Former Bulldogs weigh in on S.C. blowout
Former Georgia Bulldogs had plenty to say on Twitter about UGA’s blowout loss to South Carolina Saturday night.
Some, like most fans on message boards, were angry over the Dogs’ effort in the 35-7 pasting. Others simply urged fans to keep supporting the team.
Here’s a sampling:
Former UGA and Denver Broncos running back Terrell Davis: “I don’t care what anybody says, when you’re the #5 team in the nation, you DON’t give a performance like this, period!!”
Indianapolis Colts offensive tackle George Foster: “I’ve never been this ticked about a game I didn’t play in. I never thought I’d see a UGA team not show up for 4 whole quarters.”
Chicago Bears defensive back Tim Jennings: South Carolina is a tough place to play in!! Not to forget that they just tougher than us right now also
Former center Ben Jones, now with the Houston Texans: I bleed red and black no matter what happened tonight. The dawgs will bounce back.
Falcons linebacker Akeem Dent: When my Dawgs hurt….I hurt!!! I still bleed red & black
Drew Butler, punter with Pittsburgh Steelers: South Carolina is about to be ranked #3. Could have been UGA. Smarter to save it for the end of the season. Long road ahead.
Cleveland Browns receiver Mohamed Massaquoi: STILL LOVE MY DAWGS!
Bengals tight end Orson Charles: I still bleed red and black and still love my Dogs keep y’all head it’s a long season
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dandydawg
October 8th, 2012
3:26 pm
Yep, a long season!!! Go Dawgs… but show some heart out there!!!!
John
October 8th, 2012
3:27 pm
Keep your head up and give more effort
David Pollick
October 8th, 2012
3:29 pm
Clearly we UGA are over rated big time. We suck, back it up and hope next year will be better. Old man football forever!!!!!!!!!!
BigDawg
October 8th, 2012
3:42 pm
David Pollack comments?
Rabun Dawg
October 8th, 2012
3:48 pm
Davis, Foster and Jennings. Gentlemen, I concur. Humiliating loss. USC punched them in the mouth from the get-go, and never let up. Spurrier 15-5 against UGA as a coach! Enough said!
It's OK
October 8th, 2012
3:49 pm
Give SC credit. They are a good team and could possibly give AL a run for the SEC title. GA could still beat any of the teams ranked 5 – 10.
old dog
October 8th, 2012
3:56 pm
Gotta have an o-line to win in the SEC. We beat up on the patsies, but found out that when you get out-manned and out-muscled up front bad things happen. Until we get an SEC caliber line (see Alabama, for one) we will continue to beat the bad teams, and will lose to the good ones. Anyone who EVER played the game on any level can see we are NOT top-tier D-1 o-line. We have been out-recruited, for sure. And, we were exposed Saturday night. If we played S.C. again, the same would happen. We are better than D-2 schools and slack d-1’s. But our line is not good enough to protect Murray and open holes for our backs against good teams!
Doug
October 8th, 2012
3:57 pm
Once again expectations exceed reality. Clearly the offensive and defensive schemes don’t work. There is not enough “beef” on the line to stop SEC rushing with a 3-4. Blow it up and start over!
Max Sizemore
October 8th, 2012
4:23 pm
old dog is absolutely correct.
bdawg
October 8th, 2012
4:28 pm
I am true dawg through and through but I wonder if Coach Richt has taken us as far as he can. Would love to see more emotion from Richt…players feed off emotions of coaches…none from Coach Richt. I am tired of Spurrier beating us with players from our state that we don’t want and he just “coaches them up”.
Answer This
October 8th, 2012
4:38 pm
Those puppies need an old dawg to come in and light a fire under there angus! I know thats not going to get it EVERY week but we need some old Dawg (David Pollack because you will be heard the loudest and you have the stage for it on ESPN without showing biais to the team)blood to rip these young guys a new one! Challenge them and call them out! Let them know that it is not a right but a privilege to play in the SEC and that you have to bring it every week to be a part of something greater. They need to be challenged so that they can stop being a good team……are they tired of being a good team or are they complacent with being good and know that being good is enough. Challenged to be great, challenged to be more than what they have been for 3 years. It gets old doing the same thing when you have so much more of an opportunity to do more. We need an old DAWG that talks to the kids and young men with passion, and make them respect the Black and Red! Respect that you in the SEC and let your play show it. What alumni from the Dog Nation can do that? David Pollack you are being paged to hold the Bulldog Players to a higher standard and you can do it……..the question is will you?
Answer This
October 8th, 2012
4:39 pm
Bias
Vampire Bill
October 8th, 2012
4:41 pm
I wish I could get the text on what Kirk Herbstreit said about Richt and UGA. He tore em a new one I understand?
Eric
October 8th, 2012
4:43 pm
Here’s the dilemma Mark Richt can’t coach, but he’s a hell of a recruiter. Georgia on paper is arguably the most talented team in college football, bout 5 guys on defense will be 1st or 2nd rounders. Offensively they have a good QB, 2 excellent freshman tailbacks, and go bout 5 deep at WR. Richt wins just enough games not to get fired, but doesn’t win the big ones consistently. What kills me as a fan is the players always play better on the next level when they coached up.
SugarHillDawg
October 8th, 2012
4:45 pm
Wouldn’t matter vampire Bill, CMR would just say “hey, he’s entitled to his opinion” and he wouldn’t give it a second thought.
Dangerous
October 8th, 2012
4:50 pm
Bobo can’t move the ball against the better D’s and that has been proven time and time again!!!!!! He can’t move the chains. Ga can go through new O line coaches every year and are going to get the same result. When he encounters a team evenly matched and or a little better, he has no creativity to move the ball. GA has good athletes, they just have an O coach that is in way over his head. Fire Major Applewhite……..I mean Mike Bobo………………Seriously, not 1 slant rt the whole game, you either ran at the D line or were passing down field the whole game, I saw hardly any underneath rts the ………that game was typical Bobo
oldtimer
October 8th, 2012
4:50 pm
How can South Carolina almost lose to Vandy and Ky and then play that far over their heads against us. They are good, better than us, but not like that. And how can we play defense last year with almost the same group and be so bad this year. When was the last time we put pressure on a passing QB. Not Bray from UT and not Saturday? I surmise that LSU might beat USC this week cause they can’t play that way 2 weeks in a row. They are good, but not that good.
Mike
October 8th, 2012
4:53 pm
Quitting is a reflection of the head coach, that’s what the Georgia Bulldogs did Saturday. When it got to hard they just laid down and quit!!! Richt is just has too soft of a personality to coach a football team, it’s a shame because the players are there. Any coach in America would die to have a roaster like Georgia’s, but you have to motivate and have some sort of game plan.
VCCJ
October 8th, 2012
5:34 pm
This weekend is the reason teams shouldn’t be rated before the season begins or on recruiting and what happened the year before. Start the season and then begin ranking and “strength of schedule” should also be considered in ranking teams. UGA fans wouldn’t be so disappointed if they didn’t rank them so high EVERY year…they could work themselves into the rankings and so called fans wouldn’t become so disappointed when they lose to a better team. Maybe I’m wrong, since they don’t consider USC a better team.
Al
October 8th, 2012
5:46 pm
Coach Richt wants to be the players buddy, not their coach. Parenting and coaching require some tough love. He is like the little league coach who believes every kid on the teams gets a trophy. Also he has not had an SEC quality o line since Donnan’s recruits left in spite of 3 Oline coaches. Sorry, great man, very good recruiter, not a champsionship coach. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
BILLY JACK
October 8th, 2012
6:03 pm
WE JUST DIDNT COMPETE PERIOD-YOU BUILD A FOOTBALL TEAM FROM THE FOOTBALL OUT-BOTH LINES OF SCRIMMAGE GOT BEAT AND STRENTH AND CONDITIONING COACHES ARE NOT SEC CALIBER-OFF AND DEF LINES WERE AWFUL AND EMBARRASSING.
Texas Dawg
October 8th, 2012
6:05 pm
One person I’d really like to hear from is still on the team: Tavarres King. He’s one player I know who was on the team all the way back in 2008 and I’d like to hear from him what he believes has us continually losing games to ranked opponents whether we’ve got Matthew Stafford, A. J. Green and Knowshon Moreno or Jarvis Jones, Shawn Williams, John Jenkins, Aaron Murray and Todd Gurley. What makes us wet the bed in big games year after year? Is it the players? Is it the coaching? Or are all those other ranked teams, since 2008, truly just flat out better than UGA?
stevie dawg
October 8th, 2012
6:08 pm
Time for our over rated coach to go, nice try but please just go away CMR PLEASE GO.
Hairy Dawg
October 8th, 2012
6:22 pm
We can be in that title game with some luck and a big win over the Gators, but I don’t think there’s a realistic Dawg fan alive who believes in this team’s ability to beat Bama in it.
KoolAid Drinker
October 8th, 2012
6:34 pm
Its OK. Keep your heads up Dawgs. We could win every game from here on out and be National Champions.We’ve got to support the coaching staff the rest of the year! Mark Richt is a wonderful Christian man and if you don’t support him you’re not TRUE Dawg fans. Go pull for GT!!!
Anyway, who would we replace him with if he left?! The SC game was just a fluke. It happens from time to time. They got hot and lucky and the Dawgs were unlucky. If UGA had been prepared, had a gameplan, and weren’t frozen like a deer in the headlights they would’ve WON! And if Rambo intercepts that pass its a different game. The Dawgs and CMR will show all you haters you’re wrong.
BFALCON
October 8th, 2012
6:46 pm
Kirby Smart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dawg
October 8th, 2012
6:47 pm
Some of you all were not watching the same game as I was. “No slant routes”….are you kidding? We ran slants and other short combo routes to try to combat the pressure of their front 4. Nobody was saying a darn thing when we averaged 530+ yards the 1st 5 games…..now, one terrible game and it’s the same old crap, “FIRE BOBO”. How many of you guys have ever called plays at a level above your sons rec league team, your college flag football league, or your NCAA 2013 football game on playstation? It’s not easy calling plays when your line can’t run block OR pass pro!!! We missed blocks all game, dropped multiple passes, and the QB had a BAD game because he was running for his life all night. Not to mention the fact that we got down 21 points because our defense kept blowing assignments and they returned a punt.
I’m as frustrated as anyone. But some of you all need to realize that the PLAYERS need to be mentally prepared for battle, play the technique that they are taught, and MAKE PLAYS!!!
The Dawgs have some GREAT players on the team. But, their are holes……..if you didn’t notice that before the season or during the 1st 5 games, then you simply don’t know what the heck you are talking about. On top of that, some of those ‘GREAT’ players aren’t playing well on a regular basis. Carolina was just better than the Dawgs on Saturday night. If you played the game again, it probably wouldn’t be 35-7. But, Saturday the game got away from UGA, so USC could play the game with their ears pinned back and it was just too much. IT HAPPENS. Is it good? NO. Should it happen with the players we have? NO. But it did. Get over it.
All you folks still *itchin’ and complain’ are the same types of folks that went and egged some of the players houses on Saturday night. Stay classy Dawg fans!
Alabama Dawg.
October 8th, 2012
6:50 pm
S. Carolina was the better coach team Saturday night.
sportzfan
October 8th, 2012
6:54 pm
Hey KoolAid Drinker….”If” is a very big word! And Oldtimer, almost losing a game is not losing. Just look back over the last three years, who do you really had the best team…..SC or UGA? There are a lot of players on the Carolina team that will be playing in the NFL…..just saying. My prayers go out to Aaron Murray and his family.
Typical Dawg Fan
October 8th, 2012
7:00 pm
Duuuuhhhh…..If we could have just got them into overtime….We could have beat them….At least that’s what they taught me in my basketball class.
82Dawg
October 8th, 2012
7:06 pm
Well said Dawg!!
rmiddle
October 8th, 2012
7:08 pm
Best Team- USC
Best Players- USC
Best Coaches- USC
Best Fans- USC
Many of the best plays in the game were made by players from the talent rich state of Georgia who happened to be dressed in the wrong uniform. Sometimes I wonder why we go all over the country to get 4 & 5 can’t miss players when Auburn, FSU, Florida, Clemson and USC come to Georgia. There may be something to be said for taking a kids who are not 4 & 5 star prospects but have grown up with a dream to play for the dogs. Just thinking……………….
WTF
October 8th, 2012
7:42 pm
Vampire Bill who really cares what Kirk Herbstreit thinks anyway. Like he had a stellar career?
hipdawg
October 8th, 2012
7:54 pm
sad, just plain sad…..
Dangerous
October 8th, 2012
8:04 pm
I saw no one run a slant rt this game….period.Talking this game Dawg, not our other 4 games.I did see a throw or 2 out in the flats. I saw a D running downhill all night long. Got that Pee Wee Leauge.
Bull Meacham
October 8th, 2012
8:28 pm
The record against ranked teams is pathetic. 4 1st round NFL picks, Jr. QB, WR depth, star RB’s and this is the best we can do?
Time for massive change in Athens. Overdue. It all started in the Sugar Bowl against WVU and we have been getting spanked by good teams ever since.
Jimmy Joe
October 8th, 2012
8:31 pm
Dawgs play the TOP teams in the country – like Buffalo, FAU, and Vandy so far and you think you have a top 10 team? And then give up 44 points to Tenn and you think you have a top 20 team? When you guys get a serious schedule then you can continue your whining. Until then, you played up to your potential against SC. Maybe even over your heads.
dawgs
October 8th, 2012
9:09 pm
Settle down DAWGS fans. Embarrasing loss for sure but it is a long season. Mr. Butler gave some good remarks as well as old timer.
SC has LSU and Florida the next 2 weeks. No way they keep up the play as this week. It was kind of like our Vandy game. Just hit on all cylinders.
Go DAWGS don’t just ship! I bleed Red and Black
SEC Fan
October 8th, 2012
9:22 pm
As a somewhat neutal observer (Bama fan) it seems that the rest of your season’s excitement hinges on the fact SC has got dealt a tough schedule after the A&M and Mizzou adds forced SC to drop Miss State at home have to to to LSU andUGA got to miss a road game at Bama. First time I remember Dawg fans more excited by their schedule than the talent on the field. SC is 2 games better than you with your same schedule and you know it.,….they were actaull the best East team last year after going 6-0 in the east..no fluke Saturday night. they’ve passed you in the pecking order in the East and UF is back as well..listen–those are “UT Vol” footsteps you are hearing not SEC championship game dreams……
JB
October 8th, 2012
9:31 pm
Lot’s of football left. In my mind, only thing to save the season, run the table, Carolina lose 2, we upset Bama in the dome…………………Hold on……what honey…….gotta go, Santa on the phone..
a country boy can survive
October 8th, 2012
9:32 pm
great post SEC Fan…you’ll never get those uga mouth-breathers to believe it …everything you said is true….
JB
October 8th, 2012
9:33 pm
SEC FAN…..we know it, and you better hope Richt is at UGA a long time. God help you if we hire a fire breath’en , vomit eating mean SOB coach one day who eats Bama fans for breakfast.
Tdawg
October 8th, 2012
10:09 pm
Hairy Dawg if you were to run a poll I highly doubt over 10% of dawg fans think we stand a chance in he!! of beating Florida. As bad as our defense is I doubt more than 50% would say that we will beat Auburn, Miss State or even Ga Tech. You can bet your last dollar GT is gonna hang at least 35 on us.
Notice no dawgs before Richt has stood behind him. Of course his former players are going to back him. Hook them to a polygraph machine and ask them the question. Should Richt remain head coach?
Finally to the people who are worried about next seasons defense. No way on the earth can it be any worst than than this bunch of marshmallow. I say bench the lot of them and let the players coming back next season start. Maybe the replacements will have some back bone. Recruits! Come to UGA and be coached by the worst coach in the SEC or look at the bright side. You should have no problem starting on the starting defense.
Tdawg
October 8th, 2012
10:21 pm
SEC fan! Listen jerk. Oh I forgot. I’m neutral also. Alabama backed into the national title game last season and as of right now it has been proven that every team Alabama has played a weaker schedule than UGA and the rest of the SEC West is a total joke this season. UGA was champs last season jerk not SC. I don’t care who the he!! we played and who the he!! they played. They lost 2 conference games and UGA lost 1. SC takes care of a Auburn team UGA biotched slapped and SC would have been the SEC East champs. Crap the only reason they didn’t lose 3 conference games was because the dawgs gilf wrapped them a victory. The dawgs are way over rated this season. We’re not blind. Still we don’t need a blow hard from the cheatingest school in the nation telling us that. Go find some passed out man in a burgar joint somewhere and show him some of that Bama man love.
denise
October 8th, 2012
10:47 pm
Those Dawgs really look weak. Need to bring back the old S&C Coach.
Dacusville Bill
October 8th, 2012
10:58 pm
As a Clemson fan, I can feel your pain—-Life ain’t easy for a Jawgie boy in Pickens County, SC
Contractor
October 8th, 2012
11:22 pm
It’s not the fact that South Carolina is a crappy team, they are dang good, it’s the fact that Georgia was destroyed in every facet of the game. There is no reason a team with the talent of Georgia should get drilled like that. It’s coaching, it really is. National Title contenders don’t owned like this. I could understand a loss like LSU took, but not a 28 point shalacking.
bjohnDawg
October 8th, 2012
11:36 pm
We as a defense get no pressure on the QB unless we blitz. Jones coming from the end untouched is the same as a blitz. I dont think Jenkins or anyone else outside of Jones got near Shaw all night. Very similiar in Tenn game.
Your front three/four have to pressure someone in the pass game. Also when they get beat they rarely raise their hands to bat down a pass. Get you hands up in the passing lanes if you cannot get to the QB.
That Defense should be better than 35 to SC with 9 starters returned.
Rick James
October 9th, 2012
12:43 am
Its a long season.I would rather have seen Georgis lose to Tennesee that to South Carolina because of the tie breaker it that occurs.I still expect SC to lose two games and if Georgis beats Florida we’re back in race and the top ten.
Deacon Blues
October 9th, 2012
12:44 am
TDawg, Truth hurts don’t it beyotch!! We actually hope you win the East just to enjoy another blackout in the Democrats Dome! Richt actually reminds me of when Bama had Shula, all of the opposing school fans didn’t want him to be let go!!
Pj
October 9th, 2012
12:59 am
Terrible and humiliating loss – perfect storm for sc. A short qb against the best d line in the country who averages 6′5″ and will all play in Sundays. I hate saying this, but kudos to spurrier. We lost 14-7 after the 1st round knockout.
Season breaks down as follows:
We will beat ga southern obviously. We will beat inept uk on the road and ole miss at home. It’s a three game schedule – auburn and tech may be down but it’s auburn and tech and anything can happen and every dawg fan knows it. It all comes down to jax – if I told you 11-1 would happen before the season – 99% of you would have taken it no question. That’s still very doable.
I do have a question… If we beat gators, gators beat sc and sc already beat us – what are the tiebreakers and dies overall record matter? I ask because sc plays Clemson and gators play fsu.
Gafan
October 9th, 2012
2:17 am
Year in and year out, it’s the same prblem. Mike Bobo is not a good offensive coordinator for the GA Bulldogs. He is average at most. Average coaches can use an awesome team to beat all the so-so teams but will never ever beat all the good teams let alone any great team. Just like the Atlanta Falcons and Brian Van Gorder, until the GA Bulldogs get rid of Mike Bobo as the offensive coordinator, the GA Bulldogs can forget about any thought of any national championship. Unfortunately, anything less than a national championship is never going to be good enough for a true fan!!!!! I’ve been saying the same thing about Van Gorder and Bobo for the past 4 years to 5 years. The Falcons finally saw it my way and got rid of Van Gorder. The results speaks for itself this year with the falcons. It’s time for the Bulldogs to do the same with Bobo as the offensive coordinator. He can have another job with UGA but offensive coordinator is not the job for him!!!!!
Jeff in Calhoun
October 9th, 2012
2:27 am
DEFENSE wins Championships! and UGA has provided a poor defensive effort so far. UGA has the talent on Defense to be the best in the SEC. Makes you wonder what in the heck is wrong with the defense?
Jeff in Calhoun
October 9th, 2012
2:33 am
The problem is not on the offensive side of the ball. The problem is the DEFENSE. Even if the offense couldn’t score against USC then the DEFENSE should have stopped the USC offense. The game could have been close if the DEFENSE were any good.
GRAPHITE
October 9th, 2012
6:22 am
Looks like a trip to Shreveport or Nashville is in the puppy Dawgs future. By beating Vandy and Tn ,you at least remain the top team in the 2nd. division.RollOn…..
Nice man football won't cut it
October 9th, 2012
6:40 am
Interesting posts by former players. The older ones demanded excellence. The most previous players just accepted it. And there it is!
Nice man football won’t cut it Richt and UGA. You’ve got to be man enough to beat somebody.
Woofy One
October 9th, 2012
6:44 am
“On any given day” is always true in the SEC. Now for the rest of the season.
Bama contrast to UGA
October 9th, 2012
6:44 am
Bama
…gets players that want to go play for Bama. Commit to the tradition.
UGA
…gets me-players that want to go to the NFL. Many are hard headed and are focused on me (brownies come to mind).
And, that makes all the difference!
Mike Bobo 17 INT
October 9th, 2012
7:42 am
Dawginlex….where are you?
@Koolaiddrinker…..well said…..kudos.
Mike Bobo 17 INT
October 9th, 2012
7:44 am
@Bama contrast to UGA
Alabama plays a tough schedule, wins their tough schedule and wins national titles, because Saban knows how to recruit and coach…plain and simple.
Championship programs start from the AD down, thus if your AD is inept, you are most likely toast.
DEP
October 9th, 2012
7:55 am
There is only 1 person responsible for Saturaday’s butt-kicking CMR! He coaches like he learned from Papa Bowden…..well, after all these years you’d think that CMR would figure out that your team has to be bigger, STRONGER, meaner and better coached to consistantly win in the SEC….he hasn’t! Enough said!!!!!!!!!!
tell the truth
October 9th, 2012
8:29 am
2 tears ago I wanted Richt and Bobo gone,but I looked at the team to start the year,seen all the NFL talent and started to get excited about the team,not so any more.Can anybody tell me when if ever UGA beat a team when we were underdogs?It seems like it never happens.
Say whut
October 9th, 2012
8:31 am
NOBODY loves the Dawgs any more than I do, but– I have to face the hard, cold facts:
1. Aaron Murray is not the QB who can win championships.
2. Mike Bobo, Mark Richt, and Todd Grantham are NOT the coaches who can win championships either.
When was the last time UGA was prepared to win a big game?
SimpleDawg
October 9th, 2012
9:19 am
Bitch slapped…..
Dirty AL
October 9th, 2012
9:55 am
It’s OK
October 8th, 2012
3:49 pm
Give SC credit. They are a good team and could possibly give AL a run for the SEC title.
Not buying that.
AL wouldn’t let a pick get gently taken away the 2nd play of the game.
AL will not have slow middle linebackers trying to contain Shaw on the edge.
AL will not allow receivers to run free 10 yards behind them.
If Clowney can’t be blocked by the AL tackles, they will provide help with a tight end or RB.
Everyone one of these issues was related to bad coaching, bad game plan and an unwillingness of the clown BOBO to get away from having to send 5 receivers out. He should have gone to max protection and sent out 3 receivers. If Murray has time, he can hurt you. BOBO’s pride would not allow his offense be dictated to.
TERRIBLE PERFORMANCE.
JAG
October 9th, 2012
10:03 am
Last year is gone. Even if dogs win out it will be tough to be SEC East champ, South Carolina appears to be the real deal this year. Do not see more than one loss during season with their defense and lack of mistakes by the offense.Florida is beatable if running game is slowed down,
Dirty AL
October 9th, 2012
10:05 am
Say whut
October 9th, 2012
8:31 am
NOBODY loves the Dawgs any more than I do, but– I have to face the hard, cold facts:
1. Aaron Murray is not the QB who can win championships.
2. Mike Bobo, Mark Richt, and Todd Grantham are NOT the coaches who can win championships either.
Name a QB that could perform behind the current offensive line. Every passing situation is like a jail break on the D line. Just horrible blocking. Agree on #2.
Truth
October 9th, 2012
10:34 am
Don’t see all the homers on here crowing anymore. How does that mediocrity pie taste?
UCF 10 UGA 6
BirdDawg
October 9th, 2012
10:41 am
Did anyone see the shot of CMR with his hands in the air cheering when TN missed the FG early in the 4th qtr? My point is – that is the difference in CMR and every other coach out there. Instead of chewing the safety or DB out for giving up a 65 yd pass play – he cheers the fact the other team missed a FG (and not a game ending FG attempt). CMR is SOFT – and GA’s team continue to be soft as long as he is in charge.
Hire Kirby Smart at the end of season before he takes another job. He can lead this program to a NC – or let CMR stay and this is where we’ll be every year. Someone said it early – Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results.
ville dog
October 9th, 2012
11:49 am
I am a dog fan, but I do hope they don’t come in the back door and win the SEC East. They don’t deserve it.
UGA Insider
October 9th, 2012
12:01 pm
USCe is the best team I have seen this year bar none. The SEC championship game is going to be awesome! Please note that UGA will not be there. It will be USCe vs Bama. UGA and LSU are out and may lose 3 games each.
kydawg
October 9th, 2012
12:11 pm
“Dream Team” & “Ring Team” is preyty appropriate…because we will always be just dreaming about that ring. In reality, it’s not going to happen with this staff and that’s coming from a HUGE Richt fan…just telling it like it is!!!
Dawgnlex
October 9th, 2012
12:40 pm
UGA greatest team in history Sabana cheats and not god man
I never Slpt with SUPERHEAD
October 9th, 2012
1:21 pm
Love the Dawgs forever, But here;s the reality, you can’t change something doing the same thing.Georgia needs to shake things up. To many can and do play on Sunday to have to justify on Monday.
UGA Insider
October 9th, 2012
1:24 pm
ville dog,
I agree but I think USCe will win out with their SEC schedule. No back dooring it this year for CMR & co. I hate to say this but I think a change in direction is needed at the helm. Now is the time to go out and get Kirby Smart.
Thomas Brown
October 9th, 2012
1:50 pm
Mark Richt said his team was not FLAT Saturday.
South Carolina scored 35 points to nothing before Steve Spurrier with 10:45 left in the game emptied the bench. Our Special Teams still made up of mostly walk-ons gave up another punt return for a TD of 70 yards. And, our Offense could not score the whole game until Steve Spurrier emptied the bench and even then it took until 1:55 left in the game to score.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
IF THAT AIN’T FLAT, I’D HATE TO SEE FLAT
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AARON MURRAY PRE-GAME : “Right now it’s a huge win for us to beat the No. 6 team in the country, to go into their home and beat them. It’s another SEC win leading to our ultimate goal of Atlanta and Miami.”
I’d like to ask where are :
Brainiac Mark Richt fan for Life
DawgInLex
kingdaddy
AltamahawDawg
Columbus Dawg
tell me again
ecdawg
The Truth
LakeDawg
L Harding Dawg
Lowcountry Bulldog
Marin Van Dawgin
meansonny
Mobile Dawg
ncdawg
Paul Westerdawg
RxDawg
TampaDawg
T Kyle King
SouthGaDawg
destin dog
Reality Check
RED DOG 77
RedandBlackDAWG
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LakeDawg June 17th, 2012 12:25 am
“I do not have faith in Richt as a coach. I don’t think were destined to underachieve”
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kingdaddy July 2nd, 2012 9:56 am
“ If UGA loses to S.C. this year but wins the rest of the scheduled games, then makes it to the SEC-CG and is not competitive, then I see a major shake-up in our staff by McGarrity. UGA has to beat someone ranked this year in my belief. I don’t think CMR & CMB get a free pass this year just for beating unranked teams. This team has the talent to win, but do they have the coaching? Its too late to do anything this year, but ride it out…”
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JB July 2nd, 2012 10:02 am
“I agree Kingdaddy. Beating up on weak foe and losing to good teams ( not even great teams) is a pattern for the Dawgs the Last three years, And it’s not a lack of talent. You can read a lot of thing into Richt’s new contract, and I’m reading McGarity is not sold. Here’s more rope, and we;ll see.”
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Congratulations to South Carolina
Where are you now ?
Seems to me there are a lot of DISNEYdawgs.com posters who say my posts should not be allowed to be posted, who have failed to show up after the game to say I am right about Mark Richt all 12 years with only 3 wins in 17 games against teams who made Top 10.
DawgDump
October 9th, 2012
2:11 pm
Several things are still bothering me after last Saturday’s loss. 1) UGA should never lose two let alone three games in a row to a college like USC. No offense to USC fan’s but look at the overall record, we are 46-17-2 against USC. 2) It seems like every team we used to own is now breaking records against us. We always seem to let teams score more points in a quarter or get more points off turnovers in five minutes than they ever had before. When UGA starts bleeding mistakes and turnovers on the field we go into a shell and try to weather the storm instead of fighting to get points back. 3) We always play down to our competition. UGA has a habit lately of just barely beating teams that they should beat easily. On the flip side, we never play up for a big game. 4) After the performance against USC, other teams are going to be gunning for us. We got exposed and were very beatable last Saturday night. Florida might be a blood bath for UGA but don’t be surprised if we lose another game to a team that we should easily beat. I don’t have a magical answer to fix what is wrong with UGA football but the current plan is obviously not working in meaningful games.
Thomas Brown
October 9th, 2012
2:17 pm
Which is why Mark Richt announced today that there will be no changes of any kind.
dawggy style
October 9th, 2012
2:31 pm
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Yo Yo
October 9th, 2012
2:31 pm
dandydawg
October 8th, 2012
3:26 pm
Yep, a long season!!! Go Dawgs… but show some heart out there!!!!
And Steve Spurrier and USC just made the season ( That ) much longer!
GB's Hamburgers
October 9th, 2012
2:32 pm
Richt teams seem to play as split squads. The offense is schemed to score fast. Tons of long, low percentage passes, puts the offense in too many long situations and detracts from the notion of getting into a rhythm. You are either scoring fast or are three and out putting us on the wrong end of “time of possession.” This works against the defensive team, forcing them to be on the field too much. So in many of these games its the UGA offense working against the UGA defense. It’s not “team” football.
DawgDump
October 9th, 2012
2:34 pm
No use changing now. Maybe we should change the order in which we run the five plays we have. Maybe we should run up the middle when we usually run up the middle. The defense will be totally surprised! Or maybe we should try to force using Mitchell when the defense knows we are going to throw a screen to Mitchell. That should certainly lead to at least a 1 to 2 yard gain on 3rd and 8!
Dawgie
October 9th, 2012
2:57 pm
This is what happens when we play a good football team, we are not a top 25 team….South Carolina was the first good football team we have played. We have a very easy schedule but if just show happens we still had to play South Carolina and the Gators still are ahead of us. We have a very very weak schedule.
UGA Insider
October 9th, 2012
3:22 pm
Told you guys in August UGA would have the WORST special teams unit in the country.
Ace Sanders score was a killer.
Cordelle Patterson score was almost a killer.
UGA has Logan Grey returning punts again…
LowcountryDawg
October 9th, 2012
3:36 pm
I’m here and all aboard getting rid of Richt. No questions here.
LowcountryDawg
October 9th, 2012
3:37 pm
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LowcountryDawg
October 9th, 2012
3:45 pm
We didn’t have to do anything special as far as our protections to block the Georgia D-line.”- Spurrier
Hmmm….thought we were returning one of top three defenses in the country and Jarvis Jones. What happened?
NCDawg
October 9th, 2012
3:59 pm
The talent is there. I think CMR’s fire in the belly went out the window when his wife was diagnosed with cancer in the spring of 2006. Some people deal with such things in different ways and I’m not sure there is any one right way. I think he re-prioritized football. In the face of your wife possibly dying football suddenly becomes a lower priority. Later that year he handed the play playing over to Mike Bobo and started taking a more CEO approach. He later undid that but I don’t think the “bite” has ever returned.
I am not faulting CMR for re prioritizing… I’m just trying to piece together why the Dawgs can’t step up any more. Every organization takes it’s personality from the top. CMR is a fine man and a surrogate father for many of these guys. They see his calmness and whether they want to or not they absorb that. Football is substitute war and SEC football is a World War level intensity. I just wonder if CMR realizes that he may not be able to overcome this. Again I am not saying that he is weak…I am saying he is human and this seems the only sensible reason that his record against top level program suddenly went south. It’s just a guess.
shakazulu
October 9th, 2012
4:05 pm
To Dirty Al….
Yeah, that’s just the mentality that Saban fights…. assuming you’re so good that those things won’t happen….that’s WHY they play the game brotha!!! Remember two years ago when Alabama and SC got together?? Nothing is assumed in any of these tough conference games.
We Run The East
October 9th, 2012
8:48 pm
Thomas Brown is calling all those CMR lovers out! Not gonna see them- big dawgs got their tail clipped and hiding out under the porch. Ready to feel like poop- I actually feel sorry for the UGA fans! Thats right, PITY. I hope CMR stays at UGA 20 more years, but actually he will be gone after this year. Can’t survive being a joke and UGA football was a joke Saturday.
Colin Baxter
October 9th, 2012
9:30 pm
Ditto to what has already been said by loyal fans. Spurrier is a brilliant, on-hand coach whereas Richt is a moderately good CEO. It is time for a change, and has been for some time.
Thomas Brown
October 10th, 2012
1:44 am
Mark Richt is a recruiter, and poor at X and O football coach who gets a few marginal recruits in-state and out-of-state because Bulldogs are a Top 10 Football Program who has amassed great players for 120 years now in a state which finds only 2 other states have more high school players who go on to the NFL. He is a Minister. As for why he “all of a sudden cannot beat the teams who made the Top 10,” hogwash to the N th degree. He beat # 4 vols in 2001 and stated he knocked the lid off this Top 10 football program, with 4 losses 2001 including to unranked Boston College and unranked 7-5 Auburn 2001. Some knocking the lid off. You bought into it. I said, here, that I did not like all the off-field issues, that Mark Richt failed to want to come here December 20, 2000 and in fact did not show up until February 2001 a few days before the Signing Day. He wanted, even then, I went on in 2000 and 2001, to go not only to his BLOW-OUT LOSS to Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl on January 3 where his high-power offense scored nothing shut-out, rather than be here. DISNEYdawgs.com posters listed above in 2000 and 2001 told me it would be good for OUR PROGRAM that he went instead to the NC Game. You refused to listen to me. I posted on Access Atlanta all through the Vince Dooley years, Ray Goff years, and Jim Donnan years – every day. Then, Mark Richt in February 2001 wanted to go to a NCAA assistant coaches’ meeting. Vince Dooley put his foot down then and insisted he show up. You argued and argued with me with meaningless EXCUSES again. Now you fail to come in here and say, Thomas Brown – you told us so. In detail. In Spades.
2002 there was only 1 other SEC team who made the Coaches’ Poll Top 25 a 4-Loss Auburn. You said how great that Mark Richt did what no coach had done here at UGA “SEC CHAMPIONSHIP” and oh my what a great Christian. He played David Greene over DJ Shockley and got into it with Coach Donald Shockley. I took exception to THAT mostly on Athens Banner-Herald. When we went to Florida to play Ron Zook at the stadium which has the Gator Bowl every year, and went 0-11 on 3rd Down Conversions for the entire game, you said Terrence Edwards missed a wide-open pass route he ran which was floated way over his head by David Greene at mid-field. DISNEYdawgs.com stated David Greene was great despite the fact that in 2001, he beat # 4 vols and NEVER in his football career after did he ever beat a team who made the Top 10. It was he had the most wins as a Starting QB ever, despite me trying to tell you that he lost to Ron Zook an unranked team in both Coaches’ Poll and unranked in the AP Poll Top 25 even. In a DOWN YEAR for The SEC. You refused to listen.
2003 again David Greene lost to all these top football teams, every one we played. You said I did not know anything about Quarterbacks as a db. I tried to tell you I was not stupid. I said then our offense sucked and offered-up our # 52 NCAA Total Offense all 12 years to you. You said I was a BAD FAN. You claimed I was a Georgie tek fan. You sent all kinds of nasty reports to the AJ-C and everywhere else you could think of to discredit me, never discussing MY POINTS. Steadfastly, you refused to discuss the points, just you’re a BETTER FAN than I and I the worse fan compared to you, you said daily to the AJ-C.
2004 was probably the MOST DISAPPOINTING SEASON YET, and David Greene FINALLY BEAT Florida in his last season. Again, nothing about the fact that we play 14-game seasons nowadays and comparing NUMBER OF WINS 2001 to 2011 to earlier years, is NOT comparing NUMBER OF LOSSES to the top teams. Florida was NO GOOD IN 2004. All you care is we beat them FINALLY and would not shut-up how great Mark Richt beat Florida.
2005 Mark Richt told us Joe Tereshinski III was a great QB and would beat Florida for us. Then, he rushed DJ back after his injury and still lost to Auburn, in addition to losing to Florida – 2 teams who had NO BUSINESS BEATING US 2005. Then, we beat LSU in The SEC Championship Game. WHERE WERE YOU ? Not there, that’s where you were, like you are NEVER THERE EVEN AT HOME GAMES. But, we were SEC Champions 2005 you pointed out to me in reply and how seriously I needed a doctor. With your high school education, you diagnosed me with ailments of the mind, despite my 3.88 GPA at UGA where I was a walk-on. I had lettered in 4 sports in high school. You don’t even know what that means to letter in 4 sports. It means that when there was a baseball game, I played baseball, when there was a track meet, I ran track unless there was baseball practice. I started at catcher my junior and senior years. You don’t know anything about soft hands or lifting weights or running fast. You just knew then and know now how great you are as a fan that YOU WANT YOUR KIDS TO PLAY FOR MARK RICHT. You said I was hurting our recruiting. I said don’t you think the kids know ? You think they have not noticed or been told by opposing coaches, that in Mark Richt’s best years here, he NEVER beat a team making the Top 10 except # 6 LSU in 2005 by DJ SHOCKLEY, and even then ended up # 3 in every poll of just SEC teams worse than LSU and Alabama 2005 our “SEC CHAMPIONSHIP.” I went to the Sugar Bowl Game at the Georgia Dome and you said there never was a Sugar Bowl at the Georgia Dome. Yeah, there was and AGAIN YOU WERE NOT THERE.
2006 we beat # 9 Auburn. That’s 7 seasons ago. We’ve not beat none since. We lost to 2-win Vandie whose only 2 wins were over 0-12 Duke and 1-11 Temple in 2006 among our 4-Losses. You said how great we beat ACC teams 2006. Matthew Stafford was # 3 on Mark Richt’s depth chart at QB and Joe Tereshinski III # 1 and Joe Cox # 2.
2007 we got BLOWN-OUT by a sorry vols’ team and lost to 6-6 South Carolina while BEATING NO ONE WHO MADE THE TOP 10, while LSU beat 2 teams who made the Top 10. You said Mark Richt got jobbed. I said LSU beat top teams. The Polls corrected themselves. I presume your argument did NOT HOLD WATER TO THE VOTERS. Again, I was right.
2008 we won the Fulmer Cup national championship. Pre-season # 1 every poll of 27 polls. Talk about consensus. 21 players went out the night AP Poll made us # 1 and partied including beating up a hospital. When we played # 6 Alabama early in the year, we were beat 31 to NOTHING at HALF TIME at our house. Again, you were NOT THERE. Florida and UTAH beat Alabama, but we could not. By this time, I was convinced that you were causing my program more harm than good.
2009 Joe Cox was the best Quarterback, again. You bragged to me daily how his deep ball was the best of any deep ball in the nation and that you had ever seen. I said game 1 that Zach Mettenberger should have played vs Okie State, who did not even make the AP Poll Top 25 for 2009 but they beat us, Joe Cox with his chronic shoulder requiring him to miss 1 or 2 days’ practice every week all season long and the flu for Okie State. You said I would NOT have played Zach Mettenberger. I said yeah I would’ve.
2010 have to go back to 1955 back 58 years to find an UGA team who lost more game than Aaron Murray. You ran in here and bragged that you had me removed from every blog on the internet saying I just found the worst and never discussed the positive – despite the fact that Mark Richt has 13 horrible losses to unranked teams in his career and 3 wins out of 17 games who made the Top 10. You acted like it was too much to understand that we LOSE to EVERY team making the Top 10.
2011 we beat no one.
2012 we beat no one and do have no business being ranked # 17 as we are.
You said repeatedly that no one keeps up with the stats of who is in the Top 10. Yeah they do. I showed you site after site after site that do. You said only what the team is ranked at game time like South Carolina in 2007 who ended up 6-6 and not even in a bowl game, is all that matters.
Here, go read this blog yesterday :
http://www.sicemdawgs.com/2012/10/mark-richt-georgia-6-15-record-vs-ranked-opponents-since-2008/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sicemdawgscom+%28Sicemdawgs.com%29
Now, you
DO NOT COME IN HERE AND SAY I WAS RIGHT.
Thomas Brown
October 10th, 2012
3:36 am
2006 seven years of losing to top teams USCe was 6-6 not in a bowl game, and you said how great USCe was 2006 pre-game and post game.
Thomas Brown
October 10th, 2012
4:07 am
LOST 16 of the last 18 games against teams who made Top 25 :
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1365405-georgia-football-is-mark-richt-an-embodiment-of-the-peter-principle-in-cfb
Mark Richt era
And accomplishing this averaging # 7 in recruiting rankings.
Thomas Brown
October 10th, 2012
4:19 am
Talent mis-managed
Florida Dawg
October 10th, 2012
8:27 am
Apparently we don’t have a top five offense or defensive line…we can beat teams that are not ranked…understood.
UGA has the resources to be a top five team and now we have to “wait” for someone else to trip up to help us??? Same old story.
Thomas Brown
October 10th, 2012
9:05 am
We have the resources, recruiting ranking averaging # 7 in the nation for Mark Richt Florida Dawg with the most NFL Draft Picks of every team in the nation these 12 years.
What we don’t have is an X and O coach who can figure out how to win the big games, at 16 Losses the Current 18 games against teams who made the Top 25.
With 8 Losses in a row to teams who made the Top 10.
With 9 Losses in a row to SEC teams who made SEC Winning Record.
DISNEYdawgs.com told me all 2012 that last year was last year – history – and you cannot judge the PAST and extrapolate to the future… if that were true then you could expect a bullfrog to fly instead of constantly bumping his buns on the rocks…
Football Guy
October 10th, 2012
10:52 am
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jimboga
October 11th, 2012
4:23 pm
I think you folks are going to see Spurrier kick butt at LSU this week and then at Florida. This is South Carolina’s year. I think USC will beat Alabama in the SEC playoff and then take the national title. As a
Bulldog, I was stunned by the score last week in Columbia. We can beat the fair-to-middling teams but not the big ones. As long as Richt is there, it will remain that way. Nice guy. Doesn’t know how to go for blood..