Caleb King’s loss no big deal for Dogs — it’s Crowell’s show

I hope you are right Jeff. IC will have some big shoes to fill and will get his fair share of the carries now for sure. Ken Malcome will be our best bet for blocking since he has a full year of the scheme and blocking assignments under his belt. Let’s hope the three (3) man team can stay healthy and carry us this year for a running game.

BTW – Why was King suspended from the bowl game this past year? Was he even eligible?

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Crowell gained 94 yards in playoff game vs. Calhoun High…not Florida…not SC…not Auburn…Calhoun High…he’s special…not…but, please keep CMR in Athens…he’s special, too…

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Timberrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr….Damn

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Did you read his Twitter posts published today? Are we teaching spelling anymore?

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Give me the rock

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The Dawgs are screw now only on runnigback and no wide outs for murray. Go Gators!

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It’s all good yo

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is there is any truth to the rumor that Aaron muarry cheated and will thrown off the team! god I hope not Aaron is a great with a great heart and I don’t think this is the truth but I wish UGA would come out and say one or the other just so we know and they can clear his man

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I really can’t see Crowell being that good this year. 5 star or not he doesn’t have any college experience. Look for lots of pass plays to your now depleted receiving corps.

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Can’t agree with you more. King and Ealey, at this point, were a waste of scholarships. Better to get rid of them now. Our results this season would not have been affected with or without King.

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King was not the savior of this team, but he has run in the SEC and would give time for Crowell to get his grove going. Spin this all you want, this is not good news. We go to war with little Carlton Thomas as the only one who has carried a football in college, and if i recall, he was mobbed at the line every play. OUCH.

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Everyone rips on CMR for letting go of players who don’t follow rules or attend class. Yet no one rips on coaches whose players enrolls in only one class, an independant study (Cadillac at Auburn) his entire senior year or a coach who enrolls a student who had been caught cheating twice and was caught stealing a PC.

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If anyone has seen Crowells Facebook page, its a total embarrassment to the University of Georgia. Pathetic kid, GROW UP.

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come on guys, give caleb a brake.

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In the long run yes, but UGA opens up with two tough games. They are going to have to rely on a true freshman who hasn’t even been on campus long to have any chance in those games. He will have to learn all of the plays, get in high level college football shape, learn to pass block well, and maintain his cool while all of the sudden being the most important person on the team. To pretend that this is not a big deal is just lying to yourself.

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What is going with Muarry (sp?) – Nice Try. Nothing There. Spell Check.

Losing King will hurt us more than we think. We’re not even sure that Crowell is the real deal, yet. Remember Jasper Sanks?. Putting way too much stock in a true freshman with history of injuries. Offensive line is weak, so Murray better learn to thrown on the run or on his back. Grantham is going to have earn that $750K he’s making to keep us in any games this year. We may be doomed!

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I guess it’s time to throw out that Caleb King autographed football along with the Mondale-Ferroro button and those dreams of being the next Annie.

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Hey Mystic. As of December 2010 Calhoun was ranked 9th in Georgia and 227th Nationally. Murray County was # 391 in Georgia and # 10,931 in the nation. Based on the apparent knowledge of football in Chatsworth; why don’t you go back to your cousin, she’s lonely.

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They better not get rid of the kickoff like they talked about a few weeks ago.
It may be the only way we can score.

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Maybe Caleb King will go to Jacksonville State! I want him to push Ealey so he isnt the feature back in D2 football! Ealey could have worked hard and now he would be the feature back this year at UGA. I have no respect for either of these two (2) guys. We offer free scholarships (which I wasnt offered but I managed to graduate) to these clowns and they leave us in this state. We should start recruting only JUCO players that have already screwed up once and know this is their last shot. I read a blog about John Jenkins and his work ethic, we need more players like him. Not problem kids and quiters like Ealey and King……..

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We ruined this State

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I is indeed very rare to find an acedemically qualified player who can actually play. The college teams are full of idiots who can run fast and hit hard. Whatever happened to “STUDENT Atheletes”?

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This summer has been very fluid at UGA. Although Caleb done this to himself, I find it hard to kick a man (or should I say kid), when he’s down. This undoubtedly opens the door for Crowell and Malcome. I sincerely hope that all the other student athletes learn from this.

There’s something going on at UGA that I can’t remember ever seeing…I’m not sure if it’s a good thing or a bad thing. But, I think that we can all agree that this summer has been different than any in recent memory. However, I’m not ready to wave the surrender flag yet. Everyone has to just suck it up and move on. I wish Caleb luck and I hope that he gets his act together. Sometimes talent alone isn’t enough.

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Classic UGA football.

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IT -sorry, don’t want to offend the spelling police

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Schultz,

Wow, what a spin you are putting on this one. This is a ridiculous article.

Nothing is good about this for UGA. Will Crowell have taken over EVENTUALLY, most likely.

Now, Richt has no option but to make him run right out of the gate. Was King a all world back, no. But he was plenty serviceable. 5 yards per carry, good TD numbers, and most importantly he was the only with full season of experience. And please Carlton Thomas? All 170 pounds of him doens’t know anything about being an every down back in the SEC.

Hell, you don’t even know if Crowell can adequately pass block, I feel sorry for Murray this year. That’s the toughest part of the game for a true freshman running back, passing blocking, because they don’t have to do it much in high school.

Sorry Jeff, you are dead, dead wrong on this one. In the long run you may be right, but Richt doesn’t have a long time to get this thing going.

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So Bama and UGA lose contributing RB’s

Bama = injured in 7 on 7 drill
UGA = didn’t pass remedial math

Do you guys just not see why you will never win a title?

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Too bad for King and the Dogs better hope like hell that Crowell doesn’t get hurt or it will be a long season.

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Couldn’t agree more with Schultz. Other than Georgia Tech game in 2009, when did Caleb ever show that he was anything close to an impact back?

It would have been interesting to see what kind of player he couldn’t be if he wasn’t riddled with injuries and didn’t play behind what’s been a very a soft offensive line, but it’s been obvious to me for quite some time that he was never going to be the running back we hoped he could be. He joins the likes of Jasper Sanks and Kregg Lumpkin – serviceable backs who just couldn’t live up to the enormous expectations, for various reasons.

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If his text messaging (quoted in other article) is any indication of his grasp of the English language, it’s not suprising that he couldn’t survive a tough major like Housing.

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This is the same guy who couldn’t pass the GATEWAY. This is the same guy who left a AAAAA high school powerhouse to go to a AAA private school JUST because he can graduate without passing the GATEWAY. This is the SAME person UGA recruited.

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Chances of:
UGA National Champions = King for Heisman

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Wasnt it this time last year we were laughing at Damon Evans and the white girls panties?

Hahahahahahahaha. Gotta love the offseason got THUGA football.

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If the defense doesn’t respond and make a huge improvement it really won’t matter.

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UGA Insider,…are you nuts?! King will probably play for an Arena League team, and can always transfer to a JUCO to get the grades up!…Read my previous post! RB’s are like guitarists..everybody wants to be that kind of star..dime a dozen, bro!

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Geez, Schultz, being around all of these overly optimistic and delusional Dawg fans really must be rubbing off on you. Need I remind you that IC has not yet played a down in the SEC. I don’t care how good you are in high school, its a whole different ballgame at the next level. Its amazing that you and these other delusional Dawg fans are optimistic in light of losing AJ, CD, CK, WE, along with the best players on the defensive side of the ball.

Georgia continues to have the most delusional fanbase on the planet. It could be a janitor or student trainer backing up IC, and people on this blog would still be predicting an SEC and NC run.

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Oh boy Schultz you are dumb and a handful of others on here are dumb as well.

No way losing your most experienced back PLUS the fact that the top two behind him have ZERO game experience! ZERO! In the SEC no less.

No way no how this a good thing. Crowell hasn’t even got to practice pass blocking in the UGA system yet.

What a loser mentality Schultzy.

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DAWG fans relax. One thing is a given. We beat the Nerds of Gtu not that it matters.

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Any word on who the next player is that will be ruled ineligible? There is a lot of noise out there about others…

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No King? No Ealy? Who is going to show Crowell around the Clarke County juvenile detention center? It’s just one next great back after another. All the leghumpers are so excited and foaming at the mouth on National Signing Day about how great they are, and then the next year they sign the next great gansta and are ready to get rid of the old bums that areworthless and then we repeat the process all over again. And St Richt just sits there with that holier than thou smirk on his face and runs off to Hondurus with the AJC tagging behind hanging on every photo op. UGA and the AJC fishwrap, you deserve each other.

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Crowell missed how many high school games last year due to injury? And Jeff Schultz thinks UGA will be OK with a little scatback and a walk-on as the backups? Given Caleb King’s off the field history, if Mark Richt didn’t think he was needed on the field this year it seems likely he would have run him off after his last suspension.

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Boy, this Crowell kid must be something. Looks like his legend continues to grow daily, all before taking his first snap at Georgia. No pressure kid.

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From “we run this state” to “we’ve run out of options.”

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I still think we win the SEC.

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[...] Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog) [...]

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Will UGA win 4 games this year?

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Caleb left me a note. Russ, I love ya man. Don’t think of me as a looser. I just couldn’t catch a brake.

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I think everyone misses the point. Ken Malcome will be the starter against Boise. The kid has the skills to be a very good running back in the SEC. To the poster who mentioned UGA has only scat backs. Must have not seen Ken Malcome. He is about 235 lbs. Hey 404 Caleb King chose poorly, you are aware that Tech, Auburn, Alabama, Tennessee, amongst many others were hot after Caleb King. I included those four since your a bandwagon fan.

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Malcome is slower than even Munzenmaier.

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It IS a big deal to lose King, Jeff. No 1st year RB makes an impact here. Even Knowshon got redshirted, then only began starting about mid-season in his second season. And he was only the #10 overall NFL pick after his junior season.

I wish Crowell the best, but I will be shocked if he makes a big splash this season.

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The Dogs are better off without the baggage that Ealey and King brought to the team. Ealey couldn’t control himself and King ran like a wuss from the start.

I still remember R Samuel banging into and over Gamecocks a couple of years ago and he could still carry the rock if they need a brutal runner.

Crowell will be fine and that kid from SWD is a punishing type of back.

Carlton Thomas is 170 and has the speed to make a difference if he just gets 10- 15 carries a game.

Hope CMR does a better job at recruiting for character as well as ability henceforth. We don’t need any more Ealey’s and King’s. Bad apples can spoil the whole barrel.

Go Dogs! GATA!!!!

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Murray County, so what? Heck Marcus Lattimore had a game his senior year of high school where he only rushed for 72 yards…What? He only rushed for 72 yards one game, you can’t be serious…

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Caleb King drops the ball, again!

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Can’t blame Mark Richt for this. It’s not like he was off on mission trips all summer, instead of monitoring academic progress like he’s paid to do…oh, wait.

Not sure it’s good for Crowell to come in believing the position is his. Be better for him if he thought he had an older player ahead of him on the charts. (After all, Herschel Walker wasn’t the starter in his first college game…) Sorry to see Caleb wasn’t willing to put out the effort. He would have had a lot of playing time this year, I think.

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Here’s another one for you. Trent Richardson only rushed for 84 yards in a game his senior year of high school against a AAA team from Alabama.

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Granger, I can tell you’ve never been around major college athletics. You honestly think this is Richt’s fault because he was on a mission trip and not monitioring King’s academic progress? Wow just wow!

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King knew it was just a matter of time until he lost his starting job anyway. Crowell and Malcome are the new and improved Ealey and King. Hopefully they will fair better in their grades and off the field actions. The Bowman kid coming in as DB is also one heck of a running back.

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Agreed, time to move on.

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It is very disturbing that these kids don’t pan out. Don’t we have academic advisors to keep this kids working. Basicaly all the big time winning prorams are filled with this crap…talented ungrateful kids. Don’t think CMR is cut out for this, probably take the money and run after this year. Go full time into ministry. You need cut throat slims like Saban, Miles and Spurrier to keep on top in this type enviornment.

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Full time practice reps with the number one offense does not do you much good at Georgia because we never face the number one defense.

Believe me. I know.

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My question is…with no RB’s with any Game experience and a couple of inexperienced FB’s, what DC will we face that won’t blitz every single down? Add the fact that all of our TE’s want to play WR to our super thin O-line and we are in some real trouble! Hell it would be worth it to blitz a different person every down until they find the weakest link in our series of weak links!

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I don’t agree at all Jeff. I think Crowell would eventually be the starter later in the season but I don’t see him being ready for big-time football immediately.

King had his issues off the field but he was a good back. This is not good for the Dawgs.

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Hey Paul didn’t your beloved Tide just have some players have some academic issues? Please explain those???

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So I guess year 2 of the 3-4 defense had better be a heck of a lift for BOTH of teams in this state, huh?

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listen to me…”both of teams”…guess I’ve been reading too many quotes from Georgia players today…my brain is shutting off

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Enter Branden Smith…most explosive player on the roster.

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Inexperienced OL, Inexperienced RBs, Mike Bobo ….. I’m starting my drinking early today!

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Start drinking Grantland, cause we all know your not even a Dawg fan in the first place.

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I am rested and ready to step in again, Coach.

I have finally decided to come back for my senior year.

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ugainsider “we lost a family member” in king R U SERIOUS !!!!! Did you adopt him, worried @ his future please. if you,re so concerned @ this go to honduras and dig well – oh, wait thats already been done. If our prgram is a family we,re @ as dysfunctional as the anthony family. If Richt were REAL leader , booted king last fall.

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Don’t count out Samuel. He has experience which is more than 2 of the 3 alternatives do. UGA is going to have to pound the ball early in the season because you can’t expect inexperienced backs to pass block all that well. The O-line needs to man up and stay healthy.

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kev I am not sure that would be fair to Samuel at this point. Our coaches have jerked a bunch of kids around like this. Remember our Fair Catch Specialist, Logan Gray? We hosed that kid. One of the two FB’s this year kind of got the shaft too. Seems like there is a lineman that gets moved from O to D and back over the last 3 years.

Sure we sign good classes…but the corkers of each class haven’t amounted to much lately. Sure we have been a pit stop on the way to the NFL for a few guys but by far my favorite player in the Richt Era was a 2 star FB recruit that moved to DE and worked his tail off.

We need to find people willing to work like David Pollack. Hopefully having Thomas Brown on the staff will help in the work ethic area.

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I agree with you Jeff, when I heard the news I said good riddance. It’s time to take out the trash on this team. It’s time for the CROW Show!

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Samuel should have never been moved from RB. CMR screwed him over big time

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Surprised he stayed in school that long. All he really has is football and that did not cut it at the college level.

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Booooooooooo

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What a stupid article why don’t we let Crowell run one play before we anoint him the next Walker. Crowell may very well turn out to be a really good player but the fact that UGA lost both main contributing running backs from last year on top of their best overall player in Green is a big deal.

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either these guys step up or they don’t-most of them have been playing football all of their lives-its not that complicated

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

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Ok, fill in the blank……C_T.

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There was a post on the Georgia boards that read fear the “T”. You guys are in for a world of pain!! TN is going to kick the S#$% out of you! Your beloved Crowell is going to get buried, if not before TN game. How many players have you guys lost this year because of grades and trouble? You had better relish last seasons win, because its your last for at least a couple of years if not more. Do you hear that train coming? Its the BIG ORANGE TRAIN coming to roll right over your butt sniffing a!@es!!! Go VOLS!!!!

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At GA????? Dayum! You mean that’s possible???? LOL!

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if i ever see Hacksaw Jim Duggan again, he’s gonna experience the Russian sickle!

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King said”this was out of his control)?????? Your academic progress is not under your control????? We MUST sign smarter players in the future!!!!!!!!! This kid is a senior at a major university and has no idea how to maintain his own progress to graduate. PLEASE! Can anyone say lazy????????????????????????????????????

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I think between Carlton Thomas, Ken Malcome, and Isaiah Crowell we still have a pretty good back field. Not as much experience as Ealy and King but I think they’re just as talented and maybe more so.

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Ray GUMP would be saying right now ” I ain’t got no players” and when asked why he didnt dump king before say ” I ain’t got togive you no reason”. ACTUALQUOTES. NO i dont miss you – stephanie

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When I ain’t got no players, I run the wishbone.

I ain’t got to give you no reason. Just ask Hines.

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SEE “C” KING IS A LOW-LIFE! ALWAYS HAS BEEN AND FOR EVER WILL BE! YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A TROUBLE MAKER, FIRST ALL YOUR SUSPENSIONS FROM THE DAWG TEAM TO FINALLY FLUNKING OUT AT UGA. GO HOME YOU LOOSER, WHIMP, AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST “LOW LIFE” GOOD BYE GET OF DAWG CAMPUS. NOT GOOD.

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Malcome will end up as the starting RB if Richt and Bobo are smart.

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i hope all of the positivity transfers to the field: uga has a great sec schedule and should make a decent run at the east title. BUT, if the dawgs choke it up to boise st early, the non-bcs folks will have a FIELD DAY when the dawgs play well in the sec schedule. for heaven’s sake, crowell, be the salvation that richt and company so desperately need. i never was a caleb king fan – i still remember how he hosed his parkview team his senior year – and i certainly like the karma that has come his way, but MAN would he have been an asset if he had stepped up this fall. RTR!!!

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@Big Ten Champs Nebraska
I’ll bet that Nebraska is not recruiting from the inner cities and South Georgia either. The football factories in the south produce players who otherwise would not be able to hold down a job as a bag boy at the grocery store, much less grasp college level studies.

As collge football fans, we will gladly overlook stupid players and criminal behavior in order to field a great team on Saturday.

Ever wonder why they don’t let many college atheletes do radio interviews? It’s because most are inarticulate idiots.

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This is CMR last year in Athens!!!!!! The closer it gets to kickoff the more players are leaving and getting into trouble!!! It never fails, i had very high hopes for 2011 but if we win 7 games that will be a good year.(CMR gone)

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What’s this we hear about Crowell already showing up late and having to have a babysitter appointed to drag him to class and lifting and all of those parking tickets he’s supposedly already started to rack up?

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I thought King was overrated since he was a junior at Parkview. I never understood the high national recruiting rankings. Cameron Smith over at Brookwood was a much more impressive RB at the time (though academic issues reportedly cost him a chance to go to UGA or USC). It didn’t surprise me that King never became anything special at UGA.

Still, it will hurt UGA a little to lose his experience and have to push Crowell or Malcom into the starting role. One, or both, might be ready to handle the job, but it would have been better to hold them back a little until one of them stepped up and took the job away from King.

Even though I questioned King’s ability at RB, I hope he is able to finish his education somewhere else and find success away from the football field.

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Put me in charge of academic counseling at UGA and King would be eligible again in no time.

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Not suprised he couldn’t cut the academic mustard, as he didn’t get it done on the gridiron either. I hope Crowell isn’t another overhyped bust (ala Jasper Sanks). If Crowell can’t cut it, our offense is gonna struggle (w/ no running game)…unless someone else steps up at TB (from “no where”…ala Robert Edwards).

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I love academic mustard. It’s my favorite kind.

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This is somehow Nick Fairley’s fault.

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bama sucks

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Well, we didn’t recruit Crowell for the debate team. I don’t feel as bad as if we had lost another O lineman. Put Justin Scott-Wesley back there and give him some reps. He’s big and fast.

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Lars,

Munzenmaier is still there to teach him the ropes.

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Like losing $200,000 on a bad stock (four years on scholarship @$50,000 per), but the team will be better offf…what a disappointment. Also looks like he didn’t attend his English classes from the looks of his tweet.

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If history is any indicator, look at why King transferred from Parkview to GAC; a public school to a private school. No surprise why. Great kid, but no support from home when it came to academics. Sad situation.

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What do you expect when Muck Richt keeps recruiting dummies like Ealey and King? These guys were given a free pass in high school, they certainly aren’t college material. Both of them will be sweeping floors this time next year.

And Crowell is from the same mold, so expect exactly the same outcome. And expect to see him in jail before the season even gets underway.

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@MountainDawg – You seem like the type a guy who’s always just too tired to work out…just like me

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Injury with Crowell, then what? Carlton Up The Middle??!!

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OconeeDog: Thank you for your senseless rant. CK is gone now get tough and accept it. Hurling personal insults at a kid with issues only makes you look DUMB and IGNORANT. For attacking this disadvantaged kid as you did, surely you must be a loser. Wisen up trailertrash, this kid in spite of his many problems was asked to come to UGa and he said yes only to ultimately fail in the attempt of reaching personal and program goals. He ain’t the first and won’t be the last to flunk out of school. But he tried and it just didn’t work out, but I’ll bet he accomplished more by flunking out of college than people like you who’ve never even tried to go to college. Enough is enough, please be intelligent for once and kindly shut up.

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Pretty sure you meant to say most students at UGA are functionally illiterate.

Every so often, they have to flunk one out to give the illusion they are running a legitimate academic institution.

Sorry Caleb, you drew the short straw this time.

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Agreed. With King’s record on and off the field I don’t think that he proved that he was a great asset to the team. There have been freshmen that have performed very well. It can happen again. Not the end of the world.

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Perhaps Coach Richt could go on a mission trip to his team’s locker room.

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The hype around Crowell is eerily similar to the hype around Caleb King when he came in. And from the quotes I’ve seen, I think they’re also probably neck and neck when it comes to their IQ.

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Any word on the other players rumored to also be ineligible next year?

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Jarvis Jones is next.

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richt needs to beg ealey to come back to Athens asap! He can be crowell’s mentor and handler until he gets set to carry the load.

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these responses are darn funny. yesterday’s article on the rising percentage of obese people in our nation, and the responses to this issue, a big time college athlete with no indicators or inclinations of scholastic succcess flunks out of a flagship university that provids bogus courses and degrees for its athletes (Housing?),are both examples of the decline in our society’s base intelligence level. not so funny

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Dawg Rule,

He is not eligible for the entire season. He failed to even meet the standards of a remedial class designed to keep him eligible. I think the best thing that can be done in this situation is to dismiss him from the team and the school. Why waste another year waiting on him to be mature enough to do his work. He will be 24 years old before he can even strap them on next year anyway, and it is time for UGA to move on. He has had a lot more chances than most people at UGA to succeed and he has chosen to not take advantage of a wonderful opportunity. The best chance I see for him is to find a trade school, and learn a job that he can do for his life. The NFL is not waiting for him to grow up and UGA should not either.
It is sad to seem somebody shoot himself in the feet that many times.

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Bitter…is that Strom Thurman or Storm Davis?

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@Sess Poole…well said my friend…@just sayin…Food Lion Bag Boy is one of the most respected posters on the AJC blogs; you owe him an apology boy…

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I think everyone could see… poor Caleb Pauper never lived up to his potentionial. That’s a concern when you think of the press clippings for Mr. Crowell!

4-3 = #1 Crowell

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What people are forgetting is yeah we lose our best 2RB’s, our best two WR’s, your best OL, and our best defensive players from last year BUT you idiots forget we got one of the most sought after Offensive Cordinators in the nation. One word: BOBO…..He will take this 18 year and make us at Dawgnation forget every running back INCLUDING some guy name Walker #34 who played in 1980. Mark my words UGA is going to win the National Championship. Cash in your 401ks Dawgnation that was collected while employed at Jiffy Lube and lets turn the BCS championship game into a UGA BLACKOUT!!!

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St Richt, we went 6-7 (or whatever) with all these “best” players, how bad can the next wave be? Actually, with the exception of Green, they all very well might be better.

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murray county mystic….I’ll bet that you, Sess Poole and Food Lion Bag Boy are the same person. If not then all three of you must be brothers…and dumb ones at that.

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According to Mr. Charlie, Georgia should just suit up the entire dream team of incoming freshmen this year. That would be fun to watch. Yeah, just forget about your best upperclassmen and go young out of the box. Sounds like a sound strategy.

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King’s tweet actually sounded like Shakespeare compared to the incoming savior’s facebook quotes. That Isaiah Crowell sounds like one smart puppy! And he has already been proclaimed as the best RB in Athens before taking his first snap.

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I don;t know if its accurate to say No first year RB has ever made an impact. Thomas Brown came in his first year and almost got 1000 yards. Another fist year guy Danny Ware tacked on 750 that year. Lumpkin had 500 his first year. Washaun had over 700 in only nine games his first year. First year is not a perfect situation, but we aren’t exactly counting on a (either) to get 1000-1200 yards, just first downs.

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How stupid do you have to be to flunk out of UGA (especially with all of the assistance the football players get)? This guy is about as smart as a box of rocks.

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By the way IC tweeted, he is not the brightest bulb on the tree! 7-4 at best.

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Wasn’t it great when you recruited athhletes and barring injury got four years of competition from them. Now because the majority of the universities want to win no matter the cost, we find that colleges have become a breeding ground of thugs. We still have some schools that compete while maintaining their integrity but they have become few and far between.

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Not going to miss an unmotivated, selfish, and overhyped bust. He would have been a very poor role model for Crowell. I have my doubts about IC already from some of his interviews…not much more legible or understandable than King’s Twitterbombs.

This guy was a joke…period. Dawgs are used to NOT playing with him as is…loss on paper, not on the field.

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I’ll go out on a limb and suggest that some dog fans wish they would see me the first game instead of BS.

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@murray county mystic

Herschel was held under 100 yards and scoreless once his senior year of highschool–to ECI, so 94 yards from IC means nothing…just hope we have no injuries

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I heard he spent so much time watching cartoons on TV that his friends had begun calling him Cable King.

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Agree with Shultz. Knew the day would come eventually.

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I find myself still laughing at this. When are you UGA fans going to grasp that your team is nothing special. They’re not.

Call me when you guys become relevant.

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I haven’t had time to read all of these, but l wanted to just say that to assert this will be “no big deal” is short-sighted at best and naive at worst.

None of the backs we have now have had to pick up a blitz in live action.

If I am Murray, I am more than a little concerned at this point.

Is Crowell super talented? Absolutely. I’ve seen his tape and seen him in live action. Do I feel supremely confident right now knowing he will most likey be our every down back this season….not even a little bit.

Hopefully Boo can step in and show us something, and CT can be the touchdown, big play threat we need. At least early in the season, we will have to be running back by committee, which, let’s face it, is not a great place to be in the SEC if you’re not named Cadillac, Ronnie Brown, Mark Ingram, or Trent Richardson, etc.

We may be fine, ultimately, but to suggest this is nothing (coupled with Ealy’s departure) is ridiculous.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DAWGS! SIC ‘EM!

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King says “Let God take control”. What a bunch of crap! HE needed to take control of his life and worked his a$$ off in school to become eligible. We don’t need slackers like this at UGA. GOOD RIDDANCE!

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Funny how the two studs are gone now to make run for the next super stud!!

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I think that this deals with one of the problems that has been plaguing uga the past couple of years. This kid hasn’t shown the work ethic necessary to play big at this level. After Ealey left…there HAD to be a groan at the thought of King being THE guy to teach Crowell. Crowell will be better served learning from the coaches and finding his own place in the history books. You have to wish King the best…hopefully, he’ll learn from this! Crowell…it’s your ball…make your own history! With the exception of that last game of the season, of course!

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the key to recruiting in Georgia is to stay in the metro area; sure CCKing was a bust, but Kelvin Shepard from Stone Mtn. worked out pretty well in Baton Rouge. Eliminate any kid north of Cartersville(questionable competition), south of Griffin( questionable intelligence)and you’ll do just fine. You may not like what I said, but it is the truth.

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Lord help us…these 2 morons will reproduce.

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too bad for celeb i was hoping he would turn things around there certainly are some question marks for our dogs however i see a tuenaround coming maybe not all the way next year but beginnong for all; you folks from other schools go look in thr mirrow and admit you are a loser thar starts the healing

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Ok….so what does this do for expectations??? If Richt only wins 8, and one of those losses is to Florida (again), will Georgia fans demand a change?

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that Isaiah Crowell is the real deal, and opposing teams fans are trying to reassure themselves that he will be a bust. Witness the rumormongering going on, and as they hope against hope that IC will somehow not get to play.

Dream Team for UGA= Nightmare for opponents

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Give Caleb a job at the ajc, his spelling fits right in…….front page article on ajc.com has break misspelled as brake in it.

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Crowell = All Eggs in One Basket

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GR8- As a long time educator in the state of Georgia, there is nothing wrong with the education system in Ga. Like everything else you have people like the Atlanta Superintendent that is put in a position that she was not qualified for. Also the people that approved a big bonus for higher test scores should be held accountable also. Why get a bonus for just doing your job? An education is there if you want it. Caleb King was allowed to transfer because of grades and the lax GHSA transfer rules allowed it. If I have one knock against Richt (and I am a Richt fan) he has brought in some kids with very questionable character. Finally we are weeding some of them out. No they weeded themselves out. But don’t judge the education in Georgia by King or that so called Superintendent of the APS.

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King had academic troubles in high school… you all knew that…how did you expect the kid to graduate from college????

King had academic troubles in high school… you all knew that…how did you expect the kid to graduate from college????

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Big Ten Champs – All I am saying is that we put blame on the system when like I said there is an education there if you want it. Too many blame the education system for their failures. Sure there could be improvements like in all states. I will put the top students in Ga. against the top in any other state any day. By the way it doesn’t take brains to be a cornhusker.

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Well, Georgia needed to wipe the slate clean. I never thought that Ealey or King were D1A running backs but very good D1AA players. This sounds to me like things are starting to turn around in Athens.
I was also surprised that the Assistant Recruiting Coordinator’s job only pays 40K a year. Maybe Georgia needs to hire some difference makers to the staff and pay them! It’s all relevant to success.

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@CHDawg…show some class, loser…my friend from Nebraska brings a winning tradition to this blog; something you UGAG idiots can’t fathom..now apologize boy before daddy takes off his belt…

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Again, your logic is retarded. It is the system. You want me to think the education system here in Georgia has to wait for someone to make them better? That’s the point you are making.

As far as Nebraska? They lead the nation in Academic All Americans…..By a significant margin. Something Georgia can’t claim.

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bet UGA has the lead in arrests…by a significant margin…

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i’d take Pellini over Richt right now…

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Let’s judge Pellini over a ten year period. Many coaches win when they first get to a program. Judge them over a period of time.

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CaneDawg, I feel you pain daily. Everytime I read these blogs and see the comments filtered through “highly sugared kool aid” I get the urge to lash out. This program is floundering mercilessly, but as dim as things are, I see light at the end of the tunnel through the eyes of Greg McGarity. He has put the wheels in motion, the gears are starting to turn, but it’s going to be several years before we are where we need to be, with or without Richt, McGarity will succeed, I believe.

I strongly disagree with your position on Cam Newton. He was a paid gun for one year. I won’t even start discussing or debating specifics on that with you.

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Just watching him help knock the Techites out of the Top 10
in 2009 was worth i, but it was time for him to go. Bad attitude.

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Why are you living in Georgia if it is so bad? Are you going to fly your kids to school in Nebraska? I don’t believe they have a bus that runs that route. This is a public forum and that is why I am on here. What happened in 1980? Oh yea run Herschel run! Nothing wrong with hoping and believing your team is going to be good.

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Big Ten Champs – I guarantee you that Nebraska does’t want any part of the SEC. Maybe you’ll should to play in the Ivey League since your academics are so good. What was his name Phillips? The great back that Osborne breast fed.

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I’m a big Patriot fan, but I just came on over to this public forum to voice my displeasure with UGA football. Just because you beat GT every year, you guys think you are great. You are all terrible losers, and I just wanted you to know. Btw, I love murray cty, nebraska, and missouri, too.

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Looks like the Georgia fans are a little sensitive tonight.

What could be the reason?

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Nebraska hasn’t done anything since Eric Crouch and they were an option offense. What makes you think they are going to do anything now? Do you think they are going to win a conference championship because they couldn’t beat Oklahoma and Texas and moved to the Big 10? Yea, you might be right. The Big 10 is going to be down because OSU is in shambles and Michigan is changing coaches. The only way Nebraska wins anything.

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Beverly, are you attempting to use humor with that comment?

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Big Ten Champs – Now you talking! Nobody has crowned UGA champions, but there is nothing wrong with going into each season on a positive. There is nothing like southern hospitality and we welcome you here to Georgia and we may not be extraordinay, but I guarantee you everybody on our schedule no matter what sport respects us.

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you are hilarious !!

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@hit a single – who are you? Are you from Nebraska also? Damn we are being invaded. Hey do you’ll have a Johnny Rodgers we could have?

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thank you Patriot man…I have only one “handle”…I am the Murray Country Mystic…no association with my new friend from Nebraska or anyone else. Our common thread is our joint need to vent when it comes to UGAG football, more to the point, the idiots in the UGAG WalMart gear, spouting the percieved “greatness” of the mid-tier program based in Athens. I have lived in several states and you GA fans are easlily the most delusional in this great country of ours…1980 was a long time ago…

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Crowell’s highlight videos aren’t even impressive.

Good luck!

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Hey Jeff,

I totally disagree and think this will definitely have a negative impact on the Dawgs this year. You can’t loose all your experience at running back and it be a good thing. We are putting all our hopes and dreams on an 18 year old kid who got stuffed by measely Calhoun in the high school playoffs and proceeded to flick off all the fans who were there. He also has struggled in the summer workouts and has never played a down in SEC football so forgive me if I’m a little concerned. Personally, I am expecting more out of Ken Malcome than I am Crowell.

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Wes, I guess nothing impresses you. They looked pretty good to me. Never goes down on first contact. Gets out of tackles like Knowshon Moreno. Has break away speed when he gets into open field. I just love it when someone comes on here and makes a moronic comment like that

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Colonel Reb – I bet you that Archie and Eli respected us and they are the ones that count, not you.

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I agree with you 100 percent Jeff. Tired of his not going to class and getting in trouble with the Police. I had no confidence that he was not going to get into some kind of trouble again. Better to be done with him now than to get 5 games into the season and all of a sudden he is gone.

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Florida’s going to lose 5-6 games this year for sure. Not worried about them.

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amen Flying Tigers…UGA is a better fit in the ACC; no longer competitive in the big-boy conference…Hit a single, read my friend Tigers comment…he’s correct regarding UF completely choking out UGA dreams…

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Murray, why don’t you and Tiger take you love fest with each other somewhere else. If we want to read moronic comments on a blog we will go to the Tech blog.

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Boise will introduce IC to big-time football…

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Flying Tiger – I am glad everybody is concerned about UGA. I wonder why so much attention is given to UGA?

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Typical Ga responses. Ever heard the term “student athlete”?

It is all about who the next player for that position who may flunk out or n
Be arrested! Cromwell?

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Let’s open it up….get crafty. It seems we have a lot of young speed coming in. Utilize it, adapt, spread it out, outscore everyone with our speed. Throw J. Scott-Wesley, Crowell, Smith in the backfield and play some spread option. Throw some five wide sets. Boo up the middle with Figgins leading the way! We have to play young guys. Bobo if you are reading this let’s open it up!

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great post, Darah…

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murray county mystic – I can see why she put you on the road.

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Hate repeating myself, I said this on Bill’s blog. Plug Jenkins and Geathers in as tailback, rotate them every series. Oline problems dimished greatly, and the Dline will be worn out by mid third quarter. Can’t lose.

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Who is Boise St.’s starting rb?

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Kerry’s mommy must have wanted a girl.

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and the handle “kerryb” evokes memories of the writings of Hemmingway and Thoreau…or for you Ga grads, Bevis and Butthead…

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I really believe that Ken Malcom will be number one on the depth chart and will have a great year. He has alot more potential than King. He is stronger and it will take more than one to tackle him.

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thanks Tiger…

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hehehe….murray, you’re so funny. can i polish your knob?

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how can a football player possibly flunk out at the university of football? they stick the players in developmental studies classes that are basically at a middle school level and keep them eligible with special tutors, academic coaches, etc. This dude must be beyond dumb.

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I feel more for Kings “ex-teamates” for the selfishness displayed by King. With the aid available no way King couldn’t have made it if he had wanted it.

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Promoting the liberal agenda and uga football since 1969

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Good on ya Marine dog—anyone who has been in the fight knows-don’t desert your brother when he is down 1st armour div 71-74

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That’s how many people are on the final space shuttle misson. Oh and one is a GT grad. Just sayin…

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What position did he play?

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good point Gambs…this bunch is in real trouble…Boise will expose them and Sc will dispose of them…long season in Athens…good post Tigers…but if you used the criteria you laid out, there would never be any UGA posts…

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King was as overrated a running back as any in Georgia high school history. I have never coached football and stopped playing in 7th grade, so why is it I was right when I told EVERYONE who would listen after UGA signed him that he would be a bust? He became better than I thought from working very hard, but he did not have the academic smarts to succeed long term (left Parkview for Greater Atlanta Christian? Huh? Grade fixing?!) GREAT kid, as nice to be around as any. Signed everything. Just a shame because had he attended Ga Southern or Tenn-Chattanooga, he would have been a stud. Instead, Bobo the clown (great recruiter, terrible scout) thinks he is the real deal and brings him to Athens where he rarely made a difference. Mr. Richt continues to have problems from his poor hiring decisions and also needs to stop using these completely moronic, OVERRATED RECRUITING SERVICES like Scout and Rivals. These idiots know less than I do, they just want all the sheeple to pay the $100 per year to read all the nonsense they publish (sue me). The coach needs to hire a real scout to go out and find the REAL talent that Georgia continues to fail to sign (Jonathan Dwyer, Jamal Lewis come to mind). Only then will UGA ever reach it’s potential. For now, Richt has to hold his breath that Ken Malcome and Isaiah Crowell are as good in games as they are in practice. If not, we’ll be welcoming a new coach come January.

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And you know that Calhoun keyed heavily on Crowell all night. Crowell still broke a long TD run that ended up being called back. Even Calhoun fans said that Carver’s offense was more effective when they had Crowell on the sideline because they became balanced and the defense couldn’t key on anyone. But Carver’s staff didn’t capitalize on that. Can’t blame that on Crowell.

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1980 was 31 years ago. Plus Herschel was a freak of nature, even if he was, “My God, only a Freshman” now ….. Div 1 football has gotten a WHOLE LOT tougher since then. \

You can’t put all your eggs in ONE tailback’s basket. He will be done by game 7 if MR & staff overuse this guy. He might be every bit as good, or better, than Lattimore, but SC even ended with 4 Ls if I’m correct and they had a better WR corpse in 2010 than UGA does in 2011.

Hope the kid doesn’t get hurt, and the coaching staff doesn’t think he’s their only option. This is a GREAT opportunity for someone on the team to make his mark.

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GT Fan, overuse Crowell?!! LMAO, they couldn’t even figure out how to get Moreno on the field when he was more than ready. If Richt and Bozo had Herschel Walker today, he would end the season averaging 10 carries per game and finish with 850 yards rushing. Trust me.

Don, thanks for confirming what I knew in 2007, that King was not only overrated, but that GAC took him in to save him academically so he could qualify to get in to a Division 1 school. Overrated as they say. Knew it all along.

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Don,

I agree.

Neither King nor Ealey would have lasted at any other SEC program for more than one year.

Richt has been more interested in saving souls and the players took advantage of him.

Now he has a new AD, his job is on the line, and these decisions have been taken away from him.

The problem for Georgia is most of those decisions should have been made years ago and those scholarships would have already been given to players who are willing to put forth the required effort to win.

Now you see all the moves finally coming in the same year and there are no experienced players to step in on the offensive line, at running back, and at linebacker. Georgia will struggle this year because of it.

It’s too late for Richt to save his job this season. He’s gone. But long term, this house cleaning will help your program.

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Good luck with reading defenses, picking up blitzes, and pass protection. Spin it however you want, but this is going to hurt the offense a lot. Defensive coordinators will be licking their chops. UGA coaches will have to limit their play calling for at least a few games if not the whole season.

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As a UGA fan, I suppose I should dig up all my dawg bones in the backyard and move to Alabama where the world is crimson and all is beautiful. Naw….

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Jeff I agree not always but on this I do.

If I remember correctly it was Ealey and King who fumbled at the goal line on several occasions last year that cost us games.

And what may I ask is all the Mark Richt talk, He is not responsible for King not hitting the books. He is a good coach and a better man be glad we have him. We could have Tressel or someone like him Then you when them all and then give them back,

Go Dawgs!

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Funny how Jeff writes an article about having a true Freshman RB as the starting and only reliable RB on the team and it is no big deal, because he is a UGA Homer. If it were another team, he would have written the same article stating that (insert team Jeff does not like here) is in deep trouble due to not have a dependable running game. I guess when you have the pen, you can spin it any way that you please.

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uga another 6-6 season at best.

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This proofs how good Cromwell is. Coach Richt cut loose the stinkys boys Ealey and King cause he knew he had a real mans for reloading in Crowell. That allowed Coach Richt to release fumble artist and bad attitude Ealey. Then he able to trumps up charges and stick King with bad grades to free scholly and give Crowell more toting of the rock.

Crowell is finally real deal for Dawgs at RB and goning break Herschel records. That put Dawgs to dominants East and just got to beat Bammers to play in BCS title. Glad we cut stinkys loose in Ealey and King to gives us more schollies to bring in talent and lets Crowell explode onto sceen as freshman. Tough luck for Ealey and King but Ealey deserving for bad attitude and both got to be casted out for not exposing talents and SEC speed.

Go Dawgs!

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No Big deal and No Big loss since UGA wasnt gonna do much this year anyway. O line still cant run block under Boo Boo the clown. But UGA still will go 5 – 7 so not much has changed….

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For once Shultz is right-on as far as Caleb offering alot to the offense this year. Our main thrust will be with IC, Boo, and Figgins………I’m still optomistic, knowing Richt will have to take over alot of the play calling duties……..Dude is certainly smart enough to pull a rabbit out of a hat, and utilize his talent on the O side of the ball………Moving pocket, helps a mobile Murray, Let Boo take the lion share of the “tween the tackles” carries, let IC play “his” game by spreading the field out a little, get the kid in “space”……….He’ll make plays…….Wrs are unproven, but will do well, especially with Orson Charles in the game……….Key to 2011……..Our Defense !…..Coach Todd Grantham has his troups ready, which will creat alot of “team chemistry”………..I’m not worried !………I’m a GEEEOOOORRRGIA BULLDOG……………AND you heard it from me!……..and I’m right most all the time……….10 wins this year……..11 after the bowl game………Richt survives, picks up two more backs in the next class………Wins the National Championship in 2012………Yup, you heard it from me………….I’m RED…………GO DOGS!!!!!

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This is what happens when no one tell a kid from day one that it will take hard work. He went to three different high schools because of academics. Started at Columbia, then Parkview, and left for a private school his senior year (tore ACL). His academic struggles have been well documented since he began high school. I unlike most people on this site really wish that he gets himself together outside of football and take care of business. Good luck son! A persons true self measure comes when they are dealing with setbacks and hitting rock bottom. Continue to grow as a person and you will be ok.

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To all UGA fans: I have never seen so much to do over nothing. King`s being ineligible is a non-event.
As Jeff said, Crowell was going to be the man anyway. CMR had already decided and said this in so many words. Also, Crowell has said his goal is to gain 1000 yards and be an All-American as a freshman. So relax guys and cool off. It is still hot outside but your first game is in the cool Dome.

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crowell will run all over boise state–their D is terrible. My people in athens say that crowell may be the best back since walker. King? a bust from day 1–good riddance!

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“Scouting services had him as one of the top running backs in the nation and the first overall player in Georgia back in 2006. Either they were wrong or he figured he would just let the resume do the work for him in Athens.”

Jeff,
That is EXACTLY why folks should be worried. You could very well be typing that same line about Crowell in a couple of years. There is no way of knwoing how any recruit is going to pan out and you’re saying UGA should be fine with pinning their hopes on one? Sensible folks sure as heck should be worried.

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That’s right. Keep heaping all this pressure on Isaiah Crowell. Just don’t complain when he doesn’t live up to your ridiculous expectations.

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This dawg team is loaded! Murray’s the best QB in the league and Crowell will light it up. GA beats sc and fla and wins the East–bet the house.

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I see two glaring comments that are complete misrepresentations of the facts, and in fact ignore the facts all together. 1. Only get athletes from Atlanta area. Let’s see, King finally landed at ATLANTA Christian Academy, so that worked out well. Two of the four robbers in the Auburn jail right now, are Atlanta city products. That worked out well. 2. UGA has got to stop allowing people like King to enter college. Just how many other schools in the SEC, or for that fact in the country, also tried to get King out of high school?
How about we try to get the NCAA to raise the standards up a little bit on admission standards in the first place. Would the average athlete, if he was just trying to get into school based on academics alone, have the 3.2 GPA, that is suppose to be the nation wide minimum, for other students that are not athletes? I think we know the answer there. The problem with folks like King, starts long before they ever get to college.
Where are the parent(s)? Did the high school coaches and teachers decide that he could slide through school as long as he could tote the rock? Would we even know who C. King is, if not for his athletic ability? If we could have a positive solution to just these few things, maybe we would not have so many C. Kings now. What will become of him now. He is not literate enough to function at an acceptable level to get a decent paying job and he is only 23 years old. How do you motivate him, to take the time to want to learn? Who’s job is it to teach him responsibility? If society gets the answers to that, we will all be better off in society. Quit filling these kids heads up with notions that they will all be in the NFL in a couple of years. Make them do real college level work in order to play sports at that level. Push these rich bunch of NFL owners to form a real minor league where kids can go, if they are not academically qualified but have special gifts as athletes. UGA is by far the only school guilty of offering a scholarship to kids that have no place in college. If the standards for admission got tougher, maybe our athletes might be better students. No dumb down courses for athletes. might help also.

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JB, still time to sell short. Negative comments about dawgs does not make you a hater. To discount problems is not a good thing. Richt started out so well for the program to be where it is today. In my opinion, Richt is probably the best person to stand on UGA’s side line as a fb coach.

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[...] Loss of King is no big deal, argues Jeff Schultz of the AJC. [...]

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Again, this does not happen at Nebraska.

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Mobile Dawg said: I strongly disagree with your position on Cam Newton. He was a paid gun for one year. I won’t even start discussing or debating specifics on that with you.
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That’s because you have no specifics dipstick. Respond with one single credible article, source, or anything that isn’t a blog or some blowhard trying to bring Auburn down that proves Cam and Auburn are dirty and then we will talk. Until then shut your mouth, you just come off as sour grapes.

P.S. Where are the wiretaps and recordings everyone said existed? You know that trial over Victoryland is going on right now. What happened to all that garbage about Auburn paying kids through the casino fans have heard for 25 years now?

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Hey, if the Dawgs’ season goes down the pooper, turn your eyes toward a team down in Statesboro. Georgia Southern will be REAL good this year. I wish UGA the best, but all will not be lost in all of the Peach State this season thanks to the GSU Eagles.

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Dittos on your post, Me!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Richt is a joke, and has no idea how to handle players on or off the
field!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Considering that every major school has tutors, writers, special help, etc. it is interesting to have a player flunk out in the 5th year. I am not sure but I think progress(NCAA standards) has to be shown at all schools to keep a player eligible. By the way Nebraska is what I think of when I think academics>yeah sure ahead of Stanford, Vandy, Duke, and Rice. What is their major corn growing or learning Larry the Cable guy jokes?

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checked out the Facebook page after reading about it in the comments. I feel sad for these young men and women that grow up in an environment that encourages such poor language and life skills. Hey, why don’t we take pictures where we look smoked out or are shooting birds? Just looking at the written comments and photos, it looks like Mr. Crowell will be another bust, dragged down by the lack of education and integrity that he idolizes and is surrounded by.

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Is Crowell really as good say as a Marcus Lattimore? I hope he has that kind of impact, we are really depending on a 18 year old to make or break our season which is very scary. I still say we win the SEC this year and make a run at the NC like AU did last year…our schedule sets up perfect…

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Jeff I think the point is not how a football team will do but rather what is happening to our youth and our schools – athletes are courted, idolized, protected – just because they can play a game. They are only as valuable as their last play and if they can’t play anymore they are not needed. The sad thing is what happens now to an uneducated former football player.

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How good is Boo Malcome? I know nothing about him, only that he was a 4-star. I hope he can pass block! GEEEEEZ!

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Tom, if you had one shred of sense you would realize that’s exactly why I didn’t get into the Newton thing. My response was to Cane, nobody jerked your tail.

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Could Richard Samuel possibly re emerge in O backfield?

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Caleb King twitter post, July 2012: “french fries r hard, sometimes u cant control. wasted oppurtoonitee at UGA. hope Ronnie Mac wont brake me. see u wen its 2 4 1 egg mcmuffin.”

I’m a UGA grad and it’s just keep getting more embarrassing for this program. At least if you are going to have this kind of crap every offseason, at least put up some championship caliber seasons since these bricks are supposed to have world-class talent. I think Richt has to at least win the East or he’s out, the big-time donors have to be getting tired of this stuff.

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what is so funny is once again how Richt was a saint down in Honduras or wherever he was and now he is a no good so and so….told you….you cannot make this up…but why didn’t the education dept. give Richt heads up while he was away..maybe he could have brought back with him a recruit that knows how to run…hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

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I really like Jeff Schultz…especially after listening to you talk on 790 the Zone sports talk radio. But…what in the hell have you been smoking dude. I hope Crowell is the 2nd coming of Herschel Walker…but to suggest that Crowell is ready and this is no big deal…is obviously CRAZY. I wish Georgia the best….but my money is on Boise St. all day.

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AJC and all your shameless photos of your man in Honduras, suntan head..well let’s see, Ealey gone, King gone, Crowell? just a matter of time

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hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

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Once again I offer to you ‘The Camilla Comet’…mild-mannered, wide-receiver (so-far), 4-star recruit, 100 meter and 200 meter dash champion, bulked up to over 220-plus (and still probably the fastest guy on the squad), reputation for having both ‘moves’ and tackle-breaking power, incoming freshman that if he’s not given a look-see at RB now I’ll be most distraught.
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Oh yeah, his name is Justin Scott-Wesley.

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Maybe this is the last of the soulja boys,god i hope so!Program has been in downfall since Stafford-Moreno days.UGA has no speed and athleticism crime dawg,what a friggin moron!

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JEFF SHULTZ- How can you say its anyones show? He hasnt ran 1 down in college and youre already claiming him as a saviour to the team. Sure i’d love him to break out and rush like Herschel Walker did in his debut against Tennessee but thats foolish talk.
What indications have come to your attention that Crowell is a god-send RB? Players are better, quicker and stronger in college lest you forgot that. In a perfect world it would be a huge i mean huge blessing if Crowell was just that type back.
It has been many many moons since Georgia had a RB thats NFL Quality and i guess Edwards was the last one to come to mind and besides Georgia’s Offense is set up more for the passing game than running game.
We just hope and pray no injuries, grades, team violations, and committing of a crime befalls this guy. Talent will keep you at Georgia but Bad Character will land you in jail.
Theres still weeks left before the season opener and lots can happen. To be honest i just want Georgia to show up on both sides of the football against Boise St. and keep it close and show us flashes of how good their gonna be and i’ll keep the barf bag next to my recliner when i see Bobo calling the plays.
But the one aspect that i agree with JEFF SHULTZ on is maybe just maybe i could see Richt use Crowell some to see what he’s capable of doing.

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You would think that Richt would make sure his starting tailback would be making good enough grades to stay on the team since he is so important. I guess he’s too busy on Missions overseas to do his job at UGA ?
Now UGA has to settle for a freshman straight out of high school. Richt has failed UGA again.

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For all you name-sayers from Florida and Tech you’ve got alot more to worry about than you ever did. Floridas program is in the tank, they got a new coach and the personnel they have is geared up to only pass with a miniscue running game.
They have no game breakers like they used to, the coach is gone, i think this will be the worst team Florida has had in 50 years. It’ll take 3-5 years for them to just become a respectable team again. Look to lose 2-3 games at “The Swamp” and 2-3 on the road and 1 game this year to Georgia.
As for Tech nothing ever changes. They will always i mean always wish they had any talent to put on the field. If they were in the SEC this year i’d say the only game they would win could be against a Div. 11 team other than that i really dont know if they’ll win 3 games this year.
Georgia has the best opportunity of those 3 teams to have a very good season and the other 2 teams needs to just pray for a .500 year.
I dont say this out of hatred because those are the facts. Florida St. and Miami got most of the Florida Recruits leaving Florida with the crumbs. You were very lucky to have maybe one of the greatest QB and Coach in college football, basking in the sun having a great time seeing your beloved gators crush schools but now its on the downward cycle and you’ll have to learn how to sit there and watch them lose with clinched fists, cursing, and gritting your teeth.
I would say to make alot of appointments to your orthdonists, drink very heavily and buy yourself a punching bag.
As for Tech…….. wont be atleast another decade before you may win the ACC well atleast in football. Up n down coaching, over achievers i would just give away your season tickets.
Go take up a hobbie like scrabble and listen to the games on the radio. We just dont want alot of people having heart problems this season and maybe they should give free heart exams before games.
You know those things that are in the trailors.
Or if you just miss being downtown then i would suggest that you hang out at the Varsity and devour on those dogs n burgers with lots of grease and fat and calories.
Honestly dont consume yourself with Tech, watch them in the fall in basketball.

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Malcome is last on depth chart behind a “walk-on”. That sounds about right that he is the best UGA’s got.

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King really didnt show me anything special, but was adaquate,I dont know much about boo but from what I’ve read the guy is a special talent. I do know a little something about crowell and believe me when I say the guy is the real deal far as a pure tail back hopefully the young man will take advantage of the misfortunes of others and not make the same mistakes. Also the coaches should stay tough on him to have him physically and mentally ready not give him the super star treatment. I think if we can get both of these guys up to speed on everything conditioning, playbook, off the feild pressures and mental state. We can have a two head monster similar to what oregon had, maybe better.

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Ealey & King were the top two backs for a reason. They were the # 1 & 2 backs. To now say they weren’t any good or aren’t needed is just stupid. Carlton Thomas is the best UGA has (assuming Crowell doesn’t get forced into starting). That means a 170 lb. runt against SEC defenses. Sad.

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If Nebraska suddenly sunk to the center of the earth, would anybody notice?

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What a expert you are Jeff….. Crowell is a high school football player…. High school doesn’t always translate into a college football player. Matter of fact, the ODDS are dead against Crowell becoming a superstar at the collegiate level… I mean, some times I wonder how in the world you come up with crap like this… Crap like Ealey NOT GOOD ENOUGH…. King NOT GOOD ENOUGH…. Those two were studs in the backfield for UGA.. The only reason they didn’t do any better was because of the pitiful line play… How long have you been watching football? Good Grief…

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our running game has been ok at best the last couple of years. the backs ran better from the police than they did against defences. give the new guys
a chance and lets see what happens

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Folks,

Starve the fire and it dies.

If you don’t know what the term means, “troll” refers to an online personality that uses his/her anonymity to “bait” users or turn valid discussions into full-blown arguments.

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Oh and one other assessment. When Isiah has one bad game lets see how quick he’s the front page joke of this Racist State. Just run Boy, and help us win and when you’ve loaded up Georgia’s pockets don’t you dare ask for a dime, because like A.J. we may have to sit you down and drill you negatively in the newspaper.

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moved here…..my bad…..

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I tolds every ones that being a Christian is the difference in winning and losing that why we gots to keep Coach Richt.

Just look at the sign in the photo with Cromwell replacing #3 Ealy and #4 King. #3 and #4 make #34. Herschel got to lets Crowell wear #34 cause Crowell goning to break Herschel records and takes us to several SECs and BCS champs.

This is exactly why we gots to keep Coach Richt for being Christian and getting Gods help with Dawgs winning as best team in SEC and nation.

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Damn 5 Star? are just another Pulpwood Smith….

Hairy dawg~~God helps all Christians where they’re dawg fans are not. but thank God for Richt.

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No surprises here, King was academically challenged before he arrived at UGA, which proves that UGA will drop their acacdemic standards for their football factory. There are too many issues surrounding the UGA program, and King is just the tip of the iceberg.

The King issue, the 2 UGA fans in Jax beating up on the disabled man at the Publix in Jax, CMR on the bubble, and the Ealey issue. Athens continues to fan the hate flames for this program, and these are the reasons that this program receives no respect, and the the laugh of D-1 football.

The arrogrant and overrated fan base is more concerned about getting drunk, and being as obnoxious as they can on game day, as opposed to being respectful and students of the game.

I am so looking forward to 2011…….so much material….so little time….

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The score will tell.

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Crowell look great and would excel at any other program aside from Athens. The arrogance, and lack of coaching will tank his potential…..just stick around. All anyone hears from Athens is about next year, and not the 6-7 season last year with an embarassing loss to UCF.

In addition your own boy went to Florida, and will continue the winning streak against UGA, which is a hugh slap in the face of the UGA program.

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Hardtruth, one other point: what was as clean as water was that King and Ealey weren’t meeting the minimum standards to remain at UGA. I understand they are kids, but if you are failing and not attending class or tutoring sessions, and you miss 5 meetings to talk about solutions, there is a big problem. That isn’t Richt’s fault. He appears to be one of the nicer guys you will find. I think everyone but the warped UGA/Richt haters here wishes these young men well. I hope they both make the pros, but I hope both get their degrees just in case it doesn’t work out.

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GT, be honest. You don’t know what you really have when you recruit, now do you? That is why 5 stars wind up being average and 3 stars sometimes win the Heisman. It is also why sometimes kids that underperform academically wind up doing well in college, and some drop out. Yes, if you limit your recruiting pool to kids that scored 1400 on the SAT you won’t have a lot of academic problems. Again be honest, GT: you are the head coach, and you see a 5 star recruit who has weak scores and grades. Are you going to try to recruit him and tutor him up to speed, or just give up on him? I suspect you would sign him if you thought there was a remote chance of him making the grades. We all love stories like “Blindside,” but you wouldn’t have signed Michael because he didn’t test out high enough, assuming your answer was no. These things happen in life, and the best thing to do is for everyone to learn a lesson. There are some deeper questions here, that hardtruth alluded to–money and NCAA football, but that is for another message.

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Make no mistake, loosing King hurts our offense. Caleb is dumber than a box a rocks, but he could be counted on to not only teach Crowell the ropes; being a former starter, but he could also provide valuable relief. Asking a true freshman to carry the load is a fools game.

Something is going on in Athens that nobody is getting the scoop on. I’ve never seen so many pre-season defections in 30+ years of following the Dawgs. There was no logical reason for Brent Benedict to leave the program, when he was so close to being a starter. Same holds true for A.J. Harmon.

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@algore: “loosing King hurts our offense. Caleb is dumber than a box a rocks,” Careful, you are loosing credibility as you speak…

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You may be right on this one Mark. However, many folks on here seem to think that the blocking scheme, etc. used by the offensive system is just too complex for young Crowell to learn before the first game. After reading King’s tweet from yesterday, I am convinced of one thing: to wit, if the guy who typed that tweet can learn the scheme, it ain’t complicated.

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AL – Agree with your thoughts about something being amiss in AThens with all the defections we’re seeing. However, that freshman running back thing worked pretty good in 1980.

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Exactly right Tired D. We got a freshman RB that replacing the stinkys bums Ealey and King. The picture is a sign that Crowell filling in for #3 and #4, or #34 that be Herschel number. We just got show faith in Dawgs and Coach Richt and then God rewards us with making sure we win SEC and BCS. That kind of signs is God showing us we just faith that we rewarded with what we deserved and due based on Dawg fans as best in nation.

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Crowell just stopped working out hard. His Head just swelled 4 sizes and now he fears nothing. How long until he gets arrested in Athens?
At least he thought he was going to have to compete with King to start the year. Now, what does Crowell fear? Nothing. This kid had a ego already because he reads his own press, but now what kind of Beast will be created? Murray better keep this kid grounded and focused this off season.

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Jerry80

Last thing we are worried about is a bunch of hillbilly cross breaders like UT, ya’ll sucked last year, get used to it…. Fulmer is gone

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RamboDog
July 9th, 2011
6:53 pm

Jerry80

Last thing we are worried about is a bunch of hillbilly cross breaders like UT, ya’ll sucked last year, get used to it…. Fulmer is gone

Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky all had the same record and looking down at only Vandy & Ole Miss. Don’t get to High there RamboDawg your team ain’t scaring NOBODY right now either.

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McCann crushes a 2 run homer.

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Perfect example of warped, twisted values. A young man loses his chance to get a degree and no one cares. A running back is removed from his football team and we now have an endless blog conversation. Whether he ever graduates is meaningless. A perfect example of what “big-time” college sports is all about. Disgusting.

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wreckmaniac
Don’t confuse facts and real life with the Dream of the NFL bouncing around in the heads of 95% of SEC football players.

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What’s that comin’

BURMA SHAVE

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Now that Yechies lost there NFL talents and caint recruit no mores. In the name the Lolly Pop Guild we welcome the pestky bugs to irrevalant munchin land football at bottom of barrels in stinky ACC. Not the SEC where the big boys plays with speeds and talents.

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I think all these negative comments about Caleb are completely uncalled for, and Jeff you and your
Caleb bashers should just drink bleach and because Caleb will be just fine.

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There aint no need to make fun of King. He goning be just fine in making of the big bucks as pro. We just need make room for Crowell to explode onto sceen and take over SEC. Moving out Ealy and King gots rid of fumbles to gets Crowell speed that burns and taking it house.

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Relax—crowell is the real deal—he’ll put up huge yards from the first game on. I’ve heard he’s better than lattimore at USC. GA upsets south carolina, blows out florida and wins the SEC east!!!!

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adding lots of vodka to my koolaid this fall. can’t take another year of verbal beatdowns from florida, central florida, alabama, auburn, tennessee, mississippi state, south carolina and Tech fans.

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Does anyone else wonder what hit Tweet meant: “…don’t let them [break] u. Don’t let who break you? The coaches who are trying to make you a better player? The university that is giving you a place to live and a college education? WTF is that all about?

It is probably just talk, just something to say to sound cool and deal with his emotions, but it just seems odd that his perception would be that the system is trying to break him. I feel for the guy. It sucks what he’s going through, and I wish him all the best. There is something about that text, though, that may be indicative of some of the disciplinary problems at UGA.

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What if Crowell can run the ball, but can’t block a lick? Murray will never last out the season. This scenario has happened before. Usually the red shirt year is for teaching all the little things it takes to be a complete runner. No chance this will happen at UGA. There’s just no depth and no time. Back up QB’S…….BE READY!

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Georgia Football = TOAST

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I’m sorry. Georgia football = burnt TOAST

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