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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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
No self-pity party for Dogs
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Today coach Mark Richt held his weekly press briefing over at Stegeman Coliseum. Quite clearly, the theme for the team this week is shaking off the doldrums of the South Carolina loss and getting on with their college football lives.
It hasn’t been easy. Richt called Monday’s practice “lackluster” and said there was “not a lot of enthusiasm,” as the Bulldogs began preparations for Western Carolina.
“I think they kind of felt sorry for themselves a bit, probably me included,” Richt said. “So we’ve got to snap out of it here pretty quickly.”
The reality is Georgia played pretty poorly and got hardly any breaks at all and still had a chance beat the Gamecocks. Statistically they were almost dead even, with the Bulldogs outgaining Carolina 341 to 314 and running 11 more offensive plays. Take into account the receivers’ drops coupled with Matthew Stafford’s off day and you can see how it could have been a much more productive offensive game.
But even more than that was the bad fortune Georgia endured. There was the illegal block play on Dannell Ellerbe that was overturned; there was the “very close” illegal motion penalty that negated a fumble recovery on a Carolina punt return right before halftime; there was Brandon Coutu’s rare missed field goal; and again, all the critical drops.
Even Steve Spurrier, talking to the South Carolina media this week, said his team was extremely fortunate in Athens.
“We can’t rely on a lot of good luck, a lot of good fortune that happened for us,” Spurrier said. “Hopefully, we can get better because we have a pretty good team. Not a great team, but a pretty good team.”
So how do the Bulldogs plan on snapping out of it? By practicing extremely hard.
Monday, players were subjected to extra conditioning before and after practice. Today’s practice plan should ne reminiscent of the old days when it was known as “Bloody Tuesday.”
“Football’s not quite as much fun when you lose as when you win. So we’re dealing with that right now. I think the coaches are doing a good job of getting us over that,” Richt said. I’m glad we don’t have an open date. It would’ve been awful to have to wait a week. You can get that taste out of your mouth. Hopefully we can get back on the winning track this week.”
Of course they will against Western Carolina. But what will the rest of the SEC slate hold?
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