UGA

By AltamahaDawg

March 29, 2007 4:48 PM | Link to this

A buddy of mine knew a former TBS personality and got us on field press passes one year for the cocktail party. I ended up standing by and talking to the young Seiler who handles UGA for a while and got to tussle around a bit with UGA VI (his rookie year, so he was not much than a pup). I tell ya when hairy dawg walked over for a while, to join in, I was one proud dawg fan standing on that sideline during the live game in the Ol gator Bowl.

By Brandon

March 29, 2007 5:03 PM | Link to this

Theres not a better mascot in college sports. Other schools wish they had a mascot like Uga.

By Ramble ON!

March 29, 2007 5:05 PM | Link to this

Put the ugly mutt DOWN!!!!!!

By Ft Worth Dawg

March 29, 2007 5:07 PM | Link to this

Dawg after Dawg, they just get better looking all the time.

UGA VI is 9 years old — so what were the UGA highs and lows during those 9 years?

By Ramble ON!

March 29, 2007 5:12 PM | Link to this

…keeping dreaming BRANDON!!!!

By Ramble On my DOOM game

March 29, 2007 5:33 PM | Link to this

Ramble ON - nothing better to do than scroll the UGA blog as soon as its posted. Inferiority Complex? Douche…..

By Quincy C.

March 29, 2007 5:38 PM | Link to this

lazy inbred slob of a mascot

By FACT POLICE

March 29, 2007 5:40 PM | Link to this

Hey Chip. Scout.com says that Uga’s not retiring. You wouldn’t be making this crap up would you? Not the AJC…

By Chip Towers

March 29, 2007 6:50 PM | Link to this

Hey guys. Uga VI’s reign began in 1999, so he’s had some very good years. In fact, with two more wins this coming season, he will become the winningest Uga of all time. He’s 76-25 right now. Uga IV was 77-27-4… .

FACT POLICE, no, of course we’re not making anything up. We never make up anything — EVER!

I spoke to Sonny Seiler again this afternoon, after that Scout.com report went up, and he said he was accurately quoted in my story. Seiler said the only thing he didn’t like were the headlines that were originally posted on the story I initially filed. One of them I think was, “Say goodbye to Uga VI,” which Seiler rightfully complained made it sound like the poor dog had died. Another one was simply “Uga VI is retiring,” which without qualification makes it sound like he’s doing it right this minute or today. But if you read the story, you’ll see where Seiler says this is “probably” Uga VI’s last season because, at 9 years of age, he’s getting very old. No Uga has reigned past age 10, which Uga VI will turn next July.

The whole thing came about mainly because of some questions I got on this blog. Some of you guys were saying you’d heard that Uga VI was in bad health and might not make it to the season. So I called Mr. Seiler, whom I’ve known for about 15 years, and asked him. He actually called me back today. The story you saw was the end result. And as it says in the story, Uga VI is a go this season, God willing. But it will likely be his last.

By AltamahaDawg

March 29, 2007 6:51 PM | Link to this

Lets see, 2 post and prabably another using an assumed name from Ramble on. out of 7. NOooo hes not wishing he could be a dawg fan.How sad is that? Fellow go ahead and switch, because nobody gives a crap who you pull for this year. Whats the big deal? I mean nobody gave a crap when you went from being a Miami fan to Gt a couple of years ago. I’m going to go ahead and guess , your pals wouldn’t even know you were a GT fan now anyway.

By OddJob

March 29, 2007 7:14 PM | Link to this

As a Dawg fan as well as a dog lover who has a 15 year old chow golden retriver.Best of all good things UGA VI,you’ve served with style and good spirit.Now go win us a title then relax and sniff some butt.

By Chip Towers

March 29, 2007 7:29 PM | Link to this

Calling all bloggers:

Let’s see if we can’t get a few of you in the newspaper. Please give me who you think will win the NCAA men’s basketball championship and why in no more than two or three sentences. Now I need your REAL names, occupation and place of residence. I’ll need a phone number to verify that you’re a real person. E-mail it to me at ctowers@ajc.com.

Thanks.

By Roswell Ed

March 29, 2007 7:33 PM | Link to this

I liked the part where he bent over and started licking his nads.

I said boy do I wish I could do that!

And my friend said- that dawg would bite you

By Renegade

March 29, 2007 7:43 PM | Link to this

Grizzard you are not Roswell Ed.

By Renegade

March 29, 2007 7:46 PM | Link to this

If there was a “most obnoxious mascot award”, it would be bestowed upon Buzz, who is easily the worst in the country!

By Renegade

March 29, 2007 7:47 PM | Link to this

If there was a “most obnoxious mascot award”, it would be bestowed upon Buzz, who is easily the worst in the country!

By reality check

March 29, 2007 7:54 PM | Link to this

I believe it was UGA V that went after the Auburn player. I was watching the game and Georgia was getting beaten pretty badly at the time. UGA wasn’t kidding, he went after the Auburn player’s private parts and almost got him.

Neither Auburn nor Georgia played the same after that play. It took something out of Auburn and fired up Georgia’s team and fans. UGA truly provided the turning point in the game. Georgia came back from a huge deficit and won the game in overtime. It was our best win all year.

Can anyone name another mascot that has actually influenced the outcome of a game in progress?

By tmac

March 29, 2007 10:20 PM | Link to this

isn’t it amazing that all this paper does is talk about uga all the time with anything they can think of even dumb stories about mascots. the most biased newspaper ever….too bad its the only place you can get sports in atl.

By UGA Fan

March 29, 2007 11:05 PM | Link to this

DAMN GOOD DAWG

By Gen Neyland

March 29, 2007 11:29 PM | Link to this

What does GT have for a mascot ? A goofball dressed up like a giant horsefly out on the town…Shock and awe, or is it aw’shucks..?

By adawginpa

March 29, 2007 11:55 PM | Link to this

Question, Has the dawg sired yet? I saw in the article that they were trying to decide among the young ones, but is the new one an offspring? Sorry if this sounds ignorant.

By Larry licks UGA's A$$

March 30, 2007 12:17 AM | Link to this

You people make me sick. I love to be in Sanford Stadium just so I can watch you morons worship that stupid mutt when it enters. It doesn’t get any better when you sorry excuses for human beings start barking at the top or your lungs. I wish I would have been Rober Baker in ‘96. UGA V wouldn’t have face. What a worthless mutt. I hope the next time I see UGA VI is with a tread mark across its back.

By TheIzK

March 30, 2007 2:45 AM | Link to this

UGA VI has been such a great pup, I hope we can send him out with another SEC Championship. He will be missed. But after VI of course comes LUCKY NUMBER SEVEN

By woody

March 30, 2007 5:12 AM | Link to this

tmac,you clicked on the UGA link by choice. If you dont like it, dont click on it dummy.

By Jimmy Etheridge

March 30, 2007 6:16 AM | Link to this

A 2-time (for now) SEC Champion and a Damn Good Dog! Enjoy your golden years, old boy. You’ve done your ancestors and heirs proud.

By Dawg4Life

March 30, 2007 7:02 AM | Link to this

Oh yeah you NERDS…….You WISH you had a mascot with swagger!!!! But it’s much better to have a girl or a confused gender person in a bee costume with skinny legs and yellow tights!!! That’s so COOL!!!!!!!

By GADAWG

March 30, 2007 8:27 AM | Link to this

UGA III was the best of all times. However, I am looking forward to number 7. As for those who don’t like UGA, DON’T READ THE ARTICLES, YOU MINDLESS SPITTLE DRIBBLING IDIOTS. Doesn’t it seem odd that these UGA haters have nothing better to do. I guess that have greased the wheels on thier house and ironed their blue jean cutoffs. Tech and it’s fans are like that red headed step child who can’t help but make fools of themselves, and the GAYTURDs are like that ugly cousin that you don’t want anyone to know you are kin to. By the way, what is the name that gay looking bumble bee that represents the YECH?

By Georgia Tech's #1 Fan

March 30, 2007 8:57 AM | Link to this

GADAWG- his name is buzz and he is just fab. I just wish I could lick UGA’s balls. Or for that matter just some balls.

By Georgia Tech's #1 Fan

March 30, 2007 8:57 AM | Link to this

GADAWG- his name is buzz and he is just fab. I just wish I could lick UGA’s balls. Or for that matter just some balls.

By puppydawg

March 30, 2007 9:44 AM | Link to this

Hey Babble ON! The day may come, hopefully not soon, when UGA VI has to be put down but not before he smacks your little band of powderpuffers at least one more time. To make it worse for you, his final victory over you sissies will take place at the Joke By The Coke. And Larry A$$ licker, tell us again why you love to be in Sanford Stadium or, for that matter, why you are compelled to post on the UGA board. Never mind. We already know why. You are afflicted with an incurable case of Dawg envy. Take solace in knowing that, over time, the thrashings at the hands of the Dawgs become more tolerable, even expected.

By Rutuger

March 30, 2007 10:02 AM | Link to this

Wow… talk about a slow news day at the AJC sports desk.

By JustMe

March 30, 2007 10:47 AM | Link to this

Yawn…. who cares?

By jon01

March 30, 2007 11:01 AM | Link to this

This is for the guy who always post the recent uga(Matt Stafford) article from espn. others ignore. This is just for him. He acts like a write up from a recent uga writer on espn automatically makes uga nat’l champs for next year. Uh-oh an article about the jackets. Guess uga will have to play games next year before they’re awarded the nat’l champioship

Quarterback Taylor Bennett has already made his mark at Georgia Tech.

As a redshirt freshman in 2005, Bennett completed his first collegiate pass for a 42-yard touchdown.

According to Georgia Tech’s media guide, Bennett is believed to be only the second quarterback in Division I-A history to throw a touchdown pass on his first career attempt. The first was USC Heisman Trophy winner Matt Leinart.

“It’s kind of nice to say you have some sort of connection with Matt Leinart,” said Bennett, a rising junior from St. Louis who joined his teammates for the start of spring practice on March 1. “I’m definitely not comparing myself to him in any way, shape or form, but it’s kind of cool to be able to say that.”

Bennett may not be Leinart, but the hope around Atlanta is that he’s not Reggie Ball, either.

Ball was a four-year starter for the Yellow Jackets whose turbulent tenure ended two weeks before last season’s Gator Bowl when he was declared academically ineligible.

Exit Ball. Enter Bennett.

The 6-foot-3, 215-pound left-hander torched West Virginia in the Gator Bowl, completing his first eight passes while finishing 19-of-29 for 326 yards and three touchdowns in the Yellow Jackets’ 38-35 loss.

The 326 yards were the most by a Georgia Tech quarterback since 2001 and set a school record for passing yardage in a bowl game.

Around The ACC

The silver lining in the Yellow Jackets’ loss was Bennett’s peformance. With 17 starters returning from last season’s ACC Coastal Division champions, one of the few question marks surrounding coach Chan Gailey’s team heading into 2007 was supposed to be the quarterback position.

Any concerns appeared to be answered in Jacksonville.

“I don’t think we’ll ever be able to measure how beneficial that was for him,” Gailey said. “It gave him a great deal of confidence going into spring practice and it gave us a great deal of confidence in him going into spring practice. We would have been confident in him, but when it’s confirmed, that helps.”

Bennett and Georgia Tech won’t begin the 2007 season in the shallow end of the pool. A trip to South Bend, Ind., to play Notre Dame on Sept. 1 awaits the Yellow Jackets. Tech is 2-16 all-time in South Bend and hasn’t won there since 1959.

The game will mark Bennett’s third career start. He opened for the first time against Connecticut in 2005 after Ball was sidelined by illness and led Georgia Tech to a 28-13 victory.

Bennett also started the Gator Bowl, but admits that taking the first snap against the Irish will be tough to top.

“I can’t even explain to you the feeling knowing that you’re about to go play in the holy land of college football on opening day,” said Bennett, who played in seven games last season and was 35-of-58 (63 percent) for 523 yards, five touchdowns and two interceptions. “We love being the underdog and having people say we can’t do it. In our program, we perform off the pressure.”

There will be a lot more pressure on Bennett and Georgia Tech’s offense — under the direction of first-year coordinator John Bond — now that the Yellow Jackets won’t have ACC Player of the Year Calvin Johnson around to catch the ball.

Johnson was sensational in 2006 with 76 catches for 1,202 yards and 15 touchdowns despite getting more coverage than Britney Spears.

“There was pressure to throw Calvin Johnson the ball almost every snap even though he might be double-covered,” Gailey said. “Now, there is the opportunity to spread the ball around to the open receiver. We don’t have a dominating guy anymore at that position.”

The Yellow Jackets do have a dominating player at tailback in senior Tashard Choice, the former Oklahoma transfer who led the ACC in rushing last season with 1,473 yards, the second-highest total in school history.

In a league full of good running backs, Choice may be the best. He eclipsed the 100-yard mark in his last seven games of 2006 and set a school record with nine 100-yard games overall.

With four returning starters on the offensive line to go along with Choice, the natural inclination would be to increase the tailback’s workload, especially with Bennett’s inexperience and the departure of Johnson.

But Gailey said that is unlikely to happen. Last season, Choice set a school record with 297 carries. Only three backs in Division I-A carried more often.

“I think if you try to increase his workload again this year, you would reach a point of diminishing returns,” said Gailey, who’s heading into his sixth season at Georgia Tech. “I think we’re about where we needed to be last year with him.”

The defense, under the direction of John Tenuta, may be in even better shape than the Jackets’ offense. Georgia Tech lost All-ACC first-team defensive tackle Joe Anoai and leading tackler KaMichael Hall, but returns eight starters including all-conference safety Jamal Lewis and linebacker Philip Wheeler, an All-ACC second-team selection.

Since the 2003 season, Tenuta’s crew hasn’t ranked lower than 27th nationally in total defense.

That doesn’t figure to change next season.

“We feel good about our defense,” Gailey said.

There aren’t many worries in the kicking game, either. Punter Durant Brooks returns following a phenomenal junior season in which he ranked fourth nationally with a 45.5-yard average. Kicker Travis Bell broke a long slump near the end of 2006 and connected on eight consecutive field goals before missing a 54-yard attempt in the bowl game.

But the most important returner for Georgia Tech may be the 55-year-old Gailey, who was interviewed for the head coaching jobs with the Miami Dolphins and Pittsburgh Steelers during the offseason.

“It didn’t work out, but I ended up right back here with a great job,” Gailey said.

How great could depend on Bennett.

“I’m very excited,” Bennett said. “Kids that come to college to play football have dedicated their lives to playing a sport. That’s what I’ve done. To have the opportunity to be the starter, you can’t even explain how it feels.”

Beginning on Sept. 1 in South Bend, Bennett will get a chance to make his mark on Georgia Tech football.

Again.

By Scott Tucker

March 30, 2007 11:05 AM | Link to this

People of this state should know by now, there are some things you just can’t criticize, and UGA is very high on that list. He is a celebrity whether you hate or love him. GO Dawgs!!

By UGA KT

March 30, 2007 11:12 AM | Link to this

I love all my DAWGS but you are the very best, you will be missed ,but know a great replacement is on its way!! WOOF,WOOF!

By RedDawg

March 30, 2007 11:14 AM | Link to this

Damn Good Dawg. Uga VI is very very special dog.Uga is a celebrety, no other mascot in the nation can come close.

By Roswell Ed

March 30, 2007 12:01 PM | Link to this

It’s funny how your love for something can blind you.

I bet Rosie’s parents think she is attractive.

That’s one ugly breed- English Bulldog I mean.

By Lynette

March 30, 2007 12:13 PM | Link to this

I love UGA. He reminds me of my late Grandfather.

By Rampdawg

March 30, 2007 12:27 PM | Link to this

Hey Larrylicks, if you would have been in Bakers place. You would have screamed like a girl, and ran away like the sissy you are.

By JERSEYDAWG

March 30, 2007 12:42 PM | Link to this

How could anyone with sense that God gave a billy goat even think of bad mouthing a Dawg that is better known and loved then the guy in the whitehouse!!! GO DAWGS!!!!

By honest_abe

March 30, 2007 12:51 PM | Link to this

so many bitter tech fans… heh i love it.

By Ramble ON!

March 30, 2007 1:01 PM | Link to this

Gen Neylandwere you at the game the last time GT played you? If not, let me refreshed your burnt out memory (6-3) LOSER in your house!

The Ramblin Wreck is the greatest mascot in sports PERIOD. Buzz goes along for the ride.

We also have to two best fight songs (not one, but TWO) in college sports.

Nice article there jon01…keep em coming!

By Buck Cochran in the NW

March 30, 2007 1:08 PM | Link to this

Yo, jon01, were you talking about me because Matthew Staffords “MY Boy” and we will win the SEC this year with the whole team working together. That’s the way Stafford looks at things. Wrong you are,I don’t do any re-writes. I say what I want to say and I say will ‘07 be 6 or 7 in a row?

By puppydawg

March 30, 2007 1:16 PM | Link to this

Hey yawn01, Taylor Bennett is Matt Stafford’s b!+

By Dawg4Life

March 30, 2007 1:44 PM | Link to this

Hey NERDS…….let’s talk about your FLAGBOY if you want to talk about something gay. And if you want to talk about something lame and pathetic, and your BUZZ mascot is not enough, take a look at your crappy little stadium. It is not much bigger than Valdosta High schools stadium. What a joke!

By jon01

March 30, 2007 1:59 PM | Link to this

I guess if Stafford being your boy will cause you to win the sec championship, then taylor bennett is “My Boy” also. Well, there it is looks like we’re going to be ACC champions according to your philosophy. Why didn’t I thinks of this earlier. Thanks for the tip! Oh and by if it is 7 in a row it will also be “28” years in a row without a nat’l championship. It must suck to pride yourself on one sport and have to think back 28 years to remember a nat’l championship. Then again you probably weren’t alive to see it, going by your immature reasonings for next years success. I also read where the uga 83’ final four basketball team was reunited along with Tech’s 90’ and 04’ teams. Were you even alive to see that either? Oh yeah you don’t care about basketball because your school, if you went to school there isn’t good.

By Ramble ON!

March 30, 2007 2:11 PM | Link to this

Dawg4Life Flagboy transfered to Ugay when ya’ll installed those TRANSGENDER BATHROOMS, prehaps you have run into shim there?

By puppydawg

March 30, 2007 2:16 PM | Link to this

So, Babble ON!, you want to put that lame a$$ ramblin’ wretch up against Uga in a battle of mascots? Do you know how utterly stupid that sounds? Are you brain dead or what? I’ve heard that being HIV positive can do that. Seek help, dumba$$.

By honest_abe

March 30, 2007 2:18 PM | Link to this

is bennet the wunderkid that sat BEHIND that great qb from the flats.. i think ball was him name..heh

By OddJob

March 30, 2007 2:21 PM | Link to this

Chip I can’t get your web page to pull up,nut I give you permission to access my info on file.My pick in the final four is Georgetown.I like the low post defense with green stacked in front of Hibbert,with Green’s athleticism and Hibbert’s length they reduce a team’s options inside.The guard play isn’t all star but they’re smart and Wallace gives them a shooter on the perimeter.Last but not least G-town’s opponents must see backdoor cuts in their sleep.

By scooter11

March 30, 2007 2:29 PM | Link to this

Certainly not an acc fan, but will speculate that acc defenses will show a lot more than did WVa’s in whatever bowl that was last year. Bennett had a good game, but I wouldn’t be blinded by a rookie performance in a meaningless bowl game. Could’ve been ‘beginner’s luck’. Notre Dame may be even a better test than the acc. On any account, it won’t be like RBall.

By johnboy

March 30, 2007 2:29 PM | Link to this

Jon1, You may be a Jacket but your Mother is a Dawg!

By Ramble ON!

March 30, 2007 2:41 PM | Link to this

johnboy that was a good one, perhaps you could share some of that original wit with puppydawg, she could use it!

By I-DOG

March 30, 2007 4:06 PM | Link to this

Nothing makes Tech fans more jealous than our mascot. It just kills them.

I live outside the South and Ramble On…I promise that very few people know what the rambling wreck is and nobody knows what or who Buzz is.

Uga, on the other hand, is well known and almost universally loved. Folks outside the South may mispronounce his name, but they know him and think he is about the coolest mascot around.

Ugas have been to the white house, Heisman ceremonies, starred in full length feature films, and even graced the cover of sports illustrated (best college mascots).

I think I saw Buzz at the Varsity once, but that is about as far as he goes.

By FootballFan

March 30, 2007 4:11 PM | Link to this

Buck Cochran….in true form, another post about Matthew Stafford when he has nothing at all to do with the topic of conversation! You should seriously call Damon Evans and inquire about changing the name of the team to “Matthew Stafford and the Georgia Bulldogs”. Even if you do have the greatest QB in UGA history coming back, you forget that you have receivers who don’t like to catch the ball and a JUCO filled OL. Your chances of watching Matthew Stafford and the Georgia Bulldogs winning the SEC east much less an SEC title very small. You basically have to hope that UT and UF don’t show up for any games this year. There are 2 losses in conference right there. And let me remind you….UF has won 15 of 17 and UT hung half a hundred on you…IN YOUR OWN STADIUM!! How do you get whipped like that with Matthew Stafford at QB?

By I-DOG

March 30, 2007 4:55 PM | Link to this

Football Fan:

According to you, our chances of winning the SEC or SEC East next year are “very small”.

How about admitting that you said the same thing prior to our two SEC title seasons and our SEC East win. Just admit it, you know you did.

Based on Richt’s history, you have only a 50% chance of being correct this season that we will not be playing for the conference title the dome. Almost as good as betting on Red or Black in roulette.

By Ramble ON!

March 30, 2007 5:12 PM | Link to this

I-DOG you can’t even beat Vanderbilt at home, what makes you think you can on the road?

Footballfan, knows what he’s talking bout!

By LMAO

March 30, 2007 5:27 PM | Link to this

Over on My Space “ramble on” told her friends she hangs out on UGA blogs ISO of a husband. And she is one butt ugly broad so guys don’t go look at her picture. LMAO

I can’t believe the pimple face techies are actually jealous of a dog. LMAO

By BadgerDawg

March 30, 2007 6:26 PM | Link to this

0-6

One of the worst campuses in one of the worst downtowns in America

A place where Dungeons and Dragons is the offical pastime

A school that can’t even sell out a glorified high school stadium

A basketball tradition that mainly consists of players getting the hell out as soon as possible(Starbury, Anderson, Bosh, etc)

And why are you here again, RambleON?

By Tebow the Show

March 30, 2007 7:38 PM | Link to this

Ah, fresh meat.

I’m having a Final Four party tomorrow night if anyone cares.

We’re gonna BBQ that little UGA bastard.

We were gonna get burgers and hot dogs but we thought UGA would taste better.

We should know.

UGAs with our cocktails have been quite a tasty treat every October for the past 15 years.

Chomping down on UGA VI, knocking back some suds, and watching my Gators win another national championship.

Ah, the life the little puppies wish they had.

Basketball champions.

Football champions.

Don’t worry guys.

You still got Richt.

The little Jesus Freak will never win you a national championship or anything but you’re UGA so you will settle for an SEC championship or two every five to ten years, right?

By Tebow the Show

March 30, 2007 7:46 PM | Link to this

Should Stafford take out a restraining order against Buck Cochran?

Cochran’s love for Stafford is freaking frightening.

I keep getting a scary picture of a creepy old man in a room with the walls all filled with Stafford posters, pictures, and newsclippings.

Cochran, dude, you do realize that you were not the one who went down to Texas and found the Stafford kid when he was in the sixth grade, right? Or were you? Even scarier! That’s how deep this stalker relationship is, isn’t it?

Buck, next October, when I’m done there chomping your sweet little puppy, don’t forget to Tebow the Show!

By Buck Cochran in the NW

March 30, 2007 8:37 PM | Link to this

Footballfan, do you wear glasses? If so , you must either not have read the blog or youdon’t have your glasses own. I DIDN’T BRING THE SUBJECT UP. JON01 STARTED IT BUT THAT’S ok, I CAN FINISH. Tebow the Show, you’re in real trouble because you haven’t read my posts saying that people who think you can’t pass are crazy! Restraining order? boy, you better have more protection than that when the Dawgs come to J’ville in Oct and don’t worry about Tebow ing any show, I’ll be there. BTW, I’ll keep reminding people you really can pass,can’t you.

By Buck Cochran in the NW

March 30, 2007 9:14 PM | Link to this

Tebow the show, the real Tim Tebow is the real thing and you don’t realize just how true and uneducated a Reptile you are

By Gen Neyland

March 30, 2007 11:06 PM | Link to this

Ramble On

Are you the goofball dressed up like a giant horsefly..?

By Gen Neyland

March 30, 2007 11:29 PM | Link to this

…and Ramble On

Last time I visited the trophy closet at GT, I seemed to have overlooked GT’s BSC trophy. Where do ya’ll keep it..?

By BuLLdawg

March 31, 2007 4:06 AM | Link to this

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The news out of Alabama since jolly ole St. Nick Saban made his choice to move DOWN in coaching 250 miles North and 90 miles West from LSU to Tuscaloosa has been non-existent.

Except Auburn is hyping Brandon Cox as great in the Spring A-Day Game last Saturday. Auburn has their usual slates of CUPCAKE CITY, as Tommy Tuberville does this up-coming season once again starting with cupcake Kansas State, cupcake South Florida, cupcake Mississippi State and cupcake New Mexico State and try to hide cupcake Tennessee Technical Institute late in the season as well. Auburn will not confuse me with the news of their Spring Game being that now all of a sudden Brandon Cox is the best thing since sliced bread. Tubs simply has not had good quarterbacks come calling for the defensive wiz to make be great, and for all the talk about their salaries they pay their Offensive Coordinators, Auburn has not done diddle-e-squat throwing the football with a top-notch college quarterback. Not under Tubs in his now 9th uninspiring year on The Plains where Tubs does NOT have a Winning Record against Coach Richt and does NOT have a Winning Record in Bowl Games among other transgressions such as now an even Dozen Losses to teams with at least 6 Losses that season. Tubs has settled in on Al Borges, whom he hypes as so great after going through 4 Offensive Coordinators in 4 years, and frankly Al Borges did not get any production out of Brandon Cox last season, after preseason this time last year Auburn was picked to win the SEC and the SEC West Championship, neither of which did Al Borges and Brandon Cox accomplish, nor come close to accomplishing. I see no way that Auburn can beat Florida at the Swamp, then LSU at Baton Rouge, then Georgia at Georgia and then Alabama against Nick Saban with Brandon Cox as Al Borges’ Quarterback and these are the facts.

You see, with all these cupcakes early, cupcake city, Auburn will have a top won/loss record with a serious asterisk beside their early record and then, well we have Brandon Cox at the helm. Whoopee. Brandon Cox will ride the wave of hype from the Spring Game just completed until they began their season, after half a season of no opponent on the other side of the field for him to shine to start the season against. Then, fall on his face against the BEST CONFERENCE IN THE NATION IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL AGAIN THIS UP-COMING 2007-2008 SEASON.

Speaking of LSU being 250 miles South and 90 miles West of Tuscaloosa, and Tubs finding that GUARANTEED WIN every year, LSU also has its usual cupcake city road to hoe as well AGAIN this season, as LSU does EVERY season as out-of-conference, like Auburn, LSU once again hosts Middle Tennessee Girls college, Too Lame, and Louisiana ain’t got no Technical College. At least they play Virginia Tech whom UGA just destroyed in our last game I attended two months ago. LSU does NOT play Georgia BuLLDawgs nor Tennessee vols this season, ducking us both while UGA plays Alabama and Auburn from the West for example.

By BuLLdawg

March 31, 2007 4:11 AM | Link to this

And, Georgia plays besides both Alabama and Auburn from the West this season, Georgia Tech who was the ACC Coastal Champion, in that DOWN CONFERENCE last year, a very tough battle against a really explosive Oklahoma State as our opener on National TV, Steve Spurrier and South Carolina who has his own boys there by now, Tennessee, and Defending National Champion Florida down there in Jacksonville where we have recruited 3 players from over the entire last decade in total. Of course, we would have won that game were it not for the 4 turnovers by our Quarterback losing then by a lone score.

This remains the key for UGA this up-coming season, that this must end losing to the likes of Kentucky and Vandie again this season while sitting here BRAGGING that our QB was ready last season against this SEC slate plus tough game after game out-of-conference opponents we were supposed to lose to last season such as Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, and don’t forget the AJ-C nincompoops said we would lose to UAB or potentially would and would lose to Colorado, the AJ-C said before the season started in their pre-season analysis of UGA being 7-6, not 9-4.

Of course I said 10-3, but then again who in the name of hell figured we would lose to both Kentucky and Vandie on home-coming no less AND then turn around and BEAT Tommy Tuberville. Well, no one in their right mind would have suggested that to begin the season last year looking at our strong offensive line, running backs, veritable plethora of 6 in a row recruited Top 10 Rivals Quarterbacks on the roster one of whom obviously should NOT have given up his 5th Redshirt Senior All-America Year for that BS last year of 13 interceptions to 7 TD passes and 10 fumbles 6 lost against just 3 rushing TDs, given that Willie Martinez has put a Top 10 Defense out there every single year without a Defensive Interior Line until obviously last season for the 1st time in the Coach Richt Era. I mean our secondary was also stout and we had great leadership on the special teams needing only to improve on kickoff returns and holding on to the football on punts, both of which we did do.

**It was a tough year last year, and the ONLY poll to rank UGA in the Top 25 was the all important Final AP Poll, leaving us standing alone in the last entire Decade in a Row now as the ONLY Program ranked every single year in the Final AP Poll 10 years running.

This will be the 11th Consecutive Year. I was disappointed in the entire class from last year being Redshirted except for one undeserving player who was totally not ready obviously all season long with his 23 turnovers to 10 TD including rushing and passing. And, it took a horrible toll in recruiting this year that none of the top players from last season’s stellar class got one damn minute of playing time on what ended up being a 9-4 rebuilding year. It should have been a reloading year.

So we have a hungry bunch of BuLLDawg puppies wanting to take over this season, or in UGA’s case, after he doesn’t lead the team onto the field for his 10th and final year. And, if UGA VI can win this season, he will be the ONLY UGA to have been ranked every single solitary season in the Final AP Poll.

But, by God, can we not lose to Vandie and Kentucky with a no show Quarterback who did NOTHING against either AND BEAT Florida, given the hole we put ourselves in in their backyard ?

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By BadgerDawg

March 31, 2007 9:37 AM | Link to this

BuLLGators cupcake: Kansas State, a team that beat #4 Texas.

BuLLGators strong opponent: Okie State, a team that lost to “cupcake” K-State and other nonranked teams Houston and Texas Tech.

I’m going to take a wild guess and say that if we were playing K-State and Auburn was playing Okie State, the “cupcake” would be Okie and the “strong opponent” would be K-State.

I also find it interesting that he bashes LSU and Auburn for playing lousy out of conference schedules when we do exactly the same thing and so does every team in the SEC not named the Vawls.

Best quote of all: At least they play Virginia Tech whom UGA just destroyed in our last game I attended two months ago. LSU does NOT play Georgia BuLLDawgs nor Tennessee vols this season, ducking us both while UGA plays Alabama and Auburn from the West for example.

Wow, I must be thinking of a different game, I thought we were down 21-3 at the half and only won by 7 due to a great comeback led by the best QB in the SEC this year and the best QB on our team last year as well. At least Richt had the courage to play the best QB last year, knowing that no All-America is staying for a 5th year, who knows how bad the year would have been with one of the others behind center? I’m also impressed at LSU’s skill in “ducking” us and our courage to play Auburn and (weak) Alabama. I didn’t realize we had control over that, and if they do why didn’t they use their secret power to duck the national champs? Or maybe we ducked LSU to play nobody Alabama? Please explain.

By I-DOG

March 31, 2007 11:01 AM | Link to this

Ramble On:

We were talking about mascots and the FACT that UGA plays for the conference title HALF the seasons under Richt. I would have changed the subject as well if I could not dispute the fact that uga is much more beloved around the world than anything at Tech.

Yes, we lost to Vandy last year. Every 15 years or so, Vandy jumps up and bites us. It kind of reminds me of our record against Tech.

By I-DOG

March 31, 2007 12:30 PM | Link to this

WR’s in Spring Practice?

Anyone have any info on how the WR position is developing this Spring? Not much coverage from AJC on this topic.

Mo Mass seems to be having problems from what I have read. Is this true?

How does S. Bailey look. Is AJ Bryant finally going to break out?

Is Tony Wilson going to be the superstar that Big Dawg has promised us?

Anyone have any info?

By Buck Cochran in the NW

March 31, 2007 1:30 PM | Link to this

I-Dog, according to Georgia sports, both Bailey and Kenneth Harris caught a long ball to score, still I haven’t heard anything bout MoMass. Moreno broke a long one but fumbled. Over all CMR appears pleased with the teams progress. The “D” is making some good stops and the “O” is really beginning to take shape. Getting use to the way Bobo wants thing done on “O” and knowing who the QB is are making a big difference this Spring.

By ugalaw

March 31, 2007 6:29 PM | Link to this

Where you hate Georgia or not, how can you not love uga? The only men I’ve ever known who didn’t like an English Bulldog usually had rainbow bumper stickers on their cars and preferred cats and teacup yorkies.

By Buck Cochran in the NW

March 31, 2007 7:00 PM | Link to this

ugalaw, same thing out here inSeattle. Wonder if football fan or jon01 read Carter’s article today?

By Brian Jones TECH FAN

March 31, 2007 8:31 PM | Link to this

what can i say a little bee running around is gay dont mind uga i love dogs but damn yall have to admit he is an ugly dog. what i cant stand about uga football is larry munson he has to be the worst play by play annocer in the history. I think stafford will be good i think taylor will be good as tech and ga fans i think we have 3 years to look foward to competitive games since ball is gone but uga johnson is gone watch out for thomas #8 was at scrimmage and damn this kid is big and sick has hands like calvin and damn it is nice to see 2 qbs who can hit a wr in strid i think football in state of ga will be very fun for years to come

By BuLLdawg

April 1, 2007 3:17 AM | Link to this

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Kansas State beat Number 4 ? Texas ? Huh ? Texas was not Number 4 in the Final AP Poll.

Final AP Poll 2006-2007 :

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.3. Louisiana State.

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.4. Southern Cal.

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.5. Boise State.

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.6. Louisville.

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.7. Wisconsin.

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.8. Michigan.

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.9. Auburn.

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.10. West Virginia.

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.11. Oklahoma.

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.12. Rutgers.

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Are ANY of these teams ALL RANKED AHEAD OF TEXAS coming back to you now ?

Kansas State lost to BAYLOR BEARS, KANSAS JAYHAWKS, Nebraska, Louisville, and MISSOURI. I presume you think that Baylor Kansas AND Missouri are what ? Great football teams too ? Like Kansas State ?

Kansas State, Good Lord.

WISCONSIN is one of the few teams in America who played an EASIER CUPCAKE STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE in football than Kansas State.

http://web1.ncaa.org/d1mfb/Internet/toughest%20schedule/ia9gamescumm.pdf

Wisconsin Number 78 SOS and Kansas State Number 56 SOS.

Kansas State’s other wins were against Marshall, Florida Atlantic and Illinois State, whom Kansas State beat by 1 point.

Beat Illinois State by 1 point. I presume Illinois State is what ? Number 5 in the Final AP Poll that Kansas State beat ?

Kansas State’s Record against such cupcakes as they and Wisconsin plays over the last 3 years is 16 Wins and 19 Losses, LOSING RECORD for 3 consecutive years now. So, since when is THIS not a cupcake ?

http://football.stassen.com/cgi-bin/records/fetch-team.pl?team=Kansas_State

12-19 last 3 consecutive years playing Illinois State, Florida Atlantic and losing to teams such as Baylor Bears, Missouri and Kansas Jayhawks all just last year Losses.

Kansas State LOST SIX (6) games last year against this Number 56 Strength of Schedule and you think that is NOT a cupcake ?

Ha ha ha.

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By BuLLdawg

April 1, 2007 3:25 AM | Link to this

The Georgia Institute of Technology is ON PROBATION 2007 for Major NCAA Infractions Database in FOOTBALL, as Tech has been for the last three (3) consecutive years, not that anyone at the AJ-C has even mentioned it once.

And, that yellowjacket’s bee mascot is gay.

It’s funny how Tech fans adjust their glasses and say, oh Tech is JUST AS GOOD AS GEORGIA and then compare Quarterbacks as equal now that our best player on Tech’s Team, Reggie Ball, is gone and that both Georgia and Tech are great.

Tech was not ranked in ANY POLL in football last year, and Georgia for the 10th Consecutive Year is ranked in the Final AP Poll.

By BuLLdawg

April 1, 2007 4:35 AM | Link to this

I am BuLLdawg, hear me roar, with AJC blog posts too long and pompous to ignore!

By BuLLdawg

April 1, 2007 5:21 AM | Link to this

I am a gay tech fan; hear me roar about not one damn thing.

Ever.

But steal the handles of those who have something to say which I have no comeback about, except that I am jealous of the poster whose handle I steal.

By the way, an Internet Site should not allow to identical handles to login and post.

By BuLLdawg

April 1, 2007 5:54 AM | Link to this

Is it better to steal one’s handle on the AJ-C Internet site since their software doesn’t even disallow that and post nothing about Sports as it pertains to Bulldogs such as this midtown gay tech fan, or to actually continue the discussion on-topic open your mouth as BadgerDawg does only to switch feet inserting the other foot in so doing and say that Texas is the Number 4 team when they are not in the top dozen and suggest that a 16-19 record the last 3 consecutive years against their cupcake strength of schedule Number 56 in the nation is not therefore a cupcake Kansas State program that Auburn begins the season against with their 3 losses last season to 3 different teams not a one of which is any good such as the lowly Kansas Jayhawks, pitiful Missouri and the doormat Baylor bears ?

Maybe the gay tech fan is on to something.

By Dave in Tampa

April 1, 2007 3:36 PM | Link to this

Ramble On & jon01

Yawn, Yawn, Yawn….. You two bore us. And the last time you beat UGA was……?

Gen Neyland, I believe your right one of those two has to be that scrawney insect mascot. Why else would they even be on the UGA BLOG!!

Go Dawgs!

By BadgerDawg

April 1, 2007 3:41 PM | Link to this

BuLLGator, the point was obvious…Okie State is no better. I was not trying to defend K-State as some power. Both teams are middle of the road teams, but all SEC teams schedule cupcake schedules, and if that’s the best of the out of conference next year is no different. Nice try trying to defend our pansy schedule. By the way, I know Wisconsin’s schedule is weak, I have never tried to defend it, now you can stop trying to defend UGA’s.

By Dave In Tampa

April 1, 2007 3:46 PM | Link to this

Teebow the show..

“The little Jesus Freak will never win you a national championship or anything”

WAS THAT REALLY CALLED FOR! I’d rather have a class act like CR and his religious beliefs over Urban Myers cry baby style anytime. By attacking someone’s beliefs on a sports blog proves that Gator Fans like you have a lot of class….. Too bad it’s all LOW!

By BadgerDawg

April 1, 2007 3:51 PM | Link to this

Texas was #4 when they lost to K-State and they also defeated Okie State, who you are trying to put up for top ten status when they are even worse.

I see no comment regarding your inferring that LSU ducked UGA this year. Is it so stupid that even you are backing off? Are you still claiming we call Va Tech?

By teacherdan

April 1, 2007 5:17 PM | Link to this

No better mascot in the world Had UGA been alive in 1776, our national animal would have been a BULLDOG! Thanks, UGA VI, it’s been a great ride, and we look forward to this fall. May you receive all the honor is due to you! DAWGS forever.

By Atlanta Gator

April 1, 2007 8:34 PM | Link to this

Dave in Tampa——The “Tebow’s the Show” posts are so calculatedly wierd and over the top that they make me wonder if the poster isn’t really a Dawg or Jacket poser trying to stir things up. Clearly, the poster intended to rub your fur the wrong way, regardless of his true affiliation.

Frankly, I’ve never heard any serious Gator fan hack on Richt; all the Gators that I talk to on a regular basis seem to think Richt is a pretty damn good coach. Enough said.

By Buck Cochran in the NW

April 1, 2007 9:42 PM | Link to this

Atlanta Gator, that’s why I answered that guy the way I did because Tim Tebow is a devout Christian and every summer he does mission work for his church. The cheap shot at Richt was one thing but everyone knows where CMR stands. He showed his lack of knowledge of Tim Tebow so I just left him out on a limb and he didn’t know it

By BuLLdawg

April 2, 2007 3:33 AM | Link to this

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WHERE is the ACC AJ-C ?

I am missing this.

What is so damn great about the ACC in basketball, men’s or women’s ?

All HYPE AJ-C

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By BuLLdawg

April 2, 2007 3:34 AM | Link to this

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NO results.

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By BuLLdawg

April 2, 2007 5:23 AM | Link to this

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BS on this post of yours BadgerNONdawg doing all you can do to put Down UGA in every stinking one of your posts.

It’s all you do BadgerDawg.

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By BadgerDawg

April 1, 2007 3:41 PM

” BuLLGator, the point was obvious…Okie State is no better. “

“Both teams are middle of the road teams, but all SEC teams schedule cupcake schedules, and if that’s the best of the out of conference next year is no different. Nice try trying to defend our pansy schedule. By the way, I know Wisconsin’s schedule is weak, I have never tried to defend it, now you can stop trying to defend UGA’s.

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I will NOT DEFEND but attack such a poster trying to suggest that he is a Bulldog fan. He ain’t.

It’s obvious.

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By BuLLdawg

April 2, 2007 5:48 AM | Link to this

It’s not the scrawny insect mascot that grinds on me : It’s the gay manner in which he carries himself.

Prancing around like it’s cool in midtown to be gay in a man’s sport; yeah right.

And, twirling that baton like a girlee.

Oklahoma State is NO BETTER ? Huh ? Oklahoma State is NOT a BETTER opponent than lowly lowlife cupcake playing get beat by three nobodies lose 19 games over the last 3 years playing the Number 56 Strength of Schedule Kansas State does ?

Lord above, that is a stupid as your statement that :” The SEC is not that great in basketball. :” you said BadgerNONsecFAN.

.1.Oklahoma State did not play the Number 56 Strength of Schedule, but the Number 20.

http://web1.ncaa.org/d1mfb/Internet/toughest%20schedule/ia9gamescumm.pdf

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.2.Oklahoma State does NOT HAVE A LOSING RECORD over the last 3 consecutive years, like cupcake Kansas State does with Kansas State playing a far weaker schedule too.

http://football.stassen.com/cgi-bin/records/calc-wp.pl?start=2004&end=2006&rpct=30&min=5&ss=on&se=on&c1a=on&pt=on&by=Losses

By BuLLdawg

April 2, 2007 5:49 AM | Link to this

.3.It’s OK for Ohio State of the Big 10 you brag about incessantly in here BadgerDawg to play Oklahoma State, but NOT OK for Georgia to play Oklahoma State. It’s OK for PAC-10 UCLA to play Oklahoma State, but NOT for UGA to play Oklahoma State BadgerDawg you moron. It’s OK for Alabama to play Oklahoma State, but NOT for UGA to play Oklahoma State, for God’s sake according to BadgerNONdawg yet again, yet Oklahoma State has played in fact these 3 teams the last 3 years non-conference and now UGA this non-conference schedule year for Oklahoma State. And, all 4 of these teams were ranked the year Oklahoma State played them.

http://football.stassen.com/cgi-bin/records/all-opp.pl?start=2004&end=2006&team=Oklahoma+State&sort=l

.4.Oklahoma ended up the season Number 5 in 2002-2003 in the Final AP Poll, NOT NUMBER 13 like Texas did last season you said was Number 4 BadgerDawg and Oklahoma State BEAT Number 5 Oklahoma. not Number 13 Texas like cupcake Kansas State, and in fact Oklahoma State BEAT Final AP Poll Number 6 Oklahoma the year before that too in 2001-2002 not Number 13 Texas using your measurement of a better football program while you sit there and ignore the pansy patsy cupcake creampuff schedules Kansas State, Wisconsin and Auburn play by direct comparison to Oklahoma State and by comparison to UGA..

http://www.nationalchamps.net/NCAA/pastAPPolls.htm

By BuLLdawg

April 2, 2007 6:11 AM | Link to this

.5.Oklahoma State also beat Number 20 Final AP Poll Texas Tech the year before last 2005-2006.

http://www.nationalchamps.net/NCAA/pastAPPolls.htm

.6.Oklahoma State is Number 28 in the Rivals Recruiting Rankings for 2007, just before we play them, while Kansas State pansy-playing nobodies are Number 41 in Recruit Rankings this year by Rivals by direct comparison. *This is a reflection of the fact that *Oklahoma State is indeed viewed by EVERYONE as a BETTER football Team.

http://uga.rivals.com/teamrank.asp?Year=2007&Page=2&Type=0&Sort=0

By BuLLdawg

April 2, 2007 6:12 AM | Link to this

.7.Oklahoma State AGAIN is Number 22 in Rivals Recruiting Rankings for 2006 as well, while ONCE AGAIN Kansas State is Number 41.

http://uga.rivals.com/TeamRank.asp?type=0&sort=0&year=2006

Number 41 Kansas State, not Number 22 Oklahoma State :

http://uga.rivals.com/teamrank.asp?Year=2006&Page=2&Type=0&Sort=0

Oklahoma State is an exciting up and coming football team, and Kansas State are A down football team.

Where have you been BadgerDawg to NOT know this ?

You are just so damn jealous of me personally BadgerDawg, that you make the most preposterous points in this blog and ALWAYS HAVE about how the SEC is no damn good in basketball you said (men’s and women’s) and that the ACC is you said BadgerDawg and that Kansas State is better than Oklahoma State.

BS.

Anything you can do to put down UGA and the SEC and build up EVERYTHING ELSE.

BS on this post of yours BadgerNONdawg doing all you can do to put Down UGA in every stinking one of your posts.

It’s all you do BadgerDawg.

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By Will

April 2, 2007 7:06 AM | Link to this

Can we get an update on Caleb King and how he stands with the SAT issue??? The silence is deafening.

By BadgerDawg

April 2, 2007 7:12 AM | Link to this

Yes, I am a UGA grad and have nothing better to do than knock my school. Makes about as much sense as 99% of your posts. Maybe you have nothing better to do than to prop the Gators, the school you secretly root for. My only point is that we play a lousy out of conference schedule, and you are propping up a team that lost last year to a team you’re slamming. Not 5 five years ago like your meaningless stats. If you’re pointing to 27 vs 41 recruiting rankings for last year’s class most of whom will not even be on the field it shows how desparate you are. How can last year’s recruiting be a direct indicator of how good they are this year? Ridiculous even by your standards.

Your agenda is to prop up UGA’s strength of schedule no matter who they play. I bring up facts that show it is not good and you can’t handle it. Instead of talking about a game 5 years ago, why don’t you bring up that K-State beat Okie State last year or that K-State had a better in-conference record last year. No you’d rather post that Okie State has Barry Sanders in 1988 so they are clearly better. Again, I don’t know how many times I have to say this, I post and you quote and you still distort it, I did not say K-State is good, but neither is Okie State, and to slam a team for playing one and not the other is moronic. What do I have to gain by saying this? I wish we did play a tough out of conference schedule, but we don’t and you need to stop dreaming that we do. At least we didn’t scedule Georgia Southern or Arkansas State this year, we have been known to do that in the past. Maybe your next mindless rant should be about how good Western Carolina and Troy are.

By BadgerDawg

April 2, 2007 7:29 AM | Link to this

Oklahoma State Western Carolina Troy Georgia Tech

The only way to spin this as tough is to make Okie State look better than they are. It also helps to slam the competition who plays a comparable opponent by accusing them of playing a nobody(Kansas State). The only problem with that are little facts like who actually won the game between them last year. If our toughest nonconference opponent is a team that lost to Houston, K-State, and Texas Tech last year, finished with a losing conference record, and barely beat an Alabama team that (like Okie State) had no business being in a bowl game, then we are not playing a tough nonconference schedule. Nice try, Gator wannabe, it’s not working.

By gdawginkalamazoo

April 2, 2007 9:18 AM | Link to this

Just read your first post Ramble ON! You need to take your marital problems to a different blog dude.

By Gen Neyland

April 2, 2007 9:36 AM | Link to this

The Road To The Final Two…Seems that BadgerDawg and Buck Cochran from the NW will make the trip with their respective picks to claim the title…

The Road To The Final Two is an uphill course. The two teams that pulled off this feat have made a statement. For all us outsiders with no loyalty to the two finalists, this includes Badger and Buck, let’s hope for a good game…and may the best team from the SEC win…Amen

By Buck Cochran in the NW

April 2, 2007 12:29 PM | Link to this

Gen Neyland, They’ve come this far and that bunch won’t stop now. I hope that my Dawgs can come close ONE DAY. Dawg Jr., in MI, made a good point. We can pull for the Reptiles since that was my head pick but we won’t have To put up with any big heads. Really happy the Reptiles took out 2 of 3 PAC-10 reps. They made my lifer easier.

By I-DOG

April 2, 2007 12:53 PM | Link to this

Chip,

Where is the Spring football coverage on UGA in the AJC? I feel like I am in the dark on what is going on with the team?

By Big Dawg

April 2, 2007 3:45 PM | Link to this

Chip,

Like I-Dog ask where are our daily in depth coverage of our team during spring drills as you promised.

By BadgerDawg

April 2, 2007 6:07 PM | Link to this

Gen, I’m not backing off my original OSU pick, but I can’t say I feel good about it right now. But the team that shouldn’t have won managed to play the game of their lives in the football version of this matchup, so anything’s possible. IF Oden’s not in foul trouble, they’ll pull it off. I just don’t know if he can stay out of trouble with two quick bigs like the Gators have. I will say this, Noah and Hortford haven’t faced anyone remotely close to Oden, either, so I guess it goes both ways.