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By Bulldogs seem to lack heart...

November 18, 2008 7:55 AM | Link to this

SEEM? Well, duh! And they pay you to write the obvious?

Just leave it at “Bulldogs lack heart” and you have it right!

By JB

November 18, 2008 7:58 AM | Link to this

Chip, to me, one of our biggest issues is not having a single De that can bring any pressure. Do we have anyone, waiting in the wings that can provide this? How did Toby Jackson look? Any redshirts? BTW, eliminating the foolish penalties and unforced TO’s would also help.

Also, I couldn’t agree more with our next Pres on the need for a playoff (among other things) but there will be many here who will see it as some “socialist” ploy… Imagine a rolling of the eyes icon, right here.

By RAMBLE ON!!!

November 18, 2008 8:00 AM | Link to this

I always thought they lacked a brain

By GW

November 18, 2008 8:02 AM | Link to this

I don’t agree with the “don’t have heart” headline. No heart = 6+ losses. I don’t agree about coaching changes. Anybody watching every game live and up close can see there are continuous problems on defense. Take the week off Chip for civic duty, these same old blogging topics need a break. 2 weeks of negativity before Tech is useless.

By Lynne

November 18, 2008 8:13 AM | Link to this

It seems this week is the time for all of the reporters and columnists to jump on the bandwagon criticizing UGA even more than ever. I think your headline is unfair. These guys are college kids giving their all; they have very long and busy days of weight-lifting, class, meetings, film to watch, practice, then studying. They have been on the road 4 weeks in a row. Even if the SEC is down this year, that is still a tough schedule. I began going to UGA games in 1980. I have supported the team all these years and continue to do so! I think it’s awful that you reporters don’t seem to have an original thought and all seem to follow the “crowd” of criticizing UGA with a record that most teams would love to have.

By Sautee Dawg

November 18, 2008 8:14 AM | Link to this

RAMBLE ON

You are the one that is clueless and believe me it shows in your posts. So why not Ramble On back to where you came from?

By EDawgDiggity

November 18, 2008 8:22 AM | Link to this

Chip, I don’t think it’s a stretch to question the heart of this year’s team. While I’m certainly not a fringe fan that calls for firings after every game, I have to admit I’m concerned with the 4 year trend we’re seeing now with regards to the points per game allowed. Disturbing.

By RAMBLE ON!!!

November 18, 2008 8:29 AM | Link to this

Sautee Dawg, lots of penalties, more than any other team. Wouldn’t you agree?

Don’t get defensive, that’s what Willie Martinez is supposed to do.

By Dr. Dre

November 18, 2008 8:47 AM | Link to this

Coach Richt, can we wear our red panties against Tech?

By gg

November 18, 2008 8:48 AM | Link to this

I think a big part of the problem starts with DISCIPLINE.

Somehow that has been lost in this team. It started to show up in the offseason, and then carried over to their performance on the field.

Discipline doesn’t miss assignments, doesn’t lose concentration, and doesn’t get penalized the length of the field in every game. A lack of discipline gets penalized in the red zone on offense and on crucial plays on defense. A lack of discipline blows blocking assignments on punts, coverage assignments on pass defense, misplays punt returns, and doesn’t get loft on chip shot field goals. And I put most of this on the players, but the coaches need to recognize it and coach it when it’s not there in the players.

By Sautee Dawg

November 18, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this

Ramble ON sorry not defensive, justnot buying into the team not having a brain. Penalties are a problem and dealing with them is even a bigger problem. Should do like Coach Spurrier, when you commit a penalty don’t even look over to the sideline just come on off the field and take a few plays off. Seems to work for him.

By dawgthabootyhunter

November 18, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this

They lacking alot of SOMEthing!! GO DAWGS!!

By Gatorman

November 18, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this

Ramble on, just try and make good with the sorry ACC schedule you have before you come in and try bumping up against the SEC. You haven’t even played Miami or UGA and only a “hand of god” fumble saved you against Florida State. From a Florida Gator…you techmites wanna come down to the Swamp and be the next team to lose your a$$ to us?

By GeoffDawg

November 18, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this

I always thought ramble on!!! lacked male genitalia. More of an asexual drone blogging out of the main nerd hive on north avenue.

By Okefenokee Dawg

November 18, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

RAMBLE ON - You know what you say to a Tech man with two black eyes? Nothing much you can say, he’s already heard it twice.

By Pago Flyer

November 18, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

To “lynne”…gee, I thought all college teams had players 17-21 who had to study, practice, watch films etc. And these others team can do it. Check Bama and Fl, PSU, Texas Tech, So. Cal etc.

By Will

November 18, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this

Chip, I wouldn’t say this team doesn’t have heart. If they didn’t we would have lost the last 2 games.

With that said, we’re just really not that good of a team. Our offense is one of the best but our D and special teams are horrible. We have the weakest pass rush in college football and every team knows it. We are what we are and that’s the way it goes. I would like to tell Willie however that you had better go out and recruit some speed at those D-End positions. The bulky, slow, short and stumpy guys are not working. Look at Florida and look at the speed those guys have at that position. You have to get someone to rush the passer. Also, pray that Marcus Washington at LB can play next year!

By Lynne

November 18, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this

To Pago Flyer: I doubt if you had to do any of that. How many other teams in the SEC had 4 road games in a row? Yes I wish we had played better this year. I am just saying don’t be so critical; try to support your team. These aren’t pro players. I also am criticizing the reporters because they all seem to follow the same theme each week. They should at least try to have an original thought for their blog or column.

By Huh?

November 18, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

This is just piling on Chip and adds absolutely nothing of substance to anything. Jeff Schultz has written enough meanspirited blogs trashing the character of these young men to last an entire season. Enough already. The AJC is a total pot stirring sham. What a joke.

By JacketsRule

November 18, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this

To improve their “heart” Richt needs to come up with new penalties for his players to commit on the field after a good play, to get the team “fired up!” How about an intentional block in the back after the play by a bunch of players at once!

By Bob

November 18, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this

This team is what it is. They simply aren’t as good as everyone thought they would be. It happens. They’ve got their problems but I haven’t seen anything that tells me lack of heart is one of them. They haven’t given up on the season. If they had we’d have lost the last two games. They didn’t give up when Alabama went up 31-0. And they aren’t going to give up now. I’m tired of the media trashing these guys like they are low life pros or something. We’ve heard it all season. I hope they all pull an Arian Foster and stop talking to you. Maybe then you’ll actually do some REAL work.

By Jawja is tha bestest fooseball tem!

November 18, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this

Dem dawgs is tha bester tem in tha national. we’s gooona win the Championchip nex yer. yous jost waites en sees.

Mat Sifford wills when thes trophies.

We is Preseason National Champs for a 29th straight season.

By dawgman

November 18, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this

They call them “coaches” because their job is to teach, to instill discipline,to mentor. A team without heart is a poorly coached team, especially if the talent is there. Richt is a product of Miami,and FSU where penalties and lack of discipline on and off the field were accepted. Not until we lose to a Ga. Tech or Ky or Auburn will our coaches figure out heart starts with them….and then only because they are job scared.

I’d hate to lose to Tech or a bowl team, but a loss might have a silver lining.

By LSU- The only school with 2 Balls.

November 18, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this

Lynne

LSU did it last year and still was able to win the National Championship.

By quaildawg

November 18, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this

Maybe not chemistry Chip but “No Heart”? No heart means they fold against KY and Auburn. I believe the chemistry part has more to do with the youth on the O-line and the lack of a vocal leader like a Kelin Johnson or the steadiness of the two Seniors on the O-line. Expectations for this season were built off the pieces that graduated last year. I know we had the weapons with Stafford and Moreno on O but the D really missed KJ and Howard. (Not to mention the injuries) You know the program has stepped up when 9-2 is a downer. Could be worse like getting beat at home by App State or having a talent loaded team and get beat at home by Stanford. Those are teams that have “No Heart”!!!

By terry

November 18, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this

It is like a broken record.Stafford overthrows wide open recievers, soft zone in 3rd and long, never a senior offensive line, it goes on and on….Somebody tell CMR that a good defense is an attacking offense.that should be his philosophy!!!not managing the game, maybe he is to nice?Next year will be watershed year for CMR.p.s. fire bobo and willie !!!

By Eddie

November 18, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this

It is a joke to question the hearts of these players or coaches. The last two games would have been lost if they did not have heart. I do believe that sometimes the parts just don’t fit together just right. So, chemistry to some degree could be a problem. Anyway, not the year we wanted, but 9-2 is still pretty darn good, especially with the injuries. Go Dawgs!

By RAMBLE ON!!!

November 18, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

haha, you SEC blowhards keep talking about your schedule while the rest of the nation just laughs. One really good team UF and three decent teams UA (UF will show UA is just decent, if they make it by Awbarn), UGAG, and LSU.

What if UGAG was in the Big 12, 7-4, Texas Tech would post 60 on the fleabags.

GT would be 9-2 with UGAG’s current schedule.

Miami is the better team than UGAG, first GT must take care of them. We play defense in the ACC, something the SEC only wishes they could do.

The truth hurts I know, that’s why this season is so painful for the fleabags. It’s only fitting. The mutts get beat at home Nov. 29th. The team with a brain and heart wins. HA!

By Georgia Tech=JOKE

November 18, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this

JacketsRule, I have an even better idea. Maybe a UGA player should intentionally try an injure a Georgia Tech player and get thrown out of the game. Kind of like one of your precious little perfect angel football players did last year against us. What do you say you self-righteous pinhead?

By OKCBULLDOG

November 18, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this

GEORGIA WILL NEVER WIN ALL OF THE BIG FOUR(FL, AUB, TENN, GT) IN ONE SEASON THEREFORE WILL NEVER GAIN ENOUGH RESPECT NATIONALLY TO PLAY FOR A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP. CMR HAS LOST TO AT LEAST ONE OF THOSE TEAMS EVERY YEAR, TO ME, THEY LACK HEART AT SOME POINT OF THE SEASON EVERY YEAR, BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT IT COMES DOWN TO WHEN YOU ARE GOING AGAINST YOUR BIGGEST RIVALS. THEY MUST FIND A WAY TO WIN ALL OF THOSE FOUR GAMES AND WHEN THEY DO I THINK THEY EXECUTE LIKE THEY SHOULD AND BLOWOUT THE TEAMS THEY ARE MORE TALENTED THAN.

By GeoffDawg

November 18, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this

LOL…when you start talking about the quality of the ACC, you lose what little credibility you had. Nice try though. Thanks for playing.

By JB

November 18, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this

I’m the first JB, I think…….anyway, Florida and Meyer are not going away. I don’t like Meyer, but he is a pretty darn good coach. If some coach’s don’t change in Athens, something needs to. Richt will always be watching the SEC championship game from the stands if he can’t figure it out. I think this years game should not be the sole judge, as last year win should be. I agree with an earlier blogger, the trend is not good, especially on the defensive side of the ball. We need MORE speed also. We scare no one on special teams. Richt has the talent to win 9-10 games every year. I think not having the team ready against Bama and Gators and getting blown out on National TV is what all Dawg fans are irked about. Just slipping by the worst Auburn team in 10 year doesn’t help.

By timthebrave

November 18, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this

It has been a disappointing season because of the high expectations. In reality if we play better against Fl and somehow win that game we are in perfect position to win SEC and National Championship. I give credit to FL in that game. They got good bounces and calls go their way in the first half and built on that momentum to beat us badly. I’m sick of the b*** and moaning. It is getting OLD. Go dawgs! From a real fan that graduated from UGA and goes to the games

By dawgfan1911

November 18, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

The biggest problem with the bulldogs this year is that their interior lines are not getting the job done. Last year we lead the sec in sacks and it seemed that on every play we were in the back field harrassing a qb. This year, they have tons of time to throw the ball. Other teams running backs seem to have huge holes especially in our big games fl and bama. The offensive line has played a little better. Injuries to the two best o lineman that ewe have really hurt. Those 4 yards Knowshon is getting this year, they were 10 and 15 yards last year. I am not sure what is in the cupboard for defensive lineman next year, but I will say that if these same guys are playing next year, i hope that there is someone coaching them up this summer.Toby and Abry should be great additions. D Tyson was a 5 star recruit on the defensive line and I never heard his name being called. He seems a little soft for me. Hopefully they get better. I think Mathew and Knowshon will come back next year, but in order for Ga to compete for a national title, they must beat florida and I am not sure if thatwill happen if Tebow returns, which I am sure he will.

By Tom in ATL

November 18, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this

How many teams in America would do better than UGA - playing LSU, FL, KY and AU consecutively on the road over 4 weeks? Who out there would have gone 4 and 0 during that stretch???

That’s right - Nobody would. Going 3-1 is about the best anyone could realistically expect. Give these guys a break. Tech loses one lineman and all of a sudden finds they aren’t as effective as earlier this year. UGA loses 4 lineman (not to mention numerous Defensive Injuries) and are expected to roll through their schedule unscathed, and not only win - but blow everyone in their path out. This team is 9-2 - they won at ASU, at South Carolina, at LSU, at Auburn and at KY (I seem to remember KY gave Alabama all they could handle a few weeks ago.) They aren’t perfect - they aren’t the best team in the nation, their special teams are horrible, they make boneheaded penalties and shoot themselves in the foot - all true. But considering that just about everything that could go wrong this year has gone wrong - and they sit here 9-2 (and not 3-7 like UT) tells me this program, the players, and the coaches deserve our respect (and support if you’re a fan of UGA). So many other teams would have had these same chips fall and be sitting here with no bowl possibilities. Dawgs are still in the hunt for an 11 win season.

Get off their back people.

By AlphaDog

November 18, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this

Ramble On, Sagarin still has UGA with the 6th toughest schedule in the nation, and its updated every week.

But Tech did beat Gardner-Webb of the scary BIG SOUTH conference, a team that had 49 points hung on them by the power house Sam Houston State, it took an act of god for tech to score 10 points and hold of Gardners vaunted offense.

By GHH

November 18, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this

Chip, While I agree with MOST of your comments. I don’t think the “lack of heart” tag is correct with this team.

By RAMBLE ON!!!

November 18, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this

AlphaDog, good point, the same Sagarin that has the Big 12, followed by the ACC, then the SEC as the toughest conferences. That Sagarin?

By Chris

November 18, 2008 10:26 AM | Link to this

The way I look at it injuries hurt us early, we are a young team that is still missing some key bigtime players at certain positions(DE,TE,and CB)! We had a tough schedule this year, and expectations were really high, but to say we had lack of HEART blows me away. Lack of heart would have cost us losses at SC, Vandy, KU and AU.

By GT_EE_Major_ClassOf87

November 18, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this

Chip a few years ago one of those sports talk stations in town called out Tech’s basketball players and Paul Hewitt called into defend them. We’ll see if Mark Richt does the same for his players.

I’m a little nervous going into next week’s game in Athens, I feel we take care of business vs. the U but am shocked to see 8,000 tickets remain and Bobby Dodd will no where near sold out for an ACC game with such national significance.

I think our fans are still mad at sneaking a 3-point victory out over Gardner-Webb and dropping the golden egg when we had the chance to put the ACC Coastal away. I realize there’s an outside chance we could still win it but one thing our team doesn’t seem to have is luck on its side.

I’m hoping for Meineke Car Car Bowl instead of another trip to Boise for Humanitarian Bowl against undefeated Boise State, that one scares me and blue turf hurts my eyes. The snowmobiling is great out there however.

By JaxDawg

November 18, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

One of the problems I see is there just seems to be a lack of fire on the team. There just isn’t that same GATA attitude that there was this time last season. We definitely have the talent, but if you go back and look at game film of the FL, AUB, GT, and Hawaii games last year and how they played and more importantly how they were on the sidelines as compared to how they have been the this year, there is a HUGE difference. We have plenty of talent, but lack a killer instinct. When you look at our players we have as much talent as any team in the country, but sometimes it seems the players are waiting on the guy next to them to do something to make a difference, rather than looking at themselves and each one saying I’M going to do something to make a difference. They also need to attack more on defense instead of sitting back and trying to keep everything in front of them. Hopefully the coaches will go back and look at how we ended 07 vs 08 and make the appropriate adjustments. Would love to see us reach out to Pollack and offer him a coaching job, I think he could bring some of that fire and passion back to the sidelines that has been missing.

By gdawginkalamazoo

November 18, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

Chip, remember they are all guilty until proven innocent. Just tell them that you are a firm believer in capitol punishment and that “an eye for an eye” is your mantra in life.

Chip, no heart? is a bit harsh. I agree with the poster up there that said no heart would have given up against Auburn and KY. That D stuck it out and did waht it had to do. No heart would be Knowshon not rushing for a buck and a qtr in the next two games after the Florida game. No heart would be Stafford not throwing for over 300. The team has heart and all of it will be on the field for the smack down of the insects Nov 29th.

Who is going to the Capitol One bowl. Isn’t that typically #3 SEC. If Florida wins Dec 6th wouldn’t Bama get an at large for BCS game? Vice versa?

By knoxdawg

November 18, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this

I disagree about the HEART issue. No heart would have meant losses to Vanderbilt, Auburn, Kentucky. The defense did make the plays needed to win those games. The team as a whole did not show up against Alabama and I think the long trip to Arizona the week before factored into it. Not to mention Alabama is a very good football team. Florida game was close at the half and failing to score right before the half took the wind out of us.

Being 9-2 in a league like the SEC is an outstanding year. Only Alabama and Florida have better records and one of them in all likelyhood will play in the NC game.

What has hurt UGA this year is untimely penalties, untimely turnovers and no pass rushing defensive ends. Kentucky and Auburn both are not in the game if we get any kind of pass rush forcing throws to soon or sacking the QB. When a QB has all day to survey the field he will find an open receiver prolonging the drive.

This team is a blue collar team, alot of workhorses but no over powering stars. Moreno, Stafford, Green and Massoqui all have star ability but the young, injured line hurts their abilitites. Coach Searles deserves a BIG raise. Coach Bobo needs to look at his play calling in the Red Zone. Moreno needs the ball in his hands more often inside the 20.

Don’t see stars on defense except for Curran and he can’t do it all. Need more from the d-line but injuries have hurt that area. They have given their all and played hard. Need a big hitter at safety.

By CobbDawg

November 18, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this

CHIP: can you ask about Dannell Ellerbe? The last two games he looks like he is playing at about 50%. No speed whatsoever and no ability to change direction. That knee must be awful. And we must be hurting at LB if we have to have him out there in that condition. We are in trouble against Tech if he does not improve.

By murfdawg

November 18, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

RAMBLE ON——Get your slide rule out and see if you can figure out this equation. Stafford plus Green multiplied by Moreno divided by the square root of Bobo times the cosin of a young ol plus the heart and desire of a Dawg that refuses to lose to the 11th power and you should get 63 points scored on TT with a td to Green with 2 seconds left.

So you think GT could beat Central Mich, LSU,AU,Vandy and KY? What do you think UGA would be against your schedule?

By BE#3

November 18, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

“Florida’s Urban Meyer is pumping some of his assistant coaches for head coaching jobs…”

Hmmmmmm…….Urban to ND????? And Gator fans, why would he want to go there? B/C he’s from the midwest, b/c he was an asst. coach there before, b/c ND will offer him the world this time, b/c he’ll be on TV each and every Saturday (ND vs. The Citadel would be shown nationally on NBC). His ego is too big to say no.

By Alabama Jack

November 18, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

dawgs have the same problem they’ll always had - a fan base loaded with single digit IQ’s.

By D.Ellis

November 18, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this

Geez seems like we’re looking for soemthing to point the finger at for this 9-2 season. No heart???? No heart would have been to fold up shop after the UF game after the goals for the season were lost. Jsut face the facts that this team was beat by a 2 teams that were from top to bottom better than us this year.Playing/Coaching/Preperation. Top to bottom. This team has heart. It has lacked the collective complete game this year from top to bottom. Last year we put it together for that great run. This year it didn’t happen. Thats the way it goes some years. Tip your hat to the teams that beat us and move on. Quit looking for something to point the finger at or blame. Jsut accpet it and move on. The palyers seem to have so the fans and writers need to as well. Uf and Bama were better this year. Last year we were better. Thats the fun and beauty of college football.

Support our team and quit pointing fingers and looking for peope to get fired.

The 29th should be one heck of a game and a big win for us if we pull it out.

GO DAWGS!!!!

By BIG DAWG WOODS

November 18, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this

everyone seems to have forgotten that CMR said that we have a very young offensive line and that we would need some breaks to go our way during the year. yes, the loss to bama and the gators was tough. however, has everyone forgotten where BAMA & FL are ranked currently. DAWGS hold your heads high! we need to get behind these guys with support and beat GA TECK for the 8th year in a row!!! currently GA teck holds the record for the most wins in a row. we can match the techies on the 29th and one up them next year. SUPPORT YOUR TROOPS and TRUST THE HEAD COACH! HE CONTINUES TO WIN BIG AND PUT US IN A POSITION TO GO THE DISTANCE. WE WILL GET OUR SHOT AND IT IS JUST A MATTER OF TIME!!!!!!!!!!! i will be in the end zone with my head painted and ready to hunker down, bark and growl for the DAWGS. WILL YOU?????????

By RAMDAWG

November 18, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

RAMBLE ON-TECH WOULD BE 4-8 IN THE SEC.THE BEATING YOU WILL GET NEXT SAT WILL BE ONE FOR THE AGES AND NOBODY WILL EVER HEAR FROM YOU AND YOUR NERD TECH GEEKS AGAIN.NOW GET BACK IN YOUR MOTHERS BASEMENT WITH YOUR BLOWUP DOLL-8 IN A ROW!!!!!!!!!!

By larry

November 18, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

You’re right. The Dawgs have no heart. Who is to blame? Regardless of what you say about 81 wins, the defense and special teams have been paricularly atrocious this year AND have had periodic collapses in the past, (Tennessee, West Virginia, e.g.). With talent like this, the blame has to fall on the coaches, specifically, Willie Martinez and John Fabris. As long as these coaches remain at Georgia, we will not win it all.

Mark Richt is a wonderful human being and an absolute credit to UGA; but, he has to be the CEO of the team. That means he has to get rid of the dead wood which is dragging the team down. If he fails in that, his employment should also be strongly reconsidered.

By JT

November 18, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

the secondary. it’s the secondary, stupid!

overall, they do look “flat” for lack of a better term. compared to last years pumped up last half dogs, just flat. they finally put together the dream offense, best QB in the land, fabulous RB, the best WRs I’ve seen in decades, and it seems to stop there.

By Matty Davis

November 18, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

heart??? heart comes from coaches that are motivating….go to www.firemarkricht.net and speak up about a replacement!!!

By ga72

November 18, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

Heart = Leadership. We need it on and off the field.

By Lionheart

November 18, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

Georgia reflects the demeanor of the coach. Richt is very calm and shows very little emotion. His players feed off of that, i.e., no emotion. The one time he was bold and fired up his team was in Jax last year and that carried the Dawgs to a great finish and a preseason No. 1 ranking.

Richt needs an Erk Russell or Will Muschamp type that brings a lot of energy and emotion to the playing field.

By Burning Red

November 18, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this

Man you tech fans kill me every year with all this TALK TALK TALK.. TALK IS CHEAP MAYBE YOU WILL SHOW UP THIS YEAR??? WELL PROBALY NOT, We Dog Fans still get to enjoy that end of the year victory CROWNING US KINGS OF THE STATE GA ONCE AGAIN!! GO DAWGS FINISH STRONG GET BACK ON THE HORSE

By FLA DAWG

November 18, 2008 11:08 AM | Link to this

I am on base with you about the problem being “how” The Dawgs lost two games (so far). Projected to be a tough schedule, the only two tough teams we played blew us off the field.

Chip, you need to re-read your own post. If The Dawgs lack heart (I agree) then it’s a coaching fault.

Or do you agree with Richt that it’s the players’ fault!?

By Matt Stafford

November 18, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

Fear not Dogggie Nation-

Joe Cox and I have some special things planned for those pesky jackets. We’re going to invite “But Cut” Richt to our pregame spooning session at the Athens jail with the rest of the team. I’ve got a specail mix tape of Soulja Boy to get us pumped up and we’re going to have Richt’s hair looking good for the game. Please ask your boss for the day off from your fast food restaurant job and join us for the game in Athens. It’s going to be spectacular. Sic’em bark bark!

—Stafford Out

By HouDawg

November 18, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this

I don’t think you understand the word “heart”. If they had no heart they would have given up. They haven’t.

If you would have said chemistry I would have agreed with you 100%. Chemistry is very elusive and difficult to put your finger on. But, for whatever reason, this years dawgs struggle to win, but yet find a way. Hey, isn’t that heart?

By oxymoronsquared

November 18, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this

Someone called “Alabama Jack” making IQ intimations? We all know it takes the combined power or AU and UA to spell IQ. Crawl back to central time “Jack-a*”

By JJ the Jet Plane

November 18, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

CHip, you say Dawgs lack heart, another reader says he thought it was a brain… I say they lack courage! Let’s go see the Wizard! It’s going to take a Wizard to get this team back to last years level of intensity.

By Burning Red

November 18, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

If not the capital one bowl then what bowl will we attend ????

By WOLFMAN ATL

November 18, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

Like an earlier poster said, and this is it in a Nutshell……….until you beat the Big Four Rivals we play all IN ONE YEAR !!!……………No Natianl Title or RESPECT , especially from thosetwo UGA haters , and turds May and Holtz !!!

By RAMBLE ON!!!

November 18, 2008 11:27 AM | Link to this

GT holds the record for 8 in a row, and it’s going to stay that way, GOT IT!!!

NOW SIT!

By Barnack Frombama

November 18, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this

Hey Big Dawg Woods, I’m sure your boss would like to know that you are sitting over at the physical plant on the internet, making your feeble attempt at journalism. I wonder if the bannerherald might give you some space each week for a “pep rally” style of column. You did pretty good here! Keep it up BIG FOG

By JBoy

November 18, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

Wow…Quite an article…if I didn’t know better i would think that Terrance Moore had struck again. How soon we forget where the dawgs were a few short years ago. CMR is no fool and he sees eveything the fans do times 2. I suspect “change” is coming to the dawgs as well as the national political arena.

By BE#3

November 18, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

It’s laziness. Watch the attempts to tackle. When you reach out to arm tackle someone, it’s b/c your feet have not moved and you did not get in position to actually make a tackle. Same way with grabbing a facemask….if you are lined up square with someone, you don’t have to grab a facemask. When you get burned by a WR and have to grab their jersey, you’ve been beat b/c you did not get your feet moving. Laziness may be a problem due to the read and react attitude. If you are the aggressor, you eliminate the tendancy to be lazy. It’s obvious that the same thing has been going on in practice with no punishment. Even players were commenting on guys laughing and cutting up when people made mistakes. All of this goes back to coaching. I’m not one who’s gonna say fire this guy or fire that guy, but a change in attitude is a must. That doesn’t mean that people need to be fired, but they need to have a fire lit under their a$$ — players included. GO DAWGS. GATA. Beat the damn nerds.

By Gene

November 18, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

The breakdown in discipline for this Georgia team began when Richt decided to violate the rules of the game and send the team on the field to celebrate against Florida. If the coach won’t follow the rules, don’t be surprised if the players take his example.

By AltamahaDawg

November 18, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

Agree if heart was the issue, we are sitting at 4 losses right now. Chemistry? I would say it’s been more of an issues of Geometry. I don’t understand why the need to put the Bama and Fl game under such subjective scrutiny to reveal the mysterious answers. It’s right there on tape, what happened, play by play.

Nobody opinion is going to change on Coach Martinez, but anyone calling for Coach Fabris’ head, who fields some of the best units in the nation every year since he has been here, has zero credibility.

By gdawginkalamazoo

November 18, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this

Wolfman, you said four big rivals? I get UT, UF and Auburn. What fourth are you talking about? We rotate Bama and LSU on the schedule. 4th?

By BE#3

November 18, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this

Ramble On,

Go join your boy Yellowblood in his tickle pile.

By Johnny DangerDawg

November 18, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

Chip, Dawgs commit false starts, drop punts and kickoffs, etc. These are problems, but “heart” has nothing to do with it. They just seem to lack the mental preparation for how to handle regular game situations.

By Crimedog

November 18, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

Richt can be very emotional, when he is trying to intimidate the referees. Maybe he should try this approach with his lollygagging players instead of praying with them.

By BBr

November 18, 2008 11:50 AM | Link to this

Yet again, a Nerd chimes in on the UGA blog. Don’t you geeks have your own blog? Oh yeah, I guess it’s hard to talk back and forth with NO ONE. Kind of like your football games… gotta have a group of people to chat!

By BR

November 18, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this

So, let me get this right. A Tech geek says we have no brain… yet we’ve beaten the Nerds seven years in a row. Hmmm, who is the one without a brain? Might want to do a little research before you chime in on the GEORGIA blog.

By BE#3

November 18, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this

Throw Carolina into the mix as one of the 4. If we had beat Carolina last year, we’d have been playing for the SEC Championship and the shot to play in the BCS Championship. Carolina is a must win. It’s the first SEC game of the year and it’s in our own division. And as long as The Ol’ Ball Coach is there, it’s gonna be one of the toughest games of the year.

By kahuna

November 18, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this

AFTER MATT AND JOE’S SPOONING SESSION AT THE ATHENS JAIL THE FRIDAY NIGHT BEFORE THE TECH GAME, WE WILL ALL HAVE OUR PREGAME MEAL AT ZACKSBY’S IN FRONT OF GEORGIA SQUARE MALL. MATT, JOE AND I ARE ALL FOND OF ONE OF THE SALADS. RENNIE AND KNOWSHAWN, WELL YOU GUESSED IT, THEY ARE WING MEN. WHAT THOSE GUYS CAN DO TO A PLATE OF WINGS! YOU’D THINK YOU WERE LOOKING AT LOCUST IN A CORNFIELD….WOW!

CMR AND H2O GIRL LIKE THE FACT THAT DRINK REFILLS ARE FREE. WITH 15 KIDS THAT SAVES A LOT OF MOOLAH (THAT’S MONEY FOR THOSE OF YOU DOWN AT THE NORTH AVE. TRADE SCHOOL).

AS YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO TELL, MO-MASS AND A.J. ARE BOTH BREAST MEN! THEY LOVE THE DELECTABLE CHICKEN BREAST SANDWICHES SERVED UP BY THE ACOMODATING STAFF AT OUR HOMETOWN ZACKSBY’S.

FOR DESSERT, MOST OF US WILL HAVE A PIECE OF KEY LIME PIE OR CHEESECAKE. MATTIE AND JOE USUALLY SHARE A CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE AND ANOTHER BIG COKE ON THE WAY OUT. DID I MENTION THOSE DRINK REFILLS ARE FREE?

BE SURE AND JOIN US ALONG WITH BUTT-CUT RICHT, H2O GIRL AND THE MARINE CORPS EXPEDITIONARY FORCE (RICHTS KIDS) ON NOV. 28TH AT 10:00 AM AT zACKSBY’S IN FRONT OF THE MALL IN ATHENS FOR OUR PREGAME MEAL AND PEP RALLYE. GOOOO DAWGS!

By tjs

November 18, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this

Larry above said it all, CMR needs to terminate some coaches, and scholarships of certain players.If he doesn’t then he should be terminated as being a mediocre CEO, which is what head coaches are of any big time college football program.

By gomdawg

November 18, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this

Seniors ask for the Black jerseys for Georgia Tech .I for one like them it fires up team and fans. GO DAWGS BEAT TECH

By BR

November 18, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

Ramble On, if the Nerds would be 9-2 with our schedule like we ARE, why exactly are you running your mouth? Concentrate on two things: beating a top 25 team, and selling out your pitifully small stadium. Hey, isn’t it called “Historical Grant Field” because it’s the only stadium in the nation that hasn’t had to add seats since it was built??

By THE_Craigslist Kisser

November 18, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

“GEORGIA WILL NEVER WIN ALL OF THE BIG FOUR(FL, AUB, TENN, GT)….”

Wow - you gave yourself away there Techster. Anyone who includes North Avenue Trade School in the “BIG FOUR” clearly is a bee. And CMR has beaten the nats every year. Go back to your cube Techie.

By P

November 18, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this

As for the Basketball team…. it’s tough to have heart when your coach kicks the best players off the team consistantly and has generally failed to provide a consistant winner in his tenure, but hey let’s give him another 5 years to be mediocre in a phenominally easy state to recruit in.

As for football, all the running in the world all the punishment, doesn’t amount to anything if the players don’t stop committing stupid penalties. Athletic yes of course. Football smart? Probably the weakest minded team in the SEC if not the country. Penalties can be a result of poor dicipline, but they can also expose good athletes with bad fundamentals who are out of position constantly and or over run the play or simply free lance and don’t perform the way in which the play is designed.

I don’t think the problem with this team is completely coaching. I think youthful ignorance combined with lack of some key playmakers has been what has harmed this team.

That said, in a down year (injuries; dicipine problems etc.) They could win 10 or 11 games and they’ve played tremendously sloppy football. This program is still in a great position of relavance. I know people are upset, but the big picture is not a bad one as far as the football program is concerned.

By Johnny DangerDawg

November 18, 2008 11:57 AM | Link to this

AltamahaDawg, I agree that Fabris has done some great things at UGA; this season is the exception not the rule. But how did things get so bad? Prince Miller trying to run the ball out of the endzone in the Kentucky game and getting knocked down at the 2?!?

By B

November 18, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

“Tech holds the record for 8 in a row”, says Ramble On… You are right—they will hold the record for 8 in a row losses to Georgia!

By kahuna

November 18, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this

AFTER MATT AND JOE’S SPOONING SESSION AT THE ATHENS JAIL THE FRIDAY NIGHT BEFORE THE TECH GAME, WE WILL ALL HAVE OUR PREGAME MEAL AT ZACKSBY’S IN FRONT OF GEORGIA SQUARE MALL. MATT, JOE AND I ARE ALL FOND OF ONE OF THE SALADS. RENNIE AND KNOWSHAWN, WELL YOU GUESSED IT, THEY ARE WING MEN. WHAT THOSE GUYS CAN DO TO A PLATE OF WINGS! YOU’D THINK YOU WERE LOOKING AT LOCUST IN A CORNFIELD….WOW!

CMR AND H2O GIRL LIKE THE FACT THAT DRINK REFILLS ARE FREE. WITH 15 KIDS THAT SAVES A LOT OF MOOLAH (THAT’S MONEY FOR THOSE OF YOU DOWN AT THE NORTH AVE. TRADE SCHOOL).

AS YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO TELL, MO-MASS AND A.J. ARE BOTH BREAST MEN! THEY LOVE THE DELECTABLE CHICKEN BREAST SANDWICHES SERVED UP BY THE ACOMODATING STAFF AT OUR HOMETOWN ZACKSBY’S.

FOR DESSERT, MOST OF US WILL HAVE A PIECE OF KEY LIME PIE OR CHEESECAKE. MATTIE AND JOE USUALLY SHARE A CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE AND ANOTHER BIG COKE ON THE WAY OUT. DID I MENTION THOSE DRINK REFILLS ARE FREE?

BE SURE AND JOIN US ALONG WITH BUTT-CUT RICHT, H2O GIRL AND THE MARINE CORPS EXPEDITIONARY FORCE (RICHTS KIDS) ON NOV. 28TH AT 10:00 AM AT zACKSBY’S IN FRONT OF THE MALL IN ATHENS FOR OUR PREGAME MEAL AND PEP RALLYE. GOOOO DAWGS!

By Gus

November 18, 2008 12:11 PM | Link to this

This team does lack heart and brains. Other than that, most of the other issues are fixable.

By david

November 18, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this

Would you guys please leave the Bulldogs football alone. They are 9-2 and will be 11-2 with no problem by the end of the year. What is wrong with that? I realize you guys have to make a living and when you talk about losing football games you can really arouse some of the people around here. That is the real reason you write negative things about Georgia. You get a lot of interest in your articles when you can find anything negative to write about GA. I hope that the players and coaches do not read your articles but if they do I hope they are able to totally ignore what you write.

By BullGator

November 18, 2008 12:17 PM | Link to this

To Tom in Atlanta, Who could have won the four game strech of LSU, FLA, KY and Auburn. You’ve got to be kidding——- Florida already has.

LSU 21 Florida 51 Ky 5 Florida 56 Ga 10 Florida 49

And Auburn lost to LSU, Vandy abd GA, all teams Florida crushed.

By Florida Dawg

November 18, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

I read what CMR said in his interview with the Macon paper…and NO we would not be doing cartwheels if we (UGA) started the season at #24 instead of #1. We would be doing cartwheels IF WE BEAT FLORIDA!!!!!!!! DUH!!!!! THAT”S ALL WE WOULD HAVE HAD TO DO…beat Florida!! and we would be in the hunt. IT”S the two losses and and HOW we lost. If you don’t really get it, how can the problem be solved????

By hop

November 18, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this

chip, a very dumb slant that you and jeff are taking,but from you not surprising!

this team has experience 15 players who have suffered injuries this year especially on the line of scrimmage where most games are won.

the toughest schedule in the nation as confirmed by espn,yet you idiots at the ajc write this scrap.

you guys need to be down loaded to covering middle sports!

By Cali Dawg

November 18, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this

Surprised it took so long to put it in writing…I’ve been saying this all year. No swagger = no confidence. Last year toward the end of the year, you just knew that they would whoop up on whoever they were playing, this year it’s what can go wrong this time. No attacking on either side of the ball as evident in the red zones - both O and D.

By SSI dawg

November 18, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this

Some of the people writing in today also wrote in before the season began. Below are some of the pre-season comments:

“The dawgs have matured and will play like a mature team does. Watch out for those hairy dawgs as the will be a hunkering down.”

“Tennessee? Florida? Lsu? USC? Who cares about these pansies.”

“The Dawgs are easily the best team in the country going into next season and should be ranked #1. I think UGA will go 14-0 next year, with the only tough game at LSU. UT and UF won’t have anything next year to challenge UGA. I predict UGA beats USC easily in the Orange Bowl next year for the national title. No way USC can defend Moreno and Stafford, two superstars. UF—look for a blowout.”

“UGA will not only win all their games in ‘08 but dominate every game. Things are VERY different now that the team will be fired up for EVERY game and I can’t wait to destroy UT, South Carolina, UF, and everyone else that stands in our way next year, the year of the dawg!”

“Georgia returns all of their best players, most of them being freshman and sophmores the recent year, and will prove on the field (with the toughest schedule in the country) that they are number 1.”

“Finished 2007 #2 and start 2008 #1 gonna be a year of “DOGGIE STYLE” - get used to it haters!”

“Mark it down: UGA blows out florida and tennessee next year and easily wins the SEC, then blows out USC for all the marbles baby!! GA will be unbeatable next year—-way too much talent for everyone else in the country to deal with.”

“The only team in the country that can possibly match up with UGA next year is USC, and they don’t have the defense to stop Moreno and Stafford. When they play in the title game, I think UGA wins that game by 10-12 points, easy. UGA is going to be the team to beat in the U.S. in the next few years, with all the talent they have and are bringing in.”

Dwag fan all of my life, but did not believe the above possible under the current coachimg staff. Good dance moves though.

By SpoDeeODee

November 18, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this

I wonder if some of the marquee players are approaching games in a business fashion. I was attending a wedding and a former Bulldog lineman was at the wedding as well. He was All-Sec and drafted by the Colts. He was a starter and eventually retired due to an injury. At the reception, I asked him what it felt like to play Florida, Auburn, Tech etc., and if emotions were high. He told me that he and a few others had no feeling one way or another about who they played. He stated he played, and others, to only get better to go to the next level(NFL). He stated the hype and excitement was only for the fans. I felt like kicking his a*, but I knew how that would turn out. So, are some of them sandbagging? Could be.

By reality check

November 18, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this

9_2 is not surprising at this point, especially based on the injuries we’ve had. I’m not talking just about the people we lost for the season, we had Ellerbe and Sutherland out for key games too.

We have had two bad halves this year, the first half against Alabama and the second half against Florida. Those are two of the top 3 teams in the country. It was Alabama’s top performance of the year by far according to the former Alabama player I talked with yesterday, and Florida appears to be the best team in the country. Auburn is always tough and a one point win there is nothing to be ashamed of.

By chris

November 18, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this

Bet you never thought you’d be worried about Ga. Tech this year. Option’s coming.

By AltamahaDawg

November 18, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this

Actually “get so bad” only applies to a few plays in the past couple of game. Hasn’t been that bad all this year. Even in the AU game if you break it down, we did punt them inside the 20 3 times, and smoothered the top KO return man in the SEC. Our freshman just plain kicked the FG too low, and let a KO go OOB in the wind, (as did thier guy). Our PUP is still 4th best in the league behind only upperclassmen.

Miller now has one fumble (battling the wind and sun) to offset his TD return.

The KY game might have been the worst game in 8 yrs for this coach. On that particular play you asked about, just looked like a player who momentarily wasn’t sure what to do on a strange play. Should have, BUT I would rather have him run it out than give up points, in a case where he wasn’t sure. Right decision for the wrong reason, or wrong decision for the right reason? In short, he made a mistake. I’d be willing to bet he was reminded pretty quickly of the rule.

We still are the #5 punt return team in the nation.

By Huh?

November 18, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

SSI Dawg, if you really are a Georgia fan (I have my doubts), you would know that most of us knew that one or two losses were a distinct possiblity this season. You can cherry pick quotes from delusional fans of almost any team and make them all look stupid right now. You have no point. And besides, you post that crap almost everyday. Get a grip.

By BullGator

November 18, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

Hop

don’t believe every thing you hear. Ga’s schedule didn’t turn out that hard, except for ALA an FLA, which crushed them. Tenn. LSU and Auburn had their weakest teams in years, and Arizona State is 4 and 6 in a patsy conference. Basically GA played has played 5 teams going to bowls this year and is 3 and 2. Florida on the other hand has played 7 bowl bound teams and was upset in only 1. Don’t you really think Florida a stonger schedule?

By AltamahaDawg

November 18, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

SSI I think we saw that the last 2 times you posted it. Some folks talked a big game at the beginning of the year, it didn’t work out, and now they are mad and wants some staff members to pay, what is your point? Did we not all know this?

By Barely getting it Done

November 18, 2008 12:57 PM | Link to this

I know CMR’s mantra is ‘a win is a win is a win’ and he justifiably pointed out after the game that it was our 30th win in an opponents stadium in 8 years. That is fantastic! Congratulations to him and to the Dawgs on going to 9-2.

However, I am not as sure a win is a win is a win in our case. We are clearly living on the edge week after week. We were very fortunate to win the last two weeks over vastly inferior opponents. Sure, if we were 11-0 we could say everyone is saving their best game for us. But we cannot be that blind. Auburn’s extremely anemic offense did its best job of the year against us.

The players and staff have to share the blame. Today players were finger pointing on the field; that’s not Georgia football and uncharacteristic of a Richt team. The players that aren’t playing with that ‘Us against the world’ attitude and those losing focus shouldn’t play.

Finally, we have to trust CMR’s judgment. There is NO ONE better to coach the Dawgs, but he cannot be as passive about our problems as he seems. I would love for him to show a little fire and really believe it would reassure us a bit. It is up to him to make the best personnel decisions in the interest of the football team. The Team, the university and the fans deserve no less.

Win or lose they are my Dawgs, but they are killing me with the continued UNDERACHIEVING!

Go Dawgs!

Chip,

That’s what I posted after the last game. I agree with your comments completely. This seems to be a deep seated problem and not one as easily corrected as clock management.

We like to point to the fact that we have the same players coming back in ‘08 and ‘09. Well it didn’t help us in ‘08! There is no chip on the shoulder attitude that has to be to compete in football. They look like a business like baseball team. This team is playing without any heart. They won 9 games on talent alone including the last 2 games. The lack of heart seems to be getting worse and will likely cost them in the bowl or GT game or heaven forbid, both.

By Georgia Tech=JOKE

November 18, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this

Yes, I am very concerned about Georgia Tech. The same team that needed a blocked field goal to beat Gardner Webb. The same team that lost by 3 touchdowns to the only ranked team it has played all season. Options coming? Ooooooh, scary.

Try running your mouth in December for once Techie.

By The Truth

November 18, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

Dear Chipparoo, Three freshamn and two sophomores on the o-line, that’s ‘how’. While there’s a chance it could have changed over the course of the year, most d-lines played consist of upper classmen. No heart? You have no clue.

By Huh?

November 18, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this

Get a grip, Reality Check. The Dogs got humiliated, embarrassed and slaughtered by two teams that they were supposed to beat. Remember, it was Georgia that was ranked #1. The #1 team should not be humiliated, embarrassed and slaughtered by any team.
(And don’t bet me started about Moreno taking himself out of games or Stafford fretting about his nfl draft status.)

By what's this?

November 18, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this

9-2 is a pretty good record for this team. And UGA should have everyone back next year - nobody’s looking like they’re a high draft pick this spring.

Until UGA figures out it’s a middle of the road team, you’re going to be disappointed every year. And with Bama looking like they’re back on the road to winning and FL a yearly powerhouse, it could be a long time before UGA gets to the SEC Champ game. It’s back to the future for the Dawgs…

By Bob

November 18, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this

Kentucky and Auburn are not “vastly inferior” opponents. They are SEC football teams that are either A) well coached in the case of Kentucky and B) very talened in the case of Auburn. Georgia was not going to be “vastly superior” to any team in the SEC this year no matter how well we played. If you thought that you are on drugs. It is the SEC people. Get a clue. Other teams in the SEC have lots of talent too. Other teams in the SEC have good coaches too. It was NEVER going to be easy!!! Based on some of your comments I get the feelign that some of you expected us to win every game by at least 30 points this year. You need to pull your heads out of your rears. That was never going to happen. We could have played the best footall in the nation and that was still not going to happen. Kentucky gave the #1 team in the nation all it could handle this year. They beat the BCS Champion the year before. Yet some of you are simply offended that our team did not blow them away by 30. Put down the crack pipe people!!! You’re embarassing all reasonable Georgia fans like myself.

By Dawg88

November 18, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this

Mr. Towers,

would you be brave enough to go tell the Dawg players to their faces what your headline suggests:

“Bulldogs seem to lack heart”

I don’t think so. It was uncalled for for anyone to place such a headline. An apology is due to each of them by you or someone from this newspaper rag/fish wrapper.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DAWGS!!!!!!!!

By TallahasseeDawgGrad

November 18, 2008 1:18 PM | Link to this

Well, anyone who truly believes that this football team plays up to its potential and ability is smoking crack. The talent is there, no doubt. They play with ZERO energy, ZERO enthusiasm, ZERO HEART AND SOUL. A lot of that comes from within their organization, not there selves. Our Coach stands there like a Gn statue, devoid of any emotion. I mean, I know church is the next morning, but this is Divison 1 College d*n football, and this WAS the pre-season #1, and the hottest team ending 2007’s season. We returned 17 of 21 starters, and 1 of those 4 “losses” was replaced by Moreno. WTF has happened?!

Yeah, that’s a great way to put it. THEY HAVE NO D**N HEART. We will not EVER be anything but an SEC wannabe, until these men start playing like they love football, instead of playing like they have lace on their panties.

By fire bobo and martinez

November 18, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this

fire the dan offense and defense cor now coach richt to save the team dan what the players say, bobo and martinez got to go NOW.

By a Win Is Not Always a Win

November 18, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this

To Quaildog and others, Do you comprehend how much it would take to “fold” against Kentucky and Auburn?? And this “A win is a win” garbage must stop. Do you mean to tell me if you were an 18 year old tennis player going up against a 12 year old and you had to hold on to beat him that you would say “a win is a win”???? Barely beat South Carolina, Barely beat Kentucky, Barely beat Auburn—-We have not contended for THE crown since 1980 and if we are going to continue to recite “A win is a win” it might be another 28 years. I really don’t think Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Texas and I KNOW Florida would not BARELY beat any of those teams mentioned. I’m all for “a win is a win” when you are playing a recognized power with talent comparable to yours, but these “Escapes” have truly been indicative of a program spinning its wheels. If you disagree, I’ll see you in 2036 at the Gator Bowl.

By BAMA STAN

November 18, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this

31-0 at the half?!!!

Well UGA fans - I actually think you guys should be proud of 9-2.

Yes - the Bama Black Out and the Gator Stomp were bitter pills to swallow - but the media (national and local) put way too many expectations on a team that featured sports car type skill position - but only a decent engine that needs some fine tuning and experience.

Personally - I predicted that UGA would lose to either Auburn or KY. I was thinking KY because it was right after Florida and anyone with a brain saw that beat down coming.

It took heart to beat Kentucky and Auburn - that’s what saw UGA through these games. Heart is what sees you through when things are not going right

UGA - the entire year has been a struggle due to youth, Key injuries, special teams play, huge expectations, and let’s face it - coaching.

UGA has good coaches - but every year is a different puzzle - and the coaching staff just might be getting the best out of this bunch in 2008 for all the reasons mentioned above.

One other thing - I really think that there are about 5 super teams that have separated themselves from the pack. Absolutely lights out got it going on. When this happens - it’s an incredible thing. Bama, Gators, Longhorns, Sooners, TX Tech Red Raiders are there - but can they sustain.

Penn St, OH State and USC are the next wave.

Beyond that - it’s a big pile - but name a team beyond those I just mentioned that UGA could not compete against and potentially win.

As much fun as I have had with at UGA’s expense this season - I will be rooting for UGA to beat GT ….. and will be rooting for UGA to beat your BIG 10 bowl opponent.

However, I would not be surprised if GT beats this group of dogs in 2008 - in fact - I thing GT will win as they will be motivated and have overachieved this year.

Roll Tide!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By MoDawg

November 18, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this

Huh? I believe UGA was ranked 2nd or 3rd when the Alabama game rolled around. They were ranked 8th, I believe. what’s this? Since when does a perennial top 10 ranking at season’s end make a team “middle of the road”? Florida is not a “yearly powerhouse”. When does a 9-4 record and a bowl blowout to a team that lost to App State dictate a yearly powerhouse??? lmao!! RAMBLE ON You should worry about filling up your 50,000 seat stadium. You can’t even do that unless UGA comes to town and fills half of it for you. You are such a whiny little loser. I’m glad you’re here, though. At least it gives you something to do since there’s not much going on over on the Tech blogs (except badmouthing the real college football program in Georgia).

Chip, this team lacks accountability. Not necessarily heart. To see the team dancing in front of the fans at away games after a win is shameless. We have been lucky the past 2 weeks and we should act like it. If we don’t improve on defense, GT will beat us, and badly. That will not go over well at all. CMR needs to get fired up and get in somebody’s grille! I think Fabris and Bobo need a stern “come to Jesus” meeting with CMR and the Tech game should decide Martinez’ fate. If our D is unprepared for Tech, then he needs to go. Our linebackers are the only bright spot on our team but by the end of the game, they are worn out from doing all the work. The starting DBs are very good, but the gap between the starters and their backups is HUGE. We do not have a legitimate headhunter at safety. That’s something we have had in the past that other teams have had to allow for, but not this year. Right now, I am not overly worried about Tech because I think we will handle them, as long as we are prepared. If we are not prepared, we will lose, and Willie needs to be fired!

By GTMike

November 18, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this

As a Tech fan, my own opinion is that Tech fans who come onto a UGa blog and talk trash need to shut the heck up. Right now, UGa has won 7 in a row against us. If you want to talk, do so on Nov 30th !! Besides, even then, do it on Tech blogs !! Leave the Dawgs to their own stuff here!

By Mo Dawg

November 18, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this

I said “team” but meant “D” on the bright spot comment. Sorry. Our offense has done pretty well, not counting some untimely mistakes and weird play-calling, at times.

By My 5 stages of Bulldog grief

November 18, 2008 1:48 PM | Link to this

As far as the ‘08 Georgia football season goes, I’ve officially reached stage 5 - acceptance

Denial - We’re #1! We need to clear the calendar for January in Miami!!! We will handle our schedule and so what if our O-line is young.

Anger - I hate the black jerseys. Fire CWM immediately!!

Bargaining - If we beat the Gators, we are back in this thing!

Depression - Good Lord, annihilated by UF. What terrible effort. What terrible coaching. Can we beat ANYBODY?

Acceptance - Let’s beat Tech, win the bowl, post our 11-2 and move on.

By Dan

November 18, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this

Sometimes it just all doesn’t fit together the way it does on paper. The offensive line has played well enough to win most games; the defense has played well enough to win most games. The special teams are a glaring problem as far as I’m concerned. We need to put more of the “best” out there - problem solved! Another thing this team lacks is a big hitter in the secondary - a Davis or Blue - maybe there aren’t any on the team right now but we do need to find one and in a hurry. Injuries killed us too and sometimes it all came down to coaching or play-calling if you will - on both sides of the ball. It has been a good season - we might not have beaten UA and UF even playing well - they are the number 1 and 3 teams in the country! I’m done rambling. OOPs - poor choice of words!! Beat Tech!!!!!

By GT

November 18, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this

Richt wrote this blog didn’t he. Sets Tech up perfectly to get killed. Now if the heart thing is not the problem and this team just happens to not be as good as its hype, they still may play better with the questioning the manhood thing. I will promise you one thing nobody is asking where is Tech’s heart, I was kind of hoping that would be our advantage.

By Kendawg

November 18, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this

I agree with most of the bloggers on this blog. 9-2 doesn’t sound like a team with no heart. We’ve had some pretty significant injuries; e.g., Sturdivant, Vance, Owens, and Chandler being banged up most of the season. Next year we’ll have Cornelius Washington and, hopefully, Toby Jackson to help the pass rush. Maybe that will improve our pass rush. Also, our O-line should be better. We’ll not only have some returning starters, bur we’ll have more experience to start the season. There are probably 90 teams that would love to have our record this year. And how many teams would like to have our record over the last eight years?

By StaffordLooksLikeaFatterCartman

November 18, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this

the players and Richt are the Tinman from the Wizard of Oz and Stafford is the lion. 9-3 every year at GA and you are a hero hahahha

By Erk'd

November 18, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

Chip or anyone else

When Jaybo Shaw committed to GT, he stated that he would be CPJ’s 1st QB to defeat the Dawgs. Although stating QB Josh Nesbit is practicing, he is questionable for the Mimai game due to an ankle injury. If Nesbit can’t go against the Dawgs does Shaw’s statement become bulletin board material at UGA?

Unleash the JYDs!!

By dawgfacedboy

November 18, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this

Has anyone else caught the recruiting stuff involving local RB Toney Williams from Milton?? I’m sorry but to let an in state talent like this go elsewhere will haunt the dawgs!!! This kid was supposed to go to Tenn. and now is considering offers from several major D-1 schools. He looks to be the next Jamal Lewis or Musa Smith. If you don’t have a scholarship for a running back then give him a freaking punters scholarship, just get this kid on campus!!!!

By Too Easy

November 18, 2008 2:17 PM | Link to this

bama stan: Have you got a brain and do you also feel the Gator Stomp beatdown coming your way in a couple of weeks? Surely you should have some misgivings about that.

By BannedDawgPostFan

November 18, 2008 2:24 PM | Link to this

WIN TEN GAMES

I get so sick of some dawg fans saying how happy they are to have a winning season AND NEVER ADVANCE TO PLAY FOR A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

This ATLANTA BRAVES mentality of having a winning season but no gold get old as hell

MEYER, SPURRIER, FULMER AND SABAN

all have NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

There is a small segment of the Bulldawg nation (including me) that believes with the talent we have CMR should have led us to a national championship

but he does not have a national championship caliber coaching staff

So if 10 wins is the standard…hip..hip hooray

By Missy Mahan, UGA Scholar

November 18, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

Does this mean I won’t be able to follow my beloved Bulldogs to the National Championship game, like they promised back in August?

By techwilllose

November 18, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this

With heart or no heart,

GO DOGS! Sic ‘em WOOF, WOOF, WOOOOOOOOOF!

and to heck with —oh well—it’s not even worth saying—everyone knows it.

By jahymedtheGTcodespecialist

November 18, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this

I have come up with a binary algorithm that predicts Georgia Tech will win!

Rumble on!

By itbil

November 18, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this

A team that did not have heart would not have gutted out wins against Kentucky and Auburn the last 2 weeks.

Georgia is playing “around” the problem of an injury ridden offensive line that is playing just well enough to allow the qb, rb’s, and receivers to score enough points to win.

The defense is on the field a lot and is playing to keep the game under control. A high risk defense lives by the blitz and dies by the blitz.

The special teams are horrible and have put added pressure on the defense (and offense) this season. It is one area the coaches should work to square away with a week off.

I think everyone has done well to climb to 1 9-2 record with one loss to the current BCS #1 and the other loss to the future final BCS #1.

Some seasons are tougher than others, and remember that Georgia’s strength of schedule is the toughest in the nation for 1A schools.

Overall I am pleased with the season thus far and a win over Georgia Trek would make for a great 10-2 year.

If we can get healthy for the bowl game, and get the younger players further ready, an 11-2 season would be fantastic.

The computer poll should have us at about #5, but the dill holes who vote in the other two polls will probably drop us down to #10. But that is the politics of the media and other coaches.

PS: BamaStan reinforces everything I have come to think about the typical Alabama fan.

By lemur

November 18, 2008 2:40 PM | Link to this

Dear “The Truth”, Florida’s defense consisted of 8 sophomores, a freshman, and 2 juniors. Youth is not an excuse. the dogs have no heart, no discipline, and no leadership.

By gdawginkalamazoo

November 18, 2008 2:45 PM | Link to this

Erk’d, Remember the last Tech QB to promise victory against the dawgs? Reggie had a memorable career against UGA didn’t? And not in the way that is good. Let Jaybo make his promise, with that name I wouldn’t want the crowd making up any rhymes to go with it that for sure.

By Georgia Fan Win or Lose

November 18, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this

BannedDawgPost Fan: please go find another team to pull for. We do not need or want fans like you. You are too immature. You might make a great tech or vols fan. Good luck with your search.

By Dawg Man

November 18, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this

lemur: some teams are simply better than others on some Saturdays. Ours has been good enough to beat the teams that they should beat and have failed to beat two outstanding teams. It happens. Get over it or go pull for the Gators. You will not be missed.

By Sam Jones

November 18, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

This article is really pathetic. Does it matter that the last four games have been road games? The fact that Georgia has only lost two games this season (both losses were to the #1 and #5) and you act like the whole season has sucked. However, GA Tech has a 7-3 record playing only one team that was ranked and might I add, not even in the top ten. This makes GA Tech look good? I am so sick of GA Tech fans jumping on the band wagon this year just because they have a new coach, maybe it’s just been so long since they have had anything to be excited about. It certainly doesn’t come from watching their football team play. If Georgia only sold 47,000 tickets to a home game, we would be blasted in the newspaper, I guess that is the norm for Tech fans. They can talk crap all year and not even support their own team at home. That really shows a lot of “heart”, doesn’t it?

By Enough is Enough

November 18, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this

Every year UGA fans claim UGA will win it all, and guess what another year without a NC, can this be a lesson to you all to keep quiet until you all have something of substance to talk about. Please, the people of this state that are not UGA fans are tired of hearing it.

By DawgFan101

November 18, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this

every agreeing with this post by chip towers is stupid UGA lost to the 2 teams they were expected to lose to.It had nothing to do with heart.IUGA was just as pumped as florida and alabama. So Screw off CHip, you fairweathrin MOther **.

By Georgia will suck in 09 Too

November 18, 2008 3:11 PM | Link to this

UGAY will be just as bad or worse in 09. start thumping yall chest on how good the mutts will be in 09.

By BE#3

November 18, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this

Dawgfacedboy………WASHAUN EALEY…….That’s why UGA will not sign the kid from Milton. We also have King, Samuel, Jackson and Thomas all on scholarship already. We need DB, LB, OL and DL.

By Clay

November 18, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this

Chip, You are probably very right on this one. Lack of heart may be this year’s Dawgs biggest problem! They also don’t have any killer instinct. This team has been an underachieving team from game one. I sure hope Coach Richt can motivate them enough to beat the Insect Community. If not the Dawg Nation will be very angry!

By Pitbull

November 18, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this

A reminder to all of the losers out there; a college team does not have to win a NC in order to have a great team and a great year.

If there are any Georgia “fans” out there who will not be satisfied without a NC, the vast majority of the Bulldog nation would prefer that you select another school’s team to pull for.

There are those of us who are very happy with our coaches and team, and we do not have unrealistic expectations.

You guys remind us of bed wetters who cannot stand for their favorite WWF wrestler to get pinned. In fact, you sound like tech or tennessee fans.

By shane#1

November 18, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this

I don’t think the players lack heart at all. Sadly, the same cannot be said of the some UGA fans. I have never heard such crying, b***, and moaning after being 9-2 in all My years of following the Dogs. IMHO, many of the mistakes made by the players were due to inexperence, due to youth, or due to playing a new posistion because of injuries. Much of the negativity from fans IMO, is also due to lack of experence. Richt is in his eigth year, he has averaged about 10 wins a year. Many young fans do not remember a losing season, or not being invited to a bowl game. When some Dawgs have experenced a little more of life’s ups and downs they will be better able to face disappointment without feeling the need to fire everybody. In short, Richt has simply spoiled the UGA fan base. The biggest hurdle that this team has faced is injuries. UGA is a very talented team, and very deep, but there is a reason some guys start and some are back-ups. When enough starters are out, performance suffers. I do think some areas need work and some are strong. Offensive skill posistions are very strong, linebacking is good, DT play has been good as a whole and Asher Allen has shown himself to be an excellent CB. The other CBs and Ss need work, as do the DE and O line slots. Sturdivant, Vance and Owens return next year and should help both lines. Jackson is supposed to enroll next January, and Washington and Longo will be in the mix at DE. As for the DBs, another CB needs to emerge to help Allen out and UGA’s safeties need to do a better job of tackling. These are problems to be sure, but certainly not fatal flaws. I think you may have a point about chemistry Chip, but keep in mind that this is a young team and chemistry has to develope. I think the program at UGA is on the right path. Richt could take the easy way out and raid the JC ranks for a few guys and join the bidding wars for “elite” assts and possibly have an “overnight” success, but I believe CMR wants to be at UGA for another 10 to 15 years and is building a program for the long haul. If Richt continues to win in the double digits every year UGA will have a NC sooner or later. In the meanwhile, let’s enjoy every win. Remember that in college football losing is always just around the corner.

By AltamahaDawg

November 18, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

lemur, its adversity that exposes the youth. Florida been putting thier defense in a lot of bad situations lately?

By Erk'd

November 18, 2008 3:27 PM | Link to this

(Pours a shot of whiskey)

Chip those 2 (drinks shot of whiskey) losses were brutal to watch. But, as posted above by one of your other bloggers, a heart-less team would not have been able to come back and win the UK game. Might not have been able to hold off Auburn either. Fans have been fired up over what they perceived to be a lack of intensity, passion, and aggression from the defense. Well, I have often felt the same way. Those 3 missing ingredients sound like a case of heartless football. That being said, the UGA offense has produced 2 HUGE game winning TD drives, during crunch time. In classic SEC fashion, that was barely enough to secure the victories over UK and Auburn. With the game on the line, the oft maligned UGA defense survived late scares in those contests. So what do we make of this team? Identity crisis? Lack of chemistry? No heart?

I won’t pretend to know. As a fan, I take solice in the fact that when the Dawgs desperately needed to score, they produced lead changing TD drives during the last 2 weeks. It wasn’t pretty. The opponents weren’t exactly juggernauts. Well, I’ll take the wins.

(Reads 5 stages of Bulldog Grief at 1:48 and drinks another shot of whiskey).

Unleash the Junkyard Dogs!!

By Prof. Truth

November 18, 2008 3:28 PM | Link to this

“Delusional”. Jerks who post on a blog and after identifying themselves as childish and unoriginal with their “handles”, still think anyone would give a rat’s azz what THEY think.

By Enough is Enough

November 18, 2008 3:28 PM | Link to this

Pitbull, if that is your stance great, than those UGA fans who claim greatness need to shut up as well

By gdawginkalamazoo

November 18, 2008 3:30 PM | Link to this

Banned Dawg Post Fan, Yeah list Fulmer there will ya. He certainly did win one. IF you had of asked him back in the day he would have guessed his QB would have been Peyton. Not Tee Martin. Never know when it is going to happen. And Spurrier? When he started UF’s football program in the 90’s, with all those arse kicking teams, you would have thought he would have won more than 1 NC wouldn’t you. The mighty Trojans, the best pro team in college football this decade, yep 1 NC. Richt will get there, he is closer to it than he has ever been. For all the power in the SEC UGA is still at the top of the league and getting stronger every year.

This team never had the chance to defend their #1 ranking. Not one week were they able to defend that ranking.

By Red Elephant

November 18, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this

Has anyone forgotten that UGA had like 678 injuries this year?

By Johnny DangerDawg

November 18, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this

AltamahaDawg, Good points. And I blame the player not the coach for the field goal misses this season. But don’t you question the personnel choices for returning kicks and punts this year? Miller only has one fumble, but he had dropped punts and scooped them up several times before that. A fumbled punt seemed inevitable. Yes, he has one TD return, but I honestly believe other Dawgs have that ability. I also thought Richard Samuel got too many chances as a return man and would make a better blocker. Meanwhile, what happened to Asher Allen? He was a great return man before; let’s use him more.

By Dawg Fud

November 18, 2008 3:38 PM | Link to this

Clemson is interviewing Muschamp this weekend.

By MaybeNextYear

November 18, 2008 3:39 PM | Link to this

Good headline and dead on. Apparently Alabama and Florida took too much out of them.

By Georgia Man

November 18, 2008 3:39 PM | Link to this

We can question the quality of play all day long, but how can you question a 9 win team’s heart? I think the question is certainly valid for Clemson and Tennessee this year, but not Georgia.

It was easy to see this coming in August when Georgia Southern tickets were $100 plus, and expectations were through the roof. Nothing short of winning every game convincingly would satisfy many of us.

As I see it, Coach Richt was hired to represent our University in an honorable way, build our players into men, and win games (not necessarily with “style”). I feel he has done his best to fulfill this charge.

This staff has won an average of 10 games a year (not many can make that claim).

Winning every game is not a guarantee to even play for the National Championship (see Auburn 2004).

All connected with our program have worked and sacrificed year round more than any of us can truly comprehend-no one wanted to win every game more than they did. I’m sure they wish they could replay the Alabama and Florida games, but I am certain they played as hard as they could (not as well as they could have).

Personally, I would be very happy with 2 more wins in any way that they may be achieved. Criticize all you want.

By Dawg Fud

November 18, 2008 3:41 PM | Link to this

Even though he is a Gator, I have always liked Charlie Strong. Hard working, loyal, smart and deserving of his shot at a HC job. The man knows football.

By ES

November 18, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this

We was driving the ball 8 minutes to go in the third quater when Fl’s player badly burnt grabbed our receiver for a TD (It was’nt a bad call,he saw the db grab the receiver across the waist)thats why Danielson the anouncer said immediately Haden got away with one there!The score was only 14-3,and 7 of those points came after the officials out right cheated on the Tebow mark that showed he was CLEARLY short.The 28th point came when Asher Allen was grabbed by the receiver.WE GOT CHEATED.FACT IS THEY SHOULD HAVE PUNTED 4 out of 5 POSSESSIONS,while we had punted only once!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!We got raped.

By gdawginkalamazoo

November 18, 2008 3:44 PM | Link to this

Thanks Red Elephant, and those were key injuries too. On the O & D lines. You know how important that line play is. That’s why Bama has been killing all year.

By gdawginkalamazoo

November 18, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this

Georgia Man

As I see it, Coach Richt was hired to represent our University in an honorable way, build our players into men, and win games (not necessarily with “style”). I feel he has done his best to fulfill this charge.

Amen to that one.

By Tom in ATL

November 18, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this

TO BullGator -

Reading a post before responding would be a good tip. My contention - what team could beat LSU, FL, KY and AUB - all on the road - in consecutive weeks. Your response - Florida. I know Tebow is the second coming and all - but kind of hard to do - Florida can beat Florida on the road? Sounds like the old “Ditka” skit on SNL.

If you’d like to respond - please tell me which NCAA team in 2008 could play the four teams mentioned - on the road in consecutive weeks - and go 4 and 0. Texas Tech? USC? Oklahoma? Maybe, but not likely - the whole point of my post is to say virtually ANYONE in the country will likely lose at least one of those 4 games - with UF being the most obvious game they would lose.

By AltamahaDawg

November 18, 2008 3:55 PM | Link to this

Don’t forget they have no knock out punch and are out of synch. Maybe they can circle the wagons. Find a rhythm. Fire on all cylinders. Smell the blood in the water. Get thier heads in the game and rock the other guys back on thier heels before the wheels fall off and it all becomes one big train wreck.

Or this could get ugly.

By Erk'd

November 18, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this

gdawginkalamazoo,

I think we all miss Reggie “What down is it?” Ball!
I can’t wait for Nov 29. JDwyer is a very impressive RB over on the flats. Hopefully, we will see a re-emergence of some JYD defense and contain that triple option. I’d hate to see Tech control the clock and keep our playmakers off the field.

Anyway, I’m not trying to knock GT’s defense. They’re outstanding. Maybe, it’s wishful thinking, but I believe the Georgia offense will be unstoppable in this game. They’re due for an impressive performance. Of course, I expected them score at least 35 pts on UK…

Go DAWGS!!

By Georgia Who?

November 18, 2008 4:02 PM | Link to this

Hey dumb mutt fans Chip Towers and Mark Bradley too, you bunch of idiots wrote how UGA would win it all, Chip you even wrote about how UGA would do it in 09. PLEASE! All u clowns got egg on your faces, everybody knew the leghumpers was overated. Who has UGAY beat? NOBODY! They have beat only 1 top 20 team. 2009 season don’t look good either.

By Erk'd

November 18, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this

35 points on UK? Meant to say 35 on AUBURN. Thought they’d carry over some momentum from the shoot out in Lexington. Maybe I should proof read before I post!

Unleash the JYDs!!

By David

November 18, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this

Hey chip-

How come you do not report the biggest atrocity of these bulldogs??????

They are leading the country in off the field arrests. So many Georgia fans are oblivious to this. I cannot support a man of Richt’s character as a coach when he recruits like this… NO MATTER HOW MANY CHAMPIONSHIPS HE WINS……

Don’t blame it on the players. Blame it on the coach, but especially blame it on the fans who don’t care how we win championships.

By DawgGirl32

November 18, 2008 4:23 PM | Link to this

Anyone else miss Mikey Henderson on special teams as much as I do?

I thought this was somewhat interesting:

http://www.gatorsports.com/article/20081117/NEWS/811170276/1130?Title=ChemistryhelpsUF_succeed

On the subject of chemistry, Urban Meyer talks about how the Gators have talent, but they also have great chemistry this year, which is what they were lacking last year.

“Meyer said coaches talk about chemistry all the time, but actually having it is easier said than done.

‘There isn’t an easy answer, or everyone would build it,’ Meyer said. ‘I’ve been in coaching 25 years and you know how many great chemistry teams I’ve had? Three or four. It’s uncommon to have a team with great chemistry.”

Even though I can’t stand the guy, I think he makes a good point. Chemistry isn’t something that you can just make up. Might be something to think about. I definitely don’t think it’s a heart problem, though. I, for one, am very proud of the 9-2 Bulldogs considering the hand that we’ve been dealt with our injuries.

By Dawg88

November 18, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this

Blasting and questioning the heart of 18-22 year olds playing a game is appalling and disrespectful. The players who participate in collegiate athletics give all of their time and talents to their university and its alumni. They lay it on the line each and every week for every so called fan. They do it because they love it. This team has plenty of hearts and every moron challenging that is no fan I would ever want to be. I love these guys through every struggle and success. It’s sad when the seniors go because each of them sacrificed many things to do the university proud. I never question a person who goes out and plays the violent sport of football. No football player should have their heart questioned. Its downright disrespectful and disgusting. You Yech losers who come on here and question them are the face of your school too. It shows the lack of class that you claim UGA doesn’t have. What hypocrites! I know not all Yech fans and UGA fans are like those opining on this blog but it sure raises questions about each school and who supports them. Its embarrassing to read some of the drivel that both sides have done on here. Its sad. Its seems the only joy in life that these turkeys get is bringing up negative, unjustified,and unruly comments. Whats bad is good and whats good is bad. Sick society showing its worst members. What an indictment of unintelligence this whole blog has become. The newspaper and Towers should be ashamed for starting this “no heart” diatribe. They stirred the pot and all we ended up with is garbage spewing out all over the place. Tell you what all you questioners of heart to go and do….Show what kind of heart you have…go tell the players to their faces the very things that all of you have been saying. What? You would never do it!? Why not? You know what that means…a bunch of know it all blogger acting like little kids by hiding behind their keyboards & showing that it is really you that has…NO HEART!

By Dr. K

November 18, 2008 4:32 PM | Link to this

Face facts people. Most years everything just doesn’t fall into place. Immediate injuries signaled trouble ahead. Road wins at Carolina and Arizona State were adequate. The mission was accomplished and on track. The Alabama game was a shot in the teeth brought about by the team perhaps believing they were good enough just to show up in black jerseys at home. Saban has his team always ultra prepared to play and they just stunned Georgia with their efficiency and execution. Georgia showed great heart and desire in the 2nd half even though the game was over. Tennessee and Vandy were solid wins, not spectacular but neither game was ever really in doubt. LSU was a high water mark even though the defense tuned out frequently with a sizable lead. Its frustrating that the Florida game is now referenced hostorically as a rout. Did anyone watch the game?? If Blair Walsh doesn’t show up blindfolded and Stafford and Chandler execute a simple 10 yard pitch and catch, its 14-13 at the half. (that is ignoring the ill fated onside kick or Georgia could actually have been leading). After stopping the Gators first drive, Georgia drives from their 1-yd line to the Gator 30. Stafford then was picked off by Hayden (who pushed away AJ Green) and returned the ball to the UGA goal line. One play later, 21-3. Game Over. Anything that happened after that is meaningless. Almost all FLA subsequent points were prompted by desperation Georgia turnovers. The fact that this team sucked it up and won SEC road games the last two weeks is to be commended even if they underachieved in playing at the top of their game. I expect them to take out a great deal of frustration and beat TECH badly upon finally getting back home. Bottom line…its disappointing not to be in the hunt for the big prize but the season has hardly been the disaster that many extremists on this blog suggest. This time’s collective football IQ, coaches included, has been subpar. The season however is still pretty damn successful.

By Analogize This

November 18, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this

Mark Richt = Lloyd Carr Except Carr won a national title.

By Coach Osborne

November 18, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

Hey Dawg88, put a sock in it.

By Erk'd

November 18, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this

Chip

Listening to the basketball Bulldogs on radio, and can’t help but miss Sundiata Gaines. I don’t know much about the NBA. Did he make somebody’s roster?

What do you expect from Dennis Felton’s squad this year? I’ve been impressed with Travis Leslie, although the season is very young. Hopefully, this team will continue to improve and build upon last year’s exciting SEC tournament run.

Go DAWGS! Defense is the key!

By Okefenokee Dawg

November 18, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this

I really think the main problem was at DE,and the loss of Owens. We had no pass rush this year, and I don’t see it getting better next year. Our lack of a pass rush has made our DBs look bad. Last year we put Tebow on the ground, and this year he had all day to throw. I think that was the big difference. Our lack of a pass rush made Alabama look like they had an all american quarterback.. I just hope it can be fixed by next year. I don’t think it has anything to do with heart.

By TechFan8

November 18, 2008 4:41 PM | Link to this

“I am so sick of GA Tech fans jumping on the band wagon this year just because they have a new coach, maybe it’s just been so long since they have had anything to be excited about.”

Uh, duh. Have you ever heard of Chan Gailey and Reggie Ball? Chan couldn’t even take advantage of having the best wide reciever in college football. It sucks for Calvin that he had to deal with that for 3 years in college and now indefinitely at Detroit.

By BE#3

November 18, 2008 4:42 PM | Link to this

David……..The off the field arrests for Georgia are pale in comparison to those at Florida (aggravated assault, battery, using credit card of dead person) and Bama (trafficking the white powder, armed robbery). Georgia kids partake in a little drinking, rubbing the belly of a 19 yo preggo non-UGA student in the East Campus Village at 1am, wreckless driving, criminal trespass, etc.) While it is well documented that some UGA players had some off the field issues, those issues are pale in comparison to the thugs at UF and Bama. Maybe that’s the problem. Maybe we’re not recruiting rapists, drug dealers and those who like to smother their girlfriends with pillows.

By Dawg88

November 18, 2008 4:42 PM | Link to this

Analogize This

Mark Richt = A Great Man With Christian Morals Who Is A Role Model To All Young People!

Analogize This = A Person Who Looks For The Negative In Life Because That Makes Him/Her Happy.

Go Back Into Hiding!

By Frank Brown

November 18, 2008 4:44 PM | Link to this

Richt is a good coach and a good person. I’m lad we have him at UGA. However, we do need a coach on staff that will put the fear of God into players. I don’t think Richt intimidates players and that is something that is needed to max performance, (see Saban and Muschamp).

By UgaDawgGrad

November 18, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this

Chip, What the hell do you know about heart? Have you ever stepped on the field with pads on, on a Saturday afternoon or for the matter a Friday night? It takes a lot of heart to sit behind a computer and pound out criticism after criticism and never look at the real picture! Like injuries have plagued this team, like we have no all SEC DE’s like we have had for the past 5 years. Like we have the most inexperienced OL we have ever had! You make me sick. You have no idea about these kids hearts and what kind of effort they put into games. Give it a rest! These are still kids for God’s sake! Get off their a* and find something productive to write about. You, Mr. Powers are nothing more than a tabloid journalist. All you do is try and stir up crap so you can see how many band-wagon jumpers will get on here and agree with you. I’m totally dismayed at how folks can get on here and hammer “their team” when the Dogs are 9-2. Wake up folks and get in the real world, it could be worse…we could be Tech!

By Dawg88

November 18, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this

Coach Osborne

You have no class and couldn’t dispute one thing I wrote. So we got another empty response on here. You have no heart either if you can’t go and say it to their faces. How about answering instead of insulting. Can’t do it? Then you are part of the problem with this type of blog. Couldn’t stand to hear the Truth huh?

BTW…Put A Sock In What?

By hook or by crook

November 18, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this

CMR has four more years to win a national title or he’s out. Write this down on your calendar so you can refer to the date you first heard it. He has to prove he’s as good a coach as Urban Mayer, or can at least recruit as well. No excuses. It’s win the big games or else. Four more years.

By Knowshon M.

November 18, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this

By JacketsRule

November 18, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this

“To improve their “heart” Richt needs to come up with new penalties for his players to commit on the field after a good play, to get the team “fired up!” How about an intentional block in the back after the play by a bunch of players at once”

Too late, U guys already invented it. Remember last year when one of your players decided to take a cheep shot becuase he knew they’ll never win and he dove at one of our players knees when they were out of bounds about 5 seconds after the play was over- he got ejected

By Knowshon M.

November 18, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this

By JacketsRule

November 18, 2008 9:32 AM | Link to this

“To improve their “heart” Richt needs to come up with new penalties for his players to commit on the field after a good play, to get the team “fired up!” How about an intentional block in the back after the play by a bunch of players at once”

Too late, U guys already invented it. Remember last year when one of your players decided to take a cheep shot becuase he knew they’ll never win and he dove at one of our players knees when they were out of bounds about 5 seconds after the play was over- he got ejected

By Frank

November 18, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this

Can’t wait till next year.How GREAT will Ga. be next year?

By TheItalianDawg

November 18, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this

Chip, first of all I have no idea why you said that Georgia will not play in the capital one bowl. I think Georgia most certainly will play in the capital one bowl, Georgia is the best 3rd team in the SEC. Florida and Alabama will go to the NC and Sugar bowl, Capital one will chose the best team after the NC and sugar selection, the closest team to Georgia is LSU with 3 losses and probably they will lose to Ole miss. please clarify because I live in Florida and I’m planning to go to the game especially if its against Ohio state. and the Talk about no heart, no swagger and this and that is just a truck full of BULL CRAP!! its about coaching, fire Martinez and the special team coach and I’m pretty certain things will be much better, I dont know why you keep protecting Martinez

By WildBill

November 18, 2008 5:05 PM | Link to this

No new to pile on this subject. I want to look ahead to the upcoming sports articles that read, “UGA has top football recruiting class in Nation”. We see it every year, how great the recruiting class is, and how it promises GREAT THINGS down the road. It is as certain as when the swallows return to Capistrano, the best recruiting team in college football will be going to UGA. I just can’t wait, and it will happen, and when it does, I will barf till the dry heaves set in just like I have done for the last several years. So, we allegedly get these GREAT jocks, then what happens to them? We hear stories of transfers, drop outs, kick outs, arrests, and finally during the season, suspensions. So goes most of the greats. Congrats to Stafford and Knowshon for weathering the trials and tribulations of being a top athelete at UGA. Most don’t make it. The ones that do commit penalties, lose aggression, play around, complain they aren’t ‘having fun’. What makes it worse is that I don’t like basketball. So, when football season is over I just ‘stew’ over what might have been in what was thought to be a most promising season. I was a student during Johnny Griffith as head coach. Football at UGA was really bad as the record showed. We would stay in the dorm and watch exciting games like Rutgers at Yale. HAR HAR, those were the days all right. Moving on, I am ok with the 9-2, but if the dawgs lose to Tech, it will be all for naught as far as I am concerned and no matter what excuses are offered up by anyone in the AD will be pure bs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Bdawg

November 18, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this

Three comments: 1. This team does NOT lack heart. A team lacking heart would have never beaten Auburn, Kentucky or Vandy the way those games went down. This team never quit against Bama and Florida. They play hard all the time.

1. To win a NC, you have to have luck - not just great coaching or great players -lots of teams have that. You HAVE to have luck to win a NC. Florida may be the best team in the nation, but they got beat by Ole Miss at home. Poor coaching? Play calling? Lack of talent??? If Florida wins the NC this year, it is because they got lucky and someone ahead of them lost.

2. This team is as good as it can be. I don’t see how ANY coaching staff could have gotten better than 9-2 from this group given the injuries and telant level. As for coaching, any fan who actually knows anything about football (i.e. actually played it and/or coached it) can plainly see that the problems on defense are certainly not related to coaching. Consistently, players are in proper position to make plays but don’t make them. How many times has a pass been completed over Evans when he was tight on his man? How many times have teams taken our DE’s out of the play with a block from a receiver or back? Face the fact, the “talent” level on defense is NOT what most fans think it is. We have good solid players, but very very few playmakers. Without big Ownens, teams can simpply double on Gino and Kade and we have no great DE’s like Richt teams always have had in the past. Our secondary - like anyone’s would be - is vulnerable when there is no pressure from the line.

By SEC Football

November 18, 2008 5:26 PM | Link to this

I am a Georgia grad and watch the dogs every weekend. They had a tough schedule and a lot of injuries this year but also had some 4 star recruits as backups. The thing that concerned me this year were the responses by players after the games. We have a lot of talent but I question the commitment of the team this year compared to a Florida & Alabama. We won a lot of games this year on talent and not dicipline, exection etc. As I said in a earlier blog look at the way they handle themselves after some of the games. After Auburn you would have thought they had won the National Championship and not a game they should have won by two touchdowns. These are good kids but if they want a National Championship they are going to need the focus of a Tim Tebow.

By Oledawg

November 18, 2008 5:30 PM | Link to this

Dawg88, Huh??,Alt- Good posts, but DawgFan101 went one better. Chip should be the focus of our ire.

There is a huge disconnect here. First, we had injuries at key positions. Coaches filled in for them and we got more injuries. They crosstrained and moved people into new positions because they had good backup players at other positions. So now we have players that support the big producers in unfamiliar spots that don’t work too well and we have to reposition more. More injuries occur, but by now no one is paying attention because ,after fighting like hell to get wins, they take a hit from Bama. Not only do the players get ignored that were injured in the Bama game but the walking wounded patching up each game afterward are now fighting in the trenches…wounded, but fighting on. Next comes the player inconsistencies in the FU game and the blame game is on. Never mind that the players keep playing WITH HEART and continue on a winning path, some fans want their pound of flesh and use every excuse to continue week after week to rant and rail against the coaches, the players and the team. When they get shamed by their fellow posters, they shift to some other part of the team.

In my book this is a great fighting team that is still winning to preserve the honor they have fought for and our honor as fans as well. These crappy headlines about heart show how wide the disconnect is. What do you think Richt, the coaches and the team feel about those losses? They had to go through the floor. All of them. They can’t afford to lay around and pi$$ and moan like many of you do. They have gotten down to work after swallowing hard and continued to practice “with spirit” according to the head coache’s words that I read. A total disconnect has occurred, with media help, between some of the fan base and the team. Some are still describing plays like they are the only ones who have seen them, know what they mean and are the only one who can go to Athens to tell the coaches and team how to straighten it all out. BULL$HIT! While you are misdirected with your complaint along with media negativity, it never seems to occur to some of you that you could help your team and their spirit by attacking these unfair and misplaced digs at a great team. The reason they are great is because they continue to produce and win while part of their fanbase is pi$$ing in the wind and agreeing with the negative media who are only trying to generate blogging clicks to support their way of life. Why don’t we blog the sports editor about the poor job we perceive that they are doing while using part of our disgruntled fan base and interlopers to generate computer clicks. It is sad to see well meaning fans get caught up in this while they maintain that they have the right to complain, but fail to see how they fall right into what the author wanted in the first place—disgruntlement in type that hurts the team. What if you were a team member and read these postings? I hope that they are laughing, but fear that they may become depressed when they see such self-serving and fitful musings about “my right to complain”. If you are such a fan, then complain about these NEGATIVELY WRITTEN ARTICLES ABOUT YOUR TEAM!! The big disconnect comes when you imagine how the team is practicing and holding their heads up and continuing to win. I’ll bet none of them are going on and on about their mistakes (which they seem to make a play that is redeeming soon thereafter) because they can’t afford to . That’s how you lose confidence as some of you players out there know. But the bloggin’**wailing continues.

How about individual play this last week! The game-winning leaping catch of a freshman player(without heart), a last minute TD pass by a QB who doesn’t know the word quit(but playing without heart), the champion RB who chalked up 135 yds running and a bunch more pass receiving(without heart), A linebacker playing his position and three others and suddenly appearing to prevent game-winning TDs as a safety(without heart), Safeties and linebackers batting down and covering like a mosquito net those pass daggers that were aimed at the team’s and the fan’s heart(without passion and heart)…etc. This disconnect of some fans and their team has taken on a life of it’s own.

What in hell is the matter with some of you putting on those “rose-colored glasses” you deride others about? THAT’S WHAT FANS DO!! Just cease the unproductive negative input because we really don’t get that you are the greatest football tactician since sliced bread. We really don’t read your blogs with the same ego you used when producing it. I can’t believe some of you not getting any pleasure from the plays your team makes when winning or losing. Cheer for them hard, gang since there are only 2 games left for you to enjoy your team. Funny how the whole season disappears when you get caught up in your cups.

GO DAWGS! WRECK TECH!!

By RAMDAWG

November 18, 2008 5:33 PM | Link to this

Bama Stan,you are the reason everybody thinks bama fans are ignorant morons-you have been a joke for ten yrs now all the sudden you want to crow.Try having a top 5 or ten team every year.ill put our record the last ten yrs vs bama anyday.Where were you when you were getting stomped by la monroe last year?Bama people are almost as bad as techies.fla44 bama14

By Erk'd

November 18, 2008 5:36 PM | Link to this

Dawgs within 4!! Big shot by Corey Butler.

Let’s go DAWGS!!

By BAMAJAMMA

November 18, 2008 5:43 PM | Link to this

*this text will be bolded BAMA RULES!!! this text will be bolded

By Taco

November 18, 2008 5:43 PM | Link to this

I want Mark Richt fired! He has no business coaching in major conference like the SEC. Back to Tallahassee please! I can only dream the DAWG fans are this stupid. UGA ain’t no National Title School. They have a great tradition there… a tradition of losing 2-4 games every year. A Buck Belue type player only comes around once in a 100 years and they were lucky he carried them to a NC. Herschel also helped. Settle down and settle in. Enjoy beating the great programs once every five years and tear down the goal posts. As for Tech they have no illusions of granduer so quit striking our at them. Maybe they win and tear down the hedges again or back the Wreck over uggga 36?

By Erk'd

November 18, 2008 5:46 PM | Link to this

Another HUGE 3 by C. Butler. Dawgs take the lead with another score.

By JIM

November 18, 2008 5:46 PM | Link to this

Where are the team leaders? The on-the-field guys? I don’t know if Stafford is personality to lead. Why haven’t the coaches identified this problem? I heard that Saban asked JPW to be more a leader and he responded

By BAMAJAMMA

November 18, 2008 5:48 PM | Link to this

this text will be bolded BAMA RULES!!!!!! this text will be bolded

By JAMMA

November 18, 2008 5:52 PM | Link to this

this text will be bolded BAMA RULES!! this text will be boded

By TW

November 18, 2008 6:00 PM | Link to this

These Dawgs have not been coached up.

They are the same eighteen-year-old athletes they were when they came to UGA, just a little stronger.

Better football players? Competitors?

Sadly, no.

By BIGBEE

November 18, 2008 6:29 PM | Link to this

Hey CHIP, knock it off about the heart thing. All you are doing is pi$$ing UGA off for their game with GT. Nice try but we see right through you.

By Gator gonna bite that Dog

November 18, 2008 6:33 PM | Link to this

REALITY CHEACK: Georgia has ALWAYS BEEN an 7-3 or 8-2 type school. Yeah i know you won a NC with PYSCHO Herschel Walker. One NC in the last 65 years!! Michigan State of the soth is what Georgia will always be. That’s why most fans aren’t mad at Richt. They know he is coaching ‘em up above the normal records. Richt is in the same mold as his former boss Bobby Bowden (lets trick ‘em up with black outs..oops…blow outs).

By ES

November 18, 2008 6:54 PM | Link to this

Gator gonna bite that Dog, You lost at home to a Ole Miss team thats going to lose 5 or 6 games.But guess what yall are going to get to lay a MAJOR EGG and play for that mythical NC because so many teams lost this year.

By big o

November 18, 2008 6:56 PM | Link to this

It’s been a very disappointing year. It seems to me that the season went quicker than last. It showed how important J.O was to the defense from a talent standpoint and most impotantly I think from a leadership standpoint. The lack of strong Senior leadership attributed to all of this. This started in the offseason with all the arrests’. If we can finish 10-2 and regroup for next year. Does anyone think Stafford or Knowshon will come back ? We need some fresh talent on defense. Hopefully we can sign Branden Smith. What other studs do we have coming ? Does anyone know ?

By UGA75

November 18, 2008 7:05 PM | Link to this

I am a Dawg fan, father of 2 UGA graduates, and an ex coach at the HS level. I said that to say this. This team gets by on talent, but lacks a fire in their guts. If Knowshon’s attifude was shared by more of the team they’d be a different team. Instead, there seems to be some resentment about all the publicity Knowshan and Stafford receive. The defense is, and it hurts to say this, horrible. Erk is probably trying to dig out of his grave. The Dawgs haven’t always had the best talent on defense, but they would always fight with everything in their being to keep teams out of the end zone. I understand that Willie is Coach R’s man, and it is possible he is a great X and 0 coach, but he clearly isn’t a motivator. He doesn’t die with every point the Dawgs give up. General Lee was a great General, but once he lost Stone Wall Jackson, he didn’t win a lot more important battles. Lots of folks didn’t like Van Gorder leaving, but he was (and seems to still be) a great motivator much like Erk was. Ironic that Muschamp is now the next HC at Texas. I don’t thnk Willie needs to be fired, just reassigned where a real coach could motivate the defense.

By Hines Ward

November 18, 2008 7:09 PM | Link to this

2008 Bowl Games 2008 Conferences 2008 Date ‘08 Kickoff 2008 TV Expected Payout EagleBank Bowl^ Army/Navy v ACC or MAC December 20 11 am ET ESPN $1 million New Mexico Bowl WAC v MWC December 20 2:30 pm ET ESPN $750,000 St. Pete Bowl C-USA v Big East December 20 4:30 pm ET ESPN2 $1 million Las Vegas Bowl Pac-10 v MWC December 20 8 pm ET ESPN $1 million New Orleans Bowl Sun Belt v C-USA December 21 8 pm ET ESPN $325,000 Poinsettia Bowl MWC v Navy, Army or Pac-10 December 23 8 pm ET ESPN $750,000 Hawaii Bowl WAC v Pac-10 December 24 8 pm ET ESPN $398,000 Motor City Bowl Big Ten v MAC December 26 8 pm ET ESPN $750,000 Meineke Bowl Big East v ACC December 27 1 pm ET ESPN $1 million* Champs Sports Bowl ACC v Big Ten December 27 4:30 pm ET ESPN $2.25 million
Emerald Bowl Pac-10 v ACC December 27 8 pm ET ESPN $850,000 Independence Bowl SEC v Big 12 December 28 8 pm ET ESPN $1.1 million
PapaJohns.com Bowl SEC v Big East December 29 3 pm ET ESPN $300,000 Alamo Bowl Big Ten v Big 12 December 29 8 pm ET ESPN $2.25 million
Humanitarian Bowl WAC v ACC December 30 4:30 pm ET ESPN $750,000 Holiday Bowl Pac-10 v Big 12 December 30 8 pm ET ESPN $2.13 million
Texas Bowl Big 12 v C-USA December 30 TBA NFL Network $500,000 Big East, $750,000 Big 12
Armed Forces Bowl MWC v C-USA December 31 12 pm ET ESPN $600,000 Insight Bowl Big 12 v Big Ten December 31 1:30 pm ET NFL Network $1.2 million
Sun Bowl Pac-10 v Big 12 or Big East December 31 2 pm ET CBS $1.9 million
Music City Bowl ACC v SEC December 31 3:30 pm ET ESPN $1.6 million
Chick-fil-A Bowl ACC v SEC December 31 7:30 pm ET ESPN $3.25 million ACC, 2.4 million for SEC
Outback Bowl Big Ten v SEC January 1 11 am ET ESPN $3 million
Gator Bowl ACC v Big 12 or Big East/ND January 1 TBA CBS $2.5 million
Capital One Bowl Big Ten v SEC January 1 1 pm ET ABC $4.25 million
Rose Bowl Big 10 Champ v Pac-10 Champ January 1 4:30 pm ET ABC $17 million
Orange Bowl ACC Champ v BCS January 1 TBA FOX $17 million
Cotton Bowl Big 12 v SEC January 2 TBA FOX $3 million
Liberty Bowl C-USA Champ v SEC January 2 5 pm ET ESPN $1.7 million
Sugar Bowl SEC Champ v BCS January 2 7 pm FOX $17 million
International Bowl MAC v Big East January 3 12 pm ET ESPN2 $750,000 Fiesta Bowl Big 12 Champ v BCS January 5 TBA FOX $17 million
GMAC Bowl MAC v C-USA January 6 8 pm ET ESPN $750,000 BCS Championship Bowl BCS #1 v BCS #2 January 8 8 pm ET FOX $17 million

By wreckmaniac

November 18, 2008 7:19 PM | Link to this

JUST IN: Texas has signed Muschamp to a head-coach-in-waiting contract. UGA, never to be outmanuvered, has signed W Martinez to the same deal. Smart.

By monty

November 18, 2008 7:20 PM | Link to this

LAst year when we were denied at the last second a chance to play for all the marbles it seemed to motivate them and give them a passion to play, were we alot better than Hawaii? Sure, but we played with a veneance in that game. I can’t recall any game like that this year. This is about the ho-humist GA team I can remember. Several bloggers have commented that they are even boring to watch.

I have watched too many wins this year where I ended up feeling empty. In the past I have tried to listen to the post game show on the radio, but this year how can you be excited about beating a team (barely) that you could have mopped the floor with had you played with a passion and played like you were disciplined?

If somone had told me we would be lucky to win 7-8 games before the season started I guess I would be ecstatic. But this team was supposed to fly higher potentially than any GA team since 1980 and they barely even got off the ground.

The manner in which we got beat by ALA and FLA makes me wonder how that can be overcome next year.

By JacketsRule

November 18, 2008 7:21 PM | Link to this

Face it dawg fans, richt will never win a national title at Ga. He recruits too many undisciplined thugs, lets players get away with all these crimes, encourages penalties, etc. In fact, Paul Johnson at Tech will win a title before Richt—mark it down!

By Dogbyte

November 18, 2008 7:26 PM | Link to this

OleDawg—Just so I get this right. You think the media(Cow Chip)and a large part of our Marta “Alumni” are unfairly picking at our dawgs, and overlooking the positives while accentuating the negatives. Right? I just wanted to make sure I was keeping up.

By Dogbyte

November 18, 2008 7:32 PM | Link to this

Jacketsrule, I have marked it down, but using u-know-what on toilet paper it’s illegible. Which, btw, goes with your post which is unintelligible.

By AltamahaDawg

November 18, 2008 7:35 PM | Link to this

Thanks Oledawg. I knew when I ran it up the flagpole, that would be right in your wheelhouse. Something to really wrap your arm around. This room has finally convinced me, brought it to light, opened my eyes. It’s all about the platitudes man, the platitudes. Used to be about facts, but now I’m thinking outside the box. Pushing the envelope. Because at the end of the day, it’s take no prisoners. As far as the team, full steam ahead. Take it up a notch. Time to bring the A game. 110%. And Coaches, we need some innovation and motivation. The bottom line is that the buck stops with you. Next year we need to manage the expectations, fly under the radar and shoot for the moon.

By StaffordLooksLikeaTallerCartman

November 18, 2008 7:41 PM | Link to this

UGA sucks. Richt should go back to being a waterboy for Miami like when he was last string Qb. All uga fans should expect is 3 losses every year because they are a mid-level team.

By Dogbyte

November 18, 2008 7:48 PM | Link to this

AltamahaDawg—You are wasting your talents. These brain-deads don’t know a platitude from a duck-billed platypus.

By StaffordLooksLikeaTallerCartman

November 18, 2008 7:55 PM | Link to this

I am taking the bye week over GA by 5 and a half. Even though they have the week off I bet UGA will find a way to get either 10 penalties or 5 arrests. Im scared for you if you live in Athens with a bye week for the athletes/cavemen

By Dogbyte

November 18, 2008 7:56 PM | Link to this

I’m going to bed. This is like trying to carry on a conversation with a wrong number.

By Hines Ward

November 18, 2008 8:06 PM | Link to this

I know what a duck-billed platypus is… proof that God smokes dope.

A platitude, on the other hand is a little harder to decipher and somewhat trite, like Auburn University (just kiddin’). I love those terrible tigers. They still play Bon Jovi songs as a morale booster at the games. Hope they kick the sh!t out of Bama

Go Dawgs!

By Randolph

November 18, 2008 8:07 PM | Link to this

You can’t call a team that finishes in the top ten (out of 119) almost every year a mid-level team. Words can’t describe how asinine that comment is. Furthermore, winning an SEC championship is really the primary objective of every season, IMO(and the dawgs have 2 of last 5). Not that I wouldn’t love the dawgs to win a NC, but the BCS has major credibility problems.

By Hines Ward

November 18, 2008 8:13 PM | Link to this

Dogbyte-

If you’re going to bed at 8:00, I hope you will at least be up early doing something useful to society like being a school crossing guard, or sumpting.

By BE#3

November 18, 2008 8:18 PM | Link to this

Wreckmaniac………Breaking news……….To keep up with the Dawgs, Tech hires Mike Gunn, head coach of Athens Academy, to replace CPJ upon his retirement in order to keep a high school offense on the field in a high school stadium.

By Good Video

November 18, 2008 8:20 PM | Link to this

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc-2EGPQNVM

By BE#3

November 18, 2008 8:40 PM | Link to this

Hey Techies………

Do ya’ll still have a Flag Boy in your band?

By dawgs2004

November 18, 2008 8:40 PM | Link to this

Hey Ramble on. We’ll see come bowl time who can play D when the SEC ACC match ups are played out. A yellowjacket? Just swat em away.

By The Ole Ball Coach

November 18, 2008 8:48 PM | Link to this

“Who let the Dawgs out” will be JAMMING next Saturday…

I am sick of all the CRYING… The Dawgs should take it out on them ugly yeller Jackets BY KICKING SOME BUTT……

By COLLEGEFOOTBALL

November 18, 2008 8:53 PM | Link to this

The thing with UGA football is the two games ya’ll had on National TV you were horrible-that is what the nation knows of UGA football-Ya’ll got all the media at the first of the year and you blew it!!! Is not your game on the 29th a CBS national game? Well maybe ya’ll can prove something to the nation-Boy I would hate to see you lose to a sorry bunch as ya’ll say they(TECH)are-What would the bulldog nation cry be then? The games I saw was no passion-period call that heart-don’t tell me about young teams- look at teams across the nation-injurys happen-the dogs are not playing motivated ball!

By dogdo

November 18, 2008 8:56 PM | Link to this

When will GA name a decent replacement for Larry Munson?

By michael

November 18, 2008 8:56 PM | Link to this

as long as mark richt is in charge, things will never change. he cannot win the big games. if you agree, check out www.firemarkricht.net

By Jimmy

November 18, 2008 9:00 PM | Link to this

I don’t think it’s lack of heart, more a lack of will or desire, especially when things are tough. Richt’s teams always seem to lose at least one game a year in blow out fashion. Once they get down big they just seem to give up, in these games. Now I could be wrong, but has their ever been a MNC that’s lost just one game during their season in blowout fashion? I don’t think so.

By Steve

November 18, 2008 9:13 PM | Link to this

Face it Bulldogs fans, UGA is not a National Power. Georgia certainly is among the top-tier programs in the country, but it has never been a consistent National Title contender.

Georgia was outshone by Tennessee and Florida in the 90s, and now it’s all about Florida, LSU, and, wouldn’t you know it, Alabama.

Mark Richt is a fantastic coach and a good man. Hopefully, he won’t get derailed by unrealistic expectations from the Dawg Nation. Georgia will compete for a National Title every now and then but don’t expect to be in the hunt every 2 years.

By BE#3

November 18, 2008 9:22 PM | Link to this

Carolina, UT and LSU were all on CBS — National TV.

Most of us read about the locker room during halftime in Jax. Heard from someone in the football program that you could hear a pin drop in the locker room. Only down 14-3 and yet they were mentally out of it.

By JB

November 18, 2008 9:33 PM | Link to this

And guess what Dogs-this is the pinnacle for the next few years. Consider this: You have a top 5 NFL pick at QB (leaving?) , a top 10 RB (leaving?), a soon to be top 5 WR (known not to be the greatest of students), and an assortment of others average pieces to play with next year. Even ol’ Caleb King has dropped back a notch and likely won’t have the grades to stick around. What if they all go at once? Ouch.

Like I said, this was the year and, uh oh, that ship has sailed. Same goes for Bammer-first year starting QB’s don’t do so well in the SEC-don’t care who you are.

JB

By The Big Bug

November 18, 2008 9:43 PM | Link to this

Hey SAM JONES:

If you had been watching Chan Gailey football for the last several years as a long-suffering Tech Fan you’d be f**king ecstatic! Trust me! And don’t tell me not to jump on the bandwagon when your team should rightly be named The Bandwagoneers.We haven’t lost a single game this year as a result of stupid coaching.Big improvement! If we don’t win but seven this year at least we have a team we can be proud of.The future is bright. You won’t find a real Tech fan that doesn’t love this team. I don’t know of any nice way to put it:You sir, are an idiot

By 7NAROW

November 18, 2008 9:46 PM | Link to this

Ah yes, it’s that time of year for another nerd beating. I know this is probably difficult to read for techies since English is about the third languge on their campus. My name will soon be 8NAROW!!!

By MVP

November 18, 2008 9:51 PM | Link to this

EXCUSSES EXCUSSES THATS ALL UGA FANS CAN DO. IS UGA THE ONLY COLLEGE TEAM THAT HAD PLAYERS HURT?

CHOKE………..THE OFFICAL DRINK OF THE GEORGIA BULLDAWGS!

By Rod

November 18, 2008 9:51 PM | Link to this

I had not made my mind up as I headed to the polls election day, but I was leaning towards Obama and as I was on the way to the polls I heard on the radio Obama wanted a playoff in college football. That put me firmly in the Obama corner as I walked into the polling place and voted. I wonder if that had any impact on anyones vote for Obama like I think it did on my vote. I thought I was going to vote for him but when I heard the playoff talk there was no doubt about it after that.

By DawgNirvana

November 18, 2008 9:55 PM | Link to this

$750,000 measly bucks….That it what the Humanitarian Bowl is going to pay the nerds to play on the blue carpet….Well considering it is the nerds that is probably too much for the egg they will lay

By ACC Stinks

November 18, 2008 10:20 PM | Link to this

For all you yech fans on this blog…. This is freaking hilarious….I suppose ESPN did not check the Sagarin rankings and find out the acc was such a powerhouse!! LMAO…. The Atlantic Coast Conference (11) was supposed to be Clemson (12) and a bunch of schmoes. Instead, it’s a bunch of schmoes and a sub-schmo Clemson train wreck. What happened: The Tigers have staggered to a coach-firing 5-5, leaving the league to an indistinguishable muddle of 7-3 and 6-4 teams — one of which will stumble its way into a BCS bowl. Which should assure the ACC of a 10th BCS bowl loss in 11 tries. Only Miami currently is riding anything longer than a two-game winning streak. You can view this on ESPN’s website under NCAA…Pat Forde article. acc, the laughing stock of college football……

By CMR

November 18, 2008 10:23 PM | Link to this

Everyone relax. It’s highly casual. My hair IS perfect. It’s all good.

By Cuz

November 18, 2008 10:49 PM | Link to this

Anybody ever thought it is a bunch of middle age men obsessing over the attributes of some kids just out of their teens and many in their teens. Just a thought.

By Hines Ward

November 18, 2008 11:05 PM | Link to this

Hey Cuz-

Good thought. Why, oh why, do we care?

Projecting? Reminiscing? Vicarious existence? Beaucoup bucks? Just plain fun?

I love every minute of it.

Go Heels!

By Hines Ward

November 18, 2008 11:36 PM | Link to this

Cuz- oh hell! You’re calling everyone on here a sissy. Weirdness. Got to go…

By Pago Flyer

November 19, 2008 1:27 AM | Link to this

Oh man, and to think this could have been the year?! Doesn’t Texas Tech wear all black, and boy do they sure win!

By The Big Bug

November 19, 2008 2:31 AM | Link to this

Cuz:

Don’t try thinking. It doesn’t become you.

By Cuz

November 19, 2008 6:35 AM | Link to this

Thanks Big Bug, I will keep that in mind. Sorry Hines, did not intend to call everyone on here a sissy. I went to school in the Dooley years, suffered through the Goof and Donnan years and now compared to then, not so bad. I have seen my share of dissapointments, Pitt, Penn State and West Virginia. I guess my glass is half full. To me football is fun, but my life does not revolve around it. That said.

GO DAWGS!!!!

By wreckmaniac

November 19, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this

So I guess UGA is finally, after 10 games, going to unlease that big bad BREAKOUT game against Tech. Its about time. With the #1 coach in the land, the #1 QB, the #1 running back, 85 high school ALL-AMS on the bench, the #1 receiver where has this bad A game been ? The closest match to this team is Notre Dame. ALL BLOW and NO SHOW.

By DawgsFan

November 19, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

This is a good football team, not a great team and we just have to accept that. The whole problem can be laid on the lines.

On offense it’s just been injuries and youth. We started the year with 13 eligible linemen and are now down to 7 that we’re willing to play (there are a couple we’re trying to redshirt). There aren’t very many teams i can think of that could have the sort of an issue and be 9-2 (especially in the SEC). People talk about our great trio of AJ, stafford, and moreno, but those great players are directly affected by the offensive line (imagine the year they could have without the injuries up front). We lead the SEC in passing, total yards, and are second in scoring - not bad for a team with “problems”. One difference from the beginning of the season to now though is we’ve ventured back to our previous years of “that’s ok, we’ll just kick a 25 yard field goal instead of getting a touchdown”, and a good deal of that is redzone play calling.

Defensively, it is all about pressure (or lack there of). We get absolutely no pressure from our front four. I mean i can throw the ball well enough to hit a receiver if i had that kind of time, and if i was the receiver i could get open eventually with that time. So it all starts there (never knew we’d miss Howard as much as we are). The way to apply pressure without the front four getting it is to blitz. This leaves us vulnerable to a big play. The huge problem for us this year is even when we send pressure (a fifth of sometimes even sixth man) we STILL don’t get there. To me this has to be because of scheming, like our blitzes are not as well drawn up as other teams (or our linebackers and/or safeties have terrible timing). If you can’t get pressure you can’t force offenses out of doing what they want. If you can’t get pressure normally you need to blitz. If you can’t get pressure blitzing, you better hope your offense bails you out (see 7 of 9 wins).

With Richt here, and the kind of recruiting base we have, we’re a 10 win season always waiting to happen. We’re spoiled now, and expectations have definitely risen. I know there are plenty of times during the nineties i would have loved to be 9-2. But until the lines get addressed (mainly a game-changing defensive end or two) we won’t be a national championship team.

By G

November 19, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this

Richt please hire Greg Robinnson as DC , sorry Willy your a good cordinator but we need a great one. Also hire Pollack to light a fire under the Dawgs!!

By dumba** mutts fans

November 19, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this

I notice you hicks always preach coach richt christian values, but we dont want no da*n preacher as a head coach, thats why UGAY always comes up short in the end, the only way you become CHAMPION is to put out the best ATHLETES PERIOD, NOT THESE UNCLE TOM TYPE UGAY PLAYERS, WE WANT MONSTERS THUGS and SPEED LIKE FLORIDA AND USC. P.S. EMBRED HICKS UGAY NEEDS TO JUST WIN IN THE FUTURE.