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AJC > Sports > UGA > Blog > Archives > 2008 > January > 31 > Entry
DEL.ICIO.USDogs awesome at home, awful on road
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Drove back from Columbia, S.C., early this morning after watching the Bulldogs get dismantled by South Carolina last night at the Colonial Center. Never mind the final score, I can’t tell you how bad Georgia looked most of that game. Especially early.
When it comes to playing on the road versus at home, this is truly a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde team.
Last night represented an almost exact duplicate of what happened to them against Tennessee and Mississippi State, albeit against a far inferior team, hence the six-point margin. I’m not sure how to describe it but it’s like they’re already defeated as soon as they step onto the court. They play nervous or tight or dumb or sloppy. Whatever you want to call it it’s just flat-out bad.
Compare that to Georgia’s play at home and it’s almost like they’re a completely different team. Now you and I know there’s almost disparity between the way teams play at home and on the road but with the Bulldogs it’s just ridiculous. Just look at the last six games: Georgia averaged 74 points at home and 54.6 on the road; it shooting .472 at home and .346 on the road. Not coincidentally, it was 3-0 in Stegeman and 0-3 at other places.
You could say that’s just part of being a young team. But if you look close at the Dogs, they aren’t really all that young. Six players gobble up the majority of the minutes and they’re two seniors, three juniors and a true freshman.
If you ask me I think it’s mostly a mental thing with this team. Perhaps they could use a session with a sports psychologist or something. Granted, without Takais Brown and Mike Mercer this is not a great team. Maybe not even a good team. But at least they used to be scrappy on the road.
Anyway, Kentucky is coming to town on Saturday (1 p.m., CBS) and that’s followed by a visit from Vanderbilt. To the Dogs’ credit, they’re 10-0 at Stegeman and their students are flocking to the gym in big numbers. Based on what I’ve seen so far, Georgia best take care of its business at home because I’m not seeing much hope for them on the road.
What’s your thoughts on it?
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By Gamecock Henry
January 31, 2008 5:08 PM | Link to this
16 - 12, 62 - 56, now baseball on the horizon and then back to football! BTW FIRST!!!!! GOOOO COCKS!!!!!!!
By UT96
January 31, 2008 5:10 PM | Link to this
It doesn’t matter, the mutts have a another Big Orange beatdown coimg in Athens just like they got in Knoxville and, of course, just like football:)
By Bryan G.
January 31, 2008 5:12 PM | Link to this
They play poorly on the road because they are poorly coached. They can’t make simple passes…dribble…get open shots.
We have never had any semblance of a half-court offense since we’ve had Felton. Our offense is either Sundiata drive and take a circus shot or Sundiata drive and kick it out to someone for a 25-footer. We are terrible.
Felton is not the man to coach UGA. He can’t keep his players interested, eligible, or even in school. His job is to win games and he just hasn’t done that through 6 years. Only in year-one (with Harrick’s players who actually knew how to score) has Felton ever gotten close to the NCAAs.
Maybe after we score our first basket against UK, we should have the whole team run out onto the floor and celebrate!
It would at least make me feel like Felton is doing something.
By buckheadbill
January 31, 2008 5:19 PM | Link to this
I have watched GA BB from the same seat for 35 years. I’ll be damned if I know why these current players will not try to win on the road. We had 3 players standing in the paint at Tennessee and made no effort to contest layups or dunks. When Billy Humphrey is afraid to shoot, something is going on. Maybe starting a different 5 would get their attention. They could not play any worse than these current starters.
By buckheadbill
January 31, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this
Bryan G. What if the first basket comes after 11 minutes?
By Tom
January 31, 2008 5:28 PM | Link to this
Have to at least give Dave Bliss credit. He is slow, can’t dribble very well, not much of a shooter - but he plays his rear end off every time out and gets everything out of what he has. That’s something that the coach hasn’t been able to cajole out of anyone else in the past 4 years.
By Chip Towers
January 31, 2008 6:01 PM | Link to this
mnvfdcxsz
By Chip Towers
January 31, 2008 6:24 PM | Link to this
LOL! That last comment attributed to me was actually from my 7-month-old son, Bryson. I was holding him and he likes to run his hands across the keyboard and he somehow got the cursor inside the comments window and hit the enter bar… . So there you go. No arguing with his logic!
By BT
January 31, 2008 7:37 PM | Link to this
Billy Humphrey was 1-12 from 3 point range. I don’t think he’s ever been “afraid to shoot”, and that was one of the main problems for Georgia last night.
By Bryson Towers
January 31, 2008 7:39 PM | Link to this
Dad, what I said was:
mutt nation victorious?
felton’s dogs: cold x sloppy = zzzzzzzzzz
By Gamecock Henry
January 31, 2008 7:46 PM | Link to this
We welcome the dawgs in Columbia for the big Spoil party this year. Poor Dawgs in disbelief. Lost again!!! Pot calling the kettle black about being delusional huh. Gamecocks Rules the DAWGS!!!!!!!
By Gamecock Henry
January 31, 2008 7:51 PM | Link to this
9/14/ 08….”Drove back from Columbia, S.C., early this morning after watching the Bulldogs get dismantled by South Carolina last night at Williams Brice Stadium. Never mind the final score, I can’t tell you how bad Georgia looked most of that game. Especially early.” CHIP
By Hoopergdawg
January 31, 2008 8:09 PM | Link to this
Hey Chip, looks like your kid has good hands. Can he shoot or dribble? Sign him up! BTW, please get a new coach at UGA. Anyone can see if you aren’t hitting your jumpers, then throw it inside or make penetration and maybe draw a foul. USC had 3 fouls on them in the first half. 3!!! Instead, let’s keep shooting 27, yes 27, 3’s.
By Hoopergdawg
January 31, 2008 8:14 PM | Link to this
Hey Gamecock, congrats on your team making it back to .500 ball. Hmm, am I talking about your basketball team or football team? Amazingly, they are the same. The little USc will be 17 point underdogs come September. You beat UGA in how many years? 6, 7, 8? Keep running that chicken mouth. Make sure you come back in September.
By D Gelbart
January 31, 2008 8:42 PM | Link to this
Gamecock Henry,
You almost made me reply to your dumb comment. It is amazing how I am going to be reading C** fans “running their mouth” comments until kickoff of the next season.
By JimmyG
January 31, 2008 9:44 PM | Link to this
Worst offensive scheme in the country, and no good big man = No Chance. Felton can recruit, but he cannot coach offense. With how poorly our team shoots we must try and fast break the entire game. If we slow it down we will not score. Dave Bliss is one of our best players this year, and if you crunch his numbers over his career he has been the worst player to ever see significant minutes as a Bulldog. Minutes played to score differential and he is the worst to ever play ball at Georgia. Kenneth Harris and Walter Hill were recruited to play basketball let them play.
By Gamecock Henry
January 31, 2008 9:57 PM | Link to this
Hooperdawg…… No matter the Gamecocks overall record, since that all the dawg fans seem to always wanna point to. Fact is, Gamecocks beat the dawgs both in Football and Basketball and y’all just simply cant face the reality of it!!!!
BTW D.Gelbart…. You better get use to it because more losses are forth coming for the dawgs!
By sansho1
January 31, 2008 10:18 PM | Link to this
Jimmy, you must not remember Neville Austin. Dave Bliss is Bill Russell in comparison.
By Bryan G.
January 31, 2008 11:19 PM | Link to this
I have to say, Gamecock Henry, I admire your spirit…misplaced as it is.
Seriously, Gamecock fans talking smack to UGA about football is like if I got on a Yale academics blog and bragged about how we had more Rhodes Scholars than them this year and thus are a better school.
That’s called an analogy, brother. Maybe you can figure it out.
Dude, you won in 2007. Well done and I give you SC all the props. But you’re not a better football school or even our contemporary. I’m sure you’re smart enough to figure that out, too…right?
By Gen Neyland
January 31, 2008 11:45 PM | Link to this
Gamecock Henry
After UT cleaned YOUR clock in BB and in football…just shut up…The Dawgs ( Lord help us all ) will remember 2007, and in our case, 2006…and remember Henry, the chicken that crows the loudest is dinner at Sleep In Inn…
By AltamahaDawg
February 1, 2008 8:03 AM | Link to this
Henry, what I can’t figure out is why we never saw you in here last year, or the year before, or the year before. You being such a big SC fan and all.
I’d be willing to bet, you didn’t even know who the basketball team was playing Wednesday night and couldn’t name 2 players. I know this is all new to you , but the way it works is, SC still plays in Athens later this year.
Do you even know where the baseball field is located in Columbia?
By Gamecock Henry
February 1, 2008 8:07 AM | Link to this
Bwah Bwah Bwah….. Face it Puppies! 16 - 12, 72 - 66, and next in baseball. I have a goodfeeling it will be two in a row on the gridiron!
BTW GEN NEYLAND Gamecocks and the ole ball coach have your boys circled too! I dont think you cleaned the Gamecocks clock in football either! Dont get us confused with UGA.
By Pat
February 1, 2008 8:13 AM | Link to this
8 of 49 from behind the 3-line in last two games. DUH! Change the plan. Set some screens, drive, pass, etc. anything.
By Gamecock Henry
February 1, 2008 8:22 AM | Link to this
AltamahaDawg…. Found the AJC Blog a few weeks ago from a friend who said it was a comical and delusional dawg fans forum. Yeah… I know where Athens is located… 16 - 12 was a wonderful time there! Come on up and watch a real baseball game at Sarge Frye Field this Spring. Maybe you can get more acclimated to losing in Columbia this year in football as well. Heck… . I’ll may be willing to show off OUR Nice Colonial Center, Our New Baseball Field and the Historic and improving city of Columbia. Just Like our Football team!!!
By LSU James
February 1, 2008 8:23 AM | Link to this
Gamecock Henry,
Hope you had as much fun on your team’s bowl trip as LSU and UGA had on ours. Those BCS games are great, aren’t they?
Seriously, though, ‘preciate you keeping an eye on things while your 9 SEC brethren were off at their bowl games. Right neighborly of you.
By PreyDawg
February 1, 2008 8:45 AM | Link to this
TO ALTAMAHA DOG:
Kuddo’s to you. You consistently have some of the best posts on these blogs. By the way. I started my career at Plant Hatch. Working in Illinois this morning, fighting snow, and missing Georgia.
Felton is a man of great charachter. I am frustrated, but lets give him another year.
GO DWAGS
By PreyDawg
February 1, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this
CRAP!
I misspelled DAWGS!!! The Cardinal sin!! Im melting….
It wasnt ignorance just shivering while I type from the D@mn cold!
Try Again
GO DAWGS!!!
By Greg
February 1, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this
Gamecock Henry, why don’t you go to the Vandy boards and talk trash? Oh, that’s right, they beat you this year so they OWN you.
Did you have fun at the Cocks bowl game?
By Gamecock Henry
February 1, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this
Greg…. Do you have fun losing to the Gamecocks? I remember UGA Losing to Vandy the year before and oh that lucky Fumble for the Dawgs!
By buckheadbill
February 1, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this
BT…In the SC game on Wednesday, as time ran out, they passed, passed and passed some more. Not one player wanted to take a shot. Look it up!
By Kevin
February 1, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this
Why do opposing fans fill up these articles with smack talk? Get a life and hang out on your own newspaper site.
By GREG
February 1, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this
GAMECOCK FAN HENRY….46-14 OVER CAROLINA ALL TIME…38-10 OVER CLEMSON!!!!!DOES CAROLINA HAVE A WINNING RECORD AGIANS ANYBODY???????
By Gamecock Henry
February 1, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this
Greg ….Please dont look into the past my friend. History is history. Yes even the 16 - 12 win in football and the 72- 66 win in basketball is now History. Now one more bastkeball win against the dawgs and the baseball season games oh, not to mention the big one in Columbia this year. The Future is bright for the Gamecocks!
By Gamecock Henry
February 1, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this
LSU James….. Yes Great WIn for the Tigers. Miles is getting the job done, Congrats! LSU Makes The SEC Proud. Now UGA is Another Story. They dont even win their Division much less the conference Championship and goes to a BCS Bowl game against another team that had no business in being there. We might had had not much fun during the 2nd half of the season. However I can tell you its so sweet to beat the overatted puppies in Athens! I cant wait when the Cocks do in basketball and baseball!
By Skydawg
February 1, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this
Hey Gamecock Henry….UGA 11-2 #2 in the nation! Gamecocks 6-0 start to six straight losses for a 6-6 record and ONCE AGAIN not in the top 25 in the nation. We own you beotches overall. The cocks got lucky and caught a young team early in the season. But your beatdown is coming in Sept. Bank on it!
By Skydawg
February 1, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this
The future is bright for the Gamecocks??? LMAO!! Perhaps in relative terms maybe. Maybe you can shoot for 8-4 this year and an Independence Bowl invitation. That’s bright compared to your programs track record. The future is indeed bright.
Thats why the best players in SC keep leaving the state to come to UGA.
By gdawginkalamazoo
February 1, 2008 1:31 PM | Link to this
BTW GEN NEYLAND Gamecocks and the ole ball coach have your boys circled too!
General, better go buy a cup. Don’t know what kind of illness that is but looks like the chickens and Henry are targeting “your boys.”
Preydawg, The cold and snow isn’t THAT bad. It only hurts when the wind chill is below zero and the auger on the snowblower breaks.
By AltamahaDawg
February 1, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this
Let me understand this: you spend all your time, in someone else’s blog, talking trash, bragging, predicting sure wins in the future……..and you do this because your friend told you WE were comical and delusional….hm. Interesting.
By D Gelbart
February 1, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this
Gamecock Henry, Not a basketball fan but you really need to quit talking about things that may or may not happen next football season. The series record is 47-17 in football so UGA owns the Gamecocks. You beat us once every 5 to 6 years so if you are predicting South Carolina beating Georgia in football next year automatically you are crazy. BTW: Future is bright? You have got to be kidding me if you think South Carolina is going to be even close to winning an SEC Championship in the next 100 to 500 years.
By reality check
February 1, 2008 3:30 PM | Link to this
Gamecock Henry is undoubtedly Gamecock Gary recycled. Gamecock Gary was a miserable little puke who liked to come on our blog talking trash just like this guy.
Gamecock Henry, or Lamecock Gary, you obviously enjoy making yourself a pest but you are showing yourself to be a delusional twerp without substance. You aren’t welcome here like fans of some other schools such as War Eagle and Gen Neyland. Unlike you they represent schools with a respected football history. South Carolina rarely beats Georgia and has a football history that should embaress anybody. It is one of the sorriest programs in the history of Southern football. You have never won a championship of substance.
Take your delusional crap and go away.
By Gen Neyland
February 2, 2008 12:08 AM | Link to this
zoo
Guess the ole (sic) ballcoach’s mouthpiece, i.e., Gamecock Henry, doesn’t know we Rocky Toppers fear no chicken…Reminds me an old chicken joke that begins, ‘Why did the pervert cross the road…?’ I digress and my apologies to all…except Henry who might sympathize with the chicken…Happy Saturday…It’s BuLLdawg Time…
By ............................................BuLLdawg
February 2, 2008 1:54 AM | Link to this
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National Championships, according to the NCAA are as follows :
1 Georgia Tech girls tennis.
24 Georgia (including 2 in girls tennis. )
Football :
6 Georgia Tech
6 Georgia
The Six (6) National Championships in Football for UGA are all six (6) listed in the NCAA Official Records Book Bowl Subdivision (same as Tech’s 6) :
1927
1942
1946
1966
1968
1980
Other NC of note :
22 Notre Dame.
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17 Alabama.
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15 Southern California.
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15 Oklahoma.
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14 Michigan.
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12 Nebraska.
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12 Ohio State.
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10 Texas.
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8 Miami.
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7 FSU.
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7 Penn State.
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7 LSU.
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6 Georgia.
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6 Georgia Tech.
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6 Tennessee vols.
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4 Auburn.
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2 Arkansas.
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And, the records show that Georgia ended the season Ranked No. 2 in the Final AP Poll and that Georgia Tech has NEVER ended No. 1 ANY season in the Final AP Poll.
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By XXXX
February 2, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this
Chip: I admire your courage. How could anyone write about UGA basketball ? Do they hold a gun to your head or did you lose the office drawing ? This is the most irrelevant team in the history of college sports.
Can’t you just come in with another recruiting story ?
By Gordon
February 2, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this
BuLLdawg,
Just curious. Do you have the stats on NCAA major violations? I can help with the Tech part: 1 in football (2002) and 1 in tennis (1989). What is Georgia’s record? The only one I know of is men’s basketball in 2002. Are there more in other sports?
By the way, I’m not using that or academics as an excuse for Tech not being as good as Georgia in most sports, so don’t go there.
By consider this
February 2, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this
cocks can crow all they want on this georgia site…since we beat you last year….we own you!
By stats are the past
February 2, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this
what have you done lately? signed, c**
By bubba
February 2, 2008 6:27 PM | Link to this
we bad at home too
By BuLLcrap
February 2, 2008 8:47 PM | Link to this
Hey ………Bulldogie
2nd place = 1st loser!!!
By Bill
February 2, 2008 9:39 PM | Link to this
Well well look what I have found.BuLLdawg.Is that it now?What happened to shock,weevil or whatever you were allowed to use.You’ll never guess who this is.
By ............................................BuLLdawg
February 3, 2008 12:09 AM | Link to this
Go ahead and tell us all.
By ............................................BuLLdawg
February 3, 2008 1:32 AM | Link to this
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.478 at 97-106-1 Big Ten (11) in Bowl Games
.488 at 42-44-0 Big XII in Bowl Games
.503 at 79-78-2 ACC in Bowl Games
.530 at 105-93-5 PAC-10 in Bowl Games
.536 at 37-32-0 Big East in Bowl Games
.554 at 184-157-9 SEC in Bowl Games
The Best Conference in Bowl Games ? Quite obvious.
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By ............................................BuLLdawg
February 3, 2008 2:04 AM | Link to this
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This is a big announcement. Coach Richt has yet another protégé’ quarterback. Figuring that unless Matthew Stafford does something this up-coming Junior Season that he hasn’t so far, three (3) of the Top Scout.com Top 15 Quarterbacks in the country 2009 have UGA picked among their choices.
Obviously, they feel that with Matthew Stafford and Joe Cox both being Seniors the season after this one coming up, that they could come in and Redshirt their Freshman Year while our 2 Seniors then play. And, then they would be in line for Coach Richt’s 3rd Freshman Quarterback to be his Starter. Coach Richt does have a History of this.
http://recruiting.scout.com/a.z?s=73&p=9&c=4&pid=10&yr=2009
The 15th top-rated QB in the nation from Alabama also at 6’ 4” is considering this situation.
The 7th top-rated QB in the nation from Oconee County Zach Mettenberger leaped at this chance and he has a huge arm at 6’ 4”.
The 5th top-rated QB in the nation from Indiana is considering this situation and he is 6’ 3”.
Coach Richt only has 17 on Scholarship who are Seniors this up-coming season, so he doesn’t have many slots.
Getting the No. 7 highest-rated Scout.com Quarterback Nationally with obviously the arm and size to step in after Matthew Stafford’s senior season, redshirting the season after this one coming-up, is big news. Signing Day is 3 days away for 2008 too, if you want to talk about Recruiting like you say.
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By ............................................BuLLdawg
February 3, 2008 3:12 AM | Link to this
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So everyone is aware totally, the posters in this UGA blog who are Wally Butts, Matthew Stafford and many other login names - **none of which have anything related to Georgia Tech in their logins - are ALL Georgia Tech nerds.
You can see this by clicking the Tech blog.
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By Bill
February 3, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this
you should know who this is.Read my earlier post.It will come to you.
By nick
February 4, 2008 1:41 PM | Link to this
Super bowl results, 3 Tech players win Super Bowl rings. Ex poodle involved in bar brawl. Enough said.
Nick
By scooter11
February 4, 2008 5:17 PM | Link to this
Nicki: When 3 EX-jackettes win Super Bowl MVP, get back to us. Only one school has that distinction. Woof.