McGarity still calm amid storm, expresses confidence in Richt

The program is fine, Mark Richt is a good coach. Every program goes through a down period. The Dawgs will be back on top. “First.”

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First!

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nope….

.. but our program is still in trouble

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We definitely have the right man in McGarity. I am not convinced that we need to make wholesale changes. Need to let the season play out and then make a determination, if need be.

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In a realistic point I thought we would split games with USC/Arkansas. Well, we didn’t. So that puts us one game behind. If we reel off 5 straight wins which I think we can it will calm the storm.

I want to save my judgement on where the direction of the program is going right now. I can see it honestly both ways. However, if your are 6-2 going to Jacksonville and win that game then I think the coaches have not lost control. If we lose again before Jacksonville, then the players have given up and we are in a huge whole. Then something has to change other than a coordinator or two.

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Richt is over when I say he’s over. BTW, Green didn’t know the dope dealer was an agent.

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Why has every year turned into a rebuilding year?

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Jeff: A storm at UGA is if attendance was in the 40,000 range. A storm at UGA would be if no one purchased tickets, except at discount prices. A storm would be if UGA was only shown on Thursday night games if Boise State was not playing. But heck, if Tech can exist under these conditions, UGA is safe at their current level. Perhaps there is no storm.

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4 straight SEC losses – this is acceptable football when?

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Why are we paining our way through a redshirt freshman QB year when there was plenty of opportunity to get some young guys PT last year?

Oh that’s right… Joe Cox was our savior last year. If not for him, we would have lost 7 games instead of 5

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Why don’t we let the season play out before we make a judgement on this team. Teams improve and learn from their mistakes. If you count out the Dawgs now you could be making a big mistake. Sometimes tough losses make you better in the long run.

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I see a program that has a redshirt freshman quarterback and a new defensive coordinator who is trying a different tactic. There will be bumps in the road either way. Overall I like what I see on offense we just need to tweak the pass coverage, tackles and the offensive line. I would hold off on the torches and pitchforks until we get deeper into the season.

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we’re not allowed to type wtf anymore?

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There is nothing wrong with the Music City Bowl.

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“AMEN”

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Everyone needs a little perspective. Here you go:

Dooley record: 7-3-1, 6-4, 10-1, 7-4, 8-2-1, 5-5-1, 5-5, 11-1, 7-4, 7-4-1, 6-6, 9-3, 10-2, 5-6, 9-2-1, 6-5, 12-0, 10-2, 11-1, 10-1-1, 7-4-1, 7-3-2, 8-4, 9-3, 9-3, and then he got the keys to the kingdom (A.D.)

Goff’s record: 6-6, 4-7, 9-3, 10-2, 5-6, 6-4-1, 6-6, and he got the boot.

Donnan’s record: 5-6, 10-2, 9-3, 8-4, 8-4, and he got the boot.

Richt’s record: 8-4, 13-1, 11-3, 10-2, 10-3, 9-4, 11-2, 10-3, 8-5.

Holy Crap, Are you guys freaking crazy. We’ve got one National Championship in the modern era, and somehow we think that we’re supposed to be world -beaters every year. You guys are crazy. Mark Richt may never win a national championship, but he is the best dang coach that we’ve ever had including Vince Dooley. In Dooley’s first 10 years, he lost 5 games a year twice and 4 games a year four times.

And don’t give me that, his success was when he was playing with Donnan’s players. You said the same thing when Goff went 9-3 and 10-2, and you said that about Donnan when he went 10-2 and 9-3.

And all of you crazy people calling for bobo’s head. Please remember that he is a bulldog. He cheered for him like crazy during that comeback and ot win at AU, and now you are killing him. He loves UGA more than you do, so shut up. I think I recall all of you complaining about CMR needed a OC. He needs to let someone else call the plays, blah, blah, blah. You got what you wanted, so shut up. You know the plays before they are going to be called, because you’ve watched every snap for the past ten years.

And quit talking about Alabama, Alabama, Alabama. Just turn into an Alabama fan if you’ve got such a man crush on Nick Satan. He is a snake. Just ask those boys in La and Miami. He’s not loyal.

I’m so fed up with you fans, that I’m about ready to root against the dawgs, so that CMR will get fired, take a year off, and go coach somewhere where he is appreciated.

You fans are a bunch a dam fools, that’s what you are, fools.

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HEAR YE, HEAR YE, ATTENTION EVERYONE:

YOU ARE ALL MARK RICHT APOLOGISTS. IF YOU DON’T “GET IT” NOW, YOU NEVER WILL.

HT

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cantondawg, you and others may very well be correct.

I will go out on a short limb here and say there is no way this team wins 10 straight.

Make no mistake here – I do not support mid-season change. I will support this program to the very end.

I will NOT, however, sugarcoat facts, ignore trends and underestimate perception. Right now, the proud Bulldog Nation is down, we are once again, for what appears to be the 3rd year out of the last 4, in a “rebuilding” mode.

At some point in a project lifecycle, a reassesment has to take place. There are very distint periods where every program has to “re-stock and re-build”, but 3 out of every 4 years shouldn’t have to be written off.

If we want to be ‘elite’, we have to demand better.

I want my program to be ‘elite’, I don’t know about some of us…

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“If this season ends up being a 8-5 season, which could very well happen”

Frankly I don’t see 8 wins. Who are we going to beat? I’m not so sure we even get by Miss State this weekend. Colorado and Vanderbilt are not gimmes with this team. And with the “3rd and 4 so everybody go deep” play calling by Bobo, this season is looking bad.

Yea, AJ Green would make a difference on offense, but he doesn’t play defense or call the plays, so he’s not going to be the savior for this season.

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Coach Richt is failing once again at addressing an immediate concern. It took him two years to finally replace his defensive coordinator. Last year, he did not play his two freshman quarterbacks when Joe Cox was playing with a dead arm. How much would that experience last year have helped Murray this year against South Carolina and Arkansas? Would Mettneberger have got in trouble down in Valdosta if he saw playing time last year?

Again, the Georgia Bulldog offense continues to stall due to inconsistent play calling by the offensive coordinator. The OC also oversees the offensive line. For the past three years inept and inconsistent play calling on the offensive side of the ball has been killing Bulldog drives. Bobo is still here and the Dogs still have problems. Once again, Coach Richt is failing to make a command decision. Once again, Coach Richt is failing at keeping his players out of trouble.

Where does Coach Richt think that this continued inconsistency is acceptable since he is doing the same things that he was doing in years past? The road, folks. That is where Coach Richt and Coach Bobo are heading. They are fixing to hit the road. All of this inconsistency is unacceptable. Correct it NOW or hit the road. Go Dogs!!!

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The only storm is being manufactured by people selling articles and headlines.

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I love my alma mater, however UGA has the greatest percentage of fair weather/low rent fans of any school in the conference. Have said for years I’d like to swap around 35% of UGA’s fan base for 35% of South Carolina’s fan base.

There were plenty of fans inside and outside of the stadium grousing about play calling, coaching, player performance, etc. — even during the Herschel Walker years. Those who say it wasn’t so either have short memories, didn’t pay attention or weren’t there.

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The defense is still playing with a secondary recruited by Willie, so that isn’t going to get much better overnight….but there was some progress Saturday I thought (except those pesky TD receptions).
The offense is the glaringly obvious problem. I mean we scored SIX points against SC and Furman scored three times as many?
We have been glaringly missing a big physical back here at Tailback U and it showed the past two Saturdays. I certainly hope we get the young man from Carver. He’ll be starting next year if he comes to Georgia or he can sit for a year or two at Alabama.

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jtdawg – You are absolutely correct! You are being objective, which is difficult for a lot of folks on this blog. There is no evidence to support Richt and the Dawgs trending upward.

We all support our team, we just want the very best opportunity for our team to have success. With that being said, the competition of the SEC is much greater now and Richt and the Dawgs are regressing. As you previously stated, “The trend says we’re sliding down again but where is the sign we are going to be better anytime soon?”

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Just a neutral observer here…

Tell me UGA fans, if not Mark Richt, then who?

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“I don’t know what to make of this team right now. I’m trying to be optimistic, but the bottom line is starting 0-2 in SEC play scares the hell out of me. Am I alone here?”
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Scares me too, especially with the fact that, favored or not UGA is no longer a sure bet to beat Miss State, KY, UT, AU, and Tech. In fact, those games are absolutely a 50/50 proposition. Then, there’s UF.

I am certain the D will improve every game with Grantham. Because, we know the O is what it is. Outdated and predictable.

McGarity has seen excellence close up and personel. He will make Richt get a new OC.

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There are 4, 5, 6 plays in almost every game that could determine who wins and who loses……

The Dawgs have been within that 4 – 6 play window in both losses. We didn’t make a play and the other team did. That doesn’t mean that the sky is falling….it just means we lost 2 winnable games.

History shows that winning 80% of our games is a good year for Georgia. Most of our players are from Georgia. We are truly rooting for Georgia football and with mostly Georgia-grown players.

Do I wish we had won these past 2 games? Absolutely. Do I think we should have won both of these past 2 games? Absolutely.

But we didn’t. So…..we just get ready for the next game and plan and prepare to win that game and the next game………and every other game we play.

“After all, tomorrow is another day.”

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Please don’t get me fired. I have all these kids to support. I’ll do better. I promise. Next time we’re driving and we’re tied and it’s 3rd and 5 and we have 2 minutes left, I’ll send three receivers 30 yards down the field and provide an outlet 20 yards down the field. That’ll fool ‘em.

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UGA’s gonn win 10 straight games this year?!?

Bartender, I’ll have what UGAKev is drinking . . .

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Whats funny is the people afraid to make the change throw up the argument, Have you forgot about Goff and Donnan as the man argument. Hell, if this is the fans we have then I don’t want them! Of course we have not, but hell look were the program is now! It looks to already be at Donnan and Goff performance! The team is 1-2!

I am not pro firing CMR, but damn lets not kid ourselves here with the issues. Don’t start with the we are young crap! Its college ball every team has youth issues. Don’t tell me the DC or the secondary. Last I noted Hamilton is a CTG recruit.

At some point you say enough with the excuses, get me the results. Don’t say, well back in 2005 he won a SEC Title. Folks, that was 5 years ago. If you are happy talking about how good the team was 5 years ago then you are not living in the real world.

The team needs to wake up and the coaching staff does also. Just because you won a SEC Title when UF was down does not give you a free pass into lala land with the program. It is high time the results on the field reflect all the hype that the coaches make a big deal out of during recruiting. Go do it!

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Grantham is not doing a good job coaching the defense.
. . . . . . . . . UGA was never 0-2 in the SEC with Willie M.

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Seminole Warrior – Kirby Smart, Will Muschamp, Chris Peterson, Gary Patterson, John Gruden

UGAkev – As much as I would like our Dawgs to go 10-2, I just don’t see it. What objective facts are you basing this magic turnaround on????

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Hey bartender please get WonderDawg a shot of believe in your team

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Also, as I predicted, McGarity has to give Mark the vote. If not, Every SEC/ACC coach would be on the phone today telling these commits( and we have some very good ones) that Mark is toast. Mark WILL BE OUR COACH in 2011, even if we lose 5 or 6 more games. I’m good with that….if Staff changes are made and this class comes in and next year is ALL DIFFERENT.

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If Jeff’s right, Richt will be fired on Sunday. Then again, when it comes to Mark Richt, Jeff always seems to say things are horrible, sensationalistic, negative, cynical, serious, exaggeratted, and dark, and year after year, game after game, Richt’s still there, so Jeff’s usually wrong on his opinion of Richt.

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BugKiller,
Very well-said. I think CTG is on the right track, just need bigger, meaner folks that know how to hit (and wrap up).
Plus I am praying that Isiah Crowell chooses UGA.

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Let’s see we last won 10 games in a row . . . . . in 1982 (11 actually). I believe in the team. I don’t believe our OC can out gameplan and out adjust any DC in the SEC anymore. That makes it tough to win 10 in a row.

I support my team, have since ‘68. I am also a realist.

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While the mutt program continues to implode and bring shame on the great state of Georgia, the REAL football factory of Georgia is growing more and more powerful with each passing game. By this time next week we’ll be back in the top 25. By season’s end we’ll back to where we belong in the top 2 and playing for the world championship against yet another overrated SEC team I’m sure. Coach Sir Paul Johnson is on the rise, while little Richty is sliding further down the toilet.

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I’m afraid we are falling into the same trap that the Breves fell into with Bobby Cox. He won the World Series back in 1995 but has sucked ever since then. But based on that 1 good year, he got a free pass for the next 15 years.

We are doing the same thing with Richt. He won the SEC back in 05 so let’s give him a free pass for the next 10-15. That’s not how it works people. If you want to be a 8-4, 7-5 program, then you should be happy with Richt. If you want to get to the next upper levels of the SEC along side Alabama and Florida, then you have to demand more.

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Dawgs 73, Smart is a puppet figure there at Alabama. Can Peterson and/or Patterson recruit in the South, matched up against the like of Saban, Meyer, and Spurrier? Would Chucky really come to UGA and coach at the college level? Interesting pick there I would give you that and UGA has the deep pockets to pry him away for sure.

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Georgia, where five star players go to become 1 star players and win 5 games a year.

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Kyle Whittingham how about that name?

Also the recruit in the South argument- I think Urban has done a fairly good job of recruiting in the South since his arrival from Utah.

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All of this bs about fire CMR is asinine! Wake up UGA fans… all college football programs run in constant cycles. Please remember that Alabama was playing in the Independence Bowl only 3 short years ago. Auburn has been down recently and so has UT. Yes, SC and Arkansas are better this year but when they lose their experienced qb’s they will be back in the toilet. Everyone needs to take a Zanax or a Valium and shut-up! You are going to kill our special recruiting class we are lining up for 2011. Just be patient, it’s been a rough summer. Go see Widespread Panic this weekend, don’t think about the game and chill out about CMR.

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Having seen almost every Georgia game over the last forty years either live or on the “tube” I’ve witnessed losses to such “power houses” as Richmond,Wake Forest,Miami of Ohio,etc. For these “so called” Fans to call for the firing of a Coach with Mark Richt record is STUPID! Most of these “experts” are from a time when Trophy’s were given to everyone who played and there was a “limit” on how many points you “should” score. Check out where Richt ranks in total wins in the last nine years, then shut up and support the program instead of being a “whinning little twerp”! Nuff said!

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cantondawg, I have to respectfully disagree.

A 5 star rating from magazine service looking to make money from football fans/enthusiasts does not make football players. Tennessee was raiding Georgia targeting those same type of players and produced exactly one SEC championship and a NC in the timeframe Donnan was here. Not exactly conference dominating, I would say, but very good nonetheless.

Donnan’s staff, however, in retrospect had a very good eye for “football” talent, not recruit rankings. He got the very talent here from this state needed to be very dominant for the early part of the 2000’s, regardless of the grading “stars”. There is no doubt Donan whiffed on talent as well, highly ranked players that were trouble on and off the field.

But it’s obvious this regime has stars in their eyes, regardless of character or “football” mentality. Alot of “me” players that are’nt making plays. I think recruiting is focusing on the wrong types of players at times as well.

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Alabama was in that Bowl game in Saban’s first season. They lost to La Monroe and two years later won it all. You tell me I can get Saban like results and I will go to the Independence Bowl this season.

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Stop the nonsense nerd fans. Richt’s only had nine 5-star guys since being in Athens. He’s beating your joke of a program with primarily 3 star players every single year. I know that reality hurts.

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I just don’t think you should clean house every time your coach/team loses a football game. That kind of disruption can take years to recover from. A new staff comes in with a new offensive and defensive philosophy can’t win with current players and needs years to get his recruits in place. Too iffy. I’ll stick with a known and proven commodity. The ball bounces funny.

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… but the bottom line is starting 0-2 in SEC play scares the hell out of me. Am I alone here?

No, you’re not alone. The entire Dawg Nation is scared. And mad as hell that we’ve sunk this low.

The only rational solution: FIRE RICHT.

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Of course I wish we could run the table. I watch every play of every game, and I just don’t see something like that (07) happening. Our offense has been potent for all of one quarter so far in SEC play.

The O will obviously get better with AJ, but not if Murray doesn’t get some pass blocking. Bobo stood there Saturday watching our QB get squashed and didn’t have a clue to combat that pass rush, except endlessly try draws, that got nowhere.

Every DC in the SEC is gonna do what UT did last year to UGA’s offense, and Bobo isn’t good enough to adjust.

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Going to Starkville Saturday – Looking for a blowout…Dawgs over Dogs BIG…this will silence the cowbells and hopefully the pervasive negativety on AJC blogs. Everyone has a right to bitch and complain, but some of it is just plain ugly and juvenile. The constant criticism of our program from our own fans is a stain and a cancer for the entire UGA fan base (most of which is overwhelmingly supportive of our program). Let the season play out – we are GEORGIA, we don’t panic.

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When you figure how much the UGA athletic office has spent on bail, fines, and lawyers’ fees to get players out of jail, plus the undeserved buyout for Damon Evans, do you understand why we got those chintzy paper tags for our vehicles?

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Commenting on his dismal 0-2 start in the SEC, ricth said ” we are doing the ame things that we did when I got here to win two title” and you see? That is the problem. Mark Richt is too staid in his approach. The SEC has changed dramatically with world calss caoches and when he arrived, there really wa sonly Spurrier that met that criteria.

UGA must make a change ………..this will not get better. LOOk at Richt’s over all SEC record going back a couple of years …… .500? HE IS NOW A LAME DUCK IN REGARDS TO RECRUITING ………they will eat him up with rumors.

UGA is in deep trouble. It will get far worse, before it gets better. A lousy year coupled with another loss to sad lil GT, and he will be fired. Richt needs to announce after the Auburn game that he is going full time into his church work. Fine.

Go Dogs.

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Yes, Richt is a good man! We have one of the most talented offensive lines in the nation. Why aren’t they the best. We have three tight ends who were best in the nation coming out of high school, We aren’t even passing to. We have two parade all american running backs.who can’t get 50 yards a game. We have one of the best defensive ends in America playing nose tackle. Where does all this talent go? Why can’t we develope the talent they come to us with?????

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It’s kind of sad to see all the Dawg fans getting so excited this year (just like the year before, the year before that, etc.). How long is it going to take for UGA fans to realize that UGA is simply no longer relevant in the SEC? In the national picture, UGA isn’t even a blip on the radar, and hasn’t been since the preseason #1 ranking two years ago.

Sit back and be grateful for the six or seven wins you’ll get most years. Coaching genius Mark Richt may take you to 8-4 or even 9-3 occasionally, but Florida will still win the SEC, meaning no BCS bowls and no top 10 final ranking. Most years, UGA will be very lucky to finish in the top 25, and only after a big bowl win over a nobody opponent.

It’s a different world now, and Dawg fans need to adjust their expectations downward to reflect reality.

Unfortunately nothing is going to change until UGA changes its mediocre coaching. That’s where the difference is, and that’s why everyone outside Dawgtard Nation just laughs at Dawg fans getting so excited year after year about what a great recruiting class UGA gets. It doesn’t matter how many blue chip high school players go to UGA, they simply don’t get the coaching they would get at Florida or Alabama, to name two schools whose programs are far ahead of UGA. And that’s not going to change as long as Mark Richt is in Athens.

Get your heads out of the sand and face reality. And mediocrity and irrelevance.

Suck on your red panties for comfort. 

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You should worry about ManBoobs and your crappy program getting exposed by Kansas…that and how you are gonna attract enough Techmites to go down to the ghetto and fillup up that high school stadium you have…..there is more than enough on your plate to keep you busy…..November will come soon enough and you can focus on UGA the next scheduled beating….will make 9 out of 10….nice

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Look at how angry and bitter the mutt nation has become!!! I love it!!!

You’re right. It’s really fun watching the dawgturds turn on their coaches and players.

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And… Oh my goodness, look at the red panties falling from the sky!!!

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Since dawgtards seem to love living in the past, how about remembering the Jan Kemp trial, which exposed UGA and Vince Dooley for the jokes that they were. My favorite quote from the trial was this one:

O. Hale Almand Jr., a lawyer for the defense, offered a justification for the favorable treatment accorded the athletes, citing a hypothetical player. “We may not make a university student out of him,” he told the jury, “but if we can teach him to read and write, maybe he can work at the post office rather than as a garbageman when he gets through with his athletic career.”

The best thing about the trial was that it completely killed Vince Dooley’s shot at Congress, since he was exposed as a fraud and a cheat during the trial. Make no mistake – Dooley knew everything that was going on.

Nothing has changed in the almost three decades since the trial. If anything, the abuses are even worse. Exhibit #1: Jim Harrick and son.

Today the players are even more illiterate and felonious and, well, just plain stupid, as evidenced by their arrest records and record number of penalties. Even Vince Dooley couldn’t have controlled this mob, much less Mark Richt. And now even the fired former AD is a drunk debaucherer.

There’s a reason why UGA is known as The Cesspool of the South.

But hey, congratualations to all dawgtards for clinching the Fulmer/Richt Cup.

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Also, when I said “Nothing has changed in the almost three decades since the trial. If anything, the abuses are even worse”, what I meant by that is that UGA was administering beatings of GT on a regular basis before, during and since. However, since that time, it really has gotten “worse”….much worse…..51-7…..8 of 9….ugh….

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UGA Insider, and others,

Most of us are not supporting a “Fire CMR right now!” mentality. But stop ignoring facts.

“All of this bs about fire CMR is asinine! Wake up UGA fans… all college football programs run in constant cycles. Please remember that Alabama was playing in the Independence Bowl only 3 short years ago. Auburn has been down recently and so has UT. Yes, SC and Arkansas are better this year but when they lose their experienced qb’s they will be back in the toilet.”

UGA fans need to wake up?

How about our “constant cycle” being rebuilding 3 out of every 4 years?
How about “wait till next year!”??
How about looking at the facts, the trends, compare.

Mark Richt and this staff is getting paid to be a top SEC team – this top SEC team is 10-11 vs our own Eastern Conference teams since 2005.

Bulldog nation expects a constant from its football team – smart, tough, physical football. When was the last time we watched our top SEC team show that kind of tough, physical football other teams fear? Vs. Hawaii in the 2007 Sugar Bowl?

When’s the last time we beat an equally good, or superior team? In our own stadium even?

How come Jim Donnan got run for losing to TN, SC, and FL but it’s unfair to criticize Mark Richt for doing the exact same thing?

Is anyone very tired and annoyed that we lose to FL every year? Doesn’t it hurt any of the blind homer’s feelings that Jacksonville isn’t even a rivalry game any more? Are we just supposed to hope for a New Years day bowl (now that there are 163 of them anymore) and at least beat GT? Is that where are hopes for our program are supposed to stop?

Or I guess we are supposed to just take it for what it is.

How about analyzing what is really happening here and wishing that staus quo isn’t good enough?

Facts, just make “some of us fans” foolish I guess. Man, it’s funny how the door only swings one way for some people..

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Has Blair seen any of these Tech players “interviewed” after a game………Like ALL football teams, you need someone from the UN to help interpret ……….Blair needs to know that ALL Tech folks are not ” boardroom material”……LOL

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If Georgia had just run a couple of toss sweeps to Ealy when it was 3rd down at mid-field we probably win that darn game…that’s what kills me we score 2 late TD’s and then crap in our pants at mid-field…we had the game…

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For all the idiots that keep saying that GA will be fine and they will be back let me ask you this. What have you saw the last 3 seasons that gives you that confidence in Mark Richt? Or I will ask it this way… Since Brian Van Gorder left what have you saw that makes you think he can get it done?: You sure can’t go by his on field record.

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I’ll take 7-5 as a positive season at this point. Get to a bowl game (preferrably one that has a jersey with no post game value to it)and win that. But IMO I think we will do better as the season progresses and might end up much better than these last two games have shown. One thing for sure they did not quit in either of those games. That speaks volumes for these kids and the heart of this team. Are they going to make mistakes, sure with a new QB and new D scheme. Forgive them of these and be fan. I support Coach Richt 100%. He will get the job done.

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McGarity has just started to rearrange the Deck Chairs on the UGA Titantic. “DON’T WORRY POSSIBLE RECRUITS. EVERYTHING IS JUST FINE”. Early damage control. We at UGA are backing Richt.
Well, all that is true until UGA loses a few more games, finishes 4th in the SEC east, and Loses to TECH for the 2nd time in 3 years.

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“I support Coach Richt 100%. He will get the job done.”

I agree. Give Richt and the other coaches lifetime contracts. Give them free houses and luxury cars. Anything to keep them there forever.

Really.

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Fellow Dawgers,

Please, allow the Yechers to project their frustrations onto us. You must have sympathy for them. They have yet again hired an overrated, overpaid coach that is only further pushing their dead program back to it’s rightful home of mediocrity. They have a campus that is properly situated right smack in the middle of the Atlanta ghettos where you stand a better chance of getting robbed or mugged walking to class than passing a pretty, English speaking, girl. Their baseball and basketball programs are the epitome of what an annually overrated, over-hyped team is. And most Tech fans never even attended the institute. And the ones that did couldn’t hack the engineering classes so they were left jumping onto the “M-train” like 95% of the athletes. Getting a management degree from Tech and bragging about it is like getting a physical education degree from Harvard. What a waste of time and money. So please, have pity on our little sisters from the slums of Atlanta!!!

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Thank you “Slow your Roll”! These DAWGS STOOD UP at the ten minute mark against the pigs and took over the game. We didn’t get it, but we STOOD UP and took the game then lost a squeaker. $hit happens! Sometimes you get ‘em and sometimes you don’t. Defense got us back in the game late in the fourth when all looked lost, JUST DIDN’T WORK OUT! Get over it! This team GREW UP at 10 minutes left in the fourth against the pigs and it may be a blessing that these kids who TOOK OVER in the fourth lost! Adversity teaches character and grows HEART! Go DAWGS, Love you Coach Richt, Repair the holes in the ship, AND FINISH THE DRILL!

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vicariously

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Dang, you shoulda included one of those government-type warnings about what we are about to see on that site, Lowcountry.

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5150 POAD, better get your own hive in order before you start talking smack to us. You lost to KANSAS for God’s sake. A team that got beat by a PBC (Punching Bag Conference) team. I bet that STUNG! LMAO!

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Yeah, couple of good things in the link, but boy that Ark game really blew up those rankings that UGA defense created. It will be interesting to see those this time next week. The team is not as bad as we think, but nowhere as good as we think they should be. This week will be the true meter of how much fire is left in the belly of this team.

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Richt is a good Coach. Where would get another Coach as good right now?

Make changes in who picks these players and go for some moral values to go with 3,4,5, star ability. Get a Good Offense Crd. fire Bobo are give him some other duty.. The Buck stops with Richt. He’s got to take control.

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Pee on a Bee, from what I watched last Sat in Athens….. Kansas would have kicked our dawgs a@@ too. Be nice and let the cards fall where they may.

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As stated before ” Wait till next Year” That is our slogan for the last five years! Go Dawgs and the new AD has not been here but one month. I believe he will have a difference of opinion at the end of the season.

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http://pricezack.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/can-georgia-win-a-championship-with-mark-richt/

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bamadawg, I wouldn’t be so sure of that. Mallett WILL rip a few defenses this year, maybe even one next week. Doesn’t Bama have a couple of new starters on D? Next week I believe Bama controls the game on the ground and doesn’t give Mallett the time or too many chances to burn them. That’s what a very good team would do and what we should have done. Still I lie Scoutdawgs take on the heart of the team and them not quiting on the game. I would hope you would agree with that at least.

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5150 POAD, that travel would be killer on your little bee wings flying all the way out there. You guys should have taken a plane.

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@12:o6 agree

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1990 is the PAST- 20 years- get a life?

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I think what concerns me the most is that I’ve heard CMR say on more than one occasion in the last 3 years that the coaching staff is doing the same thing today that it was doing back in the first 5 years at UGA. Any good business leader (believe me this is a business) knows situations change, personnel changes and what used to work may not work now. We all have to change to continue to reach the goals we set before us. I hope CMR knows and understands this.

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Colorado, probably that 5th down you guys got on the goal line! LMAO! Tech had a QB a number of years later who thought he could have 5 downs and threw it out of bounds on 4th down.

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@ Colorado,

You are absolutely right. Tech does try and tout your 1990 title and Michigan St.’s title as their own. And the other two they try and brag about occurred way back in the day when slavery was still legal.

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I wish Emory would field a Div. 1 team so they could joke about how remedial Tech is. U.S. News: Emory #20, Tech #35, UGA #56. Do you feel as inferior to Emory grads as you would like Georgia grads to feel about you?

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MR apologist plan for UGA football. Wait until Saban and Meyer leave the SEC then second and third tier teams can move up to the top rung of the ladder. Then they will be able to crow for 2 or 3 seasons until a new breed of high profile coaches are hired at those schools, and UGA is again relegated to a second or third tier program.

Wash, Rinse Repeat!

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@ A Fan, well put, great post

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First let me say I support CMR mainly because I don’t know who you would get that’s available that would be better.

I may be wrong, but it seems to me that Coach Richt’s greatest success cam in the first 4 years he was here?

Was that because he was playing with Jim Donnan’s recruits?

I believe CMR is an excellent x’s and o’s coach, but you’ve got to have the horses no matter who the coach is.

Think about the number of Dogs in teh NFL from Donnan’s days and CMR’s first few years.

I think we simply do not have the great players anymore.

Maybe CMR should hire Jim Donnan as his head recruiter??

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that the coaching staff is doing the same thing today that it was doing back in the first 5 years at UGA.

IF THIS IS TRUE IT PROVES MY POINT
We do not have the talent we did back in CMR’s early days, Coach Donnan’s players!

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How much for AJ Green’s Arkansas game jersey? That would be like owning a piece of the Iceburg the Titanic hit.

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New qb and a new defense. What did you expect, really?

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Thanks 5150 for the correction… that UVA GT game was a great one

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I love the way the media now tries to create controversy and “stories” so that they can attract readers. Actually I hate it.

We lost a couple of games to 2 good SEC teams. We are not at the top of the heap. BFD.

In every game someone has to win and someone has to lose. Some teams just have better teams some years than others. That is reality.

I have a lot of confidence in CMR. He has won 90 games in 9 years and will probably win 100 games in 10 years. He runs a stable ship.

I hate the media for trying to hold a football coach responsible for their players’ mistakes off the field when the coach has had them for 2 or 3 years and their parents had them for 18 or 19 years.Hold the parents accountable or would that not be politically correct for you.

Its always the teacher or coach. It never is the kid or his parents. The crap gets old.

Vince Dooley won 201 games in 25 years and for you non math majors that averages out to approx 8 wins a year – and colleges started playing 11 games during the regular season and a bowl game in 1971 which was 8 years into Coach Dooley’s 25 year career. Based on that, he would be run out of town by today’s unreasonable media jerks and jerks that call themselves fans.

Real fans stick by their team and a good coach through thick and thin. But today’s media writers and younger fans do not have the class of those 25 years ago. I mean lets face it Jeff, you are no Jesse Outlar.

So Jeff, quit pandering to the negative. There are plenty of wonderful things to write about the Bulldogs including graduation rate compared to the rest of BCS schools, GPA’s, the success that former players find as a result of their experience at UGA and oh yeah the 90 victories the football team has over the past 9 years which puts them towards the top of the list as one of the most successful BCS programs in the country.

And Jeff -by the way – go soak your head and shut your trap while you are doing it.

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Russ, The Temporary Mascot,
Your posts are a hoot; hope you keep up the good work. Don’t let them knock you about being lazy; all I have ever seen Uga do in Jax is sit his rearend on a bag of ice. You certainly deserve more than being a mascot for the losing leghumpers. Thanks again for the great humor. If people want to know why a Gator troll is on “their” site; tell them that it is because of Russ, The Temporary Mascot’s entertaining posts. Do me a favor, find out from UGAKev exactly how the leghumpers are going to beat the Gators this year; wearing all red and dancing the watusi in the endzone maybe. I know that we will not be outcoached.

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We should not be rebuilding EVERY year, should we? At some point the house must be finished and given a COO.

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If they lose to Missy State, I think Richt’s in trouble. He will then be 0-3 in the SEC with UF,Tenn,& Auburn left. We just might see pretty boy sweat and get angry for a change…

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Vote of confidence=kiss of death.

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I hate the Tech posers that come on UGA blogs.

I hope McGarrity drops Tech from the schedule like second period french. We could pick up Clemson or Notre Dame or FSU every year earlier in the schedule.

We might not win as many against them as we win against Tech, but those schools’ people have a lot more class than Tech haters, you know – the Wanna Bees.

And it would cut into Tech AA revenue so deeply that the GTAA would probably start running financial deficits (again).

So what do you think? Would all of you other real Dawg fans out there like to dropkick Tech off the schedule and be done with their smart mouth arses?

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Remember Fire Ron Zook.com ? Now there’s a Fire Mark Rict.com
Ouch !

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The frustrations from Georgia fans stem from having great recruiting classes followed by mediocre results. UGA has slipped off the radar and will be a 2nd tier program like Kentucky and Vanderbilt while CMR is at the helm.

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You summed it up Honky. Exactly. Well put.

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As a Tech fan, I was actually rooting for Georgia on Saturday to take pride in my state. I saw more Georgia defenders diving at the ball carriers instead of tackling. That goes back to discipline which goes back to coaching. The problems at UGA are pretty obvious.

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[...] “I don’t generally go into the locker room because I don’t feel I really belong in there,” he said. “What I did do was go in there after the game, but before the media came in, just to see Mark and the 12 or 14 players who were still there waiting for interviews. I just said, ‘Mark, let’s get ready to go next week. Call me if you need anything.’ I just felt he needed to know I was there to support him.” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) [...]

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When recruiting time rolls around this year, and IF we are told that we have a recruiting class in the top 3 in the nation, I’m gonna send some terminal cases of Montezuma’s revenge to whomever begat such lies and untruths. The fans have been sold such a bill of goods for years now, so where is the proof? Did the arrests, etc. knock the ’stars’ so low that they are incapable of playing football, or is it the usual riot of partying and heck raising among the jocks? The pitiful performances are in full view, witness Ealy’s whiff of a block in the waning seconds of the game. What’s up with that? If the players are not committed to playing football, and had rather booze around, as well as other things, then, just call it like it is and save the rah rahing for another time.

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DAVID POLLACK JUST GOT THRU TALKING ABOUT KIRBY SMART AND WILL MUSCHAMP DEFENSE ON ESPNU!

P.S. GET KIRBY SMART!

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Fans must realize we haven’t lost to Fla. and Bama. We lost to SC and Arky. That’s the same as losing to Vandy and Ole Piss.

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Its time for a poll Schultzie :

0 – Fire Richt now
0 – Wait until end of season and review Richt’s performance
0 – Keep Richt and see what he does next year
0 – Keep Richt because there’s nothing wrong with the coaching.

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A team that will pay an assistant coach $750,000 and let a little dog that wants to be mascot hang on until they find a white-a$$ed dog to be the next Uga . . . is a team in disarray. Why won’t they name me the next Uga? “Brown a$$ed and too old”, they say. Well, McGarity’s ears stick out and Richt is developing a bald spot. I think it is time they make a commitment to me and they need to do it before we get to Mississippi State where they have some bulldogs of their own. I don’t want to play second fiddle to another mascot. I wish Coach Richt felt the same way about playing second fiddle to another SEC team. Send in your votes for Russ, the Temporary Mascot that wants to be the next Uga. My slogan? Brown a$$ed but not Inbred. I can walk on the field without dying.

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I watch a high school football game almost every week. When the playoffs come around, I watch nearly every game, on tv of course. I see better fundamentals of blocking, tackling, and holding on to the ball than I see when watching a UGA game. I wonder what happens to the ’star’ athletes when they report for duty at UGA. Do they go brain dead after a few beers, or what? Maybe beer should be banned in Clarke County.

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WHAT, ME WORRY?

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[...] on that in a minute. First, if you missed it, I spoke to athletic director Greg McGarity and posted a column earlier. He maintained confidence in Richt, despite the storm that is swirling [...]

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A lot of you wanted Change you can Believe in . . . and a lot of you want to change coaches. If you really want a change . . . a brown-a$$ed mascot is what you need. Remember Russ- the next Uga.

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Don’t doubt it – Dawgs will win handily in Starkeville, unless they are worse than I perceive

However, there sure is a lot of goody-goody going on here by some. Do I believe these Bulldogs will be much better by the end of this, considering the change in defense and RF QB? Absolutely. Do I believe we’re going to roll into Jacksonville (6-2)…. nope, not one bit. Doesn’t mean it will not happen, but…

Someone give me one season since 2004 we didn’t lose a game we abosolutely should have won…. just one….. and by lose, I me really LOSE.

Unfortunately, for as good a man CMR is, and a fine cach as well (don’t doubt that for one second), something is terribly missing consistency-wise from CMR and his program.

I think we see at least one more loss between now and Jacksonville — then life gets a little harder.

We’ll see improvement; and if nothing changes this year, then what do we expect for next? Oh, just wait til 2011……

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Here is a question: if I am one of those SEC teams that is traditionally at the bottom of the pile looking for a coach (staff) that can take my program to the next level, would I hire the UGA staff to build my program based on their performance over the past 5 years?

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Unfortunately that was my point. They would not bite. The problems are much deeper than 0-2 start in the SEC. I was at SC. The team came out of the tunnel in slow motion, no energy, and honestly they acted like they just stepped off of a space ship. We were in both games with a chance to win. We just were not ready when the first whistle sounded like so many of CMR’s teams over the entire 10 years. I cannot count the number of times that we have spotted teams 14-21 plus points and then come back to make it close. This should never happen (if you get your team ready to play).

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[...] JeffSchultz: This is a blog about Georgia’s AD Greg McGarity’s and how he still believes that Mark Richt can get the job done as the head football coach. Also, even though our team’s situation is bad, it may not be all over… yet. [...]

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If Georgia played as well as Clemson did against Auburn I would feel better about the program. Georgia will do better as the season progresses, Murray becomes more confident, and the defense playing better in the new scheme. What I am not sure about is whether Bobo can match wits with the other teams DC. I will be watching Tennessee going forward, because we all agree that they are down, but I feel confident that Dooley will have them moving in the right direction pretty soon, and then what will all the apologists for CMR say.

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[...] went out of his way to say it was not «the dreaded vote of confidence». Relax.: «We've played one-fourth of the season. In athletics, people can turn things around in a hurry when they believe in themselves and they [...]

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i for one would like to hear CMR acknowledge the fact that
Bama and the Gators are the class right now in the SEC and
UGA will not stop until we are in the same class as them!

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I guess winning isn’t important to the fanbase anymore. Let’s just keep on getting ranked in the preseason – only to implode when the actual games start. Bobo is an idiot.

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I can’t believe all the crap I’m reading. All these experts that know whats good for the program. All these armchair coaches that know exactly what this program needs is just absolutely ludacris. I can tell you one thing, if we were on the battle field in a raging firefight I sure as he!! wouldn’t want any of you backing me up. Get some dam common sense people.

Freshman QB, new coaches, new defensive scheme. He!!, even the coaches are learning the new system. You just don’t hire a new defensive staff and expect these kids to play lights-out. Use some dam common sense.

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first post

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