Richt looking forward to putting Dogs’ season behind him
Mark Richt celebrated after beating Georgia Tech but he can't wait for this season to end.
ATHENS – The final home practice of the season had ended Tuesday, and Mark Richt acted like somebody just surgically removed a bowling ball from the top of his cranium.
He smiled. He cracked jokes. He probably hadn’t been this relaxed since word first leaked of some NCAA investigation into A.J. Green back in July.
“It’s the last day,” Richt said Tuesday, almost giddy. “It’s kind of like just before the first day of summer when the kids can’t wait to go on vacation. What they don’t realize is the teachers are even more excited than the pupils. I’ve got four days now where hopefully I don’t have to do anything. That would be awesome.”
Can you blame him?
It’s not that Richt isn’t looking forward to Georgia’s final game, the Liberty Bowl against Central Florida. But mostly he is looking forward to this season officially being over. Losses, suspensions and arrests have worn on him (it’s worth noting Richt’s qualifier: “… where hopefully I don’t have to do anything.”)
The season can’t be fixed. It can, however, be dropped into a waste basket.
Richt recognizes the problems. It’s why he churned part of his coaching staff last year and recently demoted his strength and conditioning coach. Defense is an issue. Mental and physical toughness — definitely issues. The Dogs are losing too many games late and too many games on the road, which used to be a staple under Richt.
Resolve, resilience — those are just words now.
Richt: “We played close games but close doesn’t get it done. We talk about finishing the drill, but we certainly didn’t live up to that.”
He won’t wait until the spring to talk to his players about next season, or until the day after the Liberty Bowl. The 2011 season, he said, starts when the scoreboard clock in Memphis hits 0:00.
“Here’s how I look at next year: When we play the [bowl] game, and it’s over, and we’re in the locker room, I’m going to thank those seniors for everything they did, and hopefully they’ll have a smile on their face,” he said. “Once I tell the seniors thank you, I’ll talk to the juniors and I’ll say, ‘OK, from this moment forward, it’s on your watch. This is your team. What are you going to do with it?’ We’ll immediately start talking about next year.”
And then this: “When the game’s over, we’re turning the page.”
Does this sound like a man ready to move on?
Of course, Richt recognizes that it’s really he who’s on watch next season, more than the returning players. He has been questioned in Athens like never before. A segment of the fan base wanted him out. Since winning two SEC titles in his first five seasons, he has seen other programs pass Georgia. South Carolina just won the East. Only three schools – Kentucky, Vanderbilt and Mississippi – won fewer conference games this season than the Dogs.
Georgia’s 3-5 record – the same as the recently imploded Tennessee. Nobody expected that, least of all Richt.
When athletic director Greg McGarity reaffirmed before the Georgia Tech game that he wasn’t going to make a change. I’ve stated before, that’s the right call. Richt has built up enough credits in 10 years that he deserves an opportunity to turn this around. If he can’t do it next year, then the subject is certain to be revisited.
Richt knows this. But he feels good about quarterback Aaron Murray. He feels confident the defense will improve. He thinks changes in the strength and conditioning program are “going to make us better.”
A win in the Liberty Bowl would be nice, Richt said. But it can’t wipe out the last several months — and he is so ready to move on.
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DawginLex
December 21st, 2010
2:52 pm
He better talk to his entire team about the following:
1.) Staying out of trouble
2.) Getting ready to beat Boise State and play like it is their last game
3.) Pay attention to coach T and follow his strength training regimen and get bigger, faster and stronger
4.) Repeat 1 and 2
Richt needs to recruit like there is no tomorrow because for him, there might not be one if he doesn’t win at least 9 games next year.
Robert
December 21st, 2010
2:54 pm
first??
Moonpie
December 21st, 2010
2:58 pm
I agree with Richt.Throw 2010 in the waste basket and start on 2011.Good riddence to the 2010 UGA Football year!
Pooh Pooh Platta
December 21st, 2010
2:59 pm
How many times has that picture been used?
Supes
December 21st, 2010
3:00 pm
2011 will be a make or break season for CMR and the UGA program as a whole, it starts with recruiting, signing impact guys or guys who are willing to do whatever it takes and bleed UGA red/black….then with the off-season strength/conditioning…the spring practices…and the practices leading into the Boise State game.
We’ll have a great chance to have a turn around season…but it’s up to Richt and the other coaches…and then to the players.
If he doesn’t get it done in 2011…
Bob
December 21st, 2010
3:01 pm
and next year won’t be any better. this isn’t 2005 mutts.
boise is for real and if you don’t come prepared, which you haven’t much this season, you’ll get pounded. of course the pollsters will rank you much higher than you’re worth because
1. you’re in the sec
2. you’re playing boise and they want to get as many eyes on it as they can. an unranked uga, which is where you should be after losing half your offense, just won’t bring the eyeballs like a 18th ranking will.
JB
December 21st, 2010
3:01 pm
2011 will be huge……….For Coach Richt……………My guess is 85% of UGA alum likes him, 75% of just fans, but I’d say, if asked, 50% would say that he needs to show significant improvement to keep his job. I’d say 7-5 might even keep him if the defeats are hard fought and close. Liking Mark Richt is not the question. Being competitive in the SEC is. The schedule sets up nice for him next year. AU should even be a win at home if Cam leaves, and he will. This team could lose to Boise,SC,and Florida….and 9-3 would bring him back. A lot of fellow Bulldog club members I talk to are worried about this class upcoming. They think it’s fading….
Supes
December 21st, 2010
3:01 pm
One last thing…can we got one season without making the police headlines with various arrests? It would be nice not to be known as a place where the players get in trouble every other weekend…
Bruce Mac
December 21st, 2010
3:03 pm
Apparently all CMR needs to do is read this blog. Many many Vince Lombardi’s here. DUH!!!!
JB
December 21st, 2010
3:05 pm
Bruce….. the concept is a blog…..The writer throws out info….and people comment on it…..Geez.
ryan
December 21st, 2010
3:06 pm
This recruiting class will be Richt’s last chance and looks like its going to be a good one and appears that UGA will play some Midwest teams in the future i am hearing Ohio State or even Notre Dame.
D A Double U G
December 21st, 2010
3:07 pm
Jeff, I feel the way you wrote this article, you are trying to paint the picture of Mark richt taking the Eeyore approach of “oh, botha”.
Any Tech fan that reads this will interpret this like Mark Richt is just moping around the practice sidelines, wondering why he even interacts with this team anymore.
So I copied this link from Georgiadogs.com of today’s practice session to paint the picture that REALLY should be painted about the attitude in Athens.
http://www.georgiadogs.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/122110aae.html
GO DAWGS!!!!!
joe
December 21st, 2010
3:10 pm
Pay raises for the assistant coaches? for what?? A 6-6 season??? You gotta be kidding me. Thats like giving congress a raise for their 13% approval rating.
takedowndawg
December 21st, 2010
3:10 pm
I would scratch the MOTIVATION TOOL of jumping from the pool high board bit, next season, CMR. The players need to know that you are on a mission and you’re “taking no prisoners”. Whether the “prisoners”(no pun intended!) are players or they are coaches who are not smart enough to make game adjustments that give the DAWGS the best chance of being successful in tight games. The real need for them to call plays that exploit your opponents weaknesses rather than playing to your opponents strengths. The coaches in the booth MUST see what the fans, like me, are seeing. We stay in losing strategies much TOO LONG during quarters. I guess to prove a point! Expensive stubborness, in my opinion. If something is not working. Cease the activity! Next, I am very worried about the recruitment coming up. The last two season records for UGA is hurting us. Hope we get a few Christmas surprises in the form of 4-5 defensive animals! We need them badly. Just remember CGT. We are not very patient when our defense loses games for us.
dawgit
December 21st, 2010
3:11 pm
With the talent UGA recruits any less than 9 wins is underachieving.
Lindsey
December 21st, 2010
3:11 pm
Best of luck at the Liberty Bowl and for the 2011 Season to CMR and the Bulldogs!! GO DAWGS!!!
dawgfan
December 21st, 2010
3:14 pm
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blobbity blah blah blah. Blobbity Blah blah, blah blob blah. Blobity donkle blah.
What a waste of time. Wake me up for the bowl game and when Boise comes to town.
D A Double U G
December 21st, 2010
3:18 pm
takedowndawg,
you honestly think that Coach Richt taking his team to the pool (like he has done every year since being at UGA) for one afternoon during Summer camp, and creating a bonding atmosphere for the KIDS on this team, is the reason we went 6-6 this year?
Honestly?
Come on man. A college football team is not a boot camp or punishment for chosing that school. I guarantee you Saban, Meyer, Chizik, Spurrier and every other coach in the country do things every year to let the kids have fun and bond as a team.
The only people who say this Dawgs team is not close with one another, are the frustrated fans who want to take extreme measures so you can have an extra bragging right or two over the offseason. Go ask ANY of the players on this team is going swimming was a disgrace to them, and weakened their ability to gel together and win games, and they will laugh in your face.
Go join the military, buddy. And cheer for their intramural teams if you want 100% serious faces 100% of the time.
GO DAWGS!!!
JB
December 21st, 2010
3:18 pm
The Presidents of Maryland and Miami had coach’s fired that won more games than Richt this year, just say’n…… Two things at work….. Mark is a very, very nice, respected man OFF THE FOOTBALL field…and 10 years at UGA, with some success……….Donnan got the hook pretty quick. I, as a fan and alum study this team and roster. I’m very concerned he is in a talent gap in players and coach’s at this time, and will not have the time to turn it around. Very telling that late in the second half of the Tech game on fourth and one our Veteran line could not knock Tech’s tired defense off the ball for a first down. They stuffed the play. Nuff said.
Supes
December 21st, 2010
3:19 pm
680thefan just reported that C. King is not eligible for the Bowl game…this is exactly the kind of stuff we don’t need at UGA…players who can’t pass their courses…
I guess it’ll be up to Ealey and Thomas to run the ball in the game against Central Florida.
Caleb King letting his team mates down for the game…what else is new?
RxDawg
December 21st, 2010
3:20 pm
“The season can’t be fixed. It can, however, be dropped into a waste basket.”
The only saving grace of the season is that no one kicked our arse. We even went toe to toe with the best darn semipro team in the nation (a certain orange and blue Tiger team).
The low point? Losing to Colorado… that’s probably why King is playing 4th string
Matthew
December 21st, 2010
3:23 pm
Richt better hope that the Tereshinski move works out, but the main issue is players. As in, not enough really good ones. Name me one impact player on this defense. None. Maybe Jarvis Jones will be Boss Bailey and we will find a Jonathan Sullivan, Greg Blue, Thomas Davis, Tim Wansley, and maybe a Tony Gilbert or Will Weatherspoon in recruiting or at junior college. Otherwise, the Dawgs will be trying to hire Will Muschamp, or God forbid, Kirby Smart next December.
JB
December 21st, 2010
3:23 pm
Where are the hand holders to make sure King is eligible ? Is there is Management in Athens.
Paul H
December 21st, 2010
3:24 pm
And then this –> 42-34
Hit A Single
December 21st, 2010
3:24 pm
Dont’ mean to berate players, but UGA’s recruiting has been overrated. Our coaches have got to do a better job of evaluating and recruit not just talent but heart. I hope Coach Richt is at UGA as long as he wants to be. College football has big problems when you have people like Coach Friedgen getting fired and Bill Stewart. The coaching fraternity has brought alot of this on themselves by the big salaries, but it has gotten out of hand. I heard Coach K say if he started at Duke today he probably wouldn’t be at Duke 6 or 7 years. That is sad. We are a spoiled society and if we can’t win it all we lose. I like to win as much as anybody but the handling of coaches has gotten out of hand.
ARdawg
December 21st, 2010
3:26 pm
Wow Schultz! Looks like you and Richt made nicey? I have been part of that fan base that believes he has about wore out his welcome at Georgia. If he was one of my employees, he’d had been fired last year. It’s attitude not record. His attitude is on display on that field for 12 games this year. His performance review is unsatisfactory in all areas. My thought is, why waste another year? But, he is back and it is what it is. In my mind he has a year to fix it. Like a lack luster employee I don’t have much hope but, I do wish them the best. Good Luck and Merry Christmas Mark Richt! And your buddy Jeff too.
robert troup
December 21st, 2010
3:26 pm
2011 should be a good year-Arron Murray should see to that. Dogs need to beat Florida and why schedule Boise State for the first game. I’ve been a season ticket holder for almost fourty years and will keep on coming.
JB
December 21st, 2010
3:29 pm
Kirby Smart WILL be the next UGA coach……By firing Richt, we will have fired a coach with close to a 750 winning percentage, and most “name” coach’s will avoid those type jobs. Kirby will be hungry and willing. My 2 cents.
Hit A Single
December 21st, 2010
3:29 pm
The difference in UGA and Miami is that the Dawgs got better as the year went on. Maryland doesn’t know what they are doing. That is why Bobby Ross left and they never will succeed with those calling the shots. I do agree that Coach Richt better beat Florida next year or it could be over and I would hate to see that. And that is sad to put that on one game.
ARdawg
December 21st, 2010
3:29 pm
Hit a Single
I call BS on your post. The recruits were not overrated. They were under coached. They player talent is there. Look around and you can see some who have over achieved with much less. It ain’t the players. Get your head out of your azz
WDE
December 21st, 2010
3:31 pm
i’m not sure why he’s looking forward to next year. He’ll finish even further behind with UT improving in 2011
UGA Insider
December 21st, 2010
3:31 pm
I’m glad this season is over as well. I still don’t understand how this team is 6-6 when you look at them on a practice field. Bad karma I guess that started with Mettenburger. When that story broke I was worried it could snowball and it did. Even our sorry ex-AD was not immune to the sorriness.
I have had a couple of high school coaches tell me that some recruits are worried about the future of CMR. Our competitor’s are using that against us in every living room of each blue chip prospect as well. If we are going to stick with CMR I think McGarity needs to give him an extension through 2014. It’s the only way to sign a big class.
ARdawg
December 21st, 2010
3:32 pm
We need Kirby Smart like the football program needs the death penalty.There is nothing Kirby offers that UGA needs. He ain’t all that and a bag of chips. He is just a dude leading Saban’s defense. We need a coach, not a waterboy and go’fer
JB
December 21st, 2010
3:33 pm
As will Auburn WDE……………………..Earth to Auburn, you are re-entering our solar system. Please prepare to get back in your normal place………Copy Houston?
takedowndawg
December 21st, 2010
3:33 pm
d.a. double, you what you appear to be saying is that Coach Richt know worn out motivational tools are working for him? Like “finish, the drill”. I suspect that they might have had a positive affect some time in the past in the Pollack-Green era but I question their effectiveness now. If I hear the, “finish, the drill” one more time(in a commercial or a speaking engagement by Coach Richt, I may throw up! Two terrible seasons with a VERY GOOD young quarterback and several outstanding receivers and two or three defensive players of repute. I believe the trite slogans have very little, if any meaning, to the current players. Slogans, are supposed to change the heart of the player and make them give more of themselves. I don’t these slogans have any power or affect on this current crop of players. You and I can agree to disagree but obviously what is being using is not working. Who, with the few exceptions listed above, are playing with a lot of heart? d. a . double.
JB
December 21st, 2010
3:35 pm
I agree ARdawg,,,,,,but watch…. I would rather keep Mark and make him fire 3-4 coach’s and give him the saved buyout money to get a great staff in here. We need one.
WDE
December 21st, 2010
3:35 pm
yeah…after this BCS championship game you may have heard about
WDE
December 21st, 2010
3:36 pm
it will feel bad if we drop down to the independence/liberty bowl level. oh that’s right…you’re already there
DodgerDAWG
December 21st, 2010
3:37 pm
By the way Boise State Football players were involved in a brawl with Utah players in Las Vegas (http://college-football.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/24156338/26563117) and Vols report secondary violations regarding special treatment going back to the bar brawl on July 9th (http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/14473444/vols-report-possible-violations-regarding-special-treatment). Figured since it was not UGA related bad news the AJC would not publish it
D A Double U G
December 21st, 2010
3:38 pm
takedowndawg,
You made a comment on going to the pool. Now you are revamping your argument with these slogans.
I want to hear you say that going to the pool as a team bonding activity is the reason we are 6-6.
Get a life man, and quit obsessing with perfection so much. Go be a NY Yankee fan if this is your attitude.
JB
December 21st, 2010
3:38 pm
UGA Insider….on ONE condition…..He replace most of this staff……….Nobody, I mean nobody comes sniffing around this program looking to hire a coach…..This staff is a 4 on a 1-10 scale.
The true success is from the staff.
mcdaviddawg
December 21st, 2010
3:38 pm
Unfortunatley, we can’t put Richt behind us. We must give him a third year to get it right.
Joe Tess Fish House
December 21st, 2010
3:40 pm
They should fire Mark Rick now and hire Dan Reeves.
Paul (You doesn't have to call me Johnson).
December 21st, 2010
3:40 pm
Richt must win only 4 games…..Tennessee, Florida, Auburn and Georgia Tech. If he can win those games the rest of the season should fall in place.
JB
December 21st, 2010
3:40 pm
The only people in the WORLD that thinks Cam came to AU for FREE is AU people.
D A Double U G
December 21st, 2010
3:40 pm
WDE….
remember a VERY VERY short time ago when Auburn didn;t not even qualify for a bowl, and you had fans arrive at the airport to welcome Chizik with BOO’S????
Yeah, that was only December of 2007.
I would think you of anybody would recognize that just because a program is a little down, does not mean they are out. Enjoy probation in a year or so!!!!
JB
December 21st, 2010
3:42 pm
Sorry, please don’t crank up 2 pages of Cam stories…….
valdosta
December 21st, 2010
3:43 pm
King can barely read. That’s the REAL issue.
And it’s been “mostly” well-hidden by
the UGA athletics office for TWO FULL YEARS.
Looks like UGA cant hide it any more.
Rumor also has it that Ealey is in a similar position.
St. Clarkston
December 21st, 2010
3:44 pm
All I know is that Nick Saban has built two programs into elite, national championship teams while Richt hasn’t really come close.
dawgit
December 21st, 2010
3:44 pm
With the talent UGA has and this season’s relatively easy schedule, any decent HIGH SCHOOL coaching staff probably could have finished 6-6. I don’t know what has happened to Richt. I used to be a fan, but now, not so much.
Billyboy
December 21st, 2010
3:44 pm
Boise State is the first win and National Championship is the final win for 2011!!! GO DAWGS!!!
JB
December 21st, 2010
3:44 pm
Could be that Mark is happy because he just assured himself of another year and another cool 3 mil……….That’s big money.
D A Double U G
December 21st, 2010
3:45 pm
I do love all the Georgia Tech trolls who come on these blogs in droves posing as UGA supporters in order to make the appearance that UGA wants Richt gone.
I do not know a SINGLE UGA Alum and Season Ticket holder who feels this way. But it’s obvious why Tech wants Richt gone…..
9-1 against Tech
2-1 against the biggest college football “genius” of all time, Paul Johnson.
Zoomie
December 21st, 2010
3:45 pm
A lot of folks seemed to have pretty high expectations for a team starting a freshman QB and installing a new defense. I’m not completely surprised by UGA’s 2010 season, but a little disappointed.
Murray played much better than I expected, and the Bulldogs were more competitive than I originally expected. The disappointment comes from watching UGA lose the close ones — especially Colorado.
Richt is trying to bolster the conditioning of his team by changing the S&C program. He’s trying to deal with character issues by establishing a mentoring resource. He’s actively dealing with noticeable issues while using resources already at his disposal. These are positive changes in areas with glaring shortcomings, in my opinion.
Richt made a huge, tough change by gutting his defensive staff last year. Couldn’t reasonably expect that to pay huge dividends in the first year. However, this is the one area I’m watching closely. It’s a big change to go from a 4-3 to a 3-4 defense, with the latter being more complex. Due to assignment flexibility, I wonder if it was a smart move to go to a 3-4 defense. Making calls and meeting assignments in a 3-4 set-up may be a little too complex for the college players to take on. I think 2011 will showcase whether or not this was another mistake.
I have no problem with Richt getting another year to pull the program back together. He’s got a good AD to provide the support he needs. Got to admit, though, that I’m a bit unsettled by a 10-year head coach that still seems to be struggling to put together the “right formula.”
In any event, the UGA fanbase can now look ahead to 2011. We’ll see what transpires . . .
ARdawg
December 21st, 2010
3:45 pm
JB….it is what it is. Richt is around for at least a year and most likely we’ll have all these conversations all over again. Hey I want him to succeed. I just don’t see any evidence of that happening. I wish I did. I just don’t and his thank god the season is over attitude is reflective of that. Do you ever notice of regardless of how any coach acts on the sideline that their true reflection shines on and shows the players?
Saint Mark Richt
December 21st, 2010
3:46 pm
There were a lot of things for the dawgs to celebrate this year. Let’s see…
1. A drunken, whoring athletic director.
2. Twelve players arrested.
3. A player suspended for violating NCAA rules.
4. Winning the Fulmer Cup for the most players arrested.
5. Winning the title of #1 party school (i.e., the most drunken student body in the USA).
6. A sleazy assistant coach who razzes opposing players, unethical coaching conduct in violation of NCAA rules.
7. A super sleazy head coach who thinks he’s a saint, but recruits thug wannabes, gangbangers, and illiterate morons.
8. A 6-6 record despite having a team full of 4- and 5-star recruits.
Really something to be proud of!
Tired of It
December 21st, 2010
3:46 pm
But when are we gonna be able to move on..past the ineptitude of Richt?!? We’ve gotten progressively – and definitively – WORSE over the last 3 years. What about that gives ANY indication he’s capable of turning it around?? Especially when his idea of change is nothing more than changing the title of one coach and bringing another out of retirement to replace him.
The guy has no fire, no innovation and no hope of returning us to anything but the ray goff years.
ARdawg
December 21st, 2010
3:47 pm
Zoomie
The only thing I can say in response to your post is: Colorado
takedowndawg
December 21st, 2010
3:47 pm
d.a. double, most of us were not aware that you are apparently soooo sensitive to pool issues. Were you a swimmer in HS? Did you personally know Greg Louganis/sp? Was that you athletic field of endeavor? If so, I am truly sorry to have offended you so. The mileage credit and importance you have given the pool activity as it relates to excellent football relationship is underwhelming. Little evidence, to support your position.
D A Double U G
December 21st, 2010
3:49 pm
Lots for Tech to celebrate as well Saint,
COUNTLESS transfers trying to avoid that dead end system they run
Robert Hall
6-6 season
Losing the 9th time in 10 years to your most HATED rival
Nebitt acting like he knows the fundamentals of tackling, and breaking his arm
SHREVEPORT
Coach(sic) Johnson constantly throwing his players under the buss
Al Groh (LOL)
Student constantly being mugged on campus
Dead bodies being found on campus
Kansas Jayhawks
You’re right……. Tech is the true crown jewell of this State!!!
42-34
9-1
61-39-5
dawgpound
December 21st, 2010
3:52 pm
it is simple – 2011 will be considerably better than 2010 or richt will be gone!
da, you say you don’t know a single UGA alum who is ready to have richt move on unless big improvement next year – I don’t know a single UGA alum who doesn’t think that!
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Stinger 2
December 21st, 2010
3:54 pm
I am a Tech fan but I follow the UGA team very closely mainly because of the vast differences in the two
head coaches and their programs. I amazes me why so many so called Dawg fans knock CMR so much. He has does so much good for UGA football but one or two mediocre seasons has all these people wanting him to go. Let him alone and give him a break. UGA football is very much alive and will stay that way.
ARdawg
December 21st, 2010
3:57 pm
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Astropig
December 21st, 2010
4:00 pm
Richt has to win 9 in ‘11 to keep his job. 8 won’t do it. 7 will be another disaster. ( Can’t really see winning less than 7 with their schedule). The season breaks down like this:
1) Boise- Likely win. GA Dome- Opener for both. Dogs 1-0
2) South Carolina – Probable loss. SC will be even better next year on offense ( But the D will be a work in progress) Dogs 1-1
3) Coastal Carolina – Lead pipe cinch win. Mortal lock . Dogs 2-1
4) @ Ole Miss- Likely win.Say goodbye to Houston Nutt on this trip. He’ll walk the plank in Oxford at seasons end. Dogs 3-1
5) Mississippi State- Defining game. Bet on the Bulldogs in this one. The “other” Bulldogs. Dogs 3-2
6) @ Tennessee- Vols always play GA tough in K-Ville. This one could be where the “sources close to the program” ( IE: Big $$$ donors) start speculating on Richts departure. Dogs 3-3
7) @ Vanderbilt- Probable win. GA players rally around their embattled coach. Dogs 4-3
9) New Mexico State- Likely win. Aggies girlfriends could give us a better game . Dogs 5-4
10) Auburn- A win. Cam Newton will be earning money in plain sight ( in the NFL) and the Dogs will settle a score. Dogs 6-4
11) Kentucky – Likely win. Kentucky is still Kentucky (in football) Dogs 7-4
12) @ Tech- Likely win. After months of internal investigations, endless fact finding blue ribbon committees and a president’s direct interview of Paul Johnson,it is determined that Georgia Tech cannot throw a forward pass to save its life. Dogs 8-4.
There you go. Do we keep CMR if it unfolds like this? Is the 6 win to 8 win improvement enough / Does he get the benefit of another years doubt?
JB
December 21st, 2010
4:01 pm
Stinger…..We are to Florida what y’all are to us…..and we’re sick of it, like you are of us….Next question.
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December 21st, 2010
4:02 pm
Its kind of like comparing a Christmas Tree to Christianity. I am a Christian…..and believe in Jesus Christ the Son of God…who died on that wonderful cross for me. However by no means does a Christmas tree represent Christianity. Alot of people have Christmas trees but aren’t Christians.
The same goes for this “Finish The Drill” stuff….which alot of past former athletes attributed their success because they gave it their all. However by no means does it mean that any players today want to continue in that same tradition. Actually other than Murray…Green…Houston….Durham….I see no real guys on this team that stepped it up. I have been watching Georgia for the last 25 years….and this group stunk!!!!!!!!!!!! Coaches…players….and fans……all have themselves to blame for a subpar season. Id be interested to see our new slogan once FTD is retired….”THE DREAM TEAM”…..ROFL
juvenal
December 21st, 2010
4:05 pm
love seeing y’all happy just beating us(only 1 this decade by more than a touch’), don’t see many Techies on this…somebody check Sanford (over)Drive’s dorm room, make sure he’s okay, hope he’s found something better to do this break than blawg-wish him & all of y’all Merry Christmas, Peace on Earth(not, want a piece of me?)…
JB
December 21st, 2010
4:06 pm
Astropig………………..It will be time to go when Adams say’s it’s time. That man is powerful, and the Regents will not and do not step on his toes, Nor the Athletic board. Adams is the guy, and if it plays out as you laid out, Mark will be back in 2012. Adams IS the one and ONLY one to make the call. Now, if the Money starts going away, he’ll sit up and take notice, but winning 5,7, 8 games is fine with this guy.
Joey
December 21st, 2010
4:09 pm
“If we are going to stick with CMR I think McGarity needs to give him an extension through 2014. It’s the only way to sign a big class.”
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Hell yeah, and give him a big fat raise for losing 11 games in two seasons.
UGA Insider = Kathryn Richt
Zoomie
December 21st, 2010
4:11 pm
I hear ya’ ARDawg. Have to admit I was ready for Richt to go after that game. But then again, I was ready for him to go after the Alabama game last year.
With it being beyond question that Richt is back in 2011, I guess I’m just willing to sit back and give him an honest shot at pulling it together.
RxDawg
December 21st, 2010
4:13 pm
Found this on the ESPN blogs…made me laugh.
Cecil is trying to come up with ways to increase donations to his church. He stumbles on a book on hypnosis and decides to give it a try. The first Sunday, he says “You will each give a hundred dollars.” Sure enough, he takes up the offering and each person has given a hundred dollars. The following Sunday he does it again, and sure enough, everyone gives $100. The next week is Easter and he knows his church will be packed, so he decides to go for broke. Easter Sunday arrives — record crowd – 180 people show up. He gets up there and instructs them (under hypnosis) to each give $1000. Sure enough, they do. He’s busy collecting his $180,000 in the offering plates, but the weight of that much money makes him drop the plates and money scatters EVERYWHERE! He yells “Crap!”
(He spent the rest of the afternoon cleaning up the church).
takedowndawg
December 21st, 2010
4:15 pm
jb, I do believe that you are right regarding Adams. I think that he personally is well satisfied with 60% winning record for our DAWGS. He seems detached and uninvolved. He is more interested in the University’s acad. rating. Nothing wrong with that priority but where does the football program fall in his priorities? Does anyone know? Good question, jb.
Dead Horse
December 21st, 2010
4:17 pm
It’s Nick Fairley’s fault. If it weren’t for Nick, UGA would be heading to Glendale!
Dawg_Mike
December 21st, 2010
4:19 pm
I would cut Caleb King as a message to the other players.
bjohndawg
December 21st, 2010
4:23 pm
Based on this seasons record and outcome, one could wonder if he was ” doing something” the previous few months.
Right now I am like the state of Missouri…. its time to “Show me
something. And not doing anything is not what I want to hear.
I want to hear he is in a dungeon somewhere, working on some new Xs and Os.
He can recharge his batteries when he does his annual swimming pool backward flip.
Till then he should be focusing on getting his wife a nice Christmas present, landing top new talent, and righting the ship.
IMHO
RambleOn84
December 21st, 2010
4:23 pm
Richt probably needs to win 9 games to satisfy the fanbase.
I’m not sure I see it happening with AJ Green and Justin Houston headed to the NFL.
Aaron Murray is a heck of a QB, but will it be enough? I guess we’ll see.
82Dawg
December 21st, 2010
4:24 pm
Where is the report that King cannot play in the Bowl Game?
Joey
December 21st, 2010
4:24 pm
Think back to the weeks after UGA ripped Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl. Everybody thought it was a turning point in UGA’s football program. Evans and Adams doubled Richt’s pay. Got ranked #1 preseason ‘08 by every poll . . .
Who would ever believed then, that we would be where we are now?
GT
December 21st, 2010
4:24 pm
Why does the AJC even waste the money to pay writers to write the same stuff. Pull out last year’s or the year before last, replace the names with the raising seniors and you have these articles already written, and you can mail it in from home. I might add with the same results every year too. Seems to me Richt is not one of those coaches that lives in the office, and I think Georgia lets him get away with that while he is winning and he in return his players. You always hear of the hard working coach, maybe since these articles are so easy for the press to write, a little time could be spent comparing what other men do that make one million dollars or above a year. I think you would be surprised that most of them have a workload much more stringent than than college coaching. I think most men of accomplishment cannot stay away from their jobs either. It is a disease. Not good for the health but neither is being a soldier or many other occupations that make far less. No the real coach is not a great family man or church organizer, no more than a Ted Turner or Donald Trump is. They are freaks paid a lot of money to be freaks. The only place they feel normal is in their own empires, control freaks. I don’t see any of this in Richt, may have been there and gone, but I am thinking it is not there now. Richt may get to heaven before anybody in the SEC but it is going to be hell on earth.
Macclenny_dawg
December 21st, 2010
4:27 pm
If Richt does not win the SEC he should be gone next year PERIOD!!! South Carolina should be our toughest test. Florida bringing in a new coach and new system if we can’t beat them next year, it will never happen!!!Tennessee will be much improved but they are a little further away than we are!!! Auburn losing Newton and starting a new qb should be a win. Mississippi state will be a good game but really Mississippi beating us 2 years in a row!!! Should never happen!!! There is no Lsu on the schedule and no Alabama!!! Unless we get to SEC championship game!!! So bottom line this is the easiest schedule we will have had or will have in a long time. But if we can’t beat the teams in Sec east the Florida’s , Tennessee or South Carolina we can never win anything. Like Richt said when he was hired 10 years ago I know why I was hired To BEAT FLORIDA. Well Richt even by what you said then YOU HAVE NOT DELIVERED!!! 1 MORE SEASON SEC CHAMPIONSHIP OR BYE BYE RICHT!!!
tony
December 21st, 2010
4:32 pm
Mr.Richt has turn that football program into a joke unfortunately this generation has excepted it. I’m glad I saw the dawgs win the 1980 National Championship because I doubt they will ever win one again.
Hit A Single
December 21st, 2010
4:35 pm
Ardawg – My head won’t fit in my azz like yours. I am sorry that Coach Richt didn’t offer your son. I agree that we have been soft on kids and not gotten the best out of their ability. But it is always easy to blame the coaches. Kind of like blaming your teacher for your failures.
GaCracker
December 21st, 2010
4:38 pm
Good news! Murray, great kickers, most of offensive line return. Bad news: Loss of Kris Durham and probably A.J. Green and Houston, plus very questionable defense and coordinator.
gdawginkalamazoo
December 21st, 2010
4:39 pm
I saw the headline and thought to myself…. “NO S H ! T” The only people who don’t want to put this season behind us are our opponents.
Delbert D.
December 21st, 2010
4:42 pm
If Ealey is the “2nd player” that Bill King mentioned, I’m changing my Sack Schultz pick to Florida Central or whatever they are called.
Hit A Single
December 21st, 2010
4:42 pm
Who would Smart hire as OC? Guess who Mike Bobo, and then you all would be mad at him. In 09 we are 8 and 5 and the game that cost us was the LSU game with the so called celebration penalty by Green. Only saw that called on one other school and that was Washington and this year we lose Green and have a young QB. We played with no heart, I guess that is coaches fault. The Florida game this year kind of set the tone for the year. Who would have expected Murray to play like he did. We forgot he was young. No excuses but truth is the truth. Bottom line is if Coach Richt doesn’t beat Florida next year he will be gone and all of you will be happy. And if we don’t get tougher on players that will happen.
We_Hit_and_Run_this_State
December 21st, 2010
4:42 pm
Gots me some new shoes and rubberbands on tha Impala……time to hit and run some mo’ fools!!
C.K.
Ted Striker
December 21st, 2010
4:43 pm
Nice read. You should come by the house and had a cocktail.
bjohndawg
December 21st, 2010
4:44 pm
Christmas reading gifts for
Mark Richt- Trickery 101-( Rick Leach) How to diagram trick plays in the pro offense set
Mark Richt- “You can gamble win outside Vegas”( by Pete Rose)- How a little risk now and then will not send you to hell.
Mike bobo—- “Do it till they drop”-( By Vince Lombardi) how to stay with what is successful until they can stop it…and then when they stop it…then you can change. PS- Bobo this is not a book about having kids, but a book about running till they stop the run or passing till they stop the pass. Read it…live it.
mike bobo- ‘ The wild dawg is like crack”( Mayor Barry) – How you can end the dependency.
Grantham- ” It’s Different then the NFL—-( Lee Corso) How to coach defense when you dont have unlimited size and speed.
Cam Newton “Smile on my face and head in the sand”- ( by Ron Mexico)- Denial is not a river in Egypt.
Dawg fans – “Wait till Next Year “- ( unnamed Cubs fan)- Actually I think I have read this one already
Delbert D.
December 21st, 2010
4:44 pm
Ah, yes…it’s Central Florida. It would be a better omen if they were Central Florida State.
Herschel Talker
December 21st, 2010
4:45 pm
Schultzie:
Can you please do a follow up to this column called “Dawg fans are looking forward to putting Richt’s tenure behind us”? Much appreciated.
HT
Hit A Single
December 21st, 2010
4:47 pm
Cam Newton – Poster Child for what is wrong with college athletics!
82Dawg
December 21st, 2010
4:48 pm
@Supes …You are reporting breaking news but it can’t be found in any news media outlet….please provide link to your news.
ARdawg
December 21st, 2010
4:50 pm
Zoomie
I hear ya. I actually go back father to that. 2007 and that rectal reaming at the hands of Fillup Phumer
cantondawg
December 21st, 2010
4:51 pm
Ardawg,
There’s nothing more annoying than someone trying to compare their job to CMR’s. I guarantee your piddly ass little job doesn’t carry 1/10th of the pressure that’s on him. If you were under the microscope like CMR i’m sure you would have been fired already.
ARdawg
December 21st, 2010
4:52 pm
Hershel Talker
We’re with ya guy really but, you’ve got him at least 1 more year. Can the whining about him being here for 1 more year at least wane until maybe next October?
Vain Jangling
December 21st, 2010
4:55 pm
Let’s see how all this adds up:
A.J. Green gone to the pros; plus
Mediocre running backs (yeah, the same two); but
Aaron Murray with a year under his belt; but, then again,
The distraction of blue chip Christian LeMay (wait and see); but, again,
An extremely favorable schedule; but there’s always
A defense that seemingly cannot stop the run; but don’t forget
The above average special teams play (barring early exits), but
That lack of on and off field discipline thing.
Drum roll please . . . . . .
2011 is the year the Dawgs should run the table> There, I said it. But . . . they’ll be lucky to slog through a 9-3 record. And that begs the question, can a winning coach get fired after going 9-3? Check back with me next December on that one.
Hit A Single
December 21st, 2010
4:56 pm
cantondawg – GREAT POST!
ARdawg
December 21st, 2010
4:56 pm
cantondawg
You really should be back out there pushing those microwave ovens and big screens. There is another difference in my job and Richt’s. The University of Georgia isn’t paying me 3 million a year for performance
5150 P.O.A.D.
December 21st, 2010
4:57 pm
Sounds like Richt is feeling like URBAN. I think Richt is in need of a long long Vacation. Richt needs to be totally focused on WINNING at UGA or he needs to retire.
Herschel Talker
December 21st, 2010
4:58 pm
ARdawg:
“We’re with ya guy really but, you’ve got him at least 1 more year.”
Why? Why do you have to give him one more year? Aren’t the disappointments of 2008, 2009, and 2010 enough? Why do we have to give him another year even though we know the ending will be the same? That will put us one year behind getting the problem fixed. And please learn how to spell “Herschel.”
HT
82Dawg
December 21st, 2010
4:59 pm
@5150 P.O.A.D. what about your coach?
ARdawg
December 21st, 2010
5:02 pm
Herschel
I didn’t give him another year. If it were up to me he would be gone now. Unfortunately that isn’t the case and I’ll guarantee you if he is gone next year it won’t be until December. I feel your pain dude. But the persistent moaning about it him won’t change anything. Trust me on that.
Hit a single.
Git yer head out of yer azz. How do you drink all that kool-aid like that anyway?
5150 P.O.A.D.
December 21st, 2010
5:03 pm
82 this article was about your coach. I have my coach sound he is happy for something to be over and really needs a break. Richt is wanting more and more time with his family. UGA football could suffer if he is not fully commited. Urban realized that this year. When will Richt realize the same thing?
Dawg'88
December 21st, 2010
5:04 pm
Ok Schultz…now remove your foot from your mouth and the bowling ball from your cranium and try to write something worth reading…Oh wait that’s not what makes your blog boring…its just you being you!
dawgster
December 21st, 2010
5:05 pm
Still no confirmation, officially, but it appears that King is not eligible for the bowl game…this may affect his decision on whether to return or not, but again nothing official that i can find, but it has been rumored for several days, but they were waiting for confirmation of grades and evidently some discussions with a professor…
82Dawg
December 21st, 2010
5:06 pm
POAD how do you know he wants more time with his family? If he wanted to get away from coaching he could walk.
82Dawg
December 21st, 2010
5:07 pm
@dawgster …where are you getting your info? Please don’t say inside source…
Snake Doc
December 21st, 2010
5:07 pm
Of course he’s ready to put his season behind hi. Problem will be what do we do after next season?
The Owl of Prophecy
December 21st, 2010
5:08 pm
“Dosta”…if King and Ealey can’t read, then the folks that admitted these underachievers in school should be fired. I haven’t seen anything special that either has done that would warrant bending the rules. Maybe this is the only type of player that CRG is capable of recruiting, and maybe it’s past time for him to be gone, too.
5150 P.O.A.D.
December 21st, 2010
5:09 pm
KING had to pass. He was in the Housing Degree Program. KING went to GAC. He has to be smart right? GAC the Church of Christ school wouldn’t just pass KING and get him to UGA with their Chruch of Christ President, Mr. Adams. How could this happen? Jan Kemp got UGA to FIX everything right?
Ed (The Original)
December 21st, 2010
5:09 pm
I keep reading a lot of comments about how 9 wins should bring Richt back next season. As far as I’m concerned, if he doesn’t beat UF next year, he should be gone. Period. Football is really about two things: 1. winning rivalry games; 2. conference championships. If you can’t do 1., then it is difficult to do 2. Even if you don’t do 1., but somehow accomplish 2. (as we did in ‘02 and ‘05), it diminishes the accomplishment and leaves a bad taste.
Richt is 2-8 against UF. If he falls to 2-9 next season, what more evidence do Georgia fans need that Richt is not the guy to turn this rivalry around? Ole Miss, Miss. St. and Auburn beat Florida at least half the time. If they can do it, there’s no reason Georgia can’t. Someone out there is a coach with the cajones to turn the series around for Georgia just like an audacious Spurrier once turned it around for UF. Georgia needs to be committed to finding that coach.
dawgster
December 21st, 2010
5:10 pm
@82Dawg…several sources and no not inside stuff, just things that have been posted on 247sports, and with Roddy from ugasports. com..again, i have nothing confirmed, but its been swirling for a few days, however, still not absolutely sure…
atlxmen
December 21st, 2010
5:10 pm
bosie st is not even in the same league as UGA. they will be crushed by uga next year. the teams in the sec will be the tough ones next year. no worries about richt winning 10 or so next year
82Dawg
December 21st, 2010
5:12 pm
@dawgster …then why post it if you can provide the facts?
Harry the Hat
December 21st, 2010
5:12 pm
Serious Dawg fans need to start organizing and demanding that Richt be fired. Otherwise, sports writers will be asking the same questions this time a year from now.
Richt represents mediocrity. Saban and Meyer represent excellence and championships. Richt simply isn’t in their class, nor will he ever be. Richt would have to be incredibly lucky to win the division, and the odds against him winning the SEC championship would be at least 50:1.
Those are the simple facts, and there’s no amount of enthusiasm or cheerleading or Top 5 recruiting classes that can get around it.
As they say in poker, “Read ‘em and weep.”
rincon dog
December 21st, 2010
5:12 pm
http://keepmarkricht.com
bdaamwag
December 21st, 2010
5:12 pm
We can always hire Cheez-it after Auburn goes under .500 next year and they can his a$$ for G-Malz. haha! yeah right!
The Owl of Prophecy
December 21st, 2010
5:13 pm
82Dawg…since when has anyone posted the facts on this blog, including the author?
gdawginkalamazoo
December 21st, 2010
5:14 pm
The following link has probably been posted before if so my apologies.
If you are a player at the college level it is nice to know that you might have a shot at the next level. And if you want that shot at the next level why would you want to play for coach Richt?
http://espn.go.com/blog/sec/post/_/id/18099/georgia-leads-way-with-pro-all-americans
He at least teaches the kids something good.
dawgster
December 21st, 2010
5:15 pm
Please..some of you that are saying King and Ealey can’t read or stuff like that, don’t start that kind of rumor…Just because a young man has problems with some classes from time to time shouldn’t be an opening for some to say things that are not true..These are kids that are putting alot of effort into athletics and academics..Trust me its not that easy, you really have to be disciplined with your time…Also, remember its not just the athletes that have problems with their stuidies either, its something that many students go thru…I hope for the best for King and others who might be in the same boat…go dawgs
McNabb
December 21st, 2010
5:16 pm
There were a lot of things for the dawgs to celebrate this year. Let’s see…
1. A drunken, whoring athletic director.
2. Twelve players arrested.
3. A player suspended for violating NCAA rules.
4. Winning the Fulmer Cup for the most players arrested.
5. Winning the title of #1 party school (i.e., the most drunken student body in the USA).
6. A sleazy assistant coach who razzes opposing players, unethical coaching conduct in violation of NCAA rules.
7. A super sleazy head coach who thinks he’s a saint, but recruits thug wannabes, gangbangers, and illiterate morons.
8. A 6-6 record despite having a team full of 4- and 5-star recruits.
Really something to be proud of!
And really sickening to decent people in this state.
gdawginkalamazoo
December 21st, 2010
5:16 pm
How about luring Mack Brown away from Texas after their bowl game. I mean he has had top 5 recruting classes for the past 10 years solid. The man can coach. So after the Texas bowl game I say go to Austin and pay him a visit.
rincon dog
December 21st, 2010
5:18 pm
gdawginkalamazoo
According to georgia dogs.com yesterday there was 34 former bulldogs that played in the nfl games this week If we put so much talent in the nfl why do we not have any NC s?
atlxmen
December 21st, 2010
5:19 pm
he starts winning big again next year as the cycle is going up. we have the players and coaches. a good sign the program is in trouble is by watching the recruiting classes. when uga is still in the top15 -10 all is good.
ARdawg
December 21st, 2010
5:20 pm
zoodawg
You’ve always struck me as a good guy on the blog but, I gotta ask. What does that article have to do with the price of cow turds in Texas? We’re 6-6 and headed to the Liberty Bowl. BTW I do have my tickets
ARdawg
December 21st, 2010
5:21 pm
dawgster
Right on!!
Gawd knows I wasn’t perfect
atlxmen
December 21st, 2010
5:21 pm
most of them are leaving early and uga had a few times where they needed a team team to win and they didnt to get us in the title game. 2 times that if uga played in the National title game under richt they would have won. just didnt work out that way. but now its pretty much a givin that if you win the sec you are in the NC game.
Can it be true?
December 21st, 2010
5:22 pm
We’ve lowered our expectations. We are fine with 9 wins now????? How about SEC East, then SEC champs and then National?
atlxmen
December 21st, 2010
5:25 pm
mack brown would be just like having coach richt…no need to change
Ed (The Original)
December 21st, 2010
5:26 pm
If somehow UCF hands the Dawgs a butt whipping in the bowl game, does anyone see a remote chance that Richt could be gone this season? I’m guessing no, but one can dream.
And no, I’m not actually pulling against UGA in the bowl game. But I wouldn’t cry over a loss in a meaningless game against a non-rival that will only determine whether Georgia is a 6-loss underachiever or a 7-loss underachiever, either.
gdawginkalamazoo
December 21st, 2010
5:27 pm
rincon dog, with the success of Auburn this year it is evident that we don’t pay our players enough.
Joking aside that NC isn’t automatic with the so called talent. Look at USCal this decade all that talent and they have 1 NC. And I would say that their talent level was NFL caliber for most of this decade. I think programs will have ups and down and Richt has had his share of ups this decade, better for UGA than the previous 20 years. A couple of down years with that defense hurting the past 3 years. I think he made the right move there with Grantham. Thing is everybody wants it this year, right now, and we all know a little luck is involved (ask Les Miles). Ask Makc Brown why they didn’t get back to the title game. I think Richt will turn it around with this class coming in I don;t think redshirting the real talent will ever happen again under Richt or with Grantham. They need to win.
JB
December 21st, 2010
5:29 pm
Ed at 5:09…… Great post…..It’s sickens me to see Dawg fans gitty about being pre season in some pre season poll. It makes be sad to talk about maybe beating Carolina or Miss. St. next year….and someone posted earlier when going down the schedule next year, “Well, Kentucky is Kentucky, That will be tough”…. Give me a break. We are standing in the rain waiting on the bus! Ed said it right. With the money and D1 talent in this State, we should be in the Hunt for the SEC title every year. Mark is weak and has a weak staff. Grow a pair like Bama did and go find us a coach !
gdawginkalamazoo
December 21st, 2010
5:30 pm
ARdawg, it has nothing to do with Texas other than people want Richt to see fired and get a new coach in there. If you are looking at “top” coaches who are successful how about Mack Brown just to throw a name out there. And look at the season they had. What do you do? Who knows?
Have fun at the game for me and thanks for still supporting the kids, they deserve it.
rincon dog
December 21st, 2010
5:32 pm
well you have a point but usc had two tittles. we should have been there in 02,05,08. Yeah 07 was a good team but they were young. I will support the staff this off season but if they lose to florida again i am done with them for good.
JB
December 21st, 2010
5:32 pm
Mack had them in the title game last year…we haven’t sniffed that game since 1980…. Texas will be back before us if we stay the course in Athens……
JB
December 21st, 2010
5:34 pm
Rincon dog….Muschamp will have Florida so jacked up next year for us they will have to remodel that locker room. He KNOWS he can’t lose to Georgia
gdawginkalamazoo
December 21st, 2010
5:35 pm
rincon dog, in this era of the BCS only that crystal ball trophy counts IMO. Yes I agree got to start beating those gators again.
JB, we have sniffed it a couple of times under Richt. The back end of it but that’s what dogs do.
rincon dog
December 21st, 2010
5:36 pm
Oh I know brother. check it out
http://keepmarkricht.com
gdawginkalamazoo
December 21st, 2010
5:37 pm
JB, he had Texas jacked up for seven losses this year too. I bet that locker room after the Iowa State game was tore up good.
rincon dog
December 21st, 2010
5:38 pm
there losses came from the offense putting them in bad situations.
JB
December 21st, 2010
5:39 pm
Our new coach will be. 1. Southern 2. More than likely an Assit somewhere. ( good enough for Foley he;ll figure) 3. Will clean house. Not one coach will be retained. 4.My feeling no current head coach who’s already made a name will take the job due to Mark’s success. McGarity knows ONE THING. You gotta beat Florida to make it to the Dome. You have a team that can do that, it all falls into place.
ARdawg
December 21st, 2010
5:41 pm
Original Ed
No my friend I do not think a Liberty Bowl loss would make that difference. It’s kind of like when you are already “in” the gutter, how much farther can you go? Nice try at an attempt to spread some hope though.
I’m with you though guy, about this talk on maybe beating Carolina, Miss St, thats Bvllsh!t! The Dawg fans I know, KNOW we are beating them
ARdawg
December 21st, 2010
5:44 pm
Off topic as h3ll but you know, if Mark Cuban can pull off a 12-16 team playoff, there could reasonably 4-5 SEC teams qualifying every year. That wouldn’t sit well would it?
The Owl of Prophecy
December 21st, 2010
5:44 pm
While I like Richt the human being, I became disgusted with Richt the coach after the ‘08 season, and I haven’t seen anything since to make me change my mind. Give him one more year to turn things around and if he does…great! But, if he doesn’t, fire him and let him forfeit the balance of his salary. Maybe Al Davis was right in doing this with Lame Kiffen.
Headley Lamar
December 21st, 2010
5:46 pm
Mack had them in the title game last year…we haven’t sniffed that game since 1980…
Sure we have. In 2002 and 2007 we were right there. All we needed was for Ohio St or Miami to lose in 02 ( Both came incredibly close to losing multiple times down the stretch) and in 07 if Tennessee doesn’t win out ( They got incredibly lucky to do so ) we play LSU for the SEC title and then for the National title. Nobody can convince me we weren’t the best team in the country in 2007 when two loss LSU won it.
rincon dog
December 21st, 2010
5:47 pm
All I have to say is after a 40 minute practice you let the guys play grass basketball? shouldnt you be trying to figure out if you have a true noseguard for next season, or practicing for the bowl game?
D Fence
December 21st, 2010
5:47 pm
D-U-C-K-S Ducks Ducks Ducks…..For the sake of all of us here in the South – shut these Aubies up. Give them a rope and they all of a sudden think they are a cowboy.
Big G
December 21st, 2010
5:55 pm
I will repeat myself. uga consistently recruits top 10 -20 classes and should be challenging for the division title each and every year. Richt isn’t getting it done guys. Your program headed south the day Van Gorder left. He had fire in his belly.
ARdawg
December 21st, 2010
5:55 pm
d fence
as much as I think the AU nation has their collective heads up their azzes, I would not and can not cheer for the Ducks against the SEC. Just the way I’m built
Gratefuldawghead
December 21st, 2010
5:56 pm
Wanted 11 JUCO Defensive players that can run a 3-4 Defense.
JB
December 21st, 2010
5:58 pm
AU wins that game…and Title…….And the Cam thing dies. It’s over…..If there was obvious evidence, it would be out. Game over. AU has their title……And I much as I hate to say it, they looked damn good this year.
JB
December 21st, 2010
6:01 pm
I wish Mark would put in 8-10 plays out of the spread for this kid coming in from Wilcox County. He IS a stud, running, throwing….Snap it to him, roll him out , and get out of his way………..But I sure would miss the RB Delay draw from the shotgun on 3rd and 8 that always gets 2, 3 yards.
Dogfish
December 21st, 2010
6:02 pm
Someone said give Richt a contract extension to preserve a solid recruiting class.
That was a joke, right??
JB
December 21st, 2010
6:04 pm
Yea dogfish, Bama was going to do the same with Shula…. Just 3,4 more years, we’ll get this puppy turned around……
Kirby Smart
December 21st, 2010
6:05 pm
JB,
Me be the next head coach at UGA? You kidding? I’ld rather be an assistant at Bammer than be a head coach at UGA where you will always be florida’s beyotch. Good grief after AU wins the title UGA will be the only one of the SEC’s 6 biggest programs to have never won a national title either in the BCS era or since the inception of the 2 division format. You guys are down there with the Vandys of the world. Have fun in the prestigious Liberty Bowl.
JB
December 21st, 2010
6:06 pm
6:05 post from a “successful” Tech Alum Trolling on here…LOL
JB
December 21st, 2010
6:08 pm
Mark is 9-1 vs Tech, we got that going for us, but looking at them this year….and next, that’s nothing to brag about. They have become a “schedule filler’ for us and the ACC elite.
Mike Shula
December 21st, 2010
6:09 pm
Yep. The Bammers fired me. At least those podunks to the west know when someone just aint got what it takes to reach the mountain top. At least they ponied up and did something about it in a big sorta way. What does UGA do? Give a guy who has lost 8 of 10 to Florida and finished back to back 8-5 and 6-6 so far yet another break. This program aint gonna be winning no sec much less national titles any time soon.
UGA? You've got to be kidding
December 21st, 2010
6:09 pm
A show of hands please……all fans who’s team has won a football national championship in the last quarter century…….
Dr Morpheus
December 21st, 2010
6:12 pm
Our last chance to salvage the season died in Jacksonville. Maybe next year….
Supes
December 21st, 2010
6:14 pm
Provide proof of King’s eligibility issues?
Are you serious? Like I said…it was mentioned on 680thefan during the Chuck/Chernoff show as a part of their “sports blast”…so take it for what it is. Why would they report something that wasn’t true or they had no knowledge of…it seems like a trust worthy source and given with internet “rumors” I take it for what it is.
The bigger question is….why do we keep recruiting guys who can’t pass their classes?
JB
December 21st, 2010
6:15 pm
Five best things about being a Georgia Tech football fan. 1. plentiful, cheap seats.2 . Mostly all noon games, as to get home in time to see real football.3. Playing at noon, less chance of being robbed or mugged.4. Free coke and hot dogs.5. always on time to watch warmups due to not waiting on a woman…….bout sums it up……
Hit A Single
December 21st, 2010
6:20 pm
Breaking News – ARdawg’s son was not offered a scholarship and he was only asking $50,000 for his son’s services. Dawgs turned him away and said to go west.
Jeff Schultz
December 21st, 2010
6:21 pm
ARdawg — Don’t know how so many fans seem to think Mark and I have a problem in relationship, but it’s been a source of amusement. As for CMR, I’ve been on record saying he deserves another year. We’ll see what he does with it. Thanks and happy holidays.
Coach Johnson
December 21st, 2010
6:22 pm
I’m glad that I don’t have to put up with the crap that the AJC writers dish on Richt! I can lose as much as I can stomach and those guys don’t have the nerve to say anything about my program! I would just punch them in the mouth and they know it!
kybodawg
December 21st, 2010
6:23 pm
the biggest problem i see is players leaving early that could improve their draft next year with a decent season. you may have two kickers leave early in one year but two on one team. sounds like rats leaving a sinking ship.
MATHDAWG
December 21st, 2010
6:23 pm
I saw today where Bobo was making $336,000 per year. I puked, then I puked some more.
Jeff Schultz
December 21st, 2010
6:25 pm
Dawg ‘88 — Wow, you waited in line just to get that in? You must have a busy day ahead of you. Happy holidays.
Hud
December 21st, 2010
6:30 pm
If Coach Richt really wants to determine what’s wrong with his football program he should look in a mirror. He has settled into a comfortable “wait until next year” rut. He’ll coast from here on until the school cuts him loose. I too was a fan, but not anymore.
Jeff Schultz
December 21st, 2010
6:31 pm
To Supes (and others) asking about Caleb King: I write this only because there’s a report out there and you asked: 1) There’s been rumors for days about the possibility he won’t be eligible; 2) Richt was asked about him today and declined comment on any player’s eligibility at this time (either because there’s an appeals process or because he just didn’t want to address it until the team goes to Memphis; 3) There is a publication, the Columbus Ledger, reporting that Caleb is ineligible. I don’t know the reporter’s source. All I can tell you is that every media outlet has different sourcing policies and the AJC’s is stricter than most. At this time, the school has not made an announcement and sufficient sources haven’t confirmed/reported the story to the AJC. That’s about all I can say on that. I hope that clarifies the situation.
WAR CAM EAGLE
December 21st, 2010
6:32 pm
D A Double U G:
“remember a VERY VERY short time ago when Auburn didn;t not even qualify for a bowl”
Yeah, I remember a VERY VERY short time ago when Georgia was good!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH
HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
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North Carolina Dawg Lover
December 21st, 2010
6:32 pm
Bye Bye 2010 – Full Steam Ahead 2011.
Even though the team this year had a lot of losses, you have to admit (if you are truly a Dawg Lover), You never quit pulling for them. I got excited and never lost interest even when we lost. GA has great potential for 2011 and as far as Coach Richt goes..I think he is going to turn the team back into the power house of old. Go Dawgs and don’t worry Win or Lose My friends in NC know that Georgia is the Big Dawg.
Hit A Single
December 21st, 2010
6:33 pm
Hud – If you are a true fan, you don’t turn it on and turn it off. Maybe you really weren’t a fan at one time. Not trying to be a smart butt, but a fan does not turn on his team. I have disagreed with many things with the program but I will never turn on them.
Hit A Single
December 21st, 2010
6:35 pm
Great Post NC Dawg Lover! A true Dawg fan will be there and all these other critics can sit home with their computer and complain and complain. It is great to be a UGA Dawg.
WhineWhineWhine
December 21st, 2010
6:37 pm
After Thuga loses to Central Florida, what will happen?
A) The Thuga Nation will fire up the FireMarkRicht.com site
B) The Thuga Nation will fire up the FireBobo.com site
C) The Thuga Nation will blame the refs.
D) The Thuga Nation will blame Nick Fairley
E) The Thuga Natioin will blame Cam Newton
F) The Thuga Nation will get out the tapes of the Herschel Glory year.
G) The Thuga Nation will get out the tape of the Idaho State replay of the signature win of the year.
H) The Thuga Nation will wonder why they are not ranked in the top 5 for pre-season 2011
I) All of the Above
Answer……I
Big D Nerd
December 21st, 2010
6:38 pm
Supes:
“The bigger question is….why do we keep recruiting guys who can’t pass their classes”?
a….. why don’t you be askin them ursef.
Irrelevant team
December 21st, 2010
6:40 pm
UGA has been an irrelevant team for how many years now? The last time they were on any-body’s radar was in the 2008 pre-season poll where they were ranked #1, and wound up with 3 loses. So, I guess the 2007 season was really the last time UGA had an notoriety. Oh wait, my bad; they didn’t win the SEC Championship Game; Wait another minute, they didn’t even win the SEC East, meaning no BCS game either. CMR had a team full of talent and they under achieved. They have top 5 recruiting classes year after year and yet the program continues on a downward spiral.
I truly hope UGA can turn it around and become relevant again. The DAWGS were one of the storied programs when I was growing up along with USC, Mich, Ohio State, ND, PSU, Okla U, The U, etc. All of these programs have gone through tough times, but every program made changes when winning seasons weren’t just good enough (except for PSU of course w/ JoePa).
Hit A Single
December 21st, 2010
6:41 pm
WhineWhineWhine – You are on the wrong blog! It takes a whiner to know a whiner.
6-6 and headed to Memphis
December 21st, 2010
6:42 pm
UGA has now joined the likes of Ole Miss and Vandy.
Nick Fairley scares dawg fans
December 21st, 2010
6:43 pm
Hey Dawgs,
remember me? I’m the one that hurt many SEC quarterbacks this year.
WOOF WOOF BOOO!
Hit A Single
December 21st, 2010
6:45 pm
Yea it paid off for ND, Mich, and the U. Okla has suffered a couple of tough seasons under Stoops, and Ohio State is the most overrated team in the country. For years they had to worry about one team and today they have to worry about only one team, Wisconsin that replaced Michigan. Come up with better proof Irrelevant team.
Nick Fairley scares dawg fans
December 21st, 2010
6:46 pm
“Cam Newton – Poster Child for what is wrong with college athletics!”
Gotta love idiotic UGA fans. Especially those who ignore the fact that half their team was arrested this year.
Cam’s playing, and will win, the national title while dawg fans cry in their trailer parks.
insider
December 21st, 2010
6:47 pm
C King is the ultimate “me” player ever since pound ball, junior high ball, Columbia hs ball, Parkview hs ball, Texas hs ball, Greater Atlanta Christian hs ball, uga ball. Look forward to seeing him at Ga Southern/Valdosta State soon and then on some nfl scout team for a few years and then coaching pound ball. I still remember the article at the AJC that said “Is Caleb King The Next Hershel Walker”? Hahahaha.
Nick Fairley scares dawg fans
December 21st, 2010
6:47 pm
“D-U-C-K-S Ducks Ducks Ducks…..For the sake of all of us here in the South – shut these Aubies up.”
Nothing like delusional dawg fans living vicariously through other fans! First you were dawgs, then bammers, then c0cks and now ducks.
WAR EAGLE, loser.
Nick Fairley scares dawg fans
December 21st, 2010
6:48 pm
“We can always hire Cheez-it after Auburn goes under .500 next year and they can his a$$ for G-Malz. haha! yeah right!”
Another idiotic dawg prediction. Hey, weren’t you idiots supposed to go undefeated in 08?
Nick Fairley scares dawg fans
December 21st, 2010
6:49 pm
“AU wins that game…and Title…….And the Cam thing dies. It’s over…..If there was obvious evidence, it would be out. Game over. AU has their title……And I much as I hate to say it, they looked damn good this year.”
Yep, and dawg fans will call up Mulder and Sculley to open up an X-Files case to get to the bottom of this case.
Nick Fairley scares dawg fans
December 21st, 2010
6:51 pm
“Good grief after AU wins the title UGA will be the only one of the SEC’s 6 biggest programs to have never won a national title either in the BCS era”
Amen to that. The SEC West will have three teams with a title and the SEC East, two.
82Dawg
December 21st, 2010
7:00 pm
Hey Jeff if you are still on here hope you have a great Christmas
Jeff Schultz
December 21st, 2010
7:04 pm
82Dawg — Checking in. Thanks, back atcha.
Supes
December 21st, 2010
7:11 pm
Jeff,
thanks for clearing the C. King issue up for us, as far as what you know and what the AJC stand on the issue is at the moment.
I have to say for all the hype that he came in…King has been a disappointment..
Auburn The Dump of The South
December 21st, 2010
7:22 pm
Nick Fairley scares dawg fans
Wow already won the title and havent played the game yet
I guess you toothless folks from Auburn AL have never heard of upsets or teams that should have won that did not
Auburn The Dump of The South
December 21st, 2010
7:24 pm
Yea that makes sense,
you just went from radio to black and white TV with rabbit ears
No wonder why you have such high expectations
bamaguy
December 21st, 2010
7:29 pm
RIcht can’t compete with Chizik, Miles and Saban. Looks like Muschamp, Dooley and Mullen will pass him by as well. Coach RIcht is a fine man, but he needs to go to the ACC or Big East where he can be successful.
He didn’t get worse over the last few years, the other SEC schools just hired head coaches that are much better.
Surprised
December 21st, 2010
7:41 pm
bamaguy has his chest all pumped out. He’s already forgotten the ‘Shula years’ when Bama couldn’t knock off a AA high school team.
82Dawg
December 21st, 2010
7:43 pm
@Surprised …to funny, just like all of the Auburn fans today.
insider
December 21st, 2010
7:43 pm
insider
December 21st, 2010
6:47 pm
C King is the ultimate “me” player ever since pound ball, junior high ball, Columbia hs ball, Parkview hs ball, Texas hs ball, Greater Atlanta Christian hs ball, uga ball. Look forward to seeing him at Ga Southern/Valdosta State soon and then on some nfl scout team for a few years and then coaching pound ball. I still remember the article at the AJC that said “Is Caleb King The Next Hershel Walker”? Hahahaha.
Nick Fairley scares dawg fans
December 21st, 2010
7:47 pm
“I guess you toothless folks from Auburn AL have never heard of upsets or teams that should have won that did not”
Guess you inbred pedophile dawg fans are still upset about being equal to Vandy in football.
Look on the bright side loser, at least your team lead college football in players arrested.
WOOF WOOF, 6-6er!
Nick Fairley scares dawg fans
December 21st, 2010
7:48 pm
“you just went from radio to black and white TV with rabbit ears”
No, we don’t live in your trailer park, loser.
KeepDreaming
December 21st, 2010
7:48 pm
Nice piece Jeff, I actually enjoyed reading one of yours…i think you hit all points on the head.
Let's Talk About UGA!
December 21st, 2010
7:48 pm
DawgNation,
I’m sitting here on the ‘potty’ in Mama’s trailer doing the WiFi thing.
What does UGA’s 2011 season and what’s coming out of my butt have in common? They both belong in the toilet.
Sorry I haven’t chatted lately but I’ve been locked up.
Anybody want a beer?
Go Dawgs!
Sic ‘em!
Woof! Woof! Woof!
Nick Fairley scares dawg fans
December 21st, 2010
7:49 pm
“RIcht can’t compete with Chizik, Miles and Saban. ”
So now a bama fan recognizes Chizik as a good coach. Hell hath frozen over.
Nick Fairley scares dawg fans
December 21st, 2010
7:49 pm
Let’s Talk About UGA!
So glad to see you finally showed up!
Nick Fairley scares dawg fans
December 21st, 2010
7:50 pm
“to funny, just like all of the Auburn fans today.’
Not as funny as knowing UGA will be playing in the fattest city in America for a bowl. LOL
Ole Yeller Dawg
December 21st, 2010
7:51 pm
bamaguy; You hit the nail right on the head! If Lane Kiffin had kept the HC job at Tennessee, Richt would be gone today! Kiffin was applying extreme pressure on Richt with recruiting and work habits.
I doubt you will ever hear Coach Saban state he would rather be home, with noting to do, than to be on the job coaching football! Football to Saban is like a fluorescent light to a moth.
Better, more intense coaching has surrounded UGA!
bamaguy
December 21st, 2010
7:52 pm
Naw, the temperature just dropped a few degrees. Remember, Miles is still in that list. (Besides, polite southerners always list themselves last).
And to be honest, I was one of those “What the H*ll is Auburn thinking” folks when Tubberville was replaced with Chizik. Obviously somebody in the AU Athletic Department knew something the rest of us didn’t
Let's Talk About UGA!
December 21st, 2010
7:58 pm
Well,
Quite frankly, for the past eight days I’ve been Irvin’s beyoch.
He was my cell mate and I kept hoping he would shave.
There is nothing like whiskers grinding on the back of your neck.
He thought my big ‘G’ tattoo was sexy.
Anybody want a beer?
Go Dawgs!
Sic ‘em!
Woof! Woof! Woof!
Northleaf
December 21st, 2010
8:22 pm
dawgit…and it shows.
North Georgia Dawg
December 21st, 2010
8:25 pm
Chizik isn’t a good coach! mediocre at best! A nutless monkey could coach Scam Newton to win footbal games. You Auburn fans kill me! You guys need to watch ESPN 30 for 30 and pay close attention to what happened to SMU. The Cam Newton deal is just the tip of the iceberg and just because the NCAA ruled him eligable doesn’t mean you’re in the clear. Your football program is just one Federal Indictment away from playing football in the Southern Conference rather than the South Eastern Conference. Book It!
North Georgia Dawg
December 21st, 2010
8:31 pm
Kiffin really? No – I disagree with that. He’s another scam artist. Tennessee needs to thank their lucky f’n stars that he went back home. Kiffin and Orgeron were months away from having UT in such deep pooh it’s not even funny. Rumor around here is that the bidding for Scam Newton started with Kiffin at $150K no lie! Why do you think Brice Brown left?
DAWG07
December 21st, 2010
8:55 pm
Maybe the appropriate action would be for the UGA coaches to return at least 50% of their salary. Didn’t see anyone that really stood out.
But then I could say samething about the Alabama and Flordia. Both greatly underperformed. Alabama great expections and potentially better in 10 than in 09. Maybe Saban should give back 90%.
SugarHillDawg
December 21st, 2010
9:23 pm
And I’m looking forward to putting Richt behind Georgia.We are headed for another sub par season BANK ON IT!!!
Hit A Single
December 21st, 2010
9:57 pm
Nick Fairley doesn’t scare anybody and is it true that he is paid to sing in the choir at Cecil Newton’s Church? Like I said I hope he gets to the NFL so Hines Ward can put a helmet in his back.
oakwood dawg
December 21st, 2010
10:12 pm
Nick Fairie you best be scared next year. No Nick Fairley, no Cam Newton, a high school coach and a team that at best will win only 6 games. The great times at Albarn are over and we will kick you a$$ all the way back to Toomers Corner and the ugliest village on the plain.
Buford T. Pusser
December 21st, 2010
10:28 pm
The Problem is not CMR. The problem is a delusional fan base that actually believes that the thUGA program is relevant on the national scene. It’s been 30 years since your ONLY national championship. You are nothing but an afterthought in the mind of pollsters.
Please try to expand your circle of influence outside of your co-workers at the poultry plant and neighbors at the trailer park; otherwise, you will be disappointed at your constant attempts to live vicariously through a bunch of teen-agers.
The Sheriff has spoken
Ole Yeller Dawg
December 21st, 2010
10:31 pm
North Georgia Dawg: Brice Brown transfered because he lost his paycheck, when Kiffin left for USC. That’s exactly my point! I don’t believe that Georgia runs a corrupt program, I may be wrong but I think Richt is fairly straight up as far as I can tell. I do wonder about the Lemay kid with his dad being a pastor of his own church. (red flag)
With the Cam Newton saga this year at Auburn, it leads me to believe that the NCAA does not care if a kid is being paid, as long as the NCAA is making money and as long as they can keep it from becoming public knowledge, so as not to risk damage to the ability for the NCAA to earn big bucks, they will turn their head the other way.
Reggie Bush would have never been outed by the NCAA, if it were not for the civil suit filed against Bush, by an agent who was just trying to get his money back. Since it became public knowledge in a public court of law, the NCAA had no other choice but to put USC on probation! College football would not have so many fans and would not be making record revenue if the public found out that the collegiate athlete’s were actually being paid and not just playing the sport for the love of the game.
Willy
December 21st, 2010
10:32 pm
If Jeff Schultz wrote a Pulitzer-prize winning article in the forest and no one read it…..
Epaminondas
December 21st, 2010
10:40 pm
He’ll end up 2011 a mediocre 7-5 or 8-4 and that will be the end of the line for CMR. 2008 was a huge letdown, but having that followed by mediocre seasons in ‘09 and ‘10 was really crushing. One more of those and the fat lady sings.
JRW7
December 21st, 2010
10:47 pm
No commitments for UGA DAWGS in 4months and 2 weeks, DAWGS recruiting is in big time trouble. And CMR says today he is going on vacation till bowl game!
Rod
December 21st, 2010
10:48 pm
Let’s be real, a segment of the Tech fan base and a segment of the AJC wanted CMR out this year. NOT the UGA fan base, well not the fan base that pays the bills anyway. Jeff, is this just a regurgitated article from before last Christmas or the one before that?
Wagtheworld.com » Richt looking forward to putting Dogs’ season behind him – Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
December 21st, 2010
11:03 pm
[...] Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog) [...]
Preston
December 21st, 2010
11:04 pm
Anyone find it obvious that a 6-6 season is “a season to forget” for UGA, but not for tech. Just clarifying…LMFAO!!! This front page article shows what’s expected from each school.
rincon dog
December 21st, 2010
11:05 pm
JRw7
not trying to be rude but this is a two week dead period in recruiting. we are not allowed to pursue them. but i do agree we are in trouble.
Preston
December 21st, 2010
11:10 pm
JRW7, don’t get too excited about your hatred for UGA and it’s recruiting because they’ve probably got a few gems that have already committed to the coaches silently but are waiting until signing day to make it public. Recruiting will never be a problem at UGA.
Covers Dixie like the Dew
December 21st, 2010
11:26 pm
Does #24 University of Central Florida, Conference USA Champions, with a 10-3 record, coached by George O’Leary,
have a fighting chance against the 6-6, (3-5 SEC), Georgia Bulldogs ?
Apostle
December 21st, 2010
11:29 pm
A positive sign for CMR would be no off the field problems during the off season.I am very concerned about the recruiting class of 2011.I am afraid it may be lacking any impact players.I am expecting at least an 8-4 or better record next year.If not,it will be time for a change at the top.
Covers Dixie like the Dew
December 21st, 2010
11:32 pm
8-4 ,
National Champs is more like it.
Apostle
December 21st, 2010
11:36 pm
National Champs? I am a realistic DAWGS fan.It would take a miracle for that to happen.Wishful thinking on your part Dew.I’m still not convinced the defense will be any better next year.
Covers Dixie like the Dew
December 21st, 2010
11:40 pm
Tell that story to the War Eagles down at Toomers Corner,
who were 8-5 last year.
Covers Dixie like the Dew
December 21st, 2010
11:43 pm
I know one thing,
the Dawgs better come back from Memphis with a 7-6 record.
NOBODYYOUKNOW
December 21st, 2010
11:45 pm
Its WAY too early to be placing any team in a poll. UGA just don’t excite me for next season. I would like to see them do well but who the hell knows. And Tech??????????????? CPJ is so sneaky he may pull something out of the hat for next season. Like taking another coaching job somewhere else. I wish they would get some mediocre classes so they too could recruit some big mean dumbasses.
Covers Dixie like the Dew
December 21st, 2010
11:50 pm
There is one very stable part of Georgia Tech,
Under Paul Johnson, GT will always have a POWERFUL RUSHING attack.
Still in Jail
December 22nd, 2010
1:36 am
Could one of my beloved Dawg fans please come to Auburn and get me out of jail? I sacrificed my Thanksgiving by setting fire to Toomer’s corner after my Dawgs got their butt’s kicked by Auburn, and I don’t want to miss Christmas at the trailer park in Athens. And these red panties that Damon gave me are getting dirty. Go Dawgs Woof Woof Woof!!!!
Vince The Prince
December 22nd, 2010
1:39 am
To the Bulldog Nation:
Its time to quit whining about that beatdown in Auburn. We’ve got to rally the troops against that mighty Central Florida team. Otherwise, our signature win will be against Idaho State.
Also, has anyone seen Barbara? She left the house last Friday wearing red panties mumbling something about meeting Herschel……
Yellow Fuzz likes this
December 22nd, 2010
3:31 am
WhineWhineWhine
December 21st, 2010
6:37 pm
After Thuga loses to Central Florida, what will happen?
A) The Thuga Nation will fire up the FireMarkRicht.com site
B) The Thuga Nation will fire up the FireBobo.com site
C) The Thuga Nation will blame the refs.
D) The Thuga Nation will blame Nick Fairley
E) The Thuga Natioin will blame Cam Newton
F) The Thuga Nation will get out the tapes of the Herschel Glory year.
G) The Thuga Nation will get out the tape of the Idaho State replay of the signature win of the year.
H) The Thuga Nation will wonder why they are not ranked in the top 5 for pre-season 2011
I) All of the Above
Answer……I
59bulldawg
December 22nd, 2010
4:59 am
DawginLex at 2:52. Man you are absolutely right on the money.
Fan
December 22nd, 2010
7:01 am
UGA/CMR need to look at having more diversity on the team? More diversity less off field issues? Look at the top programs around the country..
tdog
December 22nd, 2010
7:05 am
It May be a season to forget, but look for the same thing next year.
» SEC: Tennessee basketball is free falling John Clay’s Sidelines
December 22nd, 2010
7:14 am
[...] Mark Richt looking forward to putting this Georgia season behind him, writes Jeff Schultz of the AJC. [...]
Buckeye
December 22nd, 2010
7:17 am
Enjoy the Liberty Bowl, thUGA!
Richt is down to these areas .... for his UGA career
December 22nd, 2010
7:40 am
UGA AD Greg McGarity will be judging Richt on these issues:
Bowl game. Richt needs a win. Is this his last bowl game?
Recruiting. Richt must sign some big boy D linemen AND two great running backs. He needs to own the state of Ga. with recruits and the needed recruits.
Off season in conditioning and academics.
G Day game and will any new stars emerge …………….like Marlon Brown.
Summer time …………………….no arrests are too many.
The Boise State game and the resulting season. 10-2? Cap One must be the min bowl for UGA or the SEC East. THAT would solidify Richt’s future. Only that, not some 7-5 crapola year.
Richt has to excell in these areas or he is gone. Two years too late for my money.
UGA class of 71 & 73
NoFKNdog
December 22nd, 2010
7:56 am
It goes something like this, all of you self stated dog nation and so called dog fans:
The dogs can have the best coaches, recruit and sign the best players, beat Georgia Tech and win every game played, win the sec championship and national championship, have the best facilities, have sell outs for every game, have the games broadcast every week, have everyone but one wear fuga gear, have the g plastered on every car, house, etc., have barking become a new communication tool, and anything else to be the greatest every year, until the world ends.
But as you all realize/know, the greatest trait of anything associated with uga, which specifically includes any and all dog fans, is that all of you SUCK big time and will until the world ends. It makes no difference what you say nor how you attempt to deny it. So, SUCK on.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!
The secret of their (lack of) success? | Get The Picture
December 22nd, 2010
8:16 am
[...] I think it’s pretty much a given that a 6-6 regular season showing after being ranked in the preseason qualifies as underachieving, so it’s not like I need independent validation to know that Georgia’s 2010 season stunk on ice. (On that point I’m not alone.) [...]
superDawg
December 22nd, 2010
8:19 am
I can’t see UGA having a better season next year. How would we be ranked already?
Moonpie
December 22nd, 2010
8:19 am
NoFKNdog,
Why waste time posting crap like that? We dont care what you think! All we care about is this:
Tech is 1-9 against UGA in last 10 years!
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Nick Fairley scares dawg fans
December 22nd, 2010
8:30 am
“Chizik isn’t a good coach! mediocre at best! A nutless monkey could coach Scam Newton to win footbal games. You Auburn fans kill me! ”
13-0, loser. Have fun in Memphis, 6-6er.
“You guys need to watch ESPN 30 for 30 and pay close attention to what happened to SMU. The Cam Newton deal is just the tip of the iceberg and just because the NCAA ruled him eligable doesn’t mean you’re in the clear.”
Why, we’re not going on probation. The only school that could currently get the death penalty is Bama because they are on probation until next year.
Also, please re-re-retake remedial English.
Nick Fairley scares dawg fans
December 22nd, 2010
8:31 am
“Nick Fairie you best be scared next year. No Nick Fairley, no Cam Newton, a high school coach and a team that at best will win only 6 games. ”
Even without those guys, we’ll still be better than you gals. WOOF WOOF
Lebronda
December 22nd, 2010
8:32 am
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS FOR MARK RICHT TO RESIGN. Great person, pathetic football coach.
Hatfield Geoff
December 22nd, 2010
8:33 am
A big part of Richt’s early success(in addition to the fact that the coaching in the SEC was not as strong as it has been the last 5-6 years)was his hiring of Van Gorder as defensive coordinator. The Defense was in good hands and he could concentrate on Offense. He made a bad choice to replace Van Gorder and it has led to the decline of the program. I hope I am wrong, but I think he made another bad choice with Grantham. While the defense may have improved statistically, they were not good. They were terrible on 3rd down and couldn’t get stops when needed. Grantham doesn’t come across as a great defensive mind and his antics on the sideline such as making the chock sign to the UF kicker makes him seem to immature to handle an important job. Manny Diaz, now at Mississippi State was available at a third the price and he did a great job at Miss. State. He would have been a good choice and the scheme could have remained the same. No question Richt’s DC choice will decide his fate just as it did in 2001. I hope Grantham is better than it appears from his first season.
Rickell
December 22nd, 2010
8:33 am
There were a lot of things for the dawgs to celebrate this year. Let’s see…
1. A drunken, whoring athletic director.
2. Twelve players arrested.
3. A player suspended for violating NCAA rules.
4. Winning the Fulmer Cup for the most players arrested.
5. Winning the title of #1 party school (i.e., the most drunken student body in the USA).
6. A sleazy assistant coach who razzes opposing players, unethical coaching conduct in violation of NCAA rules.
7. A super sleazy head coach who thinks he’s a saint, but recruits thug wannabes, gangbangers, and illiterate morons.
8. A 6-6 record despite having a team full of 4- and 5-star recruits.
Really something to be proud of!
And sickening to decent people.
Nick Fairley scares dawg fans
December 22nd, 2010
8:34 am
“Obviously somebody in the AU Athletic Department knew something the rest of us didn’t”
Chizik was d-cord for two undefeated teams in a row. One at Auburn and the other Texas. He was a MUCH better d-cord than Will Muschamp yet for some reason, UGAY, UT and UF thinks he’s just really awesome.
Coraline
December 22nd, 2010
8:36 am
All of you UGAers get your heads out of the sand or wherever you have them
stuck and start worrying about the number one problem with UGA. At the rate
your athlete-thugs are being arrested, you’ll be lucky to have any football team by the end of the season.
UGA has made the state a laughingstock with its reputation as one big party
school with copious job opportunities for bail bondsman, and decent people are fed up with this. Get rid of the illiterate, undisciplined drunks and felons that Mark Richt recruits, and get rid of Richt too. Even with these illiterate jerkoffs, he can’t even win the division, much less the SEC, so what’s the point.
So while you sit there in your delapidated single wide, deciding if the beer will last
until the next unemployment check comes in, think about this.
How much does Vans Halinger get for being his gofor
December 22nd, 2010
8:37 am
Richt must have majored in marketing because he has sold the Hump Nation a line of $h!t and they buy it hump line and stinker.
Moonpie
December 22nd, 2010
8:38 am
Rickell,
You forgot to mention one other?
UGA beat Tech again! 9-1 against Tech in last 10 years!
DelinquentDawg
December 22nd, 2010
8:41 am
BuLLdawg said…
I can name 17 coaches at their current school current coach with a better won/loss record than Coach Richt.
I can name 22 college football programs with a better won/loss record over the last 5 years than The Georgia Bulldogs.
I can name 119 college football programs with fewer arrests / suspensions the last 5 years, than my alma mater.
There were 21 teams who had a better recruiting class than ours this 2010 season and we have ignoble feat of having our recruits that got us even that highly ranked at # 21 recruiting class, who were arrested / suspended or failed to get in academically – before they even got to play in a game.
The 2009 recruiting class is gone from our roster already.
The 2011 recruiting class, is, once again, more of the same.
20 LOSSES last 5 years averages 4 LOSSES PER SEASON.
How much does Vans Halinger get for being his gofor
December 22nd, 2010
8:42 am
Moonpie
December 22nd, 2010
8:38 am
Rickell,
You forgot to mention one other?
UGA beat Tech again! 9-1 against Tech in last 10 years!
This is the problem, Richt has figured out what Donnan didnt. All you have to do is beat Tech and these stupid Rednecks are happy.
Hit A Single
December 22nd, 2010
8:42 am
Rikell – I am sorry UGA didn’t offer you a scholarship!
Hit A Single
December 22nd, 2010
8:43 am
Make that Rickell! Or was it your son?
Doc Dawg
December 22nd, 2010
8:48 am
Love Coach Richt but it is time. If the claim to fame is “well, he beats Georgia Tech”… whoopdeedo. This team should be in the mix every year for the SEC and in the hunt for National Championships. I’m ready for Mike Leach. Some of these kids need to be locked in a shed anyway.
RxDawg
December 22nd, 2010
8:48 am
Geesh, I can’t believe some of you guys on here actualy think we are loaded with talent. Yeh we have some good players, but we have a lot of gaps with players that are not championship caliber. Our secondary has been the achilles heel of this team for 3 years now, not to mention other spots on team. Sure it’s the coaches responsibility, but they have won championships before. It’s not like they suddenly forgot. Sometimes that big fast high school recruit just doesn’t pan out like you thought he would. This is UGA, we will be a force to be reckoned with again.
Rip Vans Winkle
December 22nd, 2010
8:52 am
RxDawg This is UGA, we will be a force to be reckoned with again.
It is time to wake up Rx, you have been asleep for 31 years son.
Junior Samples
December 22nd, 2010
8:56 am
at least there is saint simons and ga tech that we can whip up on. we won’t ever be completely down and out as long as we have a couple of whipping boys like that. bwahahahahahah
(((42-35)))
Kendawg
December 22nd, 2010
9:00 am
I’ve read that Aaron Murray is going to be better next year, and I also believe that he will be better. My only question is where are the receivers? AJ and Kris Durham will not be there next year. I did not see another receiver who could separate from a defensive back. Murray will be better, But I will be surprised if the receivers are of SEC quality. I would not be surprised at another 6-6 season.
Trembling Chihuahuas
December 22nd, 2010
9:00 am
Moonpie,
Enjoy mediocrity at your football factory. You’ve always had a mediocre academic program, now you mediocre football program to match. All you have left is girls gymnastics in Athens. Hope your leotards fit.
How does it feel to be irrelevant? How does it feel to be a doormat in your conference? How does it feel to be a trembling chihuahua? hahahahahahaha go little bitty dawgies woof woof woof
chazzo
December 22nd, 2010
9:03 am
One item that should be on everybody’s honey do list for Mark Richt is:
Don’t allow your players to read any of the preseason press: none of this, no predictions, no BS preseason polls.
The only game that should exist right now is the liberty bowl. Then Boise State…. Then South Carolina.
Conjecture about how many games he needs to win or what games the team will win or what they will be ranked is just that…. conjecture. Face it. No one knows.
All of the down-in-the-mouth fans here are the same ones who said Murray is too short to be a good QB.
Greg
December 22nd, 2010
9:07 am
From now on, every time a Tech fan chimes in on one of our UGA blogs, I’m just gonna quote the AJC article that came out today (12/22/10): “A Georgia Tech student escaped serious injury Monday night when he was pistol-whipped and robbed in his dorm room. He was the fourth Tech student to be robbed on or near the northwest Atlanta campus in just over a month”.
RxDawg
December 22nd, 2010
9:09 am
“But it is always easy to blame the coaches. Kind of like blaming your teacher for your failures.”
ZING!
Moonpie
December 22nd, 2010
9:13 am
@Trembling Chihuahuas
All you have left is girls gymnastics?
Did you forget we beat Tech in basketball this year? hahahahahahah
Man you Techies just cant beat us Dawgs uh?
Doormat in our conference? That would make us Champs in your conference uh?
1-9 1-9 1-9-Has a nice ring to it-wouldnt you say!
Moonpie
December 22nd, 2010
9:15 am
Greg,
It had to be one of our THUGA recruits? Im sure that’s what the Techies will say? They blame us for every other failure in thier lives.
McDawg
December 22nd, 2010
9:16 am
hopefully when he is giving his speech to the juniors he talking specifically to J. Houston and C. Glenn–another year can make both of these guys high 1st rounders
jimmy campagna
December 22nd, 2010
9:30 am
Until Georgia stops leading the SEC in arrests, gold teeth, tattoos and dreadlocks they will never win anything.
RxDawg
December 22nd, 2010
9:30 am
Rip Vans I guess you think other programs see UGA as an automatic win huh? I’m sure Chizic was planning for Bama the week UGA was coming to town.
Duck Fan
December 22nd, 2010
9:32 am
UGA is the Clemson of the SEC. The only reason they’ve ever had any national relevance is that they are in the SEC. Congrats on geographical location.
1eyedJack
December 22nd, 2010
9:32 am
The sky is falling!!!!
One of the greatest things about college football as opposed to pro football is that you can never EVER base how a team will do NEXT year when you are still in THIS year. NEXT year’s team will be much different from THIS year’s team.
Quit crying about losing AJ and Durham and Houston. Somebody will step up. It happens every year.
Quit crying about the defense. It will have different parts and be more experienced.
Quit crying about Bobo. We scored plenty of points to win 9 – 10 games.
Quit crying about recruiting. It’s almost two months until signing day. We’ll have a top 10 class.
Every single year that Universities have been playing college football every single team has lost some players. You can only have them on the field for four years at most. Some players who were not big enough or strong enough to be a STAR THIS year WILL be big enough and strong enough to be a STAR NEXT year.
On a positive note; Scott Blair <——Wide Left!!!
RxDawg
December 22nd, 2010
9:34 am
I’m sure Central Florida’s players are pretty dissapointed they have to play lowely UGA right?
59bulldawg
December 22nd, 2010
9:36 am
NoFKNdog . . . Man you crack me up! You’re more like NoFKNbrain. Why don’t you get off your mama’s computer and go take out the trash?
59bulldawg
December 22nd, 2010
9:43 am
Hatfield Geoff . . . I could not agree more . . . about Van Gorder or Grantham.
T-Bone
December 22nd, 2010
9:47 am
* Multiple arrests
* red panties and a drunken AD
* 5-star recruits and 2-star performances
* a fan base with expectations of a NC every year
* tailgaters who trash their own campus
* a coach who jumps in the pool with his players and sends them onto the field for an excessive celebration penalty
Sounds like a typical year in Athens, to me.
VA.dawg
December 22nd, 2010
9:47 am
Recruiting is always important!!!! The dawgs have to use the players they have now…. Coaches are looking for a nose tackle in the juno sector who has to immediately step in for this 3-4 defense?? If this super tackle can not be found then how bout going back to a 4-3 D? This D has always been good for the dogs….and the linebacker postion has been Ga.’s claim to fame for decades!!!!!!! What in the heck is go’in on?? for coach Richt to be successful next year there will have to be a CALL for the reture of the “JUNKYARD DAWGS” to play every game above the call !!!! NOW IS THE TIME!!!!
Duck Fan
December 22nd, 2010
9:50 am
UGA is all swagger, no substance.
Let's Talk About UGA!
December 22nd, 2010
9:52 am
DawgNation,
After my brief stay in the county lock-up, I wanted to thump my chest and proclaim my superior status as a Dawg Fan.
Who on this blog has done hard prison time?
That’s right. I had a scholarship to UGA but I swapped time in Athens for time in Angola.
Who has sold a baby brother to a Mexican?
Who sniffs his sister’s crotch and claims that he’s pretending to be Uga?
Who has a big ‘G’ tramp-stamp on his hairy lower back?
Who among you live in your Mama’s trailer.
Who eats government cheese and chases it down with Schlitz Malt Liquor?
None of you. You are all posers. I’m a true Dawg Fan and I have a criminal record to prove it.
Anybody want a beer?
Go Dawgs!
Sic ‘em!
Woof! Woof! Woof!
Rip Vans Winkle
December 22nd, 2010
9:56 am
RxDawg yes he probably was, but knew he could count on the Humpers whining after Fairley hit your cute little prancing Nancy Murray.
Grambling Uniforms weren't the first gimmick used in Humptown.
December 22nd, 2010
9:58 am
First there was Uncle Fester and the Junkyard dogs.
Mike Vick
December 22nd, 2010
9:59 am
I would have signed with THUGA if they offered cause I love dogs.
Irrelevant team
December 22nd, 2010
9:59 am
@Hit A Single…December 21st, 2010 6:45 pm
stated…”Yea it paid off for ND, Mich, and the U. Okla has suffered a couple of tough seasons under Stoops, and Ohio State is the most overrated team in the country. For years they had to worry about one team and today they have to worry about only one team, Wisconsin that replaced Michigan. Come up with better proof Irrelevant team”.
Sorry if I upset you over the Holiday Season, as that was not my purpose. Regardless of the outcome concerning W’s & L’s with those teams/schools, the point is they strive to get better. Their programs were suffering due to other schools getting the best players in-state, out-of-state, etc. The other schools changed coaches and while sitting in a recruits living room projected something new…change. They have people start buying into these ideas. Recruits start talking with each other and are sold on where the program is going and get some really good players to come to a school. It is a heck of a recruiting tool. They go to a program that hasn’t been relevant, but has a great football tradition, with a chance at getting on the field sooner, playing with a core group of players with the same vision for 3 or 4 years, and bring back a program like UGA.
Now, I will admit that at some of the schools I mentioned didn’t work out, but their “football nation” was tired of being irrelevant.
Ohio State may be the most over rated team in the country, but they get excellent players, they get the national rankings, they get great ink, they get excellent TV exposure. As bad as ND has been they still have a TV contract and regardless of their record will always be relevant because of their tradition and fam base following.
If Bobo gets demoted, if the OL coach gets released, if, if, if…well if that all happens then all the parts will have been replaced (defensive side done last year, S&C coach this year) and then you have the same person steering the ship. But of course, the enablers will want to give CMR more wiggle room, more time, another year, another change, something/anything to keep this good guy in place. “Just wait until next year” should be on his business cards. Well, next year will be the telling year. Has Ark, SC, MS, Aub, moved ahead of UGA for the best players available? Guess we’ll find when CMR is “given enough time to turn things around”.
Nick Fairley scares dawg fans
December 22nd, 2010
10:02 am
THIS is a great Bama fan!!!!!!! WDE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwbsSoW2k-E&feature=player_embedded#!
Surprised
December 22nd, 2010
10:02 am
@RxDawg
Who said:
“I’m sure Central Florida’s players are pretty dissapointed they have to play lowely UGA right?”
If UGA waltzes into Memphis, UCF will hand them their little furry nads.
Stop with the elitist attitude. It’s not becoming of a fan of a 6-6 team.
Dan Mullen and the #21 ranked Bulldogs
December 22nd, 2010
10:08 am
You mutts are lucky your season is over because that beatdown in Starksville is only the beginning, we will come to athens and cream you mutts next year
Nick Fairley scares dawg fans
December 22nd, 2010
10:08 am
This is my favorite play of the year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOi2hj_sjyY
how2fish
December 22nd, 2010
10:12 am
Duck Fan we are 6-6 in the SEC that pretty much equates to 11-1 in your comic book world of college football…I bet Auburn beats your butt and you never have a lead in the game…and I notice the Bugs are out in force on the blog today…but then they are too scared to leave their mom’s basement or dorm rooms as the North Ave Natives are again on the prowl…
DawgByte
December 22nd, 2010
10:13 am
For those dawg fans who are analyzing the roster and then correlating that to post season honors, you’re on track!
For those fans who think UGA is loaded with talent, you’re WRONG. There is a growing talent gap at UGA and it needs to be fixed. If Rodney Garner is such a superior recruitor why don’t we have more players on the first string All SEC Team, or All American’s etc.? With all the coaching vacancies why aren’t more new head coaches going after our coaches such as Rodney Garner? I’ll tell you why… they aren’t that good.
I hope someone makes Garner an offer and he takes. The quicker we get rid of him the better our program will be. He’s a lame defensive line coach and he’s not pulling in the right type of guys at UGA.
Yes, I’m scapegoating Rodney Garner. He’s far too comfortable and it’s time for him to go.
how2fish
December 22nd, 2010
10:14 am
Dan Mullen and the #21 ranked Bulldogs we kick your butts by 10 points minimum…if Mullen is still coaching…they didn’t offer him the UF job for a reason and his recruitment of Cam was that reason.
Mooty Squarefinger
December 22nd, 2010
10:17 am
Memo To Tech Fans:
(((42-34)))
(((9-1)))
(((5 INAR-B @ Bobby Dodd)))
(((73-72)))
You’ve got an entire year to dwell on it. I hope St. Simons is still crying his eyes out. Tech doesn’t even deserve to be on our schedule they suck so badly.
Dan Mullen and the #21 ranked Bulldogs
December 22nd, 2010
10:18 am
how2fish
December 22nd, 2010
10:14 am
Dan Mullen and the #21 ranked Bulldogs we kick your butts by 10 points minimum…if Mullen is still coaching…they didn’t offer him the UF job for a reason and his recruitment of Cam was that reason.
24-12 loser, the mutts got a beatdown by the real bulldogs from MSU
1eyedJack
December 22nd, 2010
10:18 am
how2fish
They’re getting pistol-whipped and robbed IN their dorm rooms now.
UGA' two backs might be academic casualties?
December 22nd, 2010
10:23 am
If true and UGA loses their two backs, who really cares/??? They are slow, they fumble and they
are self centered and I say let them BOTH go. Also, if we do let them go, then we ought to be able to sign two great HS backs knowing that know they will come in and start. Maybe UGA could sign three really good backs if this rumor is real.
Ealey and King ought to be gone anyway ………………it is time for these kids to learn some over due lessons ……………..when you play you pay. UGA grads are sick and tired of the summers of fun stuff.
Go Dogs. A new day is dawning with AD McGarity.
Alabama | MrSEC.com
December 22nd, 2010
10:27 am
[...] is not expected to be academically eligible for the Liberty Bowl16. It sounds like Mark Richt is ready to put 2010 in the rearview mirror.17. For all the talk of Greg McGarity easing the Dawgs’ schedule, the new AD has had [...]
MSU in Athens in 2011 and UGA qbs
December 22nd, 2010
10:32 am
UGA has marked the date for MSU in Athens in 2011 and we will punish Mississippi State and it will be a long day. Tavarres King, Marvleous Marlon Brown, Michael Bennett and Orson Charles and Fred Lynch and Wiggons and Rontavous Wooten and more coming like Chris Conley and such. Aaron Murray will make you pay. Ealey ought to be gone too. You recall him? He fumbled into your end zone and lost the ball. TG and GH that he is gonna be gone.
Our QBS are suddenly a very strong part of the UGA team vs 2010’s with 0 depth. In 2011 UGA has Hutson Mason and the Wilcox County QB, Nick Marshall, and that NC kid, LeMay.
Yes, UGA fans are always pumped up about the future with football. Richt is motivated too and all of his coaches know what it on the line, baby. Their JOBS ……………….$375,000 per year up to $750,000 and $2.7 mill for CMR.
Coach em up boys ………………… McGarity is watching and I like it.
Todd
December 22nd, 2010
10:39 am
Yea, Yea
I remember an article 8 some yrs. ago that Florida was bringing in Ron Zuke and the door was open.
What did Richt do? Proceeded to put up back to back 13pt games and go 1-2 vs. Zuke, and I don’t even count the 1 win, Zuke was a fired coach who ran out of the tunnel to the wrong bench, we had to hang on the win that 1.
This guy flat out gets tight when he sees Florida run out of the tunnel. And yes folks, it’s still about the game in Jax, always has been, always will. And Mark Richt has “really” posted 1 win in Jax. Are you serious? And we’re still talking well next yr. I feel good about it all, Aron Murrray, …….
Can you imagine the pressure Richt will be feeling, even if he’s undefeated going in to Jax, looking over at Will Muschamp! Richt and Bobo will throw up at the hotel and then get on the bus over to Alltel, Florida runs out and Richt and Bobo freeze, takes them a whole first half to adjust, by then it’s too late, just like a few months back.
I’m telling you, nothing has changed.
All alone at The Flats
December 22nd, 2010
10:40 am
I go to sleep alone.
Wake up alone.
Dine alone,
Study alone.
Go to GT games alone.
I sit and watch UGA games and the pretty sorority girls and I know that I am always alone.
UGA sorority girls often are asked to go on blind dates with GT men and when they learn that I am a GT mAn, I go to the movie alone BUT WITH TWO TICKETS.
Grant Field during rival games makes me feel alone because it is always empty … like my mouth is now, that they knocked my teeth out.
I laid on the floor after they beat me …………………alone on Ethel Street.
It is never good to be alone at GT ……………..you can lose your video games and your teeth.
1eyedJack
December 22nd, 2010
10:46 am
All alone at The Flats
Bless your heart….Momma still wuvs you. The basement is just like you left it. Please come home.
Two wins in Jax
December 22nd, 2010
10:50 am
CMR has 2 wins in 10 attempts vs Florida and frankly, who has a better record in the SEC playing them every year??? UGA plays them always in Florida. No, the 2009 SEC C game does not count ……………..what coach has a a better record over 10 in the SEC? Who has consistently defeated The U of F????
Richt is in his 10th yr and there is no other SEC coach but one, so the others must have come and gone, because had they handled The U of F and CUM, they would still be with us.
Put this in perspective ………………U of F has been THE FOOTBALL STANDARD for years now in the entire NCAA Div 1 and I am a UGA grad. Richt could easily have won two more counting this year and one or two others in his 10 but he did not but 2 vs Florida ain’t so bad.
Spurrier has won two in his 5 years. His first yr and this year. Richt is in good company.SS also is a Florida grad and he is a legend …………………legend he is. Like him or not.
Kids …………………when you come on this site, have some info not just some teen dribble.
Go Dogs. UGA is great with or w.o. a winning 10-2 type of year
Prof
December 22nd, 2010
10:56 am
Good luck UGA in the Toilet Bowl!!!
Roddy White battles Saints and Dilfer via Twitter | Jeff Schultz
December 22nd, 2010
10:56 am
[...] – Richt looking forward to putting Dogs’ season behind him [...]
If this does not prove that Richt should be fired after a 6-6 season, nothing ever will.
December 22nd, 2010
10:59 am
Pro Football Weekly, after gathering input from NFL evaluators, has released its 2010 All-America team based on a combination of draft value, pure talent and performance.
Any guesses on which SEC team had the most first-team selections?
Georgia … by a mile.
The Bulldogs, who suffered through the worst season of the Mark Richt era, had five players on the first team, including Cordy Glenn and Clint Boling as both of the offensive guards. A.J. Green was selected at receiver, Justin Houston at outside linebacker and Drew Butler at punter.
No other SEC team had more than one player selected as a first-team All-American, which only reinforces that Georgia was far more talented than its record reflected this season. The Bulldogs (6-6) need to beat UCF in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl to avoid their first losing season since 1996.
I want to put this season away too..
December 22nd, 2010
11:22 am
except 42-34
BBBBWAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAA
DOUCHES
Moonpie
December 22nd, 2010
11:22 am
It’s not just Richt-
I want to put this season away too..
December 22nd, 2010
11:23 am
73-72
ALL
YEAR
LONG
BBBWWAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAHHHHHHAAAAAAAA
Moonpie
December 22nd, 2010
11:24 am
@If this does not prove
It isnt just Richt-This has been going on for years. Goff-had Terrell Davis-NFL-Super Bowl MVP and never really played him.Donnan had Stroud and Seymour and couldnt win a SEC Title.The list goes on and on.
funny...
December 22nd, 2010
11:27 am
The best quote I’ve heard out of Athens in 30 years is Todd Grantham earlier last week on 680 with Buck Belue. He said about recruiting, “Is this kid going to help us beat Florida? That’s how I’m looking at players. Georgia can’t achieve it’s goals until we beat Florida.”
It’s about damn time! That’s been Florida’s mantra since 1990. Beat Georgia and it will all take care of itself. It’s that simple. Georgia has been too worried about the “end game”. Too worried about winning the SEC or the NC before looking at the steps to get their. Georgia has relied on it’s total domination of Florida before 1990, it’s rested on “well we’ve won in Jacksonville before”.
Georgia has to get out of the Vince Dooley state of mind, realise that the season and everything they play for should be BEAT FLORIDA, everything else will fall into place. The alumni need to quit worrying about Tech because relevance has passed them by. Georgia will split with UT, win 3 out of 4 against USCe, and split with Auburn.
Georgia needs to focus on Florida. All else falls into place.
funny...
December 22nd, 2010
11:29 am
ughhh…
there (((sorry)))
Moonpie
December 22nd, 2010
11:31 am
funny,
Ok I will go with that theory-Nothing else has worked.Count me in!
Chaz Henry
December 22nd, 2010
11:49 am
funny…
Only a dog would listen to anything this choker would say. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaahhaahahahahhaahahhaahahahahahhaah…………….
Nick Fairley scares dawg fans
December 22nd, 2010
12:01 pm
“Georgia will split with UT, win 3 out of 4 against USCe, and split with Auburn.”
dawg fans claimed that they’d win the east this year. dawg predictions never ever ever come true.
how2fish
December 22nd, 2010
12:25 pm
Nick Fairley scares dawg fans could you ask ol’Nick to please come back for his senior year , we and the rest of the SEC would like to express just how we feel about his type of play. If he were to show up next season in Athens you would have an accurate gauge on just how scared we are of that symbol of all things that Auburn football has come to stand for………tell to bring his “belt” with him.
billdawg
December 22nd, 2010
12:44 pm
Never ceases to amaze – the inability of “blawgers” to write coherent, grammatically correct sentences.
Jeff needs to get himself a pair of glasses tinted some color other than brown. UGA is doing fine. One stumble doesn’t indicate a complete fall, not even a fall sport disaster.
GO, Dawgs! and D A double U G!
guydog
December 22nd, 2010
12:46 pm
@ Nick Fairley scares dawg fans
You’re a liar. I’m a dog fan and did not predict that we would win the east. Fail.
Sanford Drive
December 22nd, 2010
12:50 pm
There’s nothing dumber than a Georgia Bulldog!
oakwood dawg
December 22nd, 2010
1:20 pm
Nick Fairie—-I’m surprised that your favorite play wasn’t (UN)Fairley ramming his head into the back of Aaron Murray. Dan Mullen ant the #21–One question–what if Mullen is UGA coach(I hope not cause I like the pro style offense)in 2012? You still gonna kick our a$$? And by the way–Sanford Drive is dumber than the dumbest.
Derek
December 22nd, 2010
3:26 pm
2010 was what happens when you make the wrong decision at QB. Murray lost 6 games, 5 were his fault. He just choked when it counted, time after time, only did ok when it was against teams with losing records.
Thanks goodness Christian Lemay will be on campus on about a week, to get this ship turned around.
With the right QB, UGA would have been 10-2 in 2010.
Joey
December 22nd, 2010
3:31 pm
Jeff-
When did Richt ever say he was looking forward to putting thre season behind him?
I don’t sense that at all.
He’s looking forward to a few days off for Christmas, who doesn’t?
Richt enjoys the moment, he’s only focused on right now, that means winning the Bowl game, and getting the young guys some reps.
Chances of somebody pulling a Murray, and losing 6 games again, is slim.
George
December 22nd, 2010
3:55 pm
Agree, done with Murray, I like that “pulling a Murray” phrase to describe QB’s who can’t beat winning teams.
Lemay is superb. Best QB Georgia has ever recruited. Totally jacked about Christian Lemay.
The rest of us
December 22nd, 2010
4:43 pm
Derek
December 22nd, 2010
3:26 pm
2010 was what happens when you make the wrong decision at QB. Murray lost 6 games, 5 were his fault. He just choked when it counted, time after time, only did ok when it was against teams with losing records.
Thanks goodness Christian Lemay will be on campus on about a week, to get this ship turned around.
With the right QB, UGA would have been 10-2 in 2010.
You are an idiot, Murray does not and will never play on the defensive side of the ball. Please refrain from posting on here again until you figure that out.
82Dawg
December 22nd, 2010
5:01 pm
@Derek ….You are just STUPID!!! Murry did not lose 5 games for us. Look at the running backs if you want to point the finger at one person. You are to funny.Who should have been the QB?
Let's Talk About UGA!
December 22nd, 2010
5:11 pm
DawgNation,
It’s that time of day. I’m good and drunk. Go Dawgs!
Mama is about to go on a date with some guy named ‘John.’ Go Dawgs!
I’ll have the trailer all to myself. Go Dawgs!
It’s time to break out the pirated DVD of the 1981 Sugar Bowl. Go Dawgs!
I’ll have to keep the noise down though. The local cops have a new officer. That son-of-a-bitch looks like Nick Fairley in a S.W.A.T. uniform. Go Dawgs!
Anybody want a beer?
Go Dawgs!
Sic ‘em!
Woof! Woof! Woof!
82Dawg
December 22nd, 2010
5:16 pm
@Let’s Talk About UGA! ….Don’t forget to watch all 175 Natl Champions Bama claims…
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December 22nd, 2010
5:47 pm
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Snoop Dawg
December 22nd, 2010
5:53 pm
I am underwhelmed. Of course Richt recognizes the problem. Identification of the problem, however, is just the first step of the six step problem solving framework. Any casual observer recognizes the real problem. Er, uh that would be the CEO, Mark Wrecked. Yes, he fancies himself as a CEO, not a head ball coach. There lies the basic problem. He has no energy, no fire in his belly. He is detached and arrogant. And both his and his staff’s complete lack of coaching and leadership skills are obvious to all but the most blind Aplogists and Defenders in the Bulldog Nation.
There is a faction who thinks that we shouldn’t talk about our coaching problem with candor and frankness. They are misguided. We need to solve the problem, and the problem is Richt plain and simple.
It is well past time that UGA football regain our glory and Tradition with a fresh proven professional coaching staff. The longer we wait, the greater and longer the pain and embarassment. Also, the UGA is going to lose a lot of money from alumni donations and UGA football revenue. Nobody likes a loser.
Snoop Dawg
December 22nd, 2010
5:59 pm
Here’s another thing. It sounds like Richt and Company have decided to just kind of skate from now until the bowl game day. What a mistake! They should be working EXTRA HARD to avoid a losing season. Somehow, I cannot picture Mark Richt motivating much of anybody. Can you? Do not be surprised if the Dawgs come back from Memphis with their tail between their legs. Not only can we not beat Florida, we can not even beat Central Florida… Who would have ever thought that the great Bulldog Nation would have sunk to such depths?
mars
December 22nd, 2010
6:21 pm
I wish we had the best coach in the SEC. Unfortunately, our boy is not even in the top ten of a twelve league conference. Look for another year of disappointment. After half a century, I’m switching my alliegance to the GS Panthers.
mars
December 22nd, 2010
6:32 pm
Keep Murray and replace Richt and 2010 Dawgs are 10-2. Do you idiots know anything about football? During a public discussion I was involved in on Richt, the most ardent Richt supporter during the entire conversation was a woman who made the most sense with this comment in his defense; “Hey, Mark Richt is a handsome man!” Kind of overshadowed all the silly comments about him being a “nice guy”. Well, there you have it. You get what you settle for. With this type of mentality in the stands, why not have STUPID on the field as well? Go Falcons!
Let's Talk About UGA!
December 22nd, 2010
9:00 pm
DawgNation,
Did I mention that I love these blogs.
Currently, My Dawgs are the most irrelevant team in college football.
Yet, there is a place where we can come and pound our chests.
We can bask in the radiance of past glory.
I was just about to hang myself with a garden hose when I realized that My Dawgs need me drooling on my mother’s keyboard, ranting away on this blog.
Anybody want a beer?
Go Dawgs!
Sic ‘em!
Woof! Woof! Woof!
Phil
December 22nd, 2010
9:07 pm
I’m ready to move on also, without Richt.
MisplacedDawg
December 22nd, 2010
9:15 pm
For all those making the trip to the bowl, let’s join in for a 4th quarter chant for AJ. just to remind these kids that the passion we have for college football won’t be shared in the NFL! We need AJ back because next season can be special. Let’s show them what it means to all of us! Go Dawgs!
oakwood dawg
December 22nd, 2010
10:13 pm
For all of you that think Murray is not a great QB, you need to go suck eggs. You know absolutely about college football. Wait until next year and see what he does. If we lose it will not be his fault. If we win you can bank on the fact he had a lot to do with the W.
BoWeevil
December 23rd, 2010
2:20 am
Central Florida will BEAT him, saddling him with a LOSING RECORD for the entire season, if Mark Richt is looking forward to putting this season behind him.
He just has NO FIRE for this game of football – NONE.
BoWeevil
December 23rd, 2010
2:21 am
W
?
What W ?
Aaron Murray beat 6 cupcakes
That is it.
NoFKNdog
December 23rd, 2010
8:44 am
Remember all of you dog fans who state other quotes slamming your stupid dogs does not matter, yes it does. You continue to comment about how great you are. But, as stated, you all will continue to SUCK untit the world ends. Go look in the mirror. You stupes SUCK!!! Do you now understand?
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!
Let's Talk About UGA!
December 23rd, 2010
10:25 am
DawgNation,
I was just about to drop Mama’s electric hair dryer in the shower with me when I realized that My Dawgs need me frothing at the mouth and howling in the stands just for them.
When UGA makes a big play, I suddenly drool from where my two front, bottom teeth once were.
I’m a hit at the tail gate parties. I use my single upper front tooth as a bottle opener.
I just hope UCF doesn’t send us home in red panties.
Anybody want a beer?
Go Dawgs!
Sic ‘em!
Woof! Woof! Woof!
Roger
December 23rd, 2010
12:37 pm
Jeff-
Wow, you, a mindreader?
Richt didn’t say anything NEAR to what you’re attributing to him.
Talk about a misquote.
FLA DAWG
December 23rd, 2010
3:46 pm
Here we go again, waiting for NEXT SEASON.
What a waste.
Next season will prove to be a waste as well.
Richt will melt and our rebuilding will be yet another season away.
What a waste.
Yellow Fuzz
December 26th, 2010
8:07 am
Merry Christmas to every AH dog fan out there!