Dogs fans, what’s your preference: Shreveport or nothing?
I listened to Mark Richt’s teleconference with media members Sunday night and had to chuckle (quietly) when somebody asked the Georgia coach about the bowl picture. “I’m not sure where [we're going],” Richt said, “but I can promise you we will be thankful anywhere we get to go.”
It wasn’t just what he said but the way he said it, as in: “We’ll take anything.”
A question for you: Would you prefer anything or nothing? Because the “anything” is not going to be very good.
The SEC bowl tie-ins are: 1.) BCS bowl(s); 2.) Capital One; 3.) Outback; 4.) Chick-fil-A; 5.) Cotton; 6 and 7.) Liberty and Music City; 8.) Independence; 9.) Papajohns.com.
It’s looking more and more like Georgia is ticketed for one of the bottom two bowls, either the Independence in Shreveport, La., Dec. 28, or the Papajohns.com in Birmingham, Dec. 29. ESPN.com projections have them playing Connecticut (Papajohns.com) or Iowa State (Independence). CBSSports.com has Georgia playing Florida State in the Music City Bowl in Nashville, Dec. 27.
If the Dogs lose to Georgia Tech, they will finish the regular season 6-6 (one of those wins coming over Tennessee Tech). Would you look forward to one of the lower-tier bowls, or has the season left you too upset to even want to watch or attend?
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Bo in North Carolina
November 23rd, 2009
11:49 am
Ramble on. You should be familiar with Boise. I believe gt has been there twice.
V Dawg
November 23rd, 2009
11:49 am
Swamp Gator – I may indeed take you up on the invite in Atlanta…….GA fan first, SEC east fan second, SEC west fan last. …………Notice Ga Tech isn’t on my list…….LOL…..Just kidding…..I hope you nerds do well.
Epiminondas
November 23rd, 2009
11:50 am
Oh, God! Please let the AD and coaches mercifully allow the season to end after the final regular season game. Please don’t inflict any more pain on us!!!!!
Paul H
November 23rd, 2009
11:50 am
Ramble On – you know all about Boise being a Tech fan, don’t you?
bdawg
November 23rd, 2009
11:52 am
I wish we would just stay home. this team is freaking terrible. And on top of that if we go we will probably end up 6-7. I would rather us stay home and watch some good teams play. I am so stinking tired of hearing about how Joe cox gives us the best chance to win. he looks at one receiver every play. We should have put Murray in after the Tennessee game. I hate to say it but im ready for major changes in the coaching staff. Starting at the top. This team is undisciplined and just straight up stupid. I have been a ga fan my whole life and this has been one of the most frustrating seasons ever. However this has been in the making since 2006. It wasn’t Richt that won us all those games early in his career. It was Pollack, Greene, Shockley and the rest of those players. I think Richt is a great man but its time for change. We need someone who shakes things up like Meyer and Saban.
Jefferson
November 23rd, 2009
11:56 am
Does the bus driver have a licence? He will fit right in.
Why does the coach let the players shuck and jive and do what they want?
Burdell
November 23rd, 2009
11:56 am
Doesn’t look like it matters much to these two UGA fans…as long as there is a party!
From UGA Police blog…
09-2475
Possession of Cocaine
11/21/09 at 8:11 p.m.
Sanford Stadium
Hayden Erich Jahn, male student
09-2478
Possession of Marijuana/ Obstruction
11/21/09 at 9:11 p.m.
Sanford Stadium
Mitchell C. Waldrop, male visitor
dean
November 23rd, 2009
12:00 pm
If the players who have worked hard and worked to get better want to go then by all means they should go bowling. However, if there are any players with 3 or more personal fouls during the season then they don’t travel. They can stay in Athens during the bowl game and run wind sprints with Willie Martinez. Also, any other players who with regularity committed stupid 5 and 10 yard penalties during the year should stay back run wind sprints with Willie. On the way home after the bowl loss Richt should do pushups on the bus- the number equalling the number of points given up this season. Then the morning after they should be up at 5:00 in the morning and as a team run a 5 mile run covering the hills of Athens.
TTindall
November 23rd, 2009
12:00 pm
Jeff – I agree with the concept of using the bowl game as an extra practice period, but should the seniors be rewarded for a 6 and 6 season? If we do play, they should look to play a lot of the younger players to prepare for next year. How many times do we look at some of the weaker teams playing in second hand bowl and think that there are just too many bowls? That is us this year. Also, maybe we should dedicate the bowl game as a farewell game for Willie and Mike. Let them decide where they want their farewell party to be held. Once again, we have allowed opposing teams to score an average of over 30 pts per game for the last few years. We will never win at that rate. Enough Said.
gomdawg
November 23rd, 2009
12:02 pm
WHAT S STUPIED QUESTION YOU TAKE A BOWL IT DOES NOT MATTER WHERE , JEFF YOU ARE A AZZ HOLE . WE DOWN BUT WHEN GET BACK UP I HOPE ALL YOU JUMP SHIP BAASTARD CAN GO FLY A KITE OR KISS MY AZZ.
Mike
November 23rd, 2009
12:02 pm
I’d take a crappy bowl game over no bowl any season. Wherever we go, I’ll watch. Go Dawgs! (no matter the circumstances)
Cuz
November 23rd, 2009
12:03 pm
Well Papa John’s is my favorite chain Pizza store delivery.
dougdawg
November 23rd, 2009
12:04 pm
i am a uga graduate; i love the university; and i bleed red and black. BUT, this mess has been like having a root canal every saturday — for almost two years, maybe three. i have no answers for what has happened to CMR — he looks like a zombie — to the program, to the players, or to the staff. but i know UGA fans are not long to put up with this, and we are a school which, has a reputation of not firing coaches on a whim. but this is different; in just two years GT has moved far ahead of us in just about every aspect. we used to OWN this state; no more. CMR promised changes after last year — no changes. i think we have the talent to compete, but we’re not doing it at all. that signals the need for coaching and administrative change and toughness. don’t cite saban or meyer; just ask ‘would vince have put up with this? and for how long? time to clean house.
dawgphish
November 23rd, 2009
12:04 pm
no 500 team deserves to play in a bowl game.
Bob Dylan
November 23rd, 2009
12:05 pm
….I’m stuck inside of Shreveport with the Memphis blues again…..
Clay
November 23rd, 2009
12:05 pm
UGA does not have the luxury of turning down a bowl “on principle.” UGA needs whatever bowl it can get and use the 15 bowl practices to work on getting ready for next year. Personally, I’d rather have the papajohns.com bowl because it’s in Birmingham. UGA may actually recruit a player out of Alabama once a decade–but never out of Louisiana. Plus, Birmingham is close, so those of us in the Atlanta area can drive over, go to the game and drive back all in one motion.
Ben
November 23rd, 2009
12:05 pm
That is not the bowl order. Get your facts corrected.
nola_dawg
November 23rd, 2009
12:08 pm
I went to the Weedwhacker bowl back in 1991. Despite winning, words cannot describe how much the whole experience just blew. Going there is not a reward for a season well-done, it’s a purgatory-like punishment for being bad, but not bad enough to get to stay home and sleep off Christmas dinner leftovers. And while there is a legitimate argument for the extra practice time, it’s only worth it if the practice time is productive and at this point I don’t know if I trust it to be.
PDawg
November 23rd, 2009
12:10 pm
4 turnovers, 4 personal fouls, 4 sec losses!
dougdawg
November 23rd, 2009
12:11 pm
no bowl. after this disaster of a season, everyone directly concerned with the football program – and i mean everyone from the top down – should just fine a quiet place to lick the wounds in hope of healing. and ‘licking wounds’ means making some action decisions. and ALL of know that those decisions need to be. please, please, not another week of defeat.
greg
November 23rd, 2009
12:13 pm
What a joke this bowl business is. Georgia will go to either one of those low tier games and maybe 20,000 people will show up and nobody will watch on TV. It’s all so anti climatic. What a pathetic way to end the season for Georgia and many other teams.
Sautee Dawg
November 23rd, 2009
12:14 pm
Yes I’ll go and watch watch whichever bowl UGA plays in, sure we’ve had a dissapointing season but we should hold up our bowl committments to the rest of the SEC. Not fair for the rest of the SEC to share their bowl payout’s with us and us sitting at home watching.
Playing Fla. St. would be a good matchup, just getting to play another game should be enough of a payout for us after the season we’ve had.
Bowls were created to reward a team for their success, maybe winning 6 games this season is a success for UGA with the current coaches and team we have.
Jeff, don’t count us out as a 7 win team just yet.
Jeff you and Mark at the AJC think Tech will steamroll UGA on Saturday. Most of the TECH bloggers think the same,
As bad as UGA’s program has looked at times this season, do you think they won’t show up for this rivalry? They will.
This rivalry game against Tech on Saturday will be UGA’s Bowl game, Win or lose, but UGA will show up and be ready to play.
Who’s got the game this week Jeff? YOU or Bradley?
nola_dawg
November 23rd, 2009
12:14 pm
Agree with Clay. Here’s to hoping for the PapaJohn’s bowl.
WildBill
November 23rd, 2009
12:14 pm
NO BOWL!!!!!! And give those freaking scooters to Goodwill!
The Ghost Of UGA VII
November 23rd, 2009
12:15 pm
Oh my God, if they go to a bowl named after a Pizza, who knows what kind of costume they will hit the field with after recent antics…
Pants with pretty little pepperonis all over them??
Helmets with melted cheese dripping off the “G”s?
dougdawg
November 23rd, 2009
12:15 pm
sorry for those typos, but i blame it on my computer, and poor typing coaching when i was in high school (50 years ago). certainly not my fault.
2HLLWGA
November 23rd, 2009
12:17 pm
Any bowl gives you three extra weeks of practice. That is incredibly important for the following year. But given what UGA has done with that extra practice the past couple fo years, going no where and reassessing the staff might be the best thing.
dawgboawne
November 23rd, 2009
12:18 pm
If we lose to Tech, it would be better for the program as a whole for the team to stay home and make the needed corrections to make sure a year like this never happens again!!!
If we beat Tech, then take the bowl bid as it will at least give us a shot at an 8 win season…..and 8 wins is not too terrible. Anything less is than that just an abomination to Gawga fans, and Richt should be fired. We won’t put up with this ridicule another year.
dougdawg
November 23rd, 2009
12:21 pm
and, sautee dawg, just what do you think our payout will be in shreveport? do you know the finances and how much it will cost us to send a team, cheerleaders, and even a pep band to one of these low-tier bowls? check to see how much GT netted going to boise. not worth it. send vandy instead.
Haley Hutchinson
November 23rd, 2009
12:23 pm
Observing the comments, a lot of the UGA “fans” on this blog appear to be fair-weather types. They seem to care mostly about what the team does for THEM. Do they care about the athlete’s GPA? About what happens to them post-graduation? About what they do in their community?
Do the fair weather fans care about almost anything except what temporary elation they receive over a victory that they — the fair-weather fans — had 0.00 to 000000000000000001 to do with? Many don’t.
Well, fair-weather fans, you’re receiving your just desserts. And I, Haley, say awesome!
I’m smart, sexy, hot, and the girl you wish your wife or gf was more like. And I don’t date fair-weather fans.
Go Dogs and Beat Tech!
DALLAS DAWG
November 23rd, 2009
12:25 pm
If we don’t win at Tech no BOWL GAMe
Old Dawg
November 23rd, 2009
12:26 pm
If the Dawgs go to a bowl game it is really an excellent time to work with underclassmen for the next season. The three weeks will be a bonus for the future starting QB, whomever that might be.
There’s so much pressure to win in football, but unlike other sports there isn’t as much practice time or length of season, so every practice is very important.
The long term success of any program is based on participation in bowl games. Even if CMR dumps any of his assistants after the season or bowl, it’s important for the players.
Maybe Next Year
November 23rd, 2009
12:28 pm
As a Gator fan that roots for Tech over Georgia, I gotta say SAINT SIMON’S YOU ARE A DOUCHE!!! Same crap every blog. Damn you beat UGA once in seven years and you act like you own the place! Grow up! That being said GO TECH except for Saint Simons.
dawgphish
November 23rd, 2009
12:29 pm
another ? to ask. is if your a georgia football player do you think you deserve to go to a bowl this season?
BC
November 23rd, 2009
12:29 pm
Look ath it this way, if UGA goes to the Papajohns.com bowl, they might run a special for Georgia residents on pizza that night! Buy One Get One Large, here we come
Pi$$onaDawg
November 23rd, 2009
12:30 pm
The Dawgs Bowl is this weekend. Dawg fans are selling tickest like crazy. They are droping the price of tickets on stubhub faster than a Tri Delta’s panties on Saturday Night. Now Dawgs are going to spend good money on a bad bowl in this economy. Dad and I are going to Tampa, but not the Bowl Game. Too much money and we still have children in the family that need to enjoy THEIR Christmas.
dougdawg
November 23rd, 2009
12:34 pm
ok, this is my LAST comment on the subject, i promise. BUT, any one with a modicum of training and experience in psychology knows: many times more practice (e.g. one more game) can be damaging. if you are learning the wrong habits, behaviors, techniques, and motivation, STOP PRACTICES AT ONCE AND CHANGE COACHES. nothing makes a bad team worse than more practices. we haven’t improved this season, only gotten worse. no bowl, no more practices, change coaching (teaching) staff NOW.
Phil
November 23rd, 2009
12:35 pm
Sautee Dawg,
You honestly think UGA will show up against Tech? No way, the game will be over by halftime. I’m going(not sure why) and I’m preparing for a beatdown. I will probably be at the Cheetah by the time the 3rd quarter starts up.
TROTTINGHOME
November 23rd, 2009
12:35 pm
no bowl means quicker firing and new coaching
EW
November 23rd, 2009
12:36 pm
I personally think rewarding the team with ANY bowl game is laughable. So we harp all season on these guys to get better and better and do the right thing and then in the end we send them to a bowl anway. I think the most powerful thing would be for the team to go NOWHERE because I see a bunch of kids and coaches with a sense of entitlement and a lack of desire to PROVE they deserve it.
dbc
November 23rd, 2009
12:36 pm
Bowl games are for winners. If Mark Richt has any pride, he’ll decline a crappy bowl invitation and use the time to right the ship. We’re talking about a man who has lost control of his team and has no idea how to fix it.
I love this quote:
“I think all programs go through some cycles, and we’ve been on a pretty good upswing for quite some time,” Richt said. “This year has certainly been a downturn when it comes to record. It is what it is. Will we get it back on track and get back to the winning ways we’re used to? I think so. I don’t think there’s any doubt about it.”
CMR, time and again over the years your teams have had huge mental lapses where they fold in big games inexplicably. Upswing? Your “upswing” came to a crashing halt when you peed your pants against Bama last year on national TV. Since that time, you’ve promised again and again that things would be fixed. The only thing you “fixed” was to give Willie and your other inept coaches raises. Now you “think” you can turn things around. I don’t have a great deal of confidence in that weak statement. You obviously “thought” you’d beat Kentucky just by showing up. How did that work out? We need a head coach who actually “knows” what to do. Richt ought to quit football and go into politics with that king of hedging. This man has taken UGA as far as it’s going to go. We need new blood…
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EW
November 23rd, 2009
12:38 pm
Haley, eat a d**k. We are football fans, not life coaches. Take that holier than thou motherly act somewhere else.
Pi$$onaDawg
November 23rd, 2009
12:42 pm
CUZ Hope you and Baylie had fun. Sorry the game turned out like it did. So wanted to see a pic of Baylie with UGA VII sitting her lap. You and Baylie got a lot of love on the gametime blog we all tried to get jeff to find you and get you to post around halftime to fill us in our your day. Have a good Thanksgiving and still in our prayers.
crusher dawg
November 23rd, 2009
12:42 pm
I know we need the extra practice, but do we want to be humiliated in a no name bowl. Do we want to go just anywhere or do we want to start getting ready for a better year next year? Before anything happens we need to take care of the coaching situation. Willie if you are truthfully a friend of Coach Richt then do him a favor and step aside before both of you get terminated. Show us that you care and do the right thing.
dawglover
November 23rd, 2009
12:42 pm
I might go to Birmingham. Take a sidetrip to the space museum at Huntsville. At least I will have one thing to make me proud.
CatsFly
November 23rd, 2009
12:45 pm
Good Lord, what will the UGa “fans” have to bitch about if the Dawgs go to a bowl and win?
Sonny Clusters
November 23rd, 2009
12:45 pm
Shreveport has 3 highly rated Dairy Queens. That seems to be the place to go.
suwannoochee
November 23rd, 2009
12:46 pm
The SEC has all those bowl tie-ins for a reason. And, yes, historically it is the most competitive conference in the country although I don’t believe that can be said for this season. Why not give the guys an opportunity to go to a bowl game, even if it is a Shreveport? I’ve been to Shreveport, and while I agree there are better venues, a game is a game.
I would like to add that Saint Simons is an embarrassment. And I say that as both a Tech fan and someone who loves Saint Simons Island. If I were a Georgia fan, I would give the program one more year and then start the talk about Richt’s failures as an administrator. There’s no doubt he’s a good guy or that he knows the game but as we all know too well, sometimes that’s just not enough to justify that fat salary.
CatsFly
November 23rd, 2009
12:47 pm
UGa “fans” have brought the Dawgs to a new low. Why would recruits want to play in front of such losers? The school is good, the team is good – the fans are wretched.