Bulldogs’ ‘NFL talent’ have their heads somewhere else

Uno.

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Great article, Jeff. As always.

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I haven’t seen all of UGA’s games, so I really don’t know what the problem is but they certainly are not performing to the level that was expected. That said, last year they did not do well against quality opponents. That #5 ranking was because they dominated the patsies.

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Don’t be too hard on them. I haven’t had a great year either. Baroke Obozo. (Overrated….)

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Agreed, Jeff. With all of this talent and a “supposedly” stellar DC, the piss poor play does not add up. These players need to look themelves in the mirror and truly step up for the balance of the year. The year is not over and with a FL win over SC this weekend, these clowns can get back in the mix. Hopefully, if we get another shot at something special, we execute and play to our ability.

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If Bama were to hoist the crystal football this year, does anyone believe Kirby will leave for a head coaching job? Would you want him at UGA as head coach and possibly even running the defense as he runs a 3-4?

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The DAWGS are beginning to remind me of the Braves more and more each week. All that talent, no leader, no enthusiasm, no heart, no anything. They use to be fun to watch. What has happened to the UGA of old?

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You have hit on what I think is a big problem with the program: agents getting access to players. And the athletic deprtment seems overmatched by the challenge of getting it under control. Worth asking: What has McGarity done as our AD, apart from firing coaches in our women’s programs?

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The real insult is they did show up for the Vanderbilt game only because Todd Grantham had a vendetta to be paid on the game from last year. This has got to be the most immature coaching staff in the SEC. Grantham’s antics in the Florida game and then the Vandy game, and the whole time the press claiming he had lots of capital in the bank because he had beaten second tier teams. Like Bear once said when one of his boys was losing votes for the Heisman to Ed Marinaro, of Cornell. “If Johnny Musso was running in the Ivy League, he never would get tackled.” Of course when Spurrier says stuff like that it sets off air raid sirens. When Grantham plays a real team his numbers aren’t near as good as when he is playing Kentucky or Vanderbilt, who this year is not as good as they were last year. You make these paper tigers, it sells your ink, you know they aren’t that good for the very beginning, but your ink cost Georgia lots of money paying these not prime time coaches.

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I wonder how those “”FUN”" practices have been going

I bet some tasty brownies were baked for the players

Hopefully Richt want do a drug test anytime soon

Hopefully they can show they can hang with FL for a half; at least they can say they gave it the ole college try right

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That’s very harsh of you, Jeff. Now you’ve hurt some feelings. Some group hugs are going to be needed.

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I think a lot of it has to do with the suspensions. yeah they were slow to answer the bell for Buffalo and FAU, but who really cares about that. Playing lights out against teams like that means nothing…just ask FSU. Missouri did hit some big plays on them, but they also had a lot of new players in the defensive backfield.

I dont think its a coincidence that UT and SC have been their worst defensive outings. A week after the FAU game, they totally shut down Vandy in a very impressive outing. I think that was where the D really had gelled with all the new faces. All the sudden, Rambo and Ogletree are back for the UT game which shuffles the lineup again. Jarvis Jones being in and out of the lineup and slowed by injury hasnt helped either.

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Bottom line: all the suspensions not only have been a distraction in the offseason, but it screams selfishness. Maybe these guys came back thinking they would be rock stars or something, but they sure didnt have their heads where they needed to be. Now here we are mid-season trying to get everyone on the same page and in full game shape.

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Dont think missing players arent a distraction for the rest of the team either. Im sure its been frustrating and unsettling for the rest of the defense to have to bring along backups thrust into starting roles. Then you have to consider who’s backing up those new starters. Its frustrating and distracting when your not playing with your full team.

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All that being said, I didnt expect UGA to win at South Carolina. Not on the road after playing UT. South Carolina has a lot of next level talent themselves. To sit here and pretend UGA has far superior talent to them is absurd. LSU, Bama, Florida…all stacked with better recruiting rankings than UGA. When your #5 in the nation like UGA was, and you usually expect to be the top dog in the conference. UGA looks up…sees Bama and LSU ahead of them. Look back…sees South Carolina on their heels with UF not far behind. UGA is #11 in the BCS and people are talking Peach Bowl at this point LOL. Thats how absurdly talented and good the SEC is right now.

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Bama didn’t get out of it’s division last year either. The difference is UGa will not get a second chance. Their only hope for a title is another SC loss, beat Fla and somehow show up for 4 qtrs in Atl. A guy can dream can’t he.

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Anyone on hear know what happened to “”THE DREAM TEAM”"

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Sorry, remind me

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Funny how Bama’s 4 and 5 star recruits develop and play up to expectations. At UGA we talk about how darn hard it is to project how a kid will play 2-3 years after signing them.

Spurrier was right back in ‘92 when he correctly observed that UGA gets the talent but something seems to happen to them once they are in the program. It is just as true 20 years later as the day he said it.

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somewhere else = up their azzes

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I like CMR but he has to go. All the talent and never play up to it. I’ll not go to another UGA game till we get a new coach.

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Anyone on hear know if “”THE DREAM TEAM I or II ”” has finished studying the book called

“”"ENERGY VAMPIRES”"”

I hear its a great read

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What was the title of the Charles Dickens novel – “Great Expectations”?

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Good stuff Jeff!

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Preach or coach, do one or the other.

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Hey Schultz,
The reason there not playing as well because last years ranking was a sham they played 8 horrible teams to get them back into first in the sec east and over inflated there defensive numbers to get them a top 5 ranking. When they played good teams that were ranked they were blasted. Some of the bad teams from last year have improved like UT and they blasted the defense this year. The point to your question on why the defense isn’t playing as well is they were never really that good they just played some horrible teams that gave them a false ranking last year. This year it’s showing up now that some of the teams have improved while our defense has not.

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In order to reach NC caliber performance a change at the top is required. That is why I am going to pull for the dawgs to lose a few games so there can be no more “moral” victories which will lead to Richt being retained.

Kirby will take a head coach job somewhere after this year so this may be our last chance to get him.

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@5:59 “What was the title of the Charles Dickens novel – “Great Expectations”?”

This one is more along the lines of “Bleak House.”

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Mike S is an “excuse machine” … An obvious lover of mediocrity. Under Dooley and Russell you either played your ass off or you would be running the stadium steps until your ass fell off anyway. A tough bastard of a coach could get every ounce of talent out of these guys.

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Which one is the real Death Valley? Oh, yeah… the one that pancaked us on Saturday.

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And as an athlete I never played better because I feared the coaching staff I respected them but I played better when I gained my own self confidence Les myles is well respected never berates his players and when he played Spurrier who embodies these antics, well look who won

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Spurrier’s players have never feared him. Not at UF and not at SC. They respect him because they know that he knows what he’s talking about. The only players that ever really have to deal with his wrath are his QB’s, but he is their position coach. The days of players fearing coaches died with Woody Hayes.

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its time now for Grantham to live up to his hype… Murray and Bo Bo… too.. I’ve been a Mark Richt supporter because he’s a good man.. BUT now is the Time.. our team.. own the future.. or be a preacher… …

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Im plain ole tired of this type football…UGA should be a REAL top 10 team every season. However, with all the highly rated recruiting classes, something is a miss…I say stop going for all the “diva runing backs, recievers etc..” go find the toughest, biggest O linemen and D linemen…then we can beat somebody ranked…burnt out on having to hope someone helps us limp into the SEC title game…disgusted..but, go DAWGS!

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Tman.. what about Bobby Knight ???

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I would have never played for Bobby Knight and what is with the name calling State a point in this discussion but name calling means you ran out of material for the discussion

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lots of SEC guys believe the hype then disappear in NFL after getting head knocked by so-called bad PAC-12 guy.hey where is nick fairley ,oh getting handled every time i see him play.remember jackie dorsey and rolando mcclain where are they now? =at bottom of pile after getting pancaked by some guy from montana state.

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The D didn’t show up for Vandy either, They gave up over 350 yards in that game too.

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DAWGS are my team win, lose, draw. They have played their best football consistently during the Dooley era. He and his staff seemed to get the best out of the players. He had some ho hum years but more often than not they played well. They owned Florida, Spurrier would attest to that. It has not been the same since. Mark Richt’s character is impeccable. He has had a few real good years. But overall the DAWGS under his tenure have been so so, especially to supposedly have the kind of recruiting classes they’ve had. This year schedule-wise was very weak. We’re not playing any titans. The performance has been simply embarrassing. Do I want Richt gone. (Who cares what I want.) Not really. I guess I’ve come to expect that we’ll beat a few and lose a few but never really win big or the big ones.

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I liked out player’s motto:

Our Team, Our Time, No Regrets!

Unfortunately, talk is cheap.

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ZinoDawg

I was thinking the same thing last week when I was pondering what I would do to light a fire under the team’s a$$ if I were coach. I would TAKE THE “G” OFF OF THEIR HELMETS until they earn them back. Instead we get “we’re going to compete” this week. Wha? What have they been doing until now?

BTW The last complete game by UGA against an elite team was the 2005 SEC CG against LSU.

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First off Jeff you get comments from of all people, Sanders Cummings? Not gonna comment on his private affairs because every man knows the reality of the wrong woman in your life, but please if you must interview someone, don’t let it be a player that was part of the problem! Now the real real problem is this weak azz cmpetition like Buffalo, Florida Atlantic and Vandy while USC plays Us, LSU, Florida, and Bama plus in State rival Clemson on a regular basis. In the words of the Immortal Rick Flair, “To be the Best you got to beat the best”. Lok at ULM(Louisiana Monroe) and realize they came up and punched Arkansas in the mouth, Auburn too(although they won) and have stepped up to the competition plate. Ohio State, Va Tech, Cincinnati Pitt, or South Florida would be good outta conference games. Get it together and be Men. Oh and to all yu Fake Bulldawg fans who get pizzzzed when the dawgs lose one game. Go get in touch with yourself’s. Didn’t the National Champions lose one last year? It happens!!!!

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CMR. Good man, good leader. Somehow lost the ability to get players up to compete in the big game. Sad, very sad,

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Say what yu want about ur last AD, but he didn’t line up a CUPCAKE SCHEDULE. We played “Real” outtta conference teams. He just had the “Petrino” syndrome.!

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Flat Tire on I95 in Jacksonville – English is definitely not your major:
here instead of hear
won’t instead of want
Stupidity reigns supreme!
GO DOGGIES!

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Schultzie:

SAME STORY, DIFFERENT YEAR. IT AIN’T CHANGING UNDER RICHT! IT’S TIME FOR A CHANGE!!!

FIRE MARK RICHT!!!

HT

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Jeff, good to see someone in the Atlanta media that isn’t afraid to ask some tough questions of our local sports teams. Don’t let Richt and ADGM slide on these issues.

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LakeDawg, McGarrity is in an unusual situation. He didn’t hire Richt, which for him is a good thing. Firing Richt would draw a ton of outside criticism considering his overall record. Hamilton at UT ran off Fulmer, brought in Kiffin, got shafted by Kiffin, hired Dooley. He’s gone, now Hart has Dooley, so he’s safe from criticism from that hire. But like Hart, McGarrity will own the next hire. Or he, like Hart, will own their current coach if he keeps him. Guess thats why they make the big bucks.

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Evans did have uga going in the right direction, brand-wise…Bama steps up OOC as does LSu…next year Bama opens against VA Tech…LSu opens in the Cowboys Classic vs. TCU…you have to play in those games…problem was Evans would schedule them and Richt would lose them…

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As much as it pains me to say this but my Dawgs look good on paper but unfortunately have to play on grass.

GATA!

UGA85′

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The problem at UGA is not the players, we have the talent, CMR is a great recruiter, but at best just a average coach. DAWGS win at KY, but lose to the Gators, remember CMR is still our coach. And until he leaves, DAWGS will never compete for a NC!

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It’s called OVERRATED talent & poor coaching!!

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Here’s my assessment of our Defense. Grantham has over complicated the Defense. Instead of just letting them play, they are thinking way too much and hesitating. He is too busy with “packages”, which is doing nothing but wearing our guys out by running back and forth from the side lines. How many times do you see Ga. substituting players and not even set yet when the offense hikes the ball?

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Kevin
October 16th, 2012
9:08 pm

If anybody thinks the D is overrated, wait a few years and see how many of these guys are playing on Sundays. Geathers, Jenkins, JJones, and Ogletree are praised by more people than Georgia fans, particularly, NFL people.
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Who cares what they do in “a few years” in the NFL? They’re at UGA this season, and Dawg fans obviously are more concerned with how they perform NOW–as well they should be.

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Mc has a problem
October 16th, 2012
9:11 pm

Richt will probably be 20-4 over two years after this season, regular season. Do you fire a guy after that? If so, who would be better? I’m not saying CMR should or shouldn’t leave, but who would be better that would take the job.
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You conveniently ignore the dismal bowl and SECCG performances, thus distorting his true record. Those “postseason” games are a lot more important than the OOC crap we play during the regular season.

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Beast from the East
October 16th, 2012
9:15 pm

Regarding the scheduling, what most fail to realize is that UF and UGA have a problem that none of our SEC brethren do. They play each year at a neutral site in Jacksonville. Even though each team is considered the “home team” every other year, they both lose a true home game. Every other year, that would mean one less game in Athens and Gainesville. That is a TON of lost revenue! Do you know of any teams that don’t want a return trip other than the cupcakes?
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Yet another reason to make this storied series a TRUE

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Mc has a problem

Does it matter if Richt is 20-4 if the 4 losses were to the only good teams he played? So he beat 20 teams he should’ve beaten and lost to the 4 teams he USED TO REGULARLY BEAT. Not good enough. And I love Richt.

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Beast from the East
October 16th, 2012
9:15 pm

Regarding the scheduling, what most fail to realize is that UF and UGA have a problem that none of our SEC brethren do. They play each year at a neutral site in Jacksonville. Even though each team is considered the “home team” every other year, they both lose a true home game. Every other year, that would mean one less game in Athens and Gainesville. That is a TON of lost revenue! Do you know of any teams that don’t want a return trip other than the cupcakes?
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OOPS!

Yet another reason to make this storied series a TRUE home-and-home affair. It’s long overdue.

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Hey y’all who are calling for Kirby Smart, Derek Dooley trained under Nick Saban, too. Saban thought so much of him that he took him with him to Miami. Dooley’s FROM Athens. He knows the territory as well as anybody. His daddy is a UGA legend.

Anybody want Derek Dooley as the next coach?

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No, the DAWG defense is not overrated, I thought CTG was the right man for the right job, but after working for CMR for 3 years, I think this relationship coaching with CMR has taken a little bit off the edge that he had when he came to UGA. I believe CTG has had enough of coaching with CMR, and will leave after this year. CMR won’t let him be the real CTG that he was when he came here, and He knows most of the defense leaves this year too. CMR will win 10 games per year and not beat any ranked teams.

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You TROLLS stink—forgot what the article was about——–dawgs

defence—-what defence—–9th/10th/9th——–uh!!!

————–joke—–blahahahahahahah

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I’m from Jax, so I think it should stay there. It is one of the GREAT venues in college football with the crowd split 50/50. That said, I do think it creates a major disadvantage in both UF and UGA’s OOC scheduling ability.

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How about Charlie Strong?

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Crowley putting the screws to Romney.

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—–lets see///obamma said dont investigate the twin towers that VAPORIZED

—————INTO———-DUST—–REALLY—-YOU GOT MY VOTE

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I agree, I don’t like playing the Gators in JAX every year, but it’s the money Jacksonville gives both of them to play there. Maybe we could alternate between the GA Dome and JAX?

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Beast from the East
October 16th, 2012
9:25 pm

I’m from Jax, so I think it should stay there. It is one of the GREAT venues in college football with the crowd split 50/50. That said, I do think it creates a major disadvantage in both UF and UGA’s OOC scheduling ability.
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No wonder you want to keep it there; just a hop, skip, and a jump from your mansion.

I don’t buy the OOC scheduling thing. It just means our cowardly ADs would have to reduce our cupcakes from three to two every other year. Oh, how awful!

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Gruden? You’d have better luck trying to resurrect Bear Bryant.

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DawgNole,
I’m up in Atlanta now. Have been for the past 10 years. UF does try to get teams to let us do the return trip at a later date than the next year, but most won’t do it. We open at Miami next year which is a return trip from their last visit to the Swamp in 2008.

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Did they intentionally choose morons to ask these debate questions?

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Nothing wrong with Gruden saying no. Go ahead and ask. While you’re at it, ask Saban too! If Georgia has the money, then offer Saban more than he’s making at Bama.

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Is it just me, or does anyone else think Saban is a cyborg? The guy is relentless in all areas of his job. There is not another Saban out there. Kelly at Notre Dame might come close.

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Kevin
October 16th, 2012
9:39 pm

Georgia’s been turned down by MUCH WORSE THAN JOHN GRUDEN. Didn’t GLEN MASON of Kansas turn Georgia down before Donnan took the job?
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Sure did.

I remember at his (Donnan’s) first UGA press conference that he said (with that deadpan expression of his) that he and Mason had been friends, but that he didn’t realize Mason was THAT good a friend.

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Dawgnole…..

I will take that deal…JAX and ATL. Tons and tons of Gators living in THE ATL. Still would be 50-50 there………and is a much more faster field for the Gator D. Plus…..Georgia loses yearly recruiting in JAX and Florida gains semi-annual recruiting in THE ATL. Sounds good to me.

P.S. Maybe the Noles could beat NC State if they played them in JAX.

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Hey, TB, you still predicting that fla will “lose four or five games in 2012″?

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Tampa Gator
October 16th, 2012
10:04 pm

Dawgnole…..
I will take that deal…JAX and ATL. Tons and tons of Gators living in THE ATL. Still would be 50-50 there………and is a much more faster field for the Gator D. Plus…..Georgia loses yearly recruiting in JAX and Florida gains semi-annual recruiting in THE ATL. Sounds good to me.

P.S. Maybe the Noles could beat NC State if they played them in JAX.
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Now, here Beast and I were having a civil discourse and you gotta bring up NCST.

I don’t WANT ATL & JAX; I’d prefer Athens & g’ville–and no 50-50 split. I just threw out ATL-JAX as a potential alternate. But as Beast points out, it’s not likely to happen.

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Yes, I think Florida loses Saturday and Saturday week, and to FSU and it’s bowl game.

Now, what was it you said, dimwit ? The same thing. Didn’t you ?

You also said you’re a HUGE GEORGIE TEK FAN and that you PULL FOR GEORGIE TEK, DawgNole.

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Thomas Brown 5 yrs of losing every ranked team 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
October 16th, 2012
10:18 pm

Yes, I think Florida loses Saturday and Saturday week, and to FSU and it’s bowl game.

Now, what was it you said, dimwit ? The same thing. Didn’t you ?

You also said you’re a HUGE GEORGIE TEK FAN and that you PULL FOR GEORGIE TEK, DawgNole.
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Is that 5 losses? Liar.

And I do pull for G Tech–in all but two games (UGA & FSU), as I’ve said more than a few times. You have a problem with it? Crawl back in your hole, sissy boy.

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Thomas Brown 5 yrs of losing every ranked team 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
October 16th, 2012
10:16 pm
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DawgNole September 3rd, 2012 6:33 pm

“If you go out to College Station and don’t win, then you’re likely in for another long season. Same with UGA at Mizzou. A win in that environment means the Dawgs have legitimate hopes for a solid year. A loss and it’s SOS (beat the pansies, lose to the others).
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I stand by that statement. fla went to A&M and WON, so no long season. Dawgs WON at Mizzou–and still have legitimate hopes for a solid year–if they can beat fla, which you’ve labeled as unworthy.

You continue to further degrade yourself (if that’s possible) with each imbecile post.

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Heck, I pull for Tech, too. Just so happens it doesn’t really matter how much support they have this year. They still suck!

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Thomas Brown 5 yrs of losing every ranked team 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
October 16th, 2012
10:26 pm

Now, do you want to make this about me, or about Mark Richt and what you said too on Mark Richt ?
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Like I said, be VERY thankful I can’t reach through your keyboard. You lying coward.

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Thomas Brown,
To be fair, most of us Gators predicted us to go about 8-4 this year. Tampa Gator had much higher expectations than I did and he looks to correct. Muschamp and his staff have done an OUTSTANDING job so far this year.

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Thomas Brown 5 yrs of losing every ranked team 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
October 16th, 2012
10:26 pm

Oh, do I offer up 4 Losses for a lousy Florida team 2012 ? You bet. Now, what did you say on that ? Oh, no. Let’s not talk about what YOU said to the Florida fans. Right ?
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You offered up “four or five losses,” you weasel. And now you want to pretend you didn’t. Dirtbag.

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Beast from the East
October 16th, 2012
10:30 pm

Thomas Brown,
To be fair, most of us Gators predicted us to go about 8-4 this year. Tampa Gator had much higher expectations than I did and he looks to correct. Muschamp and his staff have done an OUTSTANDING job so far this year.
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Thomas the spineless one would beg (on his knees, licking your boots, no doubt) to disagree with you.

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avalanche,
Wrong forum.

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DawgNole September 3rd, 2012 6:33 pm

“If you go out to College Station and don’t win, then you’re likely in for another long season. Same with UGA at Mizzou. A win in that environment means the Dawgs have legitimate hopes for a solid year. A loss and it’s SOS (beat the pansies, lose to the others).
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Beast, his predictions on Florida this season are NO DIFFERENT FROM MY OWN. The difference is now he is singing a different tune on Florida today, while I still maintain FLORIDA SUCKS 2012 including especially today. I have specifically listed 4 losses for Florida : South Carolina Saturday, Georgia Saturday week, FSU to end the season and that falls yes sir into my 4 or 5 losses. According to his sh doesn’t stink to high heaven PULLING FOR GEORGIE TEK – which is why he doesn’t like me – Florida was to have a LONG SEASON 2012 after a LOSS to Texas A and M. He also stated the SAME MEASURE FOR UGA 2012 is whether we can beat Mizzou. Excuse me, Florida plays Mizzou right after South Carolina and Georgia. Why if he has become a Florida fan too now, as you are saying about him, is he not calling for the same measure as for UGA that if we beat Mizzou we’re great ?

Because he is fos.

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This is the issue! Stats are the driving force. Early in the year Arbry Jones was concerned and spoke out concerning his sacrifices for team. A great defense has to be a team that trusts each other. Sacks and interceptions are glamour and cause contracts to be higher but clogging running lanes, communicating and staying home when necessary is paramount to having a great defense!!! What the guys have to understand is that playing as a team all these years have UGA with the most pros of any university because of the performance as a team! Arbry has been and is a great dawg! The defense needs to do some soul searching and understand that when one looks good we all look good!!!!!

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Good evening, Beast. Sorry to have to break off your entertainment from my end. Thomas the creepy one will no doubt stay in it for the long haul. He has nothing better to do.

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Yeah, I’m out, too.

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As a longtime Dawgs fan I have come to realize the problem is Richt.He must go.

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avalanche in Aruba

October 16th, 2012
10:34 pm

OT: Everything the President has said he’s had 4 years to do…time for a change…Romney won debate #2…

You got that right.

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“I have specifically listed 4 losses for Florida : South Carolina Saturday, Georgia Saturday week, FSU to end the season and that falls yes sir into my 4 or 5 losses”

Thomas Brown appears to use an original form of counting beyond the reaches of normal mortals.

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John Chavis is making himself and Les Miles alot of $$$$$$$$…

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Paul,

Why did you leave out that I said and Florida loses its bowl game ?

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Chavis saved Miles job…the man knows the SEC, he understands big-boy football, doesn’t need gimmicks of tricks to win…not sure he would work in Athens…too smart…

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DawgNole says Mark Richt beats the pansies, loses to the others

October 16th, 2012
11:09 pm

Paul,

Why did you leave out that I said and Florida loses its bowl game ?
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Did you not write the following verbatim?
“I have specifically listed 4 losses for Florida : South Carolina Saturday, Georgia Saturday week, FSU to end the season and that falls yes sir into my 4 or 5 losses”

Where in that statement do you Sir say that Florida will lose a bowl game?

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Including in the very next senetence directly right after your quoted sentence.

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Richt has taken UGA as far as he possibly can, he just is NOT a championship caliber coach. Somebody hire Kirby Smart as soon as possible before some other SEC school does and he starts beating the hell out of Richt.

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“starts beating the hell out of Richt” You left out too.

“starts beating the hell out of Richt, too”

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Pay him for what ?

He has played 5 ranked teams, and lost all 5. Lost miserably I might add.

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I have no desire to hear Richt opine about anything. Everything out of his mouth is self-serving crap. WHEN are the PTB going to realize HE is the problem, not the players, not the assistant coaches (although we could make a case for some of them, as well). Richt needs to go.

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PaulieOldschool, I thought I was the only one who is dawg-tired of listening to Mark Richt’s LIES.

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Thats is no I in team. These guys are making business decision on the field. Once they get to the next level, these guys will perform well. These guys have move on to the NFL draft all ready.

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Methinks Richt, Bobo, and Grantham dont no what to do w all this talent!

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You know that feeling you get when the lottery is really high and you buy your ticket hoping that this is going to be your time?

41-30 2008 and 35-7 2012 is the feeling you get when you lose the lottery or when your team has all the talent in the world but always has a reason why they got beat down on national Tv.

We need leader in Athens, until then pass the kool aid around and keep dreaming because that’s all you are doing. that SC game woke me up!
i expect to beat KY and then to get beat by Fl in Jville. im a dawg for life but i am also a grown man who can see the ship is not right. WTF?

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Mark Richt is the messiah – Roll Tide!

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legionaire, great post. It’s actually a lot worse than 15 un-used scholarships. We actually only have 66 scholarship recruits plus 1 transfer-in who can play. We are given 85-scholarship recruits we can sign and KEEP, like everyone else. We don’t do it. We don’t care. We haven’t cared since May 2, 2006 when Katryn Richt was diagnosed with Cancer.

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Once again, another totally classless attack on a fine man’s family by Thomas. Just a pathetic lowlife with no-life. What a sad individual with no heart and little soul.

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How can Mark Richt against teams who made the Top 10 all 12 years he’s been here, out of 17 games, have won only 3 games ?

I can appreciate you do not want to address that.

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How can Mark Richt these current 5 years now played18 games against teams who made the Top 25, and won only 2 of 18 ?

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It could be worse. Down here at the Awbarn we got it really bad.

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socrates on Leather Helmet Blawg has over 500 responses to these same questions I have posed for 2006 through today. The only part of my questions which have changed is how many games we’ve lost. Nothing else. But, somehow it is my fault that Mark Richt cannot win on the big stage. Me the problem. Just censor my posts and all will be well. Excuse me, there are millions of us asking the same questions about Mark Richt and his “coaching staff” allowing all these losses on the big stage.

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bruce benedict, that’s what they want. Didn’t you know ? All they want to keep on Losing Every game on the Big Stage. And, Mark Richt hasn’t cared about it starting with Katryn Richt being diagnosed with Cancer on May 2, 2006.

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Bottom line is there is NO Discipline. During the SC game when Rambo hit that player when he was already out of bounds and then we got a PF penalty Richt or Grantham should have jerked him by the collar and through his azz on the bench. Richts NO Emotion has rubbed off on every player and coach. Cant some one tell him were tired of seeing him hug a player when he does what he suppose to do. And were tired of hearing Richt say were just having FUN. Come on GET MEAN at least for one game.

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Bottom line….same crap…just a different year……Spurrier had it spot on when he said……UGA gets great players…I dont know what happens to them once they get to UGA. Bottom line…McGarity was forced to give extensions last year because we backed into the SEC game…this year 10-2 with blowouts to SC and FL wont get it…..not with this schedule……I was a CMR fan- even last year but it has become very clear this is all about coaching and keeping these players focused- which is not being done

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UGA possesses a collection of very talented football players. Unfortunately, they do not comprise a coherent football team. Georgia needs a team builder and Mark Richt does not fit that mold.

The fans can (and typically do) blame it on the assistant coaches, but the hiring and firing of assistants is one of the most important responsibilities of a Head Coach. Mark Richt has never been and never will be a Head Coach, although he has held the honorary title since he was hired by UGA.

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“Bottom line….same crap…just a different year”
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Exactly Joe. Thank you for joining in.

Richt Apologists categorically refuse to state that 10 Losses in a row to SEC teams who put-up winning SEC Records that season is not good.

Richt Apologists categorically refuse to state that 8 Losses in a row to teams who make the Top 10 that season, is not good.

Richt Apologists categorically refuse to state that only 3 wins out 17 games all 12 years of Mark Richt era, good for # 8 among just SEC teams, against teams who make the Top 10, is not good.

Richt Apologists categorically refuse to state that only 2 wins out of 18 games this Current 5-Year Period, against teams who make the Top 25, is not good.

Richt Apologists categorically refuse to state that Mark Richt having signed 107 scholarship recruits to play 2012, and has only 66 scholarship recruits plus 1 transfer-in all he has left now, is not good.

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wanabe atheletes go on to be sports writers and think they can evaluate a group of kids playing at the college level….. Our AJC writers made the high predictions without giving thought to several problems going into the season. 11 or 12 is about right for UGA ; right where we should be given our talent level. Remember who it is saying we are so talented!!!

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“UGA possesses a collection of very talented football players. Unfortunately, they do not comprise a coherent football team. Georgia needs a team builder and Mark Richt does not fit that mold. The fans can (and typically do) blame it on the assistant coaches, but the hiring and firing of assistants is one of the most important responsibilities of a Head Coach. Mark Richt has never been and never will be a Head Coach, although he has held the honorary title since he was hired by UGA.”
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Predictor,

Precisely-put. Mark Richt has averaged the # 8 Scout.com recruiting ranking the Current Period starting when Steve Spurrier got to South Carolina 2005 through today, and Steve Spurrier has averaged the # 20 Scout.com recruiting ranking same time frame. Spurrier’s recruits average 3.04 and Mark Richt’s average 3.68. Yet, Steve Spurrier is 4-4 against Mark Richt. Mark Richt wastes talent. Mark Richt has not done well at all in his hiring and keeping of his Assistant Coaches. If he loses his job, this will be the reason why. We will point to his record against top teams, but it will be because Mike Adam$ never let Vince Dooley teach Mark Richt the areas of his job as coach that he never has been taught. Red Panties Mike Adam$ hire Damon Evans never coached anything and was a yes man to Mike Adam$, and Howdy-Doody Greg McGarity never coached anything. Neither have any experience whatsoever to assist Mark Richt in the critical job of hiring and keeping a coaching staff who can then as a group beat the top teams and keep the talent focused and channeled in the right direction.

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It’s quite obvious these guys “don’t want to get hurt”. Why do you think we have a walk on receiving punts now? No one wants to MAN UP and risk hurting their draft status. (Think that would happen under Saban’s watch)? I wish they had all gone early to the draft instead of hanging around. Bench these prima donna’s. They clearly disrupted the chemistry the younger guys had built in the first 4 games. I don’t care how much “potential” they might have, if they don’t perform to it, it’s worthless.

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“Football Outsiders” has given the MIGHTY MIGHTY ATLANTA FALCONS the highest percentage odds of all teams to “WIN” the Super Bowl.

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If you don’t tackle Monday through Thursday you sure ain’t gonna tackle on Saturday.

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Thomas Brown 5 yrs of losing every ranked team 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
October 16th, 2012
10:26 pm

Forget that dimwit when you told Florida posters that when they went out to Texas A & M and LOST that they’d be in for a LONG SEASON AGAIN.
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Read the post again, liar, and stop misquoting me. I said IF they lost to A&M–not when. BIG difference–obviously.

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I think you may be onto something here, Mr Schultz. Either they are not focused because they are distracted by perceived big money down the road or they are playing “hero ball” and getting burned by being out of position. There is also a tendency to not be as engaged as you should be when you are thinking “we already know how to do this…” If you have ever taken a refresher course you know you can sometimes get tripped up by losing focus at the wrong time. Is it the instructors fault that you didn’t pay full attention? No, it is not.
We’ll see if these guys get their heads back in the game or not.

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Richt and the UGa staff could coach the 72 Dolphins to a .500 team.

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October 17th, 2012
9:09 am

“Football Outsiders” has given the MIGHTY MIGHTY ATLANTA FALCONS the highest percentage odds of all teams to “WIN” the Super Bowl.
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That is a rare gesture of respect for an ATL pro team from the national media. Just gotta hope the team can live up to it this season.

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I am totally looking past Ky because if we don’t do them like we did Vandy then we really have problems. With that said, just who has FL beaten other than an LSU team with suspect QB play. I really don’t think FL is as good as their ranking and reputation suggests. The SC game on Saturday will tell us who FL is as I am not sold at all on their offense, especially the passing game. It took two great runs by Driskel to beat Vandy. Does anyone see that happening against a very stout SC defense who will undoubtedly have a spy on Driskel like we should next Saturday?

Lastly, Spurrier is one of the greatest college football coaches of all time. He won the ACC at Duke! Duke! They were nothing before he got there and nothing since he left albeit Cutcliffe has them playing better. FL was nothing before he got there and dominated the SEC during his reign and now Meyer and Muschamp should thank him every time they see him because he laid the foundation for that juggernaut. Now SC has become the pivotal game for every SEC east team for the last 3 years. Let that sink in. . . . SC has become the pivotal game for every SEC east team for the last 3 years. SC , to put it mildly, was a non-factor in the SEC every since they entered the conference and now they have beaten my Dawgs 3 straight years and on the verge of beating FL 3 straight years. Everyone lauds Saban and he has certainly turned Bama around, but it’s not exactly hard to recruit there nor LSU nor Michigan State. But Duke and SC, come on. Spurrier gets my vote as one the greatest ever in college.

With all that said, I cannot imagine FL beating SC even though it would put us right back in contention for the east. Nevertheless, I am a Gator fan for a few hours come Saturday.

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Jeff – You have a keen grasp of the obvious.

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Bad Dawg, you are about as funny as a cockroach on a steak. Give it up.

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Richt’s heart no longer seems to be in coaching. He wants to preach and be a missionary. Grantham is severely overrrated as a DC. Bobo is unimaginative and mediocre as an OC. It’s time to get rid of the whole bunch and start over.

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I can’t really believe one fan on here is worried about grantham leaving??? he has done a poor job of coaching…let him leave that would be great…time for richt to go out and get his first choice.. the great erk russell could coach circles around grantham

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Newman October 17th, 2012 9:10 am

“The problem is very simple. They don’t practice hard enough! TWO days practice last week after that butt kicking? Come on. One day in pads (without tackling drills) each week equals exactly what we’ve got.”
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The Assistant Head Coach and Defensive Coordinator was at Pee-Wee football one day and half before our game with South Carolina watching his 5-year old play, Todd Grantham. Then a day a half later, he gave up 35 to nothing before Steve Spurrier yanked his starters at the 10:45 mark in the game while Mark Richt left Aaron Murray his starting quarterback still in there, while Aaron Murray said that he had not slept in 2 consecutive nights before South Carolina game.

This is the same South Carolina whom

Zach Mettenberger led LSU up and down the field against all night long the next Saturday beating South Carolina and Steve Spurrier. While South Carolina has games 2012 against Georgia, LSU, Clemson – while we play only them.

It is, as you say, very simple. We’re not coached well at all.

You’re right Newman.

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JS – you shoulda been a football coach….. SO good a predicting rankings and the psych of a ball team.

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Mc has a problem October 16th, 2012 9:11 pm

“Richt will probably be 20-4 over two years after this season, regular season. Do you fire a guy after that? If so, who would be better? I’m not saying CMR should or shouldn’t leave, but who would be better that would take the job.”
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There is NO WAY Mark Richt is going 20-4 in 2013 and 2014 Mc has a problem. He plays Alabama 2013 and he loses his ENTIRE DEFENSE and 2 Starting Wide Receivers. 2013 and 2014 are 14-game seasons, again. He went 10-4 for 2011 and you said that was good, which is what he said too. That would be 20-8 for 2013 and 2014.

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DawgNole, consistently – over and over again tells us Mark Richt beats the pansies, loses to the others.

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Jeff – You need to do a Brian McCann blog! Thanks, Ted

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Yes, Jeff..you’re right. But how many years have we had to say the same thing now?

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Who is our CUPCAKE we play this week we can brag about beating ?

Oh, Kentucky – I mean wow. Kentucky has lost every game all season long except Kent State 1-6.

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It sounds like something else is going on with Jarvis Jones, and Richt is calling it an injury to avoid the truth, which is probably another “rules violation” (UGA-speak for illegal drugs).

Since Richt is a known chronic liar, I wouldn’t put it past him.

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I’m not sure what the big fuss is all about. The last I checked we were 5-1 (not 1-5 like AU) and ranked fairly high in all polls. We have a lot of football left to play and normally Coach Richt teams get better as the season progresses. I believer we will match up well with the Gators and hopefully beat them and end up doing good things this year.

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I wish we could just come out and smash somebody in the mouth for 60 minutes. SC came and smashed us in the mouth, we yelped and climbed back on the porch. And that was in the first quarter.

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If SC beats Florida our season is over.

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It is only through a artifact of schedule making that we don’t take a yearly waxing at the hands of Alabama and/or LSU. Tennessee is currently wandering in the wilderness, leaving the Gators as the true test of our perennial top 5 recruiting classes. Yet we lose to USC and every other decent non-conference opponent. Georgia Tech has essentially given up football, but somehow an annual thumping of them “counts”. Why is this? Why do we settle for this mediocrity? We know what it is and it’s coaching. At some point we have to decide to take the next step to compete for SEC and National Championships because it surely isn’t going to be with CMR and staff.

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[...] Jeff Schultz:  Georgia’s defense sucks because all the players who turned down the NFL draft to return to [...]

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I agree UGA has the talent to win the SEC and compete for national titles, but I also realize there are a lot of SEC teams that can say that. Bama, Florida and LSU have been out recruiting UGA. UT, Auburn, and South Carolina have been at least on par with them. Texas A&M is now recruiting as well if not better than UGA. SEC has dominated the BCS era with 8 of 14 national championships. No one has beaten an SEC champ for a national title. So lets stop pretending this is a team with far superior talent than everyone else in the SEC and get some perspective. Its not…period. The best you can do in a conference this tough is stay in the mix because you never know when things will break your way. That is exactly what Richt is doing.

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I blame the Defensive problems on Kathryn Richt for getting Cancer! Muschimps wife never gets Cancer. GO Dawgs!

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Poor communication? That what happens when you suspend “starters” for the first four games, then the guys who actually earned the right to “start” those games, get to sit on the bench and watch the returning “starters” steal their playing time. I’ve watched Rambo from the beginning. What does he have other than a catchy name he gave himself? He will always give up a big play because he doesn’t respect the fundamentals of the game. Watch him Saturday at KY, he is average at best. There is no chemistry on this defensive squad and Grantham is no Erk Russell…

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Nick’s going for his third BCS title in 4 years—-Bama will blow out Ga, FL or SC in the title game, on the way to miami!! RTR—going for #15!!!!

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The dawgs were blown out
By the mighty Gamecocks
After they play the Gators
They’ll be looking for their socks

BURMA SHAVE

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Jeff, I think speak for bulldog nation when I say I WOULD RATHER HAVE MEDIOCRE RECORD WITH A REAL SWEETHEART OF A COACH THAN WIN MULTIPLE CHAMPIONSHIPS WITH
A BUTTHOLE LIKE SABAN OR SPURRIER.

Thanks

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I spent the entire weekend in Columbia Mo. to watch the Missouri and Alabama game, I asked the folks in the program after the game to compare all the SEC schools they had played and two players who play said that Alabama played like it was a business and they really only talked to one another and seemed to know practically every play that was coming based on formation. One lineman said that the Linebackers were calling the plays even before the shift. The common thread was that they were just good across the board. Then about UGA, they said that UGA had great athletes but they were easy to get out of position with shifts and confusion. But the talent and speed of UGA was just too good for Missouri for four quarters.

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October 17th, 2012
9:51 pm

I spent the entire weekend in Columbia Mo. to watch the Missouri and Alabama game, I asked the folks in the program after the game to compare all the SEC schools they had played and two players who play said that Alabama played like it was a business and they really only talked to one another and seemed to know practically every play that was coming based on formation. One lineman said that the Linebackers were calling the plays even before the shift. The common thread was that they were just good across the board. Then about UGA, they said that UGA had great athletes but they were easy to get out of position with shifts and confusion. But the talent and speed of UGA was just too good for Missouri for four quarters.
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DawgNole,

I was very very fortunate to be the guest of some very big “friends of the program’ at Missouri. I would like to add that the Missouri folks I was the guest of spoke very very highly of the UGA fans. They said that being a night game the opportunity to mingle with the fans of UGA was quite interesting. They said outside of the “barking and woofing’ it was very entertaining. They said the hospitality and friendlyness between the two schools was very enjoyable and more than they expected when it was announced they were joining the conference. Congratulations to the UGA fans for traveling well and welcoming the Missouri Tigers to the Conference of Champions.

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Lose after 2012 season:

1. Alec Ogletree Starting Inside Linebacker, Senior
2. John Jenkins Starting Nose Guard, Senior
3. Shawn Williams Starting Strong Safety, Senior
4. Marlon Brown Starting Split End, Senior
5. Tavarres King Starting Flanker, Senior
6. Abry Jones Starting Defensive End, Senior
7. Cornelius Washington Starting Defensive End, Senior
8. Michael Gilliard Started 5 of 6 games at Inside Linebacker, Senior
9. Christian Robinson Inside Linebacker, Senior
10. Bacarri Rambo Starting Free Safety, Senior
11. Branden Smith demoted from Starting Cornerback, Senior
12. Sanders Commings Starting Cornerback, Senior
13. Ty Frix Starting Long Snapper, Senior
14. Richard Samuel IV, Fullback jerked around, Senior
15. Kwame Geathers Started vs vols at Nose Guard, Junior
16. Jarvis Jones Starting Outside Linebacker, Junior

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If the players don’t understand the defensive strategy, then go back to the 4-3. Hire a new DC.
Either that or Richt is sucking the energy out of Grantham and the players.
There is no motivation on the sidelines during games…and you wonder about practice too?
Florida’s coming….I hope the dawgs have spent this week on Florida. I’d rather beat Kentucky by one point than loose to UF. We MUST beat Florida or I will need to move out of the state.

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Same song, different verse for UGA. A recurring theme……

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Defensive woes under Todd Grantham a reflection on the coaching staff, general lack of discipline followed by harsh punishment, and poor work ethic lack of toughness in this DOWN UGA BULLDOGS’ FOOTBALL PROGRAM :

He’s given up :

gave up 45, LOST
gave up 35, LOST
gave up 33, LOST
gave up 42, LOST
gave up 35, LOST
gave up 31, LOST
gave up 49, LOST
gave up 34, LOST
gave up 29, LOST

Todd Grantham in 10 of his LOSSES, has given up an average of 33 points per game.

Quit with the excuses for Todd Grantham. There are no excuses for a Defense doing this, especially with all the NFL Draft Picks Richt-0-Philes will run in here and brag about after 6 more regular season games and however many post-season games we lose again.

According to LHarding Dawg, Florida is an easy win. Am I a Florida fan ? No. I am a Georgia Bulldogs’ fan. South Carolina is a better team than Florida; they just let Zach Mettenberger lead LSU up and down the field all night long against South Carolina who had no answer.

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Thomas Brown
October 18th, 2012
12:12 am

Oh, yeah, Mizzou is great all right – losing their 1st Four (4) SEC games in a row 0-4, giving up an average of 33 points a game on defense. # 98 Rushing Offense # 89 Passing Offense # 105 Total Offense # 88 Scoring Offense That’s a true test of Mark Richt 2012 no doubt, just as was said by :
DawgNole.
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There you go–lying again. Apparently you can’t help yourself since every one of your posts contains lies. Show the blog where I said Mizzou was “some great team,” as you claimed I did earlier, liar. For the last time, I said only that the environment would be hostile–and it was–and that if UGA won, they had a chance for a solid year. They did and they do.

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Thomas Brown
October 17th, 2012
11:07 pm

Does anyone think when you write 10 times in this one blog that you yourself said that same olde sh Mark Richt beats the pansies loses to the others, that it doesn’t mean what it says that same olde sh Mark Richt again beating the pansies and losing to the others ?
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So I wrote 10 times on this blog that “Mark Richt beats the pansies and loses to the others,” but you can’t find one example? That’s what I thought. The reason you can’t is because you’ve taken the quote out of context and changed the words, as I pointed out yesterday by posting the ACTUAL quote. That’s why you have zero credibility here.

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Thomas Brown
October 17th, 2012
11:07 pm

Are there any of these points below you have an issue with sir ?
(1) Lost 8 in row made top 10
(2) Lost 10 in row SEC with winning SEC record
(3) Lost 10 in row who made top 25
(4) Lost 16 of last 18 now who made top 25
(5) Lost 14 of 17 now who made top 10
(6) 66 scholarship recruits left + 1 transfer-in of 107 signed to play 2012
(7) 2012 Strength of Schedule # 103 with only ranked team left Florida
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I have no issue with those points, although I find it interesting that you’re now acknowledging fla is the only ranked team left–after earlier declaring them unworthy and predicting “four or five losses in 2012″ for the gators.

What I have issue with is your lies and your changing of my original posts by adding and removing words. I stand by my original posts as actually written. That’s certainly more than can be said of you and your midseason prediction of “four or five losses in 2012″ for fla. You’ve been back-stepping on that one and trying to change what you originally said ever since I pointed out how ignorant you are to say it.

Now go ahead and modify some of my posts again to suit your demented POV. It’s what’s expected of you on here, liar; you have a reputation to maintain.

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I have been a Richt supporter for a long time but after the SC game my opinion changed. I think Richt is a great guy but I don’t think he can take this team to the next level. He has been with the program for a long time and has had money and great players at his disposal. Just like Clint said if they are not doing the job you gotta let em go!

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Right on target. They have shown us nothing. Poorly motivated, poorly coached. We are supposed to be very deep on defense. What ever happened to benching players when they don’t perform ? Oh, I remember. We have “Coach Goody Two Shoes ” and he is terrified of hurting their feelings. Same old story. The only thing consistent with this team is poor coaching, lack of discipline, and failure to be innovative on both sides of the ball. A 10-2 season will be a total disaster with the cream puff schedule we have. If that happens I’m sure the “Disney Dawgs” will find tons of good in it.

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Assuming they get by KY, the Dawgs still have a chance at a strong season, but beating fla is the first step. A victory in JAX would remove the “big-game loss syndrome” for this year anyway. Of course, we’d have to win out to make it great year, and that appears unlikely at this point, with Bama the likely SECCG opponent.

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To be honest, I don’t even care about the rest of the season. Or anymore seasons for the Dawgs, just tired of watching failure. I’m not much of a racing fan, but it’s gotten to be like watching Fail Earnhardt Jr. race. Looks good before the race, looks good some of the race, but never finishes. I am 32 years old and the last time UGA won anything was 6 months before I was born. Grew up going to games since I can remember, and its the same crap every year from these morons. I’m done.

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Do it and mean it, Smoker, you whiney little puke… I’m sure you’re quite the success in your own field…. WAHWAHWAWAHHHWHAHHAAAA

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DawgNole October 16th, 2012 10:38 pm

“I said if UGA didn’t beat Missouri it likely would be another year of beating the pansies and losing to the others. Halfway through the season, we’ve beaten the pansies and lost to one of thetwo others.”

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DawgNole October 16th, 2012 10:38 pm

http://blogs.ajc.com/jeff-schultz-blog/2012/10/16/bulldogs-nfl-talent-have-their-heads-somewhere-else/?cp=4#comment-489453

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I am not impressed with Florida 2012.

If you are now, when you said yourself they might be a bad team 2012, then pull for them.

No one is stopping you from pulling for Florida

Go ahead.

I ain’t.

You get that ?

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Snake Doc October 18th, 2012 10:54 am

“Until the CEO and his merry band of misfits, errr, coaches are all fired I will never support UGA again, and I’ve been a Dawg fan since 1968, and this is the poorest excuse for a coaching staff I’ve seen in my 43 years of follwoing GA Football. So put that in your collective boneheaded pipes and smoke it!
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Unfortunately, this is true. Of course, if we beat 1-6 Kentucky Saturday, we’re off and running to a STRONG SEASON beating the pansies and losing to everyone else for 5 solid complete seasons now.

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Thomas Brown
October 18th, 2012
11:24 am
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“Assuming they get by KY, the Dawgs still have a chance at a strong season”
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Utter hogwash. Kentucky is 1-6 on the season beating only Kent State college, and have the # 100 Offense in the nation. What in the name of heaven gives you any idea that you are a legend in your own mind stating that assuming my alma mater gets by Kentucky ?
Oh wow. Beat Kentucky. At the beginning of the season, you called them a pansie. Now that’s it’s game time, if we beat them we’re on the way to strong season.
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I stand by what I posted. At least you didn’t change the words this time, but again you’ve taken what I said out of context, nincompoop. I ASSUME we’ll beat KY because they ARE a pansy. And we MUST beat them to maintain a chance of having a strong season. What’s so hard to understand about that? You continue to show that you have an incredibly difficult time comprehending simple, clearly written statements. Loser.

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As a Georgia man I hate reading Schultz’s comments about the defense, but frankly they are right on the mark. Our defense is under-achieving in a big way! We have made very average (or below) teams look like contenders. Don’t know if it is a scheme problem that is too complicated, a teaching and communication problem, or players who think too highly of themselves because all they hear is how talented they are. My guess is that it is likely some of all of the above.
Really good things are still possible – if others (Gators) can help us. But we need to get going really quick…. and if we beat Kentucky by 4 TD’s, it will not mean that we have finally “arrived.” We need a seasonal run just like last year to convince me that we have the right folks coaching all postions – starting at the top.

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You have the IQ of an idiot. I asked you 3 times where you got your degree. 3 times you have failed to answer that. Beating Kentucky means absolutely nothing, as every poster after your post has posted. According to your general lack of intelligence, beating Kentucky means we still have a chance at a strong season. That has come, and gone, long since before now. With our Official NCAA Strength of Schedule of # 103 this season including all games this season, and being embarrassed by South Carolina while not playing well against anyone except for Vandie all season long, insures that no matter what, more of us are clear that this season is a waste already.

Florida ? I merely pointed out that you have once again said you are pulling for Florida Saturday. I refuse to do so. Not refuse to admit I am pulling for Florida Saturday. Refusing to pull for Florida, as I refuse to pull for Georgie tek, or Florida State. (1) Florida winning Saturday does nothing for us. (2) Florida is our # 1 Rival. (3) I ain’t pulling for Florida. I ain’t rooting for Florida. I ain’t even secretly hoping Florida beats South Carolina. (4) Getting to the Georgia Dome last year, did us a fat lot of good : 10-42. Or, am I supposed to sit here and say we were ahead for a half ? Only to lose 10-42.

You said you have no issue whatsoever with my list of 7 truths about this football program today. These are 7 truths, I wrote. I researched. I figured out. I posted. Original thought. You haven’t got the brains God gave to a peanut to have an Original Thought in your Nerd Lifetime. You are, at best, a child. Running in here bragging that I don’t know whom it is I am dealing with, having the temerity to even reply to your utter B.S.

We have not beat a team like Alabama in 5 years now. And, I am supposed to

PULL FOR MY BITTER RIVAL SATURDAY

so that we can get back to play Alabama in the Georgia Dome ? I don’t think so. Anything can happen. Not according to Albert Einstein. We cannot base the future based upon the PAST ? Oh, really nimrod ? Sure we can. We’ve played 17 games against teams who made the top 10 all 12 years of Mark Richt and won 3, the last of which was # 9 Auburn 2006 which was 7 seasons’ ago.

Just so you are clear; I graduated Top 5 % of my graduating class at UGA. My parents came up to the Foy Fine Arts Building and watched the Award. Instead, you have to run in here and tell me I don’t know whom it is I am dealing with.

Yeah, I do.

A child.

An ill-informed, full-of-himself hanger-on minion who never played football, never lettered in 4 sports let alone one, never was a walk-on, never has had seasons’ tickets to UGA, never been to JAX for the game, never been to one of our bowl games, blow-hard. You don’t make diddle-e-squat for money; your job is your latest new try to do-so; and you have held that position for a year at most. You are a pip-squeak. A Dolt. A jive-turkey twit. But, mostly, son, you are a NERD.

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florida will lose a bunch of talent next year and Ga will win the east again—book it. tennessee will suck again and usc will fold as usual.

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Thomas Brown
October 18th, 2012
10:45 pm

You have the IQ of an idiot. I asked you 3 times where you got your degree. 3 times you have failed to answer that. Beating Kentucky means absolutely nothing, as every poster after your post has posted. According to your general lack of intelligence, beating Kentucky means we still have a chance at a strong season. That has come, and gone, long since before now. With our Official NCAA Strength of Schedule of # 103 this season including all games this season, and being embarrassed by South Carolina while not playing well against anyone except for Vandie all season long, insures that no matter what, more of us are clear that this season is a waste already.

Florida ? I merely pointed out that you have once again said you are pulling for Florida Saturday. I refuse to do so. Not refuse to admit I am pulling for Florida Saturday. Refusing to pull for Florida, as I refuse to pull for Georgie tek, or Florida State. (1) Florida winning Saturday does nothing for us. (2) Florida is our # 1 Rival. (3) I ain’t pulling for Florida. I ain’t rooting for Florida. I ain’t even secretly hoping Florida beats South Carolina. (4) Getting to the Georgia Dome last year, did us a fat lot of good : 10-42. Or, am I supposed to sit here and say we were ahead for a half ? Only to lose 10-42.

You said you have no issue whatsoever with my list of 7 truths about this football program today. These are 7 truths, I wrote. I researched. I figured out. I posted. Original thought. You haven’t got the brains God gave to a peanut to have an Original Thought in your Nerd Lifetime. You are, at best, a child. Running in here bragging that I don’t know whom it is I am dealing with, having the temerity to even reply to your utter B.S.

We have not beat a team like Alabama in 5 years now. And, I am supposed to

PULL FOR MY BITTER RIVAL SATURDAY

so that we can get back to play Alabama in the Georgia Dome ? I don’t think so. Anything can happen. Not according to Albert Einstein. We cannot base the future based upon the PAST ? Oh, really nimrod ? Sure we can. We’ve played 17 games against teams who made the top 10 all 12 years of Mark Richt and won 3, the last of which was # 9 Auburn 2006 which was 7 seasons’ ago.

Just so you are clear; I graduated Top 5 % of my graduating class at UGA. My parents came up to the Foy Fine Arts Building and watched the Award. Instead, you have to run in here and tell me I don’t know whom it is I am dealing with.

Yeah, I do.

A child.

An ill-informed, full-of-himself hanger-on minion who never played football, never lettered in 4 sports let alone one, never was a walk-on, never has had seasons’ tickets to UGA, never been to JAX for the game, never been to one of our bowl games, blow-hard. You don’t make diddle-e-squat for money; your job is your latest new try to do-so; and you have held that position for a year at most. You are a pip-squeak. A Dolt. A jive-turkey twit. But, mostly, son, you are a NERD.
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So because you ask me 3 times where I earned my degree, I’m obligated to tell you? If you’re interested, toady, ask a few more times, and I’ll consider letting you know–not that it’s any of your damn business.

Nowhere in your lengthy rant did you mention how you’ve predicted fla will “lose four or five games in 2012.” Did you forget that flash of ignorance? Don’t worry–I won’t.

So you’re afraid for UGA to return to the Dome for the SECCG because they might lose? You’re gutless, in other words.

If my rival winning a game helps my team, then yes, I’ll “pull” for my rival that week. You obviously care more about fla losing that about UGA winning. We’ll get our shot at fla, and if it comes on the heels of them beating SC, the game’s that much bigger and the stakes that much higher. I relish that opportunity and hope it happens. Not surprisingly, you cower from it.

“Just so you are clear; I graduated Top 5 % of my graduating class at UGA. My parents came up to the Foy Fine Arts Building and watched the Award.”

More lies. You have zero reading comprehension skills and deplorable writing, spelling, and math skills. You’re no top 5%. Liar. More importantly, you’re in minus territory in social skills–and are despised on these boards. A couple of the countless examples:

Thomas Brown Barks At The Moon
October 18th, 2012
5:52 pm

” . . . he has no taste left in his mouth from being bit–slapped on such a regular basis. He is the scurge of Dawgdom. An open-sore that seeps and won’t heal. He is the ex-girl-friend that won’t go away, the bill-collector who calls everytime you sit down for dinner. He is THE MADMAN THAT BARKS AT THE MOON!”

kingdaddy
October 18th, 2012
10:06 pm

ok, I’ll bite. What illness did I have besides Thomas Brown stalking me?
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How do you like being considered an “open sore” and an “illness,” Thomas, you sick fu*k? Top 5% my azz.

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ga suxxxx from top to bottom i used to bleed red and black but i could care less now if they ever win another game nick saban has been at alabama 4 years and this year he will win his 3rd nat champs all that is going on in athens for 12 yrs and stiil running is a carnival i hope they lose ever game left then maybe this insanity will end until everyone is fired i will not use my hard earned money to support are by anything with that crappie g on it every year its the same old smoke and mirrors the team has no backbone maybe they should get rid of the football program altogether and still to noncontact sports like golf and tennis you know these days in athens 3 million a year dont buy a whole lot go kentucky!!!!!!

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Jarvis Jones was in a JC because of one reason (he couldin’t cut it in a real school).

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UGA has “NFL Talent”??? … could have fooled me

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Frankly speaking there is something seriously wrong with Georgia; a defense that continues to let up on third downs repeatedly. Kentucky which is no power house ran all over Georgia’s defense. Came out and scored with out much trouble. The special team play is absolutely terrible. Kicking non existent. Offense zero imagination with play calling. Thank God Murray is an exceptional quarterback and their running game has been somewhat of a surprise.

If they play like they did at South Carolina and think they have a pray of beating Florida then they better come with something better than they have demonstrated this season. Or it will be another Outback or second tier bowl.

You look at the coaching during the Florida South Carolina or Alabama or LSU and you see fired up coaches who get in players faces when they make bone headed play resulting in personal fouls at crucial time in a game. Richt on the other hand never seems to loose his cool or get in the players face. Perhaps this is why players every year start with 3 to 5 being suspended, and during some games they look like they do not know what they are doing.

We will see which Georgia team shows up in Jacksonville next Saturday.

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Their heads are definitely not in the game. I wonder where they are?

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Georgia coaching does less with MORE TALENT than any coach in the country. I am a long time fan of Mark Richt the human being but have concluded tha he is, at best, a mediocre coach. With four or five potential first rounders on a vetran defense, Kentucky looked like they were playing a high school team on their first drive. Georgia could not stop any of the runs. Georgia has four problems:
Very mediocre coaching
A weak offensive line that only looks good against poor teams
A defense that has many stars but is ineffective against running, mobile quarterbacks.
A predictible offensive scheme that is totally ineffective against top tier teams
Mediocre special teams. Pretty bad when your kicker struggles with PAT’s….

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