play. Well hell I guess so it is the first time they played a real football team outside Texas which was a little weak this year compared to most. Point is there are maybe five SEC teams this year that could of tear OSU up and Georgia is one of them. People get lost in the win loss record and don’t realize every week is Viet Nam in the SEC. I am not sure Kentucky couldn’t wipe the floor with these pretenders and there tag along reporters and propaganda machine, but I’ll stop short of Kentucky and say the teams are Auburn, Tennessee, LSU, Arkansas, and Georgia. If anything the SEC has raised the bar for the ACC, Big 10 and Pac 12. I think the Big East is coming along quiet nicely considering. Out of that group the only conference that was call out for being short this year was the ACC, the rest had the world eating out of there hands until the real deal showed up.

By ConyersDawg

January 9, 2007 05:03 PM | Link to this

What did it mean when they wone it in 96’? Georgia has a solid staff, recruiting is well, and the future is promising.

Congrats to fl. but that was the best game they have played all year.

I’m wondering how long they keep Charlie Strong. The defensive performance was great.

Georgia is set to make multiple runs for the sec champ. which will put them in the hunt for the NC. Ga. will still get the athletes they target in georgia as well as acroos the country.

By Dawgtime

January 9, 2007 05:05 PM | Link to this

Gator fans, enjoy your win. Talking trash now is a bit silly. Focus on your outstanding progams and stop comparing. That is a reflection of an inferiority complex. You shouldn’t have one. You won the big game. We will whip the Gators next year. Urban Myer will leave for a better job. Just watch and see.

By godawg

January 9, 2007 05:06 PM | Link to this

Florida fans and gtdc, congrats to your team(s). I know its feels great to win NCAA championships in multiple sports in the same year. Georgia did a few years back winning in six or seven things (somebody help me out…um… sync swimming, billiards, canoeing…and..um…). Well, obviously not the two biggies, again, nice accomplishment for your school. UF made the SEC look good and we appreciate that.

Luckily, another nice thing about college sports is each season you get to start with a fresh slate and that’s what we, in the Bulldog Nation, are looking towards now.

I’m NOT gonna say that, “I really feel 2007 is going to be our breakout year. Next year is a whole new era in Georgia football.” I’m NOT going to say that because that’s what Carolina says EVERY year and it gets old and just sounds lame and after all, until we put together some back-to-back wins against the Gators we really can’t talk smack at all (although that doesn’t seem to be a problem for SC or even the Techsters for that matter).

Anyway, congrats again. Now please show some class and enjoy your victory(ies) with a small measure of dignity.

By Gator Guy

January 9, 2007 05:08 PM | Link to this

UFownsUGA——We still need to work on that “gracious winner” concept, don’t we? Time to express a little noblesse oblige, Gator fan.

By Dawgtime

January 9, 2007 05:16 PM | Link to this

We have a great junior class in the making at UGA. To be honest, I don’t focus on other schools. That serves no purpose nor does it improve your team. Matthew Stafford to A.J. Green. Caleb King on a screen pass. Stafford to Ward in the flats. Moreno burst up the middle. Dewberry hits the quaterback. Jones picks off another one. Man, all those sound great. For basketball, I like the lineup of Rashad Singleton 7’0, getting better by the game, will play in the NBA, Takais Brown 6’9, power, low post scorer, Terrance Woodbury 6’6, excellent shooter and slasher, Mike Mercer 6’4 great athlete, future NBA player, and Sundiata Gaines 6’1 leader of the team. Add to that: Albert Jackson 6’10 big kid with power, Zac Swansey 6’1 future floor leader, Jeremy Jacob 6’7, great middle game, Jeremy Price 6’9 270, pure power, Chris Barnes 6’8 dunking machine, Billy Humphrey 6’2, great shooter, Dave Bliss 6’10, role player, and anyone can see that UGA is on the right path. Great size with young developing skills. Advice for other teams, get UGA now,the future belongs to them.

By Dawgtime

January 9, 2007 05:19 PM | Link to this

Gator fan, why are you spending your time talking trash about UGA. That is stupid. Get a life and go celebrate your team. Don’t go hide when Donovan is caught cheating in recruiting. Don’t blame Coach Felton for the UGA shortcomings. He is building a program from nothing. Harrick should be ashamed. Coach Felton has us on the right track.

By Gator Guy

January 9, 2007 05:20 PM | Link to this

Dawgtime & godawg——Not really sure that I was “trash-talking” … more like blogging with a little gentle tweaking. And if you can’t gently tweak your rival, well, who can you tweak? I’ll talk to my bud, “UFownsUGA,” and see if I can’t get him to enjoy the victories with a small measure of dignity.

By Marietta Dawg

January 9, 2007 05:23 PM | Link to this

Plain and simple, we have to beat the crocs in Jax this year. As far as basketball, Felton is a great guy and has done a great job with this program so far. If only Louis Williams came to UGA, we probably wouldn’t be on a losing streak right now. Back to football, I still hate the crocs. I’m glad the SEC has the title, but I was pulling for OSU. We’ve got an interesting schedule next year, too many questions to make a prediction quite yet.

By rick/california

January 9, 2007 05:33 PM | Link to this

We own the Dawgs…..ITS GREAT TO BE A FLORIDA GATOR!!!!!!!

By austindog

January 9, 2007 05:37 PM | Link to this

As much as I dislike the gators I did appreciate their SEC chest thumping. Especially the “4 or 5 SEC teams would have done the same thing” remark.

And I’m admittedly envious watching FL receivers catch passes that hit them in the hands. Receivers who catch passes. Man.

By lifer dawg fan

January 9, 2007 05:47 PM | Link to this

Jeremy Foley buying NCAA just like Stinkbrenner does with baseball!!

UF’s football budgett is the largest in the country. I know they have spent what Duke/UNC and the other top bball programs spend and after 7 years it PAYS off there too!

Wake up gator fans talking trash about UGA, if you didn’t have sports to hang your Jean shorts you woulld just be or had been a college student in sorry Gainsville FL. I have been there and Athens and UGA blow it OUT OF THE F…… WATER!

Heck there are trailers for the students to attend class in on campus. v Foley spends all the money like my hated NYYankees do. Money can buy titles now in NCAA!!!! Wake up Gator fans if UGA’s pig skin budgett even approached UF’s it would be all over. Mark my words in 20 months UF hit by major scandals, they were the biggest cheaters in the country by far when I was growing up.

By Buck Cochran in the NW

January 9, 2007 05:48 PM | Link to this

I guess I’m a loner because I believe that the ‘07 season will mark a very defined turning point in the Mark Richt era. His coaching decisions, already made, will relect in a new approach to a lot of things. The Reptiles winning the “NC” has proven to me, at least, that wining rhe SEC title is now only a stepping stone to the Championship game of the nation. The same is true for all conferences. No longer is the title the bench mark of the season. One thing I hope we see in ‘07 is that if we do have some special talent in the new recruiting class we’ll make use of them in their freshman yr. and not “Shirt ” then(see Precey Harven here. Troup maybe?) The Dawgs are going to supprise a lot of people if they go through Sept. undefeated.

By Bubba Dawg

January 9, 2007 05:50 PM | Link to this

I wuz watchin that there game last nite and shore wuz jalus of dem gators. I thank that coach Dooley otta bring back Hershel cuz he’s got a year of eligibility left dont he? Hold on, the dang trailors movin again…Cheryl, stop flushing that dang toilet…anyway…I say Go Dawgs!! WUF WUF

By pvbeachdog

January 9, 2007 05:53 PM | Link to this

Hats off to the Gators! They played well last night because they were battle tested in the SEC.

UGA will have more days in the sun under Mark Richt. 2007 should present a better opportunity to get back to ATL. The gators, although loaded with talent as well, will experience some of the same rebuilding challenges in 2007 that UGA experienced this year.

No team is going to dominate the SEC in the near term the way SOS did in the 1990’s. I believe UGA and UF will alternate titles over the next 5 to 6 years, maybe longer.

And, with some of the same luck UF experienced this year (i.e., UCLA allowing UF to back into the NC game), UGA could be playing for a national title as well.

By Lowcountry Bulldawgs

January 9, 2007 05:53 PM | Link to this

As a UGA fan I hate to see where someone would reference our football team “is on the rise”. I am sick and tired of that label. If we have not arrived now, someone please tell me when we will get there so can then watch…

By Cuz

January 9, 2007 06:00 PM | Link to this

GTDC and Gator Guy, congradts on the big, and I mean big win. Chris Dimarco said in an article in our Augusta paper on Sunday that OSU was going to see on Monday what it is like to play an SEC school. He said that there was no way OSU would have been undeafeated if they had to play six SEC teams in a row as Florida had too. I agree with him. Going undefeated in the SEC is almost impossible. Just massive head knocking games every week.

I am looking forward to a good game in Jax next year. Sure would be nice to win one for a change. In the words of Dr. King, I have a dream. I am tired of the nightmare.

Last night I went over to a friends house who is a Gator to watch the game. Yes I have friends who are Gators, Gamechikens and Wareagles. I walked in the house took one look at my friend and busted out laughing. He was wearing cut off jeans, a Gator shirt that had the sleeves cut off, sandals and a straw Cowboy hat. I told him all he needed was a mullet and he would be the photo op for the blog stereotype of a Florida fan. He said that is what he wore to Florida games. I could not stop laughing. He “is” the jeans shorts guy.

By DWDawg

January 9, 2007 06:02 PM | Link to this

I thought the same thing…these guys can catch passes, what is their secret?

By lifer dawg fan

January 9, 2007 06:07 PM | Link to this

UGA always got the fine southern fillies on campus. UF got some homely looking chicks. UF campus as dumpy as some of the worst schools I have seen. They do however have a big nice new stadium. UGA/Athens is a dream town thats just way better than that hole in the swamp. UF outspends every body with NCAA football budgett. Surpassing Texas in the late 90’s which had been the Yankees of NCAA football for almost 20 years.

Next year dogs will win one in Jax and do that for at least 3 years in a row. UF so over hyped against a Buckflop team that looked almost payed off they played so bad. UF will be caught again for massive NCAA violations soon. Gator fans at least you got a few titles this year cause you aint got much else besides Tom Petty and a good bike shop down there!!!

This UGA grad and football lover knows when the Richt offense clicks like its gonna these next few years it will make the Urbanized gimmicky crap look like the ol. Run and shoot did.

Urban’s gonna need a big raise to stay. Time to get the UF football budgett to 100 mil this next year or two???

By FrankInMilledgeville

January 9, 2007 06:17 PM | Link to this

 Unfortunately, Florida winning the National Championship will make recruting even tougher for Georgia, and the rest of the SEC, for that matter. The SEC is unbelievable!!! Not only do you have Ga., Fla., Aub., Tenn., LSU,(all good every year recently), but you now have Spurrier at S.C. and Saban at Ala.  And Arkansas is not bad!  Will anybody go undefeated in the SEC regular season and the SEC Championship in the next few years?  I don"t think so, do you?

By stephen

January 9, 2007 06:29 PM | Link to this

Dawg Fan or not, you gotta love that last night. If that’s not fun and gun, its fun and stun. Ohio State never saw the bus that flattened them. As for all the SEC, Gators represented. Big Ten, big whoop.

By Francis Parfait

January 9, 2007 06:31 PM | Link to this

It means nothing. UGA’s football team has historically been an underachiever on the national level. Sure, we’ve won a few SEC titles here and there, but the Dawgs have traditionally, and without fail, lost key games that they needed to win to put them over the top.

It doesn’t matter who the coach is - you can’t change tradition and UGA’s tradition in football is “not quite good enough to get it done”. Kind of like the Braves always choking in September / October - you can bet the bank that UGA will lose the one or two games thye need to become a truly great football program. Wish it wasn’t that way - but that’s what we have to live with around here! At least we don’t suck as bad as GT.

By Larry

January 9, 2007 06:49 PM | Link to this

I have only one thing to say: this is a catch-22. Root for the SEC and the Gayturds?

Tough to do. But it is nice to see the SEC validated to all those idiot yankee writers who try and puff up Notre Lame and the Slow 10.

But this is what I will do.

I am going to order a Boise State National Championship T-Shirt and Hat.

That is the only orange and blue I’ll ever wear!

GO BOISE STATE.

And yes, grugdingly, congrats Gayturds. At least you didn’t pull a Tennessee.

By Buck Cochran in the NW

January 9, 2007 06:54 PM | Link to this

Didn’t see very many gimmicks last night but I did see receivers catching the ball.

By midniterider

January 9, 2007 07:16 PM | Link to this

much as i love the dogs i dont think we will beat the gators anytime soon coach mr just cant seem to have the dogs ready to play them or in some other big games i see 2nd at best in the sec east in 07

By Gator Guy

January 9, 2007 07:27 PM | Link to this

Cuz——Thanks for the back-handed kudos to the Gator kids. There will be some who will refuse to give them their due, but they certainly earned it on the field. With Michigan being demolished by USC, the UF-OSU margin of victory and the relative yardage totals didn’t leave much room for rational complaints from our midwestern friends. I hoped that the media were underestimating the value of playing an 8-1 SEC schedule, but, wow, never did I imagine that smackdown … .

Sounds like your Augusta sports writers are better students of the game than most that write for the AJC. Other than Barnhart, none of the AJC boys gave the Gators a shot, and I don’t think it’s because they’re a bunch of UGA homers. The AJC boys just bought into the Buckeyes’ propaganda like all the rest of the lemmings.

Also, do me a favor: please ask your neighbor where I pick up my official UF jeans shorts and cut-off shirt; mine were never issued after graduation. smirk

By 2N4YEARS

January 9, 2007 07:29 PM | Link to this

First of all, I’m glad for FLORIDA. Concradulations Gators! I would much rather the SEC win than lose. I know everyone doesn’t share the same opinion, but I’m just tired of the media, Pac-10 fans, Big-Ten fans & Big Twelve fans saying that the SEC is over-rated. Funny how some of the ‘sports media’ says the SEC is the toughest conf. , yet they always seem to favor the others in the big games. This will be good locker room matrial for UGA to remind the players that it is possible to win the NC in the SEC.

By Dawgs2006

January 9, 2007 07:45 PM | Link to this

We will always be Florida’s whipping boy. I hate it, but it is what it is.

As for Georgia Basketball….I just want a team that is competitive in the SEC and win some tough games on a regular basis. We do not have to national champs, just show up and win some games.

As for Dave Bliss….he is a stiff. I do not know where they find these honkies to play for Georgia. When was the last time Georgia had a stud to knock some people around?

By Gator Guy

January 9, 2007 07:48 PM | Link to this

“lifer dawg fan”——You need to lighten up, buddy. I’ve sworn to be gracious in celebrating the Gators’ championships, but you’re goading my baser instincts by making things up to reinforce your irrational hatred of all things orange and blue.

Just so you know, there hasn’t been a whiff of a major NCAA infraction in Gainesville in nearly 20 years, and, by all accounts, Donovan and Meyer run clean squeaky clean programs (as did Kruger and the Evil Genius before them). Florida now has one of the toughest in-house compliance programs among major NCAA sports programs, and more than half of the SEC schools (including UGA) have been investigated for major NCAA basketball and/or football violations since the Gators ran afoul of the rules in the 1980’s. Not exactly ancient history, but the bad boys did the crime and have long since done the time. So, give the Devil his due. Spurrier would have had another SEC title to his credit but for the lingering probation in 1990, but nobody whines about it, including SOS.

I won’t even address the other silliness raised regarding UF’s purportedly gimmicky offense, unattractive coeds, athletic department resources, etc. You just need to let it go, bubba; that kind of animosity will burn you up. It’s just a game, bubba, just a game.

By SamoanDawg

January 9, 2007 07:58 PM | Link to this

Congrats to the gators! speed kills.. I thought buckeyes had speed? I think Fla and LSU should be the top 2 teams. Big 10 is overrated.. along w/Notre Lame. LSU would’ve beaten the buckeyes.

By lifer dawg fan

January 9, 2007 08:04 PM | Link to this

I am just firing back GGuy. Most all Gators I met are cocky without reason. ITs all because of thier Mens football/now basket ball/2nd NC. I am totally cool with this. IT just validates all the SEC stuff and yes this was a long year putting up with the ESPN/Name your network…. talking up all things but SEC. Just tired of all this Gator trash talk especially to UGA. When your school finally started beating UGA is when it took off, when Richt gets fired up enough and he will be this next year I got a felin the UGA program rolls ande we are over our hump which is you guys. In the mean time I am talking what I want. Most UF folks I meet are way cocky like most are here for good obvious reasons. Just letting all Gator fans in on something.

UGA and everything about it except for the last 15+ years in Football and BBall smokes any and all things UF period. Chicks,Music, Campus, fans etc…. we are just way better its not just about the sports when you attend college unless your a gator!!!

UGA always whips gators and the swamp when it comes to everything else unrelated to football. This next year will be different.

PS I hate big spenders in all sports aka Yankees and you guys are the Yankees of college athletics. I mean come on not only do I dislike all things UF but I always root against the teams that buy thier way into top tier contentiojn.

Boise State for national champs, and on a shoe string budgett!!!!

By lifer dawg fan

January 9, 2007 08:19 PM | Link to this

20 years huh??

Doesn’t your AD remind you of Stinkbrenner? Buying his success in the NCAA??? If UGA had you guys football money and 1/2 of your Bball budgett we would destroy you! Don’t get upset at a loud a.. dawg fan. You guys get your little moment now, but Sabin/Richt/Fulmer/Tubby all are as sick of your team/coach as I am.

SEC on the rise UGA is gonna make a run though next year. Lets get this stupid game to Atlanta every other year too instead of in UF’s back yard

By Buck Cochran in the NW

January 9, 2007 08:27 PM | Link to this

Why don’t my fellow Dawgs who are trying to talk smack about the Reptiles get over it. Why waste time on the past. They(Reptiles) deserve their due, it’s been given and our talking smack just makes us look like a bunch of nothings. I’m focused on ‘07, as we all should be. All this talk , forget it, let’s hope our Coach can find a way to teach our receivers to catch the ball and then let’s beat them on the playing field because that’s what counts. It’s easy to talk the talk but the important thing is to “walk the walk”. Let’s do it.

By 2Dawgs

January 9, 2007 08:52 PM | Link to this

OSU bloggers have said that Florida won the game on offense with deception and trickery. Boo-Hoo. They just can’t hang with the big guys!!

By Dawg

January 9, 2007 09:12 PM | Link to this

Ok, call me crazy but Florida must be given their due. National Championships aren’t given but are earned and I believe the Gators earned it with athleticism and coaching. Their program is where most college programs want to be. With that said, I hope this makes the University of Georgia coaches and players more hungry to strip that title and bring it to Athens. Let’s hunker down for ‘07. The score is now 0-0.

By Dawg

January 9, 2007 09:14 PM | Link to this

Ok, call me crazy but Florida must be given their due. National Championships aren’t given but are earned and I believe the Gators earned it with athleticism and coaching. Their program is where most college programs want to be. With that said, I hope this makes the University of Georgia coaches and players more hungry to strip that title and bring it to Athens. Let’s hunker down for ‘07. The score is now 0-0.

By Dawgs2006

January 9, 2007 09:16 PM | Link to this

I thought Ohio State was supposed to be good. They suck!

By Sautee Dawg

January 9, 2007 09:19 PM | Link to this

Hey Buck, agree with you 100%. Reptiles deserve our congradulations and our respect for having a great season, and for winning BCS game. Helps us in the long run by bringing more medai attention to our conference, maybe by doing so our conference won’t get snubbed in the future like it did with Auburn a few years ago. As far as our 2007 Bulldawgs are concerned, the future looks bright.

Gator Guy-Class Act Congradulations!!!!

By War Eagle

January 9, 2007 09:40 PM | Link to this

There are 4 teams I hate to see win any contest, Bammer, Notre Dame, Miami and NY Yankees. When Bammer played Miami, 1993, for the NC in the Sugar Bowl, I took myself to pull for Bammer because of it SEC membership. it was difficult, but I suffer through the ordeal. I KNOW HOW YOU DAWG FANS FEEL ABOUT LAST NIGHT, BUT HAND IT TO THE GATORS THEY PLAYED VERY GOOD. AUBURN WAS THE ONLY TEAM WHO DEFEATED THE GATORS, SO IT WAS A NICE FOR AUBURN PEOPLE.

By 2Dawgs

January 9, 2007 09:42 PM | Link to this

I have a great idea. The national champ plays the losers schedule the next year, and the loser plays the national champs schedule. That would be a sight to behold!! Go SEC!!

By Mean D

January 9, 2007 09:54 PM | Link to this

I hope that “lifer dawg fan” is just a fan and not a grad because he is the most illiterate person on this blog. Whine on about the Gators, lifer dawggy.

By TEDDY JACK EDDY

January 9, 2007 10:51 PM | Link to this

To me saying good for Florida is like cheering for someone trying to take your lunch money!Remember we have to play and recruit against these smelly reptiles every year.It may not be zero sum winner take all but it’s damn close.

By TEDDY JACK EDDY

January 9, 2007 11:00 PM | Link to this

Sauteedawg - - If you think this helps UGA send your lunch money to Gainesville!

By Eddie

January 9, 2007 11:14 PM | Link to this

I dont like him.Steven Orr that is.But had he coached this gator team I promise you he wouldnt had to have hung on for dear life against FSU a team that lost 30 to 0 against Wake Forest.Floridas offense this year was not the reason for their success.Had SOS coached that offense with that defense they wouldnt have had to hope for as much luck from other teams as they did this year,like LSU fumbling at the one yard line and turning the ball over 5 times,Chris Leak throwing a interception for a TD called back because of the guy trying to block the pass and hitting him in the head against Tenn,FSU returner stepping out of bounds by couple of inches Long TD pass over turned Out of bounds,against Ga punt accidentally hits Ga player had them stopped bad call face mask that wasnt.What is so funny is SOS without his kicker kicking extra points low and let time run out (split second) on kicks of 52 yards taking the points off the board and of coarse kicking that last winning kick low to be blocked he would have beat you mighty gators 2 years in a row at South Carolina.This was a very ugly,and lucky championship.You could have had SOS as coach and I beleive this team would have rolled he basically for all intents and purposes out coached and should have beat you 2 years in a row.One lucky year doesnt make a program.

By UGA @$$ Holes REDNECKS

January 9, 2007 11:33 PM | Link to this

UGA is a 3th class redneck school!

By TEDDY JACK EDDY

January 9, 2007 11:38 PM | Link to this

Hey UGA@$$HOLESrednecks It’s clear to me reading your elegant prose that you could teach us all a thing or two about class. NOT!!!!

By Ramble on!

January 9, 2007 11:41 PM | Link to this

You mutts need to take some lessons from sautee dawg, Cuz, and Buck in the NW (real class), and quit messing with Gator Guy. He’s making you look like fools.

Congratulations Gators! No matter how insufferable and indignant these dawgs get about their 6 game winning streak, and preseason National Championships, it’s always nice to know, it pales in comparison for what ya’ll done to them.

By TEDDY JACK EDDY

January 9, 2007 11:54 PM | Link to this

Ramble on! Poor little guy even your vicarious outlet has to have a vicarious team(reptiles).Take heart maybe another Calvin Johnson will come along in twenty or so years and give you sad little bugs more false hope.

By Sautee Dawg

January 10, 2007 12:00 AM | Link to this

TEDDY JACK EDDY Hey Eddy, not a gator fan at all, just think that it helps our SEC as far as national exposure and our strength of schedule. And to show the Ohio St’s and the rest of the big 10 teams that are usually overated why SEC football is so competive. Losing 15 out of 17 to the Gators is hard to live with, but, as Steve Spurrier said when he was at FLA. “Want to beat the Gators? then quit whinning and get to work” simply put. Gator’s have a very talented team and will be hard to beat in 07. However, i think our Dawgs will do just fine this year in Jacksonville. Think i’ll save my lunch money until then and buy myself a cocktail. (Hopefully it will in celebration of a victory)

By spud

January 10, 2007 06:06 AM | Link to this

team chemistry is what uga was lacking last year. fla had it this year. leadership roles in 07 will determine how sucessful we are.

By Stuck In Florida

January 10, 2007 06:23 AM | Link to this

You guys think you have it bad. I have to live down here in the state of Florida working in an office surrounded by UF grads. Oh yeah, my dad went to Florida too. Needless to say I’ve heard about it from everyone. And now with championship titles in both basketball and football, oh brother. It’s just too much. All I can think about is how the dog’s d shut down Tim “Teabag” Teabow in Jacksonville last year. I hope we can do the same next year. We’ve got to stop the bleeding.

By terrific tony

January 10, 2007 07:39 AM | Link to this

Gradulations Florida, I am a die harded UGA fan but I must admit they have our number for now and I take my hat off to them, enjoy it while you can because the sun does not sit on the same dogs tail everyday!!

By Ol' Ball Coach

January 10, 2007 08:13 AM | Link to this

Dawgs2006: it is nice to see someone in Bulldog Nation finally realize that the Gators own you, and there is no life for UGA after JAX every year. I commend you for admitting that your program is mediocre and going nowhere,and I respect that statement. Thank you.

Someone commented about Meyer leaving UF? I doubt it anytime soon, because I have heard him discuss how he loathes those mangy bullpups from Athens, and nothing pleases him more than to wax your behinds up and down the field every year in JAX.

UGA’s chances of a national title in the near future continue to dim with Spurrier at USC, Fulmer at UT, Saban at UA, and Meyer at UF. They are going to crush you like you have never seen before, and CMR will be running for his life.

Good luck with OSU in the opener in 2007, they will most likely set the tone and kick you to the curb to start the season, then the remaining SEC (i.e. UT, KY, AU, UA, and UF) teams will do the cleanup.

By Andy in Ohio

January 10, 2007 08:19 AM | Link to this

I’m fine with Florida winning the NC in football, but I think it’s about time that Georgia wins one as well. We’ll have a better chance in 2008 when our offensive line is more established and Knowshon Moreno, Matthew Stafford, and co. have more experience, but why not be looking for a NC next year? And how great will it be when (not if) we beat the defending National Champs next year? National Championship in the next 3 years (when Stafford is here) is not an question, the question is which year. I’m also thinking that Stafford will win the Heisman before he leaves for the NFL, but he’s going to need some good go-to receivers, so hopefully some guys will step up next year and the years after.

By godawg

January 10, 2007 08:24 AM | Link to this

Dawg Fans, let’s please try to curb our smack and predictions for Dawg win in Jax next year. It just makes us look like South Carolina and Tech fans and I cringe to think that we might appear THAT pathetic. They sound like a broken record EVERY year. Granted we haven’t gone THAT long between wins but it would be nice to wait until we win on the field before we start thumping our collective chests.

We need to suck it up, show some class, and congratulate our fellow conference member on what was truthfully a great win in a well-played ballgame.

One positive result of the Florida BCS Championship: The BCS committee will now think really long and hard before they leave another SEC team out of the big game, a la Auburn.

By Ol' Ball Coach

January 10, 2007 08:24 AM | Link to this

Andy in Ohio: Dream on, because a NC is not in the future of UGA football. The coaching is inferior, and the arrogance to too large in Bulldog Nation to see a NC in the near future.

CMR was not the right hire to get a NC in Athens. You needed Spurrier, Meyer or Petrino to get a NC, and a stronger schedule.

By Mitchell

January 10, 2007 08:32 AM | Link to this

Thank you to you UGA fans who show class and congratulating the Gator victory. The blatant biases from every media outlet towards Ohio State was nausiating. Maybe they were still lingering with the memory of the Nebraska->UF smackdown in ‘96. Who knows. In any event, it’s nice to bring one home for the SEC! Thanks again for you classy UGA folks.

By Dough

January 10, 2007 08:38 AM | Link to this

Let the Big Dawg read

By godawg

January 10, 2007 08:42 AM | Link to this

C’mon Ol’ Ball Coach, take of your mask. Which bug are you? Ramble On? Gojackets? Typical NATS program envy. Your team sucks so you pretend to be a supporter of a competitive school and poke at the big Dawg through the fence with a stick. Go play with your abacus before you get bit.

By Gator Guy

January 10, 2007 08:43 AM | Link to this

Ol’ Ball Coach——I’m not really sure what your point is about UGA’s schecule. Substitute Georgia Tech for Florida State, and UGA effectively played the same regular season Division I schedule that UF did … and Tech was arguably better than FSU this year. UF played Arkansas in the SEC championship game to add to the strength of schedule, but that’s an earned extra game when you win the SEC East.

As for Richt vs. Meyer, both schools now have established coaches and top-10 recruiting classes, and the next 5 years will determine which school has the better coach and program. Predictions about future football seasons are like opinions about politics——everyone has them, and most don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.

By urnthebackseat

January 10, 2007 08:44 AM | Link to this

Don’t worry about it dawgs. You make great chicken sandwich salesmen every New Year !

Go Dawgs ! EAT MORE CHIKEN !!!

By gdawginkalamazoo

January 10, 2007 08:46 AM | Link to this

Ramble On! How did Reggie Ball end up in Troy Smith’s uniform Monday night?

Gator Guy, gracious as always and congrats to you guys. GTDC congrats nice wrap up to a long grueling season. Looks like Meyer will be jumping to the Big Ten with the first opening that comes up. That spread offense appears that it would fit in very well there. Just think more money no close games like in the SEC.

Anyhoo we look forward to playing the Nationa;l Champs next year in Jacksonville. You did the SEC proud.

By Mark

January 10, 2007 08:47 AM | Link to this

Doesn’t it p** dawg fans off that this should’ve been UGA in 2002 season? Mark Richt’s second year, 1 loss (to Fla of all people), ya’ll remember that game Billy Bennet missed 4 or 5 field goals, Pollack intercepts the ball and laterals to Sean Jones for TD only to have it called back because it was ruled a forward lateral. We win that game we are playing for NC! THis is Urban Meyer’s 2nd year and they had one loss and just won the NC. FLa. football might have just become a consistent national powerhouse boys! Ya’ll are trying to tell me that next year’s team is going to better than that ‘02 team? That’s going to be one hell of a team!

By Gen Neyland

January 10, 2007 08:52 AM | Link to this

War Eagle…I concur the stinking Red Elephants…

Florida’s DE’s played excellent. They kept almost eveything to the inside and with one of the best rushing D’s in the nation, choked down the Buckeyes offensive game. Also, determination. From Leak to team mgr, UF played to win, not to show. I didn’t see too much trash bashing coming from the Gators, penalties were minimized and turnovers/takeaways were and always will be your best friend or your worst enemy. This UF team played like a team. Seemed to have more class than a Spurrier led Gator team. The result of their season is a glass football and from where I stand, I want another in Knoxville so as to balance out the trophy case…But unless we play way over our heads, I know better. At least any time soon…

By Mark

January 10, 2007 08:57 AM | Link to this

UGA is going to win their share of football games. Frankly as long as UGA continues it’s dominance over GT I am content. To lose to Tech is to lose to a clearly inferior second tier program. And unfortunately we must live with the overinflated egos and delusional sense of self worth that permeates the Tech puptent. As long as I can see the rage, the foaming at the mouth, slobbering, and hurling of Tech hats out the windows of speeding techie vehicles at the conclusion of every UGA vs Tech game, I will be a happy man.

By Darrin "The Vent King"

January 10, 2007 08:57 AM | Link to this

“Big” Ten? OSU will dominate? Gators don’t deserve Title Shot? SEC isn’t the best? That’s all I heard for the last few weeks. The Gators don’t have a chance, blah-blah-blah. First it was “well, OSU will have plenty of time to heal for the big game and then embarrass the Gators” and now that OSC has been taken to the woodshed, it’s “the 57 day lay-off was too much, whine-whine!” You beat-writers in the media crack me up. As for the Dawgs, I seriously doubt what is happening with Florida will affect them any more than if it was another SEC team. They want to be good, because they want to be- not because one of their rivals is doing good. Every program in the SEC wants to be the best, that’s what makes the SEC the BEST conference. I think it’s a little bit of a stretch to think the Dawgs’ world centers around the Gators and this is coming from a Gator fan. Give UGA more credit than that. Yes, I know we are rivals, but it’s a geographical one that is over-hyped by the media and articles like this one contributes to it. So in short, don’t insult Dawg fans by saying “how will the Gators success affect UGA?”? That’s an insult. I’m sure UGA’s atheletic program wants to be great, not because of the Gators’ success, but because they want to be great period. To say it’s because of the Gators is silly. To quote Michael Jackson, you writers just “Wanna Be Starting Something” to sell papers.

GO GATORS!!!

P.S. What is a “Buck-eye” anyway? LOL

By gdawginkalamazoo

January 10, 2007 09:21 AM | Link to this

BTW, lot of happy Michigan fans up here. As for the topic, I don’t know for sure. UF will gain a lot more recruits but maybe the overflow will fall to the SEC teams in a “can’t join then beat them” type of thing. Not too worried about it. Look at all the repeat champs we have nowadays. Not many. Although they stay highly ranked and play and recruit well the NC isn’t automatic, LSU, OSU, Texas, USC one NC each the past few years.

Anybody can be beaten on any given Saturday regardless of talent, recruits, past histories etc. Michigan was 7-5 prior to last year, UF wasn’t that much better. Look where they both went this past season. So although nice, any repeat will be hard to do and a loss can occurr at anytime. Ask USC. And if they hadn’t lost to UCLA then we all know what the results would have been. UF would have been playing Boise State.

I thought it was funny how LSU racked up 41 on ND and UF pasted 41 on OSU. And ND and OSU were two “powerhouse” teams and media darlings from the North. Heheheheheeeeeeee!

By Carl

January 10, 2007 09:22 AM | Link to this

The way I see it, Florida winning the MNC against Ohio State didn’t change anything about the UGA/FL rivalry. While they have certainly enjoyed incredible success against us for the last several years, we still hold the overall lead in the series. And oh, by the way, has everyone forgotten that UGA won the SEC All Sports trophy last year? I mean basketball and football are the two high-profile sports, but there’s a lot more going on than just those two. I give credit to FL for their accomplishments, but I like the direction UGA sports is headed.

By RabidGator

January 10, 2007 09:31 AM | Link to this

GATORS ARE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!

Go Gators! For you mutt fans - see you next year in our annual beat down of your team. HA HA HA HA!

Gators Repeat Next Year! CHOMP! CHOMP!

By phipps

January 10, 2007 09:35 AM | Link to this

Dawgs better do it next year before the new academic rules take place in 08. There will be few junior college transfers after that, something your great coach said he would never accept( I guess his winning is more important that his morals!!)You guys and us(Tech) are really going to start losing players if we do not put academics first. I am not a great gator fan, but you must applaud them for their excellent graduation rate(top or near top in sec). As usual, you guys are predicting NC next year or year after( you do it every year-that’s the reason you are the country’s worst fans-dreamers instead of reality. Must be real sad in your lives). Gators win as long as Urban is there. Looks like a long time….So sorry!!!!!

By godawg

January 10, 2007 09:40 AM | Link to this

If you want to read something funny and highly entertaining go to Hey Jenny Slater and scroll down and read The 50 Most Loathsome People in College Football. Take special note of #39. A laugh riot I promise. Graet job by Doug Gillett, sorry I didn’t find it sooner. Thanks Doug!

By EW

January 10, 2007 09:42 AM | Link to this

Dawg fans, be men, not a bunch of whinning sissies. The Gators represented the SEC and won, big time. I’m a die-hard Bama fan but at least I have the smarts to know their win shows the nation what a tough schedule any SEC team faces compared to the marshmallow schedules some teams outside the SEC have. There’s more to being a man than standing to urinate, giving credit when credit is due is a first step tom manhood, some of you need to take the plunge.

By longtimedawg

January 10, 2007 09:55 AM | Link to this

don’t worry dawg fans we have stafford and richt. the gators have tebow? and urban. i think i like our chances in the long run. the gators beat a over-rated ohio st. team……and don’t forget the gators only beat UGA by 7 and that was with a true green QB. I do congrat the gators on the win…look @ the top 25 ap poll….6 SEC teams…. now that is dominance. GO DAWGS!

By **By Chip Towers**

January 10, 2007 09:58 AM | Link to this

Hey everybody. You know, our blog is your blog but, just for the sake of getting things back on track, this wasn’t meant to be a trash-talking segment. Obviously it was great work by the Gators to win the national championship. The question was, does this make it harder for the Dogs to do so or does it mean they’re that much closer?

By Jake

January 10, 2007 09:58 AM | Link to this

Hopefully, Urban Meyer has NFL aspirations.

By AltamahaDawg

January 10, 2007 10:01 AM | Link to this

gator guy, are you sure we can’t recruit you over to the light. It’s a damn shame that some of us would rather talk to a UF fan than a couple of our own in here. Come to think of it, there are a couple of them in here id rather have the even the worst UF fan than them.

On the topic, i think the year old NC in Bball is pretty much in the past once the heart of the schedule started this year. As far as football is concerned, what they did (now last year)is the least of what we need to worry about. I do beleive we have areas for improvement. One thing that has been pinted out in here, history certainly works against them for a few years now. BTW how in the hell did the coaches poll not rank us.

By JZ

January 10, 2007 10:14 AM | Link to this

Have enjoyed reading all these blogs. Actually fall into two catagories. Gatorhators and Dawginteligent. To the Gatorhators….get a life. Fifteen out of the last seventeen years you were taken to the woodshed. Next year….will be # 16. Too much talent, too much enthusiasm and better coaching. To the Dawgintelligent… Thanks for the compliments, they are sincerly appreciated. Yes, our victory will also make a tremendous impact on recruiting in the SEC….the days of great southern players heading to the Big Ten and Pack 12 should be over. Great players want to play in the greatest league. Go SEC, and especially GO GATORS AND …. DAWGS.

By Jim Corley

January 10, 2007 10:17 AM | Link to this

I was at the game and we alternated “SEC” chants with “It’s Great To Be a Florida Gator”.

I pull for the Gators, the SEC, any southern school - in that order.

If I could have it my way UGA and F$U would be undefeated every year when we play them. Playing a team that just lost to Vanderbilt and Kentucky or a team with .500 record is a no win situation.

By Darrin "The Vent King"

January 10, 2007 10:22 AM | Link to this

Well Chip, what did you think would happen when you write an article that seems to point in the direction that UGA’s success is directly related to the Gators? I don’t think the two are related, but that’s just MY opinion. If the roles were reversed, which they have been in the past, I don’t think UGA winning more than the Gators makes anything “harder” for Florida or affected whether they would get closer to success because of it. Kentucky’s success in b-ball had nothing to do with the hiring of Billy Donovan. It made the entire conference step their game up. Somebody, well the A.D. rather, just wanted the best guy for the b-ball job he thought he could find to make the b-ball program better. So in short I know the two are rivals, but I do not believe it affects UGA’s desire or ability to get better or make them closer to it or harder. It’s buisiness as usual, you know, find a way to be the best out of the SEC they can be because they’ve always wanted that just like Florida. We’re rivals, not connected by the hip. I just have more respect for UGA’s desire to be good and their ability to find a way to be so than to say it depends on what the Gators are doing. So no, it doesn’t make it harder or make them closer, it will be SEC buisiness as usual for not just UGA but for everyone in the conference- WIN, WIN, WIN!!

GO GATORS!!!

By AtlantaGatorLee

January 10, 2007 10:45 AM | Link to this

Wow lifer dawg fan- You are delusional!

By the way UGA people, when using an apostrophe to shorten a year, it is used to replace the missing numbers. For example, 2007 is abbreviated ‘07 not 07’. 07’ means 7 feet.

By Dave

January 10, 2007 10:54 AM | Link to this

Congratulations to Urban Meyer and the Gators. This will help their already good recruiting program. The Dawgs will get a win against them evey once in a while, but the Gators wil own the Dawgs for next twenty years. Florida will win another National title before Georgia wins another SEC championship.

By DS

January 10, 2007 11:03 AM | Link to this

If UF can repeat back to back basketball, then they can crow about dual titles. Until they can do both basketball and football in the SAME year. It’s not all that impressive, just like Tiger not being able to pull of the his grand slam over the SAME year a few years ago.

And they only got to the championship because The Pope whined to the whole world.

By Tom

January 10, 2007 11:07 AM | Link to this

I attended and graduated from an SEC school that was NOT Florida; and I’m a huge fan of MY school. I’ve hated Steve Spurrier and Phillip Fulmer as much as I hate Senator Ted Kennedy. BUT, I am an SEC man. I believe the SEC is the strongest conference in the nation; and I will ALWAYS pull for an SEC team over another conference. Plus, I’ve hated Ohio State for 35 years. I lived in Ohio for 1 year back in the ’70s; and I’ve never met more arrogant, obnoxious fans then the Ohio State bunch. For me, watching those little Ohio State kids crying in the stands on Monday night was one of the greatest pleasures of the entire bowl season. You may think Florida fans are obnoxious; but, trust me, they’ve got nothing on Ohio State….GO SEC!!!

By Ol' Ball Coach

January 10, 2007 11:22 AM | Link to this

Amen on the prediction comment godawg. Glad to see someone at UGA has some class.

By Gator Guy

January 10, 2007 11:44 AM | Link to this

AtlantaGatorLee——Big Gator MNC high-five to you, my friend! Go easy on the Dawg-blogger grammar and punctuation points; we’ve got a couple of Gator-bloggers who can’t seem to spell their way out of paperbag, either. LOL

As for “lifer dawg fan,” I’ve been slapping his goofiness down on three different AJC threads. He needs to do his homework on UF’s athletics and academics before posting the trash he does … even the other Dawgs have been smacking him on the nose. I strongly suspect that he is a fellow-traveller fan, not an alumnus; if he actually graduated, his UGA freshman composition professor needs to refund his tuition money.

By Gator Guy

January 10, 2007 11:58 AM | Link to this

Chip——I couldn’t agree with Darrin more: what did you think your blog topic and Carter Strickland’s “cutting-edge” reportage from Athens were going to inspire? From my perspective, the article and blog seem calculated to incite a UF-UGA smack-fest. If not, you fellas didn’t think your topics through very well.

By godawg

January 10, 2007 12:13 PM | Link to this

We generally don’t call people (unless they’re obvious trade schoolers) out on minor errors in spelling, punctuation, grammar, etc. on this blog. It is, afterall, just a blog and not the Great American Novel, or even an English assignment for that matter. We all get in a hurry typing and make mistakes from time to time. Let’s all play nice. :-)

By DAWG FOREVER

January 10, 2007 12:13 PM | Link to this

Any one heard if or when CSS will do a replay of Chic-fil-a Bowl? I’m jones’en for the 2nd half again. Help!!

By Gator Guy

January 10, 2007 12:20 PM | Link to this

Alta~Dawg——Back at ya, buddy! Thanks for the invitation, but with three University of Florida diplomas, I’m a little too invested to switch allegiances to the Red & Black at this late stage. (I would gratefully accept a ticket to the UGA-Auburn, though; it’s one of those classic match-ups that I’ve never seen in person.)

Yeah, UGA got done wrong by the Coaches’ poll, but it never pays to be on the “bubble.” Besides, whether the Dawgs are ranked 23rd by the AP or 26th by the Coaches doesn’t matter much. Assuming last season was an aberration and that there was a gap in senior UGA talent, your boys should start the season ranked somewhere between 10th and 15th in the country. After that, the Dawgs will earn their ranking. woof

By G'Vegas Dawg

January 10, 2007 12:25 PM | Link to this

I think that the comment by the UF Defensive end that was quoted in the paper hit the nail on the head. It read something to the fact that UF played 5 or 6 SEC schools that could have kept up with Ohio State all day. That being said, UGA’s defense only gave up 14 points to the Gayturds, Ohio State gave up 41. So, by proxy, UGA is one of those teams that could have kept up with Ohio State all year. Along with UT, Vandy, and Kentucky, and all of the teams that beat them. This just goes to show that no matter how strong other teams look throughout the nation, there is NO football like SEC football. Tell me about Matt Leinardt, Reggie Bush and the rest of the USC team the previous few years. But, put the best USC team over the past 5 years and match them against the 2nd place teams from the SEC East or West and I guarantee the SEC teams would have given them a run for their money.

By Gator Guy

January 10, 2007 12:30 PM | Link to this

godawg——Holy Cow, Batman! Our favorite AJC blogger is famous in Texas? Is you-know-who aware of this? I am literally laughing so hard my sides hurt. You made my day.

By Dave in Tampa

January 10, 2007 12:40 PM | Link to this

Everyone keeps talking about OSU

Someone tell me. Who is OSU???? D’OH!

Congrats Gators from a Dawg. No question who should take home the big price. I have a couple tool Ohio State fans I work with down here and you should hear the excuses coming out of those pieholes. Cracks me up!

Already to kick off the 2007 season. Should be exciting! Go Dawgs!

By Gator Guy

January 10, 2007 12:42 PM | Link to this

G’Vegas Dawg——Thanks for writing relatively nice things about the UF DE’s SEC quote. Do us all a favor though, if you need to fan the UGA-UF fire, could you come up with a more creative epithet than “Gayturds?” It’s, well, so 4th grade in nature, and not at all worthy of the vocabulary that I am sure was enhanced by your time in Athens. If you summon up all of your animosity for the Gators, I am quite certain that you can do much better. : P

By DAWG97

January 10, 2007 12:50 PM | Link to this

I’m actually happy for the gators. They made it through a tough SEC schedule and took care of business when it counted in the championship game. I can only hope this proves that UGA can do the same thing. We just need to do it…

As far as the blog topic, I don’t think it hurts UGA except for smack talking and potentially recruiting. Although, we haven’t had much to talk about to UF people anyway. It helps UGA in the sense that we can see, first hand, what it takes to win championships… whereas when USC wins the NC, it seems so far removed…

By drdawg

January 10, 2007 01:05 PM | Link to this

Before everyone starts shaking in their boots over so-called “Gator dominance”, OSU could have been beaten by half the teams in the SEC. The SEC is just that good, and the Dawgs only lost to Florida by 7 with a true freshman QB. Florida had a perfect game, but they will stumble in 2007. The strongest SEC team in 2007 is probably LSU, and maybe UGA.

By dawgsrule

January 10, 2007 01:18 PM | Link to this

Couple of things.

I’m glad the SEC will now get the respect it deserves. This season makes me wonder woulda, shoulda, coulda back to 2002. If VT had beaten Miami on the same day we whipped Arkansas, we could have played OSU for the title in Richt’s 2nd year. Lots of similarities.

Florida got the break of USC gagging on the UCLA spoon or they would have never played in the game. We didn’t get the break of VT outscoring UM in that track meet that Saturday.

Also, to War Eagle: No slam intended but, was it my imagination or did Auburn not have a single length of the field offensive drive in its last 3 games ? Everything against us was after the penalty on the kickoff. Everything against Bama and Nebraska was after turnovers. Any concerns ?

By Cuz

January 10, 2007 01:25 PM | Link to this

Some of us need to rise above and congradulate a team that destroyed an obviously overrated media darling. I have to remember the Ol Ball Coach aint there anymore. I kinda like the Urban one, if only he did not have that crying episode he would come across as a manly man. Hey he was caught up in the emotion. Okay truth time. Who did not cry when Ol Yeller died? Okay the only hand up is Carter “the Ignorant Slut” Strickland. Cut the Urbanite some slack, he runs a classy program and I look forward to our future games. And according to the terms of the Jax Convention worked out over many beers with Gator the Dog catcher, smack talk by Dawgs against Gators is allowed one month prior to the game even if we have not won since before Georgia had a Republican Governor. Sonny just started his second term.

By G'Vegas Dawg

January 10, 2007 01:26 PM | Link to this

Gator Guy - :P (and I am the one using 4th grader tactics? Dawg97 - If you look back over some of the latest recruiting classes, it doesn’t necessarily corelate to success. Look at our last #1 recruiting class that was headed up by the awesome, out of this world, next Hershel Walker, by the name of uh…..Jasper Sanks. Don’t get me wrong, I am extremely excited about our recruits, but, until they get on campus and get eligible (Caleb King) I don’t think we can put much faith in them. They are afterall high school kids playing aginst other high schools with sometimes zero talent. Every year one can’t miss blue chip turns out to be a lemon. I am VERY afraid that this year’s will be Caleb King. I just don’t see him getting academically eligible with regards to the SAT.

By buddrodog

January 10, 2007 01:27 PM | Link to this

The Gators speak for all of the SEC. Theirs is the exclamation point on a 6-3 conference bowl record. They won it for UF first, but its the conference’s win too. Six teams in ther Final AP Top 25 poll, not bad when the rest of the nation bad-mouths the SEC from dawn to dusk. As a Dogs backers through thick and thin, I still give the Gators their due. It’s a great league. Look at it this way for testimony and all the evidence one needs to demonstrate the balance of the SEC in 2006…Auburn puts the only loss on Florida’s national championship record, a game the War Eagles clearly deserved to win; then Georgia goes to Auburn and whips the War Eagles by 22, defying all odds. Auburn beats Florida AND LSU and Florida whips LSU. A lot of people think LSU could easily have been the national champion itself this year. Arkansas beat Auburn and looks great before slipping in the last three games. It’s a war down here in the South every Saturday. We have a right to brag a little. I like what UF’s Jarvis Moss said after the Ohio State game, “There are four or five other teams in the SEC that can compete with Ohio State and play the same type of game we did against them.” It’s all in who you’ve played and what you know. SEC players and coaches pretty much as a rule (not always) respect each other and stick together when standing up for the conference against all the pretenders from the Midwest and the Left Coast. Go Dawgs in 2007!!!!

By Cuz

January 10, 2007 01:36 PM | Link to this

Great post buddrodog, feel free to post more often.

By Gator Guy

January 10, 2007 01:40 PM | Link to this

G’Vegas Dawg——Not the only one, by any means. Just the latest. Not so much 4th grade tactics, as 4th grade vocabulary. You can do better for UGA and fans. Please try. More than one way to skin a Gator. Better for all concerned.

By Cuz

January 10, 2007 01:40 PM | Link to this

Hey Buck, how are you feeling?

To answer your topic Chip, Florida’s win though great for the SEC affects UGA very little. Maybe they get a fence sitter recruit over us. Just two top NCAA programs scrapping as usual.

Until we win one in Jax, I stick by the terms of the Jax convention on smack talk.

By godawg

January 10, 2007 01:42 PM | Link to this

Gator Guy, don’t know if “you-know-who” is aware he came in #39 in the list of The 50 Most Loathsome People in College Football or not (ranked above Jimmy Clausen no less). If he did, I think, as one of this blog’s most prolific posters, we would have heard from him as I suspect he would view his listing as a mark of honor.

Be sure and click on his example post. It is so very stereotypical of him that his handle should become synonymous with long, rambling, incoherent diatribes posted on the internet.

BTW: His picture is spot on, just how I have always pictured him in my mind. ROTFLMAO!! Kalamazoo, Altamaha, Cuz, NWDawg, crs, Reality Check, BirdDawg, Spanky, Conyers, Shock’Em, truedawg, Chip Towers et al be sure and check this out!

By jvpartin

January 10, 2007 02:07 PM | Link to this

According to the NCAA Kentucky won a football championship in 1950

http://www.ncaa.org/champadmin/iafootballpast_champs.html

Since their Basketball team won in 49 and 51 that would also make them have both football and basketball championships in the same year.

One could argue different polls and rankings but they are listed as a champion at the NCAA

By Gen Neyland

January 10, 2007 02:22 PM | Link to this

godawg…

# 39…A true blue hoot. Looks like he could use Meals-On-Wheels, which I proudly assist with in my county of Dawson…

By arlubic

January 10, 2007 02:27 PM | Link to this

I’m a Gator alum, and 4 times since moving to Georgia I’ve had soda sprayed all over the back of my car just because I have a Gator sticker in the back window. Georgia fans need to grow up. We’re the champions; this is our year. Stop hating on the Gators and win a championship of your own.

By Navigator

January 10, 2007 02:31 PM | Link to this

From the jacket nation, the answer is no, because there is only one National Champion each year. Many times it’s not even the best two teams playing (remember 13-0 Auburn as an example). UGA movtivation is first play in, then win the SEC Championship. Playing in the big game sometimes is by chance. UGA has won several SEC’s, and this is Forida’s first in a long time. Did it raise the bar for Florida, when UGA was SEC Champion, I think not. Quality of players, injuries, and sometimes luck is part of the reason a team is a champion of anything. I really don’t Mark Richt cares one way or the other about what Forida did this year.

By Ron Burgundy

January 10, 2007 02:33 PM | Link to this

I love how some UGA fan in the main article about this called the gators a jean-short wearing, trashy fanbase….

Pot…meet kettle.

LOL!!!!!

By STEVEDAWG

January 10, 2007 02:36 PM | Link to this

I hate Florida. They may always beat the crap out of us, but we are thE DAWGS!!!! WE’ll awlays be better than yoU!!!!

By Ol' Ball Coach

January 10, 2007 02:48 PM | Link to this

Dogs Suck, Plain and Simple

Weak schedules and nothing but mouth all day long.

By gator the dog catcher

January 10, 2007 02:49 PM | Link to this

Cuz, godawg, Buck, and Sautee - thanks for the kind words. It wouldn’t be very Jacksonville Convention-esque of me to rub it in, so I wont do it. As far as the jean shorts go, they are good luck! I’ve kept the same pair on since Monday night and have already won the scratch off lottery twice! If I let my hair grow in the back we may have a dynasty on our hands here boys! Anybody got a countdown started for next seasons kickoff?

By gdawginkalamazoo

January 10, 2007 02:49 PM | Link to this

godawg, thanks. There is 30 minutes of my life I won’t get back. Thanks for starting the year off with yet another fantastic and hilarious link (FHL). Damn that post by BuLLdawg. LMAO.

Also, I really can’t wait to see Clausen roll up to ND in his stretch hummer. Might go drive by with my Georgia gear just to remind him who owns the Clausens.

By godawg

January 10, 2007 02:51 PM | Link to this

Navigator, because, as you say there can be only one national Champion each year, can you tell me who won it in 1990? ;-)

arlubic, there are sh!tty fans everywhere. I had some Gator fans vandalize my car in Jax a few years ago. They kicked out my headlights making it difficult to drive back to Jekyll that night after the game…. and Florida won. NICE!

By Matt

January 10, 2007 02:57 PM | Link to this

I don’t think it means much for Georgia at all. When you’ve lost 15 of the past 17 to a team the only way to go is up. Beating Florida is always a challenge. Hopefully our players watched that game and thought about what it would be like to play in it. If Florida can do it Georgia can too.

By Buck Cochran in the NW

January 10, 2007 02:57 PM | Link to this

Cuz, I put that email some place and can’t find it. Could you resend? Monday was take a piece of a spot and tomorrow is find out what it means day. I promise I won’t lose it this time. At least as of tody, I don’t know if King will make his scores or not, but if we do have any offensive speed(read Troupe) I hope we use it this year and not “Shirt” everybody. I’m not making any rash predictions for ‘07, I’m just very comfortable with what we’ll have. Sept. will tell us a whole lot and if we do come out of that month undefeated then the SEC East better look out. 1st things 1st. Okla. St.

By gator the dog catcher

January 10, 2007 02:59 PM | Link to this

I know everybody is on Jimmy Clausen, but keep in mind that neither Casey nor Rick had the benefit of being coached by Cutcliffe while at Tennessee. Just look at the improvement by Ainge with one year of being coached by Cutcliffe.

By Gator Guy

January 10, 2007 03:07 PM | Link to this

godawg & arlubic——You’re both more generous of heart than I am when it comes to having your vehicle vandalized. If I catch somebody messing with my vehicle, the miscreants are going to find out what the business end of a full-size Maglite feels like … No excuse for that kind of behavior, Dawg on Gator, Gator on Dawg, or anyone else. Having formerly lived in Miami, where breaking into vehicles was a source of income for some, I wouldn’t even have a problem with a shoot-on-sight law.

By Big Dawg

January 10, 2007 03:18 PM | Link to this

dawgsrule

Couple of things.

I’m glad the SEC will now get the respect it deserves.

I hate to disagree with a fellow Dawg, but the respect being shown for the SEC will rapidly dissapate just as it has in the past. ABC and ESPN have a contract with the Big Ten and with Lee Corso having coached in the Big Ten and Kirk Herbstreet playing at The Ohio State University it won’t last long.

By Gator Guy

January 10, 2007 03:22 PM | Link to this

gator the dog catcher——Big Gator MNC high-five to you!

Gotta sign off now; my “Georgia Tech boss” is threatening to fire me for spending too much time on the internet with my rival fans at the cyber Dawg pound. (No, not really.)

Thanks to the Dawg-bloggers for being gracious good sports. As the old saying goes, every dog must have his day. Your day will come.

By Big Dawg

January 10, 2007 03:36 PM | Link to this

Buck Cochran in the NW

My prayers are with you, as for King and his grade on the SAT that will take care of itself. Also as for offensive team speed we have a lot of players who are burners, our problem was the receivers catching the ball. I agree with you as I can’t wait for the season to begin as I believe we will have a very good team. Only time will tell if these guys perform up to their capabilities and we will know rather quickly if they are for real.

Go Dawgs

By godawg

January 10, 2007 03:44 PM | Link to this

Gator Guy, I would have loved to catch the perpetrators, however it happened either during or immediately following the game in a supposed “protected” lot. They also did other things to the car, but the broken headlights were the biggest pain. I wonder what they would have done if Georgia had won the game.

By tim

January 10, 2007 03:59 PM | Link to this

okay, i am LMAO about #39. That there is funny; I don’t care who you are.

By Nathaniel Edwin Harris

January 10, 2007 04:05 PM | Link to this

godawg is a whiner, go to an FSU-Canes game in Miami and learn what trashy, ghetto fans are really like.

By Pitbull

January 10, 2007 04:09 PM | Link to this

**There is no shame in UGA losing to a quality SEC team as long as they do your best. There is plenty of shame in losing to Georgia Tech (the b*** of Southern football). As long as we beat Tech and play well within the SEC, a few conference losses will never bother me.

By godawg

January 10, 2007 04:18 PM | Link to this

Thanks, but no thanks Edwin. I try to stay away from sporting events in third-world countries.

By gdawginkalamazoo

January 10, 2007 04:21 PM | Link to this

godawg, I might have to agree with old Nathaniel on that one! Can you say Kevlar? And bullet holes in your car. (And I don’t mean those stupid sticker types either).

gtdc, but Clausen has that hair and that attitude that will get him nowhere. CFB HOF for an announcement? Stretch Hummer? Who does all that to say I am going to Notre Dame. Isn’t he from California? What was in just in the neighborhood of the CFB HOF? Or there for Ricky and Casey’s induction into the “Owned by UGA” wing of the hall. Couldn’t he have announced on campus? Or maybe at the IHOP? Jeez, he doomed himself before he even takes a snap in the NCAA.

By gdawginkalamazoo

January 10, 2007 04:23 PM | Link to this

godawg, please don’t go into the abuse that your tailpipe took. Those crazy gator fans.

By Ol' Ball Coach

January 10, 2007 05:06 PM | Link to this

Amen on the godawg comment. Nothing but a GD Whiner Athens style. Nothing but, what’s ifs, trivial statistics and wait for next year.

Cannot talk about what his school has done, only can attack the Techies. I can understand, because the UGA program does not even make the top-ten in terms of national (recognizable tiels).

Yes, Tech is an inferior program, but this is not about Tech, but about how everyone around UGA talks about next year and how it never pans out.

GoDawg is all about nothing.

By Ol' Ball Coach

January 10, 2007 05:09 PM | Link to this

Pitbull: set higher goals other than GT. This is the crux of the problem with UGA and why UGA will never compete for a national title.

Focus on UA, LSU, UF and UT..sorry, no need, they have already waxed you over the past 20 years. Yeal, better focus on Tech.

By dogwalk

January 10, 2007 05:35 PM | Link to this

The reason we won’t vie for the NC is because Mark Richt is not up to the task. Just not bright enough. 10 and 2 forever.

By G'Vegas Dawg

January 10, 2007 06:19 PM | Link to this

Ol’ Ball Sac - What is a recognizable tiel?

By cane head

January 10, 2007 06:50 PM | Link to this

as a former hurricane football player i say good for uf,uga doesn’t have the will,players or the heart to win the sec let alone the nat’l champ.all i can say is keep champions in florida

By G'Vegas Dawg

January 10, 2007 07:07 PM | Link to this

CO-Cane Head - Where in your book does class rank? I noticed that you mentioned will, players, and heart but left out some of the more important intangibles of a SUCCESSFUL football program. Things such as character and class are the things that are important to me. I hope you get this soon as I am sure that you don’t get that much time online from prison. Keep your cornhole covered!

By 'Cane Head

January 10, 2007 07:15 PM | Link to this

The championships can stay in Florida for years because UF, FSU, and Miami do a good job of recruiting the lowest of the low in terms of thugs and delinquints. If the arrests, gambling, and on-field fights weren’t evidence enough, the whole state of Florida is a cess-pool of filth and tourists. Yeah, keep the championships in Florida, so long as you keep your drug dealers and Haitians there, too.

Why does everyone think this win will set up Florida to be dominant for decades? FSU won in 98 and almost in 99, and where are they now? Florida won in 96 and lost to the Dogs in 97. Ohio State won, USC won, Texas won, LSU won, I haven’t seen the repeats. Nobody saw those NC’s coming, it’ll happen for anyone, any year. UGA could do just as much as Tenn could do it, too.

Florida…America’s wang. What a bunch of d*cks. Screw the all of yous.

By Randy

January 10, 2007 08:30 PM | Link to this

While I am happy to see that the SEC will finally get much needed respect now that the NC is from it’s conference, it’s just a shame that it was the Gators who brought it respect. Don’t get me wrong, Florida has had a great season & is a great football team, I just dislike the arrogance of it’s players and fans. I know Florida has owned the Dawgs for many years now, I just wish that the yearly “smack talk” would subside on the part of Florida fans. Georgia only lost to Florida by a touchdown this year, small compared to the former #1 team’s loss to Florida in the NC. Georgia beat some really great teams this year and as many pointed out, we will only be getting better with each passing year. Stafford is a young phenom & will only develop more talent & confidence with each season. I am looking forward to this upcoming season, I think that Florida will have some stiff competition.

By brenda

January 10, 2007 09:02 PM | Link to this

Dawgtime it’s killing u and all mutt nation fans that Gators won the national title in football and sec title too. Once again the post on this blog show that mutt fans have noclass and always will be second in the sec east.Be proud that a team from the sec won the national championship.

By Navigator

January 10, 2007 09:04 PM | Link to this

Goddawg: I know where you’re going on 1990. The same place USC went in 2003, remember the AP poll had them #1, instead of LSU. The BSC has somewhat diminished the split poll, but there was one. Back in 1990, two school claim it by a split poll. Every individual chooses to believe what they want. Remember Oklahoma has a National Championship based on a split poll (UPI also). Let’s look at the politics of 1990, when the Orange bowl (Big 8/12 was the home team, and their referees called the game). They had a chance to match the 1,2 teams, but picked Notre Dame instead, and then made the homer call by calling back Notre Dame winning touch down. Personally I don’t care, but I do support the BCS champion as the National Champion. Beside the 2003, AP champion they also had another spit championship as well. Oklahoma also claims another split bowl championship (UPI), Alabama has one split bowl championship (AP), but AP didn’t recognise the bowls then (Alabama lost in the bowl). Every school wants to count what they can, just like GT. Once again, I don’t care, but I do remember the 11-0-1 year, and that was preaty good.

By 2x national champs

January 10, 2007 09:05 PM | Link to this

LIFE’S GREAT WHEN UR A GATOR!! THE GATORS OWN GEORGIA!!

By gator32347

January 10, 2007 09:31 PM | Link to this

I’ll take cut off jeans anytime over a fat redfaced toothless tobacco chewing possum eating redneck UGA fan/grad. Fleabag Nation envy The University of Florida.See you mutts in Jacksonville for another butt whipping by the 2X NC AND 7X SEC CHAMPS THE FLORIDA GATORS!!!!

By jrmdvm1

January 10, 2007 09:43 PM | Link to this

From a Dawg fan and UGA graduate. Congratulations Gators. You represented all of us in the SEC well. 3/4 of the conference in bowl games; 2/3 of them win ( 1/2 the total conference won their bowl game ). I am not unhappy that the Gators won. If anything, their performance in the game may help other 1 loss SEC champs get into the MNC game. The SEC East is the toughest “conference” in the country ( and the SEC West is a close second this year, who knows next year ). The Gators used a lot of skill and a little luck to win the SEC Championship, and then showed just how good the SEC is. Every SEC team on the Gator’s schedule played them tougher than Ohio State. An undefeated SEC team is always going to be the exception rather than the rule, and the Gators showed the rest of the country that the SEC Champ deserves to be in the MNC, whether it is the Gators again, or the Dawgs, or any other SEC Champ. Well done Gators. As a Dawg, I want every team we play to be undefeated until they lose to us. The Gators success will only make a victory over them that much sweeter. Go Gators, Go SEC, and GO DAWGS!

By MabletonGator

January 10, 2007 10:41 PM | Link to this

As a die hard Gator I was rooting for every SEC team in their respective bowl games (even GA and TN). The mighty Gators NC boasts well for the SEC. I’m not sure why some GA fans can’t admit that the Gators are deserving champs. The arguments against the Gators here are nonesense. There have been no NCAA infractions agains FL in years (unlike GA basketball), Gainesville is a great town with a beautiful campus, and the co-eds there are second to none. Frankly anointing Stafford as the next GA savior is silly since he was tied for last in the SEC with 7 touchdown passes. The fact is that FL schools will always be dominant in athletics because of the abundance of atheletes in the state. All this nonsense about buying championships is silly too. Meyer is not near the highest paid coach by a long shot, and OSU has a bigger athletics budget. The Dawgs are only capable of wining the SEC when other schools (UF, TN, AU, LSU) are having a bad year. Just be happy that the South’s dominance in college football can’t be questioned until we have to prove it again next season.

By True Dog

January 12, 2007 01:10 PM | Link to this

As Ric Flair says,”To be the man, you have to beat the man”, WOOOOOOOOOO. If my Dogs are going to be the “MAN” the road to manhood goes through Jacksonville. Hopefully the National Championship for the next few years goes through there also. The winner is the MAN. Congrats Gators, this year you are the MAN. See you next year. Enjoy.

By jfgast5263

January 12, 2007 10:27 PM | Link to this

I have been trying real hard to HATE Florida Football like I did during the Spurrier era. Its just hard to hate Urban Meyer. He is a class act just like Richt. He has principles, morals, and values. Its just not the same watching and hating the gators like I did when Spurrier was down there. I have to admit, it is pretty awesome when a school can hold both National Championships in basketball and football…. Anyways….GO DAWGS!! September will be here before we know it!!!