UGA

By Bryan G.

February 9, 2007 04:13 PM | Link to this

Who knows, frankly. I would have thought they’d split UT and Vandy, but I was wrong. We need to actually put the ball in the hoop for a change. We really haven’t done that in a few games now. 70 points anyone? That would be a start…

By ConyersDawg

February 9, 2007 04:29 PM | Link to this

The outside shots will start falling in and everything will be good. We can not forget about feeding the big man inside though. If T. Brown and the staff can figure out a way to make sure that there is an outlet for Brown when he gets doubled and tripled then that can help. Brown has to be quicker with the ball. Mercer has to drive to the basket more as well.

Any road game is going to be tough, but we need the south carolina and auburn road wins bad. If we can win those and throw in miss. st. and auburn and we are dancing for sure. Lose to auburn or miss st. and we could be a bubble bust!

Also, the dawgs can really solidify a spot in the big dance if they can play as we know they can and get to the semi’s of the sec tourney.

By Mike

February 9, 2007 04:31 PM | Link to this

UGA must go 5-2 to finish the season to even have a chance. Any slip up will cost them dearly. They are a bubble team right now, but must watch out for crazy scenarios in other conferences. If Butler loses in the Horizon League Tournament finals, then they get an at-large bid, taking it away from the big conferences. Georgia gets screwed in this case no matter if they finish with 5-2.

By Bradley G

February 9, 2007 04:31 PM | Link to this

UGA will be 8-8 in league play heading into the tournament. They will end up 17-12 and hope to become this year’s South Carolina…winning the NIT.

By Dawghead

February 9, 2007 04:49 PM | Link to this

Kennesaw State (W), Auburn (W), at Ole Miss (W), Mississippi State (W), at Kentucky(L), home versus Tennessee (oh please a W against that buttwipe Bruce Gearl)

By Matthew at the SLC

February 9, 2007 04:51 PM | Link to this

Chip, you know that while I have been very enthusiastic in my support of all of Bulldawg Sports, I have been measured at times as well. but not now. I’m saying the Dawgs are about to go on an epic run. We will win out. The only game that is iffy is Kentucky, but we know we can beat them. This team knows they can beat Kentucky. We’ve slain that monster. We will win the next 7 games. Then, in the tournament, we will win our first game, and maybe our second (as long as it isn’t against Florida). I can see us making it to the final game if we’re not in Florida’s bracket, and then who knows? We’ve played them tough, and if we were to play Florida at the Dome, it would be a pro-Dawg crowd.

But I think we really can do this. Go on a run in the SEC, because our hardest games are behind us. We will beat the snot out of Tennessee to end the regular season, I can tell you that much. So, I believe, with all of my heart we are in. And I want all of you Dawg fans who packed the Steg the last 3 home games to come out like that EVERY SINGLE HOME GAME WE HAVE LEFT! I want students and alums to stand the whole game! I want people jumping at their seats, creating an intimidating atmosphere that every team will fear. I want, no matter how far down this team gets (remember, we were down 15 to Kentucky at one point in that game), for everyone to keep up the enthusiasm in the building, and help this team over whatever mid-game hump they need to get over. We ARE the 6th man for this Dawgs team. We are the ones who can make the Steg a FEARED place to play.

This team deserves our support, people! This team, for the most part, plays with heart and they play together. There are no huge egos to overcome. There ar eno unlikable characters on this team, or guys without character. Coach Felton has built a team and a program we can be proud of. His guys aren’t getting busted for MIP or public intoxication. His guys aren’t smoking dope. His guys aren’t playing for the cameras, or doing anything we all hate about modern athletics. His guys, for the most part, play this game the right way. Yeah, sometimes, instead of jacking up all of those threes, it’d be nice if they feed the beast down low (Brown), but man, they can be exciting.

So come out, and be excited. Because these guys deserve our support!

Go Dawgs!

By Matthew at the SLC

February 9, 2007 05:00 PM | Link to this

When I say tournament I mean SEC, of course. God knows how we’ll do in the Bg Dance.

By Gatorhater

February 9, 2007 05:24 PM | Link to this

The dawgs will win at least 6 of the remaining games. And this will become a twenty win season after winning games in the sec tournament. If we can run the regular season table and make a strong showing in the sec tournament, then we should enter the big dance ranked. That would ultimately to a 5 or 6 seed in the big dance. Coach Felton has done a remarkable job with these dawgs and it is only going to get better over the next couple years. Go Dawgs!!!!!!!!1

By GW

February 9, 2007 05:45 PM | Link to this

I wish I could be optimistic but I fear a continued struggle for the Bulldogs. They must find a half-court offense to get some open 2 point shots and I don’t see it in their scheme. TK Brown seems to be played tired. Maybe he has hit the proverbial wall. They don’t have the athletic type depth to play pressure defense and steal any cheap points off turnovers. They better guard South Carolina’s Tre’ Kelley. He almost caught Kentucky single-handedly.

By Ron Roberts

February 9, 2007 05:49 PM | Link to this

The SC game will tell us all we need to know.

Why? Because we alread beat ‘em at home, and that mindset didn’t do us much good against Vanderbilt. These young men have to go on the road in Columbia knowing they’ll have to earn a win at SC, instead of just showing up with the “oh we already beat these guys, no big deal…” mentality.

If they’re mature enough to do that, then I see no reason to expect ‘em to drop any game with the exception of Kentucky on the road.

By jc2beers

February 9, 2007 06:19 PM | Link to this

UGA will split with ole miss and south carolina , lose to uk, but will win the rest. making them 18-11 (9-7)sec. that will be enough , if they win one in the sec tourn, then nooo sweat at all.

By Greg

February 9, 2007 06:25 PM | Link to this

I DRANK BEER AFTER READING ALL THAT MESS MAN!THE DAWGS WANT TO WIN AND LOOK GOOD DOING ALL THAT!!!I LOVE WINS AND ALL THATMAN!

By pj

February 9, 2007 08:16 PM | Link to this

The “running the table” argument needs to be tabled. I’ve gotten excited about Georgia basketball again this year, but I did watch the last two games and listened to the one before that. Let’s take this one game at a time. IF we can get an SEC road win Saturday night (I don’t care if it’s SC or not, we are one miracle shot away from being winless on the road in the conference)then we can bank on some momentum with a win over Kennesaw State. Momentum is the key, so that’s what makes the upcoming game so important. You break your losing streak, get two wins in a row going into a then extremely important home game against Auburn, and you are a team with a winning record in the conference again with something realistic to play for just games within your grasp.

“Running the table” is a pipe dream right now. Let’s focus on the biggest game of the year… and that’s our next one.

go dawgs.

By Buck Cochran in the NW

February 9, 2007 08:51 PM | Link to this

I see Barnhart doesn’t mention the Dawgs. Except for one game, I have to rely on what I read and hear. I just see a gaping hole between the 3 pt. shot and the basket. Brown can’t do it all by himsrlf under there and I hope Felton has figured out how to get him help when gets trapped down deep and maybe he’s learned how not to get himself boxed. I believe Chip said “live by the 3, die by the 3”. That’s a tough position to be in so all I can do is sit out here, follow the game tracker with fingers crossed. I don’t think we have a snowball’s chance if we lose more that one heading into the tournament.

By Anonymous

February 10, 2007 02:27 AM | Link to this

GREG, the “drinkin’ beer all day” joke has run its course and is now beginning to stink like last week’s fish. Come out from under your anonymous b.s., or be gone, my friend. Time to play with all other AJC bloggers as if you were a semi-adult Dawg fan.

By BuLLdawg

February 10, 2007 08:10 AM | Link to this

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I hardly want to talk any hoops, when we have lost 8 and won but 5 of the last 13 games since dropping to Georgia Tech.

http://www.cstv.com/teams/geo/

When Mike Mercer has taken 304 shots from the field and made the dead last worst percentage on the entire team.

When the guy who leads the team in points per game is Takais Brown shooting 57 percent of his shots from the field and yet he has taken only 199 shots to Mercer’s ball hog tactics of 304 at only 40 percent made.

When Mercer has jacked up 90 3-point shots too and made but 24 percent of them.

When Mercer has made the dead last worst free percentage of the top 8 players in the rotation as well at only 58 percent free throw shots.

http://www.cstv.com/statistics/2006-2007/m-baskbl/sec/geo/team-playerstats.html

Mercer does not play good defense, and left his man wide open the entire last game yet again. He just stands there and lets his man go around him and get loose.

I mean Chip Towers, if you go all season long until the last article by you finally this week saying that Mike Mercer is dragging the team down, when all you said before is how he is our greatest and most important player to discuss in every article, and now all of a sudden finally agree with my every point on Mike Mercer, then why in the hell we would we want to talk men’s basketball ? Try explaining that Chip Towers.

Georgia Institute of Technology I-A 17-NOV-05 16-NOV-07 ON PROBATION

Football Men’s Cross Country Men’s Swimming Men’s Track, Indoor Men’s Track, Outdoor Women’s Cross Country Women’s Swimming Women’s Track, Indoor Women’s Track, Outdoor

https://web1.ncaa.org/pdf/convert?pdfurl=http://goomer.ncaa.org:2020/wdbctx/lsdbi/lsdbi.lsdbimirpts.currentprobationrpt

As for Florida crocodiles, they have 16 NCAA National Championships all-time including 2005-2006 in Men’s Basketball.

http://www.ncaa.org/champadmin/champs_listing1.html

Georgia Tech has zero ever in any sport and that includes women’s tennis, whose championship is May 28th 2007 at UGA’s Dan McGill Tennis Center.

Georgia has 22 NCAA NC.

Florida, in Football, with their crybaby head coach has won its 3rd NC ever according to the NCAA Official Football Records’ Book 2007.

http://www.nationalchamps.net/NCAA/database/florida_database.htm

Georgia has 6 NC in Football Division 1-A according to the Official NCAA Records’ Book 2007.

1927.

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1942.

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1947.

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1966.

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1968.

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1980.

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http://www.nationalchamps.net/NCAA/database/georgia_database.htm

If you have a problem with that, then take it up with the NCAA and all these sites who report the official NCAA Records’ Book recognition of UGA with 6 NC in football.

Georgia has been ranked in 10 Consecutive Final AP Polls, and no other school has been in Football.

I have liked Coach Richt and have said so openly, but I will not sit idly by as we sign all these JUCO players, when I have criticized Florida for their JUCO transfers in the past as inflating their recruiting rankings when they are two years and done and gone and out players, and not say the same about us.

Nor, will I agree that we have diddle-e-squat to show for OL recruits who are expected to do a damn thing this season for us, all of whom we redshirted from last year’s class of not 7 but what ended up being 4.

Furthermore, if you recruit the bubble recruiting tactics of Coach Richt and Rodney Garner of 8 in 2002 and 8 in 2007, and go 4 seasons in-between of diddle-e-squat, you have perpetuated this bubble once again.

No lesson learned.

As for the JUCO players and how they burst this bubble, this blip of every 5 years giving out 8 scholarships to guys who then will play OL for us, as this continues now ad nauseum ad infinitum here at UGA in the Coach Richt Era, how did we get ourselves into this predicament of having to give out 8 scholarships 2007 to OL as we did in 2002 as well, was it because we were doing something you cannot name the players recruited who will do diddle-e-squat for us this season, that we had to go out and get all this Wendy’s Beef JUCO transfers ? No.

If you cannot look at AJ-C rankings of recruits for the 7 classes of the Coach Richt Era, and see that the AJ-C says this is his worst class ever, you are in denial.

If you cannot see Scout.com and see they too say this is the worst of the 7 classes by Coach Richt, you are also gravely mistaken.

If you cannot see that Rivals says this is Coach Richt’s worst class of his 7 years so far here, you are out of your ever-loving mind.

If there is one recruiting source who knows a damn thing about this topic you spout off about in public like you the guru, who says this is NOT the worst class of recruits Coach Richt has ever added in his now 7th recruiting class at UGA, please provide the URL Link ? Or, shut the hell up that this class is so absolutely awesome.

You are in the minority.

The poll on AJ-C reflects that in fact, only 1 of 4 of us believes this class is awesome.

700 of 3000 of us, think this recruiting class is awesome according to the most recent poll on AJ-C/UGA.com

Coach Richt has averaged very high classes, by contrast in the past, and did I not extol the virtues of that to us all here ?

Sure I did, and likewise, I would be remiss and 2-faced to not say now that this is a poor trend for a program with twice as many SEC and NC in Football as Florida – although Florida added more recently that we.

Florida has also added more wins against us recently, 15 of the last 17.

But, that too leaves Florida behind us in that point, doesn’t it ?

46-37-2 Georgia is ahead.

Is the POINT that Florida beats us in football?

Coach Spurrier has not beaten us yet at South Carolina. What is so great about that ? He is NOT the Florida Coach.

Florida does NOT own the 2006-2007 Men’s Basketball NCAA Championship.

Just Football.

Florida does NOT own the SEC All-Sports Trophy 2005-2006, for that is UGA.

2005-2006, Florida has the Men’s Basketball NC.

2006-2007, Florida has the Football NC.

NCAA says they have 16 NC.

NCAA says UGA has 22 NC.

NCAA says UGA has 6 NC Football.

NCAA says FL has 3 NC Football.

SEC says FL has 7 SEC Championships Football.

SEC says UGA has 12.

What is his point?

That the NCAA says FL is greater than UGA ?

I don’t know about you, but I am confused by his posts.

Beat UGA in Football ? They have not, and are 9 behind.

Beat UGA in NC in Football ? They have not and are 3 behind.

Beat UGA in NC in All-Sports with 16 ? They have not and are 6 behind.

Beat UGA in SEC Football Championships ? They have not and are 5 behind.

Beat UGA in All-Sports in the SEC ? They did not; we have the All-Sports Trophy.

Won both Men’s Basketball and Football NC in the same season ? They did not 2005-2006 Men’s Basketball and 2006-2007 Football.

And, where oh where is your retort about we “will sign 10 or 12 top-notch football recruits, especially in-state after December 10th ?” I missed that.

Anyway, it’s NASCAR season now. .

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By BuLLdawg

February 10, 2007 08:55 AM | Link to this

War Eagle I appreciate your points in this blog that my 39 points are not only all correct, my predictions such as of Coach Richt would NOT HAVE A LOSING RECORD to Auburn as he in fact does NOT and that Ohio State thugs would fall on their face against the SEC, that the Big Ten (11) would do poorly in bowl games as they always do and the SEC would win our bowl games, but that also my points are valid.

You were not the only one who said my points remain valid every post, all 39 points.

That I make valid points.

But, you were the only 1 who said that Auburn’s recruits from our state were better guys, not trouble-makers like Tray Blackmon, the starting linebacker at Auburn than those who play for UGA.

And, now all you can say is that my points are valid.

Trust me; I know that. Because I bother to look it up before I open my trap in public on 39 points.

39 is more valid points than you have made all-time combined, and me ?

39 points, all valid you say War Eagle, and others, and all in but 1 post : I am so ashamed.

By Professor Albert

February 10, 2007 10:38 AM | Link to this

Mr. BuLLdawg, while the faculty appreciates the work that you have done, we take no pleasure in noting that you have failed to properly complete your research assignment for our class in History of Intercollegiate Sports (101). In fact, you have stated with certainty, for the entire class to read, factually incorrect and incomplete information regarding the University of Florida’s national championships in men’s and women’s varsity sports. In fact, the Gators have won 20, not 16, national intercollegiate sports championships, including the following:

1. Men’s Golf (1968 NCAA)
2. Men’s Golf (1973 NCAA)
3. Women’s Swimming (1979 AIAW)
4. Gymnastics (1982 AIAW)
5. Women’s Swimming (1982 NCAA)
6. Men’s Swimming (1983 NCAA)
7. Men’s Swimming (1984 NCAA)
8. Women’s Golf (1985 NCAA)
9. Women’s Golf (1986 NCAA)
10. Women’s Indoor Track (1992 NCAA)
11. Women’s Tennis (1992 NCAA)
12. Men’s Golf (1993 NCAA)
13. Women’s Tennis (1996 NCAA)
14. Football (1996 Associated Press/Coaches)
15. Women’s Tennis (1998 NCAA)
16. Soccer (1998 NCAA)
17. Men’s Golf (2001 NCAA)
18. Women’s Tennis (2003 NCAA)
19. Men’s Basketball (2006 NCAA)
20. Football (2006 BCS/Associated Press)

You have made two fundamental errors in your analysis, Mr. BuLLdawg. First among your errors was failing to recognize that until 1982 the principal regulatory body for women’s college sports and sponsor of women’s sports championships was the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW), not the NCAA. Thus, your incorrect count of the Gators’ sports championships fails to include two women’s championships recognized by the AIAW.

Your second and more egregious error was in failing to recall that the NCAA has never awarded a championship in Division I football, but has left recognition of the so-called “mythical national championship” in Division I football to various other organizations and publications. (You may recall that we have discussed this particular controversy at great length in our other History of Sport lectures; I suggest that you review your notes on this topic with greater care before our final exam. This topic is certain to be tested.) Because of this fundamental error, Mr. BuLLdawg, you have also omitted the Gators’ two consensus national championships in football (1996 and 2006) from your incomplete count.

Furthermore, while I am quite certain that Coach Charles Pell and his 1984 Gator football team appreciate your awarding them a national football championship, this “championship” was recognized by the New York Times and several other sports publications. It was not recognized by the two consensus polling services, the Associated Press Poll and the UPI/USA Today/ESPN/Coaches Poll. The Gators do not claim it as their third football championship, so perhaps you should not be so quick to award it to them so gratuitously.

Now, please sit down, Mr. BuLLdawg. And next time, please do not come to class so unprepared or we will be forced to deduct one-half letter grade from your final exam score for each such future failure to properly prepare in advance for our class lectures.

Mr. BuLLdawg, in order to redeem yourself in the eyes of the faculty and students, you will be required to write a 39,000-word essay on the importance of maintaining a proper sense of humility in one’s academic endeavours. Correct spelling, grammar, and source citations will be required, and you will be expected to use italicized and bold-faced type only when appropriate. If you have any questions, please consult Professor Strunk’s and Mr. White’s Elements of Style and the Chicago Style Handbook. Your remedial essay will be due in my office prior to our next lecture; please do not be tardy in your submission, sir.

Students, please read Chapter 39 of our text in preparation for our next lecture. Our next lecture topic will be the Gators’ unheralded 171 SEC championships in various men’s and women’s intercollegiate sports, which I believe you will find to be more than those won by any other past or present conference member (including those of former members Georgia Tech and Tulane).

Class dismissed.

By Cobb Dawg

February 10, 2007 12:29 PM | Link to this

Holy S**!!!! Thats funny. Im laughing so hard my sides hurt.

By Cobb Dawg

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

B******, with all the time you spend on your posts wouldnt it be nice if you made less factual errors??!!

By Cobb Dawg

February 10, 2007 04:08 PM | Link to this

BuLLsh*t, you also can’t even get the number of national sports championships that UGA has won right. Its 29 champion teams not 22. only you could short chnage your own school. Not every college sports chmpionship is run by the NCAA but I guess you knew that right??? And why do you claim 6 MNCs in football win UGA Athletic Assn claims 2? Maybe its because we were consinsus champs in 1980 and 1942 and only 1 or 2 groups named us number 1 in the other years when other teams were consinsus number 1s? BTW NCAA does not recognize MNCs in football, it just lists different groups that named number 1 teams easch year. Do you actualy read the material at the links you post? As you often are YOUR WRONG AGAIN!!!!

By BadgerDawg

February 10, 2007 05:33 PM | Link to this

BuLL’s points are always “right” because he creates a moving target and/or distorts the truth. He writes that the SEC is going to go 9-0 in bowls this year, then later writes he knew the Pumpkin would lose to Penn State all along(after it happened of course.) He writes about a team getting BLOWN OUT BY MORE THAN TWICE THEIR SCORE when the final was 27-13 and the game was tied with 3 minutes left in the 3rd. He omits that the Big 10 was 2-1 against the SEC this year when asserting that he knew the SEC would excel and the Big Ten would struggle(again, nowhere near 9-0, but who cares now, right?) I’m sure he was right about JoeT leading us to 12 wins and an SEC title this year too lol.

By Brian Jones

February 10, 2007 06:31 PM | Link to this

Yeah in grasp for the lady dogs 13-10 after tonight i dont think the dogs will make it. I am lookng foward to football juco offensive line and a qb who had worse freshman numbers than reggie ball the sec should be fun for the bulldogs

By Buck Cochran in the NW

February 10, 2007 08:37 PM | Link to this

Chip, I’ll have to repeat this later but notice in Carter’s column where CMR says they have no intention ty0o “RS” anybody, thry’re telling them to get ready to play. Now, that by no means, means a lot og Freshmen won’t “RS”, but I’ve never heard CMR say anything like that and it does indicate a different mental approach to the game. We’ve got some meat on this bone and I’m not wrong.

By Atlanta Gator

February 10, 2007 09:21 PM | Link to this

Good job, Dawgs. Way to keep the NCAA tournament hopes alive … one win at a time.

By drocedus

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

BuLLDawg, use your own link to nationalchamps.net to see that UGA has only one (I know it’s embarrassing) national championship in football. The other are Championhip “selections”. According to that website, UGA has one championship plus five championship “selections” whereas Georgia Tech has three national championships plus three championship “selections”. My momma can have “selections”, but they’re not considered consensus championships. Face it, UGA football history is not impressive.

By drocedus

February 10, 2007 10:45 PM | Link to this

Hilarious - BuLLdawg getting ripped by his own “dawgs”.

By Big Dawg

February 10, 2007 10:53 PM | Link to this

Its looks like Miller will be moved to Middle linebacker. Also Richt doesn’t plan on redshirting anybody including Caleb King who could be thrown into the tailback mix, but it appears more likely that he will be used as a third-down, pass receiving type of back. It seems he also talked about moving John Knox to LB as well.

By drocedus

February 10, 2007 10:59 PM | Link to this

Greg - shut up, you’re boring us.

By Buck Cochran in the NW

February 10, 2007 11:13 PM | Link to this

‘Cats, 1-15 from 3 pt. land? They had a chance to upset the Reptiles but you don’t do it on that kind os ahooting……..Hope Mercer can come back but good job Dawg now lets get the next one…..Know Chip is busy but Conyers are you out there?…. Can the ‘Cats really win?…No!…3-22 from 3 pt. land. no way.

By Buck Cochran in the NW

February 10, 2007 11:53 PM | Link to this

Brain Jones, you can’t compare Ball and Stafford. Nice try.

By pj

February 10, 2007 11:55 PM | Link to this

Those EXTREMELY long posts make it less appealing to come read the blogs. Maybe try and limit yourself to… oh, I don’t know - a small novel?

Mike Mercer may play wildly and miss alot of shots, but he was the most athletic guy on the floor for the dawgs every night, and a great away from the ball defender. Humphrey had a phenomenal game and is a good player, and Woodbury is a “long” player, as they like to say it… but this is gonna hurt.

No dislocation of a knee this violent goes without ligament damage. He’s done folks. See ya next year Mike. God bless.

By K-9 Teeth

February 11, 2007 01:05 AM | Link to this

With the Dawgs shoooting 52% from 3-ball land tonight it is not surprising they brought this victory home. For some reason we now own the Chickens, I’m not sure why. After throwing Singleton under the bus the other day in a post, he actually played with a little more intensity on defense tonight (9 rebs and 3 blocks) although I’ve not seen a more timid 7-footer offensively in a long while. I know the coaching staff must preach to him about keeping the ball up high when he receives it in the low post but obviously those words sail right through his ear canals. I wish for once he would rattle the rafters with a ferocious dunk down low…alas I may be dreaming.

I feel bad for Mercer, from the looks of it this may be a difficult comeback. For some reason, I think the team will be alright even though he was our best on-ball defender and even though his shot selection was sometimes suspect, I always saw him play with excellent tenacity. I wish you well Mike.

I hope Sundiata stays overtime in the gym at the foul line the next week, his inability to hit free throws is starting to annoy me.

1 down 3 more conference wins to go ( I think 9-7 gets us in. I hope.

By BuLLdawg

February 11, 2007 04:26 AM | Link to this

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Since you provide no URL Link to your bogus BS 20 FL NC, and since UGA has 22 NCAA NC listed at the URL Link provided, we find that UGA indeed STILL HAS ACCORDING TO YOU, MORE NC. I see you have no problem finding the NCAA NC listing for all sports except for 1-A Football because the NCAA covers that in their NCAA Official 1-A Football Records Book, where you are or are not recognized by any of the governing bodies for a NC in football 1-A.

Georgia Tech has the same 6 in the NCAA Records Book NC Division 1-A Football that UGA has, not more. And, Florida still has 3.

Indeed, we all feel badly for Mike Mercer and the team without him - just when in the last two games he was getting his game to come around with good shot selection, cutting down on his turnovers, albeit with still inconsistency from the 3-point and free throw lines.

The rest of the team will have to take his team-leading minutes and suck it up and stay out there fighting.

Mike Mercer’s career is in jeopardy, and it is a shame just when he was beginning to listen to what needed to be done to lift his game as he was doing.

He may never be the same.

http://admin.xosn.com/fls/8800/stats/mbasketball/2007/teamcume.htm

Best of Wishes Mike Mercer for a speedy and full recovery sir.

As for Florida crocodile poster, with all his fake handles he logs in here with, obviously eat up with his lies that Florida has beaten UGA in football more than they have lost when they have NOT, that Florida has more SEC Football Championships than UGA when they have NOT, that Florida has more officially recognized by the NCAA NC in 1-A Football which they have NOT, or that Florida has more NC in all sports than UGA which they have NOT, good try… But, you have done nothing but make my point about your posts - that they are INCORRECT and WRONG and LIES without URL Link, and that Florida REMAINS behind UGA in EVERY CATEGORY YOU EVER LISTED ON THIS BLOG, EVER.

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By BuLLdawg

February 11, 2007 05:27 AM | Link to this

http://www.ncaa.org/champadmin/champs_listing1.html

The NCAA credits Florida at the URL Link provided with a Women’s Swimming and Diving NC, as you say the NCAA does NOT. (You said I did not, but it is NOT I, but the NCAA at the URL Link provided which makes this claim that Florida has NO GYMNASTICS’ NC and but 1 NC in Women’s Swimming and Diving. Further, the statement is NCAA NC, not NAIA. Good Lord.)

You are WRONG therefore, on that issue that Florida has 20 NCAA NC.

Further…

You AGREE UGA has 22 NCAA NC, since you challenge NONE of the 22 NCAA NC the NCAA credits UGA with other than 1-A Football which they cover in NCAA Official Records’ Book Division 1-A Football showing UGA with 6 and Florida with 3.

22+6=28.

If you add 3 to 16, you get only 19.

Even 19 is not more than 22. And, again, you challenge none of the 19.

19+2 is still 21.

Where is your point ?

Your statement is that Florida is somehow unmentioned better at NCAA NC in all sports.

Florida is NOT.

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Georgia

Total NCAA Team Championships: 22 men’s championships: 7 women’s championships: 15 coed championships: 0

Breakdown by Sport: men’s baseball: 1 men’s golf: 2 women’s golf: 2 women’s gymnastics: 7 women’s swimming & diving: 4 men’s tennis: 4 women’s tennis: 2

Florida

Total NCAA Team Championships: 16 men’s championships: 7 women’s championships: 9 coed championships: 0

Breakdown by Sport: men’s basketball: 1 men’s golf: 4 women’s golf: 2 women’s soccer: 1 men’s swimming & diving: 2 women’s swimming & diving: 1 women’s tennis: 4 women’s indoor track & field: 1

http://www.ncaa.org/champadmin/champs_listing1.html

Georgia Tech 0

It was not I who posted these wild and crazy claims of superiority in Football, SEC Championships in Football, wins over the other school in football, NC Recognized by the NCAA in its Official NCAA Football Records’ Book Division 1-A, nor NCAA NC in All Sports; but it is I who HAS CORRECTED CORRECTLY your B.S.

http://www.ncaa.org/library/records/football/FootballRecordsBook/2006/2006D1FootballRecordsBook.pdf

It reads on Page 76, since I also own a copy of said Official NCAA Football Records’ Book Division 1-A Football :

1942 Georgia: Berryman, Billingsley, DeVold, Houlgate, Litkenhous, Poling, Sagarin, Sagarin (ELO-Chess), Williamson Ohio St.: AP, Boand, Dunkel, Football Research, National Championship Foundation Wisconsin: Helms

You seem wholly unable to find either the NCAA NC All Sports other than Division 1-A Football URL Link, and the NCAA Official Football Records Book Division 1-A. Why is that ? Because you are a moron ?

By Professor Albert

February 11, 2007 06:58 AM | Link to this

Mr. BuLLdawg, it is not unusual in our History of Intercollegiate Sports (101) lectures to have strong differences of opinion. What distinguishes you, Mr. BuLLdawg, from our other students is that you cannot reconcile actual facts with your own opinions.

Unfortunately for an aspiring student of sports, even when confronted with actual facts, you seem to prefer your opinions. (Quite odd, really. Perhaps I shall add a future lecture on Abnormal Sports Fan Psychology, with yourself as a case study.) Once again, you have failed to acknowledge the simple facts: the NCAA was not and is not the sole sponsor of national championships in intercollegiate sports. Your next assignment will include a 3,900-word remedial essay on the history of women’s intercollegiate sports before 1982-83 (please see “AIAW” in our course syllabus).

If you won’t believe your professor, perhaps, you will believe the University of Georgia Athletic Association:

http://www.georgiadogs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DBOEMID=8800&KEY=&ATCLID=324061

The total, you will see, is 29, not 22, intercollegiate championships won by the University of Georgia (including those sponsored by the NCAA, ITA, IHSA and the two consensus football championships). I thank one of our more diligent student researchers, Mr. Cobb Dawg, for his assistance in this matter.

The University of Florida has won 20, not 16, intercollegiate sports championships (including 16 sponsored by the NCAA, 2 sponsored by the AIAW, and two consensus football championships). In our previous lecture, we provided a list of these 20 championships, but I also provide this link to the [UF] University Athletic Association’s website, since you seem rather fond of weblinks:

http://web.gatorzone.com/overview/

You will note, Mr. BuLLdawg, that neither the University of Florida nor the University of Georgia claim football championships for years in which there was not a consensus in the particular year. It is a sound institutional precedent to which this professor defers.

As for the NCAA Records Book and its “recognition” of national championships in college football, you will note this disclaimer from the NCAA’s website, which I quote in furtherance of your sports education:

“Schools in the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision do not participate in the NCAA Division I Football Championship. Instead, they participate in postseason bowl games. Since 1998, the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) has conducted a bowl contest between it’s [sic] two top-ranked teams to determine a national champion. More information on the BCS is available at their Web site.

“A number of polling organizations also provide a final ranking of Division I-A football teams at the end of each season. Below is a year-by-year history of Division I-A football national champions as determined by the BCS championship game and these polling organizations.”

As stated on its own website, the NCAA does not determine these national championships; they are determined by the BCS championship game and the polling organizations. But we suspect that you knew this already, and simply let your un-scholarly anger at being corrected get the better of you. One should not invest so much of one’s own ego in the vicarious enjoyment of the athletic accomplishments of others.

As for your rhetorical straw man, that this professor and/or others have claimed the superiority of one university’s athletic program over another, I can only add that you did not hear any such statement from this professor. It is our purpose simply to correct your factual misstatements regarding the number of national intercollegiate sports championships won by these two schools.

In the paraphrased words of one of my professorial colleagues:

Here is a quarter, Mr. BuLLdawg. Come get it. Call your mother, and tell her that you are never going to be a sportswriter.

Raising your voice in flights of rhetorical fancy, stomping your feet, and pompous name-calling directed at our other students are juvenile behaviors that we cannot tolerate in this adult forum. Further name-calling, especially when directed at your professors, will get you sent to the Dean’s office for a stern talking-to. Your remedial paper on the proper role of humility in academic endeavours is now due in my office.

Now, sit down, Mr. BuLLdawg, and let our other students express their opinions without further boisterous interruptions by you.

Class dismissed.

By BuLLdawg

February 11, 2007 08:46 AM | Link to this

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What’s all this fascination with Steve Spurrier by Florida crocodile fans in this blog ?

After Steve Spurrier dies and enters the Pearly Gates, God takes him on a tour. He shows the petulant child a little two-bedroom house with a faded Florida football banner hanging from the front porch. “This is your house, Coach.”

Most people don’t get their own houses up here, God says. Spurrier looks at the house, then turns around and looks at the one sitting on top of the hill. It is a huge three-story brick mansion with white marble columns and little patios under all of the windows. 6 National Championship flags line both sides of the sidewalk and a huge “Go Team win the game between Georgia and Florida” banner hangs between the marble columns while “Winners” blares from hidden speakers.

“Thank you for the house, God. But let me ask you a question. I get this little two-bedroom house with a faded banner, and Urban Crybaby gets a mansion with new banners and flags flying all over the place. I didn’t think football records made a difference in heaven whether they were more recent or not. Why is his house so much nicer?”

God looks at him seriously for a moment. “That’s not Urban Meyer’s house,” God says. “That’s mine, and my Team has won 9 more games head-to-head, has 3 more National Championships and has 5 more SEC Championships than Urban Meyer and Steve Spurrier and all the other losing Florida coaches combined do!”

God is a Bulldogs’ Fan, and we fans of our team by His Grace alone.

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By Professor Albert

February 11, 2007 09:07 AM | Link to this

Mr. BuLLdawg, we note with some distinct pleasure, that you, in fact, may have a sense of humor.

We shall accept, arguendo, your metaphor of Bulldawg Nation as God’s Chosen People. Query: How shall we then refer to the last 17 football season? Perhaps the “Babylonian Captivity” would be appropriate.

By BuLLdawg

February 11, 2007 09:45 AM | Link to this

The last decade is not so kind to Florida as it is to Georgia, is it ?

http://football.stassen.com/cgi-bin/records/calc-wp.pl?start=1997&end=2006&rpct=1&min=1&ss=on&se=on&c1a=on&pt=on&by=Wins

Latest Decade of I-A Wins 1997-2006 (10 years)

—— ———————————- ———- —— —— —— ——- Rank Team name Win-Pct Won Lost Tied Games —— ———————————- ———- —— —— —— ——-

1 Texas 0.77778 98 28 0 126.

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2t Boise State 0.77600 97 28 0 125.

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2t Ohio State 0.77600 97 28 0 125.

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4t Georgia 0.76190 96 30 0 126.

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4t Florida State 0.75591 96 31 0 127.

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4t Michigan 0.77419 96 28 0 124.

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7t Oklahoma 0.74219 95 33 0 128.

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7t Virginia Tech 0.75397 95 31 0 126.

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9t Miami-Florida 0.76423 94 29 0 123.

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9t Nebraska 0.73438 94 34 0 128.

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9t Tennessee 0.74603 94 32 0 126.

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9t Florida 0.74603 94 32 0 126.

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By BuLLdawg

February 11, 2007 09:52 AM | Link to this

Which is it ?

Only the recent matters ?

By BuLLdawg

February 11, 2007 10:17 AM | Link to this

Humor ?

We find all your posts humor, croc, sitting there bragging about Steve Spurrier (as a Florida fan you say you are), and talking about history but ONLY THAT AFTER 1990 but not that of the last 10 years of Bulldogs’ Decade of being the ONLY team ranked in each of the last decade’s Final AP Polls.

Bulldogs’ Babies

A Bulldogs’ Fan is drinking in an Athens bar when he gets a call on his cell phone. He hangs up, grinning from ear to ear, and orders a round of drinks for everybody in the bar announcing his wife has produced a typical Bulldogs’ baby boy weighing 25 pounds.

Nobody can believe that any new baby can weigh in at 25 pounds, but the Bulldogs’ Fan just shrugs, “That’s about average back home, folks, like I said, my boy’s a typical Bulldogs’ baby boy.

Congratulations showered him from all around, and many exclamations of “WOW”! One woman actually fainted due to sympathy pains.

Two weeks later, he returns to the bar. The bartender says, “Say, you’re the father of that typical Bulldogs’ baby that weighed 25 pounds at birth.

Everybody’s been making bets about how big he’d be in two weeks. So how much does he weigh now?”

The proud father answers, “Seventeen pounds.”

The bartender is puzzled, concerned, and a little suspicious. “What happened? He already weighed 25 pounds the day he was born!”

The Bulldogs’ father takes a slow swig from his beer, wipes his lips on his shirt sleeve, leans into the bartender and proudly says, “I had him circumcised!”

Go Bulldogs!

By Buck Cochran in the NW

February 11, 2007 10:42 AM | Link to this

This has been funny, worth a Sunday morning laugh! Now, give us a short break from laughing for Church and we’ll rejoin you laster.

By pj

February 11, 2007 11:48 AM | Link to this

I wish the two of you would just get a room. It’s obnoxious.

By SamoanDawg

February 11, 2007 12:01 PM | Link to this

Looks like Mercer is done for the season. Feel bad for the guy. I think Humphrey will do well in his spot. I think we’ll win them all except for the AU game. I think AU is a very good team. Why not us in the NCAA?

By Professor Albert

February 11, 2007 01:03 PM | Link to this

Mr. pj, while your humble professor is an effete intellectual and perhaps somewhat “obnoxious” to the sensitivities of some persons, we do not fancy Mr. BuLLdawg in the intimate manner which you have suggested.

By Big Dawg

February 11, 2007 02:06 PM | Link to this

Professor and BuLLdawg I just got back from church and I’m still busting a gut laughing at your posts. But could you please provide each other with your email addresses so you can continue your discussions between yourselves. Take care and may our Father God and our Lord and Savior Jesus bless you both always.

By Professor Albert

February 11, 2007 03:13 PM | Link to this

Mr. Big Dawg, on behalf of our faculty and students, we express our gratitude that we were able to add some light-hearted amusement to your Sabbath.

At your suggetion, your humble professor will be pleased to share addtional weblinks, sports records and remedial reading assignments with Mr. BuLLDawg directly via e-mail messages and attachments. We appreciate Mr. BuLLdawg’s enthusiasm for the subject material of our History of Sport lectures, but we need to broaden his perspective, and deepen his research skills. Of course, we also need to work on his academic demeanor and that stubborn infallibility complex, but those issues may be best addressed by our institutes’s Sports Psychology Department rather than our Sports History faculty.

Good day, Mr. Big Dawg. Please feel to drop by our office to share your questions at any time. Our hours are posted.

Prof. Albert Larmes du Crocodile Institute for Advanced Sports Studies albert.crocodile@iass.edu

By lil dog

February 11, 2007 04:13 PM | Link to this

Dear professor,

You are a nerd and your Star Trek convention buddies came by looking for you. I told them you were on the AJC Sport’s blog pretending to have a life and if the Gators play ball as well you you trash talk it’s gonna be a long season next year for you. PS I’m selling lives and I would like to know if you are interested in trying to have one.

By Professor Albert

February 11, 2007 04:41 PM | Link to this

Mr. lil dog, as a professor of intercollegiate sports history at the institute, I have embraced my inner “nerd,” as you say. Unfortunately, neither “institute” nor “nerd” has the same meaning for us that it does for you; we are unaffiliated with that other “institute” on North Avenue and the “nerds” that populate its campus.

As for Star Trek, yes, I have watched several episodes over the years as part of my fascination with American popular culture, but I did not fancy it. Frankly, I have found the acting skills of the average SEC punter far exceed the acting abilities of Mr. William Shatner.

Thank you for your offer of “a life,” but I find that I have enough to do already by bringing a greater knowledge of sports history to the benighted. Perhaps you should attend one of our lectures; it is likely that you may add to your knowledge of intercollegiate sports.

Prof. Albert Larmes du Crocodile; Institute for Advanced Sports Studies; albert.crocodile@iass.edu

By Buck Cochran in the NW

February 11, 2007 05:16 PM | Link to this

Cange of subject since we don’t know if Chip will post a blog today or not: “Red Shirting”. I’ve posted on these blogs over the last few weeks that “RS”, the way we’ve know it the past is going away with the wind. Things are changing. I firmly believe that we’re going to see True feshmen used more and more. I’ve used Harvin at the Reptile school as an example but that’s really not fair because he’s such an Athlete(sp) and is better than 99% of the new guys on campus; however, we’re se more TF playing all across the country. There were a couple at Ga. that upon reflection CMR wished they had play them. We’re going to see TF. play who maynot know the entire “O” but won’t need to in order to have a powerfull affect on the field. Take Allen and Evans on the Dawg “D”. they were on the field during the real deal and what do we have. Those two now having all winter ,spring and summer to do the things they would have if they had “Shirted” but when they hit the field as Soph’s, they’ll not only have picked everythiong they shoulf but they’ll also be battle tested veterans. Take the long haul. Lets say they DON’T go pro after 3 yrs’, that pull an Oliver and stay for their SR. Talk about vet’s? They’ll be playing their 4th season in combat. That means we won’t be at a disadvantage against others who are starting to play TF. Chip has told me that I’m wrong and so has my buddy Conyers with Chip pointing out that Wake Forrest RS. their entire Freshmen class several years ago and we saw the results in ‘06. I’ve pointed out that that was then, 5 yrs. ago, not today. IMO, we’ve come full circle. Read Carter’s article about Miller moving to MLB. In it he quotes CMR as saying that “he doesn’t intend to RS anybody , they he’s telling tham to come into Athens getting ready to play. As I posted earlier. Aron White, from Mizzou, can really catch the ball according to every one that knows him. They are already talking about putting him in the slot his TF yr. to catch the ball. Question: HAS ANYONE EVER READ OR HEARD CMR MAKE A STATEMENT LIKE THAT ABOUT “RED SHIRTING”?

By Big Dawg

February 11, 2007 06:05 PM | Link to this

Professor Albert,

I tried to send you an email to you at the email address you gave above (albert.crocodile@iass.edu) and I got a message back that it was undeliverable because there was no such address.

By Professor Albert

February 11, 2007 06:18 PM | Link to this

Mr. Big Dawg, my apologies; one cannot be too careful. Please try this e-mail address: “albertcrocodile@yahoo.com.”

By Big Dawg

February 11, 2007 07:23 PM | Link to this

Professor please don’t refer to me as Mr., makes me feel old, Big Dawg will be fine besides my father is Mr.

Besides the topic on this blog is GA Basketball and the injury to Mike Mercer. He had a MRI today and I guess the results will be released tomorrow. Having hurt my left knee twice and right knee once and having my knees scoped each time I kind of know what he is going through. Hopefully everyone is praying for this young man and that his injury isn’t serious and that he will fully recover.

By Professor Albert

February 11, 2007 08:04 PM | Link to this

Big Dawg, even the most obnoxious academics among us are praying for young Mr. Mercer’s recovery.

By Buck Cochran in the NW

February 11, 2007 08:38 PM | Link to this

Big Dawg, sorry I jumped off subject for a moment and I truly hope that Mercer’s injury is one he can come back from. I’m not talking about for this season but next year. These types of injury where no contact is involved can be the worst. I know FB, but I think Lumkin’s injury was a no contact one where the knee for some reason gave way. If I understand what happen, Mercer’s knee popped out when he went to pivot. Is that correct? Maybe this will be a rallying point for the team and Felton can use it as a motivational tool. I think that what Mercer want. To read Chip’s words it must have been bad. Keep your fingers crossed that the MRI is negative.

By Greg

February 11, 2007 09:36 PM | Link to this

I DRANK UP ALL MY BEER MAN!!LADY DOGS PULLED IT OUT AGIAN WITH ALOT OF FIGHT AND DETERMINATION ON THE HARDCOURT!!THESE LADY DOGS ARE AWESOME!NEXT TIME WE PLAY AT HOME WE NEED TO PACK THE KEG AND PULL THE LADY DOGS TO ANOTHER HUGE HARDCOURT VICTORY!!!

By Gen Neyland

February 11, 2007 11:02 PM | Link to this

All BBall Dawgs

Am sorry for the loss of Mercer…

By AltamahaDawg

February 12, 2007 11:46 AM | Link to this

What I have heard Richt say in person is that he wishes every single college freshman was ineligible to play, BUT given that they are, he would not hesitate to play any one at any time. Same as every coach has said for the past 10 yr and the next 10 yrs. He also said he would be reluctant to play a freshman who wasnt physically mature enough, just to do so. Pretty much what ever coach says. Buck, the reason your theory does not resonate well in here, is that there is no real proof of any major change in strategy to look at. Pete Carrol for some reason has been repeatedly mentioned, even though if you look at his rosters, the majority were RS. Then there is UF, and Im not sure that one year is much of a trend, lets see who RS when the depth crat starts to fill up. You keep using Harvin as an example, then stating he is not a good one. Who would be a good example? We also played several true freshmen, because they were ready, or needed, and RS the others ones not ready. (or werent going to crack the depth chart). Kinda like we did 25 yrs ago. I dont think any coach is going to play a true freshman just so that he can get 4rd string action. I mean, its not like they aren’t practicing or gaining a year in the program. Mop up PT might be a slight advantage for the first few games of thier soph. year (maybe still as a backup), but you would trade an entire year at the back end of thier career, which should be when they are most productive. Pretty poor trade off IMO.

By AltamahaDawg

February 12, 2007 12:38 PM | Link to this

Buck, didnt see your question from last week. USC rosters is on the internet.

As far as UF and how many is a few, or a lot, I think it depends. They played a dozen, we played half that, FSU actually played almost 20 if I remember. I’d say each of those school determined that number for very different sets of circumstances. As I recall, UM himself said he was able to do that because he had an exceptionally disproportionate senior class, so perhaps some of it was just need and opportunity. Which prabably makes sence since there was a slight lull in signing numbers just before he got there. Also about half of those TF that did pklay got thier time on special teams. i dont rememebr them having any greater impact thatn the TF we played or anyone else played. Consider also, that UM history of turning around programs quickly but not staying but a couple of years, prabably makes him a bit more likely to play underclassmen, since he has never really “raised” any seniors as a HC yet. Let’s see what happens when he actually stays somepalce a few years and has the long term health of a program to worry about.

By crs

February 12, 2007 01:11 PM | Link to this

Losing Mercer really hurts down the stretch, I still like the dogs chances as they really only need to win 2/5 of the remaining SEC games in my opinion to get in the tourney. This is a pretty good basketball team that I could see winning a tourney game and giving a 1 or 2 seed a tough time assuming we were an 8/9 seed.

By crs

February 12, 2007 01:16 PM | Link to this

If you have a 5 star recruit, you better play him for two reasons, one, if you don’t he may transfer and two, odds are he is only staying three years regardless. Even if they are a serviceable backup as a freshmen you are better off playing them than redshirting them. Like I say, I really like how Auburn plays there backups a lot against the inferior teams, it does a couple things, it lets the starters basically get a week off and heal up minor injuries and it allows the backups to get some valuable expierence.

By AltamahaDawg

February 12, 2007 04:34 PM | Link to this

crs, I agree playing the superstars is a good idea. My debate with Buck was more about the vast majority of true freshmen do not come in as the very select few (5 stars) and arent going to be able to crack the backup roles. I just read an article the other day with Urban Meyer saying no way he is ever going to play a freshman unless he is in a position to be a contributor with significant time. Basically same as Coach richt has said several times.

In terms of that whole playing only 3 yr myth, what i read is that NFL filing are actually pretty steady, not increasing and it all depends on the situation and position. Even going as a redshirt Jr., you would still the same 3 yrs of time either way, only more quality 3 yrs. I’ve also heard the idea that you would play early because of injuries. The problem is, and I’m paraphrasing Coach Van Halanger, you just can’t get freshmen physically ready that quick. In both of those arguments to play early, its as if somehow you are going to beat the clock with either of those concerns. Its like speeding to get home before you run out of gas.

Coach Urban Meyers quote “In reality, I don’t see Texas and probably (Southern California) playing that many freshmen at this point, and maybe Ohio State,” Meyer said. “You shouldn’t have to do that (play a lot of freshmen). We’ve had a lot of transition, we’ve had issues, we’ve had things happen. You should play five or six premier players (freshmen) and get them involved.”