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DEL.ICIO.USWhen does the ‘rebuilding’ start?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
OK, now that we’ve hopefully flushed out all the bile and anger and “Fire Mark Richt” nonsense engendered in the Bulldog Nation by Saturday’s sorry Homecoming showing, let’s all take a deep breath and take a look at where the UGA football program stands.
We can’t say we got beat by the better team this time, that’s for sure. Vandy did their best to give that game away like they usually do, but the Dawgs refused to win it.
Willie Martinez and his “read and react” defense have drawn a lot of the flak. And deservedly so. Martinez seems out of his depth as a defensive coordinator. His game plans are poor, and he’s slow to adjust. Even when we weren’t playing “prevent” defense (and we all know the truism about that), our so-called man coverage Saturday saw us giving Vandy’s receivers a ridiculous cushion. And we never got to their QB. (Brian Van Gorder’s Georgia defenses were so overly aggressive that they sometimes drew needless penalties; we’re playing the exact opposite of that now.) When you can’t stop VANDERBILT from converting fourth-and-five with the game on the line, the prospects for the rest of the season don’t look too good.
We’re not just talking about the past two games, either. Going back to last season, the Georgia defense’s performance against top teams since Martinez took over has been lacking, the only exception being the SEC championship game against LSU (which, of course, had the weakest offense among the conference’s upper echelon). Sure, our defense put up some impressive numbers early this season with a couple of shutouts, but that was misleading because it was against weak opposition. And that’s the most devastating thing about the Vandy game; now our defense is coming up short not just against top offenses, but against a bad one!
But Martinez and his defense by no means get all the blame for UGA’s loss Saturday.
What we’re looking at over the past couple of weeks with the Dawgs is a complete systemic failure. Richt and his coaching staff and players saw every aspect of their game fail Saturday: The special teams were awful (there’s not much we can do about Andy Bailey, but surely we can do a better job covering kickoffs!). Despite a couple of key interceptions (attributable mostly to the Vandy QB’s poor decision-making), the defense failed, particularly in the red zone. (Or, as Richt understated in his post-game press conference, “Our red zone defense was not what it should be.”). And the Dawgs’ offense was mediocre at best and mostly ineffective, particularly in the red zone. Again, some of Richt’s playcalling was pretty suspect, but the major problem seemed to be familar problems: dropped passes and lousy blocking by the offensive line.
Can we get a group rate if we send Martinez, Neil Callaway and John Eason all out of Athens?
Looking at Joe T.’s numbers, you might agree with Richt in his post-game assessment that the starting QB didn’t look bad. But if you were there, you saw a quarterback whose much-vaunted senior leadership was pretty invisible and whose physical talent just isn’t going to produce many points. It’s obvious Matthew Stafford is the future, even if he’s still green, so why delay any longer? Play him now so we can reap the dividends NEXT season.
As for Richt, well, the honeymoon obviously is over. Yes, he’s won two SEC championships, but that was with more talented teams and with a generous assist from other teams losing key games. So far, he doesn’t seem to know how to win with a team of middling talent. As my son said Saturday, UGA’s current season — with its muddled QB situation and the team floundering — is beginning to resemble Tennessee’s last year. Can Richt bounce back next year, like Phil Fulmer has this year? Sure. But Fulmer was willing to fire someone to turn things around. I’m not sure Richt will act that decisively. And if he doesn’t, well, we got rid of poor old Jim Donnan because eight wins a year wasn’t enough (and Jim Donnan NEVER lost to Vanderbilt!).
If Richt has an overriding weakness (besides his insisting on calling the plays), it’s that he doesn’t seem capable of lighting a fire under players who are underperforming. I’ve never been a fan of Tommy Tuberville, but I must say his candor in telling the ESPN interviewer how awful his defense had looked at the end of the first half against the Gators Saturday night was refreshing. And the lambasting he gave his team at halftime appeared to work wonders. It’s hard to imagine Richt doing that.
Obviously, we’re still in the demolition stage of this “rebuilding” season. While this is obviously not a great (or even very good) Georgia team, there are individual players on it of the highest caliber. Maybe some of them will rise to the occasion and the Dawgs will not only beat the two teams we should be favored over, but upset one of the Big Three.
As a fan, I hope it happens. But right now, with injuries starting to take their toll, the odds look kinda long.
Comments
By War Eagle
October 15, 2006 08:36 PM | Link to this
I will start this blog with probably some good news for the dawgs. Auburn got a committment today from one of the best running backs in Florida(Enique Davis). His father was all SEC for Gators, so nice to get one from them. Auburn will more than likely sign only one running back, so Caleb King will not come off Auburn board, but this will push him toward Uga due to this impact player and other RB we currently returning next year.Enique is 6-2 220, 4.4 40yd and scored 27 TD as a junior.
By rickyjeepers
October 15, 2006 08:48 PM | Link to this
As someone said in another blog, this is UGA history. Always loaded with talent and always full of promise, but rarely acheiving and never sustaining success at a level of other programs of national prominence. We exhalt Vince Dooley for our one and only National Championship season but forget that he squandered the potential for at least one if not two more in successive seasons following that one-time glory in 1980 and immediately went back to his mediocre ways as soon as Hershel departed. Yeah, I know, at least Dooley beat Florida like a drum and that’s what really cements his heritage, but he usually lost to Auburn and/or Tech after the parties in Jax too. I attended UGA and have been a fan since the early 60’s. This is our destiny. Can’t explain it. It just is. Damn it!!!
By The Big Bug
October 15, 2006 08:48 PM | Link to this
Forget it. Sidewalk alumni and bandwagon-jumpers will be silent for years to come as the myth of UGA talent is at last exposed.Chaos and confusion rule.There will be no opponent lowly enough to ensure a homecoming victory.Even Ray Goff would not return to a situation this dismal.Adams had better lower the academic standards another notch.
By Steve
October 15, 2006 09:03 PM | Link to this
I too am no Auburn fan, but TT did do the smart thing and hired compotent coordinators to run each respective unit. It doesn’t seem MR will ever realize he isn’t the smartest person on the planet and and learn that little lesson.
The offense willl never be as productive as it can be with MR calling that stupid and slow-developing sprint draw play all day long. I admire JTIII, but PLEASE! Matthew HAS to play to get the experience, and losing four or five games this year isn;t the end of the world. However, the problems could be worst next year. Hs anyone, including the coaches paid attention to the status of the O line, and the LACK of bodies on scolarship for next season?
Receivers coach??? what is that? This phenomenon started whrn MR arrived; remember Fred Gibson, and the difference when Donnan was here and then Richt?
Richt isn’t going anywhere, and he shouldn’t, but he does need to be held accountable for his assistants, and their lack of results.
By Robert Jeffries-Class of 58
October 15, 2006 09:12 PM | Link to this
By drdawg
October 15, 2006 09:12 PM | Link to this
One of Richt’s strengths is his cool demeanor. But that is also one of his weaknesses. He does not seem capable of raising hell with his players and that quality is necessary if it is well timed. If you want to make over a million bucks a year, you have to be willing to fire people who don’t produce. We have several coaches who need to go, starting with the Defensive Coordinator. We are being outplayed, and outcoached and will soon be out-recruited.
Can’t stand Tuberville, but he has outsmarted Richt over and over. He hired an offensive coordinator when they needed one, and he hire a Bulldawg great in Muschamp who whipped Florida. Richt sits back calmly, and gets out foxed at every turn. It’s time to get emotional Mark, and kick some a*!
By gomdawg
October 15, 2006 09:16 PM | Link to this
CMR I think you are Great coach leadership is what this team is lacking you take player per player on any team in the SEC and we match up the team just needs leadership and that comes from your seniors it time to take this seniors in and put it on the line show them films on a David Pollack he was a leader. It just looks like everyone is waiting for someone else to take it to the next level that what the seniors are there for. SO PUT SOME FIRE UNDER THEM AND OUR SEASON STARTS RIGHT NOW. FINISH THE DRILL.??
By Steve
October 15, 2006 09:19 PM | Link to this
Richt clearly needs to stay, but if he fails one more drug test after smoking crack with Eason and Martinez, he too needs to go!
By sonny
October 15, 2006 09:21 PM | Link to this
The Red and Black done faded to Pink and Brown!
By Mr. Goff
October 15, 2006 09:22 PM | Link to this
Fire Mark and Sonny Now!
By dawggoneit
October 15, 2006 09:23 PM | Link to this
All you have to do is watch the sidelines to see that there is no excitement on this team. I say everyone on crutches and out of uniform find a seat somewhere, make all of the players on the sideline stand up and support their teammates on the field, and stop this lacksadaisical attitude that has developed over the last few years. When the players on the sideline are more interested in sitting around and talking that paying attention to the game, it’s time to take away some scholarships and send them packing. The problem I see is a coaching staff that has allowed this to happen. Whatever it takes to change the mindset on the sidelines will go far to improve the performance on the field.
By mike
October 15, 2006 09:23 PM | Link to this
Hey drdawg, I can only disagree with one thing. Will Muschamp sucked as a player at Georgia, he was never a “Bulldawg great”, as you described him.
By pdawg
October 15, 2006 09:24 PM | Link to this
I dont know what to say anymore. If the big men at the top of UGA and boosters are silent, Mark Richt would not do anything. Is time they start lighting some fire under him. He should stop the play calling, go get offensive, defensive coordinators, offensive line coach and receivers coach. He should show some hunger or killer instinct to win National championships not SEC CHAAMPIONSHIPS. This ideology of not wanting to beat teams heavily should be abolished, that is hurting us with human votes and computer polls if he doesnt know. The top guys should put some pressure on this guy .
By Advisor
October 15, 2006 09:28 PM | Link to this
Just surrender Mutts, its all over, as it was all a lie all along. You stink! Now conjegate that verb, mutts!~
By Hulk Smash
October 15, 2006 09:29 PM | Link to this
AAARRRRGGGHHHH!!! It’s not armageddon, but I’m a gettin’ tired of wasting time with JT3 on the field. Look—if Stafford is too jittery to start a game, then let Joe Cox start the first series, and have Stafford take over the rest! JT3 should go back to special teams, because they’re not playing so special nowadays.
By Bear Bratt
October 15, 2006 09:32 PM | Link to this
Start em all, at linebacker!
By brewdawg
October 15, 2006 09:35 PM | Link to this
Bill, I agree with most of what you said, but why make it sound like we should put an asterisk by our SEC titles? I recall going 7-1 in the conference in ‘02, which is good enough in just about any year. I remember when we used to be in a position to go the SEC game under Donnan and we were the team that lost key games, paving the way for other teams.
Anyway, as for Richt, I did see him laying into his players before the 4th quarter, and they responded by getting the lead, though unfortunately the D couldn’t get a key stop. Perhaps Richt will start doing that at the beginning of games instead of when we are behind. I guarantee all of you he knows that UGA should never lose to Vandy- I saw it on his face when they kicked the field goal. I’d venture to wager he never loses to them again. Oh, and yeah, Donnan never lost to Vandy, but he never got us an SEC title either. Let’s just all take a deep breath. We can still salvage this season to an extent. This program is in good shape, even as dark as it seems right now. Go Dawgs!
By Seattle
October 15, 2006 09:36 PM | Link to this
Mark Richt offered job holding David Greens’ Jock Strap!
By GW
October 15, 2006 09:40 PM | Link to this
Most points here are valid but this is still Richt’s first true test in adversity so we don’t know 1.) if he will light up the players, 2.) make coaching changes, and 3.) give up playcalling. He won’t do any of those this week or this season so all of us need to be prepared to ride out the storm. I do agree that Martinez is in way over his head. True fans will do what they are supposed to do and hang in there. We are all terrified of a return to the 90s. It’s amazing how 2 losses suddenly makes everyone forget their tailgating woes and refocus on football. What does Dooley winning “only 1 NC” have to do with the current state of affairs under Richt? On another point; have you noticed that any Georgia player that is assisted off the field by trainers is always out the next week. It’s automatic regardless of the severity or lack thereof of any injury. There will never be enough depth so we may as well accept that.
By JS
October 15, 2006 09:40 PM | Link to this
Big Bug, quite frankly, you’re an idiot. The myth of UGA talent? UGA is usually loaded, and the talent base is vast in the state of Georgia. Let me correct your dribble by giving you the facts. UGA alumni actively ranks 4th in the NFL in numbers. 4th!!! Also, why don’t you take a look at some of those SEC programs and count how many Georgia HS talent is on them. Then, get back to me. Now, Go back to your trailer and eat some spam, OK? The problem lies with UGA inept ablility to hire great coaches. Florida doesn’t seem to have a problem with that and neither should UGA.
By Drew
October 15, 2006 09:47 PM | Link to this
It’s college football….players graduate and every program has up & down times. Joe T III is obviously not the answer, but UGA will be back. Does CMR need to make some changes? Sure. But, let’s not hit the panic button. UGA, LSU, and Auburn have been the models of consistency over the last few years. One year of struggling shouldn’t cause this much panic and animosity towards a coaching staff that has raised the level of our program.
By The Big Bug
October 15, 2006 09:51 PM | Link to this
Yep, pdawg, UGA’s problem has been trying not to run the score up. You are a real specimen.
By Dawg Bite
October 15, 2006 09:58 PM | Link to this
Just an observation about Joe T….The guy telegraphs his passes everytime. As soon as the ball is snapped, he looks where he is going to throw it. Good HS QB’s don’t even do that, and yet UGA’s QB is doing that???? Unbelievable!!!! Good QB’s don’t telegrap their passes like that. Our whole team from the offense, to defense, to the special teams makes me wanna puke. And to top it all off, our kickoff coverage is terrible!! Now we have like 10 guys out…..This has to be a bad dream!
By Frustrated Dawg
October 15, 2006 10:02 PM | Link to this
Screw it…..I don’t even care anymore.
By coach
October 15, 2006 10:04 PM | Link to this
Suit up there Dawg Bite, you’re starting at quarterback again’ missississippsiii state.
By 5 Star Recruit
October 15, 2006 10:06 PM | Link to this
After reading this blog and it’s author’s constant childish whining I have come to the conclusion that UGA is NOT for me. You guys suck.
By The Big Bug
October 15, 2006 10:08 PM | Link to this
JS, You are a moron. I am am referring to the myth of current talent.You see, that is precisely the problem.You sidewalk alums persist in living in the glory year of 1980 as if it were yesterday, Your criteria for comparison is the SEC? HAH!I rest my case.Go back to your single wide and love your mother.
By JOHN
October 15, 2006 10:12 PM | Link to this
Its so funny that all us pathetic bastards write blogs directed to the coaches…cause this is where they turn for coaching advice…
What about trying to steal muschamp away from AU and bring Donnan back as the OC…his offenses could always put up points and stretch the field…
The sprint draw is useless….the defense is going full speed by the time the running back ever makes a move toward the line of scrimage…what ever happened to the toss sweep?
By JS
October 15, 2006 10:15 PM | Link to this
Big Bug, you’re a real champ. So, I guess when the BCS came out today and was stacked from top to bottom with SEC teams, that’s no proof at all about the talent of Georgia HS players huh? Take a look at Auburn for example. Go look at the roster and tell me how many Georgia players you see. You’re logic is a killer.
By The Big Bug
October 15, 2006 10:18 PM | Link to this
THE SPRINT DRAW AND RICHT FOREVER!!!!
By doodoo redo
October 15, 2006 10:24 PM | Link to this
I can’t remember a GA team that played this badly since Goff was the coach. We’re a couple of plays from 3-3 and we still have Fla, Auburn, and tech.
By Dawgammit
October 15, 2006 10:31 PM | Link to this
No more excuses please, CMR. No more “the other team was good, they could have beaten everyone they’ve played” shpeel. You’re a good coach and talented football team. We need some excitement in this program. We need to stop being anemic. These kids are not as psychologically and spiritually as strong as you so please make some final decisions soon. Make the appropriate changes soon. We trust that you will make the proper changes for the sake of the kids and the program.
By The Big Bug
October 15, 2006 10:34 PM | Link to this
JS, You are as thick as a post.The SEC thinks Auburn is the Holy Grail of the conference yet they get exposed by the Yellow Jackets as a matter of routine.I also understand mighty Vandy has about 30 GA players. UGA had better concentrate more on FL & TN.Just keep pitching that toss-sweep to Herschel in your dreams.
By kelly
October 15, 2006 10:37 PM | Link to this
Richt seems to be incapable of making a strong decision. Unfortunately. He waffles on the QB situation. I hope he doesn’t make excuses for his poor staff either. They’re really bad.
By Robert Jeffries-Class of 58
October 15, 2006 10:38 PM | Link to this
The future with Auburn, Florida, and Georgia Tech doesn’t look very bright this year. I hope no other teams from Tennessee, such as East Tennessee, Memphis, etc are scheduled this year. Luck was with the team last year in finding Scholey for one year, but why think it will continue to be lucky. The one this year isn’t much better, if any than the freshman, so why not get him ready for next year.
By Feel the Sting
October 15, 2006 10:39 PM | Link to this
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! Just in case you forgot, y’all lost to VANDERBILT! Let me repeat that… Y’all lost to VANDERBILT! Aren’t their athletes the left-overs from each recruiting period? You should be ashamed. Talent!!?! please. Bunch of overhyped mutts. Tech is going to thump that tiny sac between your legs and send you home crying. Don’t get all whiney when we tear down your goal posts in November
THWG!
By JS
October 15, 2006 10:41 PM | Link to this
Big big, I’m finished arguing with you. If you think Auburn being ranked 4th in the BCS is no good, I can’t help you. I’m not sure anyone can. Obviously you’re a little light up stairs.
By austindog
October 15, 2006 10:42 PM | Link to this
This team has no senior leadership. Coach needs to scribble them out of the lineup and see who’s going to step up next year. He’s setting a bad example sticking with the legacy QB, Richt needs to drive home the point that there are NO FREE RIDES. Production equals playing time.
(and for crying out loud Bill, resist the urge to mention your son in every post. This isn’t your family newsletter)
By Ramble on!
October 15, 2006 10:44 PM | Link to this
I hope ya’ll don’t mind after GT pounds you fleabags in your back yard, when I jump down on the field and help myself to some hedges?
By austindog
October 15, 2006 10:49 PM | Link to this
Sting,
Georgia is definitely down this year as you can see. It would be really really pathetic if the Yellow Jackets don’t beat us this year. Wouldn’t you say? We lost to Vandy. And if GT doesn’t beat us, boy, what would that say about them?
By JS
October 15, 2006 10:53 PM | Link to this
It’s funny, GT fans are always hostile. I think they’re mad because they consider UGA their main rivals, yet most UGA fans could care less about the UGA/Tech game. It’s more of a formality beating Tech down every year, not a rivalry. Florida, Auburn, and TN are rivals, not GT.
By LARRY MORRIS
October 15, 2006 10:53 PM | Link to this
I DON’T NORMALLY READ BLOGS AND THIS IS PROBABLY THE ONLY TIME I WILL WRITE IN ONE (YES THIS IS MY REAL NAME. I DON’T FEEL THE NEED TO HIDE BEHIND SOME MADE UP NAME), BUT SOMETHING TOLD ME AFTER YESTERDAY TO CHECK AND SEE IF THERE WERE ALOT OF PEOPLE JUMPING OFF THE BANDWAGON IN THE BULLDAWG NATION. I ENTERED UGA IN 1981 AND HAVE BEEN A FAN AND SEASON TICKET HOLDER EVER SINCE I GOT OUT OF SCHOOL THERE AND IT’S A SHAME THAT SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE THE “WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY” ATTITUDE WHERE THIS FOOTBALL PROGRAM IS CONCERNED. MY FOOTBALL PLAYING CAREER ENDED IN HIGH SCHOOL AS I’M SURE MOST OF YOURS DID, IF NOT SOONER BUT I AM AMAZED AT HOW MANY OF YOU CONSIDER YOURSELVES FOOTBALL EXPERTS. THESE GUYS COACHING THIS UGA TEAM OR ANY OTHER COLLEGE TEAM FOR THAT MATTER HAVE FORGOTTEN MORE THAN ANY OF US WILL EVER KNOW ABOUT COACHING OR PLAYING FOOTBALL. THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN MOST IN THE LAST 5 YEARS AND WE HAVE MARK RICHT TO THANK FOR THAT. CONSIDERING THE LACK OF EXPERIENCE AT A KEY POSITION (QB) AND A FEW OTHERS AND THE INJURIES AND SUSPENSIONS THIS TEAM HAS HAD, THIS TEAM IS FORTUNATE TO HAVE HAD THE EASY SCHEDULE AND THE RECORD THAT IT HAS NOW. THIS IS A REBUILDING YEAR AND IT HAS BEEN SINCE BEFORE THE SEASON STARTED. THERE ISN’T A BETTER HEAD COACH THAN RICHT OUT THERE. ALL OTHER PROGRAMS HAVE DOWN YEARS EVERY NOW AND THEN. WE ARE FORTUNATE THAT OURS USUALLY ARE AT LEAST WINNING SEASONS WHEN WE HAVE THEM. WE HAVE IT BETTER THAN MOST FOLKS. MOST PROGRAMS WOULD TRADE PLACES WITH US IN A SKINNY MINUTE. I’M FROM SOUTH CAROLINA. BE THANKFUL THAT WE AREN’T LIKE THAT UNIVERSITY IN COLUMBIA THAT CAN ONLY DREAM ABOUT WINNING LIKE THIS PROGRAM HAS FOR MANY YEARS AND WILL CONTINUE TO.
By Buck Cochran in the NW
October 15, 2006 10:55 PM | Link to this
I’ve been mad about the way we lost that game because Ga. should ever lose to Vandy. BUT I’M NOT THE COACH AND MR IS PAID 2 MIL. TO MAKE DECISIONS. IMO, THAT’S WHERE WE HAVE A PROBLEM, THE LACK OF DECISIONS MADE. WE HAVE JUST PLAYED OUR 7TH GAME. AND STILL DON’T HAVE A QB. i’M A MATTHEW STAFFORD GUY, BUT MR LIKES JOE T SO I GUESS HE’LL BE THE qb AND THAT WILL HURT THE TEAM. It’s up to our coach and not to any blogger like me so all I can do is cross my fingers and hope he’ll do something.
By The Big Bug
October 15, 2006 10:56 PM | Link to this
JS, I agree, you are never going to get it.Only a couple of weeks ago UGA was also in the top 10.UGA overrated,AU overrated.I rest my case…again.
By BirdDawg
October 15, 2006 10:59 PM | Link to this
I knew I was right about Joe T being a horrendous, legacy of a mistake.
I knew I was right about Coach calling the plays.
I knew I was right Willie Martinez being an incompetant buffoon.
I knew I was right about John Eason being an even more incompetant buffoon.
… I don’t want to be right anymore.
I just want Coach to finally man up and fix things.
Even that idiot down on the Flats saw that he had to stop calling the plays, and look what’s happened.
Tommy Tuberville had a team that lost 4 games one year, and went undefeated the next with the same damn team. Why? Because he manned-up, fired his incompetant coaches, and got some in there who could actually do the job.
I have asked this question many times on this board over the last month, and I’m going to ask it again.
WHY THE F’ IS MARK RICHT SO F-ING STUBBORN!!!
He’s becoming worse than the Falcons’ coaching staff. He’s actually becoming a worse playcaller than Greg Knapp!
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE!!!?
Be a man, Mark: admit your mistakes in being selfish and wanting to call the plays, in starting a legacy who should be on special teams, and for picking Willie over the more Van Gorder-like Rodney Garner. And for sticking with that idiot Eason.
Be a freaking man!
By Feel the Sting
October 15, 2006 11:02 PM | Link to this
austindog… hop on the reality train. your qb (doesn’t matter who) will be either on his back or running with his tail between his legs the entire game. Your defense will be shredded. The statement is not “if we don’t” more like “when we do” beat you this year… once you accept that you will realize that your post has no point.
THWG!
By Smoky1
October 15, 2006 11:06 PM | Link to this
I am amazed by the lack of intensity shown by this years dog team. As a Vol, I suffered the season of horror last year and the common thread I see between last years Vols and this years Dogs is a lack of fire. It looks like Tennessee got their mojo back, but we had to fire some coaches and kick some butts off the team to get there. I have always been impressed by the Bulldog pride, but I haven’t seen it at all this season. You got talent but no heart; look at the guts some of Vols showed, playing hurt, playing full speed. Georgia used to have that but I have seen it slip away this year, just like the Vols did last year. You don’t lose to Vandy unless you don’t care and I see a serious lack of pride on this Georgia team. Old Phat Phil suprised me by fixin’ the wagon, doe CMR have the same humility to do the same ????
By Dawg-gone
October 15, 2006 11:08 PM | Link to this
As I said after last week’s loss, the worse is not yet over. We have been spoiled (and set up) by a weak non-conference schedule and lucky bounces. The Dawgs may be lucky to win 2 more based on remaining schedule. I would take the Music City or Independence if offered today. Fans are quitting on team and coaches are in trouble. Not a good time to be a Bulldog. Next year does not look much better. Better hunker down…
By austindog
October 15, 2006 11:16 PM | Link to this
Sting,
I think we’re in agreement on GT being the favorite. Like I said, if Vandy beats Georgia then certainly GT will too. It would be pretty sad if GT lost to this Georgia team. When Vandy won. This is the year you’ve been waiting for Sting, a guaranteed win for GT.
By The Big Bug
October 15, 2006 11:18 PM | Link to this
JS,It is true that GT no longer considers UGA their main rivals. Now it is FSU, VT & Miami.They merely consider UGA another creampuff along the way to the conference championship game.
By marty
October 15, 2006 11:25 PM | Link to this
You are correct Big Bug, lotta creampuffs. Looking at today’s top 25, I don’t see a team you’ve beaten.
By The Big Bug
October 15, 2006 11:44 PM | Link to this
Marty, I suspect you would have to look past the top 100 to find one you have beaten.
By Marietta Dawg
October 15, 2006 11:45 PM | Link to this
It is time that Richt stops recruting stupid players that can’t make it into college and have to go to military school. If they can’t spell their name by 11th grade, we shouldn’t recruit them. We need to quit letting players drive since they keep getting arrested for DUI or driving without a license. Richt needs to baby sit these players and make sure they go to class and don’t go out getting drunk the night before day games. We might have beaten VAndy if our players had been sober. After that brawl in the Miami game, Coker will be gone and Richt will probably leave anyway to coach another group of felons. Then we can finally get a decent offensive coordinator.
By Brent
October 15, 2006 11:51 PM | Link to this
Hey Big Bug…what do you mean by calling UGA a “cream-puff”? If by cream puff you mean a team that you’ve gone 0-5 against the last five years, then by golly UGA is a cream puff.
By Buck Cochran in the NW
October 16, 2006 12:11 AM | Link to this
Notice we’re NOT in the top 25 of the BCS poll? I’m not concerned with verbal battle’s with outsiders. MR was suppose to tell the team this afternoon who the starting QB would be. Has anyone heard? Does anyone have any idea what MR is going to do next with the team? Just asking because I don’t.
By BirdDawg
October 16, 2006 12:13 AM | Link to this
Hey Bug, on the way to the conference championship game?
I think you’ve got your teams crossed.
Because the last I checked, this is a down year for the Dawgs, a once in evry ten years, and this is, up to this point, a decent year for the Bugs, the first they’ve had without having to cheat since 1990.
Remember, you still have to play Clemson, who you’re going to lose to, and a bad as we’ve played, you can’t pencil us in for a win. Now, granted, we’ve been able to do that with you, but this is a down year.
You have to earn it on the field before you can talk crap.
But like your little gnat friends, you’ve gotten ahead of yourselves.
It’s one thing to talk smack, Bug, it’s another to talk smack like you’ve walkin’ the walk for years. Guess what, you’ve haven’t been. Beat us legally more than once every 15 years, win your conference a couple of times, and then come and talk to us.
Otherwise, 2006 just goes down as an anomaly. Georgia is down, and Tech is decent. For y’all, decent is great, but we build for true greatness here.
And as long as Willie Martinez is fired and Mark Richt hires an OC, greatness can be achieved.
While y’all will have nothing beyond this decent year for about another 10 years.
So enjoy it while it lasts.
By The Big Bug
October 16, 2006 12:15 AM | Link to this
See, Brent, There you go living in the past again.It will be at least 5 years before UGA beats GT. Now stop bothering me I am trying to watch a documentary on UGA called “Squidbillies”
By dogfan
October 16, 2006 12:27 AM | Link to this
we have beat TENN 4 IN A ROW, USC 5 in a row, VANDY 11 in a row, LSU 2 IN A ROW, KENTUCKY GOD KNOWS HOW MANY, FLORIDA LAST YEAR AND THOSE GT BUGS 5 IN A ROW, SO EVERYBODY JUST REALIZE this is going to happen. just look at miami, oklahoma, nebraska, florda state, lsu. all the greats have to rebuild. p.s. until GT plays in a BCS BOWL GAME,WHICH THEY HAVENT SINCE IT WAS ESTABLISHED, OR FINISHS WITH TWO OR LESS LOSSES DONT BRAG ABOUT BEATING ANYONE.
By ConyersDawg
October 16, 2006 12:42 AM | Link to this
Bill King YOU ARE SUCH A BIG WHINER! Talk about Martinez if you want but even the players say they run the same scheme that Van Gorder ran when he was here. They didn’t even get 300 yars of total offense! Of Course you didn’t say a thing about the offense being unconsistent, missed catches (Milner’s dropped TD), and the missed field goal.
QUIT WHINNING ABOUT MARTINEZ AND KEY IN ON WHY WE REALLY LOST THE GAME!
By bulldawg
October 16, 2006 12:55 AM | Link to this
Are you kidding? Dawgs rule. Can’t wait to play Fla.
By Frank Shea
October 16, 2006 12:58 AM | Link to this
I’ve been reading all these blogs and I feel the concensus is to keep MR,fire Martinez and Eason. I believe what we need is a change of attitude. We need to get aggressive with every aspect of the game. Get the ball down the field,(not these little screen passes that lose 3 yards). Blitz the p** out of the quarterback (please no more of this 4-man rush and awful zone pass defense) I liken it to a fight: you go in there passive, your a* will be on the ground bleeding, you go in there aggressive, you’ve got a fighting chance to win. MR is being passive in his decision making and we will end up on the ground bleeding.
By Frank Shea
October 16, 2006 01:07 AM | Link to this
Sorry ConyersDawg, Martinez’ defense has never showed up against a top notch team. Not only that, last week those Rocky-top SOB-s put up 51 on us.
By Jay
October 16, 2006 01:36 AM | Link to this
There are ignorant Bulldog fans and then there is “dogfan”. Look at what this moron said…
“we have beat TENN 4 IN A ROW, USC 5 in a row, VANDY 11 in a row, LSU 2 IN A ROW, KENTUCKY GOD KNOWS HOW MANY, FLORIDA LAST YEAR”
Actually youve lost to Tenn 2 out of 3 and you didnt beat Florida last year (the glorious debut of JT3). Lay off the moonshine, stay away from your tractor, and go give your sister some more lovin. Typical uga fan.
Go Vandy. Go 51. Go sissy Governors. Go Harrick.
By volfan
October 16, 2006 02:05 AM | Link to this
dog fan yes you have beat us a few times in the past couple of years but before that you hadnt beaten us since reagans fist term in office.and as for usc when did you play them last?until uga goes out and plays div 1 schools like us,fla,aub,lsu,and the rest of the sec does you will be overrated.you are a few plays from being a one win team and still have at least 2 more loses.
By thomas
October 16, 2006 02:49 AM | Link to this
what!no gayturds want to post anything now. wonder why.
By The Doggie Poet
October 16, 2006 05:46 AM | Link to this
Joe T Three Is zero for three Against Teams in the SEC!!!! And OHHHH for two Against Teams from Tennessee!!!!!
By Southside G
October 16, 2006 06:07 AM | Link to this
What does it have to take to see Willie Martinez has NO CLUE as to what he is doing?How much more does our fans have to endure? Martinez has no clue about making adjustments,calling an acurate defensive play,and it’s obvious he has no clue about teaching these boys defense,because he doesn’t know himself..Mark Richt needs to throw in more than the same 5 offensive plays he is trying to survive on.This time is in trouble for a long time until we have a defensive leader like Brian was before Martinez arrived..Hard to play defense when your coach knows nothing about it.
By Top Dawg
October 16, 2006 06:08 AM | Link to this
Do the Tech homos not have their own blog to log on to? I admit it: UGA is B-A-D this year, and we need to play with FIRE in every phase of our game, blah, blah, blah. But really, Tech has been irrelevant for so long (and still is - wait till Saturday). I couldn’t care less about them having a down year. Maybe it’s because their “down year” has lasted for almost two decades. Honestly, their fans are so pathetic that they get more jacked up watching THE University of Georgia have an off year (5-2 would still be considered a GREAT year on North Avenue) than they do having a discussion about what looms ahead for them this Saturday, or any other Saturday for that matter.
Now, on to more important matters: Why can’t UGA receivers catch the ball? You could play Matt Leinart at QB and our bunch of clown receivers and that loser Martrez Milner still could not or would not catch the ball. Our play-calling stinks and has from day one, or least from Richt’s first game against Auburn. Remember that one???? We have no defense. We have no special teams - outside of an occasional flare by Thomas Flowers. I really have never seen such an across-the-board failure of a team as a whole as what I see unfolding in Athens. This is going to get real ugly before the lights go completely out. At the risk of sounding like an ’80s Braves fan - Wait ‘till next year.
By spud
October 16, 2006 06:10 AM | Link to this
Some of you think we can make a phone call to the plains and hire will muschamp are you stupid? THINK PEOPLE Anyone with a ounce of sense knows he is not coming here it does not matter that he played football here he will be there for a while he is paid very well, he is working for the best coach in the sec. Caoch m.r. will announce today stafford will be the starter, m.r. will wait until the end of the season to make coaching changes callaway eason and martinez will be gone. I dont think he will hire an o.c. he is to hardheaded. we will have one more year of rebuilding, one more thing these injuries are going to hust more than people realize, its going to be tough dawgfans, this is wher we as fans need to support this team more than ever. The people who booed at sat game you need to stay home FOREVER, YOU ARE DISGRACEFUL.
By swifty
October 16, 2006 06:13 AM | Link to this
But at least Joe T is 1-0 vs. Division 1-aa schools!
By Buck Cochran in the NW
October 16, 2006 06:32 AM | Link to this
Conyers, why do you think we lost? my opinion? “O”!! If we score, when we had the chances, we win. Start and support Stafford and go for it on some of those 4th down and goal.
By Mike
October 16, 2006 07:06 AM | Link to this
You can call it a down year or rebuilding or what ever you want. The fact is,Georgia almost got beat by Colorado and Ole Miss, then a b*** slapped by the Vols, and out played and coached by Vandy. VANDY, the consistantly worst team in the SEC year in and year out. Georgia has big big problems. If a coack can’t prepare his team to play Vandy then there is no way he can be considered a great coach as UGA fans claimed up until a few weeks ago. This team and there coaches sux. Can’t wait until Nov. 11. Make it three years in a row!!!!!!!!!!! WAR EAGLE!!!!!
By dap
October 16, 2006 07:32 AM | Link to this
We need an offensive coordinator and a defensive coordinator.
The coaching staff at UGA is terrible right now.
By Captive in TN
October 16, 2006 07:39 AM | Link to this
Hey Mike (from Auburn), did you graduate from there? If you did, you need to ask for a refund from the English/Grammar department because they failed you miserably. Check your spelling and grammar before you post on an internet site. By the way, though, the comments are true.
By gomdawg
October 16, 2006 08:09 AM | Link to this
5 Star Recruit, Please make your mind up on whats best for you HOPE YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND IF YOU SEE MOST OF THE ONES THAT RIGHT IN DONT EVEN KNOW FOOTBALL OR HAVE PLAYED FOOTBALL BECAUSE IF THEY WHERE THEY WOULD HAVE SEEN YOUR STATEMENT THIS IS NOT REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GEORGIA FOOTBALL FANS JUST PEOPLE THAT DON’T HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO DO . pLEASE MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU IN OUR PROGRAM. CMR IS A GREAT COACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Nikki
October 16, 2006 08:10 AM | Link to this
All of us dawgs had a bad feeling going in to that game, esp. with the loss the previous week to Tenn. Even the announcers noticed something was a different in the air of the crowd at the start of the game. The defense is awful. The DC needs to be changed. Stafford needs to be starting at this point. I just hope Richt and company are bringing in a nationally-ranked WR for next season. Stafford needs someone who will step up and make a play.Obviously, this current batch of WR is not the answer. (Note to UGA WRs. Stop watching the falcons’ WRs. You are emulating them to the letter. That’s not a good thing.)That story was nice about the South Carolina kid who is coming in 2008. Still, we need someone coming next season as well as 2 years from now.
By 82DAWG
October 16, 2006 08:11 AM | Link to this
Now that this season is over, its time to sit the underachieving upperclassmen and let the young, talented players get experience. Players like Dewberry, PMiller, Byrd, Stafford, Weston, etc should all be in there.
Apparently the problem with special teams and QB can be solved in one move. Put Tereshinski back on the punting team. Since he has been moved to QB, both positions have suffered. The only way he should be QBing the rest of the season is on Play Station. We MAY lose with Stafford and Cox learning, but we WILL certainly lose every game left with Tereshinski at QB.
By ron
October 16, 2006 08:27 AM | Link to this
the rebuilding mode should have begun after the bowl game.it was obvious with joe t.being the only alternative,the mindset was to go with the freshman or the red shirt freshman from last season.the sad part is richt has no more idea of whose starting the next game as the dawgs fans do.with heat on the miami hurricane staff & especially after the brawl they were involved in over the weekend mr.richt may have the hurricanes on his mind.it’s really sad to see a coach on the sidelines with no emotion.
By Top Dawg
October 16, 2006 08:29 AM | Link to this
Hey Mike the War Eagle idiot: Lern tu spail.
By Peter North
October 16, 2006 08:33 AM | Link to this
Volfan, I think USC means South Carolina, not Southern California.
Hey Big Bug, you consider UGA a cream puff game while on your way to a conference champ???? You have to be joking! When was the last time that Tech has won the ACC in football? Somehow the stars have aligned, the Earth has tilted a certain way and we have had an overabundance of blue moons because that is the only way that Tech could have a better f’ball team than UGA. My insect friend, if any of the two teams considers the other a “cream puff” game then it would be UGA considering Tech a “cream puff” game. You’re just another typical Tech fan jumping on the bandwagon against GA because we are struggling this year. See if the roles were reversed, which they usually are, GA wouldn’t be really talking smack to you guys because we’re used to beating you every year. Tech is like it’s mascot….just a pesky bug that can be bothersome every so often. I DO know that if my team had been beaten by its interstate rival 5 years in a row, I would keep my mouth shut until they proved otherwise. Like I said, you’re a typical dumb Tech fan that still talks smack after taking a beating for 5 straight years.
Here’s some advice for you little Techie…go get laid, have a shot of liquor and keep off GA blogs until your team actually beats us.
By dawginduluth
October 16, 2006 08:37 AM | Link to this
Let the coaching staff rebuilding begin.
By JeffyG69
October 16, 2006 08:42 AM | Link to this
THROW the ball to Durham. Throw THE ball to Durham. Throw the BALL to Durham. Throw the ball TO Durham. Throw the ball to DURHAM. Until we at least try this for one game, I won’t be quiet about it.
By Lowcountry Dawg
October 16, 2006 08:43 AM | Link to this
1st Move- Sit JTIII- The last series he was in on 3rd down he attempted to throw a 10 yard out. The play broken up due to his lack of arm strength or inability to look off coverage. What I also noticed was Saturday night Auburns Tuberville doing something that MR should have. Gone for it on 4th down. GA had the ball in the 4th qt againsty VANDY on the 3-4 yard line and deceided to kick. This is VANDY we are talking about, line up and impose your will on them. Auburn did to Florida what we would not try to do against VANDY—big problem guys. Also, Thomas Brown, if he is not hurt bad(I have not heard) has to have his role expanded. Thomas needs to have a role much like Reggie Bush did for USC. I am not saying he is as talented, but he has great hands, very explosive, and powerful. Also with Lumpkin in the backfield you have the end around threats to him. Mark, think outside of the box! And last- This has got to be the last year Mark Richt calls plays. It makes me wonder how he was the offense co-ordinator at FSU, but BIG NOTE HERE- DO NOT LET BOBBY BOWDEN TALK YOU INTO TAKING JEFF OFF HIS HANDS. Richt needs to have a better feel for what the overall game plan is being accomplished, and with him focusing so much energy on offense he has let Martinez tarnish what Vangorder had built.
Its at a critical mass folks and CMR has to step back. Before we ascend to that Naational Title CMR has to more of the General Manager of this program overseeing operations on both offense and defense equally rather than being a poor mans Hal Mumme on offense.
By WHERE IS BuLLdawg????
October 16, 2006 08:44 AM | Link to this
where are u BuLLdawg????
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Spin me some stats!!!! Wooooooooooooooo!!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHHA
BuLLdawg….BuLLdawg….. HAHAHAHAHAH
By dawgfacedboy
October 16, 2006 08:50 AM | Link to this
MR is right about one thing. If he “gives up” on this season he’s not sending a very good message to his players. My question is if you bench Joe T (an unproven, less talent, 0-3 against Div 1 opponents) and play with Stafford/Cox, why is that rebuilding? They certainly have not played any worse. We won the games they played and in regardless of the caliber team. Some changes def. need to be made though. This is one armchair coach’s opinion.
By Lowcountry Dawg
October 16, 2006 08:51 AM | Link to this
Hey Volfan Regans first term?
Actually it was his second term…1988. That was the year you had Reggie “Cocaine” Cobb and Chucky “I just blew out my knee” Webb. Also the highlight of watching that game on ESPN was the camera man catching Johnny Majors picking his nose and eating his booger. True story!
By jackets fan
October 16, 2006 08:52 AM | Link to this
I’m sure I’ll get ripped for saying so, but I have to ask, where are the playmakers on this UGA team? I mean, there is nobody who can take over a game like there has been in the past. So many UGA fans loved to point to the RB’s and say they had 3 great backs. I think that old axiom about QB’s applies to RB’s too. If you have 2 (or 3 in this case) starting QB’s (QB’s and RB’s in this case), then you don’t have any. Having 3 RB’s start and get significant snaps screams mediocrity to me. I take for example So. Cal from the last 3 years. They had two electric RB’s, but these guys were so good, they were on the field at the same time for most of the game. UGA’s RB’s are used in an interchangeable fashion. If they were all so talented, that would force Richt to get them all on the field simultaneously. But he never does, that is telling to me. And his inability to settle on a QB is baffling. I’ve heard all kinds of things about how good Richt is at finding and developing QB’s because of his success at FSU with Charlie Ward and Chris Weinke. Where’s the evidence? David Greene was a Jim Donnan recruit. He was a very good QB who did a lot with not much natural talent. DJ Shockley was a Richt recruit, but he was so talented (sarcasm) that he couldn’t unseat the less athletic Greene, even though he was given ample practice and real game snaps to prove his case. And in the mean time of those 5 seasons, what QB’s was Richt recruiting and developing? Joe T, Barnes and Cox, a threesome so poor that a true freshman (who is clearly not ready to start) went to the head of the depth chart on impact. Stafford has physical talent, I see what many UGA fans see in him, but he’s not ready to lead a championship team. Cox is the only one who has shown me a sparkle that he could be a David Greene type, in his comeback win over Colorado. But instead of sticking with him, he gets shuffled back to #3. That would shake my confidence in my coach were I a UGA player. As for WR, you need a program to know who the hell is in the game, they use so many and yet they all have hands of stone. I guess Reggie Brown was a pretty good WR after all. At least he doesn’t drop McNabb’s passes. There just aren’t any playmakers in Athens. As schizofrenic as Reggie Ball has been at times in his career, he is capable of making plays and taking over a game. It’s a sad state of affairs when Ball is better than 4 QB’s on UGA’s roster.
By Alex
October 16, 2006 08:53 AM | Link to this
Funny, everyone on this blog always says Tech doesn’t matter, its only about Florida, Tennessee, or Auburn. Then why are there 10 times more comments about Tech than Florida, Tennessee, and Auburn combined. Get real. It is the arrogance of the Ga fans that Tech fans hate, not the school, or the players, and certainly not the coach.
By gomdawg
October 16, 2006 08:57 AM | Link to this
Georgia can still win the SEC East beat Florida ,they are can be beat, beat Auburn they can be beat and your are there SEC Championship Game if we beat Fla. and TEnn, will lose to LSU and ARk. we do our part we get there SO DAWGS AND DAWGS FAN GET YOUR BUTTS OUT OF THE DITCHES AND WE MAKE IT . FANS DO YOUR PART OUR COACHES AND PLAYERS WILL COME BACK THE SEASON IS NOT OVER THE FAT LADY HAS NOT SUNG.POSITIVE THINGS HAPPEN AROUND POSITIVE THINGS , SO IF ALL YOU ARE GOING TO DO IS B*** THEN DO IT WHERE SOMEONE GIVES A DAMN. I BELIEVE IN OUR TEAM WIN ,LOSE OR DRAW. BUT THE FANS ,YOU DID NOT DO YOUR JOB SATURDAY EITHER SO IF YOU GOING TO B*** JUST LOOK IN THE MIRROR.
By ChampDawg
October 16, 2006 09:04 AM | Link to this
I’m sorry but 51 points given up to UT and now a LOSS AT HOME to Vandy says it all— that there’s a problem in the recruiting, the development of talent, or the coaching schemes. If this was Donnan’s or Goff’s team, we’d be caling for their heads on a platter…… but everyone is soooo in love with CMR. I’ll admit that CMR has been good for UGA but it is becoming increasingly obvious that he and his coaching staff are not up to the task. At the very least, instead of taking his players to church, CMR needs to take ‘em to the woodshed!!
By Mark
October 16, 2006 09:06 AM | Link to this
First of all, THIS Dawg team can’t “impose it’s will on anyone!”
Second, the Dawgs are resembling Tech more everyday. Chan’s critics were constantly on his a** because he would not make a decision on QB, would not hire an offensive coordinator, and was ultraconservative in his play calling. Sound familiar?? And his supporters backed him because he was successful somewhere as a coordinator, won a few big games with someone else’s recruits, and was a nice guy. Sound familiar?
Richt is not the answer. The irony is that if he had accepted this was a ‘rebuilding’ year, he could have made a decision on Stafford or Cox and rode out the season with his decision. But he couldn’t do it with Greene and Shockley, and he can’t do it with 3 QB’s. Had Stafford or Cox been the full-time QB for those first 5 games, you still would have won them and you would have been all set to take on Tennessee. As it is, you barely won those five and were in no position to take on Tennessee. And now the hard part of the season starts.
MR is indecisive, over-extended, and incapable of pulling this falling program out of the fire. If he turns over his offense to someone - like Chan finally did - maybe there is hope. Otherwise, the Dawg Nation is in for a long hard road with this contract extension.
By phipps
October 16, 2006 09:06 AM | Link to this
birdDawg. Alot of us on the board would like to know your coaching experience and your education level(if its over junior high-if not please do not respond), and if you respond without telling, then we will know for sure!!!! Marty. Why do you count the rankings of Ga’s opponents the day they play? I bet your mutts butt is so RED FROM VANDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By to "Buck" in NW
October 16, 2006 09:13 AM | Link to this
Your luv for “Swafford” seems…..what about your famed junkyard?
By Carlton Powell
October 16, 2006 09:20 AM | Link to this
First, most of the points made are most valid. The Bulldogs are a mess. I do not think CMR is a stupid man, and he too certainly realizes these facts as well. How he takes corrective action will tell the tale. The comparison to Tommy Tuberville is legit. Remember the mess he was in in ‘03?? It was made really REAL to him he had to make the hard decisions and changes that any good manager has to make. He did, and the results speak for themselves. Don’t get me wrong, I think one has to keep a close ey on TT, because he’s slick as an outhouse rat, and WILL cause problems for AU sooner RATHER than later. But, he DID man up and get the job done. The Bulldong faithful had better get ready for some real butt whippings, which might be a good thing. Kinda like Marine Corps Boot Camp. The entire organization from top down needs to be completely broken down to really enable the rebuilding process in earnest. Again, the comparison to Auburn is appropriate. If one remembers, at the end of the ‘03 season, Jason Campbell was a complete basket case. By the end of the ‘04 season he was actually being touted as a Heisman Trophy candidate. Cause of the change?? Al Borges. Tuberville was man enough and good enough manager to see he needed a competent OC, and went out and got one of the best. I agree that this team has no heart. For two minutes prior to the interception return for a TD Saturday, I observed the GA bench. I will gladly name names and numbers of the players who were laughing, and pointing at something near the Vandy cheerleaders. They were TOTALLY disengaged from the game. Are they part of the team, or what?? There is not shame in losing a hard fought game to a top opponent, but to be look foolish against a very modest team is not good. Bulldog fans need to get over their arrogance and woofing. We have NOTHING to be arrogant about, and never really have. We ALL need to go back to work. The coaches need to tell all players there are no secure starting jobs, and get about the business if getting the best people in the games. And by best people, I mean those that WANT to play hard and compete. The Bulldogs go to J’ville in two weeks. Don’t be surprised if the Gators hang another 50 or 60 points on them. I have no problem with that. It’s up the to entire TEAM to man up and keep that from happening. Ditto for Auburn and GA. Tech. Thought about starting a betting pool as to how many TD’s Calvin Johnson can score on the Bulldong DB’s. I figure anything less than six should be considered insufficient. But, there’s no one to blame other than the defensive scheming and playing. At this point, the Bulldog football program has lost mine and probably a lot of old time supporters respect. It is up to the entire program to dedicate themselves to earning it back.
By marty
October 16, 2006 09:25 AM | Link to this
Georgia Tech has has zero victories against the top 25. You’re claim to fame is a “close loss” to #10 ND.
This is precisely what GT fans were bellowing about UGA since the season started, so why can’t the Jacket fans look in the mirror?
By gdawginkalamazoo
October 16, 2006 09:27 AM | Link to this
To all our opponents you will not hear any smack talk from this dawg for the rest of the year. Bring it on, nothing you guys can say will hurt as bad as last Saturday. We are officially shut down from the smack talk. That is one of the rules of smack talk. Lose to Vandy and you can’t run smack on anybody, period.
By gdawginkalamazoo
October 16, 2006 09:33 AM | Link to this
Figure out who we can beat to at least become bowl eligible. I would prefer we try and make it to the Chick Fil-A bowl this year but I doubt it. 7-5 looks like the year now IF we can squeak by MSU and KY. We should have been able to beat Vandy with Venus de Milo at quarterback. Time to get Stafford that experience he needs, lets get ready for next year. Hell, break out Moreno I bet he wants to get it going since we don’t have any other running backs who want it.
By Bill Holmes
October 16, 2006 09:34 AM | Link to this
to Mike who made the slur on Will Muschamp, you are way wrong….Will was a very good,effective, overachieving, hard hitting safety that helped us win many games….he learned some defense from Bill Oliver at Auburn(when we weren’t smart enough to make a place for him), but he learned well from Oliver, then went to Valdosta State as D Coordinator, then to the guru, Saban. Will is of the Parcells, Belichick(sp?),Saban line of defensive schooling now, with the added bonus of Bill Oliver’s early training….young coaches today all would love to be on any of the Parcell’s descendant coaching staffs….which is why Kirby jumped back to Saban to get some more of that good stuff, and Kirby loves defense just like Will does…all that being said, Will is a very good coordinator already and, in my mind, is destined for greatness….but he’s at Auburn and working under another defensive guru known as Tubs…..I read in the Athens paper this am that Stafford will get the starting nod….he is a great kid with “real deal talent” and icewater in his veins….Joe T gives his all…and whomever Mark goes with will give us a chance in every game left on our schedule….Tenn has to get by LSU and Fla has to get by us….This season is by no means over…we could very well win the rest of our games, and with the right kind of support from the Dog nation, that can happen…..Mark is a super intelligent, super cool coaching genius, and he knows what he’s got to do to get us going, so let’s back off and let him do it…he’s the man and we need to let him do his thing…..just support him please.
By Real Dawg Fan
October 16, 2006 09:36 AM | Link to this
There are so many ridiculus statements in Bill Kings lead in to this blog, I feel like I am trying to communicate with someone who is totally out of touch with reality. Show me any real talent in the junior or senior classes ouside of a handful of positions. These are two classes that did not work out from an ability or leadership stand point. Bill King is clueless as to how much we attempted to blitz against Tennesee or Vandy and reminds me of today’s parent who always seems to blame the teacher for their kids lack of effort or ability. Willie Martinez is the same coach who coached Demario Minter and Tim Jennings and our LB coach is the same coach who coaches Tony Taylor to double didgit tackles every game and can’t get any consistant producton out of the rest of the group. John Fabris is the same defensive end coach that got production out of our defensive ends in the past. I don’t get blaming it on the teacher when the pupil takes a test and fails. Reality is, because of lack of experience and talent, Willie Martinez has attempted far more pressure schemes than Bryan VonGorder ever did. Our players are just not good enough to make them work.
By gdawginkalamazoo
October 16, 2006 09:41 AM | Link to this
Hey Willie Martinez,
Did you know that you can tailor a defensive game plan to stop the opposing team? I guess you watch previous game films to see what they have done then work up something to stop them, for example:
I went to see the nation’s leading rusher, Garrett Wolfe (223 yrds/gm), Northern Illinois University, play against Western Michigan University. I expected to see him rattle off a couple hundred yards rushing and a few more yards receiving. Here is a guy that had 353 yards in one game. I mean this guy had 285 yards total offense against the #1 team in the nation, Ohio State. Western effectively shut him down, he had 25 yards rushing and 31 yards receiving. When interviewed after the game he said “they had a plan for everything we threw at them.”
Imagine that Willie Martinez a game plan that is tailored to the opposing teams strenghts.
By ChampDawg
October 16, 2006 09:43 AM | Link to this
Jackets Fan said “I’ve heard all kinds of things about how good Richt is at finding and developing QB’s because of his success at FSU with Charlie Ward and Chris Weinke. Where’s the evidence? David Greene was a Jim Donnan recruit. He was a very good QB who did a lot with not much natural talent. DJ Shockley was a Richt recruit, but he was so talented (sarcasm) that he couldn’t unseat the less athletic Greene, even though he was given ample practice and real game snaps to prove his case. And in the mean time of those 5 seasons, what QB’s was Richt recruiting and developing? Joe T, Barnes and Cox, a threesome so poor that a true freshman (who is clearly not ready to start) went to the head of the depth chart on impact.
These are excellent points. CMR was recruited from FSU and touted as some sort of offensive genius. Well, in 5 years it darn sure hasn’t worked out that way. Lack of QB and RB development and now no defense. Maybe I just don’t see it, but the program looks in shambles to me. I know, some of you will point to the SEC championships, etc, yada yada yada…. that’s all in the past. An absolute butt-whipping at the hands of WV last year, lucky wins in at least 3 of the first 5 games (against lesser teams), 51 points to UT, now an embarrassing loss at home against Vandy—- doesn’t sound to me like the program is headed in the right direction. Someone once said that a fool is someone who just keeps doing the same old thing and expecting different results. So is it not a legitimate question to ask CMR— what is not working and what is being done to correct it? And the answer can’t be to just keep doing the same thing week to week.
By King Phillip
October 16, 2006 09:46 AM | Link to this
So what’s the big deal? Every 20 years the Dawgs win a few SEC titles then they go away….it’s just the normal cycle of southern football. Look at the bright side, your newborns will have something to look forward to when they arrive on campus in 2021.
By austindog
October 16, 2006 09:47 AM | Link to this
I watched Auburn/Florida on Saturday night.
Brought back fond memories of when Georgia used to have intensity.
By lawdawg
October 16, 2006 09:49 AM | Link to this
Sitting Joe T is not the answer. If anyone thinks that game was lost by either quarterback, you are blinded by your own choice for the qb. The fact of the matter is that Joe T has performed better than Stafford to this point. Not saying that Stafford doesn’t have a better arm, but he has not yet outperformed Joe T. If you disagree with me, look at their numbers. Stafford has more picks and fewer touchdowns, less yards per attempt and a lower quarterback rating by 30 points. But regardless, Richt just need to pick one guy and stick with him, whomever that may be.
By steve in virginia
October 16, 2006 09:52 AM | Link to this
“But if I had a son, sir I tell you what he’d do…”
Yes, I’m a Tech fan. But I do acknowledge that the Tech/UGA game is more important to Tech than it is to UGA. If Tech loses to Miami, Fla. St., or Va Tech… or Duke… we’ll say “That’s too bad.” But if we lose to UGA… that’s disaster! The ACC is still in the formative years of building rivalries. The SEC is not. UGA losing to FL, AU, or UT… or Vandy… sets their hair on fire! Losing to Tech is just an annoyance.
So, in the spirit of good will, every year I root for UGA to win every game… except the one against Tech!!!!
Woof, woof…
By Phil
October 16, 2006 09:57 AM | Link to this
I’m ashamed by what I’m seeing from UGA right now. The only player who I see playing hard is Tony Taylor. Everyone else looks as though they don’t give a crap. The winning field goal really pointed this out. With the game on the line, everyone on defense needed to give 110% to try and block that kick. I saw the 2 outside guys on both ends, 4 players total, that did NOTHING but stand up when the ball was snapped. They did not even attemnpt to rush the kicker. How many times have you seen a guy come around the end and lay out and block a kick? It does happen. We had 4 guys that did absolutely nothing but stand up. I replayed it 5 or 6 times to make sure. At least rush the kicker!!! You may not have blocked it, but if the kicker felt some pressure, he may have rushed it and yanked it! For crying out loud, where is the desire?? There is none, not just on this play, but every aspect of the game. It just sickens me.
By jon lanz
October 16, 2006 10:24 AM | Link to this
Willie Martinez should get a job as a manager at the local Taco Bell..YOU SUCK A$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$!!!!!!!!!!!
By endzone
October 16, 2006 10:31 AM | Link to this
Phil, that’s not true. We did not have anyone standing and doing nothing. Blocking a 30 yrd field goal is ONLY possible up the middle and only about 3/4 guys have a shot at that. The other guys have assignments. Around the corner? What? This was not a punt, it was a place kick. I would say how many times I’ve ever seen a corner come around and block a short FG as exactly never.
By Edgar
October 16, 2006 10:32 AM | Link to this
This is nothing but deja vue. Dooly’s teams were nevermore than 8 or 9 wins. Just as the rest has come to see since his retirement. Ray Goff just wasn’t a head coach. Jim Donnan was no more than a good WAC or MAC coach. Mark Richt is a good coach. As you see I said good. When they hired him they just hired another Vince Dooly. He’ll win just enough every year to keep his job but he’ll never win the National Championship on a consistant basis. Why? He’s too nice. He’ll never cheat. He’ll expect his players to do their best but he’ll also MAKE them go to class and get their grades. He’ll also expect them to behave. If they don’t he’ll send them on their way either by sending them to the NFL or just kicking them off the team. He’ll never get the top recruits that the USC’s, Notre Dame’s and Florida’s get. It’ll just never happen. He may get lucky like Dooly did and get a Hershel Walker and then he may win one. But just one. Other than that UGA will always be an also ran. That’s UGA football now and always.
By jon lanz
October 16, 2006 10:33 AM | Link to this
**Joe T is the worst QB in the SEC. HE SUCKS! DO YOU HEAR ME RICHT????????????????????????? I AM SICK OF THIS BS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By LamarTech
October 16, 2006 10:35 AM | Link to this
To Marty: You’re exactly right. Georgia Tech hasn’t beaten at top 25 team this year. And when we win the last regular season game of the year, we STILL will not have beaten a top 25 team! Quit your whining Dawgs. You have absolutely awesome talent, just a lot of injuries and some inexperience and yes, poor coaching at times. Next year with a more experienced OL Stafford will be able to stand back there for hours and pick people apart. You really didn’t believe that “we don’t rebuild, we re-load” crap did you?
By JOHNNY HEISMAN
October 16, 2006 10:45 AM | Link to this
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By Bill King
October 16, 2006 10:48 AM | Link to this
ConyersDawg, Please learn to read. I didn’t mention the offense being inconsistent or the dropped passes? Are you blind, man?
By ugagolfer
October 16, 2006 10:49 AM | Link to this
Does anyone know if the UGA v. Miss St. game will be televised this weekend? ESPN Gameplan doesn’t have it on their T.V. schedule.
By JOHNNY HEISMAN
October 16, 2006 10:49 AM | Link to this
You Georgia fans are hilarious. You act like you’ve never experienced mediocrity before, when in reality, thats exactly what your program has always been.
Ole Miss won some national championships a long time ago. So did yall. The only difference is they win 6-7 games a year with doo doo, and UGA’s history has been about winning 7-8 games with prime rib.
By Vick Bartkowski
October 16, 2006 10:58 AM | Link to this
You are a fool if you think that UGA alums and/or fans woud rather lose to Tech 5 years in a row than losing to FLA or TENN 5 games in a row. That statement is made just to upset Tech fans that are morons. If you are from this state, you know damn well that losing to Tech sucks worse than losing to anyone else, especially because you out recruit us every year.
By Brett
October 16, 2006 11:05 AM | Link to this
JoeT is clearly not the problem! At the same time, Stafford and Cox are not the answers! While JoeT is literally running over a Vandy defender for a first down, Matthew is still having trouble moving the ball enough for first downs.
It looks like some of you fans out there are finally starting to see it.
The problems that I am constantly seeing is poor play calling on both sides of the ball, but more so on defense. Our highly touted D couldn’t stop a snail on a salt bed right now. The zone coverage is still getting ripped apart and still nothing is being done about it! Absolutely sickening!
And for the love of God Bobo, will you please teach Stafford how to put some touch on the ball!?! I am so fed up with him launching a rocket 5 feet above the a receiver who is wide open 10 yards away!!! Enough is enough!!!
By vladfromvandy
October 16, 2006 11:06 AM | Link to this
oops missed by 2 points…as you recall i picked 24-20…really you have nothing to be ashamed of as we are up and coming team..we could have beaten florida there last year and beat tennessee…a missed 2 point conversion cost us the arkansas game…a team that clobbered the #4 bcs team..awbarn..in their confines….DORES RULE!!…there is a lot of parity and that helps us…only ohio state stands out so far this year!!
By JB
October 16, 2006 11:15 AM | Link to this
Damon Evans is CMR’s Boss. He is a SMART guy. If this team does not turn around the Effort and intensity ( NOT WINS) THE ASSIT. Coach’s will be changed, and it won’t be CMR’s choice. President Adams doesn’t like to lose either. TOO MUCH $$$$$$$ involved. I promise you both those guys are already getting the calls and WATCHING this situation closely ! Losing a hard fought game is one thing. Watching VANDY march down the field like FLA. with the game on the line and score with ease in another
By Ramble ON!
October 16, 2006 11:16 AM | Link to this
Even the stupid mutts (90% of the fan base), know they can’t be arrogant after getting beat by Vandy in the back yard
Hasn’t this just been a great college football season so far?
THWG
By Dawgammit
October 16, 2006 11:16 AM | Link to this
We’re just not a second half team…period. I don’t know what type of discussion goes on during the half but when UGA comes out of that tunnel for the second half, they look tired and beaten down. They don’t seem to be as motivated as the first half. This team is a tale of two halves…Dr Jekyll in one and Mr Hyde in another. There needs to be leardership on the field and no one has stepped up.
By Dsquared
October 16, 2006 11:18 AM | Link to this
Did anyone hear Neil “Hondo” Williamson in any of his post Vandy Loss broadcasts on WSB. The normally even keeled Williamson was so out of sorts following the back to back Georgia breakdowns that while attempting to defend Coach Reicht he lashed out hard on Dawg fans, and Georgia Students for voicing their displeasure during and after the game. He took exception to honest fan reaction to miserable play on the field and blamed the Dawgs poor play on students arriving late for the kickoff.
There are problems at Georgia……………..a president that thinks he is a NFL owner, a fan base that is getting more “Carolina Wine and Cheese Like” each year, and skill position players that do not get the job done on a consistent basis.
Coach Reicht is a great coach and even a better man, UGA and UGA fans are lucky to have him. I am a proud Auburn fan and Georgia resident that pulls for Georgia (except when the play Auburn or anyone else that can help Auburn) and Coach Reicht is a great representative of our State University as well as our conference.
Reicht is not perfect and he certainly would have benefited by having Coach Dooley around for a few years while he evolved into one of the top few coached on the planet. Coach Dooley would have been a great asset for Reicht in selecting staff and developing a coaching personality. Nice job Dr Adams
By Phil
October 16, 2006 11:21 AM | Link to this
EndZone, Come on over to my house, I have the game recorded on TiVo. I can replay that kick and freeze it so you can see and count the number of players just standing there, 4 in all. What was their assignment, to watch out for the fake? Come on. And how long have you been watching football? And you have never seen a guy come around the end and lay out and block a field goal?? I have even seen that happen on an extra point attempt! Maybe some other folks will jump on this, you are way out in left field man.
By Slim Fast Phil
October 16, 2006 11:22 AM | Link to this
Let me solve UGA’s problems. Actually, it’s pretty easy. Look at the 2005 UT experience and you’ll draw more parallels than a first year architecture student.
1) QB controversy - pick one and stick with them; it’s devicive to the rest of the team 2) Get a competent O Coordinator - Randy Sanders is now the QB coach at UK and UT has scored twice the number or TDs this season than in all of 2005; CMR needs to face the fact that he needs help here. 3) Team discipline - weren’t there a number of off field issues the past 9 months - did CMR send the team a strong message - probably not. 4) Expectations - all the talk of Top 10 recruiting classes since CMR’s arrival haven’t materialized for all of the above
These things I hold to be self eveident! Now, UGA you’ve got time to address some of these before the UF game. Blitz the crap out of Leak, keep 8 men in the box, have your gunner focus on Tebo when he’s in the game, and get physical.
Best of luck the rest of the season,
Slim Fast Phil
By AL
October 16, 2006 11:26 AM | Link to this
If UGA keeps this up they will turn into GT. The next thing you know they will be reducing the size of Sanford stadium to the size of Bobby Dodd. Who knows they will even fire the class act in Mark Richt and hire some washed up, many times fired “has been” like Chan Gailee. The past five years UGA is one of the best programs in the country. Their not the best however, their view is a HELL of allot bettor than about 100 other schools. Including the one in Atlanta (and always will be) So let’s see what happens and maybe make a change here and there and go with it.
By crs
October 16, 2006 11:30 AM | Link to this
The biggest problem that I have seen and continue to see is what I like to call the “X-Box” offense that MR employs. Without any consequence on xbox you can substitute players, change qbs every other play and because it is a computer feelings never get hurt and the players do not need to warm up. In real life, changing players constantly hurts feelings, fractures locker rooms and decreases productivity. Make no mistake, there are cliques in the locker room that support JT, Joe Cox and Stafford and all the constant shuffling does is reinforce these cliques. The constant changing at running back prevents anyone from getting a rhythm. I see the same thing at wr, we substitute sometimes every play. The x-box offense has finally caught up to Richt and this UGA team. A Georgia team should never lose to a Vandy team. And for the record it was gutless football to not go for it on 4th down from the 3 and put Vandy away. This season may quickly turn into a Tennesse from 2005.
By SECFan
October 16, 2006 11:30 AM | Link to this
I often say that Atlanta, Georgia has the absolute worst sports fans in the country. Its a shame UGA campus is so near. Fire this guy, revoke that scholarship, kill that guy, kidnap that guy’s sister. Um, Um, Ummhhh. Pitiful. Somebody in here actually accused CMR of not being a “man”, (like the faceless sports bloggers in here are) for not firing assistants mid season. Or giving up his offensive stlye thats worked for him throughout his career. That realistic! All great programs do that. Maybe let the season pan out and then jump him for what he didnt do? Man, jump the guy for something yet to not happen. BTW, TT never was an OC, he is a LB coach. So thats not some major change in philosophy to give up play calling that proves anything. He has tried a few OC, some good, some didn’t work out. One hired away. He just happened to make a great hire this time, and its prabably short lived. And they just plain played better in 2004. It does happen. Fulmer didnt go around firing a bunch of folks either. In fact he just went back to what worked before, and damn lucky Ol Miss had delutions of granduer. He’s not an x and Os guy. He has had some good and bad OC’s too. Stop making the comparison, it’s not the same.
Your starter looked bad and his replacement even worse. Neither had any protection or help. BTW, Wasn’t the ONLY thing MS had going for him the long ball? Do you win if he hits an absolutely wide open receiver in the 2nd Quarter? I mean even a horrible pass scores there.
Your RB drops the ball deep in his own territory. Did anyone even touch him? That guy has cost your team at least 21 points in the past 2 weeks.
Back up PK misses a 31 yarder. Are you firing the PK coach too?
TE is now 1/1 for game winning TC catches. Although he certainly could have caught that, it would have been circus, and as easily should have been an INT, if the defender turns.
Personally I think it wrong to pick on anyone of those, as its a long game and there were multiple little things that went wrong besides those.
There were many many contributing factors, and Vandy was way overdue. Have some class, UGA fans. Out of 115 teams out there, and playing in a conference thats 6/8 strong every year. If this is your reaction being down once in a while, you are really going to have re-evalute your own lil world.
By David
October 16, 2006 11:31 AM | Link to this
Vandy has a better team than Georgia. Deal with it. Look how they hung with Arkansas. Think Georgia could pull that off?
As ususal, Georgia is an average, below average team. They schedule the first 4-5 games of the season against a bunch of weak no-name teams. Then everyone ( fans AND players ) gets worked up and deluded that Georgia is going to run the table and a natl. championship. When they FINALLY actually play some real competition, they are exposed as, again, an average to below average team.
Hey, UGA, schedule some real opponents.
Kudos to Vandy for: A - putting together a good team with real, (i.e. real students who are going to school to study and graduate).
B - scheduling real opponents
C - putting together a team of real students in the spirit of intercollegiate sports that is better than Millionaire Richt’s dumb jocks.
Vandy has set an example for the rest of the SEC (and nation) to follow. AND they kicked Georgia’s A$$ in the process!
By Brad
October 16, 2006 11:36 AM | Link to this
Can we please start someone else at QB???? I don’t know if it has been pointed out but Joe T has never beat a D1 school.
By G.L.
October 16, 2006 11:47 AM | Link to this
Wanted: Overrated SEC team needs a really solid defense. Thought we had one and just needed a QB, but first things first. Serious inquires only…Please contact M.R., 24-22 Vandylized lane, Athens, Georgia.
By Real Dawg
October 16, 2006 11:55 AM | Link to this
This is for gdawginkalimazoo. Using your logic, the defensive coordinator at Ohio State must really suck.
By gdawginkalamazoo
October 16, 2006 11:59 AM | Link to this
BTW, I support Coach Richt 100%. I think he is one of the best things to hit UGA football in a long time. So far he has proven to be a man of character and integrity and has had great success so far. As he himself said he needs to look at the personnel and study who is hitting their assignments or not. Then make a change. Don’t RS a bunch of talented guys when our recruiting is going so well. Let them know that if they can be an impact player then give them an opportunity. There are plenty of other teams that have true freshmen playing and playing well.
By Lamar
October 16, 2006 12:06 PM | Link to this
I think Richt needs to hire to former bulldawgs as coaches: Hugh Nall and Will Muschamp. Look at how well Auburn’s offensive line blocks and how aggressive their defense continues to be.
By Wheaties CEO
October 16, 2006 12:12 PM | Link to this
Dear Coach Richt,
We want our money back for that promo you did. Those boxes are sitting on the shelves. No one wants them.
Thanks
By Jason O.
October 16, 2006 12:12 PM | Link to this
Bill,
Vandy tried to give the game away? I saw a Vanderbilt team that, after the INT return for a score, showed the guts to rally for the win.
Were they trying to give it away on the last 12 play, 65 yard drive? On the clutch 4th down conversion?
The rest of Vandy’s schedule had better watch out, that means FL and TN as well.
By Jeff
October 16, 2006 12:13 PM | Link to this
Where is Blake Barnes? Why hasn’t he gotten a shot?
By Davidsanidiot
October 16, 2006 12:14 PM | Link to this
David, did you realize that one of the “patsy” team UGA schedules every year to get to 6-0 is VANDY? You are truly an idiot. You post makes absolutly no sense. Thank you for dumbing down this blog.
By JBG
October 16, 2006 12:15 PM | Link to this
Get well soon, Thomas Brown. I wish you all the best and a speedy, healthy recovery. You always give 110 percent! GO DAWGS!
By JBG
October 16, 2006 12:17 PM | Link to this
Get well soon Thomas Brown! I wish you a speedy and healthy recovery. You always give 110 percent! GO DAWGS!
By crs
October 16, 2006 12:19 PM | Link to this
I said a couple years ago when BVG left for the NFL that we should take a serious look at Will Muschamp, a former dog, who was tutored by one of the best in Nick Saban. I think he has proved himself nicely at Auburn and UGA would be foolish to not make a run at him in the offseason. As much as anything, Will has a real fire and intensity which is what defense is all about. I don’t think you can ever be a great defense with a bend but don’t break nonagressive style.
By mcdwag
October 16, 2006 12:20 PM | Link to this
the team is playing w/o enthusiasm or intensity-do we have any coaches who can get in the players faces and fire them up-martinez seems like he is cut from the same bland cloth as richt-i don’t mind losing but play like it means something-there have been no noticeable improvements in any aspect of the game-that falls on the coaching staff -period.
By Original Bulldog
October 16, 2006 12:20 PM | Link to this
Wow, is’nt weird how GT fans are posting stuff on the junkyard blog. 51 to 7 where are my bugs at. This year will be no different in Athens. Everyone needs to calm down. GT does not know how to handle attendance over 45,000. Make it 5 in a row.
By crs
October 16, 2006 12:21 PM | Link to this
Blake was apparantly a real waste of a schlorship, if you can’t get in this year, you must be really bad.
By David
October 16, 2006 12:21 PM | Link to this
That “patsy” team VANDY kicked Georgia’s A$$!
By JW
October 16, 2006 12:30 PM | Link to this
All we have to do is win the rest of the games
By crs
October 16, 2006 12:30 PM | Link to this
I have said since day one this team would do well to go 8-4 and this would be the best test to date for Coach Richt and his true coaching ability. Lets be honest we were lucky to have both talent and great leadership with Greene and Shockley. I figured with a new secondary and the quarterback situation we would really struggle at times. I saw losses against UT, FL and AUB and figured we would lose one to someone we shouldn’t although I figured it would be a SC or GT most likely. With the ship taking on water, I will watch closely the last five games to see if Richt can number one, keep this team motivated and two, make changes to improve our chance of success. These last five games will say a lot about both Coach Richt and the future of UGA football.
By dawg_bsb
October 16, 2006 12:31 PM | Link to this
I don’t know if someone already had a post like this or not, but I also support Coach Richt 100%. Let’s not forget that his first season with an unstable quarterback position was followed up with a win shy of a BCS championship appearance and the best season I have ever witnessed. I want to win now as well, but Richt’s great recruiting consistently in the top 5 will pay HUGE dividends in the next few years. Go Dawgs!!!
By Matt
October 16, 2006 12:35 PM | Link to this
Well, the worst thing our guys can do now is panic or give up. I was relieved to hear Richt say that he is not interested in a rebuilding year. He is interested in winning. Richt may be a factor in our struggles but he’s also a solution. It’s obvious that this team lost track of what made us so great in years past: Fundamentals and respecting your opponent. It won’t be easy but if our guys suck it up we can still finish with a respectable record and maybe even an upset along the way. It’s time to put away the press clippings and get back to the basics. There is much to play for.
Out.
By ddorris
October 16, 2006 12:41 PM | Link to this
Nothing like an early kickoff in Athens, with the fans hung over from the night before (and in this case the week before), and a team that still hasn’t woke up. There are two reasons and only two reasons why UGA lost to Vandy saturday. 1 - for the dawgs, this game was somewhat of a going through the motions game, having come off of a depressing blow out to Tennessee, the dawgs just thought they could show up and beat poor old Vandy again. With not even a 10th of the vigor they displayed in the first half of the UT game. And 2 - When Vandy plays any of the Big Three of the East (UT, UF, and UGA) it is thier super bowl, their national championship. The chance to make a sub-fivehundred season unforgetable. They were able to do it last year in Knoxville and this year in Athens. We can only hope the Gators fall victim to the Commadors next year.
By Lowcountry Dawg
October 16, 2006 12:47 PM | Link to this
Who made the biggest play in the spring game? Who returned two punts in the first game for over 65 yards ea? Who returned a punt for a touchdown against UT?
Richt is on record as saying he may be our most explosive player offensively. Then why since having came back from his hamstring have we not tried to get the ball to him in space other than punt returns? Let him use his elusiveness and vertical speed?
HIRE A OC CMR! Johnny Majors did eat his boogers on national television against UGA in '88.By 82DAWG
October 16, 2006 12:53 PM | Link to this
Good question, where is Blake Barnes? Which makes me think about other busts.
To be a bust means that they had to be a 4 or 5 star recruit by Scout or Rivals, at least a junior, either are gone from program, never play or play only in mop up. Like Zeb McKinzey (OL), Trey Chandler (OL), Dana Graydon (LB), Corey Moon (DE), Richard Cook (DE), Marquis Elmore (DL), Brandon Sesay(DT), Josh Johnson (LB), Tavares Kearney (LB), Reshard Dudley (RB), B.J. Fields DB), Preston Pannell (DE) and Blake Barnes (QB).
Wow. That is what turns great classes into mediocre ones and what creates down years, like this one.
By Jeff
October 16, 2006 12:53 PM | Link to this
Let Blake Barnes start against MSU. He is a Mississippi kid and you have tried every other option and they haven’t worked.
Coach, you still have one bullet in the chamber, his name is Blake Barnes… use him!
By Lowcountry Dawg
October 16, 2006 12:54 PM | Link to this
To all of the UGA fan bashers this will give you an idea of why UGA a far superior team on “paper” should never lose to an inferior opponent such as Vandy. My hats off to them ,but we were poorly prepared to win the game. Sorry to add insult to injury
VANDY CLOSES THE BOOK BRAD EDWARDS, ESPN Research When Vanderbilt kicked a field goal in the final seconds to beat No. 16 Georgia, it was more than just a rare SEC road win for the Commodores. It was the end of the longest losing streak against ranked teams in the history of the AP poll, which has been around since 1936. Entering Saturday, Vanderbilt had lost 54 straight games to AP-ranked teams — a drought that began in 1992 — and had not beaten a ranked team on the road since knocking off Alabama in Mobile on Oct. 7, 1950. To top it all off, it was Vanderbilt’s first win in school history on the campus of a ranked opponent.
By 82DAWG
October 16, 2006 12:55 PM | Link to this
ddorris - It should not matter. That was VANDERBILT! There are no suitable reasons, only excuses.
By Lowcountry Dawg
October 16, 2006 12:55 PM | Link to this
To all of the UGA fan bashers this will give you an idea of why UGA a far superior team on “paper” should never lose to an inferior opponent such as Vandy. My hats off to them ,but we were poorly prepared to win the game. Sorry to add insult to injury
VANDY CLOSES THE BOOK BRAD EDWARDS, ESPN Research When Vanderbilt kicked a field goal in the final seconds to beat No. 16 Georgia, it was more than just a rare SEC road win for the Commodores. It was the end of the longest losing streak against ranked teams in the history of the AP poll, which has been around since 1936. Entering Saturday, Vanderbilt had lost 54 straight games to AP-ranked teams — a drought that began in 1992 — and had not beaten a ranked team on the road since knocking off Alabama in Mobile on Oct. 7, 1950. To top it all off, it was Vanderbilt’s first win in school history on the campus of a ranked opponent.
By Todd
October 16, 2006 01:05 PM | Link to this
As a UGA grad 1985 and former lettermen, I only add this to say I feel like I have some decent insight on the UGA football program, here are my takes.
1) everyone saw this team’s potential in the first half of the Tenn. game(including Stevie Wonder) and what Matt Stafford is capable of (at So. Carolina). I don’t totally question MR on the Joe T. deal (starting him the last 2 weeks), but is Joe T.’s physical ablities (which have been a question mark for MR, otherwise he would’ve been named the starter back in the Spring) not enough for MR not to have plan B ready to go, like inserting Stafford in to the game after the 2nd dreadful Joe T. turnover in the Tenn. game? Do you not rotate Joe T. and Stafford in the Vandy game? or minimum plan to play Stafford in the first half?
2)You have to realize we put Martinez in a bad spot in the Tenn. game, turnovers on the short side of the field and Ainge & Co. starting on our 20 yd. line. Usually on an off day against Vandy, you beat them 35(min. 30 put up) 21. It’s hard to come out emotionally on defense after Tenn. and Vandy coming in. Look at Fl last yr. against Vandy (yes Vandy had Cutler), but still Fl offense (not a jugernaut last yr. by no means) put up 40 plus and survived.
3)The 2006 Ga Bulldogs are plaqued by MR’s ablity to get tough. As much as I like him, I would like to see him get tough and show a little fire and leadership. He will not let people go in the off season (this part is scary). Callaway and Eason to me are underperforming more than anyone. How can our RB’s the last 2 yrs. put up the #’s they have ultimately tallied? It’s the offensive line play. IF I see another ball dropped, I’m going to pay Direct TV a penalty for cancelling my service midway thru the season! 4)As much as I like what MR represents, as one who grew up in Jax, Fl, he’s not tough enough to take on Fl year in, year out and minimum split with those guys. Look at the track record so far, the yr. we went in with the superior team and got the one win, David Green fumbles on the goal line! Dropped passes, missed field goals, tight coaching staff. Then again, when MR is quoted prior to going down to Jax year in year out, that Fl has some great advantage (he does realize the contract goes thru the 09 season or something like that); for crying out loud just go for it Dude! You got nothing to loose. You didn’t last yr. with a 2 game lead and your MR went down to Jax tight as a drum!
The adversity is here for real now, look in the mirror and make a change, tighten up as they say out here in the 15-25% tax bracket! Your still perceived as a young coach, suck it up and adjust. The Dawg nation loves you, however UF and Auburn coaching staffs are way out in front of yours at the moment (Auburn signs 2nd tier Fl and Ga kids for the most part and Muschamp lettered at Ga), Florida is tuff, but the rest of the SEC doesn’t have the year in, year out problems that we do with Florida. Come on MR, “tighten up”
I’m out!
By Real Dawg
October 16, 2006 01:11 PM | Link to this
GDK,
Reality is, no college football program knows whether their recruiting has gone well until their recruits are Juniors and Seniors. First, the atrition rate is about 35% and their is no way to know way to know if a 0 star recruit is going to turn in to a Tim Jennings or a Five star recruit is going to turn into a Marquis Elmore or a Brandon Miller(Below average LB). A football player at the college level is at most, 80% physical ability and the rest intangibles. Unfortunately, a player can’t perform with equal or less physical ability compared to the opposition and limited intangebles. No one tries to teach intangibles more than the Dawg coaches. Unfortunatly football instict and being a respected leader can’t be taught. A person’s inherited personality is imposible to change. Get Real.
By Vincent Dooley
October 16, 2006 01:26 PM | Link to this
Hi Dawg fans… this past weekend was a sucess with myself giving away the free “IM Georgia Towels” on the bridge and Barbara giving free makeover tips for those battered spouses or significant others at the bookstore because of our pathetic play and coaching of our football team of recent. We are so enthused to be anouncing that we will be doing it again throughout the remainder of home games . Herschel Walker will be in attendance in trying to move those Condos at 75 % off! thats right 75 % off. Herschel will be located on the Rail Road tracks behind the enclosed stadium. Damon Evans said no through Michael Adams pertaining to ticket refunds for the remainder of the season. Sorry ticket holders, but I tried! Dawg fans when we play Miss State this Saturday i want to encourage that we want Athens to be the loudest place in the nation by the 4th qtr. with the slamming of car doors. cya at the game!!!! Vince
By Dark Corner Dawg
October 16, 2006 01:34 PM | Link to this
I think some of our fans are pointing out the pathetic play calling and coaching rather than its pathetic in being a dawg fan. We have some passionate dawg fans here and they have a right and should be concerned with the recent lack of desire or effort of our student athletes. This does reflect on the coaching Staff as well. Fans do have a right to gripe and vent their displeasure.It does seem that lesser teams move the ball more efectively than our team and our Defense has a Wait and See and then react attitude which I myself cannot stand.Since MR has my support and his record is commendable his offense is very Vaniila at times and predictable. I think Dawg fans want to see more flavor and that the team needs to be more hungry. It is apparent that we have always been weak in the Red zone scoring since the begining of the MR era and to partailly back that stat up,you should recall a guy named Billy Bennet. Van Gorders defenses kept us in many of those games if you look back! Whether you have coached or put on a jock strap or not, most fans can tell if the team is playing with an attitude for winning. Even the TV game announcers point out the play calling. Downtimes are here ? Maybe,maybe not . With that being said from a fans perspective, UGA shouldnt lose to the likes of Vandy PERIOD! Not for what we pay the coaches, our faciliteis and our recruiting base and other resources. So with that being said support our team and lets hope that the coaches gets our footbball program moving back up again!!!!
By Dark Corner Dawg
October 16, 2006 01:39 PM | Link to this
Hey Real Dawg… You need to quit drinking kool aid and GET REAL… WE LOST TO VANDY NO EXCUSES PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By gt81
October 16, 2006 01:49 PM | Link to this
Welcome to our life… High expectations and a brutal reality. The truth is UGA recruits great every year and has good success. The Braves which you complin so much about have great years and WIN the division unlike UGA. They blow it in the playoffs like UGA in the Bowls and they are terrible. UGA still is awesome to you guys even when they get beat. Reality and realistic expectations please!
GT is not a better program than UGA. Chan is a terrible coach and we support. Our expectations are much more realistic. Athe end of the day the UGA program is exactly ten years behind the Tech program. You won it all 26 years ago whoopie! We won it 16 years ago whoopie however alot better than 26 years ago! Take chill pill and look in the mirror. You guys are just like us a run of the mill program for multible decades. Win something worth talking about and then you can act like you do. To all of the UGA fans upset about us on your blog get used to it we learned it from you. There is no room on our blog from all of the UGA people bashing us. Good luck the rest of the year until the last game.
By gtman
October 16, 2006 02:01 PM | Link to this
There is no way UGA should be ranked in the coaches poll.
By Jason O.
October 16, 2006 02:04 PM | Link to this
Have none of you people paid attention? Alabama was lucky to beat Vandy. Arkansas was massively lucky to beat Vandy, with some help from the officials on a clear backwards pass that was ruled an incompletion.
Don’t be suprised to see them win 4 of their last 5 and be bowl eligible. Yes, that means beating TN or FL…both games are in Nashville.
Don’t look now, Bobby Johnson is building a real program.
By Dark Corner Dawg
October 16, 2006 02:15 PM | Link to this
Hey Jason O …. You’ve been into the Kool Aid as well!!!!!!
By Shades Maloy
October 16, 2006 02:17 PM | Link to this
Exactly how should one plan to dress to go to Boise, ID to see Georgia play in the Humanitarian Bowl ?
By GTVegas
October 16, 2006 02:19 PM | Link to this
I’m not going to cast stones as I do not think it appropriate, especially on another school’s Blog. Everyone can make all the predictions about future games they want, but they don’t mean a hill of beans. That is why they play the games every Saturday. My focus is on Clemson.
I will make some observations though. I just read an article quoting CMR saying that “he was not ready to declare this a rebuilding year because that would send the wrong message to the Seniors of the team that he had given up on their Senior year.” Aren’t those the same Seniors he should be looking to to show leadership? Do they really deserve such consideration? Have they shown any leadership this year? Is that really fair to next year’s Seniors? It appears to me that the main position that would be focused on in declaring this a rebuilding season would be quarterback. Is it fair to next year’s senior class to limit the experience of the best prospect at quarterback?
Maybe he is saying this to light a fire under the current Senior class, but I would not be happy if I were a Junior. This year is obviously not the year to focus on an SEC championship, but next year could be. I really don’t get the decision between JTIII and Stafford. Neither one is light years better than the other, and playing one now would pay dividends later.
I have written it before, and I will write it again, it is in the best interest of both programs to enter into the Saturday after Thanksgiving with the best records possible.
Good Luck pups, at least until November 25. See you in Athens.
By AL
October 16, 2006 02:20 PM | Link to this
GT how many ACC conference Championships since 1990?……Thats what I thought. To compare UGA and GT in football prominence is absurd. Tech is playing well this year. If they were undefeated right now, it is a fact they would be ranked 7th at best.To national coaches, sports writers,average fans nationally GT doesn’t exist. I would put them in the same category as Louisville, TCU, etc that could go undefeated and not crack the top 5. So to compare them is stupid.
By crs
October 16, 2006 02:21 PM | Link to this
I will agree that UGA has become a very wine and cheese crowd. When your record is significantly better on the road than at home I would agree that is a real problem.
By What's Going On
October 16, 2006 02:25 PM | Link to this
My neighbor, who’s a big UGA fan, just came over and asked to borrow my dog. I don’t follow football much and was wondering if anyone on this board could think of a reason he’d want to borrow old Vince. It really seems odd especially since I haven’t seen his dog Herschel since the UT game?
By mark
October 16, 2006 02:25 PM | Link to this
I can’t believe I”m going to say this but…play Blake Barnes! The other three havn’t exactly played well (drops or not). He certainly can’t play any worse! Hell, if he went out there and threw a couple of picks, made bad decisions and saw his few good passes get dropped, he’d be doing the same thing the other 3 have been doing!
By jackets fan
October 16, 2006 02:27 PM | Link to this
I love how UGA fans crack on GT, saying they haven’t beaten any top 25 teams. Newflash: UGA hasn’t even beaten any teams that USED to be in the top 25. GT beat VT, who was #11 at the time. GT helped put them out of the top 25, much like Vandy put UGA out of the top 25. And they didn’t even need Jay Cutler to do it. Sad indeed. And then some UGA fans, arrogant by birth, ignorant by the grace of god, still have the audacity to think they will beat GT in November. LOL. What a joke. The fall is a lot quicker than the rise, my hairy friends.
To Hell With Georgia!!
By Buck Boohoo
October 16, 2006 02:30 PM | Link to this
Bobble-Head Dolls all the RAGE ???? Not any more !!!! NOW, WE are PLEASED to announce the latest CRAZE to hit the BULLDOG NATION, BOBBLE-HANDED UGA RECEIVER DOLLS….Cheaper than the price of admittance to the old ballpark, loads of fun. COMES complete WITHOUT coaching instructions….
By gt81
October 16, 2006 02:33 PM | Link to this
Actually we have as many ACC championships since 90 as UGA 2 …
By Buck Cochran in the NW
October 16, 2006 02:35 PM | Link to this
Matthew Stafford is a winner if he’s allowed to play to win. He should not have been yanked in the Colorado game. Plays should have been called to that played to his strenght’s and let him play through mistakes. MR is going to pick a QB today. If he chooses Stafford, then he will have to let the Kid play QB. Everything may not be exactly what he wants but he’s got to support him. IMO, Stafford has shown the mental toughness to play through his mistakes. with the spotlight on him and the coach going back and forth, I don’t see how he’s kept his “KOOL” so far. Coach, please quit kicking, or trying to kick, FGs on every 4th down in the red zone. Go for it and call good plays, not a TB up the middle. At some point, the “O” has to bow it’s neck and make the play. Stafford didn’t look like a true freshman Sat. and he schowed how far he’s come. Turn him loose, play to his skills and let the chips fall where they may. We’ll be a winner! Good luck on your QB decision.
By marty
October 16, 2006 02:37 PM | Link to this
GT hasn’t beaten anyone in the top 25. They’re just padding their record with cupcakes. Whoa, but stand back, they almost beat #10 ND. Isn’t that something!
GT’s best team in 7 years and that’s their signature game, a loss to ND.
By Ramble ON!
October 16, 2006 02:40 PM | Link to this
In order for UGA not to be embarrassed against GT this year, I’m going to make it easy for all of you. You need to fired Mark Richt NOW and hire Ray Gump back ASAP!
I thought you fleabags “reloaded” instead of rebuilt?
THWG
By austindog
October 16, 2006 02:40 PM | Link to this
I guess using ACC logic, Georgia has 3 SEC titles: the two we won outright and the title we “split” with LSU. Sure they beat us on the field, but why should that be any sort of tiebreaker?
The ACC title is like .com stock. Valueless.
By Jason O.
October 16, 2006 02:40 PM | Link to this
Dark Corner Dawg…re: kool aid, recall Richt’s quote that Vandy has been “knocking on the door all season, and today they knocked it in on us”??? What he means is that Shula and Houston Nutt thank their lucky stars that Vandy’s not 5-2 right now…
By ibelieveinricht
October 16, 2006 02:41 PM | Link to this
Everyone please take notice of all the bloggers names that are bashing (and ready to fire) Coach Richt & coaching staff. These will be the same guys blogging about how great he is next year and the year after, etc. (heck! they were probably saying how great the coaches were last year: ex…. as Martinez’s D did so much “better” in TO ratio last year than the BVG years). I haven’t noticed any one of these bloggers at practice to know what is really going on. And then you say we have 4,5 star players - so what?! - anyone can be a 4,5 star if they play for the right school, have the right size, and go to the right evaluation camps - those ratings mean very little. Let the man coach! He’s had great success for us, and you little spoiled idiots (who probably very few played the game) who know very little, but say blanketed solutions want to send Richt packing with one “bad” year (and we’re 5-2). As Sears from UT said about UGA players this year “they were cussing each other out, they had no leadership out there on the field and it has never been like that at UGA since I’ve been playing against them”. As a former coach, I have had successful years and I have “bad” years… and the “bad” years are when we have no leadership - you can coach all you want but you have to have leaders on the field to get the job done. Believe me, Coach Richt and Co. have the players prepared for every game like he always has…. it’s just one of those years - IT”S CALLED REBUILDING!!! and we knew it coming in this year (notice - every school goes this process periodically). Vandy was destined to win a game over a good team - look at the Michigan game they played and the Arkansas and Alabama game…. they got us on the right year. Keep supporting Richt… he is the best thing we’ve had here in a LONG time. You don’t know what is going on behind scenes with our team (they have their finger on the pulse - you’re watchign from the stands or on TV)… and QUIT making blanketed solutions - fire him, or him, or him.. SHUT UP and do something different - stand behind your team and coach when times are rough - like now…. quit acting like a … well, read your own blogs - i don’t have to spell it out for you.
By I-DOG
October 16, 2006 02:46 PM | Link to this
Big Bug:
Now that is funny! “GT considers UGA another creampuff on the way to another conference championship” Thats like a Navy fan saying that because yhey dominate Notre Dame each year it isn’t that big a rivalrly. After all, I think they won one in 1958.
There is so little reality in each word in that statement, that I can’t stop laughing!
By Losers
October 16, 2006 02:58 PM | Link to this
I thought you guys just reloaded every year and that you were beyond rebuilding. What happened? Hello, pup fans, welcome back to earth from your five year high.
By tyyosh
October 16, 2006 03:01 PM | Link to this
ibelieveinricht,
I wondered the same thing about team leadership. Based on your experience, is it simply too late for a unit or team to have strong leaders emerge after this long (in other words, once a team starts, has the ship sailed with very little that can change in that regard)? Or is there hope for this group?
By SECFan
October 16, 2006 03:02 PM | Link to this
Todd. MS did play in the first half Saturday. He missed a wide open TD pass after hitting a couple of quick out.
FYI, for anyone interested, CMR has already announced Stafford will start next. Not the glowing vote of confidence that I’m sure you hoped for. He said that MS didnt actually play “all that bad”. Warm and fuzzy it aint’t. Lesser of 2 evils.
You folks need to cut the man some slack. Its not easy to juggle the lineup and its just plain rediculous to say he hasn’t had to do that. Sticking with any one of them so far would have cost at least one more loss, and in no way guarantees any victory going forward. This has been MS job to win since the spring. Him starting has been as simple as him looking like he deserved it. And he hasn’t. The job was never held from him, he has controlled his own place in the line up from day one. Now, he may be getting closer. Surprise. This is exactly what everyone outside of the state of Georgia, and a few from inside, had predicted.
By Dark Corner Dawg
October 16, 2006 03:07 PM | Link to this
Hey Jason O …Vandy still lost to those teams in which Richt seems to be saying that they (opponents) prepare well for us. Its high time that we prepare a better game plan for the opposing team . Dawg fans want more than predictable little league offensive plays. Just go back and look at Richts red zone scoring through the years. It started when he coached against SC in his fisrt sec loss 14 - 9 and it been the same throughout his era. Thank God for Van Gorders Defense and Mr Billy Bennett.
By War Eagle
October 16, 2006 03:10 PM | Link to this
Just a comment about CMR and UGA football. All schools have ups and downs on winning and losing.Coach richt took over a program who had recruited very good won games, went to bowls and had All Americans etc. It was a good base, not great, but good. CMR came in and started winning immediately, 2 SEC titles, quality QB`s speed and etc. He recruited with the best, but fans started getting spoil with wins. here comes 2006, so-so year with NO experienced QB. UGA has lost 2 games, one being A lower bracket of the conference…Lots of good thing has happen since CMR arrived on campus. OK, what you just read about UGA, the very OPPOSITE was Coach Tuberville journey INTO AUBURN, the program was in shreds, Coach Bowdon left middle of the season with a collapse FOOTBALL. Coach Tuberville became our coach, rest is history. We were fortuante and accomplish a season is rare in SEC, unbeatwe 13-0 # 2 in the country. WE GOT SPOILED AS GEORGIA FOLKS HAVE, SO REMEMBER YOU ARE GOING TO LOSE GAMES AS ALL SEC TEAMS, BUT ODDS ARE YOUR PROGRAM AND AUBURN WILL ACHIEVE THE BEST BECAUSE OF GREAT AD, HC AND STAFFS…HAVE PATIENCE DAWGS, YOU GOING TO BE JUST FINE…GOOD LUCK THIS WEEK.
By Brett
October 16, 2006 03:11 PM | Link to this
Dawg Fans…some of you are delusional! I love my Dawgs, but it is time to face facts here. With the way the coaching has been this season, we might…MIGHT go 7-5. Expect losses from Florida, Auburn and, as much as I hate to say it, Tech! And do not be suprised if we have a hard time with or even lose to Kentucky! God help someone if we lose to MSU!
I have been saying it all year…the problem is not the players. JoeT is definitely not the problem. He has posted strong numbers in the past two games. Was everyone at the snack stand when he literally ran over a Vandy defender for a first down!?! Don’t tell me JoeT doesn’t have what it takes! Stafford and Cox are definitely not the answers, either. Neither have done that great. And no, starting Stafford will not turn things around.
We have a team that for some reason for the past two games have finished the first half rather solid, then go in to halftime to take a nap, and come back out for the second half flat! THE ENTIRE TEAM! So whose job is it to make sure the team finishes the job!?! The coaches!!!
I like Richt, but there have got to be some changes made with the staff! Either develop better play calling abilities, or revamp your staff! Martinez first comes to mind! Ahem…THE ZONE COVERAGE IS NOT WORKING!!! We have such great talent and for some reason or another we are not utilizing them effectively, just with our playing calling and coaching.
Again, NO, starting Stafford will not fix anything. Not until Bobo can teach him how to put some touch on the ball. Stafford has flat out killed drives because of his passing!
By AL
October 16, 2006 03:13 PM | Link to this
The requirement on this blog to comment about your team is. 1)Sell out home games. 2)Have more than 45,000 seats 3)Must have beaten team your commenting on within the last five years. 4)Have some real football clout. 5)Have loftier goals than to have more respect than TCU.
By Ramble ON!
October 16, 2006 03:13 PM | Link to this
I-DOG either you are Odell, or you’re smoking some of his crack.
By jackets fan
October 16, 2006 03:18 PM | Link to this
And I quote:
“By marty
October 16, 2006 02:37 PM | Link to this
GT hasn’t beaten anyone in the top 25. They’re just padding their record with cupcakes. Whoa, but stand back, they almost beat #10 ND. Isn’t that something!
GT’s best team in 7 years and that’s their signature game, a loss to ND.”
Western Kentucky, South Carolina, UAB, Colorado, Ole Miss, Tennesse and Vanderbilt. Outside of Tennessee, that is a sad group of teams. But GT is the one playing cupcakes, padding their record. The facts: Combined record of UGA’s opponents is 21-25, only 2 of those teams have winning records, and none of UGA’s wins were against top 25 teams. UGA struggled to beat South Carolina, Colorado and Ole Miss, and lost to Vandy. Combined record of GT’s opponents is 20-18, 3 of those teams with winning records and GT beat VT that was ranked when they beat them. GT had a squeaker against Maryland, but the Terps are one of the teams with a winning record but cruised in all their other wins. GT has had a bye week, but if you consider the record of their opponent this week, Clemson 6-1, the disparity between schedule strength only gets worse for UGA, as UGA faces Miss St at 2-5.
The truth is, no matter how you dawgs try to spin it, UGA sucks and is on the way down. GT is good and on the way up.
By Jake
October 16, 2006 03:24 PM | Link to this
The thing Tech fans truly hate are those people who blindly shout “Go UGA, Go Dawgs!” in support of the UGA football team only when they are winning. However, as soon as the Bulldogs lose a few games you guys disappear. By the way, there are other college sports besides football. True fans don’t just support winning football teams but they support all teams, losing or otherwise. Everyone knows that Richt is going to leave as soon as Miami or FSU opens up and then the Bulldogs are going to revert back to a mediocre team in the SEC. Don’t forget, South Carolina is on the rise with “the coach” Steve Spurrier at the helm. The Dawgs are done.
By marty
October 16, 2006 03:28 PM | Link to this
Hey Jackets Fan,
Where in your post do you refute what I wrote?
By Dark Corner Dawg
October 16, 2006 03:29 PM | Link to this
Yes, We may even lose to MSU. We still need to more wins to qualify for a bowl bid and that still not a gurantee. The mighty Hill Toppers are a division II school.
By jackets fan
October 16, 2006 03:38 PM | Link to this
marty,
Get hooked on phonics, it works wonders for folks who have reading problems.
Tech’s opponents combined record is over .500 and will get higher this weekend, UGA’s is not and will get worse this weekend. How can you accuse Tech of playing cupcakes, when they have a better combined record than UGA’s opponents? I’m sure you’ll point to Samford as a weak IAA opponent. Okay, Western Ky is the same, they cancel each other out. You’ll point to Troy as a lower tier IA opponent. Okay, UAB is the same, they cancel each other out. Tenn and ND are both 5-1, and beat our teams, they cancel each other out. UGA has no quality wins to speak of, GT beat VT. The point is, if GT has a cupcake schedule, then UGA has just the icing, not even some cake under there.
I think I’ve refuted your silly comment quite significantly.
By Ramble ON!
October 16, 2006 03:45 PM | Link to this
MARTY’s smoking some of Odells crack too.
By Dark Corner Dawg
October 16, 2006 03:46 PM | Link to this
Hey Jackets Fan…. Go drink some orange kool aid cause you gonna need it when you play Clemson this Saturday cause IM afraied these guys are for real. They dont quit and they play hard for 60 min..
By SmokeyDog
October 16, 2006 03:47 PM | Link to this
Folks, you need to look outside of the box…….
I keep hearing everyone complain about the defense. The issue is QB only. GA has a decent team. But if you will look at TN last year, NOT having a stable QB will kill a good team. TN has had Top 5-8 recruiting classes for about 6+ years. They were loaded with talent in all positions. The defense last year was one of the nation’s best. The offense, RB’s, and receivers were quality. But No QB means TROUBLE.
Here is why GA’s defense is fine. If GA’s offense can’t move the ball, the defense is constantly coming on the field with bad field position. If the offense can’t consistently sustain drives, the defense is on the field too often and for too long. ANY DEFENSE put in those circumstances will “break” late in the game. They simply get worn down. So don’t blame the Defense or the Offensive Coordinator. Until you come out of Spring Practice with a guaranteed Starter at QB, your defense will continue to suffer. TN has had a few bad years. But common to that was the fact that TN has been juggling QB’s for years. This year, WITHOUT QUESTION, Ainge was the QB. There is no battle at QB. Its HIS job regardless. He knows that and the team knows that. What is TN’s offense doing this year?
Come On, GA!!! You should know the answer to that one.
By Frank
October 16, 2006 03:51 PM | Link to this
Now I know why the Georgia state Patrol follows the coach everywhere.
By Dark Corner Dawg
October 16, 2006 03:51 PM | Link to this
Hey jackets fan … go play in your acc sand box cause tech is gonna get covered up by that big p*** cat this weekend
By SmokeyDog
October 16, 2006 03:54 PM | Link to this
Stand Proud, Marty!
I will throw out that the ACC has more strict academic standards for student athletes than the SEC. To explain that to the GA grads, assuming you graduated….. That means not all GA players would be admitted at GT. But ALL GT players would be admitted at GA.
Tried to help you Marty. But I’m sure it didn’t, since most SEC teams couldn’t care less about Academics.
By marty
October 16, 2006 03:57 PM | Link to this
Jackets Fan,
I never mentioned the Bulldogs, but you insist on it. You are COMPARING GT’s schedule to Georgia. I never said Georgia doesn’t have a weak schedule.
I merely pointed out that high flying GT has ZERO wins against the top 25. Who beat TN last year early in the season? Did they beat the #3 team in the country?
I’ll give you a break though. I know GT is new to this whole ranking business.
By Bill King
October 16, 2006 03:58 PM | Link to this
To Jason O.: By saying Vandy tried to give the game away as usual, I’m referring to two key interceptions and a shank punt. If the Dawgs had played halfway decently, those plays should have been enought to insure a UGA win. Full credit to the ‘Dores for their final drive, but if we’d scored on our last possession, a field goal wouldn’t have been enough to win it for Vandy.
By g.l.
October 16, 2006 03:58 PM | Link to this
I think the problem is…and this is coming from an unbiased person, not a Tech fan. I just know my share of UGA fans…UGA fans always have on blinders. Honestly, it’s gotten to be quite a joke from fans of other programs. You guys think I am just being a jerk, but I am being the friend that tells you, “hey, you got a booger in your nose”. Before it becomes really pathetic and it is very close to being pathetic. I’d hate to live off the difference. With that being said, UGA fans always think their team is better than it actually is and find millions of excuses on why the bulldogs squeak by teams a real national powerhouse would crush. If UGA happens to lose, “Oh no!”, here comes another million excuses. Face it, the close call to Colorado and Ole Miss should have prepared you for this loss to Vandy. Don’t get me wrong, UGA winning the SEC a couple of times in the last 5 years is great for your program. Congratulations!! But and this is a big ole BUT…Move on, this is a new year. Who cares what happened when Herschel Walker ran the ball 100 times a game. According to you guys, he is still the best running back, quarterback, defensive end, punter, offensive guard, water boy and basket weaver that UGA has ever produced. Did he part the Red Sea too? I can’t remember…My point is the past is the past and you guys are not that good this year. Face up to it and for God’s sake move on!
By Dark Corner Dawg
October 16, 2006 04:00 PM | Link to this
Hey Smokey dog you are forgetting one important piece of the puzzle - Its David (Cutliffe)sp, Offensive Coordinator. Yes even Phat Phil recogninized it.
By jackets fan
October 16, 2006 04:03 PM | Link to this
dark corner dawg,
Clemson is for real you say? You mean unlike UGA? Or is Vandy for real?
Clemson’s offense, much like UGA’s defense is overrated. I’ll tell you why. Now don’t get me wrong, they have a nice offense, but their statistics are inflated due to inferior opponents. They’ve scored 54, 52, 51, and 63 points against Florida Atlantic, North Carolina, LaTech, and Temple. Those are some of the WORST teams in college football. Now they did score 34 against BC and 27 against both FSU and Wake, and those are good teams. But none of those teams have as good a defense as GT. It will be the best game of the weekend and could be the toughest game GT plays all year, except if they get to the ACC title game, or a BCS bowl if they win the ACC.
By jason
October 16, 2006 04:03 PM | Link to this
Dark corner Dawg says UGA only needs “to” more wins. We see why he is a Dawg fan.
By jason
October 16, 2006 04:07 PM | Link to this
I love all the excuse making by Dawg fans. Jason O. is up there talking about what a strong program Vandy is. Oh how the mighty are falling.
By jason
October 16, 2006 04:11 PM | Link to this
I thought the Dawgs didn’t rebuild. I thuoght they reloaded with all of those top 5 recruiting classes!
By jackets fan
October 16, 2006 04:12 PM | Link to this
okay marty, don’t get in a tizzy. technically you are right. GT doesn’t have a win over a current top 25 team. And the way things are right now, Saturday looks like the only chance they’ll have, against Clemson. Cause UGA sure as hell aint going to be ranked again this season. LOL I know, I know, that was cruel.
By jackets fan
October 16, 2006 04:16 PM | Link to this
You know, I think Vandy’s program has really turned the corner. And Colorado, they’re 1-6, but it was a tough 1-6. And those Western KY Hilltoppers are a scrappy bunch. It’s not really all that bad for UGA.
I’m just kidding, it really is that bad.
By jason
October 16, 2006 04:17 PM | Link to this
I like Miss State’s chances this weekend
By gdawginkalamazoo
October 16, 2006 04:19 PM | Link to this
GTVegas, Thanks. I am thinking the same thing. Why aren’t these seniors stepping up and at least getting vocal. But I guess in order to get vocal you have to show something on the field and so far that hasn’t happened IMO. A far as next year I agree. IF Stafford is the guy then he needs to go ahead and get after it. I think we have shown Joe T the patience and opportunity to get the job done and that hasn’t worked out, we lost to Vandy for God’s sake.
For all you naysayers, we aren’t “on the way down”. We will hit a rough spot with the QB situation. We will be fine and back to strenght in no time. IF not this year then next year for sure. So don’t get too cocky out there. As I said last week and lived to regret it, THIS IS THE SEC AND ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN.
By jason
October 16, 2006 04:20 PM | Link to this
I’m with jackets fan . UGA is killing Techs strength of schedule.
By Dark Corner Dawg
October 16, 2006 04:24 PM | Link to this
Hey Jason O … thanks for pointing out the missing W in my blog. Im afraid its due to the fact of the missing Ws in that Win column. ..Hey Jacket Fan ..those teams are the worst in college football, but give the devil his due Clemson has been beating their brains out like there supposed to.I hate Clemson as well, but they let gave the BC game away. They also overcame the demons at Weak Floristand found a way to win.
By marty
October 16, 2006 04:27 PM | Link to this
Jackets Fan,
Saying Georgia will be unranked in the end of Nov is not being cruel, it’s being objective.
I will say that it’s going to be very interesting to see how UGA/GT plays out. Georgia has some time to get it together, not to contend in for the SEC but to get it together. Georgia has two weeks to prepare. It’s in Athens. I don’t think it’s going to be as easy as you think. Time will tell.
By Dark Corner Dawg
October 16, 2006 04:31 PM | Link to this
oops my last blog was a reponse to Jason and not Jason O . And you too Jackets Fan
By Joboo
October 16, 2006 04:32 PM | Link to this
What we have is everyone (including the players) buying into the hype of being undefeated early. With the inexperience (there is no senior leadership on this team) and unknowns of the QB position, we were never projected to be anything more than a middle of the pack SEC team. After the spring game, it was obvious that either our defense was dominant or our offense was going to provide a lot of heartburn. It turns out our defense was not very dominant. Everyone was caught up in the early winning and kept expecting everything to right itself. If you look at all the top ranked teams that remain top ranked, one thing they have going for them is experience. We graduated most of our leaders or they left for the NFL early. We are inexperienced at the linebacker, db and qb position. Our receivers are mediocre at best. We have done a great job recruiting but talent alone does not overcome experience. We might want to step away from the cliff for a second.
One issue I do have is with all the inexperience at the QB position, we were supposed to be a run dominant team. Unfortunately, MR seems to be in love with the pass. When we run, we are at least somewhat competent on the offensive side, but there’s no way we should be a pass first offense. For all the heat Willie takes, our defense keeps getting put in a hole by offensive turnovers. 3 turnovers by Joe T within the 40 yard line (2 in the red zone)that lead to TD’s and a blocked punt for a touchdown against Tennessee. A fumble inside the 25 yard line vs. Vandy that leads to a touchdown. The defense isn’t as horrible as people think. When you’re defense is built on speed, you sacrifice bulk. They wear down if on the field too long. All the offensive ineptitude has lead to our defense being on the field too long. It already appears that they’re wearing down.
By UGH! Fan
October 16, 2006 04:34 PM | Link to this
Does anyone have a paper bag?
I have been a UGA (UGH!) Fan for 40+ yrs now. About 15 yrs ago, i had a Tech Fan tell me “UGA is a 8-3 team that recruited Hershel.” At the time, i just thought he was an envious Tehie but now, it hurts to admitt it but it feels good to be honest… UGA is a 8 - 3 (8-4 now that we have a 12 game season) team that recruited Hershel.
By jason
October 16, 2006 04:35 PM | Link to this
gdawginkalamazoo,You say in the SEC anything can happen. Thats BS! In the SEC Vandy does not beat good teams. Vandy has beat one ranked team on the road since 1950, and that was Georgia last Saturday. Vandy doesn’t even beat middle of the pack teams in the SEC. UGA is most definitly on the way down. A team with top 5 recruiting classes every year should never lose to Vandy. Florida at its worst under Zook never lost to Vandy. This team is pathetic. It has nothing to do with talent. It’s the cream puff coaching staff . They obviously can’t coach up all that talent they have been recruiting. Georgia Sucks and they are going to for a while.
By Another Jacket
October 16, 2006 04:36 PM | Link to this
Marty, Tech did beat Virginia Tech when they were in the Top 25. Second, at least we have beaten the teams we are supposed to beat. I am not saying we should be a top 10 team, but we haven’t lost to Vandy either. The complaint was that UGA was ranked highly only because of past history, not what they had done this year at all. And yes, I do think it is funny that Tech moved up only a couple of places after destroying Va Tech, but moved up 5 spots after hanging on against Maryland. And now the BCS rankings have Cal ahead of Tennessee. Go figure.
By Dark Corner Dawg
October 16, 2006 04:41 PM | Link to this
Hey Jacket fan… You and Jason GOT Kool AID? Try ORANGE it just might leave a pleasant taste in your MOUTH!!!!!!
By SmokeyDog
October 16, 2006 04:42 PM | Link to this
Being honest here, IF GA can beat MS State between the shrubs(they don’t deserve to be called hedges anymore), they have a shot of entering the bottom of the Top 25. But they had better enjoy that week. It will be the last time they see the Top 25 until a few games into next season! MS State should be a win. But don’t count on it. KY could be a loss. Auburn, FL, and GT WILL be losses.
How does 7-5 sound? Probable. How does 6-6 sound? Realistic. How does 5-7 sound? Possible.
Sounds like a blue Bowl Season for UGA fans. Either the Memphis Blues or the Idaho blue field.
By Ramble ON!
October 16, 2006 04:47 PM | Link to this
JASON…I thought they “reloaded” too, gee, I wonder what happen? I think the Ole Ball Coach made mention of that too.
Was Odell at the game Saturday?
By Grlo
October 16, 2006 04:48 PM | Link to this
I agree with “Dark Corner Dawg”. Clemson is putting away the teams they are supposed to beat. Isn’t that what this post is all about? UGA not putting away the Colorados of college football. You can’t control it when a team you are scheduled to play has an off year. Most of those games are scheduled way in advance and of course, the conference games are always going to be there. The ACC is having a down year after the NFL drafted more players from the ACC then the other conferences. “The Atlantic Coast Conference had the most players drafted with 51, followed by the Big Ten (41), SEC (37), Pac-10 (32), Big 12 (29), Mountain West (12), Big East (11), Conference USA (7), Mid-American (6) and Western Athletic (5).” The ACC didn’t seem to recover very well from that draft, losing some very good players…Not Clemson or Tech’s fault. To overlook Clemson destroying these teams is a big mistake. You beat the teams you are supposed to beat and in the games with teams that are closer to your skill level, you hope for the best. I don’t think having such a powerful running attack and the ACC’s most efficient passer should be overlooked. Clemson benched the starting rb and QB after half-time in these blowouts and the second and third string guys were running all over these teams. Just beware, Tech, before you start celebrating prematurely. Clemson’s defense is also ranked higher than Tech’s. Just something to ponder…
By CHRIS
October 16, 2006 04:59 PM | Link to this
WILL MUSCHAMP WOULD LOVE TO COME BACK HOME, HE EXPRESS THAT TO SEVERAL OF US 3 WEEKS AGO. COACH RICHT PLEASE CONSIDER HIM.
By News Flash
October 16, 2006 05:00 PM | Link to this
This just in…….
The Bulldogs and the Falcons Suck.
By George P. Burdell
October 16, 2006 05:00 PM | Link to this
Trying to be an objective Tech fan, I think a lot of UGA’s problems this year are stemming from the OL, especially the running game. You guys have had a pretty unfortunate run of luck in that area losing several to career-ending injuries etc. It would be pretty tough for any program to go through that unscathed, especially considering all of the talent that left after last year. I don’t know what you have in the way of linemen for next season, but I cannot imagine there won’t be some help coming in with the way the recruiting has gone.
By L. Hull
October 16, 2006 05:09 PM | Link to this
Someone please tell Willie that the “P” defense stands for “prevent”, not “Please do”.
By jason
October 16, 2006 05:11 PM | Link to this
I’m sure Muschamp was interested when UGA was a so called top 10 team.
By GREG
October 16, 2006 05:14 PM | Link to this
DAWGS EAT VANDY LOGS!!!!!!LOL!!!!!!!LOL!!!!!!!DAWGS WILL EAT FLORIDA LOGS!!!LOL!!!!!DAWGS WILL EAT AUBURN LOGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!LOL!!!!!!LOL!!!!! DAWGS WILL KENTUCKY LOGS!!!!!!!LOL!!!!!!LOL!!!!!!! DAWGS WILL EAT YELLOW JACKET LOGS!!!!!!!!!!!!LOL!!!!!!!!LOL!!!!!!!LOL!!!!!!!!LOL!!!!!!!LOL!!!!!!!LOL!!!!!!!
By Dark Corner Dawg
October 16, 2006 05:19 PM | Link to this
Jason ….Have another glass of Kool Aid
By Peter North
October 16, 2006 05:19 PM | Link to this
Ramble On!, what is your obsession with Odell Thurman?? Are you & Odell secret lovers, and you just like seeing his name on your computer screen. I guess the ACC & your beloved Insects don’t have thugs on their teams, do they??? I guess you didn’t see the Miami-FIU game. That would be Miami of the ACC. I’ve been reading your babble ever since I got home from work (and no, I don’t have some blue collar joke of a job, so you can save your breath with that played out joke that you use in all of your blogs). Do you ever work, or do you just sit in front of your computer screen all day on the UGA blog? After you break some of the hedge off at Sanford Stadium, are you going to put it up in your dorm room at Tech next to your Star Trek poster of Leonard Nimoy? Yeah, UGA is having a rare off year in football, but that doesn’t all of the sudden mean that Tech is this dominant program. I mean, you’re a dorky math guy….so do the math! 5 straight years, and we lead the overall series. Get a life man.
By Dark Corner Dawg
October 16, 2006 05:25 PM | Link to this
Well said Saint Peter North!!!!
By Cuz
October 16, 2006 05:25 PM | Link to this
Sure we are arrogant. We are the Bulldawg Nation. We do not expect to lose to Vandy. We lost. I am over it, I never thought we would win it all but I also never thought we would lose to Vandy. Bill, I don’t even want to think about the Big Three right now. I want to go from being the Tennessee state whipping boy to the Mississippi State Champions and to do that we have to beat the alsodogs. Lets concentrate on that and then we can circle the wagons for the big three. I put it in small letters just to tick off the Jacket fans. Someone get some Raid, they are swarming all over this blog.
GT81, I got some good laughs from your post, I am sorry if I don’t take all this that seriously, probably the painkillers and the upcoming surgeries has my focus off. You are right, we have run like a pack of wild dawgs on your blog for years. Turnabout is fair play.
By what talent?
October 16, 2006 05:26 PM | Link to this
firing coaches is not the solution!
Dog fans have bought the crap that those kid rate service spew so much that you guys actually think you have good talent.
Actually you were/are just overrated.
By Ramble ON!
October 16, 2006 05:34 PM | Link to this
…me thinks we got under Peter North’s skin. Speaking of played out jokes, the Star Trek joke, now that was a good one.
By M-Dawg
October 16, 2006 05:38 PM | Link to this
Bill, Do you know why they didn’t put CMR’s after-game press conference up on G-Xtra. Was it that bad?
By Tech Guy
October 16, 2006 05:43 PM | Link to this
Tech’s rival is UGA. UGA rival is everyone. Because EVERYONE wants to beat UGA so bad. Whenever UGA loses to ANYONE… Auburn,Tech,Florida,UT,and a couple of others, we ALL cheer for joy. I hate UGA…but I am often impressed with what they can accompish. Not this year. So far this season..I have a big smile on my face….along with the rest of College Football.
By how bout them dawgs
October 16, 2006 05:56 PM | Link to this
Fact is Mark Richt is soft. This coaching staff lost its edge when VanGorder left. How the hell do you end up with the total lack of talent on both sides of the ball. Its pathetic!
We need to go after VanGorder or Muschamp and send Mark Richt packing. He will leave us anyway for the FSU job. Richt was great with Donnan’s great recruits, but he obviously can’t coach up the kids he is recruiting.
Let’s Fire Mark Richt
By Ryan Wishum
October 16, 2006 05:57 PM | Link to this
Folks Folks,
Come on now! Am I the only Dawg fan who thought this year would be a rebuilding year. Yes it is discouraging. Yes it break my heart. But we are young very young.
Everyone is focus on the QB. What about our Recievers??? I am sick and tire of see perfect thrown ball being drop. I don’t know if it is they are scared or what. The bottom line is that if our recievers caught the balls they should. Our QBs’s stats would be amazing. Or if our recievers had made the plays they should have, we would only have 2 or 3 INTs.
About CMR, come on people, do you really want to go back to the 90s of the Goff and Donnan years. * I DON’T * I would take Coach Richt over anyone else out there including the Great Pete Carroll. He probably could not even win in the ACC much less the SEC. Remember this is only Richt’s 6th year being head coach. It took Coach Bowden a good 10 to even come close to the level of sucess as Richt has enjoyed and not in the SEC. So let’s not get the axes out for Richt’s job yet.
Vandy has always always been a daqngerous team. They beat tennessee last yer and came close to beat florida. 3 games out of 5 Vandy will make it a close game. They just cannot close it out in the 4th which we failed to do. That is the chance you are playing with in the SEC.
Yes I am frustrated. Yes We have made fundamental mistakes. Yes I think the coaching staff has not done its job.
BUT
Yes I support Richt 110% Yes we can turn it around. Yes Richt and his staff and players will improve.
FINALLY!
Remember Next Year can be a very special year for the Bulldog Nation!
Remember Last Year’s Tenessess and This year’s Tennessee.
Rememer 2 SEC championships, 3 SEC East Titles. 4 Top 10 finishes. in only 4 year (excluding 2001). There are 110 othe teams who would kill for that Sucess!
Go Dawgs!
By Peter North
October 16, 2006 05:58 PM | Link to this
Ramble On!, your endless diatribes would get under anyone’s skin except for a Tech fan. Yeah, you did get under my skin a bit. Hey, Tech is having a great year, and hats off to ya! I never really pulled against Tech in the past, but after reading these blogs from Tech fans, that will probably change. Now, I’ve got to run as I am late for my flight. I have to do a shoot in the San Fernando Valley this week.
By Ramble ON!
October 16, 2006 06:07 PM | Link to this
Hey Peter, if you fleabags weren’t so arrogant obnoxious, year in and year out with all your blowhard SEC crap, then it wouldn’t be as joyous as it is getting under your skin. I mean COME ON!!!!, you lost to Vanderbilt at HOME for crying out loud!!!!!You deserve it.
You had to expect that it was coming!!!!
Who knows, perhaps the mutts will beat GT (doubt it), then I’ll be glad to come on here and eat some crow…if I don’t commit suicide.
Your right, this blog stuff is killing my work. I better sign off, unless you would like to further the debate. I’ll have to do that at home though, I’m out of here.
By vandy by 2
October 16, 2006 06:12 PM | Link to this
Dawg fans are idiots. Go ahead fire Richt. You will not need to fire him. WIth all the heat you guys are putting on him he will be leaving before you know it. You guys are making the Miami job look pretty good. I guess you inbred rednecks just don’t know any better.
By jason
October 16, 2006 06:15 PM | Link to this
“TO HELL WITH GEORGIA”
By Joey Joe Joe Shabadoo
October 16, 2006 06:22 PM | Link to this
Yeah Vandy by 2, that Miami job looks great! Gee, can I move down to Miami, and coach 75 thugs?!?! Where do I sign up for that job? You’re brilliant.
By jason
October 16, 2006 06:22 PM | Link to this
I think the line on the Miss State/UGA game is Miss State -3
By Peter North
October 16, 2006 06:28 PM | Link to this
Ramble On!, all teams have arrogant fans, so you just have to deal with it. All of the fluff girls at my job in California are USC fans. I hear nothing but, “Trojan this, and Trojan that”. No pun intended, or course. I’m outta here. Have a good evening.
By Song Writer
October 16, 2006 06:32 PM | Link to this
Jason’s a gamblin’ dork from GA Tech, and a dork of an engineer, a dork of a, dork of a, dork of a …dork of an engineer. He’s never been to Vegas, and he’s always been a queer! Jason’s a gamblin’ dork from GA Tech & a dork of an engineer! DO DO DO DO, go Gambler!!! DO DO DO, go gambler!!!!!!
By Jeb
October 16, 2006 06:36 PM | Link to this
Staffords starting, let the winning begin.
By bJohndawg
October 16, 2006 06:38 PM | Link to this
I find it amusing that all these tech fans would come on this GA blog and talk about how they are going to stomp UGA.HOW MANY YEARS IN A ROW HAS TECH LOST TO UGA? LOL…your due, and I bet Reggie ” I throw it away on 4th down” Ball will loss it for you again.
As for the dawgs, hey this year was never expected to be a national championship year, nor an SEC repeat.Could we get more from this talent. Yes. So Stafford will start as reported. get the experience he needs.As it should be. The more pressing problem is defense.That is an area that should be shining and frankly was embarassing the last two games.MR needs to evaluate every player on the team, and really evaluate every coach on his staff. look to 8-4 or 7-5 this year….and a minor Bowl. GO DAWGS and to hell with GA TECH.
By how bout them dores
October 16, 2006 06:48 PM | Link to this
Unlike UGA grads I chose my school based not on the quality of the athletic teams (obviously), but rather on the quality of the education. Beating a bunch of arrogant UGA rednecks that I have to put up with every day across Atlanta only makes me more proud of my Commodores.
Why can’t anyone on this blog or in the AJC give Vanderbilt any credit at all? They came from behind twice, with the second time being a game-winning drive late in the fourth quarter. Vandy has some real talent at several positions, including an all-SEC linebacker, some very good young DBs, an all-SEC receiver, and decent lines on both sides of the ball. Their quarterback was Mr. Alabama in football and valedictorian of his high school class. Vanderbilt was clearly the better team on Saturday, but don’t expect any UGA fans to admit it.
By Vandy by 2
October 16, 2006 06:57 PM | Link to this
Joey Joe Joe Shabadoo ,75 Thugs on the Beach is better than 75 thugs in the sticks
By jason
October 16, 2006 07:05 PM | Link to this
song writer is so clever. I have a second home in Vegas. I can afford it with my dork of an engineer salary. What do you do besides write songs? Flip burgers or ride on the back of a garbage truck?
By Buck Cochran in the NW
October 16, 2006 07:08 PM | Link to this
Vandy deserved to win and they did. MR isn’t going any place and that’s good. Yes, he needs to make some hard decisions and he’s just made one. Stafford will start. Now, is he on a short leash? If so then nothing has changed. Stay with him, make the other position changes and let’s go.
By Tommy Bow wow den
October 16, 2006 07:09 PM | Link to this
Dont Worry Dawg Fans Super Klimpson Tiger Man is here!!! We will take care of Bee Boys while they Buzz off.The score will be 48-7… bank on it at the Valley!!!!!
By Jeb
October 16, 2006 07:13 PM | Link to this
This just in from Scout.com.
“Evans has talked to both Notre Dame and Michigan about future matchups within the last two months, but both schools declined to enter into discussions.”
Looks like the mighty Irish don’t want none of the Big Dog of Georgia. They like the easy win in Atlanta. We can’t help our weak schedule if no good team wants to play us. We still need an opponent next year since we only have 11 scheduled at this time. Any takers please contact UGA with the challenge. Have Team will travel.
By dawgman
October 16, 2006 07:34 PM | Link to this
Lets think dawg fans?? I know we lost to VANDY but hell this is a rebuilding season right?? (thats wat i heard preseason from all the dawg backers) This is by far the worst loss of the Richt era.One thing we can all be thankfull though is Coach Richt. He has this program going in the right direction!! I have to say that our chance at an SEC title are gone but at least Florida, Auburn, and Tech are all in contention and we can do some serious spoiling!!!! Right now it doesnt look like it but we have a good enough team and coach to win some of these games!! What would be better than that???? So lets get behind these dawgs and win some games while we rebuild for more championships to come!!!!
GOOOOOOO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By PhatPhil
October 16, 2006 07:45 PM | Link to this
hey “dawgoneit”…stop with the multi-repeat of fire Richt. Its really really old now..you bozo!
By Dawgammit
October 16, 2006 07:47 PM | Link to this
Look guys, we’re not mathematically out of the race for an SEC title. Heck, anything can happen from now until the end of the season. Sure, by the looks of how we’ve been playing, I can understand how you all may throw in the towel. The schedule is not in our favor but don’t rule the dogs out just yet. BTW: Stafford will be our starter the rest of the season.
By coach
October 16, 2006 07:50 PM | Link to this
Tennessee Tech challenges uga to a game of football, winner takes all.
By Techie
October 16, 2006 07:53 PM | Link to this
Vandy’s got our love and respect, Best Regards, Buzz the Bee
By Leonard P. Loser Esquire
October 16, 2006 07:59 PM | Link to this
Miss. State vs Georgia… The Red Clay Hounds of the Sanford Kennel Club will welcome the pups from Starkville and in hopes to avoid 3 lowly Dawg Daze in a row between the bushes. This one aint gonna be an easy one as it may seem. This wii be a real dogfight and a host of these cainines will be limping throughout the shrubbery bushes.Mark Richochet will soon find out that the pups from Starkville have bark and bite. Leonards Loser in a close one Misss. State … Ga. Tech VS Clemson …. The Fiesty Felines of the Orange Pickins County Fairgrounds will be running down the Hill to welcome Bumbling Bees from the North Ave. Trade School. Those bees need to watch where they step in the cow pasture and better not stomp on that kitty paw. Rumor has it that Tommy boy didnt call Pa Pa Bowden for advise and that the Fiesty Felines will be decked out in all Purple. Thus being Purple Bee Eaters. Leonards Loser in a run away Ga. Tech
By Techie
October 16, 2006 08:03 PM | Link to this
By Techie October 14, 2006 07:14 PM | Link to this Help, Help Mister Bill King, Sonny’s purty pink panties have been found between the hedges, torn, and with ugly brown stains on the back! Oh, we fear the worst, another ravagin’ by a mutant hillbilly, just like last weekend! Oh, we warned the gov, told him not to go out, as them savages was about, but sonny had this gleam in his eye, put on only his purty pink panties, again, just like last weekend. Help us, obi wan, cause we fear sonny boy is going homo, again.
By War Eagle
October 16, 2006 08:15 PM | Link to this
I will probably draw a big laugh from this comment, but its true. If Coach Bobby Dodd, legendary coach at Georgia Tech was coaching in the SEC today, he would beat most Teams to the ground. He was a ball control, defensive icon and special team coach who would win big today.Blocking and tackling would be primary to passing and player disruption. I am a true Auburn man, but have alot of resperct not only Coach Dodd, but Coach Bryant of Bammer as well, who prevail in the same objectives.
By Dr. Dawgpound
October 16, 2006 08:18 PM | Link to this
This team makes me want to lick my own a##!!!! Get your heads up and start playing dawgs!!!
By jason
October 16, 2006 08:26 PM | Link to this
well said WAR EAGLE!
By Buck Cochran in the NW
October 16, 2006 08:38 PM | Link to this
I just love these people who say that MS can’t pass or that he throws to hard! What a joke! Problem has been that out of the box MR hasn’t wanted to play a real freshman. Then when he played him he didn’t support him and we had a game of musical chairs. Here’s a what if: what if MR had left Stafford in and we had lost the Colorado game? Then had stayed with him and coached him up to be a QB. we’ll never know but I know tjis, I’d much rather lose to the Buffs and let MS play through his mistakes than not and lose to Vandy. Yes, if MS is NOT on a shotrt leash, we’ll be a winner. All you “Bugs” just keep on. I go right by your posts anyway but be there at the end because Stafford will lead the Dawgs to a win over you. My prediction is in print, remember it and weep, if MR plays with Stafford as the MAN!
By SmokeyDog
October 16, 2006 08:48 PM | Link to this
To: Dawggoneit
Hey Aswipe…. Get the fk out of here. To bad you don’t play for the dawgs. MS State would love to take a cheap shot at your Pusy As. Hll, I’m a Vol Fan and you are beginning to Pis me off. Did you learn how to repeat stuff in your Junior or Senior year of college. When you were 12, your parents were probably proud when you finally learned how to wipe your As!
By War Eagle
October 16, 2006 08:57 PM | Link to this
Jeb, Big Ten, Notre Dame, and most mid-west teams are not interesting in SEC non=conference games. Evans was wasting his time and I would like to know where scount.com got their source. Pac 10 is the only conference who will play SEC schools. Washington State, SC, Arizona, Arizona State have played Auburn, Ark. LSU. BCS has turned off major schools and forced “easy schedules”
By ojoij;poi
October 16, 2006 08:59 PM | Link to this
Is the Georgia game this weekend not going to be on t.v. anywhere?
By iojokm
October 16, 2006 09:01 PM | Link to this
Is the game going to be on tv anywhere this weekend?
By SmokeyDog
October 16, 2006 09:06 PM | Link to this
Will the GA game be on TV?!?!?!?!
WaaHahahahahaha!!! WAAAAAAhahahahahahahaha!!! Waaaaaahahahahahahahahah!!!!
That’s sooooooo freakin’ FUNNY !!!!!!
By Love Dogs
October 16, 2006 09:11 PM | Link to this
NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS……WE LOVE MARK RICHT………….WE LOVE MARK RICHT…… WE ALL LOVE MARK RICHT………….
By BigDawg
October 16, 2006 09:17 PM | Link to this
I really don’t care what anyone thinks. The Dawgs always have one of the top 3 recruiting classes in the country- and they appear to have the same top 3 classes coming in for the 2007 and 2008 seasons. The important thing is to win the recruiting wars. Don’t worry so much about wins and losses. That will take care of itself. I bet Vandy hasn’t been in the top 100 recruiting classes for the last 10 years!
By vaughn
October 16, 2006 09:24 PM | Link to this
Dawgoneit, get a job. anyone that has enough time on their hands to type “fire mark richt” that many times, needs something else to do. all you guys complaining about our team aren’t really fans. you probably never contributed a dime to the university or purchase season tickets,and i am sure you didn’t graduate from uga. you small minority are making the rest of the bulldawg nation look silly through this media. fans from other schools are laughing at us thinking the whole bulldawg nation is a fairweathered fan. none of you had the guts to call the call in show tonight and identify yourselves to the public and to cmr and tell him to his face that he is not doing a good job and needs to be fired. the fans i heard call in tonight were true bulldawg fans that supported our team and coaches. i think we were overrated in the preseason. We have a very young team, and they are going through the growing pains of learning college football in the most competitive league. go dawgs.
By SmokeyDog
October 16, 2006 09:27 PM | Link to this
BigDawg…..
You are correct. Vandy never gets anywhere close to a good recruiting class.
The reason….. kids who go to school at Vandy actually go there to learn something! Many GA grads would not have been accepted at Vandy. So before you blast their recruiting classes, realize they have higher standards at Vandy than at Athens Redneck University.
By Jeb
October 16, 2006 09:38 PM | Link to this
Dear Matt Stafford,
52 points should ensure a win this week. Sling that pumpkin downfield.
Thanks,
Jeb
By BubbaDawg
October 16, 2006 09:40 PM | Link to this
BigDawg you are frkg stepid and a desgrase to the dogfathful. The problem is that we haven’t had the best recrutng class in 3 years. best 3 is for loosers. we have to be #*1.Besdes Vandebelt ded have a top 75 class in 1998 or 1999,
By Jeb
October 16, 2006 09:43 PM | Link to this
Hey War Eagle,
N.D. takes on Tech every once in a while. Why not an SEC team? Oregon State backed out of a three year deal with us so now we have a spot to fill. I believe the article also said that you guys have an empty spot next year to fill also. Tough to find a good team at the last second. By the way, Good game last Saturday.
By Carolina Dog
October 16, 2006 09:50 PM | Link to this
BigDawg- The problem is Jan Kemp. We can’t recruit like we could in the past. It is hard to get the best recruits to have the best recruiting class and get them to pass the entrance exams at UGA these days. I know that the requirements are still less than some schools but you just can’t compete in the SEC with good students. UGA has plenty of easy degrees and courses, but we can’t get them into school- many of them go to community colleges, etc. but never get their grades up. We need to find a way to somenow get them into school. I don’t know how Vandy even competes. We are obviously 10 times more talented.
Go Dogs!!!!
By Techie
October 16, 2006 09:50 PM | Link to this
Yes, the Georgia game will be on tv this weekend: Live coverage on Comedy Channel, unless it is pre-empted by a re-run of South Park.
By Song Writer
October 16, 2006 09:53 PM | Link to this
Hey Jason, sure you have a second home in Vegas….We all believe you, honest. You couldn’t get laid in a whorehouse with a chloroform soaked rag you geek.
Regards,
The Song Writer
By Joey Joe Joe Shabadoo
October 16, 2006 10:00 PM | Link to this
Hey Techie, that is the funniest joke that I have heard in years. How did you ever come up with that one??? Actually the game will be on TV if the viewer has ESPN Gameplan, which I have.
By Jeb
October 16, 2006 10:01 PM | Link to this
I can compare the Dogs to the Arizona Cardinals. The proven rookie, Matt Leinart, sat on the bench while his team went 1 and 4 with the Veteran QB. He then gets his start against the undefeated Bears and has his team up 17 zip in the 2nd Quarter. Finally our proven rookie, Stafford, will get his start. This time it is not due to injury and I do not think we will be looking back from this point on. He’s the one who will bring the leadership and the victorys. Thank you Coach for coming to your senses. Go Dawgs.
By Palmetto State Dawg
October 16, 2006 10:08 PM | Link to this
Dear fellow GA fans: I just listened to the Mark Richt call-in show as I do every Monday night. I’m sure that some of you listen to this show or have listened to this show. After listening to CMR I feel a little better about our team. He did point out something that some of us might have fogotten. He & his staff have won more games than any other SEC team in the past 5 years, AND more SEC titles, AND have played for more titles. Now, keep in mind that he was not bragging, but he did say this. I think we’re young across the board, and I feel good about our future.
You know, we’ve got soldiers dying over in Iraq & we act like college football is life & death. I’m going to try & stay positive & support my Dawgs!!!
By Ramble on!
October 16, 2006 10:18 PM | Link to this
bigdawgyou have to be the dumbest dawg of them all!!!
What the hell is your point? Vandy has never come close to the fleabags in recruiting…AND THEY JUST WAXED YOU IN YOUR BACKYARD, BROTHER!!!!!
bigdumbdog you should have beaten Vandy with your third string.
Hey guess what? We’re getting the same recruits now! After this year, we might take a few of yours.
Songwriter wishes he was Dennis Miller, problem is, you’re a stupid redneck.
By Sean
October 16, 2006 10:21 PM | Link to this
Well i cant speak for other Tech fans but i still consider UGA our biggest rival, sad many dawg fans dont see it that way too and as far as this saturday is concerned Tech will take care of business in death valley i think a couple of TD passes to CJ should do the trick just like it did in Blacksburg. To the dawg fan who was talking about your recievers yeah they are horrible secretly i bet every dawg wishes CJ played for them, your QBs are horrible too, i mean Reggie Ball has been playing better than Joe T, Stafford or Cox combined. Not to mention that secondary of yours is terrible i can only imagine what CJ will do to it, looking forward to the rumble between the hedges when Tech comes out on top
By Sean
October 16, 2006 10:29 PM | Link to this
If Stafford is QB for GT game, Tenuta and that defense will be licking their chops and coming after stafford UGA may have to play all 3 QBs in that game. GT is gonna put a hurtin on whoever is back there under center
By Murph
October 16, 2006 11:09 PM | Link to this
To “Big Bug” (or whatever) and the guy who can’t spell “conjugate” and all of the other arrogant Tech fans who are enjoying their fifteen minutes:
You’d better beat on us while we’re down, because it won’t last.
The fool who says Georgia won’t beat Tech for five years is suffering from delusions so intense that he needs to be held down and given a shot of Haldol (that’s an antipsychotic, for those of you too self-absorbed to learn about anything that does not have an integrated circuit).
Georgia has the most profitable athletic department in the NCAA. That’s right,in ALL of collegiate athletics. So don’t think that these problems are going to go unrectified over the next twelve months. Tech will field a good team or two once a decade or so, but anyone who thinks that the Jackets can maintain any sort of winning consistency over time is doomed to a life of perpetual diappointment, punctuated by sporadic flights of seasonal ecstasy. This is one such flight. Breathe deep. It’ll be over in the blink of an eye (or the turn of a page on the calendar). What’s the overall Tech record against Georgia? Georgia leads, 57-36-5. What’s been the record over the last 30 years? How about Georgia, 22-8? The data don’t lie. This season is an aberration, not a trend.
As to the alleged “myth” of Georgia football, you’ve been smoking too much of Reuben Houstons’ stash if you truly believe that. This is a a down season, admittedly, for the Dawgs. But they will still go to a bowl game, and have a shot at winning nine games this season for the ninth season out of the past fifteen. How many times has Tech done that during the last fifteen years? Yeah. Thought so. Even eight wins this season will mean Richt has won 61 games in six years as head coach in the toughest football league in the country. Many teams (most, in fact) would sell various body parts for such a record.
All that being said, Tech will probably beat Georgia this season. I’ll concede that point. They are the better team this year. But be careful when you make unsubstantiated statements. Some Georgia graduate who is smarter than you (and there are many of us) will just make you look stupid again. It’s true that “it ain’t braggin’ if you can back it up.” But you can’t.
By Pic
October 16, 2006 11:43 PM | Link to this
Murph- you have a real complex about being stupid. Don’t let 2 butt kickings in a row bring out your insecurities.
By gtfan
October 17, 2006 12:18 AM | Link to this
I’m a GT alumni, My father is a UGA alumni. I watch’em all.
Replacing Tereshinski with Stafford is a mistake. Richt is trying to make ammends for the loss with the QB and that is not the reason for the failure.
Stafford hasn’t been asked to throw the ball’s that Tereshinski has been. Your Offense is young & dumb, that’s it.
It’s a down year, get over it. Yes, some bad coaching but not a QB fault. IMHO, I thought Tereshinski played pretty good.
It’s just going to hurt worse now!
By SmokeyDog
October 17, 2006 12:30 AM | Link to this
Yo, GA boys…. MS State won’t bother tearing down your goal posts. But they will trash your “bushes”.
The REAL Bulldogs will win this weekend!
By gtfan
October 17, 2006 12:31 AM | Link to this
Fairweather fan award goes to: Dawggoneit
I’m not even a UGA fan but you should be crucified. Maybe you should apply to be a Moore or Bradley assistant. You’re about as bandwagon jockey as they are.
Richt has made some bad calls but face it. If y’alls kicker make the field goal, we wouldn’t even be having this discussion.
It’s one game at a time, concentrate on the next one.
Auburn beating Florida gives y’all a chance, although you have to beat both, you still have a chance. All y’all still count’n yourselves out. That’s what’s going to happen with that support.
At least at Tech we upset teams. Y’all just get upset you lost. Find some faith and give your support and you may be surprised.
Shiot, I grew up in a UGA household, went to Tech, but we beat Auburn as underdogs, twice in the last 2 years, why can’t y’all…. B/C y’all have already accepted it, I doubt Richt has. Richt beats both and y’all would be calling him a genius, so hold your comments until the season is over.
By Chris
October 17, 2006 12:58 AM | Link to this
“When Joe T. heard the news, he was disappointed,” Richt said, “but after a couple of minutes, he asked (quarterbacks coach Mike) Bobo, ‘Is there someplace else I can play to help us win? Is there anything I can do for the team?’ That was pretty inspiring.”
Gotta love that attitude from Joe T.
By da coach
October 17, 2006 02:13 AM | Link to this
We can’t fire Mark Richt. If he was fired, we would be paying him for the next 10 years for doing nothing. Now that Stafford is the starter, we can put Joe T. back on the punt protection unit. This will help us a lot since Kregg Lumpkin obviously forget how to block. Is it just me or does it seem like Richt only has 5 plays in his playbook. The sprint draw and delayed screen pass is getting really really old. Why does Martinez continue to play a soft zone coverage scheme? It might have a slight chance of working if your players can make good tackles and hold the opposing offense to short gains but we can’t seem to wrap up anybody. We have a 6’0 205 lbs corner in Paul Oliver who has the strength to jam receivers at the line. C’mon Wille, take some risks. Start playing man to man more and blitz more. You might give up a big play or two but I can guarantee you will we cause more turnovers in return. High risks, high rewards. Might as well change up the scheme. Can’t get any worse than losing to Vandy with a bunch of 4 and 5 star recruits on our D.
By STephen
October 17, 2006 03:42 AM | Link to this
We lost to Vandy, what the heck? But will I switch to GA TECH? NO!! because Im Georgia.
I’ll stand behind my team you see, cause thats how bulldogs ought to be, IF they are Georgia.
I’ll support them win or lose, and i dont HAVE to choose, because im Georgia
I love all things red and black, and get ticked off when you attack, the coaches, players —ive got their back because im georgia.
I will stand and cheer them loud, cause im still quite darn proud, if they ever needed us its NOW, so are you georgia?
Its easy to get mad, point a finger and criticize, but really folks, open ur eyes. WE ARE GEORGIA.
By tyyosh
October 17, 2006 03:49 AM | Link to this
You guys watch,
Before, Stafford was the conditional starter until Joe T got well. Now he is the MAN. Huge difference. You will see a different, attacking offense out there and a different team. We’ll be there, and it is going to be a blast.
I will tell you when I knew Joe T was done. In the 2nd half, he tried to hit MoMass on an Out route. He was open, but the ball simply could not be thrown well enough to get him the ball, and the Vandy cornerback came up and broke it up. Clearly, he could not make the throws. And against UF, Aub, etc. - QB has to make the throws.
By Joe
October 17, 2006 07:24 AM | Link to this
I just wanted to go on record and say that anyone calling for Mark Richt to get fired is stupid.
He is one of the top five active head coaches in the nation when it comes to winning percentage. Keep in mind, this only includes his work at UGA.
We have two SEC Championships in THIS decade when we didn’t have any for twenty years prior.
All but this year and his first year have been 10+ win seasons.
Mark Richt is the best thing to happen to UGA Football in a long time. He is dedicated to the program and he has been immensely successful. Now lets show him some dedication.
By BIGWIN2000
October 17, 2006 07:51 AM | Link to this
Rebuilding? A team that has top 7 national recruiting classes for the last 5 years does not rebuild. It reloads.
The talent is there. The coaching and playcalling is horrible.
I always use Reggie Bush as an example. He would never have one a Heisman Trophy with us. He would probably have scored 15 touchdowns is his 3 years.
By 82DAWG
October 17, 2006 08:11 AM | Link to this
BIGWIN2000 - We are rebuilding. Take a look at those top ten recruiting clases and see which of those star signees are actually still at UGA. The following 4 & 5 star (according to Rivals or Scout) players either quit, transferred or never panned out: Zeb McKinzey(OL), Trey Chandler(OL), Dana Graydon(LB), Corey Moon(DE), Richard Cook(DE), Marquis Elmore(DL), Brandon Sesay(DT), Josh Johnson(LB), Tavares Kearney(LB), Reshard Dudley(RB), B.J. Fields(DB), Preston Pannell(DE) and Blake Barnes(QB).
Wow. That is what turns great classes into mediocre ones and what creates down years, like this one.
By Dave In Tampa
October 17, 2006 08:23 AM | Link to this
Damn, Sometimes it’s embarrasing to be a Dawg fan reading to some of these posts. Most of you sound like GT Fans. I’m just as upset with the last few weeks as the next Dawg, but lose with class and stop all this whinning. Tell me one team that has ALWAYS won 10+ games per year.
So it’s not our year. Things could be worse. GT is having a great season, but we all know that they only have one great season every 6 to 7 years. Personally, I would rather have 6 great years and 1 bad.
Let’s back out team and it’s coaches! Stop being such whinners! I would not trade CMR for any other coach in the country! Go Dawgs!
By Stephen
October 17, 2006 08:29 AM | Link to this
BIGWIN2000, I disagree….
CMR coached such players as Charlie Ward & Chris Weinke to a heisman.
(Both years, the runner ups were from the same position).
He can coach talent, heres something to think about…
Massaqoi, Stafford, Roderick Battle, Kenneth harris, Tripp Chandler, Southerland, CJ Byrd, Dewberry, Durham, Ellerbe, Demiko Goodman, jeff Owens, Antonio Sims, Marcus Washington, Ian Smith, Kade Weston…..ALL FRESHMAN & SOPHOMORES.
The future is bright, we are just young and learning. So if everyone is gonna beat GA….THEY BETTER DO IT NOW…..NC before Stafford is gone…..!!!!
By helluva engineer
October 17, 2006 08:38 AM | Link to this
STephen, That is dumbest thing that I have ever read! “I’m Georgia” What an idiot! I know that’s what they throw up on the jumbotron down there at Odel Thurman Stadium to amuse the inbred rednecks!
By jacketnation
October 17, 2006 08:38 AM | Link to this
HEADLINE- UGA fans lose there bark after “Homedrummin”. Govenor Purdue shuts his fat mouth as well. Schedule revised, Clark-Central will play dawgs, Homecoming 2007.
By Brett
October 17, 2006 08:44 AM | Link to this
I would like to officially retract my predictions for the remainder of the season from yesterday.
Now that we have Stafford back at the helm, we will lose to Florida, Auburn and Georgia Tech! I will even expect a loss to Kentucky! I will also go as far as to say that we should not be surprised if we lose to MSU!
Putting Stafford back in as the starter is a huge mistake! He is not ready to take the lead of this team…he proved that with Colorado! Both Stafford and Cox proved their lack of leadership with Ole Miss! Stafford has a great arm! But for some reason zero accuracy! I’m just not impressed! Maybe next year he’ll figure it out.
Write it down…6-6…maybe!
By SamoanDawg
October 17, 2006 08:45 AM | Link to this
Lets go back to fundamentals. To win games, it all starts at the front line on both side of the ball.
We’re missing waayyy too dadgum many tackles. We looked too dadgum soft when we missed tackles. Tony Taylor is about the only LB is flying to the ball. Interior Line can’t shed blockers, they’re getting manhandled inside and too slow firing off the ball.
Blocking is too dadgum soft. The linemen are NOT finishing their blocks. Too dadgum SLOW firing off the ball. Standing straight up instead of playing pad level. We ain’t got no bite on the O-line.
We need some real football players. Tough as a hobnail boot.
C’mon Dawgs SIC’EM!
By jacketnation
October 17, 2006 08:53 AM | Link to this
HEADLINE- 84.3% of UGA fans proven to be potbellied, beer drinking, tobacco chewin, floor spitten, trailer park dwelling, cousin marrying tatooed, prison record, waffle house employed, rednecks.
By Buzzmeister
October 17, 2006 08:54 AM | Link to this
I think Mark is doing pretty well to maintain his current schedule, and still devote his love, prayers and time to his wife and family. I am sure Mark completely understands that the heat comes with the job, and he is such a classy guy he takes it so well.
One thing Bulldog nation must understand, is that Mark takes a Bill Walsh approach to the game. No hollering or yelling, just a calm cool approach to the game. Show players what they are doing wrong and teach. Last time I checked, Walsh was quite successful at his approach and I suspect Mark is modeling his style closely with Walsh.
You see it is not all about barking, and popping-off how good you are. Yes, you have become accustomed to winning, but until your remove the politics, alumnus and boosters from clouding the picture for coaches to get it right, you will continue to struggle. Back off and give some room. Let them coach, and by the way, they are more qualified than you.
Keep in mind, these players are kids, nothing more and nothing less. They are good kids, but young and ready to make some serious mistakes. Also keep in mind that athletics is a vehicle for an education, and nice vice versa. Focus on graduating players, and not losses to Vandy or UT.
Your recipe for success is as follows:
Maybe if Bulldog nation would show some humility, calmness and respect for your opponents that Mark displays, you might actually get somewhere.
By jacketnation
October 17, 2006 09:04 AM | Link to this
WE have the highest respect for a Godly man like Mark Richt. If he were at Tech, we would not be calling for his departure. But when you have a mostly hostle, red neck fan base, that is to be expected. Why don’t you guys show some class, stop trying to run the show and support your coach!
By Hunker Down
October 17, 2006 09:07 AM | Link to this
It really bother me that Richt refuses to acknowledge the problems around him. He says this is the same staff that he has had for six years, but that is false. Do not under estimate what Brian VanGorder was to this team. We have no fire over there on the sideline. A bunch of ho hum coaches with no emotion. All of these young players are taking on that personality. There is no one there to fire up the troops. You need fire and a little bit of craziness over there. Fact is we will never see that from Mark Richt, and they way he sounded on the call in show he has no plans of making changes. It’s nieve to believe things are heading right back where they have been the last five years. They are heading in a bad direction. If Coach Richt does not get a grip and make some changes Athens will turn on him before he knows it. I have seen it happen many times. Things are slipping Coach Richt. Please wake up and get a grip! Losing to Vanderbilt on homecoming or any time is unacceptible!
By gdawginkalamazoo
October 17, 2006 09:09 AM | Link to this
Yes we are a young team have you looked at the roster and number of players from the different classes, we lean heavy toward sophomore and freshman. And those have been the best recruiting classes so far. No excuse for losing to Vandy. As I said above we should have been able to beat then with Venus de Milo at QB. Up here in big ten land Iowa is getting ripped a new one for losing to Indiana which is the Vandy of the big ten w/o the education. But Indiana has been playing for their coach this year who has been going through brain surgery so I think emotion had more to do with that one.
I am glad Richt reminded all of you guys Monday where we have been the past five years, pretty damn good shape and even better shape when our young guys get some experience. I hope he turns it over to Stafford with no fear of getting pulled. I think that has been the bulk of the problem with the QB, can’t get relaxed playing in fear of getting pulled.
jason, ACC is the same way as the SEC, how else do you explain you guys losing to Virginia and NC State last year was it? Were they the superior team? I didn’t think so. Vandy beat UT last year, SC beat UF, who would have thought that? Regardless you can go ahead and rip us while you can, it is well deserved, but don’t get too happy.
War Eagle, yes as a fan of college football you have to show the respect for the best coaches such as Bryant and Dodd, now days Paterno and B Bowden, they have done it their way and won for a long time.
By Joey Joe Joe Shabadoo
October 17, 2006 09:14 AM | Link to this
Brett, come on man! Starting Stafford is the smart thing to do. Joe T is a lameduck QB, and we have already wasted Stafford’s redshirt. Why not start him & let him find his way, so he’ll be ready for next year? This year is already down the crapper anyway. Joe T. is one of the worst QB’s I have ever seen. Good kid, and wants to help, but just doesn’t have the physical talents to play QB in the SEC.
By Song Writer
October 17, 2006 09:18 AM | Link to this
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Clemson Tigers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Clemson Tigers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOOOOOOOOOO Clemson Tigers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of my favorite songs just happens to be “Tiger Rag”. I pray that we hear it all night long on Saturday night in Death Valley!!!!!!!!!
Have a blessed day,
Song Writer
By Headin' South
October 17, 2006 09:24 AM | Link to this
To all you who loved CMR two weeks ago, but now think he is the worst coach ever, maybe you will be happy soon. Miami is meeting Monday to review the direction of their football program. Given their record and the recent brawl, I expect the coach to fired. (You know, just like it would be at UGA, if they were undefeated when the brawl occurred, then that would be one thing. But to let it happen when you have already lost to Florida State and Louisville… that is unacceptable!) So when Coker is fired, guess what direction they will come calling? That is, unless they read this blog.
By Ramble ON!
October 17, 2006 09:24 AM | Link to this
Palmetto State Dawg, there you are!!!!
Last I heard from you, you were personally going to right me a check if Vandy beat the dawgs, 100$ I think it was.
Nice line about the soldiers in Iraq, all is forgiven!
By Don
October 17, 2006 09:24 AM | Link to this
Dear Will Muschamp will you come back to Georgia and be the Defensive Coordinator? Pretty Please!!! That is how I feel about Willie Martinez. He has the talent to get the job done but he just doesn’t have a plan to get the job done. With that said, the problem isn’t how many times the other team is successful in the red zone it is how many time the Georgia Offense is unsuccessful in the red zone. Mark Richt is just average when it comes to running the offense but doesn’t seem to have much of a clue in the red zone. Almost all of the offensive play take too long to develop and that will no longer get it done in the ultra-fast SEC. It would be fun to see the Wishbone formation thrown in a few times a game also. His offensive game plan is just too predictable. Time to go with the young guys and get this team ready for next year.
Go Dawgs!
By Luvthejackets
October 17, 2006 09:27 AM | Link to this
jacketnation, I would say only about 25% of the Bulldawg nation is capible of showing class. I know some great dawg fans who could not show more class than they do.The other 75% are bandwagon rednecks that want to bark with the bulldawgs. They would know nothing about class. They think it’s cute to act like hill billy morans, and it does give Georgia a bad image. The thing I love about Tech is that the ratio is reversed. More class than not. We have our fare share of idiots too! We may not win as many football games as UGA, but most of us win and even lose with class. You have to represent your school in a classy way. I do respect Mark Richt for they way he carries himself with class. To bad for UGA the majority will eventually push him out the door.
By StAugDawg
October 17, 2006 09:28 AM | Link to this
Buzzmeister,
Nice piece. Which one are you, Brad Johnson or Chris Weinke?
By Ramble ON!
October 17, 2006 09:40 AM | Link to this
Song Writer, you think we’ll hear it as much as Rocky Top a few weeks back?
That’s a great song too.
You rednecks kill me, live in the present!!! Your team is as bad as one of song writer’s blogs. All I hear is the last 5 years or the incoming recruits.
Denial runs through Athens and it ain’t no river!!!!
By StAugDawg
October 17, 2006 09:59 AM | Link to this
The East is wide open. Here are a few scenarios.
UF
In drivers seat but could lose to UGA (see Dooley years), SC (remember last yr.),or Vandy (Why not? I can see them taking this week off mentally). One loss will force tie break with someone.
UT
Only one SEC loss currently but brutal schedule lurking with Ala, Ark, LSU, SC around the corner. SOS owns Phat Phil. Houston Nutt and Darren McFadden are hot, Alabama hates UT, LSU is always tough. They could lose 2 easily.
UGA
Destiny is in their own hands. Must win out and hope for UT loss, which is highly likely anyway. Can UGA beat UF and AU? I think the Vandy scare will propel them past Miss St and Kentucky. The answer is definately yes. If they change things drastically, add wrinkles, run the option, blitz like mad, have fun. If they continue on (like CMR says they will), they’re done.
SC
Can the old ball coach beat UF, UT, Ark and Vandy? With Syvelle Newton? Let’s see. He beat the Gaytors last yr. and is highly motivated again because Jeremy Foley wanted him to interview for the UF job after Zook. He owns Phil. Vandy? No way SOS loses to Vandy or Kentucky. I’d bet on him with the local HS team in these games. Moral issue. Arkansas could be tough. But which team will Nutt bring? The one that USC stomped on or the team that beat AU?
Lots of possibilities. Here is the best one for the Dawgs (and the most far-fetched)
UGA wins out. UT loses 2. This scenario would also give UGA a chance to play in Atlanta after beating UF and AU. The Vandy and UT games would be forgiven. Stafford would be on his way to 2 NC’s in the next 3 yrs.
What a fantasy. Sad thing is that this will never happen because UGA will come out against AU and UF and run the sprint draw on 3rd and 9, and play soft zones on defense with no blitz packages. Lumpkin will average 7-10 yds/ carry when he will be replaced by long, low percentage passes and Danny Ware. Nothing different (like SOS did with Syvelle Newton), nothing new. Oh well, I’d rather be an 8-4 Dawg (we own Tech) than a 12-0 Gaytor, Nerd, Tiger, Pumpkin or Hawg. Go Dawgs!!!!!
By Luvthejackets
October 17, 2006 10:03 AM | Link to this
Song Writer, To bad you couldn’t have got together with Vandy before last Saturday in Athens. They didn’t even have a fight song to play. It was the first time they needed one in more than a decade. You should probably get to work on that Miss State fight song. I think we might here it a couple of times against that #1 D against division 1AA opponents you guys strut out there.
By Luvthejackets
October 17, 2006 10:06 AM | Link to this
StAugDawg has lost his mind!
By hadyomama
October 17, 2006 10:06 AM | Link to this
UGA will lose to the Gators,the Tigers, and GT. They have no fire, no team leader,and no pride. Just like Tenn. was last year. Now they’ve lost one of their best backs. UGA may not win another game this season.
By c-dawg
October 17, 2006 10:12 AM | Link to this
FIRE WILL MARTINEZ! HE CAN’T HACK THE JOB!FIRE WILL MARTINEZ! HE CAN’T HACK THE JOB! = genius
Fire Mark Richt!!! Fire Mark Richt!!! = moron
By Brett
October 17, 2006 10:19 AM | Link to this
Joey, do you even watch the games?
Stafford doesn’t have it! He hasn’t been able to rally the team. He can’t throw accurately. When he does throw accurately, he throws it so damn hard that no one can catch the ball! Stafford has no touch to his passes. His poor throwing has literally killed drives!
We had to settle for a field goal instead of a TD because the missile that he fired at Millner was so fast that he couldn’t close his hands on it fast enough! It was the same pass route Millner ran when Cox tossed him the game winner against Colorado!
He can’t judge his receivers down field either. He either over throws or under throws them constantly! He has had no big play passes. He over or under throws on the short pass, too, to wide open receivers! Again, no touch on the ball!
I’m sorry Joey, but Stafford is not ready to take the lead, and now is not the time to do it. We do not have enough to compensate for his inadequacies! I know JoeT is not draft material, but he is the best we’ve got! He is a leader and he does it by example! Period!
Bottom line though, we’re not having problems because we can’t find a QB. We’re having problems because of inefficiencies with the coaching staff right now! I like Richt, don’t get me wrong. I think he and his staff have done great and I think there is still a lot of potential to be greater! But everyone, every staff, every team has a slump. Once you are in it, you have two choices: either do nothing and stay in it, or make some changes. I don’t think putting Stafford in will pull us out of this slump. I think making some changes with the coaching will!
By c-dawg
October 17, 2006 10:31 AM | Link to this
So besides all the stats and grumbling of the above blogs it also seems the dogs need some attitude adjustment. Make that a BIG adjustment. A return to the swaggar, the confidence of being champions. Of owning the field - home or away. Of being feared. And they not only need to wear it on their sleeves, but in their chests too.
See they have these t-shirts that have catch phases and motivational slogans such as “finish the drill” and “G.T.B.B” which means on defense, “Get The Ball Back”. “Fishish the drill” feels a little technical, tight and restrained and like something said at practice. And G.T.B.B. is too passive (see willie martinez) I think those should be turned up into more intense sayings like “Demolish the Drill!” Look at Hines Ward - he doesn’t finish, he drills the drill. Blocks like he’s possessed. And he’s a reciever! Musa Smith used to get off the bus for the Dog Walk into the stadium with his helmet already ON! He was going to WAR! That’s intensity!
And not “Get” but “TAKE The Ball Back.” Getting the ball seems a little like a gift or let’s recieve it, or thanks for the turnover. BS! Get your hands in there and rip the ball out! Attack!!! the ball and take if from their recievers! Pick it! Not catch it if it’s in the area! and knock their heads off in they come across the middle. I.e. Davis and Blue.
Every player has that in them, that’s why they don’t play tennis - but for some it does need to be pulled out. Or encouraged, or COACHED. It’s mental. Make them blood thirtsy and they will drink!
By Buck Cochran in the NW
October 17, 2006 10:47 AM | Link to this
A minority may want to fire MR but the vast majority of us don’t. He won’t be leaving anytime soon. BRETT, YOU’VE JUMPED ON THE WRONG WAGON! Reptiles, AU and the “Bugs” all have the edge on us right this second. That situation won’t continue. Yep! we’ll lose some more games but Stafford WILL BE more of a leader than you’ve given him credit for. 2 dropped passes, if either one is caught we win Sat. Missed, one short FG., made we win. MS led the team downfield those 3 times to give the Dawgs a chance to win. No mistakes made just good QBing. WE’ll see more and more of that as he continues to play. As Joe T has shown guts and leadership, so has MS. Perfect? No way, but he’s stood up to a LOT of pressure in ‘06 and has handled it. MR said and I agree 100%, don’t talk to me about throwing the ball to hard. He’s been a team player and now if given the chance will be THE TEAM LEADER!
By trouble.in.athens.again
October 17, 2006 10:50 AM | Link to this
I come on here from time to time to bash UGA because I have never liked them or their fans. I will say this. UGA is a much finer school (fans included) than the Univ of Miami will ever be. That was the worst display of athletes out of control as I have ever seen. This is the 3rd time in last 5 or 7 games a fight has occurred at UM. I enjoy the smack talk between Tech and UGA. It is as much as part of football as the players themselves. I may not like UGA but I respect their team for at least acting like men in wins or losses. The Miami AD or Coker should have suspended some of them for the entire season instead of one game. I look forward to the UGA/Tech game this year. A game between two teams that fans dislike each other, but there is respect there. Good luck Dawgs, Go Jackets!!!
By King Philip
October 17, 2006 11:10 AM | Link to this
RambleOn speaks the truth….you mutts should listen. Now, sit! Good boy. Down! Good boy. Roll-over. Good boy. Come on Miss State…they’re ready.
By Buck Cochran in the NW
October 17, 2006 11:10 AM | Link to this
Brett, I’m calling you on your comments about Stafford. That pass to Milner , you call that a bullet? Get some glasses! I’d like to know where you obtained your knowledge about playing QB? Do you listen to TV broadcasters? You better believe that Staffords ball zips im there but his HS> receivers caught it so are you telling me that these 4* college WR recruits can’t catch the ball? Flawed logic! As MR says, I don’t want to hear this stuff about passes being to hard. If any of these receivers want to play on Sunday, they’d better learn how to catch. Touch? Did yopu see those screen passes, which require the “touch” and how Stafford laid them in there? Yes, he’s a true freshman and he’ll make mistakes but he’s progressed a very long way in ‘06 and now he’s moving. How many games will we win? Don’t know but I know this much, Joe T didn’t win a game and in games Stafford has started we’re 2-2. He was thrown in the SC game which is a tough way to be introduced to college ball and even though he threw 23 ints. of which 1 was really his fault we won the game. Cox came in and scored the TDs that won the Co. game but Stafford didn’t lose it. No, with MR making changes to try and get things moving, now is the time to be a true Dawg and support the whole team. If you want to pick on any player, it’s a free country! But, when you’re wrong then expect people to disagree with you. One game at a time and for this one at least our QB knows that he’s the man and that’ll make a big difference.
By Jojo
October 17, 2006 11:13 AM | Link to this
This may have been, or hopefully, said in the above posts but let me say it again.
I was born a bulldawg, graduated from UGA a Bulldawg and will die a Bulldawg.
Those bashing Richt are bandwagon fans and we don’t need you. I was in the stands when Tech smacked us by 50 in 2000. Those were dark days in the bulldawg nation people, not now. I believe in this coach and will stand by him.
Also, I don’t care if we went 0-11… this team is a part of me and who I am. Those of you blasting the team can hope over to love fest the Tech bloggers are having with Chan right now. Lets not forget he was a hunted man last year much the same way.
True Bulldawgs show up, support the team and know brighter days will come.
By Joey Joe Joe Shabadoo
October 17, 2006 11:22 AM | Link to this
Brett, gonna have to disagree with you my fellow Bulldawg friend. Yes, I watch or attend all of the games, and you have to be kidding me that you think Joe T should start. He telegraphs his passes everytime & he throws the ball like my 6 year old nephew. He sucks!!! He shouldn’t even be a QB as he was originally on the punt team. He’s a meathead for god’s sake. The receivers just need to adjust to Stafford’s velocity. You’re right, he has made some mistakes, but no where near the mistakes that Joe T has made for a 5th year senior. Joe T. basically cost us the game against Tenn with those turnovers. Stafford doesn’t have a redshirt anymore so why not play him, and stick with him? Let him make his mistakes, but it will pay off in the long run. This rotating QB’s every quarter is not healthy for our offense, and Joe T’s terrible performance on Saturday speaks for itself. I do agree, however, that we need a offensive coordinator.
By Song Writer
October 17, 2006 11:32 AM | Link to this
Dear Luvthejackets,
In your blog you should have spelled “here”, hear. Hear means to listen. Glad that GT education is paying off for you. Here’s a song for you my fine Insect friend:
GOOOOOO Clemson Tigers!!!!!!!!!!!! GOOOOO Clemson Tigers!!!!!!!! Beat those Geeks from North Avenue!!!!!!!!!
Ramble ON!, actually Rocky Top is one of the most popular Bluegrass songs of all time. I do like the Bluegrass version with banjos etc…. but do not really care for the one by UT’s band. I’m just curios Ramble On, are you one helluva engineer??? I mean, one helluva, helluva engineer? I sure hope so.
By Palmetto State Dawg
October 17, 2006 11:34 AM | Link to this
Ramble ON!,
Please include your name & address on this blog, and I will mail you a check.
Sincerely,
Palmett State Dawg
By Willie Martinez
October 17, 2006 11:36 AM | Link to this
Quit bashing me!!!
By jacketnation
October 17, 2006 11:40 AM | Link to this
HEADLINE- 84.3% of UGA fans proven to be potbellied, beer drinking, tobacco chewin, floor spitten, trailer park dwelling, cousin marrying tatooed, prison record, waffle house employed, rednecks.
By War Eagle
October 17, 2006 11:45 AM | Link to this
Hey jeb, Tech and Notre Dame have been playing off and on years. In the early fifties a true freshman QB by the name of Wade Mitchell from North Fulton High School led Tech to a Top Ten, maybe # 1, not sure, win over Notre Dame.During Bobby Dodd days Tech played alot of high profile teams. Auburn has tried the same as UGA and Florida, to get get high rating teams, it difficult. One reason being, most major schools have their ONE home and home game schedule years in advance.Bammer does nopt solicit this venue… Auburn plays South Florida and New Mexico State next year with West virginia in 2008-09. The SEC is a tough conference and not many schools want to journey into a 90-100 thousand stadium and play “hitters”.
By 82DAWG
October 17, 2006 11:48 AM | Link to this
If our WRs can’t catch Stafford’s passes because he throws too hard, maybe we should recruit all the receivers from Highland Park High School. Obviously they could catch his passes, right? Problem solved.
As for anyone who would rather see JTIII as QB, they are just trying to provoke everyone. This season is a rebuilding year. So rebuild. We are going to go 7-5 whether Stafford is the QB or JTIII. But, if JTIII is the QB, then we have to start all over again next year.
Let’s just sit back recognize this season for what it is and rebuild this team up preparing for the next run srarting in 07. The immediate upside is that by moving JTIII back to the punt team we will improve both the special teams AND the offense. That’s a win-win solution!!!
By Ramble On
October 17, 2006 11:55 AM | Link to this
Palmetto State Dawg, I do not want your money. The fact that you were man enough to offer is enough for me..use it to buy some Kleenex and Depends for the rest of the UGA season. You will be needing both!!
By Big Dawg
October 17, 2006 12:00 PM | Link to this
HEADLINE- 93.8% of Tech fans prove to be no drinking, scrawny, dorm living, pocket protector wearing, slide rule using, Star Trek watching, geeks.
By banshee29
October 17, 2006 12:07 PM | Link to this
Just remember,
Now that Stafford is playing the starting role, don’t go buck wild and crucify MR when he doesnt win every remaining game. We will be lucky to win 2 of the last 5. Everyone realizes how good ole Greenie and Shockley were now don’t they? Richt is fine, the program is fine…Quit b*** and support the DAWGS like you did when we were 12-1.
By gomdawg
October 17, 2006 12:08 PM | Link to this
OC x RAVEN OC
By brad
October 17, 2006 12:10 PM | Link to this
I just hope that no recruits are reading these blogs. Having read so much poison on these blogs this year, I can’t picture any recruit ever wanting to come to Georgia to receive this kind of bile.
A team can’t be on top all of the time. The Dawg’s are going through an off year, and it is likely that next year won’t be so good either. That doesn’t mean that coaches need to be fired, or that players need to lose their scolarships. If every losing NCAA coach was fired every year, then half of the coaching profession would own motorhomes!
It’s a game… someone wins and someone loses. This year the Dawgs are taking their lumps. In a couple of years they’ll be back to dishing them out. If you can’t give them the love and support they need, then just shut up!
By jotodawg
October 17, 2006 12:10 PM | Link to this
ok. after 2 days to calm frustrations (to no avail)several things must be addressed. why is georgia playing a 3-3 defense? i have never even heard of that defense before. but yet georgia played it alot i nthe 3rd quarter. and yet most wonder why we had zero sacks or rushes. the sceme must change. we have mush better talent on the bench than on the field. paul oliver needs to be benched. tre battle needs to be benched. start lumpkin at running back and stick with him. do not ever play thomas brown again. stay with lumpkin. he is the best running back we have and rotating him has hurt his confidence. so stay with lumpkin. if we are playing for the future then we dont need to start joe t. richt must get an affensive cordinator. i think bobo would do a nice job. right needs to do a better job of firing up his guys. maybe his laid back style is making the team play with a laid back attitude.
By Buck Cochran in the NW
October 17, 2006 12:20 PM | Link to this
I’m in complete agreement about MR having a true “OC”; however, he won’t yet. 82DAWG, a 7-5 season is very possible with who’s laying in wait for us, but Stafford may pick this team up and carry them knowing now that he’s the man. Hope he’ll do exactly what he said Bobo told him to do: go out, have fun and play the way you know how to. If Matthew does that we’ll take somebody by suprise. I think his confidence will be and is just fine knowing that he’s the man. Show me a QB who doesn’t feel deep down that he IS THE MAN, and I’ll show you one who isn’t the man.
By Leonarnd P. Loser Esquire
October 17, 2006 12:26 PM | Link to this
Miss. State vs Georgia… The Red Clay Hounds of the Sanford Kennel Club will welcome the pups from Starkville and in hopes to avoid 3 lowly Dawg Daze in a row between the bushes. This one aint gonna be an easy one as it all may well seem. This will be a real dogfight and a host of these cainines will be limping throughout the shrubbery bushes.Mark Richochet will soon find out that the pups from Starkville have a lot bark and some bite. Leonards Loser in a close one Misss. State … Ga. Tech VS Clemson …. The Fiesty Felines of the Orange Pickins County Fairgrounds will be running down the Hill to welcome Bumbling Bees from the North Ave. Trade School. Those bees need to watch where they step in the cow pasture and better not stomp on that kitty paw. Rumor has it that Tommy boy didnt call Pa Pa Bowden for advise and that the Fiesty Felines will be decked out in all Purple. Thus being The Purple Bee Eaters. Leonards Loser in a run away Ga. Tech
By Brett
October 17, 2006 12:52 PM | Link to this
Joey, you honestly think JoeT single handedly cost us the UT game!?! Give me a break!
Lumpkin missed two blocks that accounted for 14 points alone! One was for the tipped pass for an interception and the other was for the blocked punt! JoeT had one legit interception. The fumble came as he was scrambling and in an attempt to get rid of the ball…a lucky swipe by a Vol defender as JoeT was about to throw it. Our defense was a joke! Ainge was shredding our zone coverage to pieces and we couldn’t get any pressure on him! Ainge himself specifically pointed that out! At halftime Fulmer even said that UT couldn’t stop us…but he also said we couldn’t stop them. They figured it out…we didn’t!
If I use your methodology, then Stafford solely cost us the Vandy game by throwing the ball too hard at Millner. I guess we can completely disregard that the fact that again our defense’s zone coverage was taken advantage of!
Hey, while we’re placing blame on just single players, perhaps we should blame Andy Bailey for missing a 20 yard field goal. Had he made it, we would have won there, too!
I agree that the receivers need to adjust to Stafford’s lauching pad arm, but whose responsibility is it to ensure that? The coaches! At the same time, Bobo needs to show Stafford how to put some touch on the ball and better judgement on distance. Both Joe’s are capable of that.
I will also agree that we either need a new OC or a better game plan on offense. We definitely need a new game plan on defense or a new DC.
The poor performance from this team has not stemmed from just one person, Joey. And I don’t think it is just the team, and it’s definitely not JoeT. I think the main problems are with the decision making by the staff this year!
By Buck Cochran in the NW
October 17, 2006 12:57 PM | Link to this
Who cares about “Bugs”? Exterminators!
By 82DAWG
October 17, 2006 12:57 PM | Link to this
Buck, Stafford might just do that. But he is going to have to outscore the number of points that the defense is going to give up. That is going to be the problem. We have to rebuild on both sides of the ball. This looks too much like a Bill Lewis defense and that is what scares me.
By jacketnation
October 17, 2006 01:06 PM | Link to this
Do you think perhaps Mark Taylor and the AJC caused the dawgs to get flushed by the Commodes at homecoming? Try scheduling a team you can beat. Maybe a division III school with a winless record.
By Quentin Moses
October 17, 2006 01:07 PM | Link to this
All you yellow nerds really crack me up. No wins over UGA in the last five years. Haven’t beaten UGA legitimately since 1990. For you slow nerds, that means without cheating.
GA Tech trademarks:
1.)Ugly women 2.)Over rated football, basketball and baseball teams 3.)Stadium with only 40,000 people in it 4.)Bragging about their education(kinda like bragging about sexual conquests and you know what that really means)
Beat us 5 years in a row and then come talk. Of course, you will still be woefully behind in the overall series. Plus, you still won’t be anything but nerds !!!!!!!!
Me and Charles are waiting on you Reggie. You learn how to count to 4 yet ?
By Brett
October 17, 2006 01:09 PM | Link to this
Buck, the receivers have had problems all year with catching passes. It wasn’t until the UT game that they suddenly remembered how to catch the ball. Who was QB at the time? Same with Vandy. Odd how they can catch JoeT but can’t seem to catch Stafford.
Stafford can get some passes in there, but not when he needs to. In the clutch, he’s not there. Look at Colorado, had he not been pulled, we would have lost. Period! He can’t move the ball!
Now, if you want to look at wins, then go ahead. If you want to look at performance, then stroll over to ESPN and look at the stats. In actuality, Joe Cox has performed the best! Stafford has performed the worst!
I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree. Same for you Joey. See you at the Fruit Bowl (if we get to go to a bowl).
By Eric
October 17, 2006 01:14 PM | Link to this
Mark is the best coach in the country. We are lucky to have him. We knew this was a rebuilding year and would have some rough spots. If anyone thought Joe T could lead us to an SEC Championship they are dilusional. WM may need to be replaced, but this program would be nowhere near the level its at if it wasnt fo M.R. All of the talent people keep talking about is only here because of him.
By RAMB'L
October 17, 2006 01:21 PM | Link to this
I’m amazed at all the “post-hypnotic comments” by the bulldog nation, but I’ve got to give Richt credit. Most coaches by now would be pulling their hair out and pushing blame on others (remember, you did steal him from the ACC). I’ve been entertained by the yacking by both GA & GA TECH FANS switching to the others blogs, rubbing in losses and rambles of past glories. The point is GA FANS did what they always do, speak before they have a chance to think. You guys were NATIONAL CHAMPS in your minds, before the ball was even snapped (I know, I have a lot of real friends who graduated and even played for past Bulldog teams (and no I have not enjoyed putting on a bulldog jersey and hat as a bet, but at least I had the balls to take the bet and back it up). I enjoy the rivalry and, truth be known, if the Jackets lost every game and still beat GA I would be a happy man. I hope we, as jacket fans, dont overlook anybody (just look at bulldog nation- “lucky we didn’t loose last 4 in a row” (this comment came from a ex-bulldog player from Donnan Era, and one of my best friends (except when I had to put on his jersey). I have to make an agreement to an earlier post though, I have buddy’s and fellow americans working thier asses off in Iraq, and have been there longer than they were supposed to. I have to put all that aside today cause one of them was killed today. They put their lives on hold for you and me (He didn’t agree with everything that was said over here but He loved this country so much He gave the ultimate sacrifice, and saved others in the process. Life is short and sometimes even a bitter rivalry doesn’t pile up to a hill of beans (He graduated from UGA).The kicker is the guy he saved was a techie, and they’ve now made a bond no rivalry can ever pull apart. Makes you want to stop and think about the bigger picture and the hugs and kisses he wont get from his wife and kids. The birthdays, anniversiries,holiday parties and friends he’ll never be a part of physically. And I swear, if any of those gravesite military bashers come to his funeral, my truck just might find a new hood orniment. So to You “Big Dog”, thanks for your friendship and support. I swear You won’t be forgotten. Your kids will know the sacrifices you made and the man you were.Rest in peace buddy!!!
By Donk
October 17, 2006 01:48 PM | Link to this
Now’s the time to step up and show nothing but great support for the dawgs. Richt’s demeanor has taken our team to great places and will only get better in years to come. So what if we have one mediocre season in 5, and this one’s not even over yet. All you technical school nerds will get shut up after the tigers whip you! HUNKER DOWN DAWGS!!!
By JB
October 17, 2006 01:51 PM | Link to this
MARK RICHT ARE YOU LISTNING ? Coach Bellick of the Ravens just fired his GOOD FRIEND and O.C. Jim Fossill. He said he had an OBLIGATION to the organization to do what’s in the best interest of the TEAM. WOW !
By Ramble ON!
October 17, 2006 02:21 PM | Link to this
Palmetto State Dawg…someone has stolen my identity…please send my check to Arthur B Edge Athletic Center, 100 John Heisman Way, Atlanta, Ga. 300341, Attention Calvin Johnson.
I’ll need it for a couple of Varsity Chili Dawgs!!!!
By Palmetto State Dawg
October 17, 2006 02:36 PM | Link to this
Calvin, doesn’t need my money. He’s getting paid enough from the GA Tech boosters. Ramble ON!, you talk more smack than anyone on here. I would hate to see how much smack you would talk if GA Tech had actually beaten GA lately.
By War Eagle
October 17, 2006 03:02 PM | Link to this
Eric, in all due respect CMR is not the best in the country, good coach,but 10 above him today, see top 10, who most has not had the recruiting success Coach Richt has accomplished.
By Ramble ON!
October 17, 2006 03:30 PM | Link to this
Palmetto State Dawg, you’re alright, especially considering you’re a dawg and from S.C.!
By Joey Joe Joe Shabadoo
October 17, 2006 03:39 PM | Link to this
Brett, you’re still missing the point. This season has already gone down the crapper. Losing to Vandy during your HC game kind of has a tendency to do that to a team. Joe T. is gone next year….bam, outta here. Why not play Stafford the rest of the season so he can get some game experience. I think most people would agree with me, especially since we have already burned his redshirt. Stafford is the future, and the future starts on Saturday against Miss. State. The present just sucks in case you haven’t noticed.
By texex
October 17, 2006 03:48 PM | Link to this
Brett, your assessment of the QB situation is right on. UGA needs a QB who can feather the ball into his recievers (recruited as elite Division 1A players,presumably because of their ability to catch the football)- not someone like that mean ole Stafford kid who throws too hard. In fact, i think your logic may revolutionize major college recruiting. Instead of recruiting QB’s who can lazer the ball coaches need to be looking for passers who can throw a soft ball. Especially usefull on those 25 yard out patterns. Brilliant!
By Play that funky music whiteboy
October 17, 2006 04:08 PM | Link to this
Mark Richt, like George Bush, thinks Jesus talks directly to him. Jesus told Mark to let Martinez run the defense. Nothing anyone “in human form” says to Richt matters. Only what the Father says. He probably thinks that the Dawgs are now losing because the University won’t let the Cheerleading coach proselytize their squad anymore - God is now punishing the Dawgs… REPENT Sinners before you get beaten by Kentucky too!
By Lane Tucker
October 17, 2006 04:15 PM | Link to this
UGA scheduled Vandy on homecoming to ensure that they would win the homecoming game.
Now that Vandy ruined the homcoming game in 2006 what cupcake is UGA going to schedule for next years home coming game to ensure a win; Northern Gwinnett Secretarial College?
By gdawginkalamazoo
October 17, 2006 04:25 PM | Link to this
texex, try this change, switch to the old nerf footballs if Stafford throws to hard. Maybe for the long plays use the ones with the fins on them to help guide them in there ( of course that might give away the play, like putting Tebow in or something). Night games use the ones that light up.
By Song Writer
October 17, 2006 04:30 PM | Link to this
I’m a ramblin’ geek from Ga Tech, and a dork of a engineer, a dork of a, dork of a, dork of a, dork of a, dork of a, dork of a, dork of a, dork of a, dork of a….dork of a engineer. I’m over confident as usual, and I’ve never had a beer!!! I’m a ramblin’ nerd from GA Tech, and a dork of a engineer!!!!!!!! DO DO DO DO, go Fluid Mechanics!!!!! DO DO DO DO, go Jackets!!!!! Once again, all together now!!!!!!!
By tyyosh
October 17, 2006 04:31 PM | Link to this
If losing to Vandy is what it took to drive needed changes for the future, then it will have been worth it because it is now in the rear view mirror. Just watch. Stafford as the #1 will be better than Stafford as the caretaker. Just like Richt tailored the offense for his starter before, he will do so now. This is going to get fun now.
By jacketnation
October 17, 2006 04:34 PM | Link to this
You bunch of red necks keep whimpering about the PAST! What is happening this year is all that matters. Stay in your trailers and eat yourself a heepin, helpin of mama’s Hamburger helper. Tech will take down Clemson this weekend. UGA will scrape by and win by 3.
By texex
October 17, 2006 04:34 PM | Link to this
gdawginkalamazoo - won’t work. Those fins might put someone’s eye out.
By gdawginkalamazoo
October 17, 2006 04:40 PM | Link to this
RAMB’L, sorry for the loss of your friend. That really puts everything into perspective. There is more to life than x’s and o’s and who your head coach is and who you lost to last weekend. Those soldiers have to get after it every minute of every day or it means losing life not just some stupid football game.
By Buzzmeister
October 17, 2006 04:47 PM | Link to this
Hey StAugDawg:
Your question: “ice piece. Which one are you, Brad Johnson or Chris Weinke?”
Matter of fact I am both, one one a Super Bowl and the other a National Championship.
By Buzzmeister
October 17, 2006 04:50 PM | Link to this
Hey Song Writer: my favorite song is Rocky Top!! I love that song on a saturday night in Athens GA!!!
By Vince Dooley
October 17, 2006 05:01 PM | Link to this
Ok Dog fans, we need to calm down. I have been in contact with Buck Belue and he is waiting in the wings to take over this program, once we terminate Richt. He plans to hire Woody Allen as his offensive coordinator and Sally Struthers as the defensive coordinator.
This should give UGA a definite competitive advantage. Go Dogs!
By Ramble ON!
October 17, 2006 05:06 PM | Link to this
song writer, I think “Becks, I’m a loser baby”, would be more appropriate for you.
Also, the first blog when you wrote that, it was stupid, what makes you think it is now?
By uga95
October 17, 2006 05:48 PM | Link to this
Keep talking your crap techies…you have got a butt whooping coming this weekend in Clemson and all your trash talk about uga is going to come back to you in spades on this board…just please be man enough to show up on sunday!!!!
Us dawg fans cant say anything back right now after a loss to vandy, and you bugs have such a short memory that you really believe that you arent going to lose again!!! You will and its going to start Saturday!
I used to pull for tech when they werent playing UGA…but after seeing how classless you tech fans are, I’m going to have a huge smile on my face after your beating saturday night.
By Buck Cochran in the NW
October 17, 2006 05:51 PM | Link to this
Holding coaches accountable? jump over and read Carter’s new blog. It’s interesting.
By Raymond
October 17, 2006 06:26 PM | Link to this
I’ve just read “Orange Crushed” (Darren Epps) about Tennessee’s last season and there’s quite a resemblance to what Georgia is currently experiencing with their quarterbacks, etc. Maybe someone should give the book to Richt.
By Sean
October 17, 2006 06:32 PM | Link to this
Why do mut fans think Tech will lose saturday, unlike them we have playmakers on offense and defense it will be a tough hard fought game but i think #21 might have something to say about the outcome of the game. We jump on Clemson early, take the fans out of it and it will be just like the Va Tech game. Go Jackets!!!!
By mutts r dumb
October 17, 2006 08:35 PM | Link to this
By Sports Menstration
October 16, 2006 02:55 PM | Link to this
UGA recruits Tinker Bell to play for the Pink and Brown!
By Sonny
October 16, 2006 03:17 PM | Link to this
Send that tinker bell over to the mansion round midnight for some, uh, hudllin’.
By Sonny
October 16, 2006 04:32 PM | Link to this
Send that Smokey and Ugah over too, lets make it a real orgy! oink, oink
By SOS
October 17, 2006 08:45 PM | Link to this
Cheer up, mutt fans…Y’all can still go 10-2 like you all predicted at the start of the season…
By Song Writer
October 17, 2006 09:01 PM | Link to this
Ramble ON!, the song is a bit different so you obviously were napping for a while on this blog. I think an appropriate song for you would be “Hip to be Square” by Huey Lewis & the News, who is one of my favorite artists from the 80’s.
I’m going to try to attend the Clemson-Geeks game this weekend. I will make an attempt to join the CU band in singing “Tiger Rag” after all of those TD’s are scored on that Trek defense. I will also make every effort possible to spot you in the crowd in between songs. I have a feeling that you’ll be wearing a yellow sweatshirt with a hood, no doubt one that your mommy picked out for you. You’ll have your trusty slide rule in hand and the pocket protector will be within arm’s reach. You’ll be “tailgating” with all of your geek friends, and instead of discussing the game 30 minutes prior to kickoff, you geeks will be discussing that one elusive hot girl that was spotted on your campus 5 or 6 years ago. See you Saturday.
By war eagle
October 17, 2006 11:38 PM | Link to this
it blows my mind how all of you so-called loyal UGA fans are bashing your team. I was raised a die hard GA Tech fan, and just recently an Auburn fan. I have been a fan of Tech’s through bad seasons and good, I will always be a tech fan and an Auburn fan. I really think that a lot of y’all didn’t go to UGA, because most people stick by their alma mater. I know i will sticfk by Auburn when i graduate this December, and will always stick by Tech. UGA will most likely loose a lot of games the rest of the season, but there is no reason to say fire mark richt, because even if they fire him, UGA will still be paying for him.
By Jason O.
October 18, 2006 09:16 AM | Link to this
Dear Bill King…and what you saw as missed opportunities by GA’s offense, I saw as Vandy’s defense answering the bell in 2 or 3 key situations.
Making things tough on offenses is not out of character for the Vanderbilt defense when you look at how the they have played against Arkansas, Bama and Ole Miss…and now GA.
But, the game’s over…good luck for the rest of ‘06 and see you in Nashville next year!
By War Eagle
October 18, 2006 09:50 AM | Link to this
Talent rank amonmg SEC schools last 4 years 1. LSU, 2. UGA. 3. Florida, 4. Tennessee, 5. Auburn, 6. Bammer- Ark. tie. LSU-UGA are virtually in a tie, but LSU gets edge on OL recruits.Nationwide, 1. Southern Cal, 2. Texas, 3. LSU 4. UGA, 5. Michigan,Tenn.Tie. Source: War Eagle
By gdawginkalamazoo
October 18, 2006 10:04 AM | Link to this
Jason O. Nashville next year? You may get to see in Nashville THIS year at the Music City Bowl.
Buck, typical Carter, throws junk out there and we can’t rip him a new. Before EVERYBODY, and I mean EVERYBODY was saying PICK ONE QB and go with him stop the platooning. This was from ALL the talking heads he finally does it and here comes the critics. Mustain is starting and Tebow is playing a lot, McCoy at UT is a freshman. I say let’s roll with it, nothing can hurt more than losing to Vandy.
By gdawginkalamazoo
October 18, 2006 10:17 AM | Link to this
War Eagle, Thanks. I think that proves the point that the SEC is tough and Coach Richt has done an excellent job so far. 3 East titles, 2 Crowns and yes we have lost to UF AU and UT the past four years but once you get to this “talent” level there isn’t too much separation between the teams ranked 2 through 5 on your list. To say we have wasted the talent that comes to Athens is ridiculous. This year being an anomaly due to the QB situation. That lack of offense production hurts the defense. When you turn the ball over and don’t sustain drives long enough to rest the defense you are going to get beat on both sides of the ball no doubt about that.
By War Eagle
October 18, 2006 10:32 AM | Link to this
Zoo, I think the only recruiting disappointment Dawgs have had is WR and OL. ALL SCHOOLS HAVE PROBLEMS WITH OL RECRUITS, ESPECIALLY OFFENSIVE TACKLE. DAWGS WILL BE OK, JUST MORE LEADERSHIP ON THE FIELD AND IN THE DRESSING ROOM AT HALFTIME..Auburn lacks both of these positions this year also. We lack halftime leadership at half too, until CTT put them in their place. I like that man, he built a program that was in shambles from Bowdon to SEC contention .
By Buzz the Bee
October 18, 2006 10:41 AM | Link to this
Vandy, you have our love and respect. Here’s wishing you many more victories, both in the classroom and on the athletic field. ~ Buzz the Bee
By gdawginkalamazoo
October 18, 2006 11:07 AM | Link to this
War Eagle, yes those are two postions lacking in recruiting. Looks as though we have at least one stud WR showing up in 2008, if we could just get those OL’s (I believe we will). I think recruiting will still be great for us despite the down season. Our roster is loaded with freshmen and sophmores. Richt offers more than just being an HC which I think means a lot more to the kids and the kids parents. They gotta know they are going to be taken care of and at minimum given an opportunity to produce on the field IF they work hard at it.
By Lets Kick Jesus
October 18, 2006 12:08 PM | Link to this
Jesus to start at quarterback for uga against mississippi state, says “ah plan to throw a lot of hail-mary passes, mom says ah can’t miss.”
By Buck Cochran in the NW
October 18, 2006 01:24 PM | Link to this
War Eagle-Zoo, Reptile relative and I were talking about the “OL” problems that a lot of people were having including the Reptiles. Think this “need” shows we need to concentrate on “OL” recruits this year. As for Stafford, let’m yell, scream and holler! Both of you know I’ve been a backer of his from the git go. People who grip about his passes being to hard really don’t know what they’re talking about. The TV. people Sat. who were talking, at 1st., about his touch were funny. Just as 1 guy jumped him about “touch”, he threw a perfect “touch” pass on a screen play. Later when it was obvious that he WAS putting touch on his passes, they started giving him some credit. He’s going to have some ups & downs but, MR has done the right thing IMO.
By Did Not Hear It From Me
October 18, 2006 01:57 PM | Link to this
Richt is going south to right the program at Miami where he was once the QB. So the honeymoon is over and the Dawgs got jilted well cause their Dawgs (8 wins not enough). Rebuilding starts when Dawgs name new Headman.
By Like an ugly girl, Mutts dumped for Miami
October 18, 2006 02:45 PM | Link to this
Like the ugly girl who gets picked up at the local dive after midnight, come saturday morning, its dump city. Yo baby, hoof it home, or pay for your own taxi. Richt to Miami, in the ACC where we play real football (unlike uga, where its flag football all the time.)
By Yo Pusssy-Boy-Duke-Wayne
October 18, 2006 03:42 PM | Link to this
UGA Drops tackle football - Adds co-ed flag football.
Prez Adaams says “We was just no good at that tackle football, we hope to do better in the powder pull flag football league.” No word from the UGA alumni association, as they are still catatonic after the lose to Vandy.
By War Eagle
October 18, 2006 03:45 PM | Link to this
Auburn is making strides for OL this year. we have two committments fro Hoover High School in Bham, one being a highly needed center. The other committment is a DT, but can play offense. The top offensive lioneman in country has left Auburn and Ark. as the only two schools(he llives in Ark.)...if graduating from Auburn helps he will play on the Plains, both parents are Auburn grads. In my opinion, recruiting stars dont mean much at Auburn, we have several 2 star and walk-on starters and several 3 star doing very good. Of course, Caddy and Stafford were different breed.We have a stud red-shirt WR, Tim Harthorne, remember him almost came to UGA? They are only 17 year old kids~~~
By Jason O.
October 18, 2006 03:47 PM | Link to this
gdawginkalamazoo: As Hulk Hogan once said: Amen to that, brother!!!
Beating Spurrier’s boys is key, then a relatively easy Duke and then Vandy needs to win 2 of the remaining 3…that means either TN or FL…we owe Florida after that unsportsmanlike flag on Earl Bennett last year.
By Cigarette, anyone want a cigarette
October 18, 2006 04:36 PM | Link to this
Smoke em if ya got em, mutts.
By Leonard P. Loser Esqiure 3rd Edition
October 18, 2006 04:53 PM | Link to this
Miss. State VS Georgia… The Red Clay Hounds of the Sanford Kennel Club will welcome the cainine pups from Starkville and in hopes to avoid 3 lowly Dawg Daze in a row between the bushes. This one aint gonna be an easy one as it all well may seem. Its builing up to be a real dogfight and a host of these cainines will be limping throughout the shrubbery bushes.Mark Richochet will soon find out that the pups from Starkville have a lot bark and some bite. Leonards Loser in a close one Misss. State … Ga. Tech VS Clemson …. The Fiesty Felines of the Pickins County Fairgrounds Orange Home Coming Party will be running down the Hill to welcome Bumbling Bees from the North Ave. Trade School. Those bees need to watch where they step in the cow pasture and better not stomp on that kitty paw. Rumor has it that Tommy boy didnt call Pa Pa Bowden for advise this year and that the Fiesty Felines will be decked out in all Purple. Thus being The Purple Tiger Bee Eaters. Leonards Loser in a run away Ga. Tech
By Buck Cochran in the NW
October 19, 2006 04:28 AM | Link to this
Dawgs 24-10! This a game I sure would like to watch. 1st. to watch Stafford go from the 1st. snap to the last. 2. check out any changes Martinez makes on the “D” side.(bet he won’t) and last but not least, see if MR has some plays that’ll play to Staffords strong points and how he’ll mix things up. Darn, can’t watch it anywhere.
By Rich Boy
October 19, 2006 05:21 AM | Link to this
Enough Already…FIRE WILLIE MARTINEZ!!
By War Eagle
October 19, 2006 02:02 PM | Link to this
Recruiting is HEATING up nationally, according to rivals.com 1. Texas, 2.Florida 3. UGA 4. Auburn, 5. Ole Miss….looks like more speed and size coming in the SEC.
By Stephen
October 19, 2006 04:21 PM | Link to this
War Eagle, you are always fair and honest when you post. Please know anything bad I say about Auburn, (ive met some dandies lately that really get under my skin)…..will not be directed at you.
By War Eagle
October 19, 2006 09:58 PM | Link to this
Thanks stephen for nice comment, I hope someday before my sunset I will see Auburn vs UGA both unbeaten playing for the marbles, it would top off the oldest rivarly in south, plus great fans on both sides of the ball… good luck sat.
By Kenny
October 21, 2006 04:31 AM | Link to this
BirdDawg, don’t even talk about cheating without bring out the violations book, and yes I said book on UGA.
By willysee in n.c.
October 21, 2006 04:36 PM | Link to this
Recruiting is not the problem with this team,nor is scheme.Richt and co. seem to have lost this team.fla.56 ga. 14
By chazz
October 24, 2006 12:58 PM | Link to this
It used to be that we whipped UF every year and spoiled their season. It used to be that UF fans were a bunch of obnoxious whiners that wanted to fire their coach every year, booed their own players, and picked their own team apart every week.
Now, we, the bulldog nation (maybe not all) seem to be the whiniest bunch of pessimist in the SEC. Everyone, stop crying, and love your team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Mike Jr
October 25, 2006 09:15 AM | Link to this
I am a long time Auburn fan and although I would not have admitted it, I did not think we were going to beat Florida. So I think if the breaks go Georgia’s way and they bring their “A” game, they have as good a shot as any. Not often do I pull for Georgia, but this week I will.
Go Dawgs and WAR EAGLE