UGA blog finds new home
Morning all. As I’ve said a couple of times this week, we’re converting this blog over to a WordPress platform and it will be a permanent move the first of next week.
Those of you who are regulars probably know that I’m not what you’d call techno-wizard when it comes to these things. But from what I understand the technology offered in this new format should make the blogging and commenting experience better for all. Of course, I’ll be learning as we go along, too. But I’m hoping to provide more pictures and video and things like that which should bring the blog more to life.
Of course, this blog is nothing without all you guys so I want to heartily invite (read: beg) you to come over to the new site by CLICKING HERE ON THE NEW ADDRESS and save it in your browsers. As of Monday, Feb. 23rd, this will be the permanent home of the UGA blog you so love or, in the case of some of you, love to loathe. If you’d prefer to copy and paste or just memorize, the new address is: http://blogs.ajc.com/uga-sports-blog/.
See at the new place!
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Saturday, September 8, 2007
Richt’s call, Stafford’s play costly
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
OK, here we are fresh at the end of Georgia’s first loss of the season. Come on now, tell the truth. You didn’t expect the Dogs to go undefeated did you?
I’ve got to admit, I expected them to win this game. It’s not that I think they’re markedly better than South Carolina at this particular juncture. I just thought they had a Grade A quarterback — the most important aspect of college football, in my opinion — and were playing an evening game at home, which is usually worth a handful of points.
The fact is, Stafford did not play well at all, in my opinion, or in his. He was pretty much soaking up all the blame in the postgame locker room. I didn’t think the line played real good, certainly not early in the game. And there were some drops, though few of the “how the heck did he drop that” variety. But 19 of 44 is pretty bad, no matter how you slice it up.
Coach Mark Richt didn’t think it was a very questionable decision to kick the field goal with 4:50 or so remaining and trailing 16-9 rather than go for a touchdown on fourth down atj the South Carolina 15. Not many in the press box agreed with it, I can tell you that. You still have to score a touchdown was our thinking. Here’s what he said:
“We still had two timeouts,” Richt said. “I felt if we put points on the board there, South Carolina would feel like they had to move the ball and might take a few more chances. If we didn’t get it, I felt they’d be more conservative with a seven-point lead. We did stop them, we got the ball back and we had a chance to win the game. If it had been fourth and a little less I would have gone for it. But at fourth-and-15 the odds are not good.”
Anybody out there have a problem with that rationale? Let’s hear your thoughts on the game.
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