Let's assume Blair Walsh and Drew Butler were not declaring, "We're No. 1" after the win. (AP photo)
ATHENS — If after one game you were convinced that this would be a dreadful season, and after two games you figured maybe the quarterback wouldn’t be so bad after all, and after three games you once again were ready to catapult Willie Martinez out of Athens, out of the state and out of a job, well, guess what? They’ve come full circle.
Maybe it’s best to just not assume anything about Georgia this season — certainly not an easy victory.
Blair Walsh kicked a game-winning 37-yard field goal as time expired Saturday to give the Bulldogs a 20-17 win over Arizona State at Sanford Stadium. And that’s really all you want to know without a bottle of Tums.
Given that this is a bottom-line business, the Bulldogs will try not to think about how they got there. There was an offense that committed three more turnovers, leading to 14 of the visitors’ 17 points and left the team at a minus-9 in turnover differential this season. There also was an offense that produced only two field goals (and the three turnovers) in 10 possessions after two early touchdowns.
Joe Cox completed only 12 of 23 with two interceptions after the first quarter. (Brant Sanderlin/AJC).
There was bland and unimaginative play-calling and a stunning decision by coach Mark Richt to pass up a potential winning 45-yard field-goal attempt earlier in the fourth quarter to go for it on fourth-and-one (and the play was stuffed).
Good thing nobody is paying attention to polls this season.
“You’d like to think you’re progressing over the last three weeks,” Richt said. “It’s almost like we’re that record that gets stuck and the same things keep happening over and over again. The good news is at the very end we’ve been winning. We’d like to remove some of the drama if possible.”
The defense was strong. That would be the good news. But somewhere it is written that you should not be tied with Arizona State in the fourth quarter on your home field, particularly after leading 14-3 in the first quarter.
Haven’t figured this team out yet? Stop trying.
It was far different circumstances when these teams met at this time a year ago. The Bulldogs still had national championship aspirations. They won in Tempe 27-10. It was one of their best performances of the season, setting up meteoric expectations for Alabama week.
Then came the blackout. Then came the knockout. Bama jumped to a 31-0 lead and it was over. Neither the Dogs nor expectations were the same the rest of the season.
That wasn’t an issue Saturday. The season-opening loss at Oklahoma State smothered the rankings talk early. The wins over South Carolina and Arkansas were fun to watch, much like cartoons are fun to watch. Great offense, no defense, too many penalties and turnovers and exploding body parts.
The game was tied 17-17 when Georgia got the ball back with 5:40 left. But on first down, Joe Cox threw behind A.J. Green right into the hands of safety Jarrell Holman (who earlier returned an interception for a touchdown). This one he brought back to the Dogs’ 20. But the defense held again, and a 38-yard field goal attempt was blocked — by A.J. Green.
Green also caught a 56-yard touchdown earlier in the game. On the ensuing Dogs’ possession after the blocked field, he made a third-down 22-yard catch at the Arizona State 22. That ultimately set up the winning field goal. Pretty sure he was player of the game.
It looked for a while liked Georgia might have an easy night. Didn’t happen. Maybe we should all just assume at this point that there won’t be any easy days or nights.
First the offense stalled, then it started dropping engine parts on the highway (a fumble set up one touchdown and an interception was returned for another score). Suddenly, ASU led 17-14. The Dogs came back to tie it. After forcing ASU to punt, the Dogs drove into Devils’ territory again. But Richt elected to go for it on fourth-and-1 from the 28 — passing up a potential go-ahead 45-yard field goal. Result: fullback Fred Munzenmaier ran into a wall.
They seemed destined to lose. But at this point we should just assume they’re not destined for anything. Except maybe to keep us guessing.
617 comments Add your comment
Jenner
September 27th, 2009
4:34 am
Enter your comments hereA win is a win…..we are better than Old Miss, FSU, GT…etc…
I think BOBO needs to GOGO!….It seems like he makes a playlist before the game and strickly sticks to the list, reguardless of how the O is playing.. And Bobo has only been a mediocre playcaller since he was given that job.
Let Logan Gray play qb…..why not?
You’ll never know until you try.
BuLLdawg
September 27th, 2009
4:40 am
Red Dog 77
September 27th, 2009
3:07 am
“study this teams strengths and weaknesses. I think you will will find in time that these young pups that we have out on the field now , will grow to become MONSTER DOGS and probubly contend for a mnc in the next few years. And just look at the prospects we have coming in next year! And to think we are winning while you are barffing!”
Are you insane Red Dog 77 ?
National Championship with this “coaching staff.” Get over yourself. We have had the Number 6 Recruiting Class for 9 Consecutive years now, and counting. We have 32 seniors and juniors on this team. Those are all considered Top 6 in the nation in talent. The problem with this football program, is NOT TALENT.
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP.
B.S.
We have all the talent in the world to compete for a national championship, every year. The issue dimwitted Red Dog 77 is that we have a sorry lot of coaches teaching our men to play a football game. There is not a worse “coaching staff” in all of America and the reason for this is NOT because we have no talent here. It is because Coach Richt wants to surround himself with a bunch of his buddies. And, then defend them.
And, then YOU COME RUNNING IN HERE RED DOG 77 TELLING US ALL WE ARE GOING TO WIN THE DAMN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP.
Losers, all of you
September 27th, 2009
4:49 am
If only I had a nickle for each of the mindless comments found on this blog….out of touch GA fans who want to fire everyone (even though they know nothing about Xs & Os, much less leadership)….pathetic GT fans desperately trying to find any issue to take shots at UGA, when they have an empty stadium and irrelevant program whose glory ended in 1959….and then the hopelessly pathetic posters (i.e. Cuz) who clearly have no social life apart from posting to an AJC blog — seriously, you should try and get out some…there is a whole big wide world waiting outside….whatever you people do, just please do society a favor and don’t vote or procreate….that’s all
BuLLdawg
September 27th, 2009
4:56 am
Amen, and Red Dog 77 says UGA is going to win the NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP.
lowcountrydawg
September 27th, 2009
5:28 am
Jeff, you got it right! Football is a “bottom line business”. Just as Herm Edwards said, “You play to win the game”. I know many of us in the Bulldawg Nation can figure it out from week to week, but winning, as Nuke Lalouch stated, “is better than losing!” We’re 3-1…that’s all that matters! The polls aren’t meaning a damn thing. (Do they ever, it’s merely opinion, anyway!!) We’ve got a tough LSU team, which is a suspect #7, coming to our place next week. Let’s be happy with the win a get reading for the Bengal Tigers…GO DAWGS!!!
BuLLdawg
September 27th, 2009
5:39 am
LSU is “suspect” lowcountrydawg sir ?
LSU beat Washington who beat Southern California.
NikkiFree
September 27th, 2009
5:43 am
I have no clue what the Dawgs are about this season. Obviously, you don’t either Jeff.
Jacory Halfass
September 27th, 2009
5:53 am
Miami and Jacory Harris were exposed as a bunch of media hype!
BuLLdawg
September 27th, 2009
6:11 am
That was Oklahoma fans who hyped Miami of Florida. That was so that the game next week would be a battle of all ages.
Now, it looks like 2 programs who used to be something but have both obviously dropped off in a big huge way.
FRED
September 27th, 2009
6:32 am
HATE TO SAY I TOLD YOU SO BUT….. THIS TEAM IS SO BADLEY COACHED WHAT YOU SAW LAST NIGHT IS WHAT YOU WILL GET ALL SEASON. WE WILL NOT BEAT AUBURN, TENN, VANDY. FORGET ABOUT FLORIDA.
ceph
September 27th, 2009
7:05 am
I hope no one is going ga-ga over the defense against ASU, because I just witnessed the worse QB in division one football. If there is a sorrier QB in the country I don’t want to see him, this guy is absolutely awful. He couldn’t hit a bull in the butt with a two by four. He had guys open all night and he must have thought they were all ten feet tall and someone should have told him that it isn’t a completion if it is out bounds. You could just see the sign of indignation on Erickson’s face every time the cameera panned on him. I’m afraid reality will set in next week, but as Richt said we have been doing it this way for nine years and we ain’t about to change now!!!!
Michael
September 27th, 2009
7:09 am
UGA just has to schedule Ga State and Ga Southern to start its season like Florida and LSU start with their instate cupcakes every year.
rosezee
September 27th, 2009
7:11 am
Enter your comments here
TIME TO SAY GOODBYE!!!!! This coaching staff sucks. Constant underachievers. No wonder Stafford and Knowshon jumped shipped. And Evans talks about taking it to the next level???
The next level down maybe.
Where is this stud offensive line??? The defense is a disgrace to the SEC. Arkansas got 7 against Bama.
20-17 at home against a horrible Arizona State team?
If Evans means what he says, its time to say goodbye to this second rate coaching staff and bring on Gruden. Didn’t take long for Meyer to pass us by; I predict Kiffin will do the same in his first year.
If Evans waits, UGA will join Auburn as the another elite program at the bottom ofthe trash heap.
BuLLdawg
September 27th, 2009
7:23 am
Michael, Florida has beat Tennessee and Kentucky so far.
LSU has beat Washington who beat Southern California.
If you want to know a team who has not beat anyone any good, try the mirrow.
Arizona State had no business on the same field with our athletes. And, frankly we were lucky to win against _____________ . (Fill in the blank : South Carolina, Arkansas, and Arizona State.) The fact that we play Tennessee Tech AFTER we play Florida has no bearing on the facts that Georgia clearly is the worst coached team in America.
45ACP
September 27th, 2009
7:33 am
A win is a win. Enjoy it folks.
We have a tiger by the tail next week.
Clay
September 27th, 2009
7:50 am
Last week it was “Arkansas is a trap game and the Dawgs are gonna lose.” Then UGA won and it was “You gave up 41 points, it wasn’t a good win.” I have not even read the 4 pages of posts; but, I’m sure they are not very complimentary toward UGA. All I know is that if UGA beats LSU 20-17 on a last second field goal, there will be dancing in the streets. The only people upset are those who allow the national media perceptions (and the AJC’s pro-Ga Tech sports writers) dictate how UGA should play. UGA won. A win is a win. At the end of the year there are no asterisks next to the Win column. Take the win and move on to next week!
yellow fuzz buster
September 27th, 2009
7:53 am
(((((((((((( 33-17 ))))))))))) hahahahahahahaha
Glad is STILL hurts so bad to remember this
jerry
September 27th, 2009
7:57 am
The offense: The 33rd time the Guru has failed to score more than 20. Grade D
The defense: The opponent had one running play and an immobile and inaccurate QB. Grade D
BuLLdawg
September 27th, 2009
7:58 am
Number 6 recruiting class every year for 9 consecutive solid years of talent including 32 Seniors and Juniors. That is what we fans have handed to this lousy coaching staff to watch them squander all the talent handed to them.
They redshirted Knowshon Moreno so we only got to see him for 2 years.
What is Marlon Brown doing ? This “coaching staff” put Marlon Brown in for a play against South Carolina. That’s it. He has not even been on the field any other play.
The more the players, like Marlon Brown has done very loudly already, complain about this “coaching staff” and the less the fans come running in here like Red Dog 77 saying we are going to win the NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP, the better off we will be because Coach Richt is NOT LONG for this PROGRAM sticking with his buddies and defending them with all the talent we obviously have.
90 UGA NCAA Rank Rushing Offense – Where in the hell is Washaun Ealey? Tony Ball, a Running Back by Trade, was MOVED to Receivers he never has played so that Bryan McClendon who never played Running Back but Wide Receiver only (Dad was RB and a great one.) could be made Running Backs coach. Would you say we have our best RB on the field ? Would you say 1 of them has been coached how to carry a football correctly ? Well ? Would you ? Number 90 Rushing Offense in the nation, UGA.
74 UGA NCAA Rank Total Offense – we haven’t played any good teams yet. Coach Richt who is Offensive Coordinator by Trade, gave this position up to Mike Bobo who had a fine senior year here as our QB but has proven to be inept # 74 Offensive Coordinator. Mike Bobo had the Number 56 Rushing Offense LAST YEAR WITH KNOWSHON MORENO.
95 UGA NCAA Rank Scoring Defense – we haven’t played any good teams yet.
87 UGA NCAA Rank Punt Returns – we put a different guy back every punt. Did you buy the 2009 Georgia Football Media Guide ? There is NOT a Special Teams’ Coach listed any longer. It had been Jon Fabris.
115 GA NCAA Rank Turnover Margin – Baccari Rambo ended a record 87 passes thrown against us without an interception; and, we don’t play Rambo.
90 UGA NCAA Rank Pass Defense – this is mostly because even against a junior high QB last night, we only sacked that goon 1 time all night long.
89 UGA NCAA Rank in getting Sacks – this is because we have 14 linebackers we recruited and ZERO Defensive Ends, including AFTER last year when we were Number 72 in sacks for all of last year. JON FABRIS is the Defensive Ends “coach.”
71 UGA NCAA Rank Tackles for Loss – Willie Martinez was demoted to Co-Defensive Coordinator before the season by Coach Richt, and is also our Secondary Coach, you know the guy responsible that for 87 passes in a row not 1 of which was intercepted until a guy he will not even allow to play Baccari Rambo intercepted one last night; then, he took him back out.
barneyb
September 27th, 2009
8:02 am
What is it going to take to get the coaching staff packing? CMR if you won’t do it, maybe your successor can.
dg
September 27th, 2009
8:05 am
I was at the game and watched that sad effort by UGA. I’m from the Pac-10, and UGA fans need to realize that they could barely beat one of the worst teams in the Pac-10. Someone wrote that they had a strong defense…no, sorry, UGA has problems on offense. Just wait until you play some strong SEC teams…..ASU is a bottom dweller in the Pac-10 for a few years now and has a worse team than last year….UGA is just much worse than last year.
Bobby Cox
September 27th, 2009
8:09 am
3 – 1. Georgia is going to beat LSU, Tennessee and Vanderbilt. 6 – 1 going into Florida. About what you expected…right.
Auburn and Florida are two potential losses…that I see now. Nothing wrong with this team going 10 – 3…provided we can win the bowl game. Final…National Ranking somewhere between 13 – 16.
CMR and his staff should not be given any more…automatic / rollover / extension…of a contract…
Selah…
dg
September 27th, 2009
8:10 am
LSU beat Washington who beat USA is a valid statement. Washington beat USC with their starting QB injured….If Matt Barkley plays QB for USC, they win by two touchdowns.
sportsfan
September 27th, 2009
8:11 am
Be thankful you have Green & Curran or this wouldn’t even be a avg. team. One week it’s Richt, then Bobo, then Willie….get a clue, this is an avg team. Top ten recruits every year but not top ten on the field. Maybe the recruiting polls are wrong!! There have already been three games that the Dawgs were lucky to win the coin toss…thats about what it came down too. In the past when great players were on the field Coach Richt was considered the best thing around…and he’s still a great coach, just not great players. Bottom line……a Win is a Win….be thankful.
Chicago Dawg
September 27th, 2009
8:12 am
I feel that the coaches just don’t have the killer instinct and are aggresive enough to compete with the UFs and ALs. I did not understand not trying to go for another touchdown before the half. If that had been Spurrier or Myer or some of the other coaches in the SEC, they would have been going deep to increase the lead before the half. But UGA decides to run the ball and run the clock out. Too much talent to be performing as they have been.
dg
September 27th, 2009
8:12 am
LSU beat Washington who beat USC is NOT a valid statement. Washington beat USC with their starting QB injured….If Matt Barkley plays QB for USC, they win by two touchdowns.
jerry
September 27th, 2009
8:14 am
Gruden would be great but it will never happen. He is too qualified and UGA has never and will never pay up for quality. Their M.O. is too look for a Rembrandt at a yard sale, wait for a 1980 FLUKE, and ride that for eternity.
dd
September 27th, 2009
8:22 am
33-17
atmdog
September 27th, 2009
8:25 am
Has everyone missed how many top rank teams have lost the past two weeks? Sometimes we forget these are just kids. Two big conference games the last two weeks. When you take into account the weather, lack of fans in the stands and the youth and lack of experience on this team and the fact they keep finding a way to win we should all be proud. Would you have prefered they played a perfect game and lost?
BuLLdawg
September 27th, 2009
8:27 am
Coach Richt’s “Coaching Staff” has NO ONE (NONE) who have coached 2 years in the NFL. There is 1 (one) who coached 1 year in the NFL, Jon Fabris. He coached linebackers. Does he coach linebackers here ? Uh, no.
Pago Flyer
September 27th, 2009
8:27 am
The DAWGS are not a Top 25 team…
Sloan
September 27th, 2009
8:27 am
With all due respect to Tim Teblow and Colt McCoy, AJ Green is the real deal and should be the Heisman frontrunner right now. No one in the country is more valuable to his team. Nor has anyone else been such a significant difference maker. Our Bulldogs are possibly 0-4 without him. The refs last night completely blew the “no touchdown” call. Even the ESPN U commentators were amazed as they watched the replay over and over again that CLEARLY showed him tap his toes inside the ed zone as he came down with that ball.
BuLLdawg
September 27th, 2009
8:30 am
Red Dog 77 says UGA will win the NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP, after watching last night’s game. He said it at 3 am this morning in THIS BLOG.
B.S. not with this “Coaching Staff.”
Sloan
September 27th, 2009
8:35 am
Oh and I agree with BuLLdawg, our coaches are doing a great imitation of the Ray Goff years. The recruiting classes seem to be finding that same blackhole once they get to practice that Ray’s recruits fell into never to be heard from again.
Wakey
September 27th, 2009
8:37 am
You think you are upset now but wait until after LSU finishes mauling you.
Don
September 27th, 2009
8:39 am
And how many points have we given up on 12 turnovers? I think reality may well hit us in the face in October. I can definitely see us 3-5 by All Saints day. Exactly how many times must you send your backs into the fray behind a line that cannot block and stop expecting the result to change? There is no focus, right now. Top to bottom. Head Coach to managers. None. We continue to look chaotic like we did after Bama last season. LSU and UM are licking their chops by now. Lane Kiffin is, too. Oh yeah, it’s time someone told Don Leeburn what he can do with himself, and to encourage Mike Adams to get the NCAA job. Can you take your lapdog Damon Evans with you? And CMR, I have Mike Archer’s # if you want it…er, you already need it.
Atticus
September 27th, 2009
8:42 am
Quote from Mark Richt
“I’d like to remove some of the drama if possible and just play a solid 60 minutes of football, but we just have not found a way to do that yet,” Richt said. “But that’s coaching, too. I’ve got to do a better job of getting these guys prepared. It’s not only what I might say before the game or at halftime. It’s what we demand of them throughout the week and maybe we need to do a better job of that.”
ALL….your coaches have to do a better job. A win is important but if it happens with poor exectuion, it leads to losses. We already have one we shouldn’t have had.
My fear is the coaches don’t know what they don’t know.
Bobo has done a decent job but sometimes his playcalling falls into high school. No motion, no misdirection, players disappear never to be heard of….and with all that talent. Thank good ness for AJ.
Martinez’s team played better but we are not very good. Still very little pass rush, too many missed tackles and AZ State had way to much push on our DL. Atkins and Houston played well. If you want to see the way a defense plays, just watch Alabama. When Arkansas’ receivers went to cacth the ball, they were getting STUCK every time. There is NO excuse for Bama to have so much better a defense than us after him being there only 3 years, but it comes down to levels of expectations.
catlady
September 27th, 2009
8:54 am
It would help if everyone would take off their partisan sunglasses. The Bulldogs have some good players, a few very good players, and some above average players. Perhaps 1 or 2 great players as well. They are just a bunch of more talented than usual 20 year olds playing a game they seem to love, that they have been successful with in high school, and in exchange they are getting a free education (if they have the ability to profit from it). A few may go to the NFL, but the players are not generally the cream of the crop, nor are they professional.
Luckily for us most college teams are in the same boat.
Enjoy the games. Cheer for them and drink an extra beer when they fail.
Carl Spackler
September 27th, 2009
8:54 am
Random thoughts…
First let’s get the Cox excuse of week out of the way…it was raining…
Second, The Ginger Assassin needs to lay off thinking about individual goals (beat Bobo’s record), or just keep them to himself and mouth zipped…last time I ck’d it was still a team sport…
Thank goodness AJ is 6′4″ and Cox can throw his natural floater pass and Green can make a circus catch almost every time…Cox is going to get him killed…
Ginger, still locks in on one receiver, did he even check off one time, or were most passes floaters to AJ and screens, quick tosses, and wide out screens…
Good to see the ball thrown to Wooten, but where was Brown…
Does Gray have it written in his contract that he must get in and handle the ball once a game from the QB position and once to do a fair catch…
ASU had some stud players on the D side of the ball…
What’s w/ the Homers always stating that “if you didn’t go to UGA” then you don’t have a right to criitize/critique the team…pretty fair skinned bunch of pansies…the way you gain exposure in the polls is thru your fan base, and the bigger, the better…keep it up and you homers will be 2nd tier in consideration year in and year out against the likes of TX, Fl, Ohio State, Southern Cal, LSU, Bama, Okla, and the list goes on…heck, last year was the first time I can remember UGA ever being a pre-season #1 pick…all you real “FANS” can update us on this…
How did Murray throw out his arm, must have been running the scout team as the OSU QB…what a waste…hope he applies for a medical redshirt…
Finally…AJ did not have a TD catch…no grass moved, no drag marks, nothing but air….the ref was 5 feet from the play and I’m sure he took that all into account to make his call/no call…if the announcers were on top of things, they should have pointed this out…
lowdawg
September 27th, 2009
8:57 am
Where is Marlon Brown,,,,Where is Marlon Brown,,,Bring on Marlon Brown
Old Dawg
September 27th, 2009
9:00 am
All you armchair coaches give me gas. You have all the answers, but never match them up to the right questions. Fire Martinez, fire Richt, fire anyone and what do you have? Just someone else you want to fire when the PLAYERS don’t do their jobs. Not one single coach was in uniform last night! Why not be satisfied with a win and move on thet he next GAME? And, you Tech axxholes…..shut the F up and mind your own business. You’re nothing but mouth anyway.
Maretta
September 27th, 2009
9:08 am
Mark Richt and his coaching staff are not ready for major college football. Our student athletes deserve better. We need a coaching staff that knows how to play in the big leagues and aren’t just happy if they can witn 10 games or win the SEC. We want more; we won’t settle for that. That coaching staff doesn’t care anything about Georgia. We deserve better.
laurenzo
September 27th, 2009
9:08 am
The D was GREAT!!!! Why are people still bitching about it???? Turnovers and penalties….that’s where ASU got their points.
laurenzo
September 27th, 2009
9:11 am
Oh, and that was most DEFINITELY a TD!
Motown Hound
September 27th, 2009
9:18 am
Just got up…. Scratching my belly….looking around trying to focus….oh yeah Dawgs pulled out a squeaker last night followed by too much Svedka….. coming back to me. We are 3 and 1 after starting the season with 4 BCS conference teams, shooting ourselves in the foot, the toe, the heal grazing the knee and we are still 3 and 1. No where to go but up from here.
I for one like this position.
DawgGirl
September 27th, 2009
9:20 am
No mention of the student section who stood two hours in the pouring rain before the game even started to support their Dawgs? Sad.
lagadawg
September 27th, 2009
9:23 am
I am sick of fans saying we are young,a senior in college is a young man,there’re all young,so play the best.Bozo has no imagination and silly Willie starts the game in a bend and no win defense and Richt is too stubborn to admit he’s wrong about anything,we need a lot of changes.
Dawgs with Class
September 27th, 2009
9:23 am
Entire post in poor taste.
Things running through Tebow’s mind when he got hurt:
1) God won’t let me die a virgin!
2) Now who’s gonna perform unnecessary circumcisions without a mohel’s license on all those poor Philippine kids?
3) His offensive tackle’s knee!!!
…
…
… Too soon?
raf
September 27th, 2009
9:29 am
You guys should be happy at least you beat three BCS teams and only lost to a at that time top 10 ranked team. I do think that you should be starting one of your young highly recruited QB’s so that they will be getting some experience or you will be in the same situation next year; we all know that QB play is so important when it comes to winning against top teams. I think the coaches should be treating this year like staffords freshman year and getting a young QB some reps because you will only have AJ Green for one more year and you would like to have a QB with some time under center throwing to him so that you will have your best chance at winning the SEC next year. You need to remember that Tebow will be gone next year and the SEC EAST will be there for the taking, so why not sacrafice this year so that you could be great next year. A talent like AJ only comes around once in a blue moon, just look at how TECH wasted the talent of Calvin Johnson I don’t think you want to do the same.
I hope that UGA does well the rest of the season and that they have a good record when they play TECH so that the game will get some national attention for the state of GEORGIA.
GO TECH!!!!
Thomas
September 27th, 2009
9:30 am
This team stinks.
The only certainties with UGA are:
1) They don’t win big games (except for UF 2 yrs ago)
2) Players get arrested
3) Richt builds character
Richt is so arrogant. Our close wins against weak teams help hide the mediocrity of Joe Cox.
God, Cox is awful. He throws sideways passes which go so slow that the defense tackles immediately.