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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Kevin Smith
November 23rd, 2009
3:25 pm
Fist of all the bowl game is for the kids playing NOT the FANS!!!! If GA get an invite yes they will take it. It’s easy for everyone sitting at home to skip the bowl and practice, but for the seniors this is there last chance to be a part of a bowl experience, most of you reading this probably won’t travel to see the game, so sit at home don’t watch the game and if GA loses just take it like a man and get ready for next season
TECHTOWER
November 23rd, 2009
3:25 pm
Shultz,how about richt sucks and is going to the toilet bowl!!!!!!!!!!
UGA83
November 23rd, 2009
3:26 pm
Joe SUX earned his senior day start with five years of loyalty, but he almost single-handedly lost the game with three TOs in the last ten minutes. The future should start now, with playing the freshman the next two games, but that won’t happen. Two consecutive years of underperformance, and the penalties are a coaching/discipline problem, pure and simple. Recruiting, Richt’s one really strong area, will begin to fall off too and 6-6 will be the new norm. UGA, sadly, is the new Kentucky except we obviously can’t play basketball either!
Native Atlantan
November 23rd, 2009
3:26 pm
I want a bowl…some of the assistant coaches need the practice.
HBTD
November 23rd, 2009
3:27 pm
I always enjoy seeing the dawgs take the field regardless of where they play or who they play. I’ll always be cheering for them!!
Pi$$onaDawg
November 23rd, 2009
3:28 pm
Joe cox was heard in the Dorms saying, “If I didn’t have my other hand in my pants(playing with myself with a 20-6 lead) while throwing those other passes I could had been a 7-4 GOD at UGA.
Dennis G. Berdanis
November 23rd, 2009
3:28 pm
Of course the loudmouth Tech fans don’t want us going to a bowl. I bet most of us Dawg fans will take any bowl. Any bowl win is a good bowl. We just need to prepare and win it.
Comin' Down The Track
November 23rd, 2009
3:29 pm
Wow. Y’all sure do make a lot of noise for a team two years removed from LOSING TO FRESNO STATE ON THE SMURF TURF.
Kevin Thomas
November 23rd, 2009
3:30 pm
Whatever bowl game they end up in, it will be very likely where they will need to cover up the entire end zone section on both sides of the field with the large stretch fabric sign stating the name of the bowl and the sponsor so to disguise the empty seats.
HBTD
November 23rd, 2009
3:30 pm
Pi$$. Classy post. You can go crawl back under your little rock now?
mackdawg
November 23rd, 2009
3:31 pm
A BOWL Game? This team needs some GEOGIA pride and stay home! As far as the “let the seniors have their bowl game”comments go, what is this? Pop Warner? Do we give them all a hug and an icecream sanwich too?
Rodster
November 23rd, 2009
3:31 pm
UGA should decline any bowl appearance if they go 6-6. That is so far below acceptable standards at UGA I think they would make a more credible statement by just saying ‘we don’t deserve to play in a bowl game this year.’ Then work like heck to get back to relevance in college football.
RealDawg
November 23rd, 2009
3:32 pm
Kevin Smith…the bowls ARE for the fans. The fans generate the money that is the reasaon why the bowls even exist. The cities that create the bowls care about the fans not the kids.
That said, you play for pride. Any team, anywhere should be the approach. This team needs to man up and beat the crap out of somebody.
mackdawg
November 23rd, 2009
3:32 pm
Pardon. I meant GEORGIA PRIDE!
Frank Wren
November 23rd, 2009
3:32 pm
And we were told Boise was a bowl game bust. It’s a much nicer place than Shreveport!!!!!!!!!!!!
No its not. Not by a long shot.
2N4YEARS
November 23rd, 2009
3:32 pm
I’d rather not go to a bowl than to take a (very likely) chance to finish 6-7.
HBTD
November 23rd, 2009
3:33 pm
Does anyone know the rule (or is there one) that allows a team to continue having organized practices after the regular season if they are playing in a bowl game. In other words, can a team hold an organized team practice if they’ve completed their season and are NOT going to a bowl?
PHIL
November 23rd, 2009
3:33 pm
CATS FLY “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.” Couldn’t have said it better.
Paul in RDU
November 23rd, 2009
3:34 pm
Kevin Smith – Well said. For the majority of the seniors the bowl will be the last time they play organized football – let them enjoy it.
Of the different locations mentioned – Shreveport, Memphis, Nashville and B’ham – Shreveport is the one you really don’t want to go to.
Rodster
November 23rd, 2009
3:34 pm
Yeah, also Tech fans, PJ is a good coach and he’s got it going now, but don’t forget you got your a$$ handed to you 2 years ago by the second best team in the WAC conference.
Solid Gold Dancer
November 23rd, 2009
3:36 pm
The score of Saturday nights game will be close at half time (3-4 points either way). Adjustments will be made by one team’s coach for the second half. That team will go on to outscore the other by 24 points in the second half. Final score 49-23
What ever it takes
November 23rd, 2009
3:37 pm
IF CMR had any guts he’d tell everyone that we (UGA) do not deserve to go to a bowl with the way we have played. That would send a great message to his players and to the fans that he will not tolerate another season like this one. But of course he won’t – just like he says he won’t tolerate penalities (after saying a couple months ago that it doesn’t bother him) but yet still allows the player to play – like Evans after that late hit out-of-bounds – Evans was still in there.
icedawg
November 23rd, 2009
3:37 pm
We’re in the bowl alright, consider the game against Tech the bowl. If that one somehow ends up in the “W” column, which isn’t likely, then extend the season with an extra game somewhere. Otherwise skip the bowl because the record will speak for itself.
It has become fashionable for everyone to get a trophy, winners and losers, so that no one will get their feelings hurt. I guess they’ve extended this to the collegiate level in the form of bowl games that host teams with break even or slightly better records.
RD
November 23rd, 2009
3:39 pm
Realdawg, the only problem is finding someone that UGA could beat the crap out of. There may be a few high school teams….
Rick
November 23rd, 2009
3:44 pm
For all you fans who think the Dawgs will go to the Outback or Peach if they beat GT, here’s a dose of reality. Once the BCS slots are filled, the bowls do not have to pick teams based on how they finish in the conference standings. They can pick any team they want. Sadly, the Dawgs will not be at the top of anyone’s list.
Coffee Bluff DAWG
November 23rd, 2009
3:46 pm
Hey CatsFly,
SI just released their worst fans by school in each conference. It’s UF, not UGA, for the SEC.
Dog Foot
November 23rd, 2009
3:47 pm
Just like the coaching staff, they need to mail it in.
Pi$$onaDawg
November 23rd, 2009
3:48 pm
HBTD your right JOE had his HEAD ou his Butt and threw a pass just like the GOD Stafford for a PICK 6 to TECH last year. I know I know all the dawg fans have just been so Classy over the years I just don’t know how I didn’t live up to your standards. AHHAHAHAH. Where were sitting in the stadium on Saturday Night with 3 min. to go and the game on the line? Wait you was at the deer huntin camp in your huntin gear watchin on da TV.
G-Man
November 23rd, 2009
3:49 pm
Premature question at best. If you’re UGA you’d better be focused on beating Tech. Lose that game and it won’t really matter what bowl you go to (and you don’t turn a bowl invitation down to stay at home – that makes the school and the conference look really bad), you won’t enjoy it. Same applies to Tech – if it doesn’t beat UGA, it’s all downhill from there. Go Jackets!
big dawg 89
November 23rd, 2009
3:50 pm
of course you go to a bowl, duh!!! gives you 6 more weeks of time on the field.. i know there isn’t anything such as a bad question, but this one was close..
GO DAWGS…UGA-41 TECH-28..
Coffee Bluff DAWG
November 23rd, 2009
3:50 pm
Pi$$onaDawg,
Nobody needs your moronic comments about Joe Cox.
BravesFan79
November 23rd, 2009
3:51 pm
Lame bowls like this one are the reason why there is NO Playoff system! People should boycott going to any non BCS bowl.
Pi$$onaDawg
November 23rd, 2009
3:52 pm
HBTD are you that stupid or just a fool. Season Ends when there are no more games to be played. If you don’t go to a Bowl no practices can happen. You must not how to read or you don’t know NCAA football.
Gordon
November 23rd, 2009
3:54 pm
If UGA wins, they will definitely want to go to a bowl (probably Music City). If they lose, they won’t want their last game to be a loss to Tech so they will go to a bowl. Either way, they will play 13 games.
Athenzdawg
November 23rd, 2009
3:54 pm
Id rather go nowhere. You don’t deserve to go anywhere. Don’t let the door hit any of our 23 lousy seniors on the butt as they leave with the coaches… Please leave and never comeback
R.W. Gweed
November 23rd, 2009
3:55 pm
Let’s go to a bowl game! It will afford us the opportunity to wear those black helmets again. That idea worked so well the first time.
Pi$$onaDawg
November 23rd, 2009
3:57 pm
Coffee I guess not I have read enough from the DAWG fans. COX SUX and you know it. I called it on game 1(osu)that he should not be the starter by game 3, but RICHT and BOBO rhode that joke 7 games tooooo many.
collegeballfan
November 23rd, 2009
3:57 pm
When you have six or seven wins you take the bowl no matter what it is.
With that few wins you probably need to practice time to get ready for spring practice. Tech did that several time in recent years.
brent a.
November 23rd, 2009
3:58 pm
Georgia’s focus should be on beating Georgia Tech.
Nothing much else really matters at this point.
RWBRebel
November 23rd, 2009
3:59 pm
Bowl – heck yeah! It don’t matter where. Lets go and enjoy being around all the Bulldogs and see our team get its 8th victory of the season.
Keith
November 23rd, 2009
3:59 pm
We need to bring in Donald Trump in as a consultant and “evaluate” the program.
Go Jackets!
November 23rd, 2009
4:00 pm
I would like for UGA to go to a bowl game. I think if they have a seaon under .500 that would be really embarrassing. hehe hehehe heheheHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!
Sweet Home Alabama
November 23rd, 2009
4:00 pm
I would recommend Papa Johnny Bowl.Hopefully they want fumble the hot pizza,
BulldawgJim
November 23rd, 2009
4:01 pm
O Burdell,
How about a tech PLAYER charged with rape? In case you forgot, here is the link:
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/16749899/detail.html
R Pitts
November 23rd, 2009
4:03 pm
How about the Toilet Bowl for the Dawgs? GO GATORS!! We lover CMR!
LongtimeTechFan
November 23rd, 2009
4:04 pm
For once Tech is BCS bowl bound and the dogs are toilet bowl bound.
GO JACKETS!
dave
November 23rd, 2009
4:05 pm
Put them out of their (our) misery!
MR
November 23rd, 2009
4:06 pm
Who cares where they go? I find it very interesting that last week they were so sure they would finish 9-4 after a win in the Outback or Capital One bowl. Today it is we will take any bowl. UGA may beat Tech because anything can happen in football game, just ask Kentucky. I don’t think it will happen. Who would have thought that UGA would not win that one. Certainly you dawgies felt that was a given. Leading 20-6 at the half. Just can’t close it out. Look out Kentucky just scored again. Name calling is all you have now and you are good at that. You can’t put a sentence together without using slurs and derogatory names. Pitiful. Tech fans please stop acting like a dawg fan and show some class in here.
Geo
November 23rd, 2009
4:07 pm
Georgia may show up Saturday. Ya never know! Don’t count your stingers just yet and don’t forget these boys are kids. Who cares if they go to some bowl game, even at the Carpet Dome in Dalton against the Monterey Futbol Team. It’ll be good for em, win or lose.
Pi$$onaDawg
November 23rd, 2009
4:08 pm
I walked to the EDGE and took a look. I sahow the depth of the Abyss. I turned to see the Mountain at my back. I decided jumping in the Abyss was the only way I would have the strength to climb the Mountain I now face. A Drunk facing the the choice to be Sober and changing his life.