Not all wins over Tech are created equal
The best thing about this season for UGA: The development of Aaron Murray at quarterback. (Brant Sanderlin / AJC)
Some more thoughts on Georgia’s 42-34 victory over Georgia Tech …
As anyone in red and black knows, any win over the trade school is a good win, but judging from the postgame conversations and chatter on the radio and online, Dogs fans left Saturday’s game without nearly as positive an attitude as after last year’s “I run this state” victory in Atlanta.
Part of that likely is tied to the overall frustration with a 6-6 season and the graphic evidence provided on the field Saturday that Georgia’s defense has a long way to go before it gets back to respectability. Any team running any semblance of an option running attack piled up the yards this year, with Tech being just the most notable example.
Also a factor in the postgame quibbling was the way Mike “Balance for the Sake of Balance” Bobo once again seemed to take his foot off the pedal once the Dogs got up a couple of scores. I realize that the play-action passing game is somewhat dependent on the defense thinking there’s a possibility of a run, but, really, was there any need for that pretense Saturday night? Al Groh’s defense had sold out against the run and doubled-up A.J. Green (which even then wasn’t enough to slow him down), meaning the pass was open nearly every play.
And yet Bobo insisted on trying those runs up the middle too many times, the worst case being when the Dogs got the ball back with 9:35 on the clock and a slim 35-28 lead and started off with two one-yard runs by Washaun Ealey before Aaron Murray got sacked, necessitating giving the ball back to a Tech offense that Georgia clearly couldn’t stop at that point. After the first play of that Georgia drive, you could hear the anguished cries of fans throughout the stadium, “Throw the ball!”
Thus was the game a lot closer than it needed to be. Had Georgia put Murray back in the shotgun and let him sling it downfield all night long, it’s doubtful Tech’s defense could have done anything to stop the onslaught. Why must it always be so difficult?
On the plus side, Murray again showed what a special quarterback he’s becoming. Aside from the fumbled snap on that last fourth-and-1, he put on an impressive display all evening long, scrambling out of trouble, completing 76 percent of his passes and making few mistakes. Kudos to Bobo and Mark Richt for another superior job of quarterback development. …
The most heads-up play of the night came in the fourth quarter when Brandon Boykin fumbled on a kickoff return and Marlon Brown picked up the ball without missing a beat. Give Marlon credit for his fair catch of a short kick to the 30-yard-line, too. Speaking of which. …
Brain fart of the night: Shaun Chapas letting a pooch kickoff bounce off the ground before trying to catch it, resulting in a fumble to open the game. Even rec league kids know better. …
Nice snag by Bruce Figgins in the end zone on the Dogs’ third score. I think we threw to him twice all year and both were TDs. And full credit to Murray there for finding the open man. …
What a strange experience it is for a longtime Georgia fan seeing a Dogs offense that can’t pick up the first down on fourth-and-inches. …
Good thing the Dogs didn’t need a timeout in the fourth quarter since they used them all up in the third, two of them while grinding out the final three yards for that fourth touchdown. …
For a rivalry game, the Sanford Stadium crowd was pretty dead for much of the game, no doubt because fans were stunned by Georgia’s inability to stop Tech on the ground. Finally, on the Jackets’ next-to-last possession, the crowd came to life on third and fourth down with 17 yards to go. I still say moving the Redcoats to the end zone, where they could be heard better throughout the stadium, would help keep fans in the game.
And while we’re on the subject of managing gameday Between the Hedges, how hard would it be for the folks in the booth and Richt to get on the same page so the Dogs actually take the field when they’re introduced? …
I have no idea what Samuel L. Jackson was doing on the field in UGA garb, but it was cool seeing him up on the big screen. …
Lastly, a shout out to Malinda Erwin of Oglethorpe County, who normally sits in front of me in Section 104 but missed Saturday’s game because of hip surgery. She usually is there at the games beside Mac Colvin, her best friend of 50 years. We missed you, Malinda!
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lets be honest
November 28th, 2010
3:21 pm
1st baby.
The Blair Miss Project
November 28th, 2010
3:26 pm
<———- WIDE LEFT <————-
A win, is a win is a win….. and a loss is a loss is a loss!!!!!
(((((42-34)))))
9-1
61-39-5
We STILL Run This State
student
November 28th, 2010
3:38 pm
Another thing that needs to be done to liven up the atmosphere is to put all of the students together. Breaking up the students into 3 sections kills the noise. Just look at how LSU, Florida, Alabama, and Auburn do it.
Destin Dawg
November 28th, 2010
3:43 pm
Bo Bo took his foot of the gas again !! Murray 15 for 19 with 0 interceptions… PASS the ball Bo Bo !!! should have neen a blow out !!! DDDD is improving.. give Grantham, Belin, and Lakatos… another year plus 2 Awesome LB’s JJ and RS… more work on the 3/4.. hey it took Saban a couple years… Junkyard Dawgs will be Back !!!!!
Frank
November 28th, 2010
3:44 pm
Guess some of you are just Aaron Murray homers. The kid missed on two different 4th & 1’s. Got sacked on 3rd and 9 again (ranks last in the NCAA there) trying to be all Michael Vick spin move instead of hitting a wide open Ealey as his safety valve. Didn’t complete a pass again in the 4th quarter (ranks 89th there in the NCAA).
Frank
November 28th, 2010
3:45 pm
p.s. Murray could have audibled to the pass instead of call 2 runs, if he could read a defense.
Frank
November 28th, 2010
3:46 pm
Ealey and Houston were great and won this game.
Destin Dawg
November 28th, 2010
3:52 pm
Murray sure looks good compared to FLA. and ALA. QB’s this year…
Cmill
November 28th, 2010
3:59 pm
I agree with you on moving the redcoats to the end zone, also I think the student section in the 300 level should be moved down to the lower level. I sit in the fraternity block seats and have not missed a game in my three years here so far, but I feel like even though I’m screaming my head off it has no effect from a mile above the field. I can assure that the guys wearing coats and ties are some of the most ardent supporters of the red and black, but it’s hard not to feel unappreciated when you are in the 300 section and the student newspaper argued last year that we should not even get tickets up there. Look at auburn or alabama, they have the fraternity blocks in the lower level and the students are the heart of the stadium atmosphere.
vinny
November 28th, 2010
4:00 pm
bill-
what about us not kneeling on the ball instead of scoring the td and giving them a chance of tying the game with a td and 2 pt conv. IDIOTIC!
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layinlow
November 28th, 2010
4:11 pm
Why does Richt always get a pass from you Bill King? You always seem to blame Bobo and nobody is going to deny he is incompetent. But how can the head coach who is supposedly an offensive guru not be involved in the second half game plan? Can Richt at some point in the second half not go over to Bobo and say hey lets get back to the passing game? I watch Saban on the sidelines and he is constantly in Kirby Smart’s face asking questions and making demands and letting his displeasure be known when things aren’t going well. I think thats what they call coaching. I guess Richt the supposed CEO just doesn’t feel like coaching anymore.
wow
November 28th, 2010
4:13 pm
UGA was very lucky to wih last night…a missed field goal and a near turnover on the kickoff after the miss….ball bounced right to another UGA player…
UGA won…I guess that’s all that matters…but lucky lucky lucky
daslicksta
November 28th, 2010
4:19 pm
Bill, I came away from watching tha game last night with the feeling that we did not beat them in as much as they beat themselves with that crap-shoot “lets let Washaun score and try to go for 8 points and see if we can win” plan…typical of the North Ave Nerds…and we all thought Reggie Ball was stupid several years ago…
Macclenny_dawg
November 28th, 2010
4:20 pm
Bill,
What about conservative Richt not taking the field goal to go up by 4!!! He finally isn’t conservative and play the percentages and he almost blew it when Murray botched the snap!! Say what ya’ll want but we was once again out coached. If not for the missed extra point we would not have won!!! Bobo has 2 go no if’s and or butts!!!He like our coach is way to conservative!!! Bill can someone also tell me WHO OUR special teams coach is??? If someone would just try a fake punt on us they could get 10 yards easy there is never any pressure on a punt!!! Why do always have to set up a return???What ever happened to us being aggressive??? I am thankful for the win but it sure want hurt my feelings to see Richt head South to Miami!!! He is always getting out coached. Can anybody disagree that Johnson made a call RIcht would never make by letting his defense let somebody score so they still gave their offense a chance to come back and try to score only down 8!!! That was a great coaching call!!! Our great coaching call was going for it on 4th and 1 when we could have kicked a field goal to force Tech to score a touchdown!!!
Snack Shack
November 28th, 2010
4:21 pm
The comments about relocating the band and putting ALL the students together is a suggestion, the adoption of which, is long overdue. And…..let’s drop the playing and singing of the UGA song which no one knows or cares a whit about and start playing the Georgia State song before the game’s kickoff. Georgia On My Mind is a helluva lot more meaningful than that weak sister tune that’s currently played.
Dbalcer
November 28th, 2010
4:26 pm
I don’t know where you sit but it was loud all night and the crowd was standing in 120 where we sit. It was a great game and the D did a good job of forcing and capitalizing on fumbles. Give them credit for creating the opportunity for 21 points.
R
November 28th, 2010
4:31 pm
Samuel L Jackson sister in law lives in Athens and his nephew goes to UGa. That’s why he was there. Pretty dang cool sight to behold.
The Ole Ball Coach
November 28th, 2010
4:38 pm
Why does Tech alway cry that they gave it away
– they are losers……
UGA was the ones trying to give it away, but in the End the Best team won…… GO Dawgs LOL
mcgdawg
November 28th, 2010
4:44 pm
The Defense has made ZERO strides this year…..PITIFUL NO HALF TIME ADJUSTMENTS…..EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
saban
November 28th, 2010
4:49 pm
If Georgia Tech gets a defense and it will the dawgs will need more than red panties to win a game.
Richt knows this and that is why he is leaving for Miami. He knows Paul Johnson and Tech will dominate this state for years when they get all the pieces.
Kirby Smart begged me to keep him and once he kissed my ring I decided to keep him.
Supes
November 28th, 2010
4:50 pm
Comments that could be made from just about any team with a 6-6 record…
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“This season was a season of us beating ourselves,” B-back Anthony Allen said. “Kansas didn’t beat us. Clemson didn’t beat us. Virginia Tech didn’t beat us. Georgia didn’t beat us. We beat ourselves out there. We gave them opportunities to make plays and we didn’t capitalize on the opportunities we were given.”
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Whatever Tech needs to tell themselves to feel better…I’ll take my “gift ugly unimpressive win” over Tech and say 9 out of 10 any day for the next 365 days
Top Row Dawg
November 28th, 2010
4:51 pm
16 of last 20. Pretty close to 17 of last 20 which we have to hear every time Georgia Florida is reported. From now on when we report the Georgia Georgia Tech game, we need a mention of 16 of 20, adds to pressure of breaking drought. Tech is paying a high Karma price for bogus mythical championship of 1990. The Citrus Bowl champion never NEVER deserves a championship, split or otherwise.
1eyedJack
November 28th, 2010
4:58 pm
Aaron Murray only chews his steak 22 times (ranks 89th there in the NCAA).
mcgdawg
November 28th, 2010
5:02 pm
90 + offensive plays…32 first downs….411 yards rushing….sure glad we’ve got a QB that hasn’t played like a freshman all season….as Buck said a win is a win!
Same Ole Crap
November 28th, 2010
5:09 pm
Mark Richt has allowed this program to dip and he is responsible. Many fans and even some players didnt realize what was happening when Ealey scored the last TD. Gotta admit CPJ can coach while CMR always plays close to the vest and plays not to lose. CMR will NEVER win the big one for UGA.. Nice man and a good christian but not a great or smart gameday coach.
RAID
November 28th, 2010
5:16 pm
CMR has his problems!….Its true…….but lets not praise CPJ without asking the question of why he was passing on his last two possessions when the odds were much better continuing the run against our inept and overly tired defence of which couldnt stop GT all night long biting off huge chunks of yardage at a time……………Kind of reminds me of last year…….
TDone
November 28th, 2010
5:22 pm
To Mr. daslicksta, if you don’t understand the concept of what Paul Johnson did, I can’t help you. The object of the game is to win the game. Johnson knew the only way to win the game was to get the ball back. Guess what? He was right. We just ran out of altitude and airspeed.
To Top Row Dawg, Tech is to Georgia as Georgia is to Florida. The fact of the matter is that we give you all a better game than you do Florida. As to your insipid 1990 National Championship comment, until your recognize it, you all will never win another one.
This thing will even out.
Water reaches its own level eventually.
All things considered, when the balls bounced your way and you all took advantage of them and when they bounced our way, we didn’t.
bill
November 28th, 2010
5:24 pm
this is a test…
bill
November 28th, 2010
5:25 pm
Attention…Attention…there is an All-Points-Bulletin out in Bloomington, IN for Coach Mark Richt…that is all.
Same Ole Crap
November 28th, 2010
5:29 pm
Raid… guees what?…. like it was pointed out by the announcers of the game, CPJ doesnt have a play sheet or notes in front of him. He knows the game inside and out in his head and still had a chance to tie the game after stupid Richt / Boo BOO gave him another chanceto do so..Mark Richts CEO approach aint getting it done to win championships !
Al
November 28th, 2010
5:32 pm
Tech is a PATsy!
UGA season ticket holder since 1986
November 28th, 2010
5:39 pm
I’m sick of all the know-it-alls who post that it was idiotic for Ealey to score the touchdown at the end of the game. First of all, Tech would have had a better chance of stripping the ball and driving for a field goal than trying to score a touchdown AND converting on the 2 point conversion (think Purdue which actually did this against Georgia (although they too ultimately lost the game). Second, it was no advantage to take a knee in the victory formation because there was too much time left on the clock. There were at least 95 seconds left and Georgia had two plays which would have taken only 80 seconds off the clock in victory formation. The only thing that Ealey could have done was to have gotten the first down and downed the ball there. Not a SINGLE one of the know-it-all’s on this site would have had the wisdom to have coached him to do that. Finally, I’m sick of all these people who haven’t paid a dime to the program saying to fire Richt and spend whatever it takes to hire somebody so that the same idiots can demand that THEY be fired for not beating Florida 100-0 in their first year.
Anybody who wants to fire Richt should be required to post the amount of their annual monetary contribution to the program.
If it ain’t five digits per year, we really don’t give a hoot about what you think.
Kellina Dawg
November 28th, 2010
5:40 pm
Bill, you sound like an experienced college head football coach. Where did you coach? Maybe if Mark Richt is relieved of his duties, you could replace him. You may have a chance being from Athens and having attended Athens High as well as having worked for the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Gordon
November 28th, 2010
5:40 pm
daslicka @4:19,
Do you realize that if Ealey takes a knee after getting the first down, the game is over. By scoring Tech still had a chance. 18 hours later, you still haven’t figured that out. Even Richt admitted Johnson outsmarted him there.
2012 FEAR THE END
November 28th, 2010
5:42 pm
Yes it was very smart to let UGA score, because it let tech win the game! wait no it didn’t, tech fans please keep moboobs in town.
Gordon
November 28th, 2010
5:43 pm
“The only thing that Ealey could have done was to have gotten the first down and downed the ball there. Not a SINGLE one of the know-it-all’s on this site would have had the wisdom to have coached him to do that.”
Not a single one of the know-it-alls on this site get paid 2.8 million to know that. You sound like its rocket science. It was second nature to Johnson, and Richt figured it out 5 seconds after the play.
Gordon
November 28th, 2010
5:48 pm
“There were at least 95 seconds left and Georgia had two plays which would have taken only 80 seconds off the clock in victory formation.”
You could have run the clock down to 15 seconds then kicked a field goal, moron. Then Tech still needs a touchdown and only has 10 or 12 seconds. The only thing that gave Tech a chance at that point was letting them score, and sure enough Richt did it.
Bobby Joe
November 28th, 2010
5:49 pm
You dadgum footballers don’t know skwat. A Murray, Mr. Prodigy, couldn’t make a throw beyond 5 yards in this game. Good thing Durham could run after the catch and AJ can catch anythign within 10 yards. No wonder the kid completed a bunch of balls, they were all 3 yarders.
2012 FEAR THE END
November 28th, 2010
5:50 pm
You forget Richt wanted to score, so that UGA would win, and they did
layinlow
November 28th, 2010
5:50 pm
Okay. Please enough with the PJ doesn’t use a play sheet. Tech’s plays consist of fullback dive, QB keeper or pitch, left or right side, and a few blocking adjustments. Geez how does he do that without a sheet of paper? Some offensive gurus have an encyclopedia of plays is why they carry a sheet of paper.
UGA season ticket holder since 1986
November 28th, 2010
5:51 pm
No honorable man should be required to anticipate that his most hated rival will commit suicide.
And none of you know-it-all’s anticipated it before the fact either.
I want to see the statistics on stripping fumbles late in game versus giving up points. As far as I know giving up has NEVER EVER been successful in College Division IA (BCS) anywhere. But I’ve already cited a game where stripping the ball was successful.
So…….I’m waiting. Please identify any Division IA game where giving up and hoping for a touchdown and successful two point conversion worked.
Ever.
2012 FEAR THE END
November 28th, 2010
5:52 pm
I believe that several passes to #7 and #81 where at least 12 yards down field
UGA season ticket holder since 1986
November 28th, 2010
5:52 pm
As Tech so ably proved, kicking a “chip shot” doesn’t always work. Fool.
billy bob
November 28th, 2010
5:53 pm
bout that there aaron murray. let me set the rekard skrait.
aaron murray beat some great teams.
idaho state.
lou’ laffeyyeeya
vanderbuilt
murray is amazing to beat these trumendus teemz.
UGA season ticket holder since 1986
November 28th, 2010
5:58 pm
and why does the deep back stand back there in the victory formation? oh, because somebody fumbled a handoff (I believe it was a Giants-Eagles game but I’m not sure).
Still waiting on the success of giving up and hoping for a touchdown AND two.
It was also a really, really smart move on Tech’s part not to score after the fumbled kick off. I imagine not scoring there was part of the plan too. And doubly smart to have the ball stripped and fumble inside the ten as well. Oh, there we go again. Strip and fumble.
Bobby Joe
November 28th, 2010
6:00 pm
Murray kid didn’t convert a thrid down in the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th quarter.
2012 FEAR THE END
November 28th, 2010
6:01 pm
Lane Kiffin: We Would Let Team Score Late Touchdown in Close Game, and he is not a very smart man, in fact the smartest thing he has ever done was his wife, 1986 is right
billy bob
November 28th, 2010
6:01 pm
murray throw 24 touchdown. who keers how many games georgia lose. blame all bad stuf on da fence.
Bobby Joe
November 28th, 2010
6:03 pm
aaron murray had a fumble, several sacks, and didn’t complete a pass in the fourth quarter.
UGA season ticket holder since 1986
November 28th, 2010
6:03 pm
Yep. It was Giants-Eagles. I thought so.
In the last minute of a game between the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles at Giants Stadium on November 19, 1978, the Giants had the ball at their own 29-yard line, leading 17-12, with 31 seconds left. The Eagles had no timeouts left, and everyone assumed the game was over as quarterback Joe Pisarcik kneeled on second down. However, the Giants’ offensive coordinator Bob Gibson called for the next play to be a handoff to fullback Larry Csonka. The handoff was bobbled and fell on the turf, where Eagles cornerback Herman Edwards returned it for the winning touchdown
billy bob
November 28th, 2010
6:04 pm
oh yeah? nuttin bad blame on murray. he is perfekt. blame all bad stuf on da fence or specialty teemz.
layinlow
November 28th, 2010
6:05 pm
w
Damon Evans
November 28th, 2010
6:05 pm
Now that the season is over I feel it finally fair to comment of what is lacking this season from UGA: heart, discipline, toughness, consistency, and ability to play clutch… No doubt the statistics have improved from last year, but the team was worse. This is the result of coaching letting down the players by not coaching to the situation… I do want to applaud the work of Mike Bobo with Aaron Murray; he has proven he is one of the best QB coaches in the game. That said, he needs to be demoted and stripped of play calling responsibilities. Coach Searels needs to be replaced as OL under his tenure gets worse ever year… McClendon needs to be moved to focus just on WRs and recruiting… Ball needs to be let go along with Lilly… Garner please go…Grantham and the whole defensive staff need to be replaced. Grantham doesn’t look like he is effective teacher or play caller. Too many times this year he seemed to be out classed and did not make proper adjustments after halftime… I am not ready to scrap the 3-4, but I think that maybe a hybrid 3-4 like Stanford or doing a 4-2-5 may have been more effective this year… Next year with Jones and Samuels in the middle the 3-4 could be better, but we still need some good NT and DEs… I really appreciate what Mark Richt has done for the university, but I just feel like his message is getting stagnant and the program needs a fresh voice and more discipline to build on what he has done for us, which is a lot. Mark- you will always hold a special place for us, but I think the time to move on has come. I have no hard feelings or doubts that you can be successful somewhere else… I just think that we need a new system and new leader… I really want to look outside of the program (no Smart or Muschamp) for the next leader of the program… Obviously, Harbaugh or Gruden would be loved here… BUT, let us be realistic about that… it will not happen… I am not so sold on Mullen like many of you… I don’t really like his scheme… I really like Chris Petersen, Kyle Willingham, and Gary Patterson, but even they come with a warning… I guess if I had to choose, I would like to make a run at Bob Stoops first… then Jeff Fisher from the pros and then one of the coaches above… if not those 5, then Mullen or Venables… or maybe Bates from the Seahawks.
Bobby Joe
November 28th, 2010
6:05 pm
listen heer kluless ones. aaron murray flop, flop, fizz, fizzed on 2 different 4th downs.
billy bob
November 28th, 2010
6:07 pm
we all lik murray. he is reel gud. gud kid 2. nuttin bad is his fault. you boyz is meen here sayin murray does bad stuf. don’t blame anything bad on murray, he just a wee little freshman now.
2012 FEAR THE END
November 28th, 2010
6:08 pm
Are you OK Bobby Joe
Damon Evans
November 28th, 2010
6:09 pm
Also, Aaron Murray played great for the most part this year… BUT, watch out for him spending too many nights at frat houses… I know for a fact that he and AJ broker curfew more than once this year and were out partying the night prior to a game… shame on you boys… I am okay with the partying in the off season, but not before a game… also, don’t drink and drive… Trust me that it never works out well.
Bobby Joe
November 28th, 2010
6:09 pm
I thought aaron murray suposd 2 be some kind of super star runner like camera newtons. but shoot far, he just runs for 4 yards backs against the little bees. didn’t even gain a single yard all nite.
billy bob
November 28th, 2010
6:11 pm
you boyz are flat our rud talkin smak bout murray. he’s a week little kid. beat that great team idaho states.
Bill Cowher
November 28th, 2010
6:12 pm
UGA,
I will take your job, but you have to pay me 8 million a year and give me another 5 million for my assistants… PLUS, you have to get the crowd to actually show up every game and cheer all game… everyone knows that UGA fans are in the bottom of SEC fans… I would say 8th out of 12.
Paul Johnson
November 28th, 2010
6:13 pm
I know how to make UGA a 10-11 win team every year… move to the ACC.
2012 FEAR THE END
November 28th, 2010
6:13 pm
Damon;
September 19, 1987. Favre, despite suffering a hangover from the night before and vomiting during warm-ups, led the Golden Eagles to a come-from-behind victory with two touchdown passes,
He is in college let him have a good time
UGA season ticket holder since 1986
November 28th, 2010
6:14 pm
….and blocked field goals run back for touchdowns are too common to list.
I’m still waiting for a single Division IA game where the team won by giving up points and hoping for a touchdown plus two.
Paul Johnson was wrong when he said it was the only way to give his team a chance. The way he chose has NEVER been successful but I’ve already cited several instances where other theories were successful.
So, to pin it on Richt that he should have anticipated something that has NEVER been successful and worse yet to pin it on Ealey is just ……………………stupid.
billy bob
November 28th, 2010
6:14 pm
didn’t you boyz see that great 2 yard pass murray throed to that fast fella duram? gee whiz, that fella shure did run far afder that.
Let's Talk About UGA!
November 28th, 2010
6:20 pm
My Dawgs are the best .500 team in the nation!
Is there a special play-off for that occasion?
Anybody want a beer?
Go Dawgs!
Sic ‘em!
Woof! Woof! Woof!
Bobby Joe
November 28th, 2010
6:23 pm
85% of Georga’s touchdowns were against unranked teams.
KNOWBODYYOUKNOW
November 28th, 2010
6:25 pm
Someone on this blog stated Tech cries everytime they lose about some call the refs make? R U kidding me. Thats the mutts M.O. I’m not gonna be gullable enough to say G.T. is a top program. But you smash face dog fans think because 30 years ago you won the National Championship you are the cream of the crop in college football. Come on, you’re getting beat by the majority of the SEC. If you nuts only knew how other fans see uyou.
2012 FEAR THE END
November 28th, 2010
6:25 pm
6 of those touchdowns were against Tech
2012 FEAR THE END
November 28th, 2010
6:28 pm
KNOWBODY,
What team do you pull for?
Northern Sympathizer
November 28th, 2010
6:37 pm
Reality check for the Bobo-bashers:
UGA scored 30+ over Florida, 30+ over Auburn, 40+ over GT. Wiped out Tennessee, Kentucky, and Vandy. Historically, that is as good or BETTER than UGA’s offense fares in the second half of any year. Yes Aaron Murray has performed well and has AJ, but otherwise, this is NOT the most talented UGA offense. The OL and RBs are mediocre by UGA standards. Isn’t it remotely possible his play-calling is decent??!
TDone is done
November 28th, 2010
6:44 pm
TDone: You said:
To Top Row Dawg, Tech is to Georgia as Georgia is to Florida. The fact of the matter is that we give you all a better game than you do Florida. As to your insipid 1990 National Championship comment, until your recognize it, you all will never win another one.
This thing will even out. Water reaches its own level eventually.
The fact is that UGA is 39-15 against you since 1957. 30-11 since 1970. You are drowning in that water!
52 W 11/30/1957 7 Atlanta, GA 0
53 W 11/29/1958 16 Athens, GA 3
54 W 11/28/1959 21 Atlanta, GA 14
55 W 11/26/1960 7 Athens, GA 6
56 L 12/2/1961 7 Atlanta, GA 22
57 L 12/1/1962 6 Athens, GA 37
58 L 11/30/1963 3 Atlanta, GA 14
59 W 11/28/1964 7 Athens, GA 0
60 W 11/27/1965 17 Atlanta, GA 7
61 W 11/26/1966 23 Athens, GA 14
62 W 11/25/1967 21 Atlanta, GA 14
63 W 11/30/1968 47 Athens, GA 8
64 L 11/29/1969 0 Atlanta, GA 6
65 L 11/28/1970 7 Athens, GA 17
66 W 11/25/1971 28 Atlanta, GA 24
67 W 12/2/1972 27 Athens, GA 7
68 W 12/1/1973 10 Atlanta, GA 3
69 L 11/30/1974 14 Athens, GA 34
70 W 11/27/1975 42 Atlanta, GA 26
71 W 11/27/1976 13 Athens, GA 10
72 L 11/26/1977 7 Atlanta, GA 16
73 W 12/2/1978 29 Athens, GA 28
74 W 11/24/1979 16 Atlanta, GA 3
75 W 11/29/1980 38 Athens, GA 20
76 W 12/5/1981 44 Atlanta, GA 7
77 W 11/27/1982 38 Athens, GA 18
78 W 11/26/1983 27 Atlanta, GA 24
79 L 12/1/1984 18 Athens, GA 35
80 L 11/30/1985 16 Atlanta, GA 20
81 W 11/29/1986 31 Athens, GA 24
82 W 11/28/1987 30 Atlanta, GA 16
83 W 11/26/1988 24 Athens, GA 3
84 L 12/2/1989 22 Atlanta, GA 33
85 L 12/1/1990 23 Athens, GA 40
86 W 11/30/1991 18 Atlanta, GA 15
87 W 11/28/1992 31 Athens, GA 17
88 W 11/25/1993 43 Atlanta, GA 10
89 W 11/25/1994 48 Athens, GA 10
90 W 11/23/1995 18 Atlanta, GA 17
91 W 11/30/1996 19 Athens, GA 10
92 W 11/29/1997 27 Atlanta, GA 24
93 L 11/28/1998 19 Athens, GA 21
94 L 11/27/1999 48 Atlanta, GA 51
95 L 11/25/2000 15 Athens, GA 27
96 W 11/24/2001 31 Atlanta, GA 17
97 W 11/30/2002 51 Athens, GA 7
98 W 11/29/2003 34 Atlanta, GA 17
99 W 11/27/2004 19 Athens, GA 13
100 W 11/26/2005 14 Atlanta, GA 7
101 W 11/25/2006 15 Athens, GA 12
102 W 11/24/2007 31 Atlanta, GA 17
103 L 11/29/2008 42 Athens, GA 45
104 W 11/28/2009 30 Atlanta, GA 24
105 W 11/27/2010 42 Athens, GA 34
mcgdawg
November 28th, 2010
6:51 pm
Billy Bob and Bobby Sue, I mean Joe, …you crack me up!
Tech Hater
November 28th, 2010
6:56 pm
The offense is not the problem, the reason we have a losing…sorry 500 record which is a losing record at UGA is the defense.
We get smoked by every decent team. we are one of the few that made the Gators look good on offense.
Gratham has no clue, next year will be more of the same from the defense which is excuses.
750,000.00 wasted dollars, the choke sign he gave in the UF game was the same one he sould do in the mirror all off season.
Gordon
November 28th, 2010
6:57 pm
“So…….I’m waiting. Please identify any Division IA game where giving up and hoping for a touchdown and successful two point conversion worked.”
Please identify any game at any level where running the clock out while leading has not worked.
Gordon
November 28th, 2010
7:00 pm
“I know how to make UGA a 10-11 win team every year… move to the ACC.”
No, we’ll drag you down like we did Miami and Florida State.
j
November 28th, 2010
7:03 pm
you guys won the game and are still a joke. HAHA
JOKE JOKE JOKE
Not to forget Bill King, haha! didn’t even mention end of the game being a low point, giving Tech a chance to win by not kneeling on ball. How dumb are you guys. Enjoy many more years of Richt to come! And even if you beat tech, you’ll still lose to the Fla’s, Tenn’s, Bama’s, you name it of the worlds. Major step back for the GA program last night, even with the win. HAHA! Bill King, JOKE! HAHA!
j
November 28th, 2010
7:06 pm
Gordon is correct. you play the game to win. team with most points at end of the game, time regulation, wins. Had UGA kneeled on the ball, you win! so simple to understand. your coaches are dummies! haha! if you can’t understand this little concept, how are you going to understand the x’s and o’s, bozo ga boys with stupid haircuts and redneck ford trucks? how you gonna do it?
PHIL
November 28th, 2010
7:07 pm
Northern Sympathizer you can no longer post on this blog. You make too much sense. What we want here are those like Damon Evans who blames the performance of players and their lack of effort and heart on coaches who drills in their heads on a daily basis the way the game needs to be played.
Time after time Ga players were in position to make tackles and didn’t do it. The coaches can’t do it for them. Damon you ever been at a football practice? The coaches tell the running backs constantly how important it is to not fumble the ball. A coach has yet to fumble a ball in a ball game at any level.
The OL was great two years ago and Coach Searels walked on water. You think he forgot how to coach?
You can’t MAKE a player block, you can’t MAKE him be in the right place. You can’t MAKE a player tackle someone. You can’t MAKE him not sell his jersey or not drive his scooter the wrong way. You can’t MAKE him go to school at UGA. You can pay them to go to school but that’s a different story.
The poor performance of this season falls squarely on the shoulders of the players and their decisions on and off the field. To say that all these things are ultimately the responsibility of the coach is true only in that he is held accountable for the mistakes of others. In a job situation you simply fire someone who can’t do what they are supposed to do or continually screws up. You have an endless supply of replacements at the ready. It’s not that simple in college football.
The funniest thing people say though is that we should have Kirby Smart or Will Muschamp as a replacement. Or the guy from Stanford. Stanford is a 6-6 SEC team all day any day. When did Kirby Smart ever even be the defensive coordinator in a game? He sure isn’t a head coach. Saban is the DC at Alabama, period, end of story. Muschamp? Are you kidding me? Do you see what his defense is this year? They aren’t even going to a bowl. ANYBODY can coach, even you Damon, with great players. Muschamp is fresh out of them and guess what? He’s not genius to figure out how to go about overcoming it. And yet are the UT fans calling for him to go? Nope. And did the SC fans call for Spurrier to go when SC did NOTHING AT ALL until this year? Nope. Do the UF fans want to run Meyer off even after they got waxed yesterday? Nope. GT is a really bad team and are the nerds calling for him to leave with his high school ideas? Nope. It’s the UGA fans like you Damon that have a patent on pure stupidity. Makes me ashamed to be an alumnus. However what is important is that the people that matter are not concerned AT ALL with what is said by “fans”, and I use that term loosely, write in some fish wrapper blog.
ScoutDawg
November 28th, 2010
7:07 pm
Your right billy bob, UGA hasn’t beat any good teams. Including the Nerds.
wishful thinking
November 28th, 2010
7:09 pm
Hire Mark Wipple please!
Sad j
November 28th, 2010
7:11 pm
my name is sad j…. when my team loses I call the other team dumb and mention the other teams that are better than mine cause as a tek fan I have been taught from birth to change the subject when talking about the UGA, tek game.. When we lose we change the subject. It makes us feel lots better. we are very good at it. Look at all the tek postings and you will see.
Richt Is Smarter Than You Think
November 28th, 2010
7:15 pm
You can stop screaming to FIRE CMR…..He’s already gone anyway.
He’s interviewing for the Miami job. He’s spent 10 good yrs between the hedges, with the first 5 clearly better than the last 5.
He’s watched things disintegrate before his very eyes at UGA…And he’s been powerless to stop it. He knows he made a grave error in hiring Grantham to run the 3-4 without the personnel to do it.
He knows he could stay at UGA and not win another SEC Championship for the next 10 yrs…..But he could go to The U and probably win the ACC within 2-3 yrs. The recruiting would be much, much easier for him too.
They’re prepared to line his pockets and give him the escape from UGA that he so desperately desires — and NEEDS. He’s had one foot out the door just waiting for the right opportunity. Now it has found him.
Richt will coach Miami football next season. Go ahead and get used to it.
Stupid J
November 28th, 2010
7:19 pm
I just changed my name to stupid j cause I really am a moron……UGA fumbled three time.. they tried their best to give tek the game. Those boys are dumb for fumbling They stopped us on a 4th and 2 when we could have kicked a field goal. They are dumb for stopping us. They let us run over 80 offensive plays and we still couldn’t score as much as them. Those boys are really dumb to let us run all those plays. They scored a touchdown cause we wanted them to. They were dumb for scoring a touchdown.
Oh by the way they can’t beat florida and alabama and we can’t beat… kansas, miami, virginia teck, NC State, oh…. we can’t beat UGA either…hardly ever I gradgeated #1 in my class at tek
Blaze
November 28th, 2010
7:31 pm
In the 1986 Jan Kemp trial, O. Hale Almand Jr., a lawyer for UGA, offered a justification for the favorable treatment accorded the athletes, citing a hypothetical player. “We may not make a university student out of him,” he told the jury, “but if we can teach him to read and write, maybe he can work at the post office rather than as a garbageman when he gets through with his athletic career.”
That trial exposed UGA for the football factory that it was, and exposed Vince Dooley as a fraud and a sleazebag. It also derailed Dooley’s plans for a political career. That’s why we see the decrepit old fraud doing TV commercials even now.
Mark Richt is just the latest in a line of sleazy UGA coaches who coddle athletes and discard them after four years of football. He recruits illiterate morons he knows aren’t smart enough for college, but he doesn’t care, as long as they help him line his pockets with millions of dollars each year.
Suntanned Saint Mark isn’t all he appears to be, is he?
Get this hypocritical phony Christian out of the state now. Today. Miami is welcome to him.
Bob
November 28th, 2010
7:47 pm
The problem was with the formation on the series at the 9:35 mark, not the running plays. The problem was being in the shotgun with the backs on each side of Murray. We were at our best in the I-formation, either doing play action or running behind the fullback. Again, we were in a awful formation. Everybody always say play calling was bad but that is not true at all.
1986 season holding dog is a real football
November 28th, 2010
7:47 pm
smart guy. He knows all the angles.
Ty in Ty Ty
November 28th, 2010
7:52 pm
Richt is just a gang leader. Send the jerk packing.
voice of reason
November 28th, 2010
8:01 pm
Richt is smarter, you are dumb. First, Miami hasn’t identified richt as a canidate for the job. Secondly, Miami is a private commuter school lacking a real dedicated fan alumni base. They simply don’t have the funds of a big SEC school and will not be able to buy shannon out, then turn around and do a buyout of Richt’s contract with UGA, and then proceed to make Richt one of the highest paid coaches in America.They don’t have the money to do all of that.
John
November 28th, 2010
8:16 pm
Was Georgia’s offense good this year, or did they score a lot of points, on bad defenses?
La Laf–ranked #115 in scoring defense, give up 38 points a game
Vandy- ranked #91 in scoring defense, give up 31 points a game
Colorado- #84 in sco def, giv eup 30 points a game average
Kent- #80 in sco def, give up 29 points a game average
Tenn- #63 in scor def, give up 26 points a game average
Auburn- #59 in scoring defense, give up 26 points a game
How did Georgia do against good defenses?
Scored 6 on South Carolina.
Scored 12 on Miss St.
John
November 28th, 2010
8:17 pm
Georgia Tech’s Defense–#62 in scoring defense, gives up 26 a game average
bart
November 28th, 2010
8:18 pm
As much as I admire Richt as a person, I do not think UGA can win the big one as long as he is coach. The program has been on a downward slide since Van Gorder left. Grantham apparently is not the answer to resusitate the defense, and while Bobo is not a complete bust as an OC, he is not the answer either. The strength coach is a failure. A complete overhaul of the coaching staff is in order. That may save Richt’s job. He has got to have top notch people around him, because as a head coach he is lacking. Think about in how may games this year alone he has been outcoached. The think about the past seasons. He has been outcoached in most of the games. We have to face the facts. Richt is not earning his almost 3 million $ per year.
AltamahaDawg
November 28th, 2010
8:22 pm
“And yet Bobo insisted on trying those runs up the middle too many times, the worst case being when the Dogs got the ball back with 9:35 on the clock….”
Actually, both of those runs were to the outside, a play that had produced runs of 27, 13, 27, 10, 10 yrds, in that order, the last 5 attempts. I frankly don’t think he was counting on Murray getting sacked on third down either.
Tech had made some adjustments leaving AJ more open the series just before that, but it’s a near certainty that they brought the safety back over the the top of him at that point.
And once again Bill, you DO realize that Murray walks up to the line and decides if he is going to pass or run depending on what alignment he sees, right? We can at some point stop the silly critique that “Bobo called this play or that play …..” It’s a formation with options.
No way did he tell Murray…..”I don’t care what you see on the outside, run the ball up the middle for no appearant reason.”
Dawg 39
November 28th, 2010
8:24 pm
Based I what I am reading there is no hope for us Dawg Fans as long as CMR & CMB are still there..
However, If I am CMR & next year may be my last year, you can take it to the bank that Bobo will be my OC as I attempt to keep my job.
KNOWBODYYOUKNOW
November 28th, 2010
8:24 pm
I pull for MY TEAM!
KNOWBODYYOUKNOW
November 28th, 2010
8:31 pm
O.K. fans I’ll level with you. I’ve got a big family. Several are UGA grads. Some Tech grads. Some went to Auburn, some Tenn. One nephew went to Baylor. Ga. Southern. N. Carolina. A couple are at Flordia State now. I was too stupid to go to any college. So I fit in with most of you people posting. I usually pull for the underdog. Except I can NEVER pull for the gators.
AltamahaDawg
November 28th, 2010
8:39 pm
Also odd how all good plays are full credit to the player(s), but a bad play is always Bobo dumb call. Didn’t he also design and put into practice (even more so in that TE example, since he personally coaches Murray) the the good plays too?
voice of reason
November 28th, 2010
8:42 pm
I swear some of my fellow Bulldawg fans are delusional. I think the sports illustrated piece about UGA having one of the most delusional fan bases in America is true. Some of You act like every school would fall all over themselves to get mark richt. Well I have been reading Miami fan message boards tonight and they, news flash, DON’T WANT MARK RICHT. In fact I was laughing because some of their fans were actually saying they would rather have Mike Leach. OUCH. Plus the UM has had 1 arrest in 4 years and that is the mandate of the new president and AD. Thats right 1 arrest in 4 years. Do you think they want to hire a coach who has had a dozen arrest in one year? The new image driven administration at UM does not want Richt either.
John
November 28th, 2010
8:48 pm
Georgia’s defense, WOW, what a performance.
Held 8 of 12 teams BELOW their scoring average.
The other 4 teams each scored ONLY 5-7 above their average (Fla, Col, G Tech, Aub)
Georgia’s defense faced 8 teams that average 27-42 points a game.
Georgia’s defense held 4 teams to at least 14+ points BELOW their scoring average (Vandy, L Laf, Tenn, SC)
Georgia’ defense faced 4 of the top 30 scoring offenses in the nation.
John
November 28th, 2010
8:51 pm
Georgia’s offense did not face a single top 25 scoring defense.
Saint Simon and God & Greyhound
November 28th, 2010
8:57 pm
MURRAY IS A BAD MOFO…….JUST ASK TO SEE HIS LEATHER WALLET!!
Yellow
November 28th, 2010
8:57 pm
Enter your comments here
the genius PJ
November 28th, 2010
8:57 pm
Why is Pj not a candidate for any of the head coaching vacancies? never hear his name mentioned.
AltamahaDawg
November 28th, 2010
9:01 pm
Excellent point Dawg 39. Another way to state that is this: switching OC in the offseason and going through that transition next year while the defense is still trying to adjust, is foolish for Richt if he is in fact worried about his job next year. His best chance of having a better record next year is to keep his staff in place and just improve the team to win a few more of the close game. That’s really all he will HAVE to do. Might not be championship (which ain’t happening anyway till he recruits some championship classes) but it wouldn’t be suicide either. All he HAS to do next year is have a better record. I see him making some minor changes, but no way is he going to make major changes. Some might argue that hiring a new OC, even transforming the scheme would be best for the long run, but history has shown that it’s a tough first year, I don;t care who that OC is. Maybe as some point, but it’s not going to be this one. Look at all the comments about how Grantham is “obviously not the answer” after just one year, not even his players. Not to mention his first year working with the entire defensive staff, some of whom haven’t even coached the 3-4 before. Imagine next year the offense going through transition pains……..think the restless fans are going to understand that? No way! Ironically, it’s the most vocal fan’s and thier ultimatums, that probably offer the best argument NOT to change the staff right now. Not that I think that decision makers are even listening to that. Aware as always, but not factoring it in.
KeepDreaming
November 28th, 2010
9:02 pm
Hey J @ 7:06 PM
Your correct, you play the game to win. And we did! Thanks for the pointer captain obvious.
Glad it hurts so bad!
NERD!
Rick
November 28th, 2010
9:08 pm
Guess what? That genius at GT let UGA score and he still lost. That makes the genius a loser.
John
November 28th, 2010
9:08 pm
Georgia’s defense faced 4 of the top 30 scoring offenses in the country.
#7 Auburn, #17 Ark, etc.
Georgia’s Offense faced 2 of the top 30 scoring defenses in the country.
#25 Miss St., #26 SC
still a dawg fan
November 28th, 2010
9:10 pm
Does anyone know if CMR has answered the question about why we ran the ball at the end of the game instead of taking a knee & running out the clock?
dog forever
November 28th, 2010
9:21 pm
PHIL 7:07pm who gets credit when the players block and tackle …….. or who gets credit for cam newton the coach …….
take a lesson from SABAN he said it was his fault ALA lost …… thats what good coaches do Richt needs to learn that …..
ALSO WHO MAKES GREAT ADJUSTMENT AT HALF TIME …. ONLY COACHES THAT WIN …..
PostMan
November 28th, 2010
9:22 pm
I think the final score accurately reflects the two teams. UGA is probably 7 points better than Tech (let’s give em the missed PAT). Not a huge difference, but hey, a win is a win.
PHIL
November 28th, 2010
9:22 pm
Altamaha Dawg you are no longer allowed to post here, too smart.
dog forever
November 28th, 2010
9:24 pm
GREAT PLAYERS MAKE GREAT COACHES ……….. ASK PHIL JACKSON AND THE LIKES
PHIL
November 28th, 2010
9:26 pm
Dog forever I never heard anyone give coaches credit for making a tackle or a block EVER. The only coach I have ever heard given credit for anything Cam Newton did was Trooper who brokered the deal, I mean signed him to play at Auburn.
And Dog forever tell me just exactly what adjustment YOU would have made at half time? tell them to tackle the guy instead of not? You are allowed to continue to post as you fit the mold.
willdawg
November 28th, 2010
9:29 pm
So let me get this right…”small” johnson is a genius for letting us score? I guess he forgot that the backup QB throws like a 12 year old girl. A win is win and all that guff last yr about shrieveport. Karma SUX for you. 16 of 20, 9 of 10, we run this state!!!
katherine
November 28th, 2010
9:29 pm
blah blah blah….tech was practically given the game by all of the turnovers georgia made. Tech didn’t lose the game…georgia somehow managed to win it…even with all the mistakes. It was a very sloppy game on both sides…and much work has to be done with the dawgs…like they don’t already know it. But, in the end, a win is a win and it is a sweet one.
JRW7
November 28th, 2010
9:41 pm
I know the DAWGS scored the most points last night, BUT did we really win? It looked real ugly to me! CMR needs to go!!!!
JRW7
November 28th, 2010
9:48 pm
CMR does have problems. UGA is at a crossroad with CMR, If he stays, we might get 9 to 10 win seasons every now and then, but UGA will never never win the college football NC with CMR!
Bob
November 28th, 2010
9:48 pm
Paul Johnson is dumber than he looks if thought he could let Georgia score and then expect his team and QB to orchestrate a Joe Montana type drive and then go for two to tie. How dumb is that?
Blackberry Cobbler
November 28th, 2010
9:58 pm
400+ yards rushing by Tech………….
Good thing Grantham and the defense had 2 weeks to prepare……………
The defense is lousy and, apparantly so is the coaching. Two weeks to figure out how to defense Tech and still can’t handle it.
Pathetic.
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
November 28th, 2010
10:03 pm
still a dog fan – Because there was too much time on the clock to take a knee twice. Georgia would have had to have tried a field goal (risking a fumble or a blocked kick or a miss) or given the ball back to Tech with about 20 seconds left on the clock. Georgia ran the ball because they needed to eat up a few more seconds in order to run out the clock.. Now that we know that Tech’s theory was to simply quit and try a theory that has NEVER worked a single time in Division IA college ball EVER, Ealey could have just turned around and ran toward the Georgia goal for about twenty seconds and then they could have taken a knee and run out the clock (if you remember James Jackson against South Carolina, you know that is risky as well). The best alternative, knowing now that Tech would quit, would have been for Ealey to have gotten the first down and taken a knee there. But to answer your question, taking a knee two times would not have run out the clock.
Gordon – I’ve given numerous examples where alternate actions have won football games in the past. I’m still waiting for an example where giving up points and hoping for a touchdown plus two won a game.
Gordon? Gordon? Bueller? Anyone? Anyone?
I thought not.
Jay
November 28th, 2010
10:06 pm
Richts team finished #2 in 2007, two years after Van Gorder left. Also, Tech started the season
ranked higher than UGA, so which team had the worse season ?
mcgdawg
November 28th, 2010
10:43 pm
90+ offensive plays / 512 total yards/ 411 rushing/ 32 first downs/ 2 weeks to prepare…..ENOUGH SAID!
mcgdawg
November 28th, 2010
10:45 pm
THE DEFENSE SUCKS….PERIOD!
JaxDawg
November 28th, 2010
10:55 pm
How does PJ fit his fat head in that tiny techie stadium? Enquiring minds want to know!
John
November 28th, 2010
10:57 pm
Defense held 8 out of 12 teams to UNDER scoring average and faced 4 of the top 30 scoring offenses in the country. WOW!
OFFENSE? Faced just 2 top 30 scoring defenses, and bomed against both, didn’t score a point against South Carolina and scored 1 td against Miss St.
Nutty
November 28th, 2010
10:59 pm
If the offense could have gotten a 3rd down conversion in the 2nd, 3rd or 4th quarter, Georgia Tech might not have had 90+ plays.
mcgdawg
November 28th, 2010
11:00 pm
Thank you John….Still doesn’t make it feel any better.
Nutty
November 28th, 2010
11:01 pm
Really dissapointed with the offense ranking #71 in rush offense. With this experienced O-Line and Washaun Ealey & Caleb King, should have been a great year, just didn’t happen.
Rush offense gets worse each year under Bobo, #5 in SEC in 08, #7 in SEC in 09′, and now #10 in SEC in 10′.
mcgdawg
November 28th, 2010
11:02 pm
I’m with you Nutty!
Nutty
November 28th, 2010
11:05 pm
All 6 of Georgia’s wins were against opponents scoring defenses ranked #60 or worse.
Nutty
November 28th, 2010
11:06 pm
What happended to the run game this year? Can’t crack it.
Nutty
November 28th, 2010
11:09 pm
Only thing I can figure is, teams put 8 in the box, against a Freshman QB, to stuff the run and force the inexperienced QB to beat him with his arm. Maybe Cox was more seasoned on audibles knowing which play to call, since Cox was a Senior.
Either that, or the O-Line coach and RB coach need to be fired.
Ted Striker
November 28th, 2010
11:20 pm
Agree with you that moving the position of the redcoat band would be beneficial. Excellent suggestion.
icedawg
November 28th, 2010
11:24 pm
The Dawgs did what they had to do to win the game and had some help along the way. As Shultz wrote or quoted someone else, “It wasn’t pretty but it was a win.” The jury is still out on the 3-4 defense configuration. If it is the right personnel that we are lacking to utilize that kind of a defense what makes us think that we are going to have that kind for next year? Maybe it can be a pro configuration but in college? Looks like way to many lanes for the backs to romp through. We got eaten alive this year on the ground. What makes us think that it will be much different defensively next year? Having said all of that, I am surprised that across the conferences there did not seem to be an outstanding defensive team. Think about the huge score posted against even most of the “top” teams. You hardly heard of someone being shut out. The Dawgs were a decent team offensively this year. We scored enough points to win most of our games. Hopefully next year we will be able to do the same, maybe not quite as much if we’re missing AJ. But we have some good receivers in addition to him. The special teams, well, they need a lot more work. Next year will be a huge challenge for the coaching staff, especially defensive. Another year like this year defensively would make you wonder if the old Junkyard Dawg ethos has been lost for good.
My Dawg Has Fleas
November 28th, 2010
11:29 pm
Just think how many more wins the Dawgs would have if Cam Newton was playing tight end for us this season. If only the boosters could have raised the 200k Daddy Newton was asking to sign Cam, the Dawgs could have another TE that only catches TD passes .Of course Bobo only calls one or two passes to the tight ends each game.
DawgVoiceofReason
November 28th, 2010
11:39 pm
UGA season ticket holder since 1986,
I don’t have an example of where this strategy has won the game, although I have not taken the time to look for one. I do know, however, that the result of Tech’s action did in fact give them the ball back with what should have been sufficient time for them to drive down the field, score a touchdown and score the game tying two point conversion. Therefore it (the play itself) worked as designed. Was it likely that they would ultimately win with their pathetic passing game? No. Was it possible? Certainly. There are hundreds of examples of teams driving the length of the field and scoring with over a minute to go in the game. They drove to midfield with plenty of time still on the clock. They made the gutsy, smart decision to do what they did. Whether or not they won they game, it gave them the best chance to win given the circumstances. There was 1 minute 35 seconds on the clock. Allowing three seconds per kneel down, and using the 40 second clock, they would have had only about 6 seconds on the clock to go about 80 to 85 yards to score a touchdown to win. How many examples do you have of that occurring?
ca dawg
November 28th, 2010
11:53 pm
@altamaha dawg: thank you for calling bill out for that “runs up the middle” comment. i was about to do the same when i saw your comment. i also think it’s odd that it’s bobo’s fault for “taking his foot off the gas” when we get a two score lead but he gets no credit for calling the plays and developing the gameplan that got us a two score lead in the first place. stupid.
@icedawg: i hear you about the defense. i was disappointed by our performance last night and the last month. we just haven’t developed in the system the way i had hoped. while i’m pleased that our tackling and discipline (with penalties) has improved a great deal this year, obviously we are not anywhere close to where we need to be.
imo, it’s a personnel issue rather than a coaching issue: we don’t have a true nose guard, and until we do we’re going to struggle to stop the run consistently. CMR was right on in his postgame comments, saying that a top recruiting priority was getting a few big boys that can clog up the middle on defense. we’ve just offered a JC nose guard (his name escapes me), and signed a kid from spalding (chris mayes, i think) with a huge frame and a big upside. the continued development of kwame geathers and bean anderson (and adding jarvis jones at ILB) will hopefully help us get bigger and stronger up the middle.
btw, a couple of bones for rambo. he’s had a tough year but played a very good game last night–some good, hard tackling and two forced fumbles. hoping he can build on that, b/c we’ve got to get a lot better in the secondary.
BigTenChamp
November 29th, 2010
12:27 am
Contrary to what I have read here, I think UGA was very lucky to get out of that game with a win. GT absolutely ran them out of the stadium, and it it weren’t for the turnovers in their territory, GT would have won by 2-3 touchdowns. 500 + yards total offense! I am still trying to see what UGA did that was good. Tech dominated that game on the ground, but had no passing game. UGA had no ground game, and did OK in the air. UGA defense had their a@@ handed to them all night, while GT defense had more sacks in the game then they had in the last 3-4 games combined.
Coastal D
November 29th, 2010
12:42 am
The following comment was listed because Mark Bradley’s blog will not accept it:
Mark,
Interesting spin you place on the game After reading the article I had to go back and make sure we won the game I attended last night.
Give credit to Tech’s O line and RB Allen. They did a great job of blowing us off the line and Allen would get 4 yards just by twisting and falling.
Our Defense is a couple of players away. The efforts of the players was great and ultimately was the reason we prevailed. They refused to give when their backs were against the wall. I am extremely proud of the players but the coaches must do a better job of recognizing our shortfalls and correcting them.
Tech could not stop AJ, Durham, Charles, Figgins, and Murray, but our offensive coaches could and did. In crucial situations we ran 1st and 2nd downs into the middle of the line where we had made nothing. The passing game was going. Is that arrogance or ignorance?
Finally we ran outside and it worked. It’s been there all year but we have refused to run it. Not only mixing run and pass changes it up but different types of runs does it also. We have the speed to run outside but never used it until late last night.
When something is working ride it until they prove they can stop it. Tech sure rode the dive to Allen.
As far as outsmarting us…Richt was just being diplomatic and not putting down Johnson. He was probably thinking what an idiot. Genius had just used his timeouts and you are going to tell us he was going down the field in a minute on the ground with no timeouts AND get the 2 pt conversion…or he was going to use the nation’s worst passing offense to go the distance?
C’mon Mark, you are smarter than that. You are just trying to stir the pot or make Tech fans feel better about their situation. If they left the game feeling good about that aspect, then so much for the myth of their intelligence.
Oh, and BTW, why would a highly ranked receiver such as Stephen Hill or current recruits consider playing in that offense where the best they get to do is run the every 3rd play in to the QB and get 1-2 pass attempts per game?
9 of 10….Go Dawgs!
Coastal D
November 29th, 2010
12:44 am
Big Ten…Georgia somehow managed 42 points which was enough to win.
Go Dawgs!
DodgerDAWG
November 29th, 2010
1:30 am
Bottom Line…UGA needs an SEC quality Offensive Coordinator. Bobo may be OK as a QB coah, but for play calling it has shown throughout the year he does not have the qualities to be an SEC offensive coordinator. CUT HIM RICHT
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
November 29th, 2010
1:35 am
Dawg Voice of Reason : Since you’re not like that idiot Gordon, I’ll give you a response. Bluegrass Miracle is one that pops to mind immediatel without any research at all. Accordingly, that’s already one better that Tech’s brilliant strategy which has no record of ever having worked. Additionally, plenty of history, already cited, about fumbling the ball. I remember the Tennessee game where Jabari Davis fumbled on the goal line with seconds before half time and Sean Jones returned it for a touchdown. Admittedly that was half time but it could have just as easily applied to the end of a game. Again. There is NO recorded success for what Tech did. Accordingly, there is no reason AT ALL for people to be pounding on Ealey for scoring. Sure, it got Tech a few plays but with no record of success, it would have been playing the odds to try and strip the ball rather than give up points. Again, Georgia was running out the clock on Purdue in a Bowl Game and Purdue stripped the ball and recovered and sent the game to overtime. Example after example of other strategies working. NO example of Tech’s strategy ever having worked in Division IA (BCS) college football.
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
November 29th, 2010
1:41 am
Big Ten Champ – Without seeming too obvious, outscoring their opponent by 8 points was something that Georgia did that was good. Other things that Georgia did that were good: stopping Tech without any points at all after the muffed kickoff, stripping the ball and recovering inside the ten, taking a 14-0 lead when by any and all rights, they should have been down 0-14, intercepting a pass on the final possession, stripping a pitch and taking it in for a touchdown. A lot of good things indeed.
UGH...
November 29th, 2010
1:57 am
i always watch the highlights of the game over and over again.
not for this one. most disappointing win we’ve had all season.
used to look forward to this game every year because of the confidence i had in this team.
now it’s one of the most stressful days of the year. go dawgs.
Fair and Balanced
November 29th, 2010
5:40 am
I agree with ya Bill. As a long time GA fan (since I was born 59 years ago), I am so sick and VERY tired of NOT being able to get a first down on 3rd and 2 or 4th and 1 or 4th and INCHES! Gosh how pathetic! I am sick of this single dimensional thing Richt brought here! If GA has had a running game it was only by accident when Richt finally brought out Knowshan and discovered, duh, he can run. But who can block? It appears that nobody in silver britches can!
BoWeevil
November 29th, 2010
6:11 am
We lose a lot, and have with next year’s disappointing class, 3 years in a row of poor recruiting classes – the 2009 class is poor because those players are not here any longer. We have no where near the players for next season that we had this season.
Aaron Murray was great ? That explains why he was 2 for 7 on 3rd down conversions, sacked, fumble and failed to check out of plays to plays that did something. Were it not for 4 turnovers by the jackets, and some great bounces to us when we fumbled the ball so many times, we lose this game vs a sorry lousy no good Georgia tek team.
Mark Richt doesn’t want the Miami or Colorado job. Which one will he think does look good to him during next year’s season when 2006 lost 4, 2008 lost 3, 2009 lost 5, 2010 lost 6 and next year again 4 losses.
20 losses in 5 years and more of 4-loss seasons ahead clearly losing more talent than we add
every year now 5 in a row, going on 6 in a row.
Oh, and Mike Bobo is great since his offense is NCAA Rank # 50 Total Offense with 6 losses, beat no good team again as we did not in 2007, 2008, 2009 and now 2010. The last Top 10 Final AP Poll team we actually beat was Auburn # 9 in 2006, a year in which we were a 4-loss team.
We lost to Colorado.
We don’t beat the legitimate Top 10 teams, lose 4 games a season, don’t recruit well, lose 1 game a year average all 10 years now of CMR Era vs a not ranked Top 25 Final AP Poll team, are 13-12 vs SEC East the last 5 years, won the Fulmer Cup National Championship for most arrested / suspended in the nation, and are # 2 in Fulmer Cup standings these last 5 years.
BoWeevil
November 29th, 2010
6:33 am
Aaron Murray sets all the records for all-time Bulldogs’ history this season.
He LOST 6 games where the OTHER quarterback was BETTER than he head-to-head.
“Stats” gets you nothing.
Won / Lost is NOT a stat.
CPJ is a genius- or so we thought
November 29th, 2010
6:38 am
CPJ may have made a single intelligent move on Saturday…but please explain 1-2 v. UGA oh and his great system that requires the perfect pieces is sitting at #39 and 50+ on rivals and scout for recruiting for next year. (behind Duke in both recruiting polls)
Looks like another long streak coming there bees…
AltamahaDawg
November 29th, 2010
7:19 am
Thanks Phil, and I am sure many folks would appreciate you for banning me. But not for the stated reason.
WDE
November 29th, 2010
7:47 am
Rooting for UGA in this game – but I got to tell you – UGA got beat except on the scoreboard.
Both defenses were horrible.
Both teams turned the ball over – UGA took advantage with their T/O opps – GT did not.
GT dominated the physical play – looked to be the better team in terms of holding onto the ball – and coaching.
UGA scored quickly – passed exremely well – but took advantage of Techs mistakes – the real difference in the game.
Bottom line – as bad as UGA’s defense is – GT’s was slightly worse!
- Both teams are 6-6 for a reason.
- UGA got beat by Colorado for a reason
This was not a good team this year – and I think UGA is doing well being patient to give Richt next year to get back on track.
UGA is now a bottom half SEC team – and came within an eyelash of not going to a bowl – against the weakest schedule they have had in years.
Cowboy Copas
November 29th, 2010
8:10 am
Richt needs to go. We don’t need the criminal types he recruits. Let him go to Miami, where he’ll fit right in.
JY
November 29th, 2010
8:13 am
If VG coached up Donnan’s defensive players to success. Why has not Grantham done the same for Martinez’s players. Has Richt’s recruiting been less than Donnan’s? Uga certainly has not had the Pollock’s, Bailey’s, Davis’, in recent years. Why would any good runner come to UGA when we are a pass oriented team, a pass first team, a block first team before you can run the ball or play. You have to protect the qB before you can run the ball?
Tag
November 29th, 2010
8:21 am
There is no way that Miami or any other school is interested in hiring this clown.
Hometown Hater
November 29th, 2010
8:23 am
Cant wait until the thug Christian (how appropriate) LeMay arrives to take the reins from Choirboy Murray. Then you will have a racial divide between the thugs and the necks on who they will support for QB.
CHDawg
November 29th, 2010
8:23 am
Bill,
Right on with this column. This is exactly what happened at Auburn, too. We develop momentum with our offense, which is much better by air this year, and you can almost see the cloud move over CMB’s head as he moves to control the clock with increased runs. Opposing teams have had the same strategy for the last several years against us (and it has worked well–even against Stafford and Moreno): stack the box against the run and hope Bobo doesn’t pass, but if he does pass, hope your 7 guys in the box can put enough pressure on the QB. If that fails, you give up lots and lots of yardage. Our running game has only worked this year (against good Ds) when we were punishing opposing DCs for employing the now patented anti-CMB strategy. CMB handled Tech very well by moving quickly to the pass and spanking them until they changed the defensive strategy. Then our running game really took off. CMB did a brilliant job of exploiting Tech’s D. However, once we got the big lead, CMB went back to the old pattern–run first and Tech moved back to their game plan, and it worked well for them. We have to pressure the opposing teams constantly with our offense if they stack against the run–that means passing game! Take a look at the Ducks. They don’t have much defense, but they put constant pressure on opposing teams with their offense. If our O line was dominant, or we had Mark Ingram we could do that with our running game, but we have AJ Green and Co., and need to rely on our strength (passing game) to put the pressure on opposing teams, and we can do that this year! We just have to change our mindset. IMHO, we need more rollouts, more plays designed to get the ball outside of the box (like pitching to Gray and letting him do the run/pass rollout), and more passing in general. Finally, I saw several times where we had three receivers so close to each other that one guy could have covered them. Something was messed up. Take a look at how Petrino delays a guy across the middle or out of the backfield. This team is much, much better than their record. We just need to start pressuring defenses with our strengths imo. And that means go out and pretend you are in a two minute drill until they change their D, and then run the balanced game until they switch back to the run D. CMB did a very good job the last two games until we had a big lead. We can’t sit on a lead this year—the pressure has to be constant from the offense until we can recruit a defense.
DawginLex
November 29th, 2010
8:25 am
There was not too much time to take a knee!!!!!
Richt blew it and it almost cost us the game.
Tech had called their last TO
1:35 left
2nd down
take a knee runs out 5-10 seconds
1:25 left
40 second play clock cranks
45 -50 seconds left
3rd down
take a knee
worst case scenario is you actually run a play on 4th down and run out 5 more seconds.Tech might have gotten the ball back with 5 seconds left.
not 1:29
It was stupid.
Gordon
November 29th, 2010
8:32 am
“Gordon – I’ve given numerous examples where alternate actions have won football games in the past. I’m still waiting for an example where giving up points and hoping for a touchdown plus two won a game.”
UGA season ticket holder, I just don’t know how to explain this to you any better than I already have. The odds of Tech winning if Ealey takes a knee after getting the first down is 0%. The odds of Tech winning by letting UGA go up by 8 and getting the ball back with a minute or so left is maybe 5%. Even running the clock down to 15 seconds and either trying a field goal or just giving us the ball is preferable to scoring a touchdown and giving us the ball with that much time. One way we have a chance, the other way we don’t. It’s that simple. As I’ve said 3 times, even Richt admitted it was a mistake to score.
Perry
November 29th, 2010
8:33 am
One thing I thought Grantham messed up on was at the end of the game. Tech was rolling their QB away from whatever side Houston was on, and throwing short passes to Houston’s opposite side of the field. Georgia should have flodded that side of the field with defenders, forcing Tech’s QB to stay in the pocket, where Houston could have gotten to him.
Dawgday Afternoon
November 29th, 2010
8:40 am
As far as CPJ being a genius, spare me. He went for it on 4th and 2 in the first quarter when they were in field goal range. All of you clever Techies try to figure out how big a difference those 3 points would have made. By the way, it is not that hard to remember the plays in a flexbone offence.
Perry
November 29th, 2010
8:44 am
Bill-
I was worried about thsi game. I knew Tech would put up a lot of yards on Georgia. Georgia lost those big 3 experience defensive lineman to the NFL. You don’t replace that fast. Georgia’s only shot was figure out a way to force 3 or 4 to’s as Georgia Tech ran the ball so much, it did give Georgia a lot of good looks at the ball, as far as forcing to’s go. Grantham should have flooded 8 in the box too. Tech can’t pass.
John Galt
November 29th, 2010
8:46 am
Lower trier fans of Dogville continue their boasting of beating yet another hapless jackets team, who had their shot at the dogs, but we know the outcome. The jackets’ coach was clearly the better coach with the talent he brought. The old adage is your dance with who brung you applies. One wonders how he would have faired with the dogs talent. Perhaps we will never witness that. Dogville’s finger pointing centers on Bobo. He will fall on the sword for Richt in the end. The dog program will languish in what if land until someone brings another direction. Dogville will be supporting a regional program at best.
Perry
November 29th, 2010
8:46 am
The other thing Grantham will learn, is you can’t have a rule to stop the triple option. Johnson will adjust. You have to keep giving Johnson different looks, so he can’t read how you’re defending the triple option.
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
November 29th, 2010
9:24 am
Gordon — Thanks for admitting that you are a Tech fan. (giving us the ball). Now, go and find me an instance in Division 1A history where your theory worked. I’ve given you examples of fumbles returned for game winning touchdowns, I’ve given you examples of blocked field goals returned for game winning touchdowns, I’ve given you examples of Hail Marys thrown for touchdowns. You have failed to find a single instance where PJ’s genius was successful. I, myself, sat in the freezing cold of Memphis at the UGA-Arkansas Liberty Bowl arguing that Vince Dooley should just let Arkansas score rather than eat up the clock. I argued that Vince Dooley should have not taken the holding penalty in order to save time on the clock. Of course, Arkansas was moved back ten yards and missed the field goal and Georgia won. Accordingly, another example where letting the other team score would probably have lost the game.
Now, since you have conceeded that you are a Tech fan (as are most posters here calling for CMR to lose his job), I will concede that Paul Johnson’s theory gave Tech A chance (not THE ONLY chance) to tie the game and not necessarily to win the game. But, since the idea has NEVER WORKED A SINGLE TIME in Division 1A (BCS), it is not a fireable offense for CMR to not have anticipated it and it is certainly not a benchable offense for Ealey not to have anticipated it. Have fun in Shreveport in light of all of the HATE that you Tech fans put on this board last year about how terrible Shreveport is and how all Georgia fans should kill themselves over the shame of going to Shreveport (even after having beat Tech that year too).
What do you call someone who loses an election over principal? A loser.
Mike
November 29th, 2010
9:27 am
Two weeks to prepare, ran specific triple-option scrimmages during the summer, ran specific triple-option scrimmages during the spring – yet we are still too stupid to figure out a way to put a body on the pitch. What the f%#k did we do during those practices exactly? I’m sure I’m simplying way too much but that is a high school offense and we look totally lost.
And then the decision by the coaches and Ealey to not take a knee or fall down after gaining the first down? More stupidity. Until we can get guys on the sideline and the field that can think their way out of a paper back, we will wallow in mediocrity.
Anyone but Richt
November 29th, 2010
9:28 am
Put pretty boy Mark on the next bus leaving Athens, along with thug recruits like Ealey, King, and Green. Clean up Athens once and for all.
Then hire a coach who has genuine morals and principles to go with his coaching skills, not a phoney jerk like Richt.
OkefenokeeDawg
November 29th, 2010
9:31 am
Richt has already said Bobo will be back . . .
Damn!
McRae
November 29th, 2010
9:32 am
I agree, get rid of Richt now and stop the bleeding.
OkefenokeeDawg
November 29th, 2010
9:42 am
Mike (9:27),
An even better story about Richt and off weeks – last year UGA had an off week before the UF game. After that off week, on Richt’s radio show on the Monday of the game, a caller asked if Richt had the team ready for the #1 ranked Gators.
Richt said (and this is the truth), “well, we spent the off week working on fundamentals, we’ll get started on Florida tomorrow (Tuesday).”
Then they come out on Saturday lay yet another egg in Jax.
Seriously!
November 29th, 2010
9:44 am
Gordon who is Marcus, the good thing about Murray is he has 3 more seasons to get better. Would you at least agree that for a RS freshmen he had a pretty good year?
Spike
November 29th, 2010
9:56 am
I’m excited about Murray for next year. The guy has hearst and is a fighter. Sure he fubled that one snap but overall the guy played great! Who was that bonehead with the towel on the sideline near the end of the game? Ugh!
PMC
November 29th, 2010
9:56 am
I think Richt did a pretty good job taking the chains off of Murray and finding the production in the offense.
The defense, well. Grantham may well be another big mistake, and an even more expensive one this time. He’s been mostly an embarassment this season. But he’s the man going foward for at least a couple more years.
I think outside of those two, we probably see some changes. Garner has done virtually nothing of substance. The talent that they need isn’t there, he’s essentially dead money. Van Halanger has simply not provided the results either and the same is true of Stacy Searles.
I’m still a huge Lakatos fan but the safeties on this team are just abysmal. Jakar Hamilton is lost, Commings best work was on special teams….. Rambo is more excited about knocking himself out than playing good coverage.
Running backs…. nowhere near elite. Decent. Respectable, not SEC quality. Not one of these guys is equitable to Danny Ware or Kregg Lumpkin.
If these players are supposed to be getting better…. they aren’t in a lot of areas. I think if Richt wants to stay he’s going to have to bring in more new coaches again this year. The production simply isn’t there.
Spike
November 29th, 2010
9:56 am
Sorry, “heart”. I can spell, I just can’t type.
PMC
November 29th, 2010
9:59 am
I mean the coaches know more than we do what they don’t have by far.
Currently there simply aren’t enough good football players on this team with sound fundamentals. If they just played thier assignments to perfection and tackled decently, they could win a lot more games.
How many years has it been since Georgia had a fundamentally sound defense?
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
November 29th, 2010
9:59 am
P.S. Gordon and all you Tech fans who come on this site posing as Georgia fans. You’ve now lost 16 of the last 20 games to Georgia. We don’t need your advice. About anything. Losers.
P.S. If you are a real Georgia fan posting on this site, please realize that recruits read this site. How dare you complain that we have bad recruiting classes when you do everything in your power to run the recruits off.
P.S. If you are recruit. Please realize that a lot of people posting on this site are simply posing as Georgia fans to try and deceive you and trick you out of going to Georgia. Ask yourself “Would someone who would lie to me about who they are in order to deceive me and trick me really have my best interests at heart?”
agdawg
November 29th, 2010
10:06 am
PJ maybe smart for letting us score but I could have coached that last series for Tech better than he did. Success on the ground with Allen all night and you throw it 3 in a row? Not as smart as you think he is……He is just as puffed up as the rest of the Tech crowd!
TrueBlue
November 29th, 2010
10:07 am
King = Bust.
Bobo is an absolute idiot and is clueless and making the right call at the right time. If Murray wasn’t such an amazing QB, this team would not have won more then 3 games this year. Fire Bobo!!! Grantham needs to wake up and do something with this D. New year, same terrible Georgia defense.
Pago Pago DAWG
November 29th, 2010
10:15 am
And we still can’t beat UF!!!!
Post Timeout Syndrome
November 29th, 2010
10:15 am
Twice this year (Colorado & Tech) Georgia has come out of a timeout with the opportunity to put the game away and have fumbled on both plays – how does this happen?
UGA Insider
November 29th, 2010
10:58 am
My early 2011 SEC East projections:
USC
UF
Tenn
UGA
UK
Vandy
Please, Please, Please UGA fans do not get your hopes up too high for next season. Our offensive and defensive lines are terrible and we are going to lose our only playmakers we had in 2010. UGA is looking at another 6-6 or possibly a 7-5 season. I hate to say this because I am a Grantham fan but if we had half a defense this season we could easily have been 9-3.
Gordon
November 29th, 2010
11:02 am
Season Ticket Holder,
Find me a post where I said I was a UGA fan. You can’t. Why would I do that anyway? This is an article involving my team so I am posting. Is that okay with you?
You also apparently simply cannot fathom the argument I and many others (including some who are UGA fans like DawginLex) have patiently tried to make to you about whether Tech allowing UGA to score was or was not the right thing to do. I THINK I see what you are saying: Tech should have tried to strip the ball and run it back, rather than let UGA score. We KNOW we will get the ball back with some time if we let UGA score, but the odds are small that we would recover a fumble and run it back if we try it your way. Whether or not that has actually been done is besides the point. Your examples (Eagles/Giants) just beg the bigger question, which is why didn’t Richt take the clock down to practically no time remaining and leave Tech with no chance to win. You seem to be the only person on either side who cannot grasp this, and I’m tired of trying to explain it to you.
Congratulations on your team’s victory.
unbiased guest
November 29th, 2010
11:17 am
UGA Season Ticket…..
I feel like you have set up a false premise….”Give me an example of Team A letting Team B score so they could get the ball back down 8pts and tie it up therefore giving them a chance to win the game”………..It would be nearly impossible to find your example because 99.9% of the time this situation is encountered, Team B TAKES A KNEE and ends the game. It is coaching 101. It is why Richt himself conceded…and I quote “Coach Johnson got me on that one” (well, the quote was close to that…too lazy to look it up)…..So again, UGA’s coach admitted that one got by him. WHY DO YOU DISAGREE WITH RICHT HIMSELF??
schmeckdawg
November 29th, 2010
11:17 am
As long as we win, I don’t care if CMR gets out coached, Dumbo continues his bizarre play calling etc. Just Win Baby!!!!!
corkylovesbeer
November 29th, 2010
11:25 am
Mr. King,
The stadium was dead due to the lack of spear chucking music. Kenny Chesney just doesn’t cut it. Chesney doesn’t hype up the crowd.
Seriously!
November 29th, 2010
11:31 am
Gordon=Marcus, Would you agree that Murray had a pretty good season for a RS Freshman?
NOBODYYOUKNOW
November 29th, 2010
11:37 am
Gordon, you are not gonna convince any of these “know it alls” who have never coached or most have not played football in their lives anything. They’re football crazy. I love to watch college ball but to sit back and critize a well respected coach shows arrogance and stupidity. But its a fun read. I hate to see the season end.
Dawggie
November 29th, 2010
11:40 am
The glaring negatives in this game didin’t really bother me, particularly the coaching issues. I thought Bobo mostly called an ok game (and has been much better this year than last), with the exception of the fact that he really does seem to second guess himself and “take his foot of the gas” in both GT and Auburn. However, if our O-Line was not so pathetic, running would have been a good strategy and with our talent at RB and TE, we should never have a problem on 4th and inches, and we should never have two runs go for one yard. Our O-Line is an absolute embarrassment, and I hope they know that.
As for the Defense, we could not stop the option attack, but UGA never has been able to. Anyone else remember when we almost got beat by UAB running an option attack back when BVG was still here and almost every player on the 2-deep defensive chart is or was in the NFL? Further, the 3-4 is always weak in year 1 (particularly with our completely out of theor element personnel – particularly on the line) and takes big steps in year 2.
We have a lot to be excited about next year. If the team comes out lame next season, then we can start talking about firing coaches, but let’s shut the f*** up until then, please.
funny...
November 29th, 2010
11:59 am
Georgia Tech, the only place in the world where “ALMOST” counts as a win.
LOL, losers.
azdawg
November 29th, 2010
12:02 pm
BK. Good summation and good job on filtering the opinions of your bloggers.
This season is not over yet considering GA hopefully will be playing in a bowl game. However, its not too early to address what we might expect from next seasons team, its strengths and weaknesses especially if AJ and Justin H. leave early. All things being equal, if the current DC is back next season I’m afraid it’ll be more of the same. We’ll be fortunate to be reach 500. He’s that bad. At least Bobo shines most of the time. He’s not responsible for fumbles or INT’s.
Bottom line: If Richt turns this thing around by beating SC, and FL next season and gets luckey in a few more he ought to be coach of the year. I don’t expect a NC next season but if its more of the same it’ll be a disaster of a 2011 season.
Dawgtards ruin this state
November 29th, 2010
12:16 pm
Great Season getting waxed by Florida, Kentucky, South Carolina, Auburn, Colorado. You represent the state well as our football factory.
LawDawg
November 29th, 2010
12:33 pm
“Dawgtard”
You are the dumbest of dumb. UGA beat Kentucky by 40 points and lost last second , 4th QTR/OT games to Fla, S.C. and Colorado. We were even tied with Auburn going into the 4th qtr. You represent your Jackettes very well with your lack of football knowledge.
P.S. We STILL run this state!!!!!!
Alabama Dog
November 29th, 2010
12:36 pm
vinny: THANK YOU! I thought I was the ONLY one who believed Georgia should have taken a knee at the end! It was obvious to anyone watching the game, Georgia’s defense wasn’t going to stop their offense! Another game filled with poor coaching-all the way around! Georgia didn’t win the game, tech lost it, but I’ll take it.
kingster
November 29th, 2010
12:48 pm
Hummmmm, I would never do this, but I have to this time to prove a small point, last week someone wrote that Tech was obsessed with UGA, there are 3 maybe 4 TECH fans on this blog, but go to TECH’s blog, the first 6 blogs are UGA fans, this is crazy, after all the crazy things, HS recruits doing their thing and players going to jail, you guys never beat anyone with some substance this year, how can you look each other in the eyes, sure a win is a win, but you guys really need it, wonder what had happen if UGA had lost, now thats a sad day, you guys wake up in the morning just to get your feel of TECH, I understand if you do now understand what I mean, only one thing matters, beating TECH, the AD can drink all he wants, the players can go to jail, the recuits can dis anyone they want as long as UGA beats TECH, thats SICK, some of you will admit it was a chance when CPJ let you guys score to get the ball back, but the rest of you are just Stupid, watch and see as time goes on, you think 6-6 (barely) is bad, the future (I harp on this all the time- even with 4 & 5 star recruit) is cloudy, but its very sunny in MIAMI !!! (CMR don’t do like Paul Hewitt and miss the boat!)
LawDawg
November 29th, 2010
12:52 pm
kigster,
turn about is fair play, my friend!!!!
NashDawgq
November 29th, 2010
12:58 pm
Pass, Pass, Pass. Forget the run…..
Alabama Dog
November 29th, 2010
1:07 pm
kingster: You’re right about one thing: when they beat tech-they didn’t beat a team with substance! But then again, when’s the last time tech DID have some substance????
Coachdawg 2000
November 29th, 2010
1:22 pm
Look letting us score to at least have a chance(even if it is very,very slim) was genius.But having your middle school offense chuck it on the last 2 drives was nothing short of idiotic. In 3 years they have proven that they can score quickly using the option and they have also proven they aren’t going to beat anybody throwing the ball. So settle down bugs. Oh Yeah, I almost forgot, WE STILL RUN THIS STATE!!!!!
B.T.W. TECHIES if the there was replay in college ball in ‘98 and ‘99 we would be 19-1 in the last 20 years.
Washaun Ealy
November 29th, 2010
1:22 pm
UGA Season Ticket Holder:
CPJ let them score the TD: are you saying that no team can drive 70-80 yards in 90 seconds and get a 2-pt conversion? Idiot. Happens every Saturday.
How many teams have won a game when the other team is in victory formation? Zero. Idiot.
Washaun Ealy
November 29th, 2010
1:26 pm
UGA Season Ticket Holder:
By the way, Brian Westbrook for the Eagles ran down to the 1 yard line and took a knee instead of scoring to keep the clock rolling. I guess SOME players and coaches are smart enough to figure that out. I’m too stupid to have that kind of sense. All I was thinking about was my TD dance.
Washaun Ealy
November 29th, 2010
1:29 pm
UGA Season Ticket Holder:
It’s chess, not checkers.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Should-Green-Bay-have-let-the-Bears-score-with-1?urn=nfl-272937
Washaun Ealy
November 29th, 2010
1:39 pm
Not only did Richt get outcoached (his words, not mine) on that play, he still didn’t have the sense to go for TWO points to get a 9 point lead. Moron went for the PAT, leaving the door open.
Richt was so stunned at his own ineptitude that he couldn’t think clearly on the PAT.
Washaun Ealy
November 29th, 2010
1:46 pm
I think Richt WANTED to lose this game, so he could be put out of his misery in Athens:
Going for it on 4th and 1 instead of kicking a FG to go up 4.
Not kneeling at the end, risking a botched handoff, or a fumble, or a quick TD.
Not going for 2 points to make the lead 9 (and seal the deal).
Either he WANTED to lose, or he was playing checkers instead of chess.
Washaun Ealy
November 29th, 2010
1:50 pm
I sho was stunned when all dem tekkies dint try to tackle me…but all i wuz thinkin about was my TD dance, whose car i wuz gonna borrow 2night, and where i wuz gettin the liquor…not necessessarilly in that order
Anthony
November 29th, 2010
1:59 pm
Get out the tar and feathers and run Mark Richt out of town on a rail. We’ve had enough of his phony religion, the two-bit punks he recruits, and his cluelessness about coaching.
collegeballfan
November 29th, 2010
2:10 pm
UGA scored 35 points, 28 by the offense. Why is everyone down on the offense? On the other hand, the GT offense scored 34 points on the UGA defense. GT only scored more against S Carolina St, 41 and Middle Tenn,42 than UGA. Folks, GT only scored 23 points on that ACC defensive powerhouse Duke!
If UGA has a problem it is the defense, not the offense.
And, I just ran the numbers from Scout.com on recruiting for the 2006 classes through the 2010 classes. This covers all players on the field Saturday. The UGA classes were ranked 21, 4, 5, 17, 4 for an average of 10.2 for the 5 years. The GT classes were ranked 41, 32, 37, 15, 49 for an average of 34.8 for the 5 years.
The question on the table is why was GT even in the game?
And I ran the scores for the same time period, 2006 – 2010. UGA averaged scoring 32.0 points a game against GT. The UGA defense gave up 26.4 points a game to GT. And for the last 3 years the UGA defense has given up an average of 34.3 points a game against the GT spread offense.
Again, the problem is not the UGA offense. The problem is the defense.
Happy Dicks
November 29th, 2010
2:28 pm
Washaun Ealey (The one just posting) YOU are a moran. If you go for two and don’t make it Tech can drive the field and WIN with a TD and a conversion and tie with a simple (for everyone not named Scott Blair) PAT. If you are so enamored with Paul Small Johnson, hell, pull for Tech. I’ll take our dumb coach who scored 42 points Saturday night and has beaten Tech 9 times in 10 tries over your genius who scored 34 Saturday night and has won once in 3 tries.
I have had season tickets at Georgia since 1970 and have lived through a lot of ups and downs. We have had more ups than downs with Mark Richt. He is well aware that our players have to get stronger and will institute a different weight program this off-season. He knows we need more beef up front and will try to recruit a couple of game-ready JUCO players. I too am amazed that our linemen couln’t let us gain a single inch several times Saturday night and if all of us can see it, he can too—-and he will correct it. We lost to Wake Forest in 1979 and signed a kid out of Wrightsville the following Easter and Georgia fans have been expecting national championship seasons every year since. Things can change quickly.
Washaun Ealy
November 29th, 2010
2:37 pm
Happy: do you honestly think Richt was even thinking about going for 2? He was so shellshocked that he had trouble figuring out what foot to put in front of the other walking down the sideline.
If he goes for two and gets it, he ENDS THE GAME. Going for the PAT leaves to door open. Idiot.
Washaun Ealy
November 29th, 2010
2:39 pm
If Small Johnson scores a TD and ties it up, Richt would be run out of town. Not to mention look worse than a peewee coach.
Richt’s job was saved because Tech’s QB, in his 3rd start, couldn’t complete a pass in their last two drives. Richt owes Tevin Washington his job.
JaxDawg
November 29th, 2010
2:48 pm
Washaun Ealy
because your high school offense is not build for the 2 minutes drill!!
Foreigner Tech Student
November 29th, 2010
3:25 pm
I can’t believe we’ve just lost another game to Georgia. What’s that now 9 out of the last 10 games and 5 in a row at Bobby Dodd. I’m from Syria and even I can tell when the camel has been flogged too much. Perhaps we should take Georgia off our schedule until we can hire a coach that doesn’t use a High School offense and can find a DC under 103 years old.
Thug UGA Student
November 29th, 2010
3:48 pm
Thank god we won, white girls are easy when UGA wins!
wildbill
November 29th, 2010
5:17 pm
1. I wonder how Damon Evans court date went today.
2. I wonder when CMR will wise up and let BoBo go.
3. I also wonder when the fitness coach will get the football players in top shape.
4. Also, what will it take to ‘encourage CMR’ to quit.
Mark (another one)
November 29th, 2010
5:36 pm
For those that read the columns and blogs back in the summer, you remember that most people were worried about a new defense and QB. The QB panned out but the new defense struggled.
That said, there were reasons, and those were even discussed. We need some bulls in the middle, both at Inside linebacker and Nose. Our starter, Tyson, was playing out of position. He is undersized for Nose, and is much better at end. In the preseason the coaches said he should start at end but was willing to show leadership and play the Nose. I applaud his effort and leadership. Out inside backers were also light. They fought hard but this weakness was pounded on game after game.
Another year will allow the defense to continue to develop, and it will allow some of the recruiting to occur to fill out this defense. You can scream all you want and call for the coaches to be fired but I disagree. I see a very competitive team next year.
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
November 29th, 2010
5:53 pm
Let me try this one more time. PJ says that giving up points to the other team was the ONLY way to win. Accordingly, his universe of possible ways to win is inhabited by one possibility (giving up 7 points). Then Tech fans jump all over this site and say that 9-1 Richt is an idiot and so much dumber than their 1-2 coach that he should resign and Washon Ealey should go and kill himself for being so stupid as to score a touchdown. I pointed out, correctly, that PJ’s theory has not been successful in Division 1A football a single time but gave several examples of OTHER possible alternatives that have actually been successful. Fact. Irrefutable, metaphysical fact.
Attaboy to PJ for trying something that has never worked before in Division 1A. But don’t say that it was the ONLY way and everybody else is stupid because they don’t recognize your manifest brilliance in knowing the ONLY way. I gave plenty of examples of other ways that games have been won in that position without having given up points.
But don’t come on a Georgia blog and say that our 9-1 coach is an idiot for playing the odds correctly (even if there was a way to have done better (getting a first down and taking a knee)). Richt congratulated PJ for trying something that had never worked before. If Tech had stripped the ball or UGA had fumbled the snap (something that had just happened a few minutes earlier) or if Tech had blocked the field goal, Richt would have said the same thing. Good for Richt. I applaud him for his sportsmanship.
It is the most basic proposition of deductive reasoning that if somebody posits that “This was the only way to do X,” all the contrary position has to do is come up with ONE other example to do X in order to refute the argument. I gave at least four, real life, examples and thus the theory that this was the ONLY way to win stands as refuted. Pretty simple idea really.
If PJ had said “I thought it was the best way to get the ball with the most time on the clock,” I would have said “Fine. Good try. Enjoyed the game. Better luck next year.” But he didn’t. He said his was the ONLY way and you Techroids did him one better and jumped all over this site saying that the guy who has beat you 9 out of 10 years was an idiot who didn’t know anything about coaching football.
But, hey, if you love your 1-2 coach and think he is the greatest thing in the world, I say God bless you and have a nice life. Likewise, I’ll just enjoy my 9-1 coach and UGA having beat Tech for 16 out of the last 20 years and savor the next 365 days.
Agsin.
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
November 29th, 2010
5:59 pm
Hey Happy! I was there at that Wake Forest game. Thanks for posting. You have some sense.
KimZ'spackage
November 29th, 2010
6:06 pm
ahhahahahahha
5150 P.O.A.D.
November 29th, 2010
6:28 pm
No dawgs crying about Auburn this week?
LawDawg
November 29th, 2010
6:33 pm
All UGA wins over Tech are great!!!! The excuse making of the nerd fans is what sux! They simply think their team is better than everyone else but THEIR mistakes is what is holding them back. Their fans are the worst, most bitter fans. I was sitting in the upper deck Saturday night and F-bombs and other rude comments from Nerd fans were flying all over the place. They have the most classless fans in the US.
LawDawg
November 29th, 2010
6:35 pm
P.O.A.D
quit crying about the game this week.
You typical Nerd who has to live vicariously through other schools to be big. 365 days brother!!! Get used to it- WE RUN THIS STATE!!!!!
LawDawg
November 29th, 2010
6:37 pm
Hey Everybody,
The Dawgs defense will be fine!!! All 3-4 D’s have struggled in the first year- ALL of them. Our stats are better than last years also. What till Jarvis Jones hits the field next year. He is a B.A.
LawDawg
November 29th, 2010
6:38 pm
“Wait”, not “what”
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
November 29th, 2010
6:42 pm
Caption of some AJC photo is “6-6 is no reason to celebrate.” I disagree. 1-12, as long as the one was Tech, would STILL be a reason to celebrate.
I’m going to enjoy UGA beating Tech for 365 days.
Again.
Barney Fife
November 29th, 2010
6:55 pm
AJC headline: UGA editor resigns after alcohol-fueled visit with Nathan Deal, Sonny Perdue
#1Party School
Perennial winner of the Fulmer Cup
Sleaziest head coach in college football
Football team full of illiterate morons and thugs
The Cesspool of the South
The most grotesque embarrassment in the State of Georgia
kybodawg
November 29th, 2010
7:20 pm
to all that wants to fire richt, see how good a coach urban myer is without t-bo. wait till next year when chizx looses his offensive line and newton.
Dawgtards ruin this state
November 29th, 2010
7:20 pm
@ slawdawg – you are no lawyer and everybody laughs at your handle. Get a JOB! You get out posted just like Richt getd out coached.
Extra slaw on that dog , BOY!
Dawgtards ruin this state
November 29th, 2010
7:28 pm
@ slawdawg X2 – Your defense will be OK? You stupid dawgtard. If Tech doesn’t fumble, you lose by 14 and your great defense gives up 500 rushing yards. Only a thUGA fan would be happy with the D after that game. Good luck with your off season delusional thoughts of being over .500 next year. Please go get drunk and drive, you’re one of Damon’s boys (with panties!)
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
November 29th, 2010
7:43 pm
Georgia has the worst defense in the State..except for Tech.
Georgia has the worst defensive coordinator in the State…except for Tech.
Georgia has the worst head coach in the State…except for Tech.
Georgia has the worst fans in the State…except for Tech.
Georgia has the worst football team in the State..except for Tech.
Tech is the worst of the worst (and it will be that way for the next 365 days). Get used to it.
Come to think of it, Tech was the worst of the worst last year too. How Sweet it Is!
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
November 29th, 2010
7:46 pm
Hey Barney, you forgot Perennial winner of the Governor’s Cup.
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
November 29th, 2010
8:10 pm
Georgia gives up the ball on the opening kickoff inside their own twenty and Tech comes away with zero points. Yeah, I’m pretty satisfied with the defense on that. (Not happy with the kickoff team but plenty happy with the defense).
Georgia defense creams the pitch man, scoops the fumble and scores a touchdown. Yeah, I’m pretty satisfied with the defense on that.
Georgia defense intercepts a pass to kill Tech’s last chance to win the game. Yeah, I’m pretty happy with the defense on that.
Does what it takes to beat Tech two years in a row. Yeah, I’m pretty happy with that.
Beats Tech for the sixteenth time out of twenty games. Yeah, I’m pretty happy with that.
All in all, it must feel really lousy to be a Tech football fan right now.
And it will for the next 365 days.
Again.
sammiamm
November 29th, 2010
8:31 pm
from AJC tech blog:
Georgia’s decision to keep seven men in to protect redshirt freshman quarterback Aaron Murray frustrated Georgia Tech’s blitz in the 42-34 loss to the Bulldogs on Saturday.
The decision gave wide receivers A.J. Green and Kris Durham, and tight ends Orson Charles and Bruce Figgins plenty of time to find holes in the Yellow Jackets’ coverage.
In a video-game like performance, Murray completed 15 of his 19 attempts for 271 yards and three touchdowns. He was sacked once by Jeremiah Attaochu.
Tech defensive coordinator Al Groh said Murray was the Bulldogs’ most impressive player on Saturday.
“I thought the quarterback made the difference in the game today,” he said.
The Yellow Jackets surrendered four passing plays of at least 20 yards in the first half.
Tech said before the game that Green was going to get his receptions, and he did. Green caught eight passes for 97 yards, but many of his catches were flanker screens. He did catch three consecutive passes on Georgia’s touchdown drive that gave the Bulldogs a 28-21 lead in the third quarter. Johnson credited Green after the game, saying he made several great catches.
somebody tell Marcus LeMay
Glenn
November 29th, 2010
9:25 pm
Well it’s time to start thinking next year. Surely win number seven will come in a bowl game. We have to be the most talented 6 and 6 team in the country. Hum who will we play.
woodie
November 29th, 2010
9:33 pm
Georgia 6 wins and 6 losses…we are awesome baby !!
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
November 29th, 2010
9:48 pm
Woodie – the only record that matters is 1-0. All the rest is noise.
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
November 29th, 2010
9:55 pm
Wonder How Tech has made out the last five years in Bowl Games?
L 12-29-2005 Emerald Bowl Utah 10 38
L 01-1-2007 Gator Bowl West Virginia 35 38
L 12-31-2007 Humanitarian Bowl Fresno State 28 40
L 12-31-2008 Chick-fil-A Bowl Louisiana State 3 38
L 01-05-2010 Orange Bowl Iowa 14 24
You’ve got to be kidding me! They got stomped in the Humanitarian Bowl? How funny is that?
I’m REALLY going to enjoy the next 365 days.
It’s funny. I really didn’t hate Tech until Gordon showed me the light. Thanks Gordo.
Washaun Ealy
November 29th, 2010
10:09 pm
UGA Season Ticket Holder:
You say letting another team score to get the ball and win the game has never happened in D1 ball ever. WHERE is your proof that it has never happened? Dumb. So dumb.
Now you are going to say “well, prove to me that it HAS happened”. Neither one of us can do that. So neither one of us can be proven right.
But what I DO know is that beating a team in victory formation is nearly impossible. But driving the ball 70 yards in 90 seconds, then getting a 2 pt. conversion happens every Saturday.
Don’t be a hardheaded dog. Bill Belichick has done it before, CPJ and Belichick are close friends that talk football almost weekly. See, smart people hang with smart people.
Dennis
November 29th, 2010
10:11 pm
I hope your widdle QB is okay this week –whiners! Are you gonna try and get those big bad Tech running backs suspended for running all over your widdle defense.
Washaun Ealy
November 29th, 2010
10:21 pm
And no, I don’t blame Washaun for not taking a knee at the 1 yard line. He’s an idiot who barely graduated HS.
RICHT should have know that this was a possibility; he had a timeout prior to the play to think about it for christ’s sake.
And no, I did NOT see it coming. Then again, I don’t get paid 3 mill to coach.
Washaun Ealy
November 29th, 2010
10:51 pm
Ask any D1 coach in America is CPJ outsmarted CMR on that call, they will say he did.
But I suppose a UGA Season Tickey Holder is smarter.
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
November 29th, 2010
11:09 pm
To the false Washaun Ealy [sic]. You want proof that it has never happened before in Division 1A? How about the fact that it has never happened before in Division 1A. They keep pretty good records, you know. Kind of like proof that nobody has ever walked onto a football field in Division 1A and shot a quarterback in the face with a bazooka with 1:35 left in a game. We know that it’s never happened before because we have good records and there is no record of it. Jeez Louise.
Once again (again) giving up points is not the ONLY way to win a game in desperate circumstances. It is one way. PJ might have even believed that in his opinion it was the best way. But it was not the only way. In fact, it is my position that there are an infinite number of ways to win a football game even in desperate circumstances (some of which have occurred and some which have not) and it doesn’t make somebody stupid or a bad coach not to be able to enumerate each and every one of them. And the current Head Coach at Georgia who happens to have the highest win percentage of any Head Coach in the history of football at the University, and the only Head Coach at UGA to win two Sugar Bowls and on and on and on is not stupid or a bad coach. Again (again) attaboy to PJ for trying something that has never been used successfully to our knowlege (there, are you happy now?) in Division 1A football. But given Georgia’s history and Tech’s lousy passing game, that was not the ONLY way to win. In fact, reasonable minds can disagree as to whether it was more likely that Georgia would fumble the snap (again) than that this Tech team could pass its way down the field with no timeouts. Again (again), we’ll plan better for that next time. But all these know-it-alls saying that Richt is an idiot weren’t thinking it before the fact either (heck, as I said, I thought about it bunches of years ago at the Georgia Arkansas Liberty Bowl (but it would have been unsuccessful then as well and Georgia won the game anyway without doing it).
Attaboy (and thank you) to you as well for your one shining example of honesty in that you admitted that you didn’t think of it BEFORE hand either.
I will NEVER admit that it was the ONLY way to win the game simply because that is not a true statement. Period.
Again (again), attaboy to PJ for trying the unproven and if Techroids are happy with him being 1-2 against Richt, God bless them for it, live long and prosper. But Richt is 9-1 against Tech and that’s a fact. A cold hard, provable, metaphysical fact. And as soon as Tech can get a coach with a winning record against Richt, we’ll probably justifiably get rid of Richt for it.
But until then I’m going to enjoy the fact that UGA beat Tech for a whole year.
Again.
monty
November 29th, 2010
11:10 pm
Tech did us a favor by not running the ball late in the game. They probably could have broke a long run for a TD. Smart coaching, as the QB looked like a highschool thrower and not a very good one at that. Thanks CPJ! You sly fox you!
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
November 29th, 2010
11:19 pm
Ask any D1 coach in the country whether an opposing coach outsmarted him on any number of plays within any game and every single one of them will say, “Yep, he got me on that one.” but it doesn’t mean that the outsmarted coach is a moron or incompetent. Any number of coaches get outsmarted by runnning blitzes into screen passes in any number of games, for example.
Again (again) (again) attaboy to PJ for trying the unproven (and as far as we know untested in Division 1A) in desperate circumstances but if he’d teach his players not to fumble so much he would have (percentage wise) had a much better chance to win the game than by voluntarily giving up points. Jus’ saying.
And any coach that is 9-1 against his in-state arch rival isn’t a moron or incompetent.
Rudy
November 30th, 2010
5:34 am
focus people the score was 42-34 Georgia.
Whiny Dan Magill
November 30th, 2010
8:37 am
Thank God my beloved Dawgs were able to avoid being “that” team. You know, the one that lost to TWO of the THREE teams that lost to KANSAS!
Whiny Dan Magill
November 30th, 2010
8:44 am
STH86, I agree….Mark isn’t a moron or incompetent. He’s merely standing somewhere in-between that line of demarcation and the coach who was on the other sideline Saturday night.
Whiny Dan Magill
November 30th, 2010
8:48 am
Mark Richt is simply an example of that which has always been known in every team sport ever played……
Talented athletes can both benefit from AND overcome coaching.
Whiny Dan Magill
November 30th, 2010
8:51 am
http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/in-georgia-smart-football-and-not/?src=twrhp
Washaun Ealy
November 30th, 2010
10:51 am
UGA Season Ticket Holder:
Yes, there are an infinite number of ways to win the game:
1. Let UGA score, then drive the ball 75 yards, score a TD and get the 2 pt. conversion. 10% chance of Tech doing that.
2. Fumbled snap in Victory Formation, Tech recovers. Let’s see, how many fumbled snaps LOST by Aaron Murray this season? Maybe 2 in 400 plays? 0.5% chance. Then Tech drives 75 yards scores, etc. at 10%. So this scenario has a probablility of 0.5% x 10% or 0.05% chance.
3. Washaun fumbling (he probably fumbles 1 in 100 carries), so 1%, then Tech drives for the TD (10%), so this scenario has a probabilitiy of 0.1%.
4. Blocked FG. How many kicks were blocked this year? maybe 1 in 25 attempts? 4%. Then Tech drives, scores, etc., but this time with maybe 10 seconds on the clock assuming Richt was smart and ran clock before kicking on 4th down. 1% of Tech scoring in 10 seconds. So this scenario would be 0.04%.
So clearly 10% is higher than 0.05%, 0.4%, and 0.04%. CPJ realized all of this and let UGA score. It was a genius move.
Maybe Richt isn’t an idiot, but compared to CPJ he is. And don’t confuse top 10 recruiting class talent with coaching smarts. CPJ has inferior talent and yet he won one game and the other two came down to the last drive against UGA.
CPJ overachieves, Richt underachieves. But if you’re happy with that, then be happy.
Washaun Ealy
November 30th, 2010
10:54 am
By the way, Richt IS an idiot for not kneeling the ball. He gave the ball to Washaun!?! Didn’t Washaun have a fumbling problem earlier this season?!?
1:38 on the clock, 2nd down, GT no timeouts, 40 second play clock, 4-5 seconds for the refs to set the ball between plays, All aaron had to do was stand around for a few seconds before kneeling and GAME WAS OVER.
Maybe Richt isn’t good at math.
Washaun Ealy
November 30th, 2010
10:58 am
Oh yeah, since we are considering incredibly unlikely ways to win the game, let me give you the probability of lightning striking the entire UGA sideline, on a clear night, causing them to not have enough players to kneel the ball, thus forfeiting the game: 0.0000001%.
You are right UGA Season Ticket Holder. So many ways to win other than letting UGA score…
Washaun Ealy
November 30th, 2010
11:02 am
Classic article Dan McGill! http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/in-georgia-smart-football-and-not/?src=twrhp
Even though no one cared about this game outside of Georgia this year, UGA stupidity somehow DOES get publicized nationally!
Ron Smith
November 30th, 2010
11:23 am
Thank God Richt is staying!
Please recruit some DEFENSIVE coaches and players. Right now UGA’s only hope is to outscore their opponents as they have very little in the way of defense
uga_fan39
November 30th, 2010
12:31 pm
The problem is coaching or lack there of. There should have been another in-house cleaning this year as well. Granted he replaced Martinez last year with the only option he had left. He tried to get several real D-cordinator’s before having to settle for Grantham. Defense got worse under him not better. They still look clueless just like under Willie. Only bright spots this year were special teams and Murray. The offense isnt really that bad considering the outdated style we run and how pathetic our o-line played all year. Now with the loss of Green and Durham this year lets see if they’re smart enough to revamp the offense around Murray’s talents. He’s a phenom in the making, lets hope they dont squander his talent with the same old run-run-pass offense. Please GOD recruit a running back, size on the d-line, and some shut down corners. How much more obvious could that be !!
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
November 30th, 2010
1:59 pm
The fake Washaun: It is interesting to me (in an odd way not an interesting way) that you assign a higher likelihood (10%) to something that was tried and did not happen (giving up points and hoping for Tech’s quarterback to suddenly learn how to pass the ball AND get two points) versus something that actually happened (Georgia fumbling a snap). But whatever makes you happy. Like I said Mark Richt being 9-1 against Tech in his career and UGA being 16-4 against Tech in the last twenty years makes me very happy. Again, if you’re happy with your 1-2 coach, God bless you and have a nice life.
P.S. According to you Tech fans, Tech just lost to the worst coached team with the worst Head Coach, the worst Offensive Coordinator, the worst, most underperforming talent, the worst Defensive Coordinator, the worst Strength and Conditioning Coach and the worst running backs in the State. For the second year in a row.
Your team is the worst in the State.
Again.
Trying to claim superiority because you tried something that didn’t work while losing to the worst Georgia team in a decade still strikes me as pretty stupid but if it takes the sting [sic] out of supporting the the worst of the worst, knock yourself out.
Washaun Ealy
November 30th, 2010
3:10 pm
FYI, Georgia fumbled a snap, but did not fumble and LOSE the snap. So don’t talk like this already happened in the game and Tech should hope for lightning to strike again.
Doesn’t matter if the likelihood of tech scoring a TD is 10% or 20% or 5%. You have to get into that position first! And you can get there 100% of the time by letting UGA score. You can get into that position 1% of the time with a fumbled snap, 1% of the time with an Ealy fumble, etc. etc. etc.
If you think that UGA is superior to Tech NOWADAYS, you are silly. They are about as equal as can be. Tech has better coaching, and UGA has better players. Tech is the worst in the state, sure. Congrats to UGA, tallest midget in Georgia (by a centimeter).
Washaun Ealy
November 30th, 2010
3:11 pm
Oh yeah, congrats to UGA, beat Tech’s worst team in 15 years, with a backup QB, and still gave up 512 yards and 34 points. Tallest midget: UGA!
wldawg
November 30th, 2010
5:55 pm
“Oh yeah, congrats to UGA, beat Tech’s worst team in 15 years, with a backup QB, and still gave up 512 yards and 34 points. Tallest midget: UGA!”
Beats being the shortest midget, Tech.
LawDawg
November 30th, 2010
5:56 pm
Dawgtard is the biggest loser to ever post on this blog. Living in your parents basement at age 35 and talking big behind a keyboard is not flattering Dawgturd. I guess I would be embarrassed and ashamed too if I couldn’t beat a 5-6 team team after losing the year before as ACC Champ. yOU ARE A loser AND SO IS YOUR TEAM. tHERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO SLICE IT!!
Avenger
November 30th, 2010
7:43 pm
“UGA season ticket holder since 1986″ — well, at least you are moronic enough to openly admit it’s all about the money for the trailer trash at UGA. So, Mr High and Mighty — No one is allowed to have an opinion unless they donate 5 digits a year to the cesspool??? I HIGHLY doubt you do, because if you actually were smart enough to make that kind of disposable income you would A) NOT be a graduate of the pig farmer school up in that pathetic little cow-town, and B) You wouldn’t be wasting time on some AJC blog bragging that only YOU have the right to an opinion and yours is somehow better because you are ignorant enough to donate to such a pathetic and devoid of honor program. Then again, lets drop choice “A”, because your misplaced arrogance is EXACTLY the sort of garbage I have come to expect from UGA trash!!). You sir are truly a world-class POS and would be an embarrassment to the true fans of ANY team! Maybe your family will get lucky and you’ll develop a particularly nasty form of Cancer. Then see how much your money will do for you, you inbred arrogant schmuck! People with your attitude shouldn’t be allowed to continue breathing the same air as the rest of us!!!
Avenger
November 30th, 2010
8:15 pm
And now that I got THAT off of my chest — Congratulations to the UGA Bulldogs on your win. I bleed Gold and White, but I absolutely respect when the superior team wins fair and square, which they did.
Now don’t get me wrong, the Dawgs really suck and will never again be worth 2 dead flies as long as CMR is the Head coach, but our team is just flat-out AWFUL this season. We don’t need anyone to stomp us — we do a good job of shooting ourselves in the foot on a regular basis, thank you very much! No excuses though, ya’ll beat us fair and square this time, with no obvious dirty plays/attempts by the thugs to injure our guys, so no point in being upset. CPJ out-coached CMR by a country mile, but you can’t usually overcome superior talent, which UGA has and always should have (unless Tech wants to introduce “General Studies” and “Physical Education” majors just so morons too stupid to get in can come play football anyway, ala the entire SEC except Vandy). I AM honestly shocked though after watching the game Saturday. I already knew my team (GT) was awful this year, but what in the hell has happened up Hwy 316?? I fully expected ya’ll to hang at least 50 on us. After watching that game, Ya’ll are very fortunate to be at 6 and 6. And NEITHER program deserves to go to a bowl this year, but I suppose none of us are going to turn down an excuse to extend the season, even if both teams suck. But I REALLY want to see both programs turn things around and shut down the hemmoraging of talent from Georgia to other states. Why do BOTH programs insist on wasting so much time on out-of-state prospects, when everyone else is coming HERE to fill their rosters. Both schools would improve with more focus on in-state recruiting (And don’t think for a minute that Bill Curry isn’t fixing to really mix things up in Georgia, because he plans to recruit almost exclusively in-state, and make no mistake — GSU will be a formidable program within a few years and WILL take recruits away from both UGA and GT).
At least Georgia State had a winning season this year!
UGA Season Ticket Holder Since 1986
November 30th, 2010
10:36 pm
Avenger – Are you on crack? Or can’t you read?
UGA Season Ticket Holder Since 1986
November 30th, 2010
10:45 pm
I’m watching a replay of the game right now. It’s only about 99% as fun watching Tech get beat in person but nonetheless a lot of fun.
Tech fans are funny (and not in a funny ha-ha way but a funny odd way). They come on a Georgia blog and argue that their football team is so superior to a team that’s beat them 16 out of the last 20 years. At least we have the sense not to go on a Florida blog and offer Florida any advice. To do so would be just as stupid as a Tech fan deigning to offer advice to Georgia on how to beat their rival.
You’ll be losers for the next 364 days. Again. And I think it’s funnier and funnier the further you guys go down the path of insane and nonsensical rantings.
UGA Season Ticket Holder Since 1986
November 30th, 2010
10:47 pm
Avenger. I commend you on your second post. (But your first post made me want to contact the blog monitors and have them contact you and make sure that you wouldn’t hurt yourself). But your second post was worthwhile. I commend you for it.
UGA Season Ticket Holder Since 1986
November 30th, 2010
10:57 pm
2 out of 3
9 out of 10
16 out of 20
And you see the teams as equal? Really?! Really.
Wow. That statement is just……….astonishing.
UGA Season Ticket Holder Since 1986
November 30th, 2010
11:03 pm
Avenger. You are right about one thing. (ok maybe a couple in your second post). I’ve wasted my annual contribution (which IS over five digits) posting a very very simple point with a bunch of lunatics and otherwise poking at postums [sic] with a stick (simply because it’s fun to watch them rend their clothes and yell “Blasphemy! Blasphemy!”)
I’ll try it one last time.
PJ tried ONE possible way to try and win the game. Fact.
PJ did not try the ONLY possible way to win the game. Fact.
PJ might have tried the way that he thought was best. Opinion.
PJ’s way has NEVER been successful in Division 1A. Posit which has not been disproven in three days.
But if you guys come after my coach again even though he’s beat you 9 out of 10 times, I’m going have to come back on and poke you postums [sic] with another round of cybersticks.
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
November 30th, 2010
11:49 pm
P.S. Another very simple point that the full bore insane Avenger 1 (not the halfway reasonable Avenger 2) seems to have missed. A very, very simple point. The people paying CMR’s salary (i.e. the donors) and his direct reports (the President and the AD) should have a say in whether he keeps his job. Not a bunch of lunatics on a blog (half of which are Techroids posing as Georgia fans) who’ve never given a single dime to the program.
Dawgtards ruin this state
December 1st, 2010
12:15 am
Why would talented kids want to lose to Florida EVERY year by 15 points and also lose to Auburn, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tenn, Bama and LSU. Go to any other school in the nation and don’t collect garbage for a living, like most 4-5 star recruits that regress at thUGA. Play for a real coach and fans that understand football, not just shop at wal-mart in Bogart, GA and buy groceries at piggly wiggly.
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
December 1st, 2010
4:54 am
Dawgtard: The answer to your question is: “In order to beat Tech 16 out of 20 years.”
Seriously, the definition of derangement has to be a Tech fan who shows up on a Georgia blog to posit that their football team is superior to a team coached by a guy who is 9 and 1 against them (with one of those 9 being a 51-7 beatdown).
Crawl back into your pathetic loser h#ll and stew in the fact that you are losers. Again.
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
December 1st, 2010
5:02 am
Actually I like this definition better: (mathematics) A permutation of a finite set of elements that carries no element of the set into itself.
With the finite set being “Winning” and the permutation that carries no element of the set into itself being “Georgia Tech football.”
UGA '79, '85
December 1st, 2010
9:12 am
I don’t get all the negativity on the Tech win. First, it was a rivalry game in which Georgia never trailed. How many games this year did we have in which we were never behind? Second, we scored a ton of points, including defensive point. Third, Tech ran a ton of plays but was never in control of the game. Finally, WE WON!!!!
Complaint about the Auburn game or the South Carolina game or the Florida or MIssissippi State games (games the team could have won with a few better plays). Enjoy beating Tech. It’s the annual celebration that closes the regular season!
DawgVoiceofReason
December 1st, 2010
9:14 am
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986,
You are relentless in your defense of your position, UGA and Coach Richt. For the latter two I commend you. As to the first one, you are in fact correct that the approach Coach Johnson took was not the only way to win. If that is your main point, as it appears at this time, then I would have nothing more to say. But, to your earlier argument ” it was no advantage to take a knee in the victory formation because there was too much time left on the clock”, you are wrong. Others here have explained why and I will leave it at that. You just don’t seem to want to recognize that, as Coach Richt admitted, Coach Johnson got him on that one play. One other thought I have is that when people say the “one way that Tech could have one the game” was to do what they did, they don’t mean it literally, and as you have proven they would be wrong if they did. What they mean was, it was the one way they could ensure (with high probability of success), that they would get the ball back with a *chance* to win the game.
I join you in Hating Tech and relishing in their defeat, again.
DawgVoiceofReason
December 1st, 2010
9:17 am
that would be “relishing their defeat” or “reveling in their defeat”
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
December 1st, 2010
9:29 am
DAWG VOICE OF REASON: CORRECT IN ALL ASPECTS. I agree that reasonable minds can disagree whether taking a knee would have run out the clock. My calculations and CMR’s say no that after the first knee it was clear that we needed the first down, but other people disagree and that’s ok with me. But I will not concede that makes CMR an idiot who should lose his job (especially after beating Tech 9 out of 10 times) or the real Waushan a fool or in anyway diminishes my joy in watching Tech lose 16 of the last 20 football games to Georgia (Hat Tip to ‘79 ‘85).
I WILL DEFEND THIS HOUSE (especially against Loser Techroids who claim that losing (again, albeit in a more clever fashion than just having their guts stomped out 51-7) somehow makes them a superior football team). And if they want to come on a Georgia blog and talk smack, then they’re going to get poked with a cyberstick like a postum [sic].
P.S. Nice play on the “again.” I am pleased that you picked up on that.
…….Of to make more money now to pay my donation so that I can qualify for tickets to watch CMR beat Tech in their house. Again.
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
December 1st, 2010
9:32 am
One last Tip of the Hat to ‘79 ‘85: Beating Tech. It’s the gift that (apparently) keeps on giving!
War Jacket
December 1st, 2010
10:04 am
UGA proves again that it is the most underachieving program in the country. It is the flagship school in a state that is loaded with top-notch high school talent. It throws practically unlimited resources at its football program. It has facilities second to none. But it has produced maybe 5 good years since 1980 and is not even regarded as an upper tier program in the SEC, much less the country.
What a joke of a program.
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
December 1st, 2010
11:08 am
Must stink to be beat by a joke of a program. Again. And 16 of the last 20 years.
I don’t think that pointing out any of Georgia’s failings is the best argument for a Tech fan seeing as how Tech has lost 2 out of the last 3, and 9 of the last 10 and 16 of the last 20 to a joke of a program.
Don’t you supposedly smart bee understand that everytime you belittle Georgia’s program, since you lose to them with such regularity, you are belittling yourself more? I guess not. Poor bees. Must stink to be that bad.
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
December 1st, 2010
1:52 pm
And for the #7 team in the country last year to have lost at home to a bottom tier team loser program, wow, that must have been REALLY had to bear.
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
December 1st, 2010
1:53 pm
ooops. that would be……
“that must have been REALLY hard to bear.”
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
December 1st, 2010
2:48 pm
In watching Georgia beat Tech again last night (it was glorious), I noticed that we have a true freshman starting at free safety. I did not really focus on that. That explains a lot about blown coverages that I did not know.
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
December 1st, 2010
3:46 pm
DAWG VOICE OF REASON: Thank you for your rational post and for being so reasonable. I appreciate you and what you do.
The one point that I have always conceeded was that it was PJ’s option [sic] to say that it was the best way that HE saw for his team to win the game. I just happen to disagree. My disagreement appears to have caused any number of posters to rend their clothes and scream “Blasphemy!” If I hadn’t watched the bowl game against Purdue, I might have agreed with them. But I did and so therefore I don’t.
I live in a world where people make and lose millions of dollars over the exact, literal, and precise meaning of words including words such as the “only” way, the “best” way and “one of many” ways to do X. As you so reasonably pointed out, others may not have had a similar experience and therefore may not be as careful with their use of the word “only.”
I agree with CMR that it was a clever tactic and that it may have caught him, me, and A LOT of other people by surprise (including the Tech fans immediately in front of us who were roundly cursing their “genius” coach until Dawg fans pointed out to them what had just happened whereupon they immediately starting ragging on CMR for being a moron and a doofus for not anticipating it. hypocrites!). The tactic caught Georgia’s radio broadcast team by surprise as well.
I do not and will not ever agree that it tarnishes in any way the phenomenal record that CMR has against the bees (or that it tarnishes in any way this glorious and thoroughly enjoyable win).
And I’m certainly not going to abandon the cyberbattlefield to allow a bunch of NATS to crash a Georgia blog and try to make us feel inferior for having beaten them. Again.
Hail the Voice of Reason for being so dang rational.
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
December 2nd, 2010
12:40 am
What? You Techroids don’t want any more? Ok, very well. Time to close this one out. We even beat you on the blog. Again
P.S. I’m still waiting for you to cite me to at least one example where PJ’s brilliant idea has been successful in Division 1A football. Thought not.
Pathetic, whiney losers. And you will be for a whole ‘nother year.
Again.
Signing off with glib satisfaction. ‘86
UGA Season Ticket Holder since 1986
December 4th, 2010
6:48 pm
Ok, I guess the SEC Championship game showed that throwing a “Hail Mary” with six seconds left just got a lot more probable. I’m accepting apologies.