Has Georgia duped us again, or was this just a hiccup?
Mark Richt wasn't pleased with his team's opener, and justifiably so. (Brant Sanderlin/AJC)
ATHENS – Teams like Georgia don’t put teams like Buffalo on the schedule to build character. Teams like Buffalo are put on the schedule because they’re perceived as safe, possibly even a punchline. Georgia was willing to pay the opponent $975,000 because that’s how much it takes now to find a school willing to suffer public humiliation and say, “Fine, hit me with that two-by-four. Just make sure our hotel has decent pillows.”
Something went wrong Saturday. Georgia paid for the entertainment, maybe a little exercise, but the expected embarrassment was closer to home. That might seem harsh given the Sanford Stadium scoreboard had a distinct tilt at the end: 45-23. But it shouldn’t be considered nearly satisfying, not for a program that went into the day with a preseason No. 6 ranking and aspires to something greater than just outlasting South Carolina in the SEC East Division.
Great teams don’t have first games like this. Great defenses don’t allow touchdown drives of 75, 94 and 75 yards to an opponent that went 5-19 over the past two years and was shut out twice by Temple. Top teams from the SEC shouldn’t allow a projected fifth-place team from the Mid-American Conference East 243 yards in the first half. The Bulldogs, a 37½-point favorite, led only 24-16 after two quarters — that because of a 100-yard kickoff return by freshman Todd Gurley, a gift goal following a blocked punt and a missed Buffalo extra point.
Defensive coordinator Todd Grantham said he had some choice "adjectives" for his players at halftime. (Brant Sanderlin/AJC)
Mark Richt is good in math. “If not for that, we’re losing at halftime.”
The defensive front got pushed around. (Buffalo rushed for 199 yards, including 147 in the first half.) Quarterback Aaron Murray frequently was off target. (Even Richt took a rare public shot at a player, referencing Murray’s overthrow to Tavarres King, saying: “He’s a veteran. You get a guy open like that on a post [pattern], you have to hit it.”)
Only Gurley and Georgia’s wide receivers were above criticism. Gurley was above everybody, actually. He had the kickoff return for the touchdown, two other scores on runs of 10 and 55 yards and he rushed for 100 yards on only eight carries in his debut.
But most Georgia players often looked like their heads were somewhere else, maybe Columbia, Mo., where the Dogs open conference play next week.
“Even the coaches had issues,” Richt said. He referenced plays when Georgia had 10 and 12 players on the field.
Was this an early hiccup? Or have we been duped again?
Nothing that occurred Saturday made you think this team is special. Actually, this was closer to a disturbing reminder of last season’s opener against Boise State in the Georgia Dome. The Dogs looked shockingly unprepared, unfocused and sloppy.
“I felt like garbage at halftime,” nose guard John Jenkins said.
“It wasn’t pretty,” Richt said. “I wasn’t thrilled with the way we played. We missed some early shots, offensively. We gave up some big plays.
“Am I concerned about it? Yeah. If we don’t play better than that next week, we’re going to come home sad.”
Defensive coordinator Todd Grantham was understandably animated on the sideline, and certainly at halftime with his players. His vaunted defense was missing five starters because of suspensions and injuries, but even he acknowledged, “That’s no excuse.” And he was right. Missing key players in the secondary doesn’t excuse the play of the defensive front.
“Play better,” he responded when asked what he told his players at intermission.
When asked if he delivered the message to the players that calmly, he said: “Not really. No. I don’t think you can [write] everything. I had some adjectives in there.”
Georgia carried its highest preseason ranking since 2008, when it was No. 1. The 92,000 fans who showed up expected more. They booed loudly in the first half. Thousands left at halftime. Thousands more left in the third quarter. The weather was humid, and the performance wasn’t worth sticking around for.
“If we wanted this to be a cakewalk, we should’ve came out and done a better job,” defensive end Abry Jones said.
Sometimes you don’t get what you pay for.
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DawgNole
September 2nd, 2012
8:50 pm
Mobile Dawg
September 2nd, 2012
8:57 am
Why is it guys like Dunwoody dawg always want to compare themselves to the lowest common denominator. Those teams who performed poorly, instead of the great ones like Bama. People like you make poor performance acceptable.
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Well said.
red and black
September 2nd, 2012
8:51 pm
Chris….thank you for a post that represents what the majority of UGA are trying to say. I would never bash the dawgs. Just sick of the hype going into every year and the coaches not producing. Man we can recruit….but if we just had a coach that could get their potential out of them.
Dawg-Nation
September 2nd, 2012
9:00 pm
Chris/Legion of whiners –
Actually I live in a town in Florida with approximately 50,000 Georgia Bulldog fans. And I hear virtually no complaining about anything at this point, the vast majority of fans are just happy that the football season started. The only complaining I hear is from Florida Gator fans, and whiny nut-cases like yourself on internet message boards. I suppose that we are just not as “educated” as you. Our loss, huh? Just an observation…
Chris
September 2nd, 2012
9:03 pm
Yes Red and Black, I know how it is. Dawg-Nation has a very simple mind and a lot of things obviously fly right over his head. In reference to his booing comment, I watched the game yesterday and the fans were booing the team on several occasions. There were a couple of instances when Rontavious Wooten made a good play, and the fans were going Wooooo. However, when your team keeps making terrible plays, and your OC keeps doing the unthinkable, and not what any other sane OC in the nation would do, you get boos, and that is what happened on several occasions yesterday.
Dawg-Nation is living in lala land where the grass is always green, money grows on trees, and Mark Richt is the best coach ever….he just doesn’t get it.
Dawg-Nation
September 2nd, 2012
9:03 pm
Red and black – you don’t represent the majority, I assure you, you have just gravitated to enough like minded people to convince yourself that you do. If you think I’m wrong, head to the next home game and voice your opinion loudly in the student section. Let me know what ya find out.
DawgNole
September 2nd, 2012
9:05 pm
5150 UOAD
September 2nd, 2012
9:14 am
Currently today Lost 9 in a row to teams making any top 25 poll; Currently today Lost 7 in a row to teams who made the Top 10 after # 9 Auburn 2006; and Lost Currently today 9 in a row every SEC team making winning SEC Record starting Ky 2007
Thomas Brown/ 13-1/ buLLdawg———————
I wondered where Thomas brown was Now I see Thomas Brown has Changed His Name Again……………….
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He hides behind other names as well. The guy’s sick. Creepy sick. Scary sick.
Dawg-Nation
September 2nd, 2012
9:06 pm
Chris – not going to sink to the level of obvious teenagers, sorry. Come back with some actual factual knowledge of football, and perhaps we can have an intelligent debate. Enjoy the season.
dawg dude
September 2nd, 2012
9:07 pm
Dawg-Nation, I hear what you are saying. I love the dawgs and bleed red and black. One game you really can’t judge from. But I do understand the concern from yesterday. Now, a win against Missouri will take that away. I just think we have had lofty expectations from years past….such as preseason #1 in 2008 and well, you know the rest. I am certainly not giving up after one sub par game.And we have the talent to get it done. I love the man our coach is….I just am not sure that he is coaching out talent up. And ofcourse the off the field issues continues to be a concern. Bottom line is UGA fans all love the dawgs. But when they take a different position than you….why bash them? Now, lets go get the Tigers!
Chris
September 2nd, 2012
9:09 pm
Dawg-Nation, you are actually the whiny nut case that has been on the board all night. I just got on hear, viewed many of your ignorant comments that are obviously coming from someone that doesn’t know jack sh_t about football, and I just couldn’t help but comment. I live in a town of millions, and have yet to hear one person say anything good about Georgia’s coaching performance yesterday.
AGAIN, we are not bashing the players. Gurley looked good, Marshal looked good, Murray looked average, and some other looked pretty good as well. We struggled in a game where we never should have because of our coaching staff. It is nothing new. It’s become a reoccurring theme at Georgia.
STEPHEN A.DOGG : Stats are for losers.
September 2nd, 2012
9:09 pm
DawgNation: Again I respectfully disagree with your thoughts. Last season you all complained about a highly touted RB that took himself out after every three carries. Now we have a RB this year that can smash a defense as Buffalo into oblivion and you hold him back out of cowardice and ignorance. All Gurley would have needed was 4 to 5 more carries and Buffalo’s defensive resistance would have collasped like a house of playing cards. At that point the game is out of had Gurley’s back on the bench and even Samuel is tearing off long runs. But no, Richt wants to de-emphasize the run when it’s clearly there and emphasize the pass as always. DawgNation it is you who have no knowledge of sound fundamental offensive strategy on the ground as field conditions dictate. It’s not hard, it’s simple if you identify your opponent’s weakness you continously exploit it. But you have been so taken in and conditioned by Richt’s offense until you think Richt’s outdated offense is infallable. Never mind this offense was destroyed and crushed by a LSU team with a QB that couldn’t pass a lick in the SECCG. LSU bullied and beat up UGA in one half in a manner UGA should have dominated Buffalo yesterday. DawgNation and Kingdaddy are Richt fans not Georgia fans. CSS is replaying Bama and Michigan right now. I suggest you tune in watch and learn how a real SEC offense and defense handles its business to wallop a heavy-weight opponent. You Richt-sypathizers alway have nothing but excuses for Richt when he always plays down to level of inferior, light-weight opponents.
red and black
September 2nd, 2012
9:11 pm
Come on Dawg-Nation. Is that all you have. How about you come to the next home game and say what you are saying to the student section in the 3rd quarter? Oh wait, if they perform like they did yesterday the students have already left the building. Did you see the empties in the 3rd quarter? Oh no ofcourse you didn’t. You did not even hear the boos.
Dawg-Nation
September 2nd, 2012
9:11 pm
Chris-
I do want to comment on your last post. I was AT the game; I can 100 percent positively state that the ONLY booing that occurred other than cheering for Wooten and Boo Malcolm was because of bad calls. You listen to television analysts too much.
Chris
September 2nd, 2012
9:13 pm
Dawg-Nation, what actual factual knowledge would you like? The fact that Georgia hasn’t been relevant since 2005? The fact that Mark Richt does less with more than any other coach in the Country?
I’m 35 BTW, and since you seem to have a child like personality, I thought I would throw some explicit comments your way to maybe show you how wrong you are. It obviously didn’t work.
Dawg-Nation
September 2nd, 2012
9:15 pm
Red and black – Is that all I have? Ummmm… I have yet to see you competently respond to any of my valid points yet. So why would I bother?
As for empty seats in the student section; it was Buffalo, and it was hot as hell. Leaving at halftime is not exactly a new phenomenon for students. If you really want to see an empty student section, check out some footage of Florida’s game at the Swamp.
bamanation
September 2nd, 2012
9:15 pm
Funny stuff dawg nation. Now the booing was because of bad calls and not because the puppies were having their hands full with Buffalo. At least alot of the georgia fans on here do not get so whiny and know that their team should have pounded Buffalo. Bad calls now that is funny.
Chris
September 2nd, 2012
9:17 pm
Dang Dawg-Nation…..your ignorance is just overflowing with every key stroke. I have about 30 friends that were at the game, and they were actually booing the bad play calls along with everyone else. I didn’t go because I actually thought it would be a cake walk. I guess I had a momentary Dawg-Nation moment.
aubietiger
September 2nd, 2012
9:19 pm
Been reading a few pages on here. Chris if I were you I would give up. You simply cannot talk sense to someone with blinders on. You make alot of sense. Ga played a very inferior opponent with a ton of talent and managed to play very mediocre. This seems to be a trait of Richt teams. And I know Auburn lost last night. I am still sick about it. But we played a very good ranked team. So bash if you may. But we did not open with Buffalo at least.
Dawg-Nation
September 2nd, 2012
9:20 pm
Chris – Only majorly, majorly insecure people state their real age on internet message boards to try to emasculate someone else. That’s kind of sad, you know? If it does make you feel better, I have about 4 other friends reading everything that you and red and black are replying. One’s a Bama fan; one a Seminole fan. But they can all agree that your attempts at retorts and pseudo-intellectualism are funny as hell. Kudos!
Dawg-Nation
September 2nd, 2012
9:22 pm
Chris – Oh? Did your entire class have a field trip?
Chris
September 2nd, 2012
9:27 pm
You are so right aubietiger. I do give up. I just wanted to make a few valid points but it just doesn’t make a dent with some people.
As an SEC fan, I was actually rooting for you guys last night. Sorry to see you lose.
Dawg_Nation
September 2nd, 2012
9:28 pm
Well, I’ve been replying, but my posts under the other id were no longer showing up. Can you imagine that?! A moderator at the AJC censoring the words of a Dawg fan? Shocker! How does it make the rest of you feel that you aren’t the ones that the Tech fans would censor? That should tell you everything you need to know about yourselves…
aubietiger
September 2nd, 2012
9:31 pm
Thanks Chris. I too root for the SEC. Wanted all SEC teams to beat their opponents badly….with the exception of Bama….but they looked very good. Sorry, just can’t do that one. Hope you guys give the newcomers from Missouri a real SEC welcome next week.
DaRon
September 2nd, 2012
9:42 pm
mark this down–Ga will beat missouri easily–they will be able to deal with SEC size and speed. The dogs were just flat and overconfident against lowly buffalo–no big deal. they’ll light it up big against missouri. dogs 37 missouri 13
KentuckyBlues
September 2nd, 2012
9:42 pm
Wow. Well, honestly… you all sound like idiots. Some of you are complaining about the coach, others are complaining about the fans who don’t like the coach. Well, I’ll be happy to switch coaches with you any day. I bet Florida and Tennessee would, too. We’ll take a few of your fans, too.
DawgNole
September 2nd, 2012
9:45 pm
Esquire
September 2nd, 2012
11:45 am
Who’s gonna watch Isaiah Crowell on ESPN @ Noon………..I am for a couple of series…….
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I watched a little of it. He got leveled on a block and was on the sidelines again. Looked familiar.
Dawg-Nation
September 2nd, 2012
9:51 pm
Oh, I didn’t willingly stop replying. I apparently got a 15 minute ban from the fine folks at AJC. Must feel great to be on the side of a Georgia debate on AJC here where the Tech fans in charge don’t want to censor you…because they agree with you. Kind of says it all, ya know?
Kentucky – Point taken and agreed. Good luck on the rest of your season.
DawgNole
September 2nd, 2012
9:59 pm
Big Crimson 75
September 2nd, 2012
11:47 am
Wow. I just read that College Game Day is going to be at the Texas A&M vs. Florida game.
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TG — that’s a direct result of ga’s spirited effort yesterday. The plan was for them to be in Columbia for Mizzu’s welcome to the SEC, but after uga’s performance, they chose College Station instead!!
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Well, you can bet your azz they didn’t change it to College Station as a direct result of fla’s spirited effort yesterday.
BamaSpanky
September 2nd, 2012
10:01 pm
Loool, I love the dissension. You puppies even tear apart each other. Then somebody starts spouting actual stats to back him up and the rest of you REALLY GET OFFENDED. Hahahaha… better than a movie. I shoulda brought popcorn.
STEPHEN A.DOGG : Stats are for losers.
September 2nd, 2012
10:08 pm
DawgNation/Kingdaddy: I personally have the utmost respect for Vince Dooley and what he did for Georgia. Coach Dooley dominated UF and won most of the games he had to win from 1964 to 1980, when Georgia broke out and made history with the sensational Herschel Walker. I have been a Georgia Bulldog fan since 1972 and though I didn’t always agree with Coach Dooley, I always respected him. The Tide respected the “Bear”, Auburn respected “Shug”, and we at Georgia respected Vince Dooley. Times were different then. The stakes weren’t nearly as high, coaches didn’t make millions, all you expected of your head coach was to simply win the games they were supposed to win and beat your main rivals.As long as Coach Dooley beat Florida and Tech, we expected him to coach at UGA for life. Times were simple then, expectations were reasonable and moderate and Georgia rarely played Bama, Tennessee or LSU. There was no So.Carolina or Arkansas in the SEC in those days. The Florida and Tech games were the highlight of the UGA schedule. Those halcyon days are gone forever. As are the days of giving a coach 15 to 20 years to win a national championship. It’s been 32 long years since UGA won the national title. Over one third of that time has been spent with Mark Richt and during that time Saban has won 3 national titles at two SEC schools. Urban Meyer claimed 2 national titles in five years at UF. Miles won a national title with two losses at LSU and even Auburn went gold in 2010. Georgia has all the resources available to pursue the national championship,but the coaches don’t have any hunger or urgency to win it all. Richt beats Tech, but has been dominated by UF. Richt has badly divided the fanbase and just doesn’t appear to be the person to get Georgia to the National Championship game much less win it because he has no killer instinct.
STEPHEN A.DOGG : Stats are for losers.
September 2nd, 2012
10:08 pm
DawgNation/Kingdaddy: I personally have the utmost respect for Vince Dooley and what he did for Georgia. Coach Dooley dominated UF and won most of the games he had to win from 1964 to 1980, when Georgia broke out and made history with the sensational Herschel Walker. I have been a Georgia Bulldog fan since 1972 and though I didn’t always agree with Coach Dooley, I always respected him. The Tide respected the “Bear”, Auburn respected “Shug”, and we at Georgia respected Vince Dooley. Times were different then. The stakes weren’t nearly as high, coaches didn’t make millions, all you expected of your head coach was to simply win the games they were supposed to win and beat your main rivals.As long as Coach Dooley beat Florida and Tech, we expected him to coach at UGA for life. Times were simple then, expectations were reasonable and moderate and Georgia rarely played Bama, Tennessee or LSU. There was no So.Carolina or Arkansas in the SEC in those days. The Florida and Tech games were the highlight of the UGA schedule. Those halcyon days are gone forever. As are the days of giving a coach 15 to 20 years to win a national championship. It’s been 32 long years since UGA won the national title. Over one third of that time has been spent with Mark Richt and during that time Saban has won 3 national titles at two SEC schools. Urban Meyer claimed 2 national titles in five years at UF. Miles won a national title with two losses at LSU and even Auburn went gold in 2010. Georgia has all the resources available to pursue the national championship,but the coaches don’t have any hunger or urgency to win it all. Richt beats Tech, but has been dominated by UF. Richt has badly divided the fanbase and just doesn’t appear to be the person to get Georgia to the National Championship game much less win it because he has no killer instinct.
Big Crimson 75
September 2nd, 2012
10:16 pm
Well, you can bet your azz they didn’t change it to College Station as a direct result of fla’s spirited effort yesterday.
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Agreed.
The crocs look bad — way worse than ga.
Penalties & more penalties.
Plus, it’s never a good sign when you have a 2 QB system & both QBs suck!!
BamaSpanky
September 2nd, 2012
10:21 pm
I want to give an impartial opinion here, since it didn’t affect my team at all. You shoulda won a national championship in 2008. I mean, that whole reason that you didn’t go to the game against a pathetic Ohio State was because of the lame teams can’t go if they don’t win the division thing. We kinda provede that 1 wrong last year. So If y’all don’t get shafted in Jan 08 and don’t end up playing Hawaii, looool, You still hate your coach so much?? Cause that 1 was definitely out of his control. Just curious. Kind of surprised ya’ll never give him credit for that 1.
BamaSpanky
September 2nd, 2012
10:34 pm
Yeah , thought that would throw a kink in your hating richt thing. Like the Kentucky guy says, there’s a lot of other schools that would be happy to have him. And you aint getting Kirby Smart, He’s happy right where he’s at. Plus the will muschamp thing isn’t working out so well for the gayturs. So who in the heck do you think you’re going to get to replace him?? Just somethin to think about.
DawgNole
September 2nd, 2012
10:40 pm
Dawg-Nation
September 2nd, 2012
4:30 pm
DawgNole – His point is that 1 or 2 bad plays can skew a statistic badly. A defense can play lights out all day, and then have 1 or 2 busted plays that raise a yards-per-carry average by several yards. It doesn’t mean that the defense as a unit isn’t good, it means that a particular player has something he needs to work on and address. Relax.
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I know what his point is, but it’s POINTLESS to talk about “taking away” anything that happened in the game and is in the record books. It happened; deal with it. If you “take away” Gurly’s 55-yard TD run, he only has 45 yards in 7 carries. So what? Tampa Gator says if you “take away” fla’s 14 penalities, they beat the crap out of BG. So what? You CAN”T take stuff away once it’s done, so quit talkin’ about it. Just go out and win the damn games.
kingdaddy
September 2nd, 2012
10:41 pm
One game at a time. Win the ones you’re supposed to and try to win the ones you aren’t supposed to. Play them all hard like it will be the last game of your life…
Whaler
September 2nd, 2012
10:44 pm
UGA looked a LOT better than I expected.
Running game-
Wow, where did we get this guy? I didn’t expect 3 td’s and 12 ypc from a freshman! Mark Richt’s going to win a LOT of games for the next 3 seasons. This guy’s a BEAST! Might have been the most impressive debut for a UGA running back I’ve seen in maybe 30 years. If the guy keeps working hard, and stays out of trouble, and injury free, he’s going to be SPECIAL! After all, Mark Richt’s record is 45-4 when he gets a 100 yard rusher. Don’t see anyone in the SEC holding Gurley to under 100 yards, so it’s gonna be a LOT of W’s. Marshall was pretty impressive, needs to work on his footwork and balance, didn’t seem as aware of his body as Gurley, fell down a lot. Malcome made some excellent tough runs. And even Samuel made some good runs. 227 yards rushing, that’s what you need to win the SEC. Great job Coach Bobo!
Passing Game-
Terrific. Receivers looked solid, King, Wooten, Bennett, and Brown and Mitchell didn’t even play! Holy cow, these guys are going to put up some MONSTER numbers once Mitchell nounces back over to offense. Murray had a better day than Barkley, not too bad.
This is the most balanced offense in the SEC and will battle Ark for total yards and points scored all season long.
Special Teams-
Wow, a punt block, 3 punts killed inside the 20, a kick off returned for td, and the punt/ko defense yieled no explosion plays. Who expected that kind of improvement? Wow. I was SO impressed.
Defense
they had 5 starters out, and still held opponent to 23 yards in the 3rd quarter and 1 td in the 2nd half. I expect these guys to remain a top 5 defense who gives LSU and Bama a run for their money once we get all of our guys back. Got no worries about these guys, 9 returned from a top 5 defense. Rambo, Ogletree, Commings, Vasser, Mitchell, Garrison Smith, John Jenkins, Geathers, Jordan Jenkins, Ray Drew, these are some studs.
All in all, I wanted to see special teams fixed, and Murray respecting the football this season. Got both wishes.
Might be a MAGICAL season.
11 game regular season winning streak continues to roll…who’s next…Mizzou?
Whaler
September 2nd, 2012
10:48 pm
Going into this season, my wish list was:
1- Murray protecting the ball
2- Special teams winning that phase
3- Find a running game
Wow, got all 3!
Whaler
September 2nd, 2012
10:54 pm
If Murray keep his passer rating higher than Barkleys, like he did this week, by virtue that Murray faces 8 top 25 pass defenses, where Barkley only faces 1 top 25 pass defense, if Murray can keep winning, keep protecting the ball, keep throwing 3 td’s a game, he’ll win the Heisman.
If Murray keeps playing this way, the whole Dawg Nation will tout his Heisman hopes on every blog known to mankind!
Murray now has 11 regular season wins in a row, and has won 11 out of his last 13 regular season games. He’s figuring out how to win football games.
If Murray ends up with a 22 game winning streak, how can he not win the Heisman?
gibsonbobcatdawg
September 2nd, 2012
11:07 pm
who want’s to bet some money, and I MEAN SOME MONEY, AGANIST THE BIG DAWGS NEXT WEEK, GEORGIA FANS OR MIZZ, let me know……and we can share emails or phone numbers, doesn’t matter to me..THE BIG DAWGS ARE GONNA EAT!!!!!!!!
Under The Bleachers
September 2nd, 2012
11:36 pm
You Alll know that UGA should win against Mizzou on Saturday, however the thing I just cannot get past is that Buffalo used a qb to scramble, make plays and force UGA’s defense to React instead of Forcing the action for much of the game.
Mizzou will use a QB is much like Denard Robinson but much taller and more capable of making throws to two recievers who are 6′ 5″ and run like deers.
If UGA does not have a full compliment of Defensive players and playing in front of a hostile Columbia Missouri crowd at night, it will be a tough tough game for UGA to win on the road.
Whaler
September 2nd, 2012
11:48 pm
Vegas says UGA wins by 3. Probably saying it will be a close game, because of UGA suspensions.
Mayson
September 2nd, 2012
11:57 pm
After reading these comments, I’m convinced – Georgia and CMR have some of the sorriest fans I have ever seen! With support like that, I’m surprised the program wins as much as it does – and it boggles my mind that kids keep signing on to play in front of you yahoos each Saturday. With friends like you, the Dawgs sure don’t need any enemies. Feel sorry for my School and it’s team.
Defense played like crud
September 3rd, 2012
12:50 am
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“Mark Richt needs to figure out what he was doing so right 10 years ago.”
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Joey, let’s be honest about it, ok ? 12 years ago 2001 Mark Richt bragged he knocked the lid off a Top 10 All-Time Wins Football Program by beating # 4 vols, but he lost 4 games including 2 who did not make any top 25 poll that same season. 11 years ago 2002 Mark Richt won The SEC Championship, but The SEC was down with only 1 other team making the Coaches’ Poll Top 25, a 4-Loss Auburn team; and, Mark Richt lost to Ron Zook the same season going 0-11 on 3rd Down Conversions. 10 years ago 2003 was a bummer losing to the top teams. 9 years ago 2004, the same but at least David Greene beat Florida for the 1st time in Mark Richt era. 8 years ago 2005 Mark Richt “won” The SEC Championship Game but ended up # 3 in every poll of just SEC teams while Mark Richt told us all how great Joe Tereshinski III would be for injured DJ Shockley. 7 years ago 2006, Matthew Stafford was # 3 on the Depth Chart behind both Joe Cox and Joe Tereshinski III, both of whom Mark Richt said were great quarterbacks, while we won over # 9 Auburn but lost 4 games, again including to 2-win Vandie. 6 years ago 2007 Mark Richt stunk up the place against 6-6 South Carolina not even in a bowl game and lost in a blow-out to a sorry vols’ team while Mark Richt beat – 0 – teams who made the Top 10 as we watched instead LSU beat 2 teams who made the top 10. 5 years ago 2008 Mark Richt won the Fulmer Cup after being ranked # 1 pre-season in 27 consensus polls and ended up # 13 in the AP Poll, which had we started where we ended, we would not have been in the top 25 at all, having played 3 teams who beat teams who made the top 25 and giving up 29, 42 and 31 consecutive points against us again beating no team making the top 10. 4 years ago 2009 was a forgettable season too ending up not ranked and no hope. 3 seasons ago 2010, you have to go back 58 years to find an UGA team who lost more games. Last season 2011, we played 4 teams who made any top 25 poll and lost all 4. 2012 here we are more of the same.
Excuse makers say, it’s a win baby – get a life, to which each of us Joey and all the others applaud the reply : “We have a life and walking around drinking a gallon of Kool-Aid thrown over our shoulders, while we look like crud and obviously cannot compete with LSU and Alabama, is not part of our life.”
Defense played like crud
September 3rd, 2012
1:11 am
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“If Murray ends up with a 22 game winning streak, how can he not win the Heisman?”
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How can Aaron Murray end-up 2012 with a 22-game winning streak, when he’s lost 2 of the last 3 games today ?
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“If Murray keep his passer rating higher than Barkleys, like he did this week if Murray can keep winning, keep protecting the ball, keep throwing 3 td’s a game, he’ll win the Heisman.”
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60.5 % completions Matt Barkley 357 yards 4 TD passes 0 interception 0 fumble 0 sack
57.6 % completions Aaron Murray 258 yds. 3 TD passes 0 interception 1 fumble 3 sacks
Whaler, you obviously were not at the game listening to the loud boos the whole entire game. Aaron Murray has removed himself from any possible Heisman contention in game 1. Our team was horrible, and it is not a bad fan who says so; but one who wishes that we would not be playing like this again 2012 in year 12, as always. Our Quarterback play was highlighted by Aaron Murray slamming his hands to the turf after he over-threw wide open receivers against a cupcake, while Buffalo’s quarterback played far better against our defense than little Aaron Murray. Aaron Murray would have played even worse against our defense. Next week will be the 2nd week in a row, the better quarterback on the field the same game, was not Aaron Murray. There was no part of our game which was good. Try saying that, and maybe you can get our players and coaches to GATA. Your approach is to reward poor play, and how has that gone for you Whaler ?
Dawg-Nation
September 3rd, 2012
1:47 am
Defense played – You are just attacking Whaler for his optimism. You sound like a complete jerk. Some of us will gladly debate and trade jabs with you who would call us Richt apologists or Disney Dawgs; but he did not come on here to debate with anyone, just to state his opinion… and you felt it necessary to attack that because it wasn’t bitter and jaded like yourself. Seriously; you think of yourselves as the hardcore of the fan base, while you actually make a mockery of those of us who will stand by our team and coach no matter what, simply because we love the game and our team. We get frustrated with our team and coach at times too, but I personally do not find much useful purpose in preaching my frustration to the world, so that fans of other teams can come on forums like this and mock the lack of team loyalty and pride, especially when we haven’t even lost a game yet this season. I honestly wondered how long it would take Whaler to get attacked after I read his first post; now I know. Good job.
3-13 vs teams who made top 10 all 12 years to-date
September 3rd, 2012
6:32 am
“We get frustrated with our team and coach at times too, but I personally do not find much useful purpose in preaching my frustration to the world, so that fans of other teams can come on forums like this and mock the lack of team loyalty and pride, especially when we haven’t even lost a game yet this season.”
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So, keep your frustration hidden, quiet, and then run the blogs and act like you don’t feel exactly the same about our status as the 300 posters who post to these blogs preaching our frustration to the world.
Team Loyalty and Pride for our Top 10 All-Time Program in Football Wins, should compel you to admit that you have zero affect on our recruiting, whatever you say or don’t say that secretly you agree with every one of the 300 posters of us on this blog here preaching our frustration to the world. If you send the message to Aaron Murray that his performance was Heisman Trophy Winner Performance fumbling the football, completing 57 percent of his passes, and slamming his hands to the turf frequently for his over-throws of wide open receivers while being sacked 3 times and stealing 7 carries again this game as every game prior to this game for his 1 yard per carry career average, then you will NEVER get him to get after it against real opponents – you know the 9 he is 0-9 against.
Mark Richt has 67 scholarship recruits all that remains plus a transfer-in, yet we have to subtract from that total Sanders Commings, Bacarri Rambo, Chase Vasser, Alec Ogletree, Kolton Houston – all 5 of them listed as starters in my media guide plus Malcolm Mitchell, John Theus maybe hampered or missing, Ken Malcome and Marlon Brown – also all starters.
2012 – season from Hell all off-season followed by our 1st Home Opener which is not a sell-out since back in the Nineties.
Please go tell yourself the secrets of how you secretly agree with everyone’s assessment, then bury your head in the sand, and talk out of both sides of your 1-mouth, and pretend that all is well because we beat a hapless 3-9 and 2-10 team by 3 TD when we were supposed to beat them by twice that badly – you refer to as being UNDEFEATED.
Instead of trying to put up a front, why not come on these blogs and tell the truth and thereby earn some credibility ? You might, you know, actually spur our players and coaches on to GATA, which they did NOT do yesterday.
Boos Loud at Sanford Stadium
September 3rd, 2012
6:45 am
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“We get frustrated with our team and coach at times too, but I personally do not find much useful purpose in preaching my frustration to the world.”
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Sanford Stadium 2012, not sold-out for Home Opener 1st time since back in the Nineties, is the site of chorus after chorus of Loud Boos. We’d love to hear more of why you feel we’re all wrong, when you state yourself you are frustrated with our team and coach.
Are we supposed to nudge each-other with our elbow under the table that you too are frustrated with our team and coach ?
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Buh bye to Mark Wretched
September 3rd, 2012
7:35 am
Duped again.
Fair and Balanced
September 3rd, 2012
8:15 am
Whatever the reason was for playing Buffalo, I don’t think we accomplished our mission. MO on the other hand, took care of business and has a lot of confidence coming into the GA game (maybe they even have too much). But I would prefer some confidence by our team than a big ? mark. Thats all we’ve got is questions – not many answers. From what it sounded like on the radio, Murray has still not got it going yet. His % of completions is nowhere near where it should be. The OL gave up 3 sacks according to the radio. How do you do this to a team like Buffalo? Meanwhile, MO is ready for us. I don’t think we are ready for them — not mentally or physically or emotionally. We need some coaches to step up and get us pumped up for an important game. This season could be over by the end of the SC game.