The Junkyard Blawg

By Fustrated

October 7, 2007 11:32 AM | Link to this

That was abysmal. We’re heading in the wrong direction. FL lost almost their entire defense and look at the gritty, to-the-wire effort they put up at Death Valley last night with their young defense. We’re close to regressing into the Goff years again. Uncanny, similarity between Richt and Goff is that both recruited strong at the skill positions but failed to stock the lines. That will cost you your job in CFB, especially the SEC. We are closer to being Ole Miss than Florida or LSU.

Btw, Bill, you ignorant slut, it ain’t Stafford. I am amazed that AJC give you this column, it’s almost like they want to embarrass UGA by putting you up a a representative of the alumni base.

By 2N4YEARS

October 7, 2007 11:48 AM | Link to this

Sadly, I actually picked UT to win this game. Georgia had won three games in a row, and I just got the feeling that they wouldn’t show up, and they didn’t. This is not a growing trend, this IS a trend. Georgia with all of these ‘TOP’ recruiting years looks merely average at best. Maybe Richt should hire Donnon back to handle the recruiting. Hey, anybody can get beat on any given Saturday, but to keep losing 1 out of 4 against teams you should beat is ridiculous. Does anyone know why South Florida is ranked in the top 10?? It’s because their coaches know how to motivate. Ditto for Rutgers. What is this world coming to when teams like that are considered ‘Top Tier’ and UGA isn’t ranked?? Word of advice for Richt & Co.: HIRE SOMEONE TO HELP MOTIVATE, POSSIBLY SOMEONE TO WORK WITH MARTINEZ or unfortunately you might end up being an analyst on ESPN.

By Cuz

October 7, 2007 12:11 PM | Link to this

Well the wheels fell off the bus and the engine caught on fire. We did a good job of making UT look great and to their credit they did a good job of making us look less than mediocre. They looked and played better than we did. They appeared to want it more than us and even if we did not have last year’s game, we sure know how that hobnail boot feels.

Shake it off, huddle up and get ready to play the Dores. I got my crow on the smoker right now. I think I will buy a bottle of old crow. I think drinking the crow will be much more fun than eating one.

By Freeman

October 7, 2007 12:11 PM | Link to this

It doesn’t matter if it’s a home or away game. A common factor for Richt’s teams is that they come out of the “tunnel” too relaxed. They are not emotionally ready to play smash mouth football. All their losses are because of poor first halves.

By Scott

October 7, 2007 12:25 PM | Link to this

We should never have been behind 28-0 in the first place. No more excuses about being young… UF is young too. From 02 - 04 our defense always stepped up big 9 out of 10 times. Those days are gone. I wanted to believe that Martinez could get the job done but it seems apparent, after looking at his body of work, that he cannot. Great teams, regardless of youth, do not have such huge swings in performance week to week. Who cares if you can beat #5 Auburn on the road one week but you can’t beat UK on the road the previous week. No consistency. I have lost faith in Martinez.

Stafford does not seem to be anything more than an average qb. He struggles with the deep ball and if he doesn’t have a complete 5 seconds to throw seems to be inaccurate and makes poor decisions. The dawgs are in trouble.

By dawg01

October 7, 2007 12:42 PM | Link to this

I cannot beleive that we looked THAT bad, and on national television. The play calling was horrible, and Stafford is NOT progressing, look at Tebow for progression. Think about it, what is the disconnect between great players and poor perfornances? COACHING! CMR is a great coach, but we have not beat anyone in our own division since LAST YEAR. We are developing an amazing ability to roll over and die. I hope they can figure it out, because UF is going to watch this game and absolutely destroy us.

By olal

October 7, 2007 12:43 PM | Link to this

Where was the coach?? In the first half when all the crap hit the fan could Richt not called a timeout to perhaps slow down the carnage? After seeing a wide open Tn receiver walk into the end zone, after watching a punt get blocked, after watching feeble attempts at tackling,you can bet the Ol Ball Coach and any other COACH would have called time and talked/ranted/cajoled his team. Richt doesn’t coach to win ..he coaches to not lose and it DON”T work.

By Moose

October 7, 2007 1:05 PM | Link to this

Great teams, even good teams demonstrate the ability to impose their will on the opponent. LSU did it last night, Stanford did it last night, South Fla did it yesterday… The list goes on. On a critical play at a critical venture you have to be able to man up and get it done. You have to be able to find the emotional and physical surge necessary to dominate the play or you don’t succeed. If you can’t play with anybody all of the time then you become anybody all of the time. We don’t have the fire and emotion necessary to be a champion. It starts with the coaches. No emotion at all. Just spit in a cup and run it off guard when you are down by 28. Take a knee and rub your head after another 3 and out by the O. Players see this and respond in kind.

We have recruited well. The players we have are the same ones our opponents wanted but we got em instead. The difference maker is how they are trained and motivated after arriving. Something is wrong internally and it starts at the top. Do you really want to be the best? Sure you do. Do you really know how? Maybe not. Champions are born that way.

By bob

October 7, 2007 1:11 PM | Link to this

WE GOT ROMPED BY ROCKY TOP! AND WILL GET ROMPED BY 3 OTHER TEAMS BY THE TIME THE SEASON IS OVER….THIS WILL BE THE UGA SEASON OF BEING STOMPED AND ROMPED!

By Mikey

October 7, 2007 1:15 PM | Link to this

Can I recall my vote from last week on Willie martinez and the good job he is doing ?

By James Holland

October 7, 2007 1:18 PM | Link to this

Give Joe Cox a chance to play… he is a damn good Quarterback. Stafford is meidi-acre…

By Fustrated

October 7, 2007 1:18 PM | Link to this

It’s the coaching. For all the Stafford bashers out there. Even genius Bill King says he’s rather have an average QB with a good OL than vice versa. Look at Brandon Cox at Auburn, he looked like a good SEC QB behind the stocked OL that Auburn had the past couple of years. then they lost those OL and have as much inexperience as we do, and now he looks terrible. Look elsewhere, a walk on QB is playing decent at Ole Miss, because they have a great OL. Unless you have a very athletic QB like Vince Young back there, you can’t line up with an undersized, inexperienced OL in the SEC and expect to win. It was like we didn’t even have an OL at times last night, several times the UT defenders were in Stafford’s face basically untouched. Ultimately Richt has to answer for letting us get into this situation. We should be playing some form of the spread offense with this terrible line situation to keep the opposing defenses playing on their heals more. Most teams in the country will be playing some form of the spread in the next few years, it works. Stafford will be in the NFL oneday and will have a better career than Tebow. He’s definitely having some issues but nothing compared to the OL issues and the WRs inability ot run precise routes and catch the ball.

The issues with this team/staff are almost too numerous to even have any hope right now. …..please get BVG back.

By dawgdespair

October 7, 2007 1:28 PM | Link to this

i’m on the ledge and gonna jump this time. Man we suck a. Its time to talk to some of the major boosters of this program and get them to hold assistant coaches accountable ie EASON and Martinez, get your s* packed and out the door

By the ritz blitz

October 7, 2007 1:31 PM | Link to this

Another mid-season collapse for the dawgs? Will it be a repeat of last year? Should we throw Willie Martinez under the bus? These are all questions the coaching staff has to ask its self after that uninspired and undisciplined performance in Knoxville. Poor line play on both sides of the ball along with poor quaterbacking equal lost in the SEC. You can’t use the “youth” excuse this is college football and everyone has those issues.

By liferdawgfan

October 7, 2007 1:54 PM | Link to this

Our program is better than this. We have huge $$$ and will surely build an indoor training field for an A grade staff/players. Our s* is week and between the most uninspired schemes in the SEC and even Div 1 we are right back to being the SEC east water boys. I mean why is it our program is always ten years behind what the good teams are doing??? Dawg nation has tasted the SEC blood and that might be Richts own ultimate undoing is that he took us to the dance and then fell back into the same f** rut that Goff and Donnan were in!!!!!!! Except they only costed 500-800 thousand yearly instead of the 2.25 MILION!!!!!!!!

Coach your a** went to sleep within a few days of the big contract ext. BEFORE WVA sugar bowl game. I as a fan are taking your performance after the big raise as a total insult to this great state and its top tier football program as far as fans/money/players in your backyard.

I have faith in the university and even some in the AD that either Richt steps up and gets at least back to where he was with UGA football a few years ago, with Donnan’s players….This was all before his BIG raise. IF you can’t deliver on this, we as a state will find another answer.

By dawgbone

October 7, 2007 1:57 PM | Link to this

I am as disappointed as anyone and I can me too me too some of you that have pointed out deficiencies on both sides of the ball(and with the coaching staff) but some of you make me sick talking as if they are no longer your team. Well, they are still my team and they still have my loyalty. IF there is no improvement in performance and fire I’ll think again. But right now, Go Dawgs.

By Pendy

October 7, 2007 2:04 PM | Link to this

0-6 vs. the East. Two Straight meltdowns against Fat Phil “The Great Pumpkin”. Gators lose two early in the SEC race and leave the East division up for grabs and leave the Vols & Cocks in the driver’s seat. Looks like 7-5 and FREE Chik-Fil-A nuggets for New Years!

By Registar

October 7, 2007 2:06 PM | Link to this

Except they only costed 500-800 thousand yearly instead of the 2.25 MILION!!!!!!!!

liferdawgfan Only “costed”? If you have a degree you are owed a refund.

By RPizaVolFan

October 7, 2007 2:06 PM | Link to this

The irony is that you could cut-and-paste these exact comments from Knoxville’s paper 3 weeks ago after UT was humiliated by Florida.

By Dave in Tampa

October 7, 2007 2:18 PM | Link to this

What I don’t get is that, on paper, Georgia and Florida are just about the same. Meaning, that each team has young players. How come Florida comes ready to play and look hungry to win. With the exception of the Alabama game we don’t look hungry at all. Matter of fact we looked scared for the most part.

That’s coaching folks. I had a feeling we were going to lose this game due to the fact that UT had an extra wee off, but it should have been a better game than that. Youth is not excuse when you have the talent. Right now, Stafford looks average at best.

If we play this way against ANY of the remaining teams we play it will be even more ugly because most of the teams are going to be better than UT. No knock intended on UT.

It is now a character check the rest of the season.

By Dog for Life

October 7, 2007 2:24 PM | Link to this

Did you see what LSU did playing two quarterbacks? Georgia needs to get Joe Cox into games while it still counts. It not only would prepare him better in case Stafford gets hurt, but it might get Stafford’s attention and make him focus more. Competition and sharing playing time certainly hasn’t hurt Thomas Brown.

By War Eagle

October 7, 2007 2:36 PM | Link to this

frustrated, you must not have noticed the Auburn=Florida, and Vandy game. Our young OL hopefully is growing up and Cox looks like a different player. 55-24(2-0).

By Jeff

October 7, 2007 2:43 PM | Link to this

I think we just have to admit that we are average. Except for the Herschel years we have been and it looks like will always be average. Why is FL., LSU and etc. always good? Recruiting? UGA has supposedly great recruiting. Yet here we are in Oct. with average stats. And I mean AVERAGE. Top of the bottom and bottom of the top. I have decided, after two years of wondering, to turn off the dish tv. It ruins my week!

By Retard's Realist

October 7, 2007 2:53 PM | Link to this

If we “fired” MR, with the money we would have to pay him, we couldn’t afford Richard Simmons as coach.

By Palmetto State Dawg

October 7, 2007 3:12 PM | Link to this

Bottom line, Martinez has no idea what he is doing, and is clearly getting outcoached. Did anyone notice how Tenn’s offense would come up to the line, and make adjustments based on how our defense was lined up? After they made their adjustments, we never re-adjusted & they hit pay dirt every time. When our pathetic offense made changes, so did Tenn’s defense & they stuffed us. We are just plain stupid! Tenn had line backers moving around & getting up field. When we were on defense, I even saw a Tenn running back put 292 lb Jeff Owens on his butt during a block. It wasn’t a crackback or cheap shout, but just a one on one match up. Unbelievable! I agree with you Bill, I am so tired of hearing Martinez say, “We couldn’t gett off the field, or we could make plays”. Hey Martinez, how about recruiting some players that CAN make some plays. When are we ever going to get a turnover or interception?? Auburn, Florida, Tenn, South Carolina, and LSU seem to be able to recruit defensive playmakers. Why can’t we?!?!??! Oh, and Brandon Miller. That guy does not even deserve his scholarship. The guy has all the physical tools to dominate, but is out of place on every play. I seriously might not go to anymore game or even watch on TV the rest of the season. Yesterday was a joke.

By JoeDog

October 7, 2007 3:21 PM | Link to this

Just like a Doggie fan not to accept the truth. TN TOOK anything it wanted. It wasn’t given. TN manhandled the dawgs like Bill Clinton handled Interns. Read between the lines!

By Dorsey Hill

October 7, 2007 3:38 PM | Link to this

Jeff,

LSU always good? Look at our record vs. theirs over any 4 year period since 1980. I assure there won’t be much of a difference in any one of them and over the entire period we would be ahead. LSU got good for the first time since the 50’s in 2002.

We have serious personnel issues which while they might be covered up a little by coaching or motivation would still be exposed vs. good teams. Without M. Washington we have 2 passive OLB’s and an undersized Mike. Our DE’s are small and easily blocked vs. the run. Our QB is still looking at his HS clippings instead of improving i.e., learning to throw an accurate deep ball. Our OL is young and gets exposed by good DL’s. In addition, we do not have an emotional leader on D. We need someone like a Pollock or an Odell who plays hard and makes plays all the time. We are unfocused, undiciplined, unmotivated, not tough AND out-manned. Not a good combo.

The coaching staff is going to have to emphasize toughness, meaness and desire over talent and experience. We need guys to play all out all the time. If they don’t they don’t play.

I can stand not winning, what is intolerable is not showing up at all for that big of a game. If something doesn’t change quick the UF game will be ugly. I hope someone shows this team the UF-LSU game. That was 2 teams who fought there azz off for 60 minutes because they wanted it. Our intensity isn’t close to those two teams right now. If it doesn’t change we’ll beat Vandy and Troy and thats it. No bowl game.

By ohwell

October 7, 2007 4:31 PM | Link to this

Guess this isn’t “Your Year”, huh, Georgia fans? Oh well… there’s always next season. I can’t wait for all the talk to start up again next year — “THIS is our year!” just like you’ve been saying every year since Herschel left campus.

By Sam Spade

October 7, 2007 4:59 PM | Link to this

Couple of thoughts: Young Stafford should not shoulder all of the blame for this or any other loss. Unfortunately, talent alone will never make anyone an NFL QB, as everyone seems to project him to be. It doesn’t even necessarily make for a good Div I-A QB. Sometimes, if a QB isn’t moving the team it helps to give him a little motivation by benching him and letting someone else have a chance. Surely UGA has talent at QB other than Stafford. Sometimes that backup, given the chance, shows that he CAN move the team. Sometimes, the QB that was benched comes back to be a better player. None of this will ever happen at UGA if the OC doesn’t have sense enough to pull the player. And it’s not showing sense when you make the move after you’re down 35-14. Coaches, SHOW SOME SENSE.

By Dr.X

October 7, 2007 5:00 PM | Link to this

Perhaps the best prescription for the Ga. football program would be for the team to lose the remainder of its games this season. That way, Richt would be forced to make staff changes, particularly on the defense. He would have no choice; events would dictate his actions. If he chose not to and matters did not exponentially improve next season, that would be the end of him. Adams would have no choice but to get rid of him.

By CommadoreDAWG

October 7, 2007 5:09 PM | Link to this

Next game is a tough one for me, but the DAWGS better win… I was torn in two last year with this game. Cuz… just make sure you let the crow ferment and then distill it before you drink it…

GO DAWGS!!!!

…can’t say go dores this week…

By Supe

October 7, 2007 5:47 PM | Link to this

I will be a Vol until I die, but I pull for Georgia every game but one during the year. It isn’t that Georgia is that bad. It isn’t that Tennessee was that bad. UT got beat by two top 10 teams. This was really anything close to their first game of playing an evenly matched team. Don’t be screaming to fire the coaches. Be a fan, support your school of choice! Look at the top 25. LSU, South Carolina, Kentucky, Florida (in that order). Parity rules this year. The old ball coach appears to have known what he was talking about at the first of the season. SEC football is still the toughest conference in the nation and there is no other group of schools and rivalries I would rather be a part of!

By Biggens

October 7, 2007 5:48 PM | Link to this

Just because Tennessee has ouscored Gerogia 72-23 in five quarters of play is no reason to throw in the towel.

The over hyped run game that was spending time planning “sideline dances” got held to a 68 yards output.

It has nothing to do with Richt or the staff.

It has everything to do with player commitment. The game was a result of poor execution by players with swelled heads.

The 41% football graduation rate spoke volumes on the field, in the news.

It is a player issue - period.

By Poned Up Face Mabel

October 7, 2007 6:03 PM | Link to this

Bill they stepped on our Face?… hmmm how about they destroyed it like my husband has done to mine!!!!

By dawgdespair

October 7, 2007 6:07 PM | Link to this

don’t try ease off the cliff, you trojan horse you clever fans. you want us to remain complacent with the coaches so that the downward trend continues. i for one am not going to stand pat and let that happen. fire martinez and eason and jancek, pack it up in cardboard boxes and have it out front of butts mehre by 7 am sharp monday…..

By SugarHillDawg

October 7, 2007 6:51 PM | Link to this

I am still anguished at the way we “played” yesterday. It reminded of the Goff days!If we don’t show up next Sat. and put a beat down on Vandy, it will be time to push the panic button! There was no excuse for that performance!

By Fredl

October 7, 2007 7:26 PM | Link to this

Mark must take back the play calling job. If he had been calling the plays, the first half could have been much better. We needed to be passing much more.

By dipstick

October 7, 2007 7:28 PM | Link to this

Bobo predictable? I would love to watch a game with you and have you tell me what play is next. Dan Henning was predictable. I think Bobo has done a great job. When the line can’t protect and your skill players don’t execute you cannot win. Do all teams fan bases have as many unrealistic expectations as ours?

By john

October 7, 2007 7:29 PM | Link to this

WOULD YOU LIKE TO BORROW SOME OF OUR YOUNG PLAYERS FROM THE COCKS.WE HAVE PLENTY!!!!

By Terry Williams

October 7, 2007 7:40 PM | Link to this

Easy whiners….no need to panic. Yes, we looked worse than pathetic, but CMR is a master at righting the ship (see ‘06). This could actually be a blessing in disguise..as UT will now keep Full-man longer…so we can beat him 5 of 7 years again. I guarrantee you this…we’ll go 5-3 in the conf., beat the pointed heads, and finish in the top 20 AGAIN. Not bad for a young off. line still trying to find itself. CMR has always indicated ‘08 is when it will come together. And it will.

By Digger

October 7, 2007 7:41 PM | Link to this

Where are all the lineman we recruited 3 and four years ago? I am sick of reading about how great m.r. can recruit it is time to make a change in the coaching staff defensive staff must go all of them the president of this university will demand changes if m.r. wants to keep coaching here he will make changes soon.

By NASCARfan

October 7, 2007 7:59 PM | Link to this

I AM A CONVERT NOW…

FIRE WILLIE EFFING MARTINEZ YESTERDAY!!!

By Terry Williams

October 7, 2007 7:59 PM | Link to this

Digger, Are you kidding me….”the president will demand changes?” …..that northern transplant doesn’t know squat about sports! He came from a schgool of 2,000 students and can’t co-exist with a big time sports program. He has an ego bigger than the moon for no good reason. I think he’s jealous that CMR is so well repected (rightly so) while we’d trade Adams for a janitor from Devry.

By Fred G. Sanford

October 7, 2007 8:04 PM | Link to this

For Sale: 2 tickets to the Music City Bowl. These won’t last long since excited UGA fans will be scooping them up. Laughing my BIG ORANGEA$$ Off at the CHUMP Bulldogs!! Hobnail boot right up the rectum!! OUCH!!

By Alpha Dog

October 7, 2007 8:11 PM | Link to this

It’s not Stafford, it is the coaching. Bo Bo sucks as and OC and QB coach. I have been saying this the entire season. If we had a better OC and QB coach, Staff would look great.

The DC needs to go. Maybe we can steal the guy form South Florida.

By A Blackmon

October 7, 2007 8:14 PM | Link to this

I guess if you look hard enough you, can always see a little good in anything? I consider myself a loyal fan,but come on!! The Tennessee game was a total embarrassment!! For the players,coaches,and the fans!!!

By Godfrey

October 7, 2007 8:19 PM | Link to this

No duh we can’t tackle. I can’t remember the last standout middle linebacker we recruited. And it’s only the most important position on our team. Linebackers are supposed to be your leading tacklers, ours couldn’t tackle yesterday because they were on their backs too much.

By Ringleader

October 7, 2007 8:20 PM | Link to this

Goff never lost to Vandy and Kentucky

Problem Goff, and the Midget Bowden (his first year at AU he signed 9 receivers) had is the same one Georgia has today…..They and CMR all believe you can win in this league with high power offense, recruit skill players first, and fill in with linemen…… During the Dooley years, there were two signs in the locker room….the first one you saw said “if they do not score, you cannot lose” and “defense wins championships” Of course with the rule changes, it is rare to have a shutout now days. Its not going to get any better until we have an aggressive defensive minded staff and quit thinking we will make a few adjustments and the offense will out score anyone.

Interesting commments by CMR on his show today about the tight ends being left over by Donnon, it was like he had to find a way to utilize them…….guess it was the same with the defensive linemen left over also.

Florida is young, so is Alabama, so is AU (three freshman offensive linemen also) so they all will get better next year.

By Stephen

October 7, 2007 8:22 PM | Link to this

LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT…YOU WERENT THERE??? I WAS….Bill, dont be one of these fair weathers, and be so pitifully p** (i spelled that how i wanted to).

We had a BAD GAME, against a team who had played ONE lousy team while we went to BAMA, and played ole miss.

They were rested, and they were fresh. WE WERENT. We didnt play good, but it was ONE GAME, with young people who are still growing up.

Bill, you stink, you are as bas as Carter Strickland, and you dont deserve another ticket to another game….oh wait, you were watching on TV. UNlike those who WENT and love the dawgs no matter what

By ga dawg

October 7, 2007 8:31 PM | Link to this

ATTENTION!! UGA is now taking applications for its coaching staff, play calling is a must, along with motivational experience. You have got to be kidding me, this game was a joke! Why did we not spread the offense use all of the field and throw more slant routes. Then we could have took advantage of the middle of the field. I do not understand the coaching and play calling of this game, we have got to have some changes or we will not win anything else this year. This game was a disgrace to the Bulldog nation, and right now i am very disappointed.

By MORE OF THE SAME

October 7, 2007 8:38 PM | Link to this

Ringleader… Goff lost to Vandy twice and Kentucky once .One of the Vandy loses was a homecoming game 1994 43-30!

By swimdawg68

October 7, 2007 8:42 PM | Link to this

I saw two different defensive teams on Sat. Tenn’s defense was prepared for our offense and Ga’s defense was not prepared for Tenn’s offense. I have been calling for Martinez to depart for several years. We do not play GA defense (getting after people), we play a soft reaction defense.

I watched the LSU-FLA game last night and saw two defenses flying around and getting after people.I thought FLA had some freshman on their defense and they are young. Wonder why FLA’s freshman do not pplay like freshman and ours appear to play more like High School juniors.

Let’s face it folks, defensively we are a very poorly coached team. WVA exposed us in the Sugar Bowl.

I am really tired of CMR defending Willie. CMR states stats on defense but most of those stats are built against week teams. Lets look at the defensive stats against only SEC competition. I’m certain they are horrible.

CMR must make a change on his defensive coaching staff at the end of the season, after all he is the one held accountable. Martinez can hide behind CMR, eventually, CMR will find himself gone like Goff if he fails to act.

By the way, I will be in St Simons the weekend of the GA-FLA game, as of this writing the only thing I have to look forward to is the Golf. Maybe UGA can pull a Stanford and shock us all.

By Hound Dog

October 7, 2007 8:44 PM | Link to this

I knew it would happen. You crap mouthed puppies should learn when you play a bunch of wusses, you shouldn’t think you are the beast in the east. Maybe you’ll luck out and beat the Gators, when pigs fly!!!

By SCDog

October 7, 2007 8:45 PM | Link to this

Reading these comments makes me ashamed to be a Dog fan. You guys really need to show some maturity. I totally understand Chandler’s comments the other week when he said they don’t play for the fans…why should they, if this is the reaction to losing (albeit pretty handily). Tennessee played better, and we lost. Tennessee had two weeks to prepare, not to mention two weeks to hear how terrible they were. Remember we had an off week before Auburn last year with people talking about a 6-6 finish - coaches had a great plan, and the players executed. Am I upset, sure. But to immediately bash coaches and players is totally unproductive. We just got outplayed and outcoached yesterday. Fortunately, we’ve been able to outplay and outcoach them 3 of the last 4 up there and 5 of 8 overall. We need to rally behind the team for the rest of the year, then when the season is over, you can complain on blogs, or write letters or checks to Evans or Richt if you want. I’m not saying have blind faith in everything we do, but we are all Dogs. And all you guys talking about getting stomped by Florida, need to start preparing for a battle this week. One at a time people! This is not college football of 20 years ago. Anybody can beat anybody. Hopefully we’ll have a good week of practice and our coaches can see some things Auburn had success with against Vanderbilt, and our players will execute, then we’ll come out a winner in Nashville. Go Dogs!

By Denny Crane

October 7, 2007 8:45 PM | Link to this

I can’t wait to get back to the ATL Monday and give it back to you cocky dawg fans. Maybe you can take your Bill Bates pic off the wall and kiss Herschels a** to feel better. Have a nice Peach Bowl, or even better maybe Doctor U will beat you, then you can go to the Music city bowl, and embaress the conference vs a slow Big 10 team, and go 0-3 in Tenn. Reaffirms how much the recruiting class rankings mean. Who needs Rodney Garner, you can have him, pay him 2 mil.

By MORE OF THE SAME

October 7, 2007 8:50 PM | Link to this

Now Thomas browm is out for 6 weeks. Dawgs are doomed!

By MORE OF THE SAME

October 7, 2007 8:55 PM | Link to this

Look at the weedeaters falling from the sky! Look at the weedeaters falling from the Sky!!!

By hurtin

October 7, 2007 9:01 PM | Link to this

Good, but not great — that’s our destiny. (Sometimes, not even good.) I get the feeling our coaching is just not on par with the big boys. I watched LSU-FL after our debacle, and I thought, “Now those are two teams that are well-prepared, well-coached, and playing with their hearts and their heads totally in this game!” I haven’t felt that way about my beloved dawgs in a looooong time. I could stomach mediocrity a little easier if I didn’t know for certain that teams like LSU or Florida don’t get better talent than we do. Therefore, two plus two, OUR COACHING IS CLEARLY INFERIOR. Is it a stretch to think that if Stafford had gone to Florida and Tim Teabag had come here, their level of play and their development as QB’s would likely be flip-flopped? COACHING. Is it a stretch to think that if Richt, Bobo, and Martinez had been at the helm of LSU last night, the play-calling, game management, and outcome would’ve looked a whole lot different, and I mean a whole lot worse? Richt is a good and admirable man and a damn good coach, in my opinion. But there are quite a few out there who seem to be a far sight more effective at putting a consistently winning football team on the field. We all know he’ll never get the boot if he keeps coming up with a few big wins, and a top ten finish here and there. He fits the mold too perfectly otherwise. Honest, humble, Christian man with integrity and all that. So settle in and get comfy with “good, but not great,” dawgs fans. It’s here to stay.

By Terry Williams = Idiot

October 7, 2007 9:03 PM | Link to this

By Terry Williams October 7, 2007 7:59 PM Digger, Are you kidding me….”the president will demand changes?” …..that northern transplant doesn’t know squat about sports! He came from a schgool of 2,000 students and can’t co-exist with a big time sports program. He has an ego bigger than the moon for no good reason. I think he’s jealous that CMR is so well repected (rightly so) while we’d trade Adams for a janitor from Devry.

* Terry, I guess you missed the graduation rate story this week?? Sports first - Academics second – Yep, you got your priorities straight!!*

BTW – The janitor from Devry would probably be able to spell school and respected which would put him (or her) ahead of you!!

By Mike Bobo 17 INT

October 7, 2007 9:15 PM | Link to this

Well, Well, Well….I am 2 for 2, with USC and UT beating the the Dawgs and batting .500. I also predicted losses to AU and UF which are looking very likely.

Quite frankly, UT was your first real test this year. Wins of UA, Western Carolina, and Old Miss really do not count, since these are weak teams. I thought OSU would have been stronger, but I was wrong with the Pokes.

All I heard before the season started was Matthew Stafford and how great the Dogs were going to be, and all I asked is that we get back in October for an update.

Well here is the update…the Dogs are:

Overrated!!! Overrated!! Overrated!! Overrated!!! Overrated!! Overrated!! Overrated!!! Overrated!! Overrated!! Overrated!!! Overrated!! Overrated!! Overrated!!! Overrated!! Overrated!! Overrated!!! Overrated!! Overrated!! Overrated!!! Overrated!! Overrated!! Overrated!!! Overrated!! Overrated!! Overrated!!! Overrated!! Overrated!! Overrated!!! Overrated!! Overrated!! Overrated!!! Overrated!! Overrated!! Overrated!!! Overrated!! Overrated!! Overrated!!! Overrated!! Overrated!!

By Dandydawg

October 7, 2007 9:18 PM | Link to this

Is the SEC East tough or what? Five out of six teams ranked in the AP top 25.

Now to the real business… You bad Georgia Fans need to stop asking for stuff. Y’all wanted Knowshawn(spelling) to start. You got what you wanted on Saturday..look what happen. Now Brown is out for maybe six weeks! Maybe you guys should just say “Let the best players play”.

Anyway… you reap what you sow!

Let’s get some more fans and GO Dawgs!

By Mike Bobo 17 INT

October 7, 2007 9:20 PM | Link to this

Please hang it up, call it day in Athens, because you are embarrassing the state of Georgia….Please call scrub this program.

UGA has no business playing D1 football, drop back to D1-AA and maybe you could winf a few games, since you love to openwith Western Carolina or Agnes Scott.

UGA will never become a powerhouse until you start playing more competitive teams on the road.

By Xenophon

October 7, 2007 9:32 PM | Link to this

That one week off for Tennessee gave them a terrific advantage. It was the same last year with the same result…a big Vol win. Let’s see what happens in Jacksonville after the Dogs have their own week off. That should tell us something. Too bad everyone can’t take off a week at the same time!!!

By Sundawg

October 7, 2007 9:32 PM | Link to this

From the other blog …

CUZ, a quick question; on the blocked punt, was that the same #6 for Georgia who last year took the outside rusher [as he did Saturday] allowing the inside guy to block the punt? I thought I was having flashbacks caused by a decadent life in the ’60s. Let me know, por favor.

General, good game to you sir! Us Dawgies are a little upset that it wasn’t more competitive. We’ll survive.

GO DAWGS —- BEAT VANDY!!!

By robdawg06

October 7, 2007 9:34 PM | Link to this

We didn’t even show up for this game. 28-0 2nd quarter ? Unfreakingbelievable. Tennessee had a great game plan : Stuff the run and run it themselves. We expected to run for 300 yards and stuff their run. The credit goes to Fullmer and the blame to Richt. I expected a close game to go either way not a humiliating blowout ! UGA will likely lose at least 3 more games. But you Tech fans can jump back to reality… We won’t lose to ya’ll.

By Monvol

October 7, 2007 9:52 PM | Link to this

As a Tennessee Fan that went to the game and opening the paper this morning what a joke that was. I suppose that since UT has lost to 2 top ten teams on the road and granted one was bad that we have been written off. That is obviosly the case in most people’s minds because i have yet to see anyone give the VOLS credit for making UGA look pathetic. We now control our own destiny and quite frankly if we play like we did on Saturday we will be heard from at the end of the season.

By SwaggerDawg

October 7, 2007 9:59 PM | Link to this

But did you see how we danced around and rubbed it in their faces after we scored that last TD. Long as we got that Bulldog swagger, I dont bout nothin else. Long as I can go bark in the face of sum 8 year old fan of whoever were playin thats what its all bout, baby.

By Danny

October 7, 2007 10:06 PM | Link to this

When will GA fan realize their program will always be second rate. They will always be the whipping boys for South Carolina’s SS. Richt is one of the highest paid coaches in CFB, but can not seal the deal. Great players are still leaving GA for other programs and have great games against the Dawgs. Now GA fan put your money were your mouth is and go after the coach at South FL.

By Monvol

October 7, 2007 10:08 PM | Link to this

That TD was a gift.

By DawgBone

October 7, 2007 10:13 PM | Link to this

I knew after that trick play TD we were toast. How wide open can you get? Have to hand it to UT - they played like they were fightin’ for their lives…lights out. Congrats. I was way wrong - they DO have a running game. Ours never had a chance since we fell behind so quick. Dawgs heads were just not in this game and it showed. That being said having a week off is a huge advantage so Fla will have an excuse when we shock the gators…wait they have two losses too… :-o) Tech losing again ( I was right on that pick) was another positive.

Still…the pain from this loss will linger. Time to focus on the next game and sink the ‘Dores.

DAWGBONE

By bigheadcrushed

October 7, 2007 10:14 PM | Link to this

If you are not any good as freshman and sophmores, there’s a good chance you will not be much better as juniors and seniors! PATHETIC. Whose rating all these great recruiting classes anyway. Obbiously, we put too much stock in them!!!!!!

By spike

October 7, 2007 10:22 PM | Link to this

I was there. That was about the most unprepared team I have seen since Goff was here. They were not ready to play. They did not block, tackle, or even look like they wanted to win. They had no fire, no toughness, no nothing. If UGA had won with a Gators loss we would be in business. It was humiliating. That is the first time since 1978 I ever left a game before it was over, even during the Spurrier years. I just could not stand to sit there anymore and watch that.

By first

October 7, 2007 10:46 PM | Link to this

Dog for life or any blogger, CMR stated at season begining, Cox would play many snaps> Has he played in any games this year?

By GSB

October 7, 2007 11:09 PM | Link to this

What’s that I hear? Why I believe that’s the sound of Tennessee’s new footwear—hobnail boots..and they’re using ‘em to stomp on some dawgs! Go Vols!!

By Dawg Nation Come Together

October 7, 2007 11:11 PM | Link to this

We’ll see what you Richt lovers think after we lose to Vandy and Kentucky two years in a row. You’ll still be talking about how great Coach Richt and his staff is. It’s like your part of a brainwashed religious cult. We have become SEC garbage. This is worse than Donnan and Goff put together. Wake the Fvck up you BLIND B@stards!

By Myrtle In Toccoa

October 7, 2007 11:13 PM | Link to this

Look like Tenessee just crapped all over us. Just flat out crapped all over us. Some body needs to light a fire under Mark Richts butt. I’ll say that much. Dont and we might lose another one before the season is out. Maybe to Floridy or Auburn.

GO DAWGS!

By Important Gameday Footnote

October 7, 2007 11:18 PM | Link to this

Dawg Fans: Those were actually Georgia Southern players dressed out in Georgia gear for the game Saturday against the Vols! Our Georgia Dawgs actually did the same and beat the South Dakota State this weekend!! Yippeee!!!!

By WTF Myrtle????

October 7, 2007 11:20 PM | Link to this

Myrtle In Toccoa - have you lost your mind. “We might lose another one.” That is the greatest understatement of the season! Can I have some of that crack your smokin’!

By Pago Pago

October 7, 2007 11:52 PM | Link to this

The season is over…. it’s sad.

By BeachGaBulldog

October 8, 2007 12:34 AM | Link to this

I have never seen a Georgia team play as bad as they did on Saturday, and I have been a Dawg fan since 1971. The tackling was the worst that I have ever seen. I don’t think Matt Stafford is the problem on offense. Yeah, we have youth on the O-Line, but I think where we have MAJOR ISSUES is on defense. To be honest, I have never cared for Willie Martinez ever since he was named defensive coordinator. His schemes are a joke, and I think that our defense will continue to get eaten alive as long as he is there. The thing that puzzles me the most, however, is how after getting our asses kicked last year, I was hoping we would come out and give them a good ol’ fashioned butt kicking, but we came out with no emotion whatsoever. I am still in shock.

By Dennis Green

October 8, 2007 1:14 AM | Link to this

They were who we thought they were!!!

By bumming in kuwait

October 8, 2007 1:40 AM | Link to this

Watching the game from Kuwait was about the most deflating thing that could have happened. I watched a football team show up uninspired, unmotivated, unwilling to adapt, and worse looked to be totally spooked by the orange phenomenon that is Neyland Stadium. I’ve contantly told my fellow Soldiers it’s not like Georgia doesn’t have talent but it seems to point glaringly at the coaching staff. Again WHY RECRUIT THESE YOUNG MEN IF YOU ARE GOING TO SIT BACK AND ALLOW THE OPPONENT TO PICK THEM APART!! That’s like dying a slow painful death. No one can stay motivated in that kind of environment. Please hire a coach that believes in attacking and not this “bend but don’t break” crap that WM preaches. And for Matt Stafford, for pete’s sake my man quit throwing on your back foot and rushing passes! I don’t believe that is what you were taught…or were you. Keep your heads up Bulldogs and Bulldog nation, things have to get better. RAKKASAN!

By robin

October 8, 2007 1:58 AM | Link to this

The Mark Richt era is over guys. Ray Goof is back!

By Brian Van Gorder

October 8, 2007 2:21 AM | Link to this

0 sacks in the last 3 games. If you don’t get pressure on the QB and can’t tackle against the run, your not going to win. There was 0 heart shown last week. It makes me sick to watch other teams catch every simple pass, but we can’t seem to to do it. It has been this way for the past 8 years. Just in the past 5 years we have lost 5 games because of 5 dropped TD passes. They need to get back to the basics: running, passing, catching, blocking, and tackling. That should be a start.

By Bobby Bowden

October 8, 2007 6:03 AM | Link to this

Ouch…Well I’ve got former NFL coach Jimbo Fisher as my offensive coordinator, former college football head coach chuck Amato as a coach and Micky Andrews for my defense. If Georgia is a top 10 program, why are they having to break in a play caller who has never before called a play? Isn’t that what the bottem 10 programs are for?

By billy ray dawg

October 8, 2007 7:05 AM | Link to this

did you guys see how LSU and FLA were tackling on defence? who is teaching UGA how to tackle?

By john

October 8, 2007 7:33 AM | Link to this

Georgia will beat the hell out of Florida because they have an open date before the game and Florida doesn’t. That’s why they got the hell beat out of them at Tennessee wasn’t it? Am I reading you excuse makers right?

By billrogers

October 8, 2007 7:43 AM | Link to this

Every year there is a game or two when Richt & his coaches just do not have our boys ready to play. The Dawgs just didn’t show up for the UT Game and neither did the coaches.

By FLA DAWG

October 8, 2007 7:55 AM | Link to this

NOTE TO RICHT:

1.The teams we play have figured out that our tailback is going to get the ball when Stafford uses his hand wag from behind just before the snap.

2.If you want to win and keep your job begin by bringing Muschamp back to UGA from Auburn. Now THAT GUY can coach defense.

3.Stop the On The Job Training of Mike Bobo as the play caller and bring in a proven winner as an offensive coach.

4.Try getting the guys ready to play before EVERY GAME.

Our players, alumni and other fans deserve it.

By Bucko

October 8, 2007 8:02 AM | Link to this

Nice effort there Dawgs … Can’t wait to get your sorry butts in J-ville. (www.Gatoralert.com)

By Mike Bobo 17 INT

October 8, 2007 8:07 AM | Link to this

Amen Danny

1. UGA loses to UT and USC and will also lose to UF and AU…on course.

2. CMR to be gone in 5 years or less and back to Miami…on course.

3. Dawg fans continue to brag about a program going down the tubes…on course.

4. Top-rated players opting for other schools….on course.

5. Matthew Stafford is totally overrated and cannot get the job done….on course.

6. Magic number is now 6, that’s right 6 straight loses to SEC East Rivals.

It is a wonderful year when you see the Dawgs still unable to seal the big one and win the big games……

By DawgMechanic

October 8, 2007 8:08 AM | Link to this

Man not a good week for dawg nation…. Why?

1.) Embarrasing loss that exposed several weaknesses we have. 2.) Stafford is once again sub par in a big game 3.) Thomas Brown is out for the next month and a half 4.) We could possibly face probation from the NCAA violations that just came out.

This doesn’t boad well for us in the recruits that are starting to look elsewhere.

WE have to clean up shop.

Let’s start with a win a VANDY and then stomp all over the GATOR’s tale.

GO DAWGS!!

By FLA DAWG

October 8, 2007 8:09 AM | Link to this

I just listened to Richt’s slideshow speech on AJC. How depressing. Imagine being a DAWG PLAYER and having to hear that uninspiring voice everyday. No wonder we have lost to SC & UT with more to come I’m afraid. Maybe we have a shot against TROY if the coaches don’t show up for the game and let the players call the plays. Same thing year after year - it’s sickening.

By Fake Beav

October 8, 2007 8:15 AM | Link to this

Can anyone confirm the sighting of an ORANGE HOBNAIL TANK that rolled through Knoxville Saturday afternoon?

By joehunkerdawg

October 8, 2007 8:25 AM | Link to this

ATTENTION Dawg Fans (true Dawg fans, not bandwagoners). We’re still the team with the most tradetion of any college football team. We have more national football championships than any other program and the most SEC championships. And by the way we Mr. Walker was the best football player ever. My point is, we’ll be back. Just remember our tradetion and the fact that we have the best facilitees in the counrty and the best fans. We also have the best players because we’re in GA where the best high school football is played (I know, I played in Cobb Co. and would have been a Dawg until I blew out my knee senior season.

We probably just need to losen up the school standards so we can get even more great players on the team. The university principal makes the recruits have way too high grades before letting them in - I know we want to keep our standards as high as the ivy league, but we might have to make some exseptions.

By M-Dawg

October 8, 2007 9:08 AM | Link to this

Dawg fans,

I saw this one coming…

We continue to believe our own press. Think about it. After OK State, according to the press, we had the ‘most impressive opening week win’ over a Div 1A school. Then we laid an egg against South Carolina.

After Ole Miss, they said UT’s defense stunk, and we’d run all over them. I knew their defense was going to ‘step up’, and they did.

It’s about coaching in these situations, and our coaches need to do a better job of preparation. It’s embarrassing to be a Dawg fan today.

By Dickster

October 8, 2007 9:08 AM | Link to this

Wheres Brian Van Gorder these days? Some coaches do great as assistants but not so good as head coaches. Seems that while he was at UGA the defense had a fire that Ive not seen since.

By Fiddyone

October 8, 2007 9:10 AM | Link to this

I’m just enjoying this waaaaay toooooo much. I hope ya’ll beat Vandy….

By YANKEEDAWG

October 8, 2007 9:12 AM | Link to this

They need to change the schedules so that both schools have an off week before the meet on the field not just one of them! It gives one school an advantage over the other! Just like Florida has had the off week before they play us! Luckily we have it this year but it is still not fair!!

By Col Neyland

October 8, 2007 9:17 AM | Link to this

By Col Neyland

October 8, 2007 8:48 AM | Link to this

Dawg Buddies, Enemy Bloggers All

Got busted down a few paygrades. I went on a tear in the CO’s private Sherman Tank after a few too many Saturday night. The CO wasn’t impressed but the 17 WAC’s in and on the turrent throughly enjoyed themselves. Awoke Sunday AM to a forced 5 mile run followed by peeling potatoes for the Clam Chowder Cookoff at the CO’s quarters.

A-Ville

I took the liberty of having too much fun at your expense. You are a good Dawg. We just don’t see eye to eye on or off the field and on Saturday night, I only had one eye open. Although I was wide-eye, jaw dropping amazed from 1530 until 1900. I’m not gonna bother you. My CO said repent and seek forgiveness from A-Ville or buy some SGT stripes. Couldn’t feed my 320 lb, 4’5” wife on that paygrade. Truthfully, I’m not gonna snipe or pester you…Go Vols

By Carlton Powell

October 8, 2007 9:25 AM | Link to this

Don’t mean to pile on but… I totally agree; the only thing that will make for substantial improvement is development of OL & DL’s. The recruiting should be aimed at recruiting the BEST OLmen and DLmen possible, and then recruit some more. This recruitment is to football what pitching is to baseball. Realistically, the Bulldogs are 3 to 4 years away from really being a force. The current OL & DL need to mature, and then there needs to be another group in training right behind them. To play successfully in the SEC a team needs about 2 to 3 deep along the lines. The Bulldogs don’t even have one. This lack of line play has been a problem since 2002. What’s the problem?? Clearly, Matt Stafford’s progress is troubling. I do understand that with defenders in one’s face all the time it’s difficult for a QB to be productive. But, as I watched the LSU-FL game, I noticed Tim Tebow seldomly had more than a 3 step drop before passing, yet he was throwing lasers out there that receivers made plays on. There is simply no comparison between Tebow’s progress and Stafford’s. Remember, THIS was supposed to be FL’s “rebuilding” year. I hope all the players and coaches watch the LSU-FL game to see how the game is SUPPOSED to be played. Kudo’s to the Gators. Don’t give me this stuff about these players being 18 year old kids. They are “courted” and treated like royalty. They get free schooling, free food, free tutoring, get to register for classes before other students, etc. FOOTBALL is a high stakes game, and they DO understand these realities whether they admit or not. Likewise for the coaches. When millions of dollars are being thrown at them, production is expected. Wish I could be more positive, but I would not count on much for the remainder of the season. Pretty much count on losses to FL, AU, possibly to KY, and one never knows about GT. If there isn’t a lot of improvement fast, I don’t think Martinez will survive. It is sad. I really wanted him to do well. But something isn’t right. Also, I would begin to get Joe Cox in the game. Couldn’t hurt. Stafford may need some time to re-group. He seemed VERY testy in the post-game interviews. Of course, I can’t blame him. Don’t know what happened with BVG, but clearly he’s bounced around. Maybe he would consider returning if the deal were right. Maybe Asst. Head Coach or something. There has to be some fires re-lit. The game was very Goffesque. A real shame.

By t man

October 8, 2007 9:28 AM | Link to this

Let me say this Joe Cox is terrible, you saw him last year. As a Tech fan I hope CMR goes with Cox he gets to display his talent and weak arm with your terrible o line. I d take Stafford anyday

By dean

October 8, 2007 9:28 AM | Link to this

Well Larry Munson, WE JUST STEPPED ON THEIR FACES WITH A HOBNAIL BOOT & BROKE THEIR NOSES!!! It is time for the Bulldogs and their faithful supporters realize that they are and have been OVER-RATED GO VOLS!!!!!!

By decatur dawg

October 8, 2007 9:33 AM | Link to this

I am so p**, I don’t even know where to start!!

First, Martinez needs to be fired! Our defense is loaded with top talent, and we are always talking about fundamentals! Defense is supposed to be played with fire, emotion, and fundamentals! We have none, and it is because of coaching! Also, has Martinez ever heard of making adjustments! F** aweful!!

Secondly, I don’t want to hear a word about our young OL. Anywone notice that Auburn has 3 freshman OL, same with FLorida? They have stepped up! This is in part to our sucky OL recruiting, again, coaching!(Anyone notice that we only have 2 out of 21 of our “great recruiting class” so far that are OL? Continuing the trend.

Thirdly, Stafford needs to step up. I know the OL is young, or just sucks. How many open guys does he miss? We have absolutely zero down field game! How many times will he pass into triple coverage? Oh, and underthrow it????? He misses short passes too, and this leads me to my next rant…..

Fourth, Bobo is already getting as predictable Richt got. How many times do you have to get stuffed at the line of scrimage up the middle, to maybe run outside! Remember, our OL stinks! and the were really stinking Saturday, so why not do something different!

Fifth, again, I come back to emotion. CMR was on the sidelines just acting like nothing was happening, like we were up by 28! PASSION, FIRE, EMOTION!!!!! Somebody, PLEASE!!!!!

Sixth, UGA is the worst team when it comes to letting the media, or whoever, get into their heads. We have abolutely no business thinking we can beat anyone! No one!! Did you freaking hear me!! Who gives a crap about past trends, we should not think we will walk by anyone, but we do, and we always get smoked! And if I see that ridiculous stat of CMR’s road record!! You have to put the Florida game in that!! What a joke!!!!!

We will loose at least 3 more games, maybe more. Count on it. We don’t have the coaches in place to get this turned around!!

FIRE MARTINEZ!!!

By Philgood

October 8, 2007 9:36 AM | Link to this

Got our butts whupped on Rocky Top Same ole story, our Dawgs are a flop Our hobnail boots got stuck in slop on Rocky Top Tennessee… Rocky Top you’ll always be a much better team than we, our Dawgs hope we’ll never see a team as good as Tennessee.

By tman

October 8, 2007 9:43 AM | Link to this

Coaches win games? Come on Nick Saban didnt beat you and supposedly he is the best. Do you think that maybe there alot of new players playing for the first time in key positions? I ve nevr heard of any of your linebackers or o=line players or d - line players. There are no All SEC players on the team this year maybe thats why they are losing not the coaches. But as a Tech fan I would love for the Georgia faithful to fire CMR and rebuild again for a few years.

By will

October 8, 2007 9:46 AM | Link to this

Did anyone hear the CMR comments regarding 3rd down conversions? He said that our 6 for 14 effort was “respectable”. Is he crazy? 4 of the 6 were when we were getting trounced by 28 points and Tenn had their JV in the game. Coach Richt needs to take a hint from Spurrier and when we play like crap, we need to say we played like crap and not try and sugarcoat horid play. By the way, we will never win a national champoinsip with our current defensive coordinated. Please hire Will Muschamp and give him whatever amount of money it takes for him to leave Auburn!!!!!!!!!

By Jeff J.

October 8, 2007 9:52 AM | Link to this

The refs cost UGA the game!

By DAWGLB

October 8, 2007 9:52 AM | Link to this

MARTINEZ NEEDS TO GOOOOO!! IN THE LAST 3 GAMES WE HAVE GIVEN UP 8 DRIVES OF 70 OR MORE YARDS, ALL RESULTING IN TOUCHDOWNS.. YOUR RIGHT MARTINEZ, WE CAN’T GET OFF THE FIELD BECAUSE YOU SUCK AS A DEFENSIVE COACH.. NO TUROVERS AND NO IMAGINATION ON DEFENSE.. OUR D-ENDS AND. CB’S GOT KILLED ALL DAY!! GO BACK TO MIAMI!!!!

By Dostahawk

October 8, 2007 9:53 AM | Link to this

Face it Dawg fans, the Dawgs just arent that good. 0-6 vs the SEC East. And this propaganda that Richt has the best road record in the SEC? What would you call those losses in Jacksonville? Its all a scam and we fell for it.

By decatur dawg

October 8, 2007 9:55 AM | Link to this

“We knew we had to put up a ‘W,’ ” Johnson said. “We got complacent with ourselves, too comfortable. We let the crowd take over our emotions take over the way we are supposed to play”

Said Kelin Johnson!!!!!

How does this happen???? How do you get too complacent when you are young, and have lost at home!!!!

Fire somebody!!!

By Demetrius

October 8, 2007 9:57 AM | Link to this

I don’t know if I can add anything to this that has not already been said however I think you have to look at the coaching staff and the players as a whole. The Ball coach put it best when he said I do not know what the big deal is about beating GA. Vandy beat GA. A certain level of calmness is needed to play offense, however on defense you need to play with a high level of aggression. Look at the defensive coach from LSU, look at Auburn’s defensive coach. Look at the coach from TN Saturday. I feel the GA defense has taken on the perosnality of the coach. I would love just to see some fire on D. However what we getting are guys looking at each other wondering what is going on. Then the coach is looking around wondering what is going on. We need to stop saying fire WM because they are not going to. He needs to coach better and the players need to play better. I just hope we can beat Vandy Sat.

By Hitman

October 8, 2007 10:10 AM | Link to this

Filet of sole — how does that hobnail boot taste Dawgs? F U 2 Munson

By hunkerdownfanatic

October 8, 2007 10:13 AM | Link to this

John J has a point the refs cost us that game, also an earlier poster had a great point it’s not fair that one team has an off week before we play. Hopefully, the poll voters will realize this and vote the Dawgs back in the top ten next week. They know about our tradetion and how good a football team we have, our history and everyting else, so I hope they do the right thing.

One more thing - Mark Richt is a good Christian and a great football coach. I would have loved to have played for him but I blew out my knee senior season.

By joeinathens

October 8, 2007 10:18 AM | Link to this

Last Saturday in Knoxville marked the beginning of the end of the Mark Richt era at Georgia. Jim Donnan’s stockpile of top recruits has dried up. Overmatched freshmen and junior college transfers are starting on the offensive and defensive lines. There isn’t a playmaker on either side of the ball. The coaching staff seems incapable, or unwilling, to instill any fire in the team.

The team is, as we are told repeatedly by the official and unofficial Bulldog spin doctors, a reflection of their even-keeled head coach. Unfortunately, even-keeled doesn’t win many games in the SEC, at least games that really matter.
Under Mark Richt, the Bulldogs are 8-11 against Florida, Tennessee and Auburn.

Even the late surge that salvaged Georgia’s 2006 season is tainted. In Auburn, Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech, the Bulldogs faced three highly-suspect quarterbacks who did more to further UGA’s cause than anything the Bulldogs could muster on their own.

A 6-6 finish this year may be a best case scenario, IF Georgia can manage two wins among Troy, Vanderbilt and Tech (and none of those appear to be “gimmes” at this point). Georgia will finish in the same position or worse next year. Sorry, Bulldog fans, but Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee and perhaps Kentucky are on the rise in the east. LSU replaces Ole Miss from the SEC West (and the game’s in Baton Rouge). Resurgent, and currently unbeaten, Arizona State replaces hapless Oklahoma State as a non-conference opponent (and the game is in Tempe). There’s always Auburn and Georgia Tech to negotiate.

My thinking is the 2009 season will become a referendum on the Richt regime and judging from the Bulldog’s current freefall, it doesn’t like pretty. Mark Richt has enjoyed tremendous success in his first few years in Athens but the Bulldogs have clearly slipped into the middle of the pack in the SEC. They’re much closer to Ole Miss than they are to Florida, LSU and Tennessee. One could reasonably argue that South Carolina has left the Dogs in the rearview mirror with Steve Spurrier at the wheel.

Yes, Mark Richt has won two SEC titles in his first six years at Georgia. The 2002 SEC championship was built upon the solid recruiting of his predecessor, Jim Donnan, while the championship season of two years ago included losses to Florida and Auburn and a fortuitous conference tie-breaking system.

People forget that David Greene, Terrence Edwards, and Boss Bailey, key pieces of Richt’s early teams, were Donnan’s recruits not Richt’s. Richt’s prize recruit has been Matthew Stafford, who looks less like David Greene and D.J. Shockley and more like Quincy Carter with every game.

A quick disclaimer: I wasn’t a huge Donnan fan. His teams seemed to forget to get off the bus in big games (remember the Auburn debacle at Sanford Stadium in 1997 after Donnan’s Dogs had finally whipped Florida for the first time?). I do give Donnan credit for brining the talent pool at Georgia up to a championship level.

Under Richt’s leadership the Bulldogs have quickly become irrelevant in the SEC East, much less in the conference as a whole or in the national picture. Bulldog fans cry and cry that their team is underrated in the polls and pre-season magazines. The first half of Saturday’s game at Neyland Stadium should serve as a cold slap of reality.

The bottom line is that Georgia’s talent level is as low as it has been since the Ray Goff era and it is beginning to show on the field. How can a purported top 10 or top 15 program get caught in a situation where it has to use freshmen and junior college transfers on the offensive line and freshmen and converted linebackers on the defensive line? None of the freshmen or sophomores, it should be noted, seems to be anything close to an impact player. Either the recruiting magazines have grossly overrated the Georgia staff’s work the past few years or the coaching staff isn’t doing much with the players once they get to Athens. Or maybe it’s a little of both.

Tennessee’s win was not a fluke. There wasn’t a player in the Tennessee lineup that wasn’t bigger, stronger, and faster than his counterpart from Georgia. David Cutcliff and his players made our defense look like Vanderbilt circa 1980. (I want to make sure I differentiate from the Vanderbilt of that era and the Vanderbilt that stuck it to UGA last year.) John Chavis’ defense looked like the Steel Curtain on Saturday after looking like the Lace Curtain in its first four games. If the freshmen and sophomores playing for UGA this year are the future of the program, the Bulldogs are in deep trouble.

Remember the viciousness that Brian VanGorder’s defenses played with? That fearsome mindset has been lost under the direction of current defensive coordinator Willie Martinez. Georgia’s “D” is soft. Maybe I should say Georgia’s “d,” as in lower-case.

I’ve always been of the opinion that VanGorder’s defenses were the foundation of Georgia’s early success under Mark Richt. The Bulldogs’ relentless play on that side of the ball allowed Georgia to be conservative and vanilla on offense and get away with it. That’s not the case any longer. This year’s edition of the Junkyard Dogs couldn’t slow down, much less stop, South Carolina when it mattered. With a ten-point lead against an anemic Alabama offense, the defense allowed the Tide to march the length of the field twice and tie the game. Mississippi’s BenJarvus Green-Ellis looked like the second coming of Tony Dorsett. Then came Saturday’s Big Orange Blitzkrieg.

On the other side of the ball, Georgia Offensive Coordinator Mike Bobo appears to be in way over his head. After having success against Oklahoma State with screen passes, he decided to trot out the same game plan for South Carolina. Apparently, Mr. Bobo didn’t realize the Ole Ball Coach has access to game film in Columbia. The Dogs eventually had success pounding the ball on the ground against a poor Ole Miss defense, so what was our game plan against a bigger and more athletic Tennessee team? Run the ball up the gut again and again even if it’s not working and the defense is bleeding points. If your counter-argument is that Georgia’s not comfortable opening the playbook because of its young o-line and quarterback, then maybe it’s time to think about a change in personnel, coaching, or game planning.

By 2010, changes in all three could come to pass.

By decatur dawg

October 8, 2007 10:29 AM | Link to this

Joe in Athens, I couldn’t have said it any better. We are headed in a bad place. My rage will not allow me to be so even-keeled about this topic.

Are you the Mark Richt of Bloggers!

By Alpharetta Dawg

October 8, 2007 10:29 AM | Link to this

My comments have nothing to do with Saturdays game or the SC game for that matter. I do not believe you can judge a coach on one game or one year. For that reason I give Bobo a pass as many GREAT coaches did not get good results the first couple of years. Martinez and Eason on the other hand should get judged on the body of work which is 4+ years and the results are terrible!!!! WM is an absolute joke and the results do not lie. UGA lost 3 of 4 to UT because of poor D look up the numbers. We lost several games to very poor teams…Vandy/UK/SC etc and why because our D was aweful! AU has killed us except last year…UF kills us every year. Don’t talk to me about meaningless stats running the bend but don’t break D against W. Carolina, Middle Tenn State, and Reggie Ball! Our defense is terrible in big games and that is a fact! Our receivers do not create seperation and have always dropped way too many passes that is also a fact. Did anyone see the receivers for UT/UF/LSU this weekend? Again these coaches get paid big money to produce and right now that are stealing from UGA and me as a contributor. MR must hold is staff accountable or face the music himself. If I hear one more word about UGA being “young” I am going to puke. Florida has 3 freshman on the OL and 9 new starters on D…AU has three freshman on the OL line. Everyone is young we simply cannot coach up our players and have no ability to properly scheme good offenses. If you UT thinks they are back because they killed a terrible UGA you need to lay off the moonshine.

By JB

October 8, 2007 10:39 AM | Link to this

We have 13 wide outs on scholarship. How many balls did we throw to them Saturday ? 3, 4 . We need 6 wide outs. The other 7 slots need to be LINEMAN. We will lose to KTY, AU,FLA, Maybe Troy and Tech is 50-50. I’m going by what I see. Don’t be a fan a minute. Pretend you live in Ohio and you just watched that game. What would you say about the rest of the year. Again, not a fan of our Dawgs, but someone in another part of the country. You would say, they stink. Hell, Tenn. has a average team. I hate to say this, But it will get Ugly for CMR before the year is over. Losing 31 to 24 in a close, hard fought game is one thing, but this. I hope we recover and they make us proud. Beating Vandy this weekend will not impress me. Talk to me after AU and FLA. !!!!!!!!!we’ll see how far we come…. er I mean fallen.

By asdfdawg

October 8, 2007 10:40 AM | Link to this

Here’s the deal: When Mark Richt decided to promote Bobo and Martinez into coordinator positions he missed out on a tremendous opportunity to actually get some forward thinking people in place at these key coaching positions. I hate to quote Yogi Bera but, “If you’re going to be the best, you gotta be the best.” Let me explain. I propose that anytime a major coaching position on the football team needs to filled, the Athletic Department needs to appoint a search committee to scour the country to recruit some of the brightest minds in football, especially for any coordinator position. Defense and offense coordinators have tremendous impact on their teams, almost more-so than the head coach. If we would have came up with a list of the very best candidates in the whole country for O and D coordinators, would Bobo and Martinez’s names be in there? Probably not. I say make it policy that a search committee be formed and nobody’s feelings get hurt. If Bobo doesn’t see his name on the list, then let that be some constructive criticism for you kid. That’s what you preach in football everyday isn’t it? “You didn’t make the list of possible candidates and here’s why…” But do we do that? No. Did we miss out on some new blood, some new energy, a new guy who shows up in Athens with stars in his eyes? Yes. We missed out and I liken it to riding down the road and throwing money out the window. But here, throwing millions of dollars out the window. Why would anyone pass on opportunities like that? People who become complacent and comfortable. Mark Richt is not thinking in a forward manner. He thinks, “No, I’ll pass on getting the best dam defensive mind in the country, like I did when I sniffed out Van Gorder. No, let’s just promote Martinez and stick with what we got. Nothing new, same old same old.”

asdfdawg

By tim

October 8, 2007 10:40 AM | Link to this

I was disappointed in the OL and the tackling as well. What was up with all the missed tackles? Tenn had 2 weeks to prepare and a good game plan. Stop the fire coach Richt nonsense. We just need to improve each week. Go dawgs!!

By Ft Worth Dawg

October 8, 2007 10:40 AM | Link to this

I missed most of the game as I took my son to our first Cub Scout overnight campout. I knew the game could go either way but was shocked we fell behind so quickly. I have felt this year that if we are behind by two touchdowns the game is over — but I usually feel that way about any SEC game. We lost but so did Wisconsin and Southern Cal — so did about half of the top 10 last week. I’m not saying I’m happy to lose but it happens, and sometimes bad teams beat really good teams (just ask Stanford). Give Tennessee credit - they played well and played better. (Why won’t someone give Cutcliffe a head coaching job?)

I don’t know which coaches need to be fired and which ones kept (well, keep Richt — Dooley won one national championship in 25 years and Richt is better than Goff and at least as good as Donnan). Martinez runs hot and cold with fans but I don’t recall ever hearing an Eason fan.

Having said that, A.J. Green cannot get to Athens fast enough.

By Dawgincartersville

October 8, 2007 10:41 AM | Link to this

All you “so called” Dawg fans need to settle down. We’ve lost only two games and we really didn’t lose them, we gave them to the lamecocks and the vals. We’ll be back because of our great tradition of football excellence - just remember how many national titles we have.

By the way, if any of you arn’t going to use your tickets, I’ll gladly go in your place. I’ve never been to Sanford but want to go. It looks like the most beautiful place on earth on game day - especially when my reception is good. Go DAWGS!

By tim

October 8, 2007 10:47 AM | Link to this

It was a rough weekend. We are not the only program with 2 losses. AU, FL, TN, TX, etc etc. Fire Mack Brown he has 2 losses! Fire Pete Carol he lost to sanford. (The Vandy of the Pac 10) Idiots. We need to get ready for next weekend. Go dawgs!!

By Philgood

October 8, 2007 10:50 AM | Link to this

Anyone notice during the game that all of the highlights from past games were all UGA wins including the disgusting and offensive “hobnail boots” call by Mr Senile?

By Ross

October 8, 2007 10:50 AM | Link to this

I guess UGA forget to wear their “Hobnail Boots” ….ha ha…go Vols

By 1eyedJack

October 8, 2007 11:03 AM | Link to this

Waited until now to post. I was sick at my stomach. Kind of like breaking up with a girlfriend you really love. But I gotta rant so here it goes. Luckily I came into this season believing we would struggle, what with the youth and inexperience, but the seeming lack of effort and focus is inexcusable, and that is a clear sign of a lack of leadership! I have no doubt that Coach Richt is a good man and that the coaches are character guys. I work with 18-22 year old kids every day and believe me when I say that peer’s attitudes hold more sway than the attitudes of those in authority. What we have here is a lack of peer leadership with that winning (Georgia) attitude. A lot of our leaders and players we expect to be leaders on this team are not Georgia kids (Jeff Owens, Kelin Johnson, Danelle Ellerbe, Marcus Howard, Matthew Stafford, Knowshon Moreno, MoMass etc.) We need to develop some leadership with players who have a little extra to play for like Georgia tradition and state pride (Thomas Brown, Kregg Lumpkin, Fernando Velasco, Stacey Bailey, Roderick Battle, etc.). We have to recruit that type of leadership. Dominate the state of Georgia, and grab 15 of the top 20 players from in-state. Then augment the class with 4 and 5 star players from out of state (concentrating in Florida). Try to develop leadership among in-state kids who have a little extra to play for. Kids who are playing for Mama and Grandma and the friends who they grew up with. I want to see a little blood on their pants, saliva hanging from their facemasks and dried snot and dirt on their uniforms. I want them to fight for ME and MY bragging rights among my out of state friends. When we lose I want to feel like we deserved to lose to a better team and not because we failed to fight the good fight. Give me a 3 star kid from Ga. over a 4 star kid from Ala. Give me that kid who grew up watching the Dawgs on TV with Daddy and Grandpa and Uncle John. Give me that Ga. kid who got Bulldog gear for Christmas. Give me that Ga. kid who has spilled his blood, sweat & tears on the practice fields and stadiums of Ga. I want my Georgia Bulldogs to be “Junkyard Dawgs”. By the way Van Gorder is just down the road at Suwanee coaching linebackers.

By sandra

October 8, 2007 11:11 AM | Link to this

OK- I am a relic of the Herschel years. That was the last time Georgia was actually worth a da#$! We have been over-rated, out-recruited, out-coached, and just plain whipped year after year. We keep living off the years gone by and in this day and age, the good teams keep passing UGA on by! Our coaches show no emotion, our players show no heart and here we all are again with the same comments from seasons of yore. Cheer up uga fans, maybe we can host the 1st Possum Bowl and assure a place in a bowl game forever.

By FireFulmerNow!

October 8, 2007 11:25 AM | Link to this

I feel like I am reading UT’s web pages from last week. Wow how one game makes a difference.

By ld

October 8, 2007 11:34 AM | Link to this

First, terrible performance. Tenneessee totally beat us in every phase and for that I congratulate them. Now, I have a slightly different philosophy. We have all these 4 and 5 start recruits who’ve always been told how special they are. I’m tired of seeing these guys lollygag aroudn the field and show very little desire until they make a game winning play in the final minute Anyone watch Flrodia or LSU games? They play hard at all times and show tons of heart. The only heart we have had in years was David Pollack. I say, we start recruiting lower level guys that really want to play. People that will put it all on the line and play their hearts out at all times. Players like Pollack and Terry Hoage. They were true champions. I’m just sick of it. Maybe it’s the coaches, I don’t know but this really has been the representation that UGA has put on the field for decades. How about we get us some guys that really want to play for the red and black and yearn to win as much as us fans do. Heck, even in a loss I could be proud of players who played like that. We have tons of talent and apparently no heart, desire, drive etc…

By WhiteAndGold

October 8, 2007 11:38 AM | Link to this

OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! Umm, how many stitches is it going to take to repair your backsides after that raping? HAHAHAH! To hell, to hell, with old Georgia! To hell, to hell, with old Georgia. To hell, to hell with old Georgia! The sest pool of the south!

Red shirts and silver britches, go to hell you sons of b***!

By Jody

October 8, 2007 11:39 AM | Link to this

I agree with most everything being said above. We came out and got shell shocked with their first possession. That trick play was brilliant against any team and they sold it better than a maddame at a brothel. Our wind was taken out after that trick play and they went in for the kill and got it. It reminded me a lot of the West VA game when we went down 28-0 early to them. Except in that game we came back firing on all cylinders and darn near won the game, eventually losing by a field goal. The difference in that team and this current team is not talent, it seems to be passion and everyone is right to say that that starts with the coach’s. But eventually you need a leader to step up on both offense and defense and get the team fired up. Stafford needs to be that leader. Look at Tebow getting fired up every damn play and running up and down the sidelines screaming in everyones face. Stafford goes to the bench and plants it. Hopefully this game lights a fire up under us instead of falling into the gutter like last years mid season performance. I know this team can compete with anyone, the question is do they want to? in defense of the Dawgs, Tennessee was looking for a spark after their 2 losses and with a bi week before our game and the fact that it was in neeland stadium just confounded the odds against us. Any SEC team with a bi week should dominate the next game. Lets see if the Dawgs can take advantage of our schedule and beat FL after our bi week. Plus they will be coming off of a road trip to KY the week before. The odds are in our favor in that game. GA’s leaders just need to step up play with more passion. Go Dawgs!

By DawgHater

October 8, 2007 11:43 AM | Link to this

This week’s poll shows how much ugay gets credit when none is due. How can anyone explain that a team that was demolished by another team is ranked ahead of them?

The voting polls are a joke.

Ugay continues to get top recruits year in and year out, yet cannot put together a worthy season. No high school player should want to end up at ugay where their talent will go to waste and they likely end up in jail with a DUI.

By JB

October 8, 2007 11:47 AM | Link to this

One thing I would love to see CMR do. If Spurrier coached the DAWGS, you would have seen Cox, and not just for mop up duty. Mark is a great man, but he try’s to protect these guys “FEELINGS” too much.

By 1eyedJack

October 8, 2007 11:51 AM | Link to this

WhiteAndGold YOU and YOUR Insects lost to Maryland. How sad is that? Another quality loss.

By Stn Mtn Vol

October 8, 2007 11:57 AM | Link to this

This would be the perfect time to seek revenge for your pathetic whining and ranting of last week. But even to my own surprise I have chosen a different course, the game speaks for itself. Were you really expecting to win, in Knoxville? here is a dose of reality; 6 straight a** kickings in the east, which includes Vandy and KY. Your recruiters suck, that is why Cameron Newton is in Gainesville, where he KNEW he would fight for PT. Your Coaches would not guarantee honest competition between he and Matthew Strap-on. I know this kid personally, he wanted to be a Dawg. Say goodbye to all of the talent in GA. MR is an arrogant idiot with a staff to prove it. UGA has decent talent but no one to coach them up, I feel for those kids. Speed and athleticism is SEC football these days, for example; Tenn OLB is 215 pounds 4.3 speed, MLB 230 pounds 4.4 speed, SLB 219 4.5 speed, you gotta get to the ball in a hurry. Football basics, catch and run. Welcome to the cellar of the SEC.

By CommadoreDAWG

October 8, 2007 11:57 AM | Link to this

WhiteandGold… The word is “cesspool”, try and refrain from using words that you can’t spell. Your posts are now both banal and ignorant.

By WhiteAndGold

October 8, 2007 11:59 AM | Link to this

We may have lost to Maryland, but were damn sure not going to lose to you nob gobblers. BTW, Maryland would probably wipe their a*******es with your fleabags.

By iagreew/joeinathens

October 8, 2007 12:00 PM | Link to this

Joe- you nailed it!!!

We will have the same staff and basically the same players in 09.

I doubt any coaches will be let go.

CMR has had a nice run to this point and I think we will really know where we stand exactly 12 months from today! If they show up in the first 6 games of 08 like they have this year it will be the begining of an ugly time in every one’s life.

I hope the staff can turn things around in the next 2-3 weeks. We have been exposed!!!

Get the numbers up on the lineman. Why they insist on so many skill (WR’s) players is beyond me. If both lines were deep and well prepared it would not have been such a butt kicking on Sat. I don’t care how “young” They are!!!

Joe in Athens is a wise man…

GO DAWGS !!!

By WhiteAndGold

October 8, 2007 12:08 PM | Link to this

AWWWWWEEEE Commadore, are you going to cry? Come on big boy, cry for me. Cry you little douchebag. Is that a tear I see? It damn well better be. Dont worry though, were going to give you $hit bricks somethign to cry about real soon.

By TKdawg

October 8, 2007 12:09 PM | Link to this

Whiteandgold. This convo is only for teams that make the top 25. Check that, for teams that can at least get 1 vote. That is where your “program” is. You cannot even get a single vote. Please, shut up.

By CommadoreDAWG

October 8, 2007 12:12 PM | Link to this

The thing that I find really disconcerting is that some peoples’ lives are so lackluster that one has to jab at a rival teams’ fanbase in order to feel good about themselves.

By BigDawgAthens

October 8, 2007 12:16 PM | Link to this

UGA stands for tradetion in football. We’re the first team to play a college football game, have won the most national football championships and are the best in the SEC year in and year out. My point is that with that tradetion, we’ll be back on top in no time. Don’t panic, Dawg faithful

I hope the ten vals enjoy this one, it doesn’t happen often and it might not happen again.

By john

October 8, 2007 12:18 PM | Link to this

I assume that the defensive game plan was entrusted to Martinez and the offensive game plan to Bobo. 0-28 at the half is not competitive and we all know the final score could have been worse if Tenn. had not let up. Why am I getting the feeling that Richt is not too upset about this. I hope that behind the scenes he is letting some people know that this will not be tolerated. That is if they have the players to compete and if they don’t, whose fault is that?

By CommadoreDAWG

October 8, 2007 12:18 PM | Link to this

WhiteandGold… You’ve once again astounded me with your acumen. I sincerely hope that you weren’t educated at Tech, because it would be a disservice to my grandfather and uncles who have degrees from there. I have a great deal of respect for Tech, so quit doing your best to degrade my opinion of the school.

By DawgHater

October 8, 2007 12:20 PM | Link to this

I agree CommadoreDAWG - like the tons of idiot ugay fans that go onto other team’s blogs and talk crap.

You reap what you sow!

By conrad

October 8, 2007 12:33 PM | Link to this

Most games are won & lost along the lines. UGA was gettin BLOWN off the ball by the UT O-Line, most of the time not touching an RB until 4 yards past scrimmage…Because of this, they were forced into blitzes, & got burned twice on corner blitzes…

As bad, the O-Line was dominated by UT’s front…

Sure you can blame the coaching & yes, Bobo could have perhaps called some delayed screens, etc.

The bottom line is UGA had better man up in the trenches, or it’s gonna get worse quick

By JD

October 8, 2007 12:40 PM | Link to this

What is Florida doing that is allowing Tim Tebow to flourish as a first year starter, and UGA and Stafford still hasn’t turned the corner with twice as many starts. Ohio State is number 3 and lost a heisman trophy winner and two first round receivers, why does Uga seem to hurt more than any other team when everyone loses top players every year, we need to stop underacheiving..too much talent here

By JD

October 8, 2007 12:41 PM | Link to this

What is Florida doing that is allowing Tim Tebow to flourish as a first year starter, and UGA and Stafford still hasn’t turned the corner with twice as many starts. Ohio State is number 3 and lost a heisman trophy winner and two first round receivers, why does Uga seem to hurt more than any other team when everyone loses top players every year, we need to stop underacheiving..too much talent here

By TKdawg

October 8, 2007 12:41 PM | Link to this

It’s amazing to me how many “fans” are on here calling for some coaches head’s. I bet yall became “fans” right around the 51st point being scored on Tech in ‘02. Look, we got beatdown by a team w/something to prove. No one is happy about it. Our O-line siutation is what it is. A bunch of young kids that got intimated by their surrondings and got beaten up. They will get better as they get bigger. Our D does concern me a little. Our interior line is non-exsistent at times and our lb’s are average at best. I don’t know if it’s a personnel or scheme problem. I do know that we have a proud and capable coaching staff that will do whatever they need to do to fix it. We’ll get better….just will take some time. Let’s start taking the games one at a time and see where we end up. And for all of you “fans” that want Richt gone….how about you first!

By CommadoreDAWG

October 8, 2007 12:49 PM | Link to this

DawgHater… I never said I agreed with it regardless of their team affiliation Dawg, Vol, Dore, Gator it doesn’t really matter, nor does it change that fact that it is worthless BS that I have to scroll through to get real opinions on SEC football; which coincidentally is what this blog is all about in the first place. Futhermore, the fact that you felt compelled to justify your own actions should tell you something… as in STICK TO THE TOPIC, if you want to trash talk, start your own trash talk forum…

By Mekvertickleiben

October 8, 2007 1:03 PM | Link to this

This is pretty typical. One out of ten posters has a brain.

1.) 2007 is more of a rebuidling year than ‘06 - fact! 2.) Three freshmen on the OL - what do you expect!? If you want to point a finger, go ahead and point it at RG. Although even he couldn’t forsee all the shoulder injuries and personal problems coming. 3.) Stafford is clearly the best QB we have. If he had more playmakers like Goodman and consistency from his WR’s then his stats would be lights out. Yes, he continues to throw off his back foot and struggles with long ball accuracy. Bobo MUST address these issues. Playing Cox & Stafford like LSU is the most BRAIN DEAD idea I’ve ever heard. Earth to ding-dong… the other guy must offer something your starter doesn’t, like the ability to run in this case. Cox has the same profile as Stafford so that makes no sense. 4.) This is an insane year in college football. Who would have guessed Stanford would beat USC, or USF would be world beaters? Any body remember App. St. over Mich.? Florida has two losses, the same as UGA… how do you think the fans who wear chorts feel? 5.) The sky isn’t falling. Does this staff have to address problems? YES.

Here’s what needs addressing: 1.) Recruiting - we focus too much on a certain type of player on defense (i.e., “speed”). Speed is great, but you have to have a balance. We need another Pollack, Steltz or Penn St. type player, who can be a leader and manager on the field. One that doesn’t implode when the going gets rough. We also need to recruit better OL/DL players, that is a glaring weakness over the past few years. 2.) Emphasis on fundamentals!!! Our defense hasn’t figured out how to shed a block since the West Virginia game. Tackling is also pathetic. Throwing off your back foot is a prescription for an INT or incompletion. There are many more. 3.) Coaching - CMR MAY need to do a staff evaluation at the end. There is no execuse not to get your players ready to play.

By georgiagirl

October 8, 2007 1:10 PM | Link to this

I just love these VOLS fans I guess you forgot 2005 season 5-6 and CAL and Fla thos year, so go find yourself something to do, because your season is not over. And how many years did we beat with your wonderful Casey. So who know you might 6-5 this season.

And for the Georgia fans hey you wanted BO BO calling plays, now look at where we are going and the only teams in the SEC East that have the right to say anything is USC and UK they only have one lost.
But I do know that this team coaches are not getting these guys really with all the soft plays and talk. Too soft for some really talent players. Time for changes in the D has far as coaches.

By Myrtle In Toccoa

October 8, 2007 1:11 PM | Link to this

What did Myrtle say on here before the season comenced? 8 and 4. Thats what. With loosing to South Caroliny, Tenessee, Auburn and Floridy this year. I done said it before and Im gone say it again. We gone loose to South Caroliny, Tenessee, Auburn and Floridy this year. Mark Myrtles words.

GO DAWGS!

By Exley DAWG

October 8, 2007 1:13 PM | Link to this

I admit, Im a loser. I commented on this post about I had become a WM fan. Im guilty of blind loyalty i guess. He does not know how to make adjustments. This was simply the worst product I have seen in Richts tenure. Pathetic team. Stafford is NOT David Green. Losing Paul Oliver and Charles Johnson is showing up big time. 2 years of watching straight crap.

By Nolan School

October 8, 2007 1:14 PM | Link to this

This is a wonderful and entertaining blog. It warms the heart of all ABG’s everywhere.

By CommadoreDAWG

October 8, 2007 1:15 PM | Link to this

Mek… I agree, games are won in the trenches and we have to get a playmaker on the D-Line or else… The O-line, I’m hoping, will mature and blossom into a sturdy front so Staff can set his feet and fire. Isn’t that what we got him for in the first place… to throw the ball.

By Dennis

October 8, 2007 1:18 PM | Link to this

Next time, wear your boots and leave those ruby red slippers in Athens. Losers.

By Bigplay McKay

October 8, 2007 1:19 PM | Link to this

Not going to happen unless….. I’m an avid Georgia Dawgs fans and I get sick of the bulldog nation talking about National Title hopes every year. This not happen until Georgia is able to beat both Tennennesse and Florida in the same season. The last time this occured was in the 1982 football season. Georgia later lost to Dan Marino and the Pitt Panters in the Sugar Bowl. Penn State went on to win the title. Georgia has had alot of talent, but when it comes to a team wearing Orange the Bulldogs are always blue.

By Mike Bobo 17 INT

October 8, 2007 1:19 PM | Link to this

BigDawgAthens WTF with your information!! Folks this is your typical ignorant UGA fan who just throws something against the wall to see if it sticks.

Always living in the past, always living in the past and still talking about Buck Belue and 1980. I can understand why, it is the only national title for your program and you have not even come close in 27 years.

By Mike Bobo 17 INT

October 8, 2007 1:27 PM | Link to this

Everyone check this blog out:

By joehunkerdawg

ATTENTION Dawg Fans (true Dawg fans, not bandwagoners). We’re still the team with the most tradetion of any college football team. We have more national football championships than any other program and the most SEC championships. And by the way we Mr. Walker was the best football player ever.

This is why everyone hates UGA, they make up facts about national titles and SEC titles…LOL!!!Nothing but a bunch of blue jean, cell phone, RV Goatie rednecks drinking Bud on a Sat afternoon watching their team lose.

What a waste of money and time.

By FLA DAWG

October 8, 2007 1:28 PM | Link to this

Dawg Fans, Don’t let the Koolaide Drinkers keep you from venting your justifiable frustration about the coaching. I am one of those whining, bandwagon-riding alumni who has had enough of Richt, Martinez and the On The Job Training Bobo. We went through this last year only to be placated by a few wins at the end. They gotta go or we’ll be in the same situation next year.

By ld

October 8, 2007 1:31 PM | Link to this

Geez, some of these posts are ridiculous. Commadore Dawg, you have great points but don’t get into it with that white and gold idiot. You just give him somehting to keep his uneducated mouth going. Bottom line is this to techies, vols, gators, or anyone else that thinks they can change the way we feel about our school. Are we ever going to turn away from our Dwags? Heck No! I’m proud to be a Dawg and I’ll stand by my school no matter what. We got beat by a better team this week. It deosn’t mean anything but that they hae bragging rights for one year. Mark Richt has proven that he is a capable coach. It took Dooley 15 or so years to win a NC and he did it after a 4-7 season. The only good thing about this is that maybe all these bandwagon people will go elsewhere so that all the true Dogs can go to the games and celebrate amongst those of us who truly care about this state and our school.

By Mayretta_Dawg

October 8, 2007 1:35 PM | Link to this

I cannot believe how quickly you fair-weather Dawg “fans” turn on your team and eat your own. After losing to SC and then beating Bama and Ole Miss, you didn’t see the same “fire Martinez, fire coach Richt (are you kidding me??!!), fire coach Bobo, fire coach Eason…..” Our Offensive Line was unstoppable, the coaches were doing their jobs…. You people are just plain stupid and are making us look like Bama or the same UT fans that have been calling for Phil’s head up in Knoxville. Forget the fact that Coach Richt has won us two SEC Championships and if we lucked out the same as UF during our one loss season we could be sporting a National Championship trophy in Butts-Mehre Center. Yep, our performance against UT was the worse I have seen since we got rocked by Florida the same year the Braves won the World Series but you know what, it happens… CMR BOASTS ONE OF THE HIGHEST WINNING PERCENTAGES AMONGST CURRENT ACTIVE COACHES and y’all want to give him the axe? You people are just plain stupid and the reason why I cheer for the team and shy away from the fans. Keep it up and Richt will leave for Miami, then who will we get? With that being said, congrats to General Neyland for his team coming to play… Go Dawgs and to Hell with you short bus, fair-weather fans!

By ARdawg

October 8, 2007 1:39 PM | Link to this

It is a football GAME. One game. Albeit this one game exposed our beloved Dawgs as what, we feared, we had earlier in the year after the USC loss. Some teams loaded with young talent can overcome that obstacle, we obviously cannot. I stated on this blog that we would lose a couple of more games but I didn’t believe we could lose to the vols (and in such an embarrassing fashion).

It is difficult to watch your team show up for a football game with no intention of winning it. I’m not the fairweather fan, I’m UGA through and through and I’m not going to rant and rave, telling CMR what to do and who to fire. Thats his job. We knew it was going to be a difficult year coming in and I’m not bashing my Dawgs but it is gut-check time. Unless they (staff and players) want to sit out the 07 bowl season they’ll need to get busy. Play like we saw Saturday won’t win them any games remaining on the schedule.

Suddenly, Vandy, Troy, Kentucky and the Bugs loom large. I was hopeful for a victory in J’ville and against Auburn but thats looking more like fantasy. I realize any SEC team can beat any SEC team on any given day but the lacksidasical, lethargic play we saw Saturday is disheartening. I fear we have regressed to pre USC game

By monty

October 8, 2007 1:40 PM | Link to this

At how many consecutive losses to Eastern division teams do we start to panic and admit that we have a problem? What is the string up to now? How did we get to this point when every year we lose as many if not more players to the pro’s? It can’t be for a lack of talent. If not talent, then what? Coaching? I like Mark Richt’s winning percentage but it is oviously misleading when it comes to beating the big teams inside your own division.

By Paul

October 8, 2007 1:43 PM | Link to this

As bad as Saturday’s performance was, we have to remember that it was UT’s day and not ours. They were inspired, rested after an off week, really coached-up and at home in a MUST game for the coaches and the program. For those with short memories, it was the same situation in reverse that UGA faced last year in the Auburn game. We had lost four consecutive games and were facing the #6 team in the country in their house, and we beat them about as badly as UT beat us Saturday. That having been said, we clearly have some problems, and I hope that CMR is “man enough” to address them. Every year we have a top recruiting class, but two to three years later, it doesn’t look like it on the field. That to me is a coaching problem. To make matters worse, the SEC has changed dramatically in the past three years: Steve Spurrier returned, Urban Meyer arrived and now Nick Saban has come back as well. All three are excellent coaches, great recruiters and “risk takers.” Conservative play calls on both offense and defense, which may have worked in the past, are not likely to work as well in the future. We must become more aggressive if we want to win the SEC (and hopefully a national championship) in the future, no matter how talented our players are. Parity in the SEC, and across the country, is becoming a fact. Just look at this year. No longer are teams winning simply because their talent level is a little better. Just as is the case in the NFL, the best coached, motivated and prepared teams will win the championships. We as fans and CMR and his coaching staff need to recognize and face this new reality. If a coach is not getting the job done, he needs to go; no matter how good a guy he is, no matter how long you have known him and no matter how much you value continuity on the coaching staff. You have to do it because your opponents will be doing it as well. GO DAWGS!!

By darrell johnson

October 8, 2007 1:44 PM | Link to this

Missonary Mark- did his usual no show coaching job in a tough game—not a single hair on his head ever was moved out of place during the entire horrible performance on both sides of the ball—-excuses are many and very old—-this is a below average coach in a 2 million job just floating through time—-as Steve Spurrier asked”where do all the top ten recruiting classes go after they arrive at Georgia?? coaching players up to potential is never going to happen with this group of misfit coaches. Missonary Work is a great cause—-What we need is a head coach focused on football—-make fun of Goff and Donnan if you like but at least they cared and showned true emotion in their coaching!!!!!

By Fill Fulmer

October 8, 2007 1:49 PM | Link to this

While the AJC stated that the DAWGS “gave” the VOLS the game, I’m here to tell you TENNESSEE took it. And by the way, we took some liberties with your cheerleaders and dawg coeds, too.

By Doug

October 8, 2007 2:02 PM | Link to this

What bothers me is that both Mark Richt and Martinez are passing the buck on losing games to their players, e.g., we will see who wins the starting job this week and competes. Not once have either one of them admitted that they just might be the problem. Richt needs to find a mentor to set him straight and admit the truth.

By Block

October 8, 2007 2:12 PM | Link to this

I drove a round trip of almost 1000 miles to the Tennessee game and the Dawgs didn’t even show up! Somebody stole the Dawgs uniforms and played the game in their place. The coaches were there though, which was evidenced by the ultra conservative coaching and play calling. Get this, you’re down 21-0, your defense has not even slowed down the Vols the entire game, you have just about the best field position you’ve had all day and you don’t have the guts to go for it on a fourth down when all you need is about a foot! Coach Myers (LSU) had the guts and showed confidence in his offense against Florida by going for it on more than one occasion Saturday night and got the first down EVERY TIME. Maybe that’s one reason they are the number 1 team in the nation. No guts, No glory! I’d much rather lose by taking risks than looking like a pansy and losing by a much larger margin. The entire Bulldog team and staff should be ASHAMED for this pathetic effort (or I should say lack of effort). The Bulldog nation expects and deserves much better than this. I’m sick of hearing about the “Youth” excuse…ALL teams are playing freshmen. The coaching staff DID NOT have their team MOTIVATED for this very important game. I totally agree with the guy who said Coach Richt coaches NOT TO LOSE rather than TO WIN!

By Mike Bobo 17 INT

October 8, 2007 2:15 PM | Link to this

You know I have to say that this the most wonderful blog I have ever been associated with. No comebacks on the folks piling on, just Bulldog Nation looking for answers….guess what…there are none!!! LOL!!!

By Don

October 8, 2007 2:16 PM | Link to this

There is an old saw in football. And it is that a team reflects the personality of its coaches. Our coach is reputed to be a good man and I respect that. But he is a passionless man or appears to be from the TV shots of him. And this team damn sure reflects that. Keep in mind two salient points. We are ofer against the SEC E in the past two seasons and 2002 was the tops for MR. We’ve been declining ever since. And it ain’t gonna stop this year. How sad. We have everything to be a top program year in and year out. Great facilities, near a dynamic city, football talent galore in-state, etc. But we’re not. Urban Myer is going to feast on us in less than three weeks. Then we play Auburn who looks as if they are reviving. It’s just not the players, it’s the coaching. Nobody in their right mind would have kept Eason after a showing of coaching down the players rather than coaching them not. He’s a non-discrimination coach, he makes bad players out of all the talent. The real answer might be that we don’t recruit really good players. If taking a look at what Dawgs are in the NFL, you might find the answer. The great majority were Donnan’s players, not Richt’s. Might that be the answer? Maybe they have the talent but they don’t get the coaching. Or maybe it’s a combination of both. Whatever it is, it stinks.

By 1eyedJack

October 8, 2007 2:17 PM | Link to this

I’m surprised some of you “Georgia fans” aren’t at practice today brandishing torches and nooses ready to lynch Coach Richt and Co. Are you the same fair weather fans who called for Vince’s head in ‘79 when we went 6-5 and missed a bowl? The very next year Vince pulls a 6’2” 230 lb. rabbit out of his hat and we win the National Championship. The nucleus of that NC team was there during ‘79 enduring adversity, building character and gaining experience. We only needed another piece. I am a Richt supporter. I believe this man has done good things for this team, and I for one am glad to have him. Such short memories. Do you guys not remember Ray Goff and Jim Donnan? This hurts me as much as the next Dawg, but I feel some comfort knowing that whatever we endure this year will hopefully bring the guys together and help bond them into a team. A team where when you walk up to the line with 100,000 fans screaming you can look to each side and know that that guy has got your back. A team with talent and chemistry. In fact a TEAM! If we fall on them like a pack of rabid dogs it can’t do them a bit of good. We haven’t given up yet. Our flag has still not touched the dirt. If the flag bearer goes down somebody has to be willing to take it up. I for one am ready. Too bad about Tennessee. Get ‘em next year though “between the hedges”. Gotta take care of Vandy next week. Go Dawgs! Sic ‘em! Woof!

By Noyellowinthisblood

October 8, 2007 2:26 PM | Link to this

I don’t mind losing a game if the effort is there. I went into this weekend expecting a good, tight game. What I saw on Sat. was a team giving up. I think the coaches and players are both at fault. There wasn’t any fire and no drastic adjustments that I could see. We have one week to correct some issues and then a bye week to get ready for Fl or this one might be a lost cause.

GO DAWGS!!!

By Myrtle In Toccoa

October 8, 2007 2:28 PM | Link to this

I writ a piece of poetry for Pamela Smart and mailed it to her in prison on a count of I seen her on Snapped. I googled her and found whure she has a web site and on it it features her mailing address at the prison. It says she graduated from FSU. She claims she aint responsible for her husband being killed and she stands falsly accused. I encourage every body in the DAWG NATION to write a piece of poetry or prose for her and mail it to her so that she will know that we the DAWG NATION sypathize with her plite with her setting in the jail house.

Pamela Smart dont give a fart. It’s yall what aint got heart. Yall’ve locked me up like a damned old dawg. Instead of letting me run thru the dewy meadows freely jumping like a frawg. Yall go home every day free as a bird. It’s me what is stuck here like a putrid turd. I set here in my dinjee, dismal cell. Well yall can flat out go to hell. I dont get to see no flowers bloom in the spring. I dont get to see a crapping thing. Except fellow inmates mocking me. With threatening eyes and mental instability. And prison staff with low IQs. They aint got no degree from the FSUs. S** it seems like such a waste. And I dont make that statement in haste. I wish I could take a long hot bubble bath. But in prison you dont walk that path. I feel so cheated and so blue. Just like Lori Berenson in Peru. Yall say I’ll get to leave this place one day - in a pine box. Well thats your pile of dirty socks. Yall said I was stupid. Yall said I was strange. Well maybe I am. But I’ll never change! I sit confined, aching, aging in pain. You can never know my strain. As I enter the winter of my life All I see here in the prison is grief and strife. The killers of my husband all get a fresh start. But “Tough Crap” for Pamela Smart. My joints ache. I want to wail. My life’s a surreal tale. Oh dark, hopeless, bottomless well. All of yall just go to hell.

By brandt joel

October 8, 2007 3:13 PM | Link to this

this was a statement game and the reality is the program is going in the wrong direction. fans are in denial but richt has taken the program as far as it can go with him as head coach. the talent level is terrible and has gotten worse each year. how many nfl prospects do we have? this is his seventh year and we will 8-4 or 7-5 and stafford is regressing because of poor coaching. im through we need a new head coach. how do we show up flat for this game

By Mayretta_Dawg

October 8, 2007 3:24 PM | Link to this

GATA 1 eyed Jack!

By BILLDAWG

October 8, 2007 3:27 PM | Link to this

Nice guys finish last!! CMR needs to get a job in counseling, or in door to door religion sales. We need somebody to kick a little A$$ and get a new message across to these Dawgs. This absolutley SUCKS!!!

By Jimmy dawg

October 8, 2007 3:45 PM | Link to this

Come on bulldawg nation, lets ralli around this team! We are the georgia Bulldawgs and we can beat them gators. You know we have the best athletes in the SEC and we can recruit them because that is what uga is about. Darn Good Football. We may have 2 losses, but that is all we will have this year. Maybe coach richt can bring in some more juco players to bring the house down in the off season. We need to do all we can to win football games, I don’t care who it is as long as they can wear a helmet and play ball!!! Remember Odell? and others! And, we WILL do that I guarantee. Therefore, we will win again!

By DawgInIraq

October 8, 2007 3:49 PM | Link to this

SICK OF IT

Sick of saying “KNOCK OFF THE NEGATIVITY” and hearing - You are just a brainwashed fool——————————-Sick of saying “LOOK AT WHAT HE’S DONE” and hearing - He did it with someone else’s players (cause THEY sure as hell couldn’t get it done with THEIR players now could they???)——————Sick of saying “THEY ARE SO YOUNG – we didn’t REALLY deserve to be a top ten team this year with all the inexperience” and hearing - He is an idiot for waiting to get OL and DL—————————-Sick of saying “HE’S HELPING THESE BOYS BECOME BETTER MEN” and hearing - he’s a crazy religious freak who can’t coach———————————Its a VAST minority that wants to can a helluva worker after a slip up or two. GET OVER YOURSELVES. You don’t win a national title every year. Not even the MIIIGHTY USC could make it past Stanford……..not even going to try to be nice on this one. If you knee jerk jacka55es ran the units I worked for, we would tuck tail and run if a single shot was fired……………..I’m ashamed to be affiliated with such “Chicken little” jerks. WHAT WOULD RECRIUTS think if idiots like you were the majority? GO take your “I am a TRUE Dawg, and lemme tell you how much by crapping all over the program” attitudes to some other school where negativity and cynicism is the norm and where you can whine to your hearts content. Hey, if things REALLY ot bad, I would think about a new coach too….but I am a REALIST. The reality is - things are OK and this was a hiccup - NOT a derailment!!!

If you’ll excuse me, I have to go get shot and train locals to fight the bad guys at so idiots like many of y’all can spout off online in relative anonymity. Pathetic.

DAWGINIRAQ

P.S. - HISTORICAL PIECE from 2006 - Bradley had it right then…..PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE HIRING OF A NEW COACH PIECE….do you REALLY think anyone would come here after we set the bar that high? “Well, multiple SEC championships and 10 win seasons are good, but you’re fired”. (Google “Fire Mark Richt” and read Bradley’s article from 2006 - SPOT FRIGGIN ON)

By John W

October 8, 2007 4:04 PM | Link to this

I agree with Jimmy Dawg! We are the Georgia Bulldawgs. We will prevale! I think we can bring in the best talent in the nation bar none. All that matters right now is football guys. Winning games, beating Florida and GT. Florida is down and GT has a bunch of smart guys. If we loose either one of those games with our incredible athlets, I’m done.

Let’s bring in all the talent in the world, juco, prison, anywhere and win another national title like we did some 27 years ago!!!

Go dawgs!

By steveThe Dallas Dogfan

October 8, 2007 4:07 PM | Link to this

I was ashamed by the coaching Saturday. Bobo was not even an avg. QB, and should not be handed the wheel for one of the nations top programs. Why didn’t we go out and hire someone for that spot? Bobo could have been asst. OC. Maybe he learns a little about the job first. It just looked to me like a pattern of getting “shell shocked” and then panic sets in. There was zero creativity, or any hint of a game plan. WHO RUNS UP THE GUT ON 3rd. AND 28?

Next thing, I find it appauling that they make (not let) Joe Cox finish the last minute. What the F is that? That was rediculous. Way to make the kid feel like the years of sacrifice were worth it. You guys dug that hole, you finish the mess you started. Joe SHOULD get some playing time. Matt may get better, but when he is flat he is paper thin. Let the kids fight for the position now. Matt has not earned crap in my book. I think the kid has serious potential but he has not blown away the other QBs there. He has zero touch on the ball. That first TD pass was a missed interception. I want him to get better, but he looks to me to be comfy. Make him earn it. Go Dawgs!

By Spike

October 8, 2007 4:12 PM | Link to this

DawgInIraq… GATA!!

By uga fan

October 8, 2007 4:18 PM | Link to this

We should all pay close attention to the POSITIVE posters on this board. Like Jimmy Dawg and John W say, the season is not over.

At least we know that we will beat GT because they are nothing but a bunch of smart guys. We have athletes, they have engineers.

We will win another championship with Richt as our coach. let him do his thing bringing in the best talent in the world. We don’t need intelligence, we need football playas man!
do it to it uga!!!! goooooooo dawwwwgs

By HomermooseVols

October 8, 2007 4:59 PM | Link to this

I’m a true Tennessee fan. One that does not rub in a win because unlike others I respect each foe. The Tennessee fans on here need to act like you “have been here before” (And I don’t mean this blog)Bottom line guys. Tennessee was prepared Georgia was less prepared. Richt has done a great job in his tenure. He will continue to do well if you allow him too. To quote Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman: “He’ll make you proud! I promise you that!” Now Georgia beat those ‘Dores and mangle those Gators! Go luck the rest of the season!

By Bulldog_greg

October 8, 2007 8:03 PM | Link to this

Joehunkerdawg,

You obviously didn’t attend Georgia or at least graduate with your spelling credentials. Continue to drink the kool-aid and listen to the Richt sermons. I made the trip to Knoxville and was totally embarassed by what Georgia put on the field. Like most Georgia faithful, we attempted to put our heads between our tails at the half and exit quietly. There were numerous UT drunks who cursed and spit on the UGA faithful as we tried to escape the 85K orange wearing contingent. Based on the previous 2 trips I’m sure they felt Georgia fans had it coming. There were several altercations that broke out as we tried to leave. People on the blogs are talking about our tackling, but where we sat there were never any linemen or LBs in a position to make a tackle. WM looked totally clueless on the sideline and I didn’t see many adjustments. I thank Coach Fulmer for taking it easy on us, they could have easily put 50+ on us again this year. And by the way, I think the Alabama faithful would dispute your NC claim, last time I checked they have 11 or 12 depending on who you ask. Get a grip on reality. I have been a UGA supporter since the late 60’s and can’t recall us being so unprepared like this past Saturday. I will donate my tickets to the Vandy game if I can find a sucker who will take them and actually make the drive.

By robdawg06

October 8, 2007 10:40 PM | Link to this

I listened to the Mark Richt call in show on the radio tonight hosted by Larry Munson. Every caller mentioned the lackluster performance by the defense and Richt’s answers were 1)They are tired 2)They are young Newsflash to Richt : South Carolina and Tennessee’s offense’s are young too. UGA is ranked in the top 5 every year in recruiting but plays 20 to 25 ranked football every year. Somebody’s wrong about evaluating these recruits or either they aren’t being coached well enough to win. I want the answer…

By robdawg06

October 8, 2007 10:53 PM | Link to this

The Dawgs are pathetic. We supposedly have a top 5 recruiting class every year and play like a number 20 to 25 team. I wouldn’t even get my hopes up to be a top 5 team if it wasn’t for the great players we supposedly have. Richt doesn’t have the answers either. We need a coach with fire in his gut not a laid-back pretty boy.

By War Eagle

October 8, 2007 10:59 PM | Link to this

I ask Auburn asst coach this weekend why Auburn played so many young players: one, upper class men were not effective as anticipated,two, injuries and last solid Red shirt result. Playing 12 out 20 true freshman and 12-14 redshirts, the base is present if quality athletes and coaches respond.Last year was Auburn best recruiting year since CTT(7th), but an average probably around 14th before 2007.

By james dorsey

October 9, 2007 8:18 AM | Link to this

Is the handwriting on the wall? Is there really a wall? Dig up Wally Butts and hold an oracular session to find out what is wrong. The end could be near…and NOT the tight end.

By Hound Dog

October 9, 2007 9:34 AM | Link to this

The coaches at Georgia, Tennessee, S.C. and Bama need to admit what is wrong. Florida and S. Florida are bringing in speed, speed, speed. They are getting the top tier of athletes from all over the country. Unless Global Warming takes a good hold and farmers can raise Orange groves in the named schools states, this trend will continue,

By David

October 9, 2007 12:02 PM | Link to this

I haven’t read any of the comments, but I do need to comment on the ‘good stuff’ from the game. THERE WASN’T ANY GOOD STUFF!!!!!!!!! If you’re getting beat 28-0 before halftime, nothing good happened!! I’m sick of hearing ‘we’re young and we’ll get better.’ Didn’t we hear that from the previous 2 coaches? It’s the 6th game of the year. There are no freshmen or young players anymore, only excuses! I’m one of the biggest Dawgs fan, but this game made we want to puke! Go Dawgs!!

By Dawg70

October 9, 2007 12:21 PM | Link to this

Not trying to make this sound simple, but it is still football ( X’s and O’s)regardless of what year, what experience or what talent you have. Our D line is doing the job but our LB’s are not filling the gaps not just this year but for several years. Our LB’s make no movement toward the gaps, they just stand there and fight blockers 4-5 yards down field. Couldn’t believe when Tenn. scored their last TD and our LB’s made the tackle in the endzone on a 4 yard run and they were not blocked either. Put 1 LB face up on TE and check at line then cover run, run 2 LB’s into gaps created by DL and you stop the run. Not necessary to have seniors for this. When Tenn. had the ball that was exactly what they did, hit our backs most of the time in the backfield. What we needed to do was throw the dag gum ball short across the middle to our TE,WR,FB or RB’s. Not 10-15 yards down field or to the side lines or screen passes right into the teeth of the D. When LB,s move back to stop these plays run the dad gum ball. This is not new, it just works. Go where they aren’t until they adjust. If our D was set up with assingments that work then our DB’s wouldn’t be making most of the tackles. We don’t need to change our DC, ( hate to say this) he needs to look at what the fat pumkin did, put his players in the right place for success.

By Heath

October 9, 2007 1:35 PM | Link to this

Wow, everyone needs to take some valium! We are regressing to the Goff years?!?! Are you kidding me? I remember playing the “Big Three” plus Tennessee back then knowing we didn’t have a chance before we went into the game. I also remember being a consistent 20 point underdog to those teams and usually living up to the hype.

All Richt has done since he has been here is WIN. Period. 2 SEC Titles, 3 SEC Title games, 6 bowl appearances, a 13-1 season where had we done that last year and not in 2002 we would have been in the National Championship game, and one of the winningest coaches in the game today and you all are wanting him run after a 21 point loss? Amazing. I am a UGA alum and I am embarrassed at how sorry and fair-weathered many of our fans seem to be.

Our coaching staff and players, if you read this, know that most of the so called “fans” on this board are complete idiots and the real fans back you 100% and love you win or lose! Go Dawgs!

By Bucko

October 9, 2007 5:43 PM | Link to this

God, you guys SUCK … And, wear jean shorts —- here’s the proof: http://209.200.252.69/~gnnsite2/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

By War Eagle

October 9, 2007 9:07 PM | Link to this

Heath, UGA has been top 5 recruiting class 2001-2006, same schools Texas, LSU and USC have NC titles, who had same recruiting success. This is frustration for UGA fans when you have lost six straight SEC east games…Tenn has scored 86 points on UGA last two games, this is frustration for Auburn fans who support the dawgs except second weekend in Nov…Coaching???, something is not right, they sure don`t look like team or desire when they kick Auburn butt last year.

By Heath

October 10, 2007 10:19 AM | Link to this

War Eagle, did UGA look like the same team that kicked Auburn last year when they lost to UK and Vandy and barley beat Miss, Colorado and Miss St? Remember, we lost to Kentucky the week before the Auburn game last year. I am not saying the loss to TN wasn’t upsetting, it was. But to say we have fallen apart when these other schools with great classes the last 5 years have been dominant, I disagree. 2002 could have been a NC year for us if Miami and Ohio State had not bothe been undefeated. If I remember right, UF last year was 12-1 and got their shot, we just didn’t get as lucky in 2002. Luck has MUCH to do with a NC year. BTW, when was the last time UGA lost to a 40 point underdog like USC just did this past Saturday?

Yes, well all know about 1980. What about the six previous years? Here they are:

1974 6-6 1975 9-3 1976 10-2 SEC Champs 1977

If you look at the records of LSU, Texas, Florida

By The Truth

October 10, 2007 12:33 PM | Link to this

Georgia fans, please look in the mirror and face the facts:

Your QB is NOT good Your coach is a cupcake You will be “rebuilding” for years The top recruits in your state are going to other SEC schools Your team has no heart Your “glory days” have been a blip on the college football radar You are Georgia

For these reasons, you will be bringing up the rear of the SEC for years to come.

By War Eagle

October 10, 2007 3:48 PM | Link to this

Heath,I agree, luck plays a role, winning NC`s, but inconsistency will put you in the Music Bowl in the SEC. CMR has done a good job winning at UGA, one of the best in the SEC, losing 6 straight East games is not consistent. I though UGA could have been 6-6 last year, but they bought in that 4th quarter desire to win against CU, MSU and Tech. I wish dawgs were 5-0 today, but again, something is not right…

By Pago Pago

October 11, 2007 7:23 PM | Link to this

Just came back from Keeneland, the ‘Cats can hardly wait to come to Athens!