If he gets the chance, Johnson will bring the hammer down on the Dawgs
Nobody asked me but:
1. If Paul Johnson gets the chance, he’ll bring the hammer down on Georgia. State rivalries like Georgia and Georgia Tech are always big recruiting games. Saturday night’s game at Bobby Dodd Stadium will be no different. But in his second year at Georgia Tech, Johnson has infused the football program with confidence at a time where Georgia’s confidence is at a pretty low ebb. There is all kind of positive energy at Georgia Tech. I haven’t seen this much negative energy at Georgia since Jim Donnan’s last year (2000) as head coach. College Football 101 says that when you have your rival in a weakened position, you put your foot on the gas. If Johnson can lay a pretty good number on Georgia, he will. Georgia has enough athletic ability to make this game competitive. But I wonder if they have the heart to fight back. I really do.
2. I think Bobby Bowden will be back at Florida State next season. There is no doubt in my mind that if Florida State had lost to Maryland last week (and the Seminoles scored with 32 seconds left to win 29-26) it would have been very difficult for Bowden to make the case to return for his 35th season as the Seminoles head coach. If he loses at No. 1 Florida on Saturday, and we assume he will, Florida State will be 6-6 and heading to a bowl game. I think there will be considerable pressure for Bowden to step down but he has made it clear to those who know him well that he wants to come back and pursue a final ACC championship. Florida State has promised Bowden that it will be his decision. But this much is also clear. If Bowden comes back, the 2010 season will be his last at Florida State. Everybody understands that.
3. I think Bob Stoops will at least listen to Notre Dame. On the surface, it appears silly to think that Stoops would entertain the thought of another college job. He has one of the best franchises in the sport as the head coach at Oklahoma But the profession has changed. After a coach has been in one place for 11 years (he is 114-29 with seven New Year’s Day or BCS bowls) his support starts to sag unless he’s winning the conference championship every year. It’s been a tough year at Oklahoma, which lost QB Sam Bradford and TE Jermaine Gresham early in the season and has not been the same ever since. Fans become unrealistic and don’t believe the program should ever have a down year. Stoops is a native of Ohio and so he knows the territory. Notre Dame needs a strong personality and a proven winner on the college level. Maybe Stoops, 49, has one more move left in him.
4. Look for Colt McCoy to put up some pretty big numbers against Texas A&M. The Texas quarterback has put himself in position to win the Heisman Trophy with some good games against some pretty weak teams (Baylor, Kansas). The Longhorns get another struggling team when they go to Texas A&M (6-5) on Thanksgiving night. Next week Texas plays Nebraska in the Big 12 championship game. Nebraska coach Bo Pelini has a very good defensive scheme against spread attacks so McCoy probably won’t put up huge numbers against the Cornhuskers. McCoy and Texas will be the only college football game on Thursday night and a lot of Heisman Trophy voters will be watching. Texas will turn McCoy loose and give him a chance to make his move.
5. Rich Brooks should get some votes for SEC Coach of the Year. With a win over Tennessee on Saturday in Lexington, Kentucky will finish 8-4 and in second place in the SEC East. That should be good enough to get the Wildcats into the Outback Bowl on New Year’s Day. When Kentucky quarterback Mike Hartline went down with an injury on Oct. 10, Kentucky was 2-3 and it appeared the Wildcats would stumble towards the finish line. But Brooks elected to take the redshirt off quarterback Morgan Newton and, after a few games, the offense actually got better. Now Kentucky has won five of its last six. Kentucky began playing football in 1888. In all that time no coach—not even Bear Bryant—has taken the Wildcats to four straight bowl games. This will be Kentucky’s fourth consecutive bowl (they have won the previous three) under Brooks.
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Mark Richt Is The Man!
November 25th, 2009
10:04 am
What happened with Johnson’s hmmer in the LSU game or the Miami game?
I guess he left it in his toolbox cause he was the beatdown both times.
how2fish
November 25th, 2009
10:04 am
Dawgs are coming back strong next year, NAtional Champs baby! Its starts this Saturday teckies. We gonna kill you unless the refs make lose again. Go dawgs 2011 naional champs!
PB TO THE R
November 25th, 2009
10:05 am
Where are all the Kitty CAT Barners this morning?
Greg
November 25th, 2009
10:07 am
how2fish
Next year is 2010 you idiot.
Mikey
November 25th, 2009
10:10 am
So….Brooks pulled the redshirt off Newton and went with him sink or swim….
Makes me quite scared to think what would have happened if Joe Cox was hurt early in the season.. we might be staring at 3-8 right now because like it or not, Gray would have been our full time QB while Murray continues to hold the clipboard. Joe did throw a few TD’s like him or not.
MOOOOOOOOO
November 25th, 2009
10:11 am
hey nachos,she probably had some one read your 1st post today and she wised up ad took it to heart!! HIGH TIDE COMIN’ IN!!!!
Got 12?
November 25th, 2009
10:13 am
sccatfan1,
The lines are set by Vegas only to entice gamblers. In this instance, setting the line at seven will cause those expecting a blowout to place a bet. Vegas is not concerned with the actual outcome. They are only worried about generating action on the game.
Mikey
November 25th, 2009
10:14 am
Of course CPJ will not pull back if given the opportunity- that’s just the way it is. UGA is supposed to stop them…
The Dawgs D cannot play disciplined enough to stop them. They can bottle them up for a while but the game is 60 minutes and for some reason UGA takes their foot off the gas when they have the chance to bury an opponent.
#2 BAMA FAN
November 25th, 2009
10:17 am
If the wildcats beats the vols than Rich Brooks deserves the SEC coach of the year (8-4) is great at a basketball college!! FINEBAUM IS A CAPITAL JERK!! Jerry Springer wanabee!! RTR
Fleischman loves BBC in the NYC
November 25th, 2009
10:17 am
Where are the barners today? Maybe out collecting cow patties for thanksgiving dinner?
Saban fears Jordan – Hair stadium!!
RonnieGarDner
November 25th, 2009
10:18 am
Montecello Dawg, I may be wrong, but I wouldn’t really say ND has been equal to the Tennessee program for many years now. So in one respect, Fulmer could be stepping down to take the ND job. Seems like a pretty good fit to me.
James
November 25th, 2009
10:20 am
OLD DAWG, I don’t know where that came from, but I am a Tech guy and that was hilarious!
Tony, I think I agree with everything you said, but I really don’t think COFH will be a blowout. I think GT wins, but it might be more like last year, or some of UGA’s wins recently–close until the fourth quarter. Ugly plays all over the place. Stupid stuff like fumbling through an endzone. Missed tackles. Open receivers everywhere. Interceptions that lose the game. Maybe a safety, or a blocked punt. Missed field goals. Fumbled snaps. Poor special teams play. Quarterbacks unable to count to 4. Willie Martinez unable to–well, anything.
There is no way this will be a pretty game!!
Damn, I’m excited!!!
instate
November 25th, 2009
10:23 am
this is a nice thanksgiving article
Official Sports Report: November 25, 2009
It’s Not The End-all, Do-all
Johnson said it; other examples prove it
by Matt Winkeljohn, OSR Managing Editor
ATLANTA – Right off the bat, before I dabble in the delight of Paul Johnson’s weekly council fire with the media, I am compelled to opine a tad on something almost entirely unrelated.
Georgia Tech is playing host to Georgia Saturday night in a football game that is important in one way or another to a whole lot of people aligned on two sides of an occasionally ugly line.
But learning as I did a few hours ago that Tech baseball players are about to launch into a fundraiser for a would-be Georgia baseball player not only made me blink, but re-consider the idea of trying to lend gravity to a mere ball game.
Then, I read again what I couldn’t believe I read the first time I read it.
Chance Veazey, a talented UGA freshman from Tifton who went through fall workouts with the baseball team, crashed on a scooter in Athens in late October.
Now, he’s at the Shepherd Spinal Center here in Atlanta, torn nearly asunder. He’s paralyzed from the waist down. After leaving a study hall of some sort, he hit a car, or it hit him.
Doesn’t matter which.
Here’s the double-take maker: Yellow Jacket baseball players are working up a fundraiser for a young man who hasn’t even played against Tech.
Sorry to jump the gun on a story Sting Extra OSR’s Jon Cooper will write for next week, and sorry again that the Tech sports information department folks preferred that SE-OSR wait to write about this until later for fear of compromising this weekend’s start to the Michael Isenhour Toy Drive.
The moment moves me, though, and the greatest joy in my role with Sting Extra OSR is something approximating an absence of rigid oversight.
I have no great, deep, super meaningful words here. It seems a bit of a shame to go this route when Johnson was more intriguing than usual – and that’s saying something – today with a big and perky media crowd in attendance.
But holy cow!
In taking into account all the recent conversations I’ve had with my 12-year-old son about the dangers of motorcycles, we’ve had none regarding scooters.
So in an odd way, this underlines yet again for perhaps the 10,000th time in my life, the fragile nature of existence, and the value of – and need for — perspective.
We all assign different emotional values to things material and ethereal.
I’m having a hard time calibrating the emotional verdict that should be rendered on the concept of the Jackets raising money for a Dog.
But I think it’s big.
In a way, it renders easier to believe Johnson’s comments today that the Georgia game, while very big to some, will not define this squad of Jackets. It’s not likely to define much, in fact.
Johnson referred to a larger body of work meaning much more. He was onto something.
The pending act of the Tech baseball team defines the potential of humanity in simultaneously small and huge ways. This is a small thing writ large.
If I need to apologize for getting your hopes up, for teasing you into reading on with the idea that there would be great Johnson nuggets, I will. I’m a little low on that kind of juice right now, though, as I close another edition of Sting Extra OSR with children behind me who need to be put to bed.
I’m also unabashedly proud to have been moved by all of this, proud that my older and more calloused heart still has soft spots. And I’m glad that people are capable of greatness on many levels.
Lastly, I’m thankful ahead of a special holiday for a forum to open that ever older heart.
Bless Chance Veazey and all on the wrong side of fate. Bless, too, the baseball Jackets, and all who endeavor to help those in need.
Matt Winkeljohn is managing editor of Sting Extra OSR, with a mail box at gtstingx@gmail.com. He promises more football later in the week.
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SEC Dawg
November 25th, 2009
10:23 am
If UGA even thinks about firing CMR, Evans would be an idiot!! You knuckleheads that keep calling for his head are idiots too! The game will be close unless we turn the ball over more than once. I sure hope Joe can keep from throwing to the nerds!! Oh that’s right, we can’t call them NERDS because they had to lower their academic standards, so they could try to compete in football, basketball, baseball, etc… Dawgs win a very close one!! Then order will be restored!! Then maybe the negative articles and questioning of CMR will stop for a week!! If we don’t win, we should NOT question CMR, unless he doesn’t make a couple of moves this off season!! Go DAWGS!!
Mark Richt
November 25th, 2009
10:24 am
Rodney Gardner is a shvarzer. Get back to work son.
Soulja Girl on Marta
November 25th, 2009
10:29 am
Mark Richt speaks Yiddish….
who would of thunk it?
Joe's Sack-Shack
November 25th, 2009
10:31 am
Please keep Joe Cox in the game so next year the QB will either be 2 two guys who haven’t played in a game in almost 2 years or a guy who has been catching punts and throwing to Florida Linebackers. Next Year National Champions!!!!!
Mark Richt
November 25th, 2009
10:32 am
I don’t trust the schvoogies. I keep my wallet in me front pocket whenever they around. AMEN
F-105 Thunderchief
November 25th, 2009
10:34 am
Birmingham, circa 1995, I’m listening to Feinbaum, who has been blistering some college basketball coach. The coach’s wife calls in and he starts to show a little compassion. Then, apparently, he realized “Hey, I’m Paul Feinbaum, biggest ‘ hole on earth,” and started cruelly baiting and toying with her like a cat with a mouse.
coach bryant
November 25th, 2009
10:34 am
that’s COACH BRYANT to you, buddy. (and by the way, i think brooks has done a pretty good job at uk too)
Jaxdawg
November 25th, 2009
10:38 am
GOT 12? – You almost got it. Actually lines are set by Vegas to generate equal money on both sides. The reason a line moves up or down during a given week is because too much money is loaded on one side. So they adjust the line to get money on the other side to balance it.
The way Vegas makes money on the sports betting is they have as close to equal money on both sides, and the winners are paid with the losers money minus a tax called “the vig” which is where they make their money. They could care less about what they think the outcome will be only that they have equal money on both sides.
The fact that the line isn’t any bigger than 7 simply means the majority of people feel this game will be closer than most think.
Nachos the Original
November 25th, 2009
10:43 am
give it up imposter the adam lambert jokes got old yesterday.
36 – 0
Dawgs
November 25th, 2009
10:43 am
You know if I were a player for UGA it would REALLY piss me off if everyone kept saying my team was going to get blown out by my instate rival and that my team wasn’t going to do anything about it. As a competitor, that alone would be enough motivation to make me want to come across the line line and hit the Jackets square in the mouth. But these kids don’t care, they’re worthless! Biggest bunch of pussies I’ve ever seen in my life, especially on defense!
You know what: if they want to go ahead and quit on Willie and Richt and throw them under the bus, then fine go ahead! Because I can tell you one thing right now: a REAL coach would bench their asses for quitting like they did vs. Kentucky and Tennessee. A REAL head coach would run this defense until they puked up blood for allowing JONATHAN FREAKIN CROMPTON to throw 6 TD’s on them! And a REAL head coach would refuse to allow his team lose to their instate rival, and would make them pay for a loss like that can’t even believe! A REAL head coach isn’t going to put up with this teams BS, so they better get their heads out of their asses!
I would love to be able to talk trash to the Yellow Jacket fans this week: but I can’t do that when my team can’t even lock it up for a half against Kentucky and when our QB pitches the ball into dirt like some God Damn Pee Wee football player! I’d love to believe that this team will grow a pair between now and Saturday and give Tech a game. But this team is what it is, a bunch of candy asses!
Scott
November 25th, 2009
10:44 am
Gt rolls against a team in disarray. Why this game is even thought of as who could win is a joke. Maybe if uga had played well against ky, it miiiiight be close. Dawgs have no chance. Two weeks to prepare for ga. lol
blowout coming
uh?
November 25th, 2009
10:47 am
do not get it……UGA fans bashing Joe Cox again but in the other blog ask to compare with Josh Nesbitt, you come in droves to defend him
Hines Ward
November 25th, 2009
10:47 am
No doubt GT will roll. My dawgs just flat out stink this year. Worried about the future. GT will be knocking hard on the recruiting door. It will be tough to beat PJ. He is a damn good coach.
toga
November 25th, 2009
10:47 am
SEC Dawg -
It is fans like you that keep a program down. One down year can turn into 10 quick. Richt was only successful because of a perfect storm of down years at other SEC programs. Can’t you see this is a sinking ship and the assistants are not to blame? I look forward to your comments after Tech runs all over you and Purple boy throws a few picks.
Do you really think any other SEC program would hire Richt? If he had his way, they would not even keep score. He reminds me of a Liberal Soccor Mom.
Tech 44
Ga. 17
Roll Tide
bb
November 25th, 2009
10:48 am
Mark Richt is the Man!, what is your point. Sure GT needed 26 points in the 3rd qtr to win by 3. But, by the same token, UGA had to score 21 in the 2nd to stay within 3 points! The game is 4 qtrs, they all count.
RonnieGarDner
November 25th, 2009
10:49 am
What’s wrong with Crompton? I think he leads the entire SEC with TD passes.ANd to boot he is right up there nationally.
Soulja Girl on Marta
November 25th, 2009
10:52 am
Any more puppies get arrested this week in that dump Athens?
Its been a few days so I figured they were due.
MR
November 25th, 2009
10:55 am
Mark Richt Is The Man!, always talking about the past. You have nothing else.
Mark Richt
November 25th, 2009
10:58 am
I don’t feel comfortable around THOSE PEOPLE. They always looking at my watch like its a piece of meat. AMEN
RAM IT ON!
November 25th, 2009
11:00 am
Amazing how Tech has one successful year and all of a sudden they are world beaters.
Enjoy the moments dorks, things will return to normal soon.
Pocket Protectors rule!
November 25th, 2009
11:01 am
Straight up–it’s almost like they think they have a dynasty or something–after a few winning games.
snapshot
November 25th, 2009
11:02 am
Trust me, the mutts will fight for their coach. This will be a difficult game for Tech. But we have a coach and some really great players!!!!!!!!!!!
Go Yellow Jackets
MR
November 25th, 2009
11:05 am
TO: RAM IT ON!
Keep thinking that if it makes you sleep better at night.
indianman
November 25th, 2009
11:05 am
greg have you look in the mirror lately
MR
November 25th, 2009
11:06 am
The game will be a good one. There will be no hammer. You will see what the UGA program is made of….were they looking ahead to Tech last week.
Call it Like It Is
November 25th, 2009
11:09 am
I hope Tech pours it on GA as they deserve the points getting rolled up on them with all of the trash talking that they seem to dish up every year without backing it up with a NC!
Jackets roll big in this one as the Gators waltz to another SEC and NC!
Enough Said!
Dawg Central
November 25th, 2009
11:10 am
Tech fans are hoping for a blowout……..the experts aren’t stupid….the line is Tech by 7 points….the experts have very little faith that Tech will do more than struggle with the worst UGA team in 15 years….lol…..Tech fans, your team is ranked 7th in the nation and you are only a 7 point favorite to a 6-5 team……lol That tells you the hiding is over…..and don’t be suprised if your “DADDY” (the Georgia Bulldogs)walks onto Grant Field and gives you a good spanking for thinking that you are ready to take the reigns as the best team in Georgia. And oh yea, just remember….for the last eight years UGA 7 wins…..Tech 1 win…………….so again, I say Tech fans….never forget UGA is your “DADDY” and will always be!!!!!!
HH
November 25th, 2009
11:11 am
Whose fault is it for the disgraceful situation Richt has put himself and UGA in? Why, nobody but Coach Overpaid himself. Through his cavalier tolerance of a poorly performing defensive coordinator and others of his coaching staff, a lack of attention to important details necessary to maintain a winning program, and his manifest unconcern when important questions are raised about his own performance and that of his hirlings as well as of the team as a whole, he deserves to have Paul Johnson “put the hammer down” on national television and make him look like a fool. Maybe that will finally goad him into making a little effort to put things right with UGA as well as with the sorry coaching effort he has rendered to the fans and to the team this season. Maybe that will goad him into start earning his $3 million per year. Be that as it may, though, don’t any UGA fan hold their breath.
Joe Schmoe
November 25th, 2009
11:12 am
I expect this game to be at least competitive in the first half, but GT will put on the afterburners in the third quarter. GT defense is stout in the second half, and will have Joe Cox scrambling.
Got 12?
November 25th, 2009
11:12 am
Jaxdawg,
We are saying the same thing about betting lines.
I’m going to lunch. I plan to pick a (blog) fight with someone upon my return.
DollarBill
November 25th, 2009
11:13 am
With all of those Blue Chippers over there in Athens, it should be a good game no matter what the records are. Dropping the Hammer? That sounds like a slight against CPJ. CPJ has been more than sporting without showing the other team up.
BCS
November 25th, 2009
11:13 am
Dorks, nerds, fleabags, mutts, leghumpers, ball lickers, buttsniffers, stadium capacity, fan base, free Cokes, past history – all bullschitt. It’s about THIS GAME, THIS SATURDAY! Now shut up and play ball!!!!!!! And GO TECH!!!!!!!!!
JoD
November 25th, 2009
11:15 am
I cant wait for these board to be free of doggie fans for a while. They will have to go and return their UGA gear to walmart for a refund.
Frank Drebin
November 25th, 2009
11:15 am
I guess if UGAy is “our daddy”, then Florida is our grandaddy.
Joe Hamilton
November 25th, 2009
11:16 am
No puppies arrested this week. I’m not sure but I don’t think animals can get arrested. I think that is saved for humans. Hey, have welfare checks been mailed out yet for the month of November?
PB TO THE R
November 25th, 2009
11:18 am
GAME DON’T MEAN NOTHING……NOT A THING; YOU GUYS ARE FIGHTING OVER WHO GOES TO THE “WEEDER BOWL” VS THE “BY ME A CHICKEN SANDWICH BOWL”…..
Eric Cartman
November 25th, 2009
11:18 am
This is what UGA gets for allowing a Ginger to lead the offense. Look at history, can any of you name one single Ginger that has done anything positive? You can’t because Gingers are firey red-headed anger-mongers who have been sent here to destroy all that is good. Just look at what just ONE Ginger was able to do to UGA’s program.
I say to you all, Ginger Cox has bamboozled and hoodwinked the UGA coaching staff into believing he is the best QB to lead the team. How was he able to do this you ask? Simple, he used his mystical “Ginger-hypnosis” – which is caused by staring at the Ginger’s freckles for too long. I fear that his face time on TV has allowed him to reach the fanbase as well. People are blaming our beloved coaches for all the ills of the program, but they as well as the players have been led astray by this crafty Ginger. Ginger Cox may represent the rise of the Ginger King as foretold in the Ginger Prophecy. Beware the Ginger!!! The solution to the Dawgs problems is simple my friends…once Ginger Cox leaves the program, we must make sure that no more Gingers are ever recruited. Just letting one into the program has nearly destroyed it. Indeed the Ginger is a dangerous lot and we must protect our beloved program from this infestation in the future. My goodness could you imagine if there were two Gingers on the team? It could set the program back for decades.
Go Dawgs!!
NO MORE GINGERS!!!