Bulldog Bites: Christian LeMay, Cocktail Party, Tech-Georgia weekend
(University of Georgia)
Let’s head into the Memorial Day holiday weekend with some quick hits that you might want to discuss …
One more reason for Dogs fans to get stoked about Matthews, N.C., quarterback Christian LeMay saying he intends to enroll at UGA: In the first installment of the Sporting News Top 100 ranking for the football class of 2011, Lemay ranks a lofty No. 3. The other Georgia commitment making the list: defensive end Sterling Bailey of Gainesville at No. 95. …
When our Tim Tucker revealed that in the forthcoming new deal for the Georgia-Florida game in Jacksonville the two schools will have the right to sell the name of the game, a coworker wondered aloud what they’d do if a beverage company like Seagram’s or Budweiser offered a bundle — especially since the UGA and UF presidents have discouraged the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party nickname.
While it’s amusing to consider, chances are they’d say no. You don’t see any alcohol product names on college football bowl games, and I don’t think Georgia and Florida would go down that road. …
Bulldogs Blog’s David Hale reports that according to Georgia Tech’s Paul Hewitt, UGA’s Mark Fox is going to get his wish to have the two schools’ annual basketball game moved earlier in the season while students are still on campus. Likely date this year: Dec. 7.
Hale notes that some fans have raised the notion of playing the basketball game the Friday night before the Dogs and Jackets meet in football, but that weekend generally conflicts with tournament play and students would be on Thanksgiving break.
Some friends and I debated this idea back when Fox first announced he wanted an earlier date, and we liked the prospect of making the annual in-state grude match a two-sport affair in the same city so fans easily could attend both. I don’t think Thanksgiving break would be much of a problem, since the students manage to turn up en masse for the football game the next day.
The main problem would be that the football and basketball series currently rotate between Athens and Atlanta in opposing years. Last season, for example, the football game was at Tech and the basketball game was in Athens. In order to pair the two sports, that rotation would have to be disrupted, which would require someone play on the road two years in a row — not a likely prospect.
One possible solution: Let the school losing the home game be the “home” team (with more tickets) at a neutral site for a transitional year. UGA didn’t consider the Omni to be a neutral site and likely wouldn’t go for Philips Arena. But what about Gwinnett Arena? Then the next year the home-and-home could resume in lockstep with the football game.
Sounds like fun to me. What do you think about pairing up those games?
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108 comments Add your comment
Roll Tide
May 29th, 2010
8:12 pm
listen guys if you can’t see the difference between bean anderson and chris davis everyone is right after all, uga fans are delusional1
CrackDaddy
May 29th, 2010
8:56 pm
For what its worth, SEC baseball tourney attendance pales in comparison to attendance at UVa Duke lacrosse tourney game. SEC missing the boat on lacrosse. But then again, the culture is not right in the SEC, saving for Vandy.
Me
May 29th, 2010
9:34 pm
CrackDaddy, Florida now has an awesome womens lacrosse program and an beautiful new stadium and facility. Don’t be surprised if it doesn’t start catching on in the conference.
Truth
May 29th, 2010
9:35 pm
@Rogeriter – You entirely miss the point. Richt has had tremendous talent recruited to Athens in each of the last many years. However, that rich talent has not equated to results on the field. No one is asking him to make something out of nothing. The fact is that he STARTS with amazing talent out of high school. And, his lack of equitable results in Athens is WHY folks are mad.
YELLOW HAMMER
May 30th, 2010
12:39 am
roll tide ,georgia fans have no idea what bama will have this year ,we know what they dont have though! 13 nc 22 sec. can u dig it , please dont talk education with georgia’s history of un-education, and high school accreditation issues, yes i can dig it .
I don't think that you understand that
May 30th, 2010
12:52 am
when you say “everything will be just fine, or we will be just fine”, it is an indication that things are not just fine. It is an overused phrase that generally means problems, as in “Joe Cox will do just fine.”
Jim
May 30th, 2010
1:04 am
Idiots, all idiots! Get a life.
Rogeriter
May 30th, 2010
1:15 am
So averaging 10 wins a season isn’t good enough? fantastic talent (which he recruited) is not always enough–no matter how good the coach! It takes a bit of luck also. I don’t think you remember that Vince Dooley also had great talenr, but one only one NC in his career(over thirty years). If talent and good coaching were enough, USC would have won more than one. So would Texas, Auburn and many others. You don’t remember the years that 8-5 would have been darn good! Any coach that can win an average of 10 wins a season in the SEC is a darmn fine coach!
Amsterdam Sam
May 30th, 2010
2:05 am
Rogeriter – the most sane, logical and accurate entry on this blog. Anyone who demeans any coach who has averaged 10 wins per year for a decade in the SEC is not quite sane or is delusional at the very least. Coach Richt has the third most wins of any active coaches and he, unlike the two above him, garnered all of his wins in the mighty SEC. Had LSU not jumped over us due to ESPN’s influence a couple of years ago afte the final; regular season poll, we would have been national champions that year (we finished number 2). Yes, indeed, luck, who the media likes (Notre Dame, USC, Ohio State, etc.), and, sometimes, politics have much to say about who is mythically crowned national champ and will continue to do so until a playoff system is implimemted. Until then, no one will really know who the best team (ergo National Champion) is.
Bulldog
May 30th, 2010
2:08 am
No, 10 wins a year isn’t good enough. Because that means three losses a year.
How about 0 losses and 1 NC?
Some Guy
May 30th, 2010
5:25 am
Everyone knows Tuscaloosa is a beer drinking town with a football problem.
pcsjax1
May 30th, 2010
8:45 am
These guys haven’t signed yet! Remember Da’rick Rogers. He and others commited to Georgia and bolted after Georgia went 8-5. Whose going to be held responsible if Bailey, Scott-Massey and Lemay bolt? The Spin Monkeys?
bammer's_suck
May 30th, 2010
8:59 am
Where’s Fat Phil when you need him? All Bammers get off the UGA blog, your boys are living off yesteryear and will fall. There will be no repeat. Repeat, there will be no repeat! Now I’ve got some grilling to do and beverages to consume B!atches.
BuLLdawg
May 30th, 2010
9:31 am
1-4 vs SEC East 2006 Vandie * lone win UGA
1-4 vs SEC East 2007 Vandie
2-3 vs SEC East 2008 Vandie
0-5 vs SEC East 2009 Vandie
4-16 vs SEC East Vandie last 4 years
2-3 vs SEC East 2006 Kentucky * besides UGA beat Vandie
1-4 vs SEC East 2007 Kentucky
0-5 vs SEC East 2008 Kentucky
2-3 vs SEC East 2009 Kentucky * besides UGA beat Vandie
5-15 vs SEC East Kentucky last 4 years
2-3 vs SEC East 2006 South Carolina
2-3 vs SEC East 2007 South Carolina * besides UGA beat KY
2-3 vs SEC East 2008 South Carolina
2-3 vs SEC East 2009 South Carolina
8-12 vs SEC East South Carolina last 4 years
1-4 vs SEC East 2006 Georgia * lost last 4 in row
3-2 vs SEC East 2007 Georgia * lost first 2 in a row 6 total
4-1 vs SEC East 2008 Georgia
2-3 vs SEC East 2009 Georgia * half last 4 yrs losing record
10-10 vs SEC East Georgia last 4 years not winning record
4-1 vs SEC East 2006 Tennessee
4-1 vs SEC East 2007 Tennessee
2-3 vs SEC East 2008 Tennessee
4-1 vs SEC East 2009 Tennessee
14-6 vs SEC East Tennessee last 4 years
5-0 vs SEC East 2006 Florida
4-1 vs SEC East 2007 Florida
5-0 vs SEC East 2008 Florida
5-0 vs SEC East 2009 Florida
19-1 vs SEC East Florida last 4 years
LOSSES by UGA last 4 years vs SEC East :
vols 2006 Final AP Poll Top 25 team # 25
crocodiles 2006 Final AP Poll Top 10 team # 1
*1 Vandie 2006 not ranked 4-8 Final AP Poll Top 25
*2 Kentucky 2006 not ranked 8-5 Final AP Poll Top 25
vols 2007 Final AP Poll Top 25 team # 12 lost 4 games
*3 South Carolina 2007 not ranked 6-6 no bowl Final AP Poll Top 25
crocodiles 2008 Final AP Poll Top 10 team # 1
crocodiles 2009 Final AP Poll Top 10 team # 3
*4 vols 2009 not ranked 7-6 Final AP Poll Top 25
*5 Kentucky 2009 not ranked 7-6 Final AP Poll Top 25
*Combined Record 32-31 of 5 not Top 25 Final AP Poll SEC East teams who beat UGA the last 4 years.
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LOSSES vs Final AP Poll Top 25 SEC East teams last 4 years :
2006 lost to Florida only Top 25 Final AP Poll team # 1
2007 lost to vols 4-Loss only Top 25 Final AP Poll team # 12
2008 lost to Florida only Top 25 Final AP Poll team # 1
2009 lost to Florida only Top 25 Final AP Poll team # 3
Lost to only 1 ranked Final AP Poll Top 25 SEC East team each of last 4 years.
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WINS over Final AP Poll Top 25 SEC East teams last 4 years :
2006 NONE
**2007 only beat 4-Loss Florida as only ranked SEC East team beat
2008 NONE
2009 NONE
**In the last 4 years, the ONLY SEC East Win by UGA over a ranked Final AP Poll Top 25 team was 4-Loss Florida we beat in 2007, just after we had LOST 6 SEC East games in a ROW, consecutively to end 2006 and begin 2007.
1-4 vs SEC East Ranked Top 25 teams last 4 years Coach Richt Era.
Out of 20 possibly SEC East Opponents, only 5 have been ranked in the Final AP Poll Top 25, and against those only 5, we have lost 4.
The SEC East has been absolutely horrible for good Opponents for UGA the last 4 years, yet we are a miserable 10-10 vs SEC East teams the last 4 years including 5 of the 10 losses to unranked non-Top 25 Final AP Poll teams with only 1 win the last 4 years against a Final AP Poll Top 25 SEC East opponent.
We have not been very good the last 4 years. We are not viewed as having been any good the last 4 years, we are # 19 in the nation at 38-14 the last 4 years and we have played against sorry opponents in The SEC East the last 4 years.
Gillislee
May 30th, 2010
10:08 am
Stafford was ranked #6 on Rivals…the #1 QB, he was #5 on the ESPN150..the #1 QB, and Scout had him as the #2 QB in the Country. Now in the end everything worked out for Matt as he was the #1 pick in the NFL draft but how did things turn out for the Dawgs on his watch? Not good, 0 SEC Championship Game Appearances.
Roy D. Mercer
May 30th, 2010
11:08 am
I can’t wait till BuLLdawg becomes Head Coach. Our problems will be solved. There will be no bashing. Heck I don’t even know if I will go to the games because I know we will blow everybody out by 30 or more. Man that is going to be boring. Heck I hope we go Independent so we can play each conference champion in the regular season. Dang I don’t know if we will be able to afford Bulldawg. We will beat the Gators so much they will want to play home and away. Shoot I don’t even know if I will renew my season tickets. Darn win, win, win, win,win, win, boring!
AltamahaDawg
May 30th, 2010
12:13 pm
Actually “others,” I believe there were 2, bolted because the coaches that recruited them were let go. Those boys were still on board after the 8-5 record was well in the books. Richt has an excellent history of getting early nods and hanging on to them.
And who the heck do you think are “held responsible” for recruiting results? My guess is the same guys it always is, the ones with the job.
Krogunner
May 30th, 2010
12:33 pm
georgiadawg70 is an idiot and does not speak for the rest of us.
Murray County Mystic
May 30th, 2010
1:14 pm
great analysis, BuLLdog. I always look for your insight on this otherwise mind-numbingly boring blog. Cantondawg, you couldn’t be more wrong about your Bama fans being the most obnoxious SEC fans. As an LSU fan, I am asking you to look in the mirror. There is NO school in the country that has a more obnoxious fan base the UGA. I’ve lived several places in the SE USA, been around Bama, Auburn, UTENN, Arkansas fans, and let me tell you, the UGA fans take the cake. You have won no games of any consequence since 1980…1980!!! The UGA program isn’t mentioned anywhere the top 15 programs except here. Know your role and shut your mouth….
AltamahaDawg
May 30th, 2010
1:59 pm
….speaking of mind-numbing boring.
Mad Dawg
May 30th, 2010
4:39 pm
I believe Mark Richt is a class act and will continue to post excellent records along the lines of those he’s had his first 9 years at UGA. However, I also think he will never put UGA in a national championship game, especially as long as Meyer and Sabin are coaching in the SEC. If GA fans are satisfied or happy with 9-3, 8-4, 10-2, etc, seasons for the next 9+ years with no national championship opportunities, then Richt is the perfect coach. Obviously that was not good enough for FL and AL fans who apparently have much higher expectations. Richt is good, but he is not in the same league as Sabin and Meyer when it comes to competing for national championships.
AltamahaDawg
May 30th, 2010
4:56 pm
Wow, who knew it was all so simple.
“FL and AL fans who apparently have much higher expectations”.
They have the ability to control the action of not only thier team but other as well, with thier expectations. We need to learn that.
Although obviously the FL did NOT have higher expectations than the AL fans last year.
And I suppose its clear to you that a HC’s future is set in stone based on his first nine years. Ask any coach and the will tell you that. Like Saban for example.
Bill Campbell
May 30th, 2010
5:22 pm
Sources say that Saban will be at Michigan next year and Meyer will retire for emotional problems!!
UGAKEV
May 30th, 2010
6:44 pm
Mad Dawg that was just a stupid comment Richt has already proven he can beat both meyer and saban… those that post that recent crap about mark richt’s record against the sec east and all should also point out the fact at how pathetic our defense has been during those times. The past 4-5 years was not the True junkyard dawg defense that we will once see again. Teams better pray to The college football gods that uga does not catch on quick to Granthams 3-4 DEFENSE this season. Mark Richt has been snake bit, its as simple as that. A wide open dropped pass in 2002 causes Georgia a chance to play for the national championship and would of won. And 2005 DJ Shockley plays for a national championship if our fullback does not fumble the game to auburn and Shockley plays against Florida. And in 2007 Georgia finishes number 2 without a doubt knowing it was the best team in the nation.
Delbert D.
May 30th, 2010
7:01 pm
Phillips Arena would be a neutral site if either Tech or Georgia played Connecticut or Kentucky there.
WHAT???
May 30th, 2010
8:48 pm
BuLLdawg,
Once again you are wrong. You say in 2009 we were 0-5 in the SEC East. If you really were a dawg fan you would know that Richt has never gone less than .500 in SEC play. He was 4-4 last season and 4-4 in 2006. The only way he could be 0-5 in the SEC East is if his final conference record was 3-5 which has NEVER HAPPENED! I would love to find out who you really are so they can ban you from Sanford Stadium and block your cable or satelite system from viewing UGA games. You have no business associating anything Georgia or Bulldawgs with yourself. You sir are not a Dawg fan! You are a disgrace!
Roy D. Mercer
May 30th, 2010
8:48 pm
I hope Mark Richt is at UGA as long as he wants to be. He is loyal to the school. His loyalty to his staff probably hurt him. This is a guy that goes to visit a baseball player that is injured because he cares not only about the football program, but he cares about people. I hope he stays until he retires.
BuLLdawg
May 30th, 2010
9:36 pm
1-4 vs SEC East 2006 Georgia * lost last 4 in row
3-2 vs SEC East 2007 Georgia * lost first 2 in a row 6 total
4-1 vs SEC East 2008 Georgia
2-3 vs SEC East 2009 Georgia * half last 4 yrs losing record
10-10 vs SEC East Georgia last 4 years not winning record
Now, where does that say that we were 0-5 vs SEC East in 2009 D.A. ?
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LOSSES vs Final AP Poll Top 25 SEC East teams last 4 years :
2006 lost to Florida Top 25 Final AP Poll team # 1 vols # 25
2007 lost to vols 4-Loss only Top 25 Final AP Poll team # 12
2008 lost to Florida only Top 25 Final AP Poll team # 1
2009 lost to Florida only Top 25 Final AP Poll team # 3
Lost to 5 ranked Final AP Poll Top 25 SEC East teams last 4 years.
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WINS over Final AP Poll Top 25 SEC East teams last 4 years :
2006 NONE
**2007 only beat 4-Loss Florida as only ranked SEC East team beat
2008 NONE
2009 NONE
1-5 vs SEC East Ranked Top 25 teams last 4 years Coach Richt Era.
Darah
May 30th, 2010
9:48 pm
It’s kind of sad to see all the Dawg fans getting so excited this year (just like the year before, the year before that, etc.). How long is it going to take for UGA fans to realize that UGA is simply no longer relevant in the SEC? In the national picture, UGA isn’t even a blip on the radar, and hasn’t
been since the preseason #1 ranking two years ago.
Sit back and be grateful for the seven or eight wins you’ll get every year. Coaching genius Mark Richt may take you to 10-2 or even 11-1 occasionally, but Florida will still win the SEC, meaning no BCS bowls and no top 15 final ranking. Most years, UGA will be very lucky to finish in the top 25, and only after a big bowl win over a nobody opponent.
It’s a different world now, and Dawg fans, like FSU and Ole Miss fans, need to adjust their expectations downward to reflect reality.
Unfortunately nothing is going to change until UGA changes its mediocre coaching. That’s where the difference is, and that’s why everyone outside Bulldog Nation just laughs at Dawg fans getting so excited year after year about what a great recruiting class UGA gets. It doesn’t matter how many
blue chip high school plays go to UGA, they simply don’t get the coaching they would get at Florida or Alabama, to name two schools whose programs are far ahead of UGA. And that’s not going to change as long as Mark Richt is in Athens.
Get your heads out of the sand and face reality. And mediocrity and irrelevance.
Tina in Sparta
May 30th, 2010
9:52 pm
BuLLdawg is so accurate that I suspect he is with the UGA athletic office.
Keep on posting, BuLLdawg, we love you.
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woofn
May 31st, 2010
7:00 am
Roll Tide…offensive line and MR are/were not the dawgs problem. Check the facts, our O isn’t why we’ve lost games during the time you’ve had 2 good ones from the state of Ga.
Wholetthedawgsout?
May 31st, 2010
8:25 am
Darah
May 30th, 2010
9:48 pm
Tina in Sparta
May 30th, 2010
9:52 pm
Hey guys, my take on these two: a pair of TechnURDS exercising their alter egos!
As for the the football / basketball combination package, sounds like a great idea.
Gen Neyland
May 31st, 2010
8:47 am
CMR to team, opening day of summer practice, 2010 :
” Men. It has been brought to my attention that a blogger in the ajc’s Junkyard Blawg has been unhappy with Georgia football over the last 4 years. A challenge has been laid upon our doorstep. Our newest Mission Statement reads we must beat all conference teams that may or may not be ranked in this and/or any season’s AP final poll from now till the end of time. Our goal is simply to never lose another game. Never ever. Stay loose, men.”
Me
May 31st, 2010
9:23 am
Gators Rule! Now…Ban That!!
BILLY JACK
May 31st, 2010
10:12 am
Hey Roll Tide -Georgia has the best OL in the SEC this year and Boling will be a 1st round draft choice.Go to the Bama blogs because we dont care what you think.Davis-Boling-B jones-Sturdivent-Glenn-Strickland-J Davis and the best group of TE’S in the country.
AltamahaDawg
May 31st, 2010
10:18 am
Yea because only the Athletic Dept. would own that top secret information.
Long Dong
May 31st, 2010
10:22 am
Have they moved the BCS trophy to the Huntsville K-Mart or is it still at the Tuscaloosa Wal-Mart? We live in Dothan and my wife(also my sister) would like to go into town for a visit…..hold on……Little Billy Bob!, please take your pickle out of the dog!!!……Sorry, now what was I talking about again?
RxDawg
May 31st, 2010
10:33 am
Go Dawgs!
All you haters just keep on thinking the Dawgs are worthless. Go ahead and sleep on us. We are just another notch on the belt for you. No need for your incredible unstopable force of a football team to even work up a sweat for the Dawgs. I don’t know why they even bother to schedule the games. Congrats on your SEC championship next year.
bruce mac
May 31st, 2010
11:00 am
Darah, why do you change your name on every blog and make the same rambling nonsense everyday? Get
tony purvis
May 31st, 2010
11:10 am
Krogunner you’re the idiot; how dare you attempt to speak for me!
tony purvis
May 31st, 2010
11:31 am
Krogunner, georgiadawg70 happens to be absolutely right about the folks in Florida. I know, ’cause I’ve got family living there; however, he is wrong about Alabama fans. I know ’cause I am a “War Tiger”, and there is no more a sorrier bunch of fans anywhere than in Tuscaloosa!!!!
Roy D. Mercer
May 31st, 2010
11:42 am
Ijust heard that Coach Mark Richt was relieved of his duties and BuLLdawg will be named Head Coach at 2:30 today. I am donating my season tickets to charity because it will be so boring going. Everything will be perfect, no bashing, 7 or 8 National Championships. We may lose one because BuLLdawg I assume is human and can make a mistake. He won’t admit it and blame it on someone else.
Jimmy
May 31st, 2010
5:59 pm
UGA fans need to settle down and learn a new word. It’s called perspective. You could be fans of Tech, afterall. Think about it.
Gordon
May 31st, 2010
7:01 pm
I think Tech and UGA should play twice each year in basketball like they used to. One could be the Friday night before the football game in that town, and the other could be in early January in the other town.
Need to be a grad, before y'all post up
May 31st, 2010
8:17 pm
All of the nay sayers here are for the most part, non grads. I do not disrespect you, but if you did not graduate from Tech or Auburn or Florida or UT or Yes, even UGA, then your opinion is worth …..nada.
I have some low level opinions about Illinois and Iowa ( they pistol whipped tech in the Urange ) but they matter not to the grads of those two universities. Fair is fair. My opinion about those universities, matters not.
Cool it with the vitriole and the UGA or SEC or ACC hatred. Cheer for you local HS, or if you attended a JC somewhere, pull for them ………………..y’all are unqualified to be bad mouthing any SEC or ACC schoo,l if you did NOT attend one. It is based on j-e-a-l-o-u-s-y and there is no rooom for that girlishness here.
Go Dooooooooooooooooooogs.
Bama Ramma
May 31st, 2010
9:42 pm
Bama wins the SEC easily and plays Ohio State for the title. Bama wins title #14–take it to the bank! Georgia’s heading to another minor bowl.
BuLLdawg
June 1st, 2010
6:39 am
Last 4 years :
48 wins Florida
40 wins LSU
39 wins Alabama
38 wins Georgia Bulldogs
In the last 4 years, 14 losses by Coach Richt.
9 points 2001 vs South Carolina
10 points 2001 vs Florida
17 points 2001 vs Auburn
16 points 2001 vs Boston College
13 points 2002 vs South Carolina
18 points 2002 vs Tennessee
13 points 2002 vs FL 0-13 3rd down
10 points 2003 vs LSU
16 points 2003 vs UAB
13 points 2003 vs Florida
13 points 2003 vs LSU
20 points 2004 vs South Carolina
13 points 2004 vs Marshall
14 points 2004 vs Tennessee
20 points 2004 vs Arkansas
6 points 2004 vs Auburn
19 points 2004 vs Georgia tek
17 points 2005 vs South Carolina
10 points 2005 vs Florida
14 points 2005 vs Georgia tek
18 points 2006 vs South Carolina
14 points 2006 vs Colorado
14 points 2006 vs Ole Miss
14 points 2006 vs Florida
20 points 2006 vs Kentucky
15 points 2006 vs Georgia tek
12 points 2007 vs South Carolina
14 points 2007 vs Tennessee
20 points 2007 vs Vandie
14 points 2008 vs South Carolina
10 points 2008 vs Florida
17 points 2008 vs Auburn
10 points 2009 vs Okie State
20 points 2009 vs Arizona State
13 points 2009 vs LSU
19 points 2009 vs Tennessee
17 points 2009 vs Florida
GaDawg
June 1st, 2010
7:18 am
Enter your comments here
tony purvis
June 1st, 2010
7:46 am
Need to be a grad, before y’all post up
May 31st, 2010
8:17 pm
You Sir, need a crash coarse in arrogance management! Loosen your tie; sit back and relax. If you can’t do that, then I suggest that you find yourself a more sophisticated website on which to post your haughty opinions. I’m not disrespecting you; I’m offering you alternatives.