Richt low-key on revenge
It’s interesting to see how Mark Richt’s way of trying to motivate his players after a couple of rivalry losses last year contrasts with how the coaches of those teams approached their games with Georgia.
After the 2007 Dogs beat the Gators in a game that featured a very un-Richtian appeal to raw emotion in the infamous end-zone celebration, Urban Meyer made beating Georgia the keystone of his 2008 Florida team’s preseason preparations. His players had to do 42 reps on every weight station as a reminder of the Dogs’ 42 points scored in 2007, and they had to do 188 sit-ups, push-ups and crunches during workouts to drive home the memory of Knowshon Moreno’s 188 yards against the Gators.
From the very day he became Georgia Tech’s new head coach, Paul Johnson made no bones about the importance of beating Georgia. He may be acting now like it was all the players and alumni that made a big deal of it, but at his introduction as the Jackets’ new coach, Johnson said that the game against the Dogs “is a game Georgia Tech needs to win. I embrace that.” And from that point on Johnson harped constantly on beating Georgia and made it the game the Jackets keyed on.
But Richt has learned a thing or two about motivational ploys. When they work, they’re hailed as brilliant, but they can bite you in the tail as well. It’s a fine line for a head coach to tread. You want to motivate your players and your fan base without making it a distraction for your players. The first “Blackout” against Auburn in 2007 was perfect. But last year, it got out of hand the week before the Alabama game. It’s one thing to set your fans afire, and the 2008 Blackout certainly did that with the Sanford Stadium crowd. But Richt let the Blackout become the overwhelming focus of the week, including among his players, and the result was a team that appeared to have peaked emotionally before they ever took the field.
This year, Richt isn’t letting his team forget about last year’s losses to Florida and Tech. As both the Athens Banner-Herald and the Bulldogs Blog have noted, posters with the scores of the games and pictures of the opposing players celebrating have been put up in the team meeting rooms at Butts-Mehre. “Do you remember the feeling?” the posters ask.
At least publicly, though, Richt isn’t zeroing in on the 2009 games against the Gators and Jackets. He’s sticking to the old one-game-at-a-time mantra and is talking up the season opener against Oklahoma State. As he told the ABH, “Right now I’m to the point where I have to begin focusing on the most important thing, and that’s the first game. That’s kind of where my mind’s going. Not to say we don’t look at the big picture, because we do most of the offseason. [But] if I address the team in any way, we’re talking about Game No. 1.”
Still the message on the walls is clear: Rivalry losses aren’t acceptable at UGA.
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Guys, please don't tell my mom I'm blogging and not studying for my Tech exam; she won't cut the crust off my sandwich
June 22nd, 2009
2:16 pm
first?
Guys, please don't tell my mom I'm blogging and not studying for my Tech exam; she won't cut the crust off my sandwich
June 22nd, 2009
2:17 pm
He better get them motivated for those games, losing to Ok state will be forgivable but losing to tech and uf again will get some major heat
Long Dawg
June 22nd, 2009
2:23 pm
As much as I hate to admit it the end result of the Florida and Tech games made it kinda clear who was focused and wanted the games more but I believe there was a bigger issue, character. The Dawgs let up on Tech after the big halftime lead and it came back to bite them. That is a character issue. Florida came out ready to play and smaked em in the mouth and they just took it without much fight. That’s character too. Talent without real desire and character doesn’t add up to much. Last year was the most dissappointing year of the Richt tenure. The players all seemed to be standing around waiting for someone to take the lead. Not a warrior in the bunch.
Football is a game of emotion and all other things being equal you gotta want it more than the other guy and Georgia did not have that quality last year.
That said I do believe you play them one at a time but Florida and Tech as Georgia football goes deserve some extra attention through out the year and a good ass kicking on game day.
southgadawg88
June 22nd, 2009
2:26 pm
Give me 5-0 against SC,TENN,FLA,AUB and GT and I’ll take it!!!
Spike
June 22nd, 2009
2:28 pm
Tech doesn’t worry me, that was a three point fluke win, not a “whuppin” or beatdown. But the Gators just put it on us. For the love of Pete, can we please get focused and have some attitiude and beat the crap out of those guys?
Well Said; Well Blogged
June 22nd, 2009
2:34 pm
Bill, Long Dawg just gave you a run for the ol’ blog money.
AltamahaDawg
June 22nd, 2009
2:35 pm
Bill, really good job. Factual, interesting.
Dawg'94
June 22nd, 2009
2:51 pm
The Dawgs are 8-2 over the last 10 years with Yech, so I’m not worried about the nerds. BUT Florida is a different story, as EVERYONE knows. Richt should not HAVE to change jersey colors or have them wear red pants. IT IS FLORIDA! The reason Richt has had to pull stunts is there has been little to NO leadership on the team. I HOPE some players step up & provide the leadership the Dawgs have been missing. If they do, my school could have a very special year.
Huh?
June 22nd, 2009
2:51 pm
I was watching a re-play of the 2007 Georgia-Alabama game over the weekend and it occurred to me that the dawg pile to end the game might not have been such a swell idea. Our players were dancing around taunting their fans a little bit at their place. I think Alabama remembered that just like Florida remembered the endzone celebration. Both were more than a little p!ssed off when they played us in ‘08. I’m not some tightwad that cries like a little girl over stuff like that, but it is not helpful. Parity reigns in the SEC and every extra little bit of motivation helps. Simply put, lets stop p!ssing off our opponents and just beat them, mmmkay?
southgadawg88
June 22nd, 2009
2:53 pm
LONGDAWG I don’t know about the character stuff…I mean all the major players from the 07 team were on the 08 team and there was no question of character with the 07 group.Missing studs due to injury has a way of making your team look weaker…well honestly it’s because they are.When you go to war without all your big guns sometimes you come up short.I think Moreno ran as hard last year as the prior season,Stafford played his best ball at UGA,our WR’s played the best as a unit since the 13-1 team,however we took a step back on the DL,LB and OL.I know Searles did a great job putting together a unit however it wasn’t like our OL was dominate.Let’s be honest…. the pass protection was worse AND we really didn’t open up the running lanes as well either.Stafford and Moreno played their tails off last year in spite of that fact!!In the end it is a TEAM game and the team was not as good as the previous version.That being said I do think we have a better overall TEAM but I don’t think we have any PLAYERS better than Matt and Knowshon this season.
uuugh.
June 22nd, 2009
2:54 pm
Spike…Fluke? Not to hear the Techies talk about it. You would think the world shook after the resounding beat down the yellow jackets doled out that day!
They should be embarrassed about the way they played in those two losses…it shouldn’t take pictures in the locker weight room to remind them. But hey–if it helps them get it together, bring it on!!
UGA_Alum_93
June 22nd, 2009
2:58 pm
I don’t like it but I understand it. If you have dominated someone for 7 years and are up by 16 @ the half it is only human nature that you would let up. Not to mention our season was over after the loss to UF. Better to learn this lesson when nothing was on the line rather than the previous year when we went to BDS with a BCS Bowl on the line.
gtsux
June 22nd, 2009
3:02 pm
GT IS IRRELEVANT!!! Might as well not even have a team……no one really cares, except maybe 35 or 36 people.
bigdawg01
June 22nd, 2009
3:04 pm
He has to start beating FL regularly…period. I know i have said this before on here, but Meyer worked his kids into the ground after the ole miss game, and we all know what the result was. Richt had better wake up or the heat will surely get his attention.
Tide Rising
June 22nd, 2009
3:04 pm
Huh?
Well put. The sec is so competitive and there is so much parity usually among the top 6 teams that the last thing you want to do is give an opponent that extra little bit of motivation that they need to prepare extra hard for you.
yellow fuzz
June 22nd, 2009
3:08 pm
If my team was ranked number one preseason in the NCAA last year and got smoked at home in front of 96,000 family and friends after giving up 408 yards on the ground and allowing TWO backs to rush for over 100 yards all by the lowly Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets who you also out recruit every year (lol where do all those 4-5 star recruits go?), I believe I would remove the term irrelevant from my vocabulary!
yellow fuzz
June 22nd, 2009
3:10 pm
bigdawg1, You’re not going to start beating Florida OR Georgia Tech regularly.
RxDawg
June 22nd, 2009
3:12 pm
Richt reminds me of the sheriff from Walking Tall
uuugh.
June 22nd, 2009
3:13 pm
Fuzz…we already beat GT regularly.
TDone
June 22nd, 2009
3:14 pm
Where is it written in the Constitution of the United States of America that Muttland is entitled to beat Florida or Tech? You folks got punked by your rivals and you could do nothing, nothing, to stop it.
It’s football folks!
SCOREBOARD!!!
GO JACKETS!!!
uuugh.
June 22nd, 2009
3:17 pm
TDone..it is not written in there at all.
uuugh.
June 22nd, 2009
3:31 pm
Only 159 more days until the creative techies have to replace “45-42″ with something else. I for one am counting the seconds until order is restored.
RAMBLE ON!!!
June 22nd, 2009
3:32 pm
I really don’t think ya’ll will even be able to compete with GT in the upcoming years. We’ve got UNC, VT, FSU, Miami, WF, and Clemson to deal with this year. All better teams than UGAg and we got 2 weeks to get rested.
Even Vandy in Nashville maybe tougher, sorry mutts, but as Bruce Hornsby would say…”That’s just the way it is”.
I think UF and GT will begin a friendly rivalry on who beats you worse.
UGADawg83
June 22nd, 2009
3:32 pm
jacketbacker-your just an idiot ’nuff said.
Voice of Reason
June 22nd, 2009
3:33 pm
TDone- what kind of idiotic statement was that? So UGA is not supposed to want to beat Tech and UF, nor are we allowed to discuss it on a UGA blog. Go away.
Huh?
June 22nd, 2009
3:34 pm
“If my team was ranked number one preseason…”
This is the part where everyone stops reading and starts laughing hysterically Techie. The day that your irrelevant program is ranked #1 in the preseason is the day that you can look out your window and see pigs flying. Good luck with that.
reservoirDAWG
June 22nd, 2009
3:34 pm
Why do all these techies continually comment on the UGA board. I know it has been asked before, but are you douchebags that bored?
Tide Rising
June 22nd, 2009
3:38 pm
I don’t see pigs flying anytime soon.
Voice of Reason
June 22nd, 2009
3:39 pm
RambleOn!!- oooh! tough schedule you got there. You can’t win one game in 8 years and start talking about a cometition with UF over who will beat us worse. a 3 point win means we won’t even be able to compete with you in upcoming years. You are a joke RambleOn. I know that you intend most of your comments to be moronic to piss UGA fans off, but seriously man.
jacketbacker- in order for CPJ to “smack him in the mouth again” he would have had to have “smacked him in the mouth” before. A 3 point victory is barely a “smack in the mouth” even in soccer. If you think your team is getting so great then be patient and maybe one day you will be able to talk about a “smack in the mouth” that Tech put on UGA. You’re a little premature, but I’ve heard you have that problem in other areas of life as well.
uuugh.
June 22nd, 2009
3:44 pm
Ramble how dare you sully Mr. Hornsby’s good name in such a dumb post. How long has it been since any one of those teams were considered elite? Hey maybe Tech can play in the ACC championship game this year that pits a pair of 3 loss teams in a clash of the titans.
Does anyone know if there is a GT blog? Are there UGA fans trolling that blog posting poop all the time?
SOUTHSIDE DAWG
June 22nd, 2009
3:44 pm
yellow fuze
your team will never win a game in front of 96000 on the flats not even on a Thursday night game.
ramble on
when is tech going to when the acc and play in a BCS bowl. tech would rather beat UGA and hand out rings.
Herschel Talker
June 22nd, 2009
3:45 pm
Ramble On likes men
Cuz
June 22nd, 2009
3:46 pm
T-done, wrong Constitution. Look in the Georgia State Costitution.
I have to admit Ramble On, that last line made me chuckle. See you on the Flats in November.
yellow fuzz
June 22nd, 2009
3:50 pm
uuugh,
“regularly” as in football, basketball and baseball this year?
RAMBLE ON!!!
June 22nd, 2009
3:51 pm
Is that a picture of Prez Hilton, a dawgs fan Nov. 29th 2008 or both?
yellow fuzz
June 22nd, 2009
3:53 pm
Southside dawg,
“your team will never win a game in front of 96000 on the flats not even on a Thursday night game.”
But we sure did put you in your place in front of 96,000 between the hedges on a Saturday afternoon game.
45-42222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222!
yellow fuzz
June 22nd, 2009
3:57 pm
reservoirDAWG
“Why do all these techies continually comment on the UGA board. I know it has been asked before, but are you douchebags that bored”?
We pay the same thing you do to participate here. Truth be known, if the AJC charged a fee we would totally dominate “your” blog as well. Every Georgia fan I know is a fair weather fan and a freeloader.
uuugh.
June 22nd, 2009
3:58 pm
OK I just went and checked. The do have a Tech blog after all. We can put that mystery to rest.
Turns out Ramble and Fuzz et al are not forced to blog here for a lack of their own blog…they choose to be here.
Unfortunately Dawg fans, a few of us are over talking smack too. It is a sad day indeed.
Voice of Reason & Huh
June 22nd, 2009
4:00 pm
Us too
45-42
June 22nd, 2009
4:01 pm
Nothing else needs to be said
yellow fuzz
June 22nd, 2009
4:01 pm
ouch
SugarHillDawg
June 22nd, 2009
4:02 pm
double ouch
anotherdawg
June 22nd, 2009
4:02 pm
Well said Southgadawg88! And for RAMBLE ON, Yellow Fuzz, Saint Simon, if you will go to the top of this page it reads Junkyard Blawg. How old are you guys anyway? 10? 11?
SOUTHSIDE DAWG
June 22nd, 2009
4:03 pm
What was the first mascot at tech?
CopenhagenDawg45-42
June 22nd, 2009
4:04 pm
lol
yellow fuzz
June 22nd, 2009
4:05 pm
who cares what the first mascot was. The last score was 45-42
Old Dog
June 22nd, 2009
4:05 pm
Not all negative comments about Richt and Adams are from Tech fans, and 45 points is a whippin. Richt’s players tend to talk smack on the field while they are getting humiliated by Alabama, Florida, and Tech. They need to save that talk for NM State. Is Richt talking now about not talking? Please, shut up and play football.
reservoirDAWG
June 22nd, 2009
4:06 pm
Fuzzy, you missed the point. If you want to talk football you’re more than welcome. Ya’ll just come on here and offer up trash talk. It’s pathetic. Kinda like you.
yellow fuzz
June 22nd, 2009
4:06 pm
31-0
49-10
45-42
m
June 22nd, 2009
4:07 pm
7 out of 8!!! TECH SUCKS AT LIFE!!! (and Football!!!!
MADDAWG55
June 22nd, 2009
4:08 pm
It is always the techie who brags and talks trash on the DAWG VENT after beating UGA!
It is always the techie who gets the ring made after beating UGA!
Dawgs fans don’t have to make comemrative rings…We just expect to win year after year cause its what we Do!!! Saint Paul just broke the mirror….Looks like 7 more years of bad luck!!! Techie look around you this november…There will be a sea of red in your own house!!! Winning programs don’t have trouble selling out a stadium smaller then Sprayberry high schools!!!
in the words of Paul McCartney
June 22nd, 2009
4:08 pm
Hey Reservoir, Let ‘em gloat, let’ em revel in the one win this century over the Red and Black. Let ‘em get jacked up over a three point win on our turf. As McCartney wrote: ‘Let it be’. November’s coming.
The deathly pall on the blogs that we heard 7 years IN A ROW, the overwhelming nothingness that the Welfare City students displayed every other year of the Richt era is coming again, and soon.
H B T D
m
June 22nd, 2009
4:10 pm
TECH SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!
7 OUT OF 8 HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!
Slow Freddie
June 22nd, 2009
4:11 pm
5-0 against SC, Tenn, Fla, Auburn, and GT? What you smokin’, bro?
Dog Dawg it's all the same
June 22nd, 2009
4:11 pm
RAMBLE ON I love reading your posts! I truly do. They absolutely crack me up. You remind me of how Admiral Yamamoto must have felt after Pearl Harbor…your Hiroshima is coming.
m
June 22nd, 2009
4:12 pm
TECH SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!
7 OUT OF 8 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!
KD
June 22nd, 2009
4:14 pm
YELLOW FUZZ, WHAT’S WRONG, COULDN’T REMEMBER THE FINAL SCORE,AS FAR AS THE SCORING GOES, HERE’S ONE FOR THE YECHIES, IF YOU WANT TO LIVE IN THE PAST 51-7 51-7 51-7 ENOUGH SAID HUH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
m
June 22nd, 2009
4:15 pm
The Dawgs are the greatest team ever!!
Reality Check
June 22nd, 2009
4:21 pm
Yellow Fuzz, Ramble On, Etc., Congratulations on your one win against UGA this Decade. My 8 year old son was in tears after the game because he said that it sucks to lose to an awlful team like GT. I had to agree and told him that based on history he would probably see one or two more GT wins in by the time he went to College. BTW, in addition to the 7/8 against tech, UGA has blistered Clemson and VT over the last 5 or six years. Enough talk about the other sports, your baseball team choked again, and your basketball coach is horrible. The only reason you did not fire him is the lieftime contract you gave him. Go polish your humanitarian bowl trophy which was probably last bowl game you have won.
SOUTHSIDE DAWG
June 22nd, 2009
4:22 pm
yellow fuzz
I was just wondering you really know anything other than the score of one football game about your school
Tech sucks
June 22nd, 2009
4:24 pm
Spike wins.
The GT 3 point victory was a fluke. See previous 7 or 8 games.
They love to say they killed us. I guess for Tech winning by 3 is killing someone.
Tech sucks
June 22nd, 2009
4:25 pm
51-7 Nerds.
Get ready, it’s coming again. There will be more UGA fans than Tech fans in the ghetto stadium this year.
Sanford Drive
June 22nd, 2009
4:25 pm
Tech fans are the most fair weathered fans of all.
Calhoun
June 22nd, 2009
4:26 pm
If you can’t motivate your team for rivalry games then you need to find another job. I would give Tech the edge this year, but the Dawgs can win it. Against the Gators, I don’t care if he brings Tony Robbins (sp?)to motivate UGA – there’s no way they beat UF. This was just another stupid article by the AJC.
yellow fuzz is gay
June 22nd, 2009
4:26 pm
It is funny to me how the gtu fans have replaced scu fans as the most delusional in college football. I must admit that scu has had more success against UGA during the last 18 years (with out cheating as per the NCAA) than has gtu. I really don’t hate tech, it goes much deeper than that.
THWGT
Sanford Drive
June 22nd, 2009
4:27 pm
I think it is obvious to everyone that the tech ‘fans’ on this site didn’t go to Tech at all.
RAMBLE ON!!!
June 22nd, 2009
4:28 pm
Paul also wrote HELTER SKELTER!!!!
The only sleeping giant that has be awoken is PAUL JOHNSON.”DIG IT”!!!
UF 09
June 22nd, 2009
4:33 pm
The Florida-GA rivalry goes back and forth and right nbow we own GA. It could change when Tebow leaves. You just never know. We ARE loaded this year.
I will say as a sidebar, the GT fans on here crack me up. That program hasn’t won anything in 20 years and I checked the series record, GA seems to own that series and wins every decade. At least FL-GA has gone back and forth. GA is still ahead in ours but not by much. We should win again this year.
RAMBLE ON!!!
June 22nd, 2009
4:34 pm
There’s no crying in football even if you are 8 years old. Wish I could have seen it.
Lost dog
June 22nd, 2009
4:35 pm
Florida was clearly the best team in the SEC and the nation last year. GT won the game but neither UGA nor GT looked very impressive. GT could not stop the pass and UGA could not tackle anyone. I think that LSU showed everyone what happens when players stay in their positions and play the option like a defense should. GT will not run over anyone this year. GT will have to pass to win. UGA will have a much improved O and D and will have a good year. Injuries can make a world beater an also ran very quickly. IF UGA stays healthy they will do just fine.
dawgstephen
June 22nd, 2009
4:35 pm
HEY BILL…
I give you credit, you post a LOT on the blogs, and that is commendable. This is one of your better blog topics. Agreed, coaches have to stay creative to motivate sometimes, and you wrote this one well.
uuugh.
June 22nd, 2009
4:36 pm
Even a damned Florida fan makes more sense than the techies. What the heck?
Diamond Dawg
June 22nd, 2009
4:38 pm
Yea, not really worried about Tech, we got to take care of Fla, Tenn, and Aub. We will handle Tech easily this yr.
FL DAWG
June 22nd, 2009
4:39 pm
Dawg fans, face it, we did get smacked in the mouth by GT. Any loss to them is a smack in the mouth. This was especially tough to take sense we gave them the game in the second half (most especially the 3rd Quarter). You can blame it on coaching, injuries or anything you like, you can call it a fluke, an abiration, or whatever you like, but we still lost to Yech. I don’t like it, but unfortunately I have to live with it until we beat them this November. The Defense has to get focussed and stay focussed throughout the year. There is no doubt in my mind that we had a team, and have a team that should beat yech.
Lenny in Ludowici
June 22nd, 2009
4:50 pm
Wow. For a Georgia blog there are a ton of comments aimed at the Techsters. Really quite amazing since one of the main themes expressed by most of our Dawg fans seems to be how inconsequential they are.
So, Tech is irrelevent because of the recent series record over the last few years. Hmmm….Did anyone ever stop to think that maybe, based on the recent series record, UF looks at the Dawgs in the same way?
gatorman770
June 22nd, 2009
4:55 pm
Between the two queens, I still think Carrie Prejean has the most class and is the prettiest even if she had two blackeyes….LOL
Go manager of The Black-eye Peas!
RAMBLE ON!!!
June 22nd, 2009
4:55 pm
Tenn and Auburn?
Pleeeeezzzz,
I’d rather swap them out for Missy St. and Vandy…more tears after the beat down.
Sanford Drive
June 22nd, 2009
4:55 pm
Lenny,
Of course UF sees the Dawgs in the same way the Dawgs see Tech. That’s not new information, but good try anyway.
RAMBLE ON!!!
June 22nd, 2009
4:56 pm
I’m a big fan of the Black-eye peas starting today!!!!
stoopid
June 22nd, 2009
4:59 pm
Lenny,
im sure the gators do look at our series record like we look at techs. The only difference is we dont troll UF blogs spewing insane statements. We give respect where its due and Tech doesnt deserve it yet. UF, thats a different story. I hate’em but apparently theyre a hella football program!
Huh?
June 22nd, 2009
5:03 pm
No doubt it sucks FL Dawg, but that doesn’t make it any less of a fluke. Nor does it mean that we owe them one scintilla of respect. What kind of respect did they give us when we were handing them their a$$ seven years running? Absolutely none. All they did was cry, make excuses, accuse us of cheating, laugh when we lost to SEC foes, and then cry some more. They were the biggest bunch of sore losers that you will ever encounter. Now all of the sudden they beat us by a freaking field goal and we’re supposed to bow down and kiss their pocket calculators? Sorry, ain’t happening. They can neither lose nor win with grace. Tech fans are the biggest joke on the effing planet. This is beyond dispute.
big dawg
June 22nd, 2009
5:04 pm
i found myself pulling for david duval today, but just like a techster, let me down. i should have known better..LOSERS
and the women are so much hotter in athens!!! nuff said
m
June 22nd, 2009
5:04 pm
Ignore the m imposter above. He is apparently a dawgie that didn’t like Tech stomping the dawgshiiite out of the dawgies at sanford and son stadium last November.
Well guess what. It is going to happen again next November. Mark it down.
da hood
June 22nd, 2009
5:07 pm
If CMR is going to vow revenge, he can not act gingerly.
RAMBLE ON!!!
June 22nd, 2009
5:12 pm
don’t frett big dawg, gymnastic season will be here soon enough.
AltamahaDawg
June 22nd, 2009
5:16 pm
Christian beauty queens to black rap artist. Yea, Mario..it’s everyone else in the world that just doesn’t get it. Better be glad that Fergie walked away!
dawgfan1911
June 22nd, 2009
5:18 pm
The fact of the matter is the Georgia was out coached in those three big games last year. If you look at the Tech game Stafford was shreading that secondary, all of the sudden, they couldnt move the ball because they came out trying to run the ball up the middle with the big lead, instead of throwing the ball on a suspect gt secondary. In the Alabama game, we looked scared, we were injured in all the wrong places because thats were the tide was the stronged on both interior lines and in the Florida game, plain and simple, those guys have better coaches. As much of a dawg fan that I am, I am a football fan and I knwo the game very well. Florida’s kids get up for Georgia and they come out and intimidate the Georgia players from the kick off. Mark Rict better work his players hard and make the realize that this laid back approach they like to use is not going to work against florida, it wont ever! South Carolina plays with the same intensity versus Georgia thats why that game is so close. I would have loved for Georgia to go after former Tennessee d coordinator Chavis. Until we get better special teams and defensive coaches we will be doomed against florida because those to areas are their stregnths. I also think the offense needs to be a little more wide open. Why recruit all of these offensive studs and not get them in the game to make plays.
LSU Fan
June 22nd, 2009
5:19 pm
Well Tech Fans we know who LSU’s Bitch is! Yes we do, Yes we do! 38-3 LSU
Georgia Tech is just made to bend-over….Right girls!
G-Man
June 22nd, 2009
5:22 pm
What a laughable article. What is the gist – when your rivals beat you, you become especially motivated the next year? Really? How instructive. Instead, tell me how UGA beats UF this year without Stafford or Moreno. Or LSU. Or really Tech for that matter. Thank God we don’t have to play Alabama.
TooBadsoSad
June 22nd, 2009
5:32 pm
The difference is that Urban is a big time coach who can motivate to win championships and Ritch isn’t. Sadly, that’s the one constant that’s come out of every season in Athens. Richt is good enough to keep his job – and, sadly, the Dawgs won’t ever make it to “the show” until they hire a coach like Meyer, Carroll, Stoops, etc. Mark Richt is a good guy. I wish him the best. But he’s not top 5 coaching material.
Ginger
June 22nd, 2009
5:33 pm
Don’t think pictures of the other team’s players celebrating are enough to properly motivate…Yes–we have to be ready to play all 12 games…But if we lose to Fla–no SEC Championship….If we lose to Tech–then we drop down further in rankings etc…Doing well is so important for recruiting–particularly against these 2 rivals…My dreams for UGA are to win the SEC and Win the National title and to compete for these 2 goals yearly…You have to have the Top of the Line players to do this along with great coaching…So Coach Richt…make the players do a few extra reps of the weights with the score figure or do something that makes these losses stick deeply in their stomach ! This is a must because many of today’s players are lazy and do not have the work ethic or pride of past generations.
DawgSlash
June 22nd, 2009
5:37 pm
Mark it down—Rich and the uGA players have the date of the UF game circled on their calendars. Big time revenge is on the way after low class meyer called those 2 last minute timeouts to rub it in after that blowout win. Ga upsets Florida in Jax and ruins their season!!!!!
GA 27 UF 24
I’ll be partying all night in Jacksonville baby!!!
S.C. DAWGS
June 22nd, 2009
5:40 pm
TECH FANS LET TALK ABOUT YOUR BOWL GAME YOU SMACKED IN THE MOUTH BY I THINK THE SEC LSU. YOU ARE A WANT A BE FOOTBALL TEAM.
Noodle Arm Stafford
June 22nd, 2009
5:55 pm
In 08 I put put double goose eggs against the gayturds and my homeboy noshow moreno didn’t score 1 td against those national champs gayturds but noshow sure did know how to take himself out of the bama and gayturds game too.
Johnny DangerDawg
June 22nd, 2009
6:05 pm
Urban Meyer’s approach worked, so I won’t criticize him. However, the danger in focusing so much on one rivalry game is that you might cause your players to overlook an earlier game against a lesser opponent (like Vandy) who can sneak up and beat you if you’re looking ahead to the next opponent.
Lenny in Ludowici
June 22nd, 2009
6:15 pm
So, “stoopid” and “Sanford Drive”, is all the vitriol aimed at those insignificant nerds just so you can at least feel better than SOMEBODY?
Truth be known, from what I have read here today and many other times is that Georgia got beat by an inferior team. And the beloved Dawgs got beat with their two first round draft picks. But, that couldn’t have been as bad as the 2006 season. You remember, getting beat by Vandy…..at home…..at homecoming. Or getting beat by Kentucky…..at their homecoming.
Lenny in Ludowici
June 22nd, 2009
6:19 pm
Let me translate S.C. DAWG’s comment:
TECH FANS(,) LET’s TALK ABOUT YOUR BOWL GAME(.) YOU got SMACKED IN THE MOUTH BY(,) I THINK(,) THE SEC’s LSU tigers. YOU ARE A WANT A(to) BE FOOTBALL TEAM.
Editor’s note: wannabe would be the more hip usage
snot bubble
June 22nd, 2009
6:24 pm
At Bobby Dodd stadium. Do you still have to piss in a ditch when you go to the bathroom?
Lenny in Ludowici
June 22nd, 2009
6:30 pm
Snot,
Great question. As a matter of fact, yes, the Dooley ditch is still a functional and integral part of the Georgia Tech tradition.
However, as “WANT A BE FOOTBALL TEAM”, as was so eloquently put by S.C. Dawg, the athletic dept is planning on planting boxwoods behind each sideline. This will make Dawg fans much more comfortable when they are visiting and nature calls.
And, Snot, go blow your nose.
weston
June 22nd, 2009
6:34 pm
Will the poster who claimed once to have Ramble On’s facebook page post the link here for viewing? I’d like to see this woman. Supposedly she’s about 17 and very overweight. At any rate SHE posts here more than a dawg fan!
I can’t wait for the season to start. I don’t know about FL but I’ll bet with the dumb chick Ramble On that the dawgs will win with ease. The bet could be like this: If UGA wins as I think then Ramble On can buy me a new UGA cap. If the Bugs win again then I’ll buy Ramble on some diet pills. Sounds fair to me.