Bulldog Bites: Christmas in Shreveport
(Georgiadogs.com)
Georgia wrapped up its pre-bowl practices in Athens today and the players will be hitting the road on their own for Shreveport, where they’re expected to report by 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday. First up once they get there, the athletic department says, will be a team activity at Barksdale Air Force Base.
The Dogs will practice again Friday afternoon at Independence Stadium, after beginning Christmas Day with a morning visit to patients at a local hospital. Some of the players have grumbled about being away from home on Christmas, but maybe they’ll feel less sorry for themselves after that. A dinner is planned at the team hotel Christmas evening.
The Dogs will practice again on Saturday and hold a walk-through session on Sunday before Monday’s game against the Aggies. The Dogs are a 7-point favorite with the game’s over/under betting total set at 64 points, which, considering the offenses and defenses involved, some might consider kind of conservative.
I’m hoping the Dogs don’t get into a high-scoring shootout with the Aggies. If they do, it’ll mean the game plan (run the ball, control the clock and keep QB Jerrod Johnson on the sideline) didn’t work.
I’m thinking it might wind up something along the lines of 38-21 in favor of the Dogs. What does your crystal ball say?
INDEPENDENCE BOWL FLASHBACK
(The Helmet Project)
Georgia’s previous visit to Shreveport, to play Arkansas in the 1991 Independence Bowl during the Ray Goff era, isn’t one of those games of the ages that fans like to reminisce about. But if you’d like to refresh your memory about the game (which Georgia won 24-15), UGA football historian Patrick Garbin provides an interesting look back.
For a lot of folks, that game is most notable for Goff having given in to the players by adding a black stripe down the center of the red helmets and black facemasks. Thankfully, that was the only time that design was used.
The Blawg is taking a holiday break the rest of the week. See you back here for the bowl game.
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UGA Christmas List
December 23rd, 2009
7:26 pm
I’m a UGA fan. I have no self respect. I envy the acadamics at GT. I have to lie about UGA’s superior football team to make myself feel good. I know that GT is the better school. They already dominate us in basketball and the time is near that they will whip us in football on a consistent basis. When that happens I will probably kill myself.
UGA Christmas List
December 23rd, 2009
7:28 pm
Tech Fan…you are not very nice….bill is the only UGA supporter who can complete a sentence..
flagboy?
December 23rd, 2009
8:07 pm
War Jacket
December 23rd, 2009
7:22 am
Georgia is just another irrelevant team playing one of many irrelevant bowl games. GO AGGIES!!
and yet. . . here you are.
flagboy?
December 23rd, 2009
8:09 pm
Who are these guys?
December 23rd, 2009
10:00 am
Who are these guys?
December 23rd, 2009
9:59 am
Texas A&M will face Georgia in the 2009 AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl on Monday, Dec. 28 at 4 p.m. on ESPN2 with Ron Franklin, Ed Cunningham, and Quint Kessenich calling the game.
For such a great match up I would have thought Fowler, Herbstreit, Corso, May and Holtz would have been at the game
Tech had a game on during the middle of the day. . i think it was Duke. It had to be the ABSOLUTE worst play by play in history. Believe me, i’d take Ron Franklin calling the game over the woman who was calling the tech game.
blazerdawg
December 23rd, 2009
9:05 pm
Right on Mark @ 3:26, Good luck to the Jackets in the O-Bowl, and of course to the Dawgs against T A&M. Here’s to both the Dawgs & Jackets at 11-0 when they meet at Sanford in 2010!
11-2 GEORGIA TECH in ORANGE BOWL
December 23rd, 2009
9:32 pm
Thanks for a GREAT season
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
———ACC CHAMPS———-
GTMAN:
December 23rd, 2009
11:26 pm
Hey UGA: Let’s get ready for the TERD BOWL! THWG!
GTMAN:
December 23rd, 2009
11:28 pm
Hey superdawg: Why can’t your team beat UF at all?
GTMAN:
December 23rd, 2009
11:32 pm
quadriple option: Oh redneck dawg, oh redneck dawg
oh, how we suck!
We get up in the mornin and jump in our truck!
Every year, we say is our year to win it all,
but reality sets in and we suck at football!
We make excuses like it’s a rebuilding year, or it’s our coach,
but everyone knows UGA is a JOKE! THWG! Enjoy your crappy bowl game and hats off to a 7-6 season. LMFAO!
flagboy?
December 24th, 2009
12:24 am
GTMAN:
December 23rd, 2009
11:28 pm
Hey superdawg: Why can’t your team beat UF at all?
Why isn’t your login “UFMan”?
superDawg
December 24th, 2009
12:48 am
Thats what I thought gtboy tek sux is the answer.
BuLLdawg
December 24th, 2009
3:55 am
I should also like to discuss GIFTS.
I decided to look up the recruiting for 2010, now that the schools have the commitments that they will have for signing day in a few weeks.
Georgia Tech has ZERO Top 100 commitments.
Georgia Tech has ZERO 5-Star commitments.
Georgia Tech has no player considered any damn good at all.
Again, this year.
As every year.
Go play your schedules of six (6) games against “opponents” NOT even in a Bowl Game this year, as you just completed.
See, just see mind you, what kind of recruits you get for such a SORRY SCHEDULE.
Go play your HIGH SCHOOL OFFENSE.
See, just see mind you, what kind of recruits you get for such a HIGH SCHOOL OFFENSE.
Georgia Tech has only 3 high school players who want to come play on that offense.
UGA has players coming in next season such as :
Da’ Rick Rogers with 4.34 speed in the 40-yard dash with 6 feet 2 inches who is ranked the Number 1 Receiver in the Nation.
Brent Benedict a 6′ 6″ Offensive Tackle out of Jacksonville who is ranked the Number 6 Offensive Guard in the Nation.
Kolton Houston a 6′ 5″ Offensive Guard out of Buford who is ranked the Number 4 Offensive Tackle in the Nation.
Alec Ogletree a 6′ 3″ Safety out of Newnan who is ranked the Number 2 Safety in the Nation.
T.J. Stripling at 6′ 6″ out of Southwest DeKalb who is ranked the Number 4 Defensive End in the Nation.
Nickell Robey out of Frostproof Florida with 4.38 speed in the 40-yard dash who is ranked the Number 18 Cornerback in the Nation.
Garrison Smith out of Douglass High who is ranked the Number 1 Defensive Tackle in the Nation.
UGA has 7 of the Top Players in Florida and all the top players in the State of Georgia committed to UGA. This after your 1 good year since 1950, and after our worst year in the Coach Richt Era.
Who’s your Daddy ? 30-24. 8 of the last 9 years for Coach Richt. And, 60th beat down of Georgia Institute of Technology.
Why is Georgia Tech ranked the Number 41 Recruiting Class after your ACC CHUMPIONship, while UGA is the Number 6 Recruiting Class after we beat you 30-24 at your Stinking Stadium, again ? And, this LAME “we’re the Number 38 National University in the US News and World Report Rankings” doesn’t sound like crap to anyone either.
“WE’RE NUMBER 38.” What a hoot. That’s not a top school. It’s “top tier, tier 1” but so too is UGA. And, we absolutely OWN YOU in Athletics and in ACADEMICS of your Athletics compared to the Academics of our Athletics. We also beat your brains in at all sports, in the classroom and in each sport.
All of your Tech football commitments are ranked the Number 50 or the Number 90 in the Nation at their position. You have only 1 player recruited from outside the state of Georgia, and in-state you have nothing but the dredges, and they all will come to Tech and FLUNK OUT, as your Academic Progress Rate APR for Tech is WAY WORSE than the NCAA APR of UGA in football, who just beat your brains in, again doing little more than handing the ball off and lining up our men against your boys, who could NOT stop us, while by contrast, you GAVE UP ON YOUR HIGH SCHOOL OFFENSE and threw 4 passes to END THE GAME, 24-30.
UGA has 5 Top 100 players committed, three 5-Star Recruits, nine 4-Star Recruits and Tech has 0 Top 100, 0 5-Star, and 2 4-Star by direct comparison.
The ONLY 3 commitments on Offense Paul Johnson has are 2 OL ranked number 50 in the nation and a RB ranked number 50 in the nation. 3 high school football players in the entire United States of America want to come play in that high school offense. God Almighty Above.
Merry Christmas.
Dawg Knowledge
December 24th, 2009
7:16 am
Georgia blows out Texas A&M on the way to a huge season in 20101!!! Mark it down—Florida’s losing all their talent, tennessee will have nothing—Georgia beats both of these teams easy, wins the SEC east and plays bama for the title!!!! Dawgs–back on top baby!!! Florida—minor bowls will begin next year—tebow’s gone and brantley’s not that good.
Call it Like It Is
December 24th, 2009
8:19 am
Hey Dawg Knowledge,
U keep smokin that Crack if you actually believe that GA will be beating the GATORS anytime soon!
LOL!
Enough Said!
Fleischman in Chi Towns Bed
December 24th, 2009
8:48 am
Thanks for deleting my post and blocking my IP address Bill. All I did was ask if you and the rest of the ewoks were going to Shreveport… waaaaaaaaa!
coach smith
December 24th, 2009
9:09 am
Don’t forget A&M was blown out in Texas by Arkansas…they could only muster like 17 points on Arkansas’ horrible defense
The Dawgs win going away if they show up with any kind of a pulse
42-27
Spike
December 24th, 2009
9:51 am
UGA-30. ACC Champs-24. HAHAHAHAHA.
secondhand
December 24th, 2009
9:56 am
Shreveport is 10 times better than Birmingham! Birmingham are serious! #1 the food is much better and there is more to do. But hey dont worry Georgia you will lose anyway! Texas A&M will use that defense like a paper poster before the game.
Oh yeah and GATECH fans dont have a bad year next year because the Independence bowl is going to ACC #6 and Mountain West #3. So if thye have a off year. Dawg fans canrag you for falling to the former “Weedeater bowl”!
wreckmaniac
December 24th, 2009
10:24 am
Bulldawg: I believe you were rejected by Ga Tech and thats okay. A few
trips to a professional counselor and some proper medication can clear that up right away.
wreckmaniac
December 24th, 2009
10:29 am
The head of the Koolaid Factory himself, CMR, announced this am ” We will only recruit QB’s for the time being until I can find someone to take this damn defensive coordinator job. You can’t have too many good QBs and maybe some of them can play defense when they realize they will never play QB here. We’re all about QB’s here at UGA anyway and I just hate to waste any of our 55 “schollys” on defense.”
wreckmaniac
December 24th, 2009
10:36 am
BULLDAWG: Can you offer any data from your data factory that UGA has benefited from having a top 5 recruiting class for each of the past 10 years. Lets just say: “You win. You have a stable of 5 stars at UGA.” Does the Koolaid Factory ever consider what it means on the field ?
If UGA is home of 5 stars why do you have the nations worst defense ?
BULLDAWG, why do you tell us just facts but not results ? If the results were decent, you and the KOOLAID KLAN would not be spending
Christmas in Shreveport. Simple logic
wreckmaniac
December 24th, 2009
10:37 am
DAWG FANS: If the Koolaid wears off pay attention to the A and M crowd and you will see what real college tradition is about.
champdawg
December 24th, 2009
10:42 am
Hold on Dawgs just a little longer and you will love the new DC when it is announced right after the Ala. Tex. game………………………………
KNelson
December 24th, 2009
11:07 am
Dawg Knowledge – How is that lack of knowledge of yours? Tennessee will be Nothing? Good Lord they Kicked your tails with 8 starting Freshmen. They will only be better. Tennessee will havean experianced Simms @ QB AND A WORLD OF TALENT RETURNING.
KNelson
December 24th, 2009
11:09 am
Dawg Knowledge -Wow you really lack knowledge. Tennessee will only be better. They kicked your tails starting 8 Freshmen. Simms at QB and a World of offense returning ! The D goes without saying. As for Florida, you cant win that one as you have only once n 20 years!
Soulja Boy
December 24th, 2009
11:10 am
Richt should do a drivers’ license check before he lets his cru take off in cars or other motorized devices. Those Louisiana cops will be waiting on ‘em at the state line if they make it through Alabama.
U-no
December 24th, 2009
11:29 am
I agree with Mark on his post at 3:26. I watched the Pups play all year, as well as Tech. From my perspective UGA should have won more games this year, but failed to execute in some of them — the most glaring example was the Kentucky game. If the Pups has played all season as they did against the Jackets it would have been a much better record and a much better bowl choice.
Shreveport isn’t the greatest place to play, but at least you are playing in a bowl against a pretty good Aggie team. Play hard and smart like you did against Tech and you will end the year with a W and feel pretty good about things after all. I hope you do. Our state is well represented this year and both the Pups and Jackets can do us proud.
Once again congrats on beating us this year. Brag away, you earned it.
coach smith
December 24th, 2009
11:29 am
Merry Christmas to all my fellow Dawg fans!
coach smith
December 24th, 2009
11:32 am
KNelson
Do you know your own UT team?
EVERY SINGLE O-Lineman is a SENIOR (have fun replacing an entire line)
Crompton is gone (senior)
Hardesty is gone (senior)
Gerald Jones is gone
Eric Berry is leaving early
At teh very least UT is going to have to replace 8 of 11 offensive STARTERS including #1 reciever, QB, #1 RB, and ENTIRE O-Line
so explain how you have “all this offense returning”
coach smith
December 24th, 2009
11:38 am
KNelson
here is the link for proof
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/teams/roster?teamId=2633
and I even forgot that WR Austin Rodgers is a SR, Rico McCoy is a SR, and Brent Vinson JR starter at safety has been kicked off the team,
coach smith
December 24th, 2009
11:48 am
oh and KNelson
the DAWGS have beaten the Gators 2 times since the last time UT did
mason
December 24th, 2009
12:43 pm
(( 30-24 ))
hahahahahahahaha
(( No major bowl since 1966 ))
hahahahahahaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
(( Lowly 6-5 UGA whipped “might” GT ))
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
(( GT has 8K tickets unsold at MAJOR bowl ))
hahahahahAAAAAAhhahahahahAAAAAhahahahaAAAAA
GO HAWKEYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
KNelson
December 24th, 2009
12:49 pm
coach smith – Only 4 of those Seniors were starters. As far as Hardesty, Tennessee is LOADED with backs ! Crompton , though much improved is being replaced with Cris Simms brother who will start next year. Tennessee will be much improved and DO NOT bank on Berry leaving. Rumors are he is coming back.
coach smith
December 24th, 2009
1:01 pm
KNelson
keep telling yourself all of that
Hardesty and Berry were your WHOLE TEAM
nobody replaces a WHOLE o-line, #1 RB, and starting QB in the same season and gets better…sorry just doesn’t happen
Not Disappointed
December 24th, 2009
3:15 pm
Merry Christmas to the Decent dawg fans out there in dawg country.
Ramblin Wreck for life! Good luck in your bowl game.
Ed
December 24th, 2009
4:10 pm
I hate Tech as much as the rest of you guys. But if I hear one more nitwit refer to the triple option as a “high school offense”…
It was the dominant college offense of the 1970’s, and teams like Oklahoma, Colorado, and Nebraska were winning national titles with it (or a form of the option) in the 1980’s and 90’s. Alabama’s most dominant national championship teams ran that offense. Navy still uses it to lead the country in rushing every year. Nebraska hasn’t been the same since it went away from the option offense.
I have to assume that those who don’t get the triple option are under 30 years of age, or have memory problems. You can still hate Tech without disparaging their style of offense.
Just point out the following numbers: 60-39-5, 8 of 9, 30-24.
Enough said.
Knuckle Sandwich
December 24th, 2009
5:03 pm
Gotta say Bill, the Goff Helmet design looks a site better that the black pieces of crap we broke out this year.
gt stands for
December 24th, 2009
7:06 pm
Georgia’s Tuff
Rajah Dawg
December 24th, 2009
7:50 pm
CMR could use this lower end bowl game as motivation. The Players could buy into it and take it out on the Aggies, let’s hope so….Go Dawgs….I believe they will play a much better game than what the Bulldog Nation thinks they will.
BuLLdawg
December 24th, 2009
7:58 pm
“wreckmaniac”
December 24th, 2009 10:24 am
“Bulldawg: I believe you were rejected by Ga Tech and thats okay.”
REPLY: Why in the name of hell would I ever want to go to Georgia Tech ? There are NO WOMEN, more Asian men than all women at Tech, you lose at everything to UGA and always have, are located in slums of Atlanta where no one is safe and where all the drugs are, and compete in the weak ACC no one wants to watch the games of.
“wreckmaniac”
December 24th, 2009 10:36 am
“BULLDAWG: Can you offer any data from your data factory that UGA has benefited from having a top 5 recruiting class for each of the past 10 years.”
REPLY : 9-1 UGA over Georgia Tech.
Ed
December 24th, 2009
9:18 pm
Posted this on Shultzie’s blog, but he is is bicoastal tendencies… this is for the faithful few.
Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the blog ,
not a creature was stirring
whether Jacket or Dog.
Shultzie’s gone coastal and Furman’s retired.
Some have moved on … and others were fired.
But out there in cyberspace
there arose such a clatter
I sprang to my laptop to see what was the matter…
With Grad assistants as coaches and no coordinator in sight
the defense stood poised for a a difficult fight.
We bulldogs are sleeping or crying in our beers
Cause Shreveport ain’t Miami
see the yellow jacket sneers.
With Saban usurping Urban’s fiery throne
what’s left for a bulldog?
Please throw us a bone.
you see our defense is porous and our morale is at a low.
Please help us find someone… yes someone in the know.
come Kirby… or anyone… please anyone with a clue.
The recruits they are wavering… and sampling Gator Blue.
But deep in the hearts of the true faithful few
burn memories of Sugar Bowls and and a hope that holds true.
So Santa if your out there and you’re surfing the net
We need a little break… we need the best you can get.
Big L
December 24th, 2009
9:56 pm
Hey Florida, Tenn. and Tech. Just wait til next year when Murray is throwing it all over the field , Ealy and King are stepping on your heads and Alec Ogletree is blowing you rQB up on a safety blitz. UGA=2010 SEC East champs.
GADawg
December 24th, 2009
10:05 pm
Mark it down—Tech will not beat the dawgs again for 10 years! That win in 2008 was a total fluke. Tech won only because the Dawgs were flat and overconfident, and Tech got every call in the book. Tech loses 5 games in 2010, Ga wins the SEC east and a BCS bowl!!! Iowa 38 Tech 20—tech’s offense dies again, like the UGA game!!!!
2Dawgs
December 24th, 2009
11:17 pm
I believe UGA had to travel on their own to get to the Sugar when they played FSU. This must be a common practice in college football.
2Dawgs
December 24th, 2009
11:25 pm
Maybe it was VaTech and Michael Vick in the Sugar. Memory faides after too much vodka.
Frobes says Georgia Bulldogs football at $80-$90 mill a year
December 24th, 2009
11:30 pm
Forbes say the Georgia football team is a top 5 most valuable ranked college football team. Bowl winnings are just a small part of all the money Richt has brought Georgia. Here’s to the next Billion Coach Richt. Merry Christmas. Simply the best.
Georgia Top 10 Team of the Decade
December 24th, 2009
11:32 pm
Thanks Coach Richt for making Georgia a top 10 team of the decade out of 120 teams.
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/12007461
BuLLdawg
December 25th, 2009
2:34 am
“What the hell is so great about beating 6 teams who are NOT even in a bowl game ?
That is not a great year.
Neither too, is LOSING 24-30 for the 8th time in 9 years against Coach Richt.
The recruiting details prove beyond all doubt that UGA will continue to be MUCH BETTER than Tech.
And, would you lame butt Tech fans (both of you) please post some more about DEFENSE, which Tech has NOT had ANY of since Paul Johnson FIRED JON TENUTA and replaced him with the linebackers’ coach at So Miss as your “Defensive Coordinator.”
KNelson
December 25th, 2009
11:09 am
Georgia, get over yourself. Next year looks to be No different than this year. Florida continues the long tradition of kicking your tail Tennessee may start another decade of going without a loss to those Homers and the rest of the 5 better SEC will gain control of the always over rated dogs!
HoHoHo
December 25th, 2009
12:34 pm
Shreveport, LA… more like Athens, GA than Athens, GA. Rednecks hanging out with rednecks. A more appropriate setting could not be had!