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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Dawg Man
November 23rd, 2009
1:24 pm
Wonder if Bobby Knight would be interested in coming in and teaching dicipline to the team this offseason. Noone on our staff seems to know what it is!
PO
November 23rd, 2009
1:25 pm
I’m going to watch Clemson in the Peach Bowl. I will not waste another dollar on Georgia and this excuse for a football team. After spending thousands to see Georgia (donations, tickets, travel, georgia branded clothing, etc. you all know what I mean), I will not spend another dime until something is done to change this mess. The coaches and players do not deserve to wear the red and black nor the “G”.
ncdawg
November 23rd, 2009
1:25 pm
I know the answer, “The players deserve it” Well I guess they will get what they earned, but as a long time fan (first game 1949) I think we should stay home and get in the business of making the decisions that we should have made 1 or 2 or more years ago. Yes we do not have Stafford, Moreno, or Massequi, but when we did have them we did NOT win an SEC east, much less the SEC or compete for a national title. If this group of coaches could not win BIG with all of that talent, we should have known we needed to make wholesale changes. That’s enough said.
EricADawgFan
November 23rd, 2009
1:25 pm
I CANT SEE ANYONE THAT WOULD THE DAWGS PLAYING IN SUCH A BOWL LIKE THAT. SHREVEPORT? HECK NO!!!!! LIKE I SAID, THEY ARE BETTER OFF BRINGING THIS DISMAL SEASON TO A CLOSE. PREPARE FOR NEXT YEAR, AND HOPE THAT WE HAVE A BETTER COACHING STAFF. IF RICHT DOESN’T GET RID OF THESE COACHES WHOM ARE THE LAUGHING STOCK OF THE SEC, THEN HE SHOULD GO ALONG WITH THEM.
Dawgfan
November 23rd, 2009
1:26 pm
I don’t see any prices for the game this week dropping on Stub Hub. Everything I see is 170 or more which is crazy. Georgia is going to go to Atlanta and beat the Jackets in the ground. We are going to jump ahead this year just like last year but this time we will not fall asleep at half time. Really sick of the over rated yellow maggots who could not beat 75% of the teams they are ranked ahead of. After the Ga beatdown of tech, Clemson will finish them off. Welcome to reality maggot fans.
Pi$$onaDawg
November 23rd, 2009
1:26 pm
Family went to the Tech Vandy game. I lived in Nashville for a year or so. Nashville will be a great game, short drive, Great town, and UGA fans like country music. I see this as a no-brainer if UGA can get it.
Pete
November 23rd, 2009
1:26 pm
Have some standards. Some pride. This is not a bowl season by Georgia standards.
CoolAide Drinker
November 23rd, 2009
1:26 pm
All is not lost. We just booked a suite at the Ritz Carlton Shreveport in anticipation of the bowl invitation. We’ve also reserved dinner for four at Applebee’s and Golden Corral. My family can’t wait to be there with the other UGA family to pull for the Dawgs!
EricADawgFan
November 23rd, 2009
1:26 pm
I CANT SEE ANYONE THAT WOULD THE DAWGS PLAYING IN SUCH A BOWL LIKE THAT. SHREVEPORT? HECK NO!!!!! LIKE I SAID, THEY ARE BETTER OFF BRINGING THIS DISMAL SEASON TO A CLOSE. PREPARE FOR NEXT YEAR, AND HOPE THAT WE HAVE A BETTER COACHING STAFF. IF RICHT DOESN’T GET RID OF THESE COACHES WHOM ARE THE LAUGHING STOCK OF THE SEC, THEN HE SHOULD GO / BE FIRED ALONG WITH THEM.
Craig
November 23rd, 2009
1:26 pm
I agree that the Seniors deserve a bowl. I also get sick of these short attention span “fans” bashing the team and Coaches. Fans like that would have fired Dooley, and any coach we hire in the future. All teams go through down periods. True fans stick with them. GO DAWGS!!!!!!
DDT
November 23rd, 2009
1:27 pm
EricADawgFan I can remember a 5-6 during the Dooley era with a loss to Richmond. More recently there was a 5-6 under Donnan as well. Those type seasons have been the status quo for 40 years over at GT. Count your blessings that you have to dig to find those seasons at UGA. It’s like that 500 year storm that hits us well every 500 years. Over at Tech it’s called a 1 year storm. They always revert back to their place as the bottom feeders of the college football reservoir.
Sad Dawg
November 23rd, 2009
1:27 pm
I know one thing…. Ga Tech has no right to say anything about our season. They have been mediocre for years!!
Sam
November 23rd, 2009
1:27 pm
I have been a life long DAWGS fan and having to watch a team with so much talent and to have the season we have had is a very big disappointment. After I sat and watched the Kentucky game, a team that has not beaten UGA at home in over 30 years in my heart I have never been so glad to see a QB finish his season at home. He has not been a good team leader and will be glad to see him go. I would agree with other’s I think that the coaching staff and the Senior’s should NOT accept the bowl bid this year. The Coaching Staff should be getting ready for next season and fix the problem’s we are having. If changes are needed in the Coaching Staff make them now and get ready for 2010.
Chris (Statesboro)
November 23rd, 2009
1:28 pm
Really though! Nobody is going to make you watch. If you don’t wan’t see them in another football game this season then go watch something else. Go whine and moan to a Florida fan. Thoughs of us who are fans of Georgia Football, while not thrilled to be in a bottom bowl will be more than thrilled to get to watch the Dawgs for a final time till next year.
coach smith
November 23rd, 2009
1:28 pm
If the Dawgs somehow beat Tech on Saturday they will end up in the Outback or Chick-Fil-A Bowls
If the Dawgs lose to tech they will go to the Music City bowl
EricADawgFan
November 23rd, 2009
1:29 pm
DDT,
I’m glad it was beyond 30 years ago.
kv
November 23rd, 2009
1:29 pm
How many up-downs for CMR and his staff this week? None probably. They’l just cash their checks as if they earned them like always.
reebok
November 23rd, 2009
1:31 pm
take a bowl…ANY bowl…for 2 reasons…1) keep the consecutive-years-going-to-a-bowl streak intact, and 2) the extra practice time.
none of the SEC bowls are as bad as Boise and the Smurf Turf my Jackets have played on TWICE recently…
Pi$$onaDawg
November 23rd, 2009
1:32 pm
Dawgfan the UGA GT tickets on Stubhub were up to 400 after the Auburn game. I hope you have a nice seat in Bobby Dodd to watch you predictions and dreams come crashing Down. I will be in TAMPA to watch the JACKETS make it 5 in a row over Clemson. Spiller is tired and beat up with a game against the Gamecocks too. Spiller has been pulling up on runs the last 2 games and I don’t see him being ready for TECH in 2 weeks.
ratherBgambling
November 23rd, 2009
1:32 pm
Seniors should take responsibilty for this awful season and vote no.
Stay home and avoid another embarrassing loss to the likes of Iowa St!
CoolAide Drinker
November 23rd, 2009
1:32 pm
Chris: “Thoughs of us” Really?
UGAdawgs!=)
November 23rd, 2009
1:33 pm
Some years are better than others for football teams. Not all teams are going to be amazing every single year. Someone has to win and someone has to lose. I don’t understand how you people can call yourself georgia fans. If your team wins or loses you should still be in support of them. Fair weather fans suck. All ya’ll do is talk crap when your team is doing bad, and good when they are winning. Yes, there are many problems with this year, but if they get invited to a bowl and want to go then the fans should support them. If not, than don’t call yourself a UGA fan. I can’t believe the nerve of the fans to boo your own team when they lose. That is the rudest thing I have ever seen. Why even go to the game because teams need support, not stupid ignorant fans. Try being in their position and losing and than on top of that having people talk so much crap about them and booing them at their game. It is just unbelievable.
coach smith
November 23rd, 2009
1:34 pm
UGA has the tie-breakers with Arkansas and Auburn so if they finish with teh same “SEC” records then the Western division teams will go to the Idependence and Liberty bowls
UGA has the tiebreaker with South Carolina and despite the loss Kentucky cannot have as good of an SEC record as UGA so those teams will take up the Papajohns bowl and maybe even the Music City
Ole Miss or LSU will end up in the Capital One Bowl with the other in the Cotton Bowl
That really leave UGA and UT for the Outback and Chick-Fil-A
Haley Hutchinson
November 23rd, 2009
1:36 pm
EW — You’re not man enough to play on Saturdays, most less on Sundays. You are, however boy enough to blog.
Paris Hilton
November 23rd, 2009
1:36 pm
Saint Simons is blogging proof that I am only the second stupidest person on earth!
That is HOT!
Georgia Tech Engineer
November 23rd, 2009
1:37 pm
I doubt Georgia will get a bowl invite after they lose by 30 or more this Saturday.
Rick S
November 23rd, 2009
1:37 pm
Normally I would prefer not to further embarrass the Georgia Program by attending such a non-remidial bowl but after listening to Former Coach Jim Donnan and his comments on the positives including getting a head-start on next season and being to better evaluate players returning next season with the increased practice schedule, it might not be such a bad idea after all.
SOUTH GA DAWG FAN
November 23rd, 2009
1:38 pm
Let the kids go to a bowl even if it is a loss to Conn in the papa johns cut the cheese bowl the players deserve to go to a bowl they did win 6 games this year , yes the season is a huge floater in the punchbowl but let them play I would like to see willie have 3 or 4 weeks to prepare for a team I bet you he can hold Conn to under 50 any takers ?
GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!
Dawgfan
November 23rd, 2009
1:38 pm
Georgia is a very YOUNG talented team that barring a few bad calls from officials (OSU,LSU) would be in a very different position today if not for some fatal turnovers. These type bad luck seasons don’t last long but do happen from time to time. The DAWGS are still terrific and Joe Cox threw some of the prettiest deep passes I have seen in a while at Georgia. Stafford had a few in 2007 that were similar but the receivers were more wide open on his. Joe, I know you don’t read this crap but thank you for staying around and playing a year of football that I know you are most likely disappointed in. However, know this, there is no one else at UGA right now that could have done it better. Now go out and beat tech and no one will even care about the rest of the season. Go Dawgs!
Sunny Purdue
November 23rd, 2009
1:39 pm
“I see weed-eaters falling from the sky” “I see weed-eaters falling from the sky”
ratherBgambling
November 23rd, 2009
1:40 pm
Does anyone seriously think CMR would take this opportunity to use the extra practices to prepare for next year?
Next excuse by UGA fans, we didn’t beat Iowa St. in a bowl game because we are preparing for another 6-7 season in 2010.
Pi$$onaDawg
November 23rd, 2009
1:41 pm
Dawgfan after the Auburn game Stubhub had GT/UGA tickets going for $400. I hope you have a good seat in Bobby Dodd to watch your Predictions and dreams crash. I have decided to go to TAMPA with Dad. I can tell you right now Spiller is beat up. If you have seen the last 2 games he is pulling up and not finishing all his runs with all his speed. Given an 80% Spiller is 2 times better than most teams backs I think after the USC game he will just be tired in TAMPA. I could be wrong but I guess we will see.
Simply the Truth
November 23rd, 2009
1:41 pm
Compare Richt’s tenure thus far at Georgia and what do you see? Overall, fairly good? Mediocre? The question is,” Are you getting your money’s worth?” Do you enjoy watching other teams play for Championships or at least be in the hunt for them? If you honestly think that Richt can turn it around by hiring one or two “new” coordinators and let him off the hook, then you are going to get what you asked for. This isn’t the type of Georgia that I grew up knowing. Can’t get the job done, then get the heck out of the way and let someone with some intestinal fortitude try it.
Sonny Clusters
November 23rd, 2009
1:42 pm
Barge riding is high on the list of fun things to do in Shreveport.
EricADawgFan
November 23rd, 2009
1:42 pm
DDT,
LETS FACE IT. AS MUCH AS I AM A DAWG FAN, I’M CALLING IT AS I SEE IT. WHEN DONNAN HAD A SEASON LIKE THAT, HE WAS FIRED…. GO RIDDENS TO COX, AND THE REST OF THE UNDISCIPLINED , UNDERACHIEVERS, AND UNTALENTED PLAYERS…. WE WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER OFF USING THE RED SHIRT FRESHMAN IF THAT WOULD NOT HAVE COUNTED AGAINST THEIR ELIGIBILITY. IT SICKENS ME TO SEE HOW THE DAWGS PLAYED THIS SEASON. GAMES THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE BEATEN AND HEY FOUND A WAY TO LOSE. THEY SHOULD HAVE BEATEN LSU, OKLAHOMA STATE, TENNESSEE, AND KENTUCKY.
TechFan's Read
November 23rd, 2009
1:43 pm
Amazing, simply amazing. The hypocrisy of Tech fan’s crashing in on the UGA blogs, trying to find something to criticize.
You can’t minimize the success UGA has had since Mark Richt tenure. You can’t minimize the success GT is having. You CAN minimize the lack of class and respect you have for each team. We each represent the state of Georgia. It is THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA you are GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOBY. Either side that does not want success for the other does not understand the history and brotherhood of the rivalry.
Tech fan’s, don’t misinterpret the UGA faithful, they are faithful. Just because they walk away at the end of the game, has no reflection on their support. When you are bitter over another teams past success to resort to criticizing over current shortcoming’s, it belittles your teams accomplishments.
A good friend of Bobby Ross here. Georgia will be fine, they need a year or so. Tech will have a set back when new leadership runs the option. It comes and goes in cycles. UGA has been masking it’s problems on the line for a few years, with great finesse players.
Again, it all comes and goes in cycles. Hopefully Tech gets a BCS game and wins. Great for the state of Georgia. UGA gets a bowl bid and gets some playing time for the young players.
Not sure if we can fix what is between the ear’s of classless UGA and Tech fan’s, but I hope some of you can start. But the reality is most classless people can’t be changed, they were not raised properly.
Go UGA, Go Tech.
If UGA plays flawless, UGA 34, Tech 41
If UGA plays as they have all year, UGA 28, Tech 45
Key’s to the game.
UGA: The perimeter option ate UGA up last year. More of a 3-4 defense. Force Tech to run-up the middle. Push out blockers and get into the backfield on the perimeter. If linebackers can penetrate on the perimeter, it will go along way. By the way pup’s, you have to tackle. on offense, UGA needs to give Tech some of it’s own medicine as a shocker, run the ball. If UGA can run at least 4 yards a carry, and have over 200 yards on the ground and take back some of techs TOP it will go along way to help them stay in the game. If UGA limit’s if penalties, turnovers and establish the run. It will be closer than Tech wants it to be.
Georgia Tech: Keep doing what you do. Option left, right and middle. Mix in play action to keep the secondary from cheating-up. Georgia tech will need to stop UGA’s running game, but I believe UGA will stop themselves as they have all season with costly mistakes. Tech must be careful as they are now the top team as Georgia was last year. Nobody is giving UGA a chance, not even their crazy fan’s. It is Tech’s to lose, not UGA’s to win.
Go UGA, Go Tech
SOUTH GA DAWG FAN
November 23rd, 2009
1:43 pm
will the bottom level bowls even be televised ? I will watch and cheer as always if they are on the TV
GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!
IRISH25
November 23rd, 2009
1:43 pm
Irish vs Dawgs and Dawgs break out the black shoelaces!!
Dawgrad05
November 23rd, 2009
1:43 pm
IM glad some of you will be thrilled to see the dawgs lost to Akron in some crap bowl. The rest of us demand success when our head coach is being paid millions and the coordinators are making good money in the 6 figures. Shreveport is great on Christmas Eve as well, nowhere else I’d want to be on that night. Maybe Santa will come and give us a new coach.
DamntheButcher
November 23rd, 2009
1:45 pm
No Bowl. They have been in the Toilet all year so stay at home. They don’t deserve to go anywhere and I will refuse to send any more $$$$$ until major changes are made. CMR record the last 2 seasons is far worse than Jim Donnans. I think it is time to FIRE MARK RICHT.
GT Rules
November 23rd, 2009
1:47 pm
Do you know the difference between a box of Cheerios and UGA football?
Cheerios belongs in a bowl.
indianman
November 23rd, 2009
1:47 pm
they mike end up 6 and 6 itake that any day than be a stuiped ga tech fan
Savannah Georgia
November 23rd, 2009
1:47 pm
EAT CROW BOWL
toga
November 23rd, 2009
1:48 pm
I hope they go to B’ham and get blown out by UCon. After embarrassing the South once again, they will be chased out of town.
Of course all their hubcaps and pride will be gone. Legion field is a dump and not very safe.
Roll Tide!!!!!!!!!!
Dawgfan
November 23rd, 2009
1:48 pm
Pi$$onamaggot they are still on sale for that price. Tech should have lost to Clemson the first time around if it were not for the phantom holding call. Clemson is much much better now than they were then and tech is not. Clemson stomped Wake and your bees went to overtime. Whew, sure sounds like a bad deal to me. You could ride over to Atlanta to get stomped or to Tampa. I guess the long ride back from Tampa will give you some time to think up something about why you will end up in the Gator bowl like myself and ESPN think you are. Your offense is not appealing to television audiences and that is why no other school has hired Johnson before. He has proven he can win at Navy but do you every see them on TV more than once a year. Not unless the team they are playing is ND? Go Dawgs!
kauai dawg
November 23rd, 2009
1:51 pm
A bad year is easy to see. I agree with the fan that said we need to stick with the team. Changes need to be made for sure but the sky is not falling. Comments are being made without knowing the whole story.
Smith returned and fumbled the kickoff because Brandon had a hip injury. A lot goes on behind the scenes that we just don’t know about. I know everyone wants to fire the coaches but with all that has gone on there has been good, bad, some improvement and some sliding back. I think it was just a bad year. Don’t jump off the wagon yet if you are a Fan!
Go DAWGS!
Piggskinn
November 23rd, 2009
1:52 pm
Thanks to all the tech fans, wanting to enjoy their brief moment in the sun, while the Dawgs are down. It is always interesting to see you posing as Dawgfans when their input is what is asked for. I definitely think we need the additional practice time and experience for the young guys. Also, we need to see who wants to compete and gata! Go Dawgs!!!
mborodawg
November 23rd, 2009
1:53 pm
the only reason I want us to get a bowl is for the practices allowed. You will be able to work on some of the 2010 stuff (IE QBs. Linemen etc). We need all the practices we can get..
Do we deserve a bowl.. not if we dont beat Yech
toga
November 23rd, 2009
1:53 pm
Richt was hired as head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs before the 2001 season, replacing Jim Donnan. Richt recounted the moments leading up to being named UGA’s head coach in an interview, saying:
In December 2000, [the University of Georgia's] President Michael Adams and then Athletic Director Coach Vince Dooley came to Tallahassee and interviewed me for the position of Head Coach of the UGA Bulldogs. After many hours of prayer, Coach Dooley called me and I accepted the position. We moved to Athens in January 2001 and have truly been blessed. We have a great church, an outstanding school for the children and a wonderful staff. Throughout all of life I try to live according to COLOSSIANS 3:23 – “And whatever you do, do heartily, as to the LORD and not to men.[2]
Going bowling
November 23rd, 2009
1:54 pm
Too bad we aren’t up for consideration in the Humanitarian Bowl in Boise or the Emerald Bowl in San Fran. We could have consulted with Tech on the must-see places out there.