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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athensdawg
November 23rd, 2009
12:48 pm
lets go to a bowl…..we need more practice time with this coaching staff…..
as if 12 games haven’t done enough damage already………
Denver Dog
November 23rd, 2009
12:49 pm
Check with Tech fans for advice they are used to all of the 3rd rate bowls. Burdell you are totally classless. That post has nothing to do with football, as I am sure you don’t have common sense enough to know the difference. Hey Tech fans, thank for that advice about Shreveport.
HH
November 23rd, 2009
12:49 pm
Richt does not deserve any bowl, nor should he go to one and embarrass himself further—or the University, I might add. He should not be rewarded for an unspeakably dismal coaching effort. At least Bobby Knight, despite what some may think about him, had the pride to refuse his salary one year while at Texas Tech because he did not think his coaching effort that year merited his salary. Can anyone imagine Richt having the same amount of pride and self-respect to do this? Maybe if Richt had a little of the fiber Knight has, the program would not have degenerated to such a disgusting state.
OldDawg
November 23rd, 2009
12:49 pm
Very simple and ONLY answer…..take whatever bowl we can get….the 3 weeks of extra practice are BADLY NEEDED!!!
And ramble On…IF we do go to the blue carpet bowl…whicj ALL GT fans areVERY familiar with….YOU CAN BET YOUR LITTLE STINGER WE WILL SELL A HELL OF A LOT MORE THAN 241 TICKETS!!!!
aND FUTHER MORE RAMBLE…no one ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH WILL BE PULLING HARDER FOR CLEMSON IN THE acc CHAMPIONSHIPGAMN….QUITE AN OXYMORON…ACC/CHAMPIONSHIP….MORE THAN THE ORANGE BOWL COMMITEE!!!!
godawg
November 23rd, 2009
12:52 pm
Let’s stay home and help the coaches pack.
Phil
November 23rd, 2009
12:52 pm
dbc,
Good points. The scary part is that I believe Richt thinks the current staff will get things turned around. I don’t believe he will make any changes during the off season. With that mentality, I think Richt is sealing his own doom.
But so be it, I’m with you, he’s taken us as far as he can. He will never get us to a national championship game, never. Personal fouls, late hits, cheap shots, that’s all acceptable to Richt. Have you ever seen a team where this type of crap is all but condoned by the head coach? You can’t win with this type of a mental approach.
Stupid penalties like Bryan Evans hitting the guy 10 yards out of bounds, that’s the kind of stupid crap that Richt doesn’t do a damn thing about.
Notre Dame will probably go after Brian Kelly. I say let’s get the jump on them and go after Kelly. Anyone who believes Richt/Martinez/Bobo will lead us to a NC is just plain out kidding yourself. It’s time to face reality and change courses.
pi$$onatechie
November 23rd, 2009
12:53 pm
stay home! no need for further humiliation on national TV. and again we will play the insects on ABC night! who is the SOB scheduled us at that time? the thing I’m actually and seriously wondering! did we reach rock bottom yet? or more on the way!
Denver Dog
November 23rd, 2009
12:53 pm
CatsFly US real fans support the Dogs no matter what, so back off a little bit dude These others buy the tickets, and can do what they heck they want, and just sit back and watch as the bulldogs, reconstruct from all these freshmen and sophomores. Back it down about a notch or to youngster.
Will
November 23rd, 2009
12:54 pm
Smittydawg is right on the money
m
November 23rd, 2009
12:56 pm
Even though kinnntucky, tennerseee, floriduh, okie state, and lswho got in on the dawg action early, don’t forget that Saturday is officially the Annual Stomping of the Dawgs.
TECH is going to stomp a mudhole in your sorry dawg arses. And there isn’t a damne thing you can do about it.
And I am never going to stop laughing at you ignorant, inbred dawgs. No wonder uga VII committed suicide.
Denver Dog
November 23rd, 2009
12:58 pm
Phil, good points, mind you that AJ Greene got hurt being tackled out of bounds. It wasn’t called. We have had some dumb mistakes this year, and the dumbest came when we retained BOBO, and Martinez. Four coaches should go to the guillotine. Then let’s see what happens. Looks like plenty will be available. If we need a new coach, then get Gruden, Pay him what he needs and be quiet. If we can’t get him, just go for assistants.
NCDAWG
November 23rd, 2009
12:59 pm
Next year is going to worse. UGA losses their 3 best Defensive players (Owens, Atkins, and Weston). The QB situation will be even worse; no QB will have any real game experience. Richts’ loyalty to his coaches and players may be good at times. But to me there is a difference between being loyal and stubborn. Mark Richt be loyal to the University that pays you and the fans……….not your friend(s) that are in over their heads………or you might have a lot of free time to be loyal together as you look for a new job.
Roadrunner
November 23rd, 2009
12:59 pm
If they’re invited they should go. Georgia has no right to snub either of these bowls as if they’re too good to play there. Not this year. I just hope UGA show up in decent numbers or its going to be embarassing. Perhaps GA should gauge alumni & student interest before accepting…
FUZZUP
November 23rd, 2009
1:03 pm
Sheveport will be great for reqruitment!
Thogwummpy
November 23rd, 2009
1:03 pm
I would suggest the Hollywood Bowl. After all, their play Saturday looked like something out of a Monty Python sketch.
season shot
November 23rd, 2009
1:03 pm
This season has been one big turd anyway………I vote for the Toilet Bowl for our esteemed coaches!
Tucker T
November 23rd, 2009
1:03 pm
I hope they have the guts to decline a bowl bid but I know that they will take it. I won’t be watching.
dawgboawne
November 23rd, 2009
1:04 pm
LOL – listen “olddawg”, another 3 weeks of practice is going to do nothing for this team. They’ve had a whole season and gotten worse…..
As far as younger players, I say let them come out hungry next year and see what happens.
We don’t want to be like Tech and take any mediocre bowl that comes around. We’re dawgs!
We deserve a decent bowl because of who we are. If we don’t get any respect for that, let another team go instead.
Dog in Fla
November 23rd, 2009
1:05 pm
i smell fresh cut grass. i smell two-stroke exhaust. coming from somewhere in the northwest. it smells like grass cut by a weedeater. it smells like victory.
Lake Sinclair
November 23rd, 2009
1:05 pm
Teams with 6-6 records don’t serve a bowl, particularly when one of the wins came against a 1-AA team!
And speaking of replacing coaches, UGA also needs a new special teams coach. The kick-off coverage has stunk for several years.
Tucker T
November 23rd, 2009
1:07 pm
Phil
You make some good points. I also beleive that Richt will stick by his coaches and that there will be few changes this offseason. The lack of discipline on this team is what scares me the most. One more season like this and it will be Richt on the hot seat but his job is safe for at least 2 more season I would guess.
DawgFan24
November 23rd, 2009
1:07 pm
RAMBLEON: You mention Boise for the Dawgs? You mean the same bowl that has a permanent plackard on the stadium walls for your beloved Jackets because they’ve played there so often? Gimme a break dude. Play in a BCS Bowl sometime this decade, then talk smack.
coach smith
November 23rd, 2009
1:08 pm
All of you Techies assuming a WIN on Saturday are going to look silly if the Dawgs throw the ball up and down the field on you….
Even Vegas is not too sure…Tech is #7 and 10-1 and UGA is 6-5 BUT Vegas only has Tech as a 6.5 favorite at home!
Very interesting line
dogcrap
November 23rd, 2009
1:10 pm
The toilet bowl is waiting for uga to flush baybee!!!!!!!!!!! LOL!!!
Fire Damon Evans
November 23rd, 2009
1:10 pm
If Damon Evans doesn’t fire Mark Richt (which he won’t), then Damon Evans should be fired. Worst damn Georgia team ever.
My 15-year-old son said during the Kentucky game that his high school football team is “more disciplined and better coached”!! My 15-year-old said that!! Then he said “it looks like they don’t know the fundamentals of football.” Whatever that means, it’s just a sad day, when my son is saying these things (completey unprovoked by me).
6-6 teams don’t deserve bowl games Period.
Dawgrad05
November 23rd, 2009
1:11 pm
I am going to bet my life savings on tech minus 6.5. Lock of the century.
robodawg
November 23rd, 2009
1:11 pm
OF COURSE you want to go to a bowl, even if it’s a disappointing destination that closes a disappointing season. You still tune in on TV (sorry, bowl games have never been in my budget), watch many of your faithful players play their last game, and root for a win. I just hope it’s at least an interesting matchup.
Cobb Dawg
November 23rd, 2009
1:11 pm
I think they should go and I think the CMR should pay all of the expenses out of his salary.
blazerdawg
November 23rd, 2009
1:12 pm
Beat Tech, and enjoy the bowl.
Lose to Tech, and with only six wins we do not deserve a bowl, whether we need the practice or not.
Sending a message that six wins is not enough will do more for the team than another few weeks of what we have been doing all year.
Good luck to everyone Saturday.
Go Dawgs!
revwreck
November 23rd, 2009
1:13 pm
and what were the mutts favored last year….yep Vegas knows
EricADawgFan
November 23rd, 2009
1:13 pm
LET ME SAY THIS: UGA HAS A PERFECT BOWL BUST THIS YEAR!!!!!!
THEY SUCK, JOE COX SUCKS, MARTINEZ SUCKS, THIS YEAR EVERYTHING ABOUT THE TEAM SUCKS. JUST WRAP IT UP AND CALL IT A HIDEOUS SEASON FOR THE DAWGS. THEY WONT EVEN BEAT GEORGIA TECH, YOU WHY? IT’S BECAUSE THEY ALL SUCK OVERALL!!!!!!!
gem dawg
November 23rd, 2009
1:13 pm
Gruden just signed a new contract so he is armchair coaching from behind a desk and I don’t think he will leave that cushy job for the real pressure of SEC coach. I think I heard at the game the Sat night that these Seniors could be the first class to be 4-0 in bowls. If that is true, let them play in a minor bowl. The fans that don’t want to come just won’t come. Those senior def tackles played hard all year and if they want a bowl, give it to them.
Pi$$onaDawg
November 23rd, 2009
1:13 pm
Coach Smith again toy don’t understand VEGAS. UGA’s side ain’t betting. To get the the money good Vegas has to make a LINE that will get the money on bothsides. Coach I hope you don’t bet much.
briDawg
November 23rd, 2009
1:15 pm
Saturday at 8pm is the real Dawg Bowl
Jeff
November 23rd, 2009
1:15 pm
NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STAY HOME!!!! This team would just embarass us in a bowl…lose to UConn? PLEASE Coach Richt- KEEP THEM HOME and start doing things that need to be done for next year!!!!!!!!!!!!
BuzzGT
November 23rd, 2009
1:15 pm
No question. With a young team you always want the extra practice. Hopefully my Jackets and squeak out a win. That would be a negative for UGA. But, their history of selling tickets will be a positive. I like the matchup with FSU for multiple reasons.
EricADawgFan
November 23rd, 2009
1:15 pm
THIS YEAR IS BUNCH OF UNDER ACHIEVERS FOR THE DAWGS. THE PLAYERS ARE DEFINITELY NOT RESPONDING TO THE COACHES, AND THAT IS A SIGN OF TERRIBLE COACHING STAFFS, AND NOT DISCIPLINE PLAYERS AND SOME OF THEM ARE SIMPLY NOT TALENTED….
BuzzGT
November 23rd, 2009
1:15 pm
No question. With a young team you always want the extra practice. Hopefully my Jackets will squeak out a win. That would be a negative for UGA. But, their history of selling tickets will be a positive. I like the matchup with FSU for multiple reasons.
Denver Dog
November 23rd, 2009
1:16 pm
m, rambleon, your cut and paste routine is stale, get a new writer. We get it, you have a great team, but don’t count those eggs in your hive before they hatch.
dougdawg
November 23rd, 2009
1:16 pm
EXCUSE ME. we uga alumni and fans ARE winners. we support winners with our money, enthusiasm, and, yes, prayers. we love our university, its history, its present and future, our beautiful campus. we are proud folks. and we have NEVER expected more than was possible, from our academics and from our athletics. the question is ‘what is possible’? my father, a great native of athens and a lover of uga, always said to me,’are you doing the best you can? if not, do you need help to find out how to? only then can you live with yourself.’ on that football field, we are NOT doing the best we can. and yes, we need HELP finding out how. now, no one involved in this mess can or should be able to live with themselves. to haley, or whomever, these men are football coaches, these kids are football players; they have limited goals that may not match ours. uga’s football program is not solely dedicated to moral education, it is also dedicated to excellence on the field. rules and discipline must reign, but winning, winning is why we recruit these young folks and it is WHY they come here. coddle your ideals, but move to mars hill college, like mr. richt should do. and happiness to all.
Chee
November 23rd, 2009
1:18 pm
NO bowl!!!!!!!
EricADawgFan
November 23rd, 2009
1:18 pm
IF THEY LOSE AGAINST GEORGIA TECH ( IN WHICH THEY PROBABLY WILL) THIS WILL BE THE WORST RECORD / SEASON THAT I COULD THINK OF IN THE LAST 30 YEARS OR MORE. IF THEY DON’T FIRE COACHES AT THE END OF THIS SEASON, IT WOULD BE A CRYING SHAME…..
Dawg Nation
November 23rd, 2009
1:19 pm
Need the extra practice?? Hell, we practiced all summer and spring for a 6-6 season. Hit the weight room and do some speed and agiity training or something! Good grief!!
warren
November 23rd, 2009
1:19 pm
Nashville!! WE had the best time in Nashville! Also a good time in Memphis…both were fun bowl trips…we’re going and we’re going to win the game!
Astute Observer
November 23rd, 2009
1:20 pm
Ty-D-Bowl!
Frank Wren
November 23rd, 2009
1:21 pm
I would say no bowl since whatever bowl we are going to is beneath our Elite programs status but we do need the extra weeks of practice.
Here is to all of our Rivals getting their shots in this year. Get em in while you can boys.
Chris (Statesboro)
November 23rd, 2009
1:21 pm
Are you seroius? Why in the Hell would you not want an extra game to the season? Anytime you get a bonus football game its a good thing. Sure some bowls a waaaaaaay better than others but I’d much rather get to see UGA in the toliet bowl against Fresno State for one more game than nothing at all. Seroiusly if you can’t even stomach a papa John’s Bowl then maybe its time for you to start looking towards another sport like basketball this season..
EricADawgFan
November 23rd, 2009
1:22 pm
SHREVEPORT OR NOTHING?
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING…. CALL IT A SAD EMBARRASSING SEASON OF PERFORMANCE BY THE PLAYERS AND COACHING STAFF. FIRE THE COACHING STAFF, AND PREPARE FOR NEXT SEASON. WHY DRAW THIS SAD SEASON OF FAILURES OUT ANY LONGER? CLOSE THE SEASON OUT AFTER THE DAWGS LOSE TO GEORGIA TECH.
Floyd
November 23rd, 2009
1:22 pm
Come on, this is silly. You know as well as we do that the SEC requires Georgia to take a bowl…and since we’re bowl eligible, one will certainly call us. It’s not like this is an option.
And, let’s face it…wouldn’t you say we could use the extra month of practice?
warren
November 23rd, 2009
1:23 pm
Music City or Liberty. We’ve had fun at these bowls. we’re going and we’re going to win!!! Go DAwgs!