Comments on: Coaches should not be judged on national championships

By: CC

CC — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:35:30 +0000

“Tech…tried to find a team not to play. They could’ve played Colorado in the Orange bowl, but chose not to”

Denver Dog, what’s your basis for that statement? Source? Link please? Maybe some UGA friend made it up and you thought it sounded plausible somehow?

I think that GT would have loved to play Colorado, but they were REQUIRED to represent the ACC in Orlando. So they went there and pounded Nebraska by 24. Big Eight champ Colorado was contractually obligated to go to the Orange Bowl.

(And Colorado needed a late questionable clipping penalty call and a missed PAT by Notre Dame earlier just to win their bowl game by a single point.)

I wish GT could have played Colorado instead…or Notre Dame for that matter. I watched both of those bowl games, and based on the way they everyone played I would have REALLY liked Tech’s chances against either of those teams that day.

As much as the BCS sucks, if it had been in effect that year we probably would have had that GT-Colorado matchup. Oh well…

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By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:08:33 +0000

You made an error in your reporting ..Ohio State was 13-0 in the regular season and ended up 14-0.. By the way, it does not matter if a team wins by one point or 21 points, a win is a win.
That same OSU team snapped a @34 game win streak Miami had going and OSU also sent a record 14 players off that team to the NFL.

By: BIGBOY

BIGBOY — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:08:22 +0000

DAWGINLEX I guess you don’t anything to say.For the record the DC you are talking about was actually TENN secondary coach(name escapes me at the moment)Donnan overreached on that call and the guy only lasted 1 year.As for the drug use that’s not a knock on Dooley but it was rampant all over college football during the 80’s.Guys got away with a whole hell of lot more than these kids today could even dream about.A lot of players didn’t even go to class and that was also happening all across the college football back in the 80’s.

By: Will

Will — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:47:43 +0000

IN 2000 11-1 Washington beat 11-1 Miami and 11-1 Oregon State, lost to 10-2 Oregon. Yet No Mention of them, wonder why?

By: BIGBOY

BIGBOY — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:32:29 +0000

Furthermore you claim to have played for Dooley…if that’s true you of all people should know that drug use was rampant in Athens during the 80’s remember Nate Lewis?Or do you even know who he is?

By: BIGBOY

BIGBOY — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:26:30 +0000

DAWGINLEX Rodney Garner has never been a DC at UGA….EVER…As for as Quincy Carter if he was using drugs while at UGA that would mean the entire Athletic Department was in on the cover up of his failed drug test including Dooley

By: DawginLex

DawginLex — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:02:30 +0000

Move the above post from the interception idiot to the top of the dumbest post ever list:

UGA ruined donnan’s career?

UGA caused Donnan to do the following:

1.) Play Quincy Carter even though the whole world knew he was a drug using low life

2.) Recruit Sanks instead of Jamal Lewis even though Lewis was bigger and stronger and just as fast and was begging to come to UGA.

3.) Decided to run “just 1 more play” against GT in 1999 instead of taking a knee and kicking the game winning FG.

4.) Running reverse after reverse even though the whole stadium knew they were going to be run and continue to lose yardage.

5.) Promote Rodney Garner to DC and let him run the same defensive alignment the entire first half against Auburn in 1997 with no adjustments. This denied UGA a chance to go to ATL for the SECCG.

Donnan made all these decisions on his own. UGA had nothing to do with it. He made his own bed and got fired because of his own decisions.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:32:56 +0000

When you look at all the “fortunate” things(I won’t say luck) that happened to open the gates for some teams/coaches you’ve mentioned, and compare that to Auburn/Tuberville in 2004, it lets you know that it’s never a level playing field when you start rating teams or coaches by awards they won.

By: Ron Mexico

Ron Mexico — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:05:07 +0000

Whether or not a coach is good or great has nothing to do with the answer to the question “will he win a NC at UGA”. You can be good and win a NC, and be great and not win one. The question is do you think it will ever happen for him?