A clue to what’s been missing in Dogs’ running game

TB can only help us, in several aspects. Let’s get going!

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Glad your back Thomas, please show them how a true running back works…

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dude … our coaches can’t spot talent. Richt has Knowsean, Lumpkin, Ware and Brown at the same time. And we played Brown. Ran off Ware and red shirted knowsean.
knowsean is still in NFL.(1st rd pick) Lumpkin is still in NFL. ware is still in NFL. The guy richt chose to play is a new coach at UGA.
we get talent. we just don’t have a clue what to do with it.

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KNOWSHON MARENO WOULD HAVE MADE THIS YEAR’S OFFENSIVE LINE LOOK GREAT…ITS ALL ABOUT A RUNNINGBACK, WE GOT TO FIND SOME, NOT ONE, BUT SOME SO THERE IS SOME COMPETITION…AN OLD COACH I KNOW AT GRIFFIN HIGH SCHOOL TOLD HIS 3 TAILBACKS THAT ONCE THEY WERE IN THE GAME THEY STAYED IN THE GAME UNTIL THEY FAILED TO GAIN 4 YARDS ON A PLAY…FAILURE TO GAIN 4 YARDS ON A PLAY BROUGHT THEM OUT OF THE GAME TO BE REPLACED BY A NEW TAILBACK, THEN HE WAS ON THE CLOCK FOR A 4 YARD GAME….A SCREWUP IN PASS PROTECTION FOR THE BACK ALSO BROUGHT HIM OUT OF THE GAME….

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I think bringing in Thomas Brown was possibly the best offseason move our coaches have made so far. Kid is a beast a really knows the meaning of hard work. King and Ealey have been at best disappointing. Here’s hoping a little competition from Ken Malcome and possibly Isaiah Crowell can whip them into shape. Ealey could start by not running his mouth so much

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Ealey’s an amazing back. Let’s remember, Ealey uncorked 8000 yards in high school, and over 130 touchdowns, that’s unreal. Ealey had 11 td’s to King’s 2, so I couldn’t figure out why Bobo kept rotating the guys so much.

Compared ot Herschel Walker, Ealey has both a better career yard per carry average (5.4 for Ealey, 5.3 for Walker), and both Herschel Walker and Washaun Ealey have the same touchdown per carry ratio of 1 touchdown per 20 touches.

I agree King’s not anything special except a passblocker, but Ealey truly is amazing.

Ealey averaged more yards per carry, and got a better td per carry average than Marcus Lattimore.

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virginia dog:
SEEMS TO ME THAT KNOWSHON PLAYED A LITTLE BALL WHILE HE WAS AT GEORGIA..HE DIDN’T GET TO THE BRONCOS SITTING ON THE BENCH…THAT IS THE TYPE TALENT YOU NEED AT TAILBACK, WHERE 3 OF THE 4 PLAY IN THE NFL…WONDER WHO IN THE NFL WILL DRAFT THE 3 WHO ARE AT GEORGIA NOW…NOW YOU UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM….

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Ealey really improved his conditioning this off-season.

Ealey beat Lattimre in the 4th quarter in both yards per carry average (Ealey 6.6, Lattimore 5.7), and td’s (Ealey 4, Lattimore 2).

Lattimore got a lot more carries than Ealey, but Ealey, in almost every way, outperformed Marcus Lattimore (yards per carry, td per carry, 4th quarter production, etc.)

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Ealry’s stats per carry, and td per carry are better than Lattimore’s, so to say Ealey isn’t a good back, means Lattimore is a terrible back.

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@ LAKE OCONEE DAWG
My friend you are right on the money! These experts that are calling for Bobo’s head have absolutely no clue. It is so easy to want to fire the coach or coaches especially when you have no clue about the game at all. Bobo is a super coach and time will prove this to these knee jerk jerks! Bobo just brought these 2 Valdosta players to UGA. By the way I guess Texas just thought they might try this Searles guy because the Longhornes can’t hire coaches. Please you know nothings, have a clue!!

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If Ealey doesn’t fumble going in for a td @ SC and King doesn’t fumble before a FG @ Colorado, we probably wouldn’t be down on the rbs as much as we are. Ealey shows some potential, but he gets fumblitis and can’t pass block. King has never made it back from breaking his leg his senior year of High School.

Carlton Thomas is probably a great kid, but now seems like a great time to let him transition to WR and Special teams. He’s not an SEC RB.

Maybe we’ll sign Crowell and Boo will surprise us. I wouldn’t mind a fresh start @ RB. Those two might make Ealey start working a little harder too.

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Thank you Lake Oconee DAWG for bring some brains to the debate I have heard great things about Robbie Caldwell as an OL coach -or Hugh Nall-what do ya’ll think

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HAHAHAHA no way do we lose Ealey and King to the NFL. Come on man!

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King may have already checked out on his own.

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Tony, The only way King and Ealey see the NFL is to buy a ticket! Get real.

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TBrown couldn’t have been more on target. Hershel, Rodney Hampton, TBRown, Garrison Hearst, Knowshon ALL put helmets on LBs and DBs and made people pay for the tackle. Jasper Sanks, Washaun, and King NEVER put the pads down. The traditional tailback at UGA runs like through, over, and past people. The guys we’ve got now deserve tutus more that silver britches.

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Tony are you Ealey or related to Ealey?

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Thomas Brown was hands down one of my favorite Dawgs of the past decade. It will only benefit the S&C program to have a proven hard worker like him on the staff. His heart and determination should pay instant dividends in an area where Georgia is in desperate need of some help. Welcome home, TB!

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St. Bernard,
I think you just broke the code on old Tony! I do not think he is in the real world!!!!

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Ealey’s pass blocking this year was excellent, Ealey lost 2 fumbles, I think Murray lost 8.

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Tony the two fumbles he lost cost us points and the game…

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John “90 You could not be more correct. Great insight!!

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What game did Ealey win for us?

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Carlton Thomas could have ran on Kentucky.

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It’s never just one thing. It’s a combination of everything. We ran through Tech at the close of 2009 like a hot knife through butter with Ealy and King. That led everyone to believe that we would run big in 2010 but that simply didn’t happen.To be honest there wasn’t many decent holes to run through to have such an experienced line, but when there were, it did seem like we were one handed tackled alot. Other team’s runningbacks were literally dragging our linebackers for more yards. Everyone of our running backs ought to have to watch the video of Bama’s backs in their bowl game against Michigan State. They ran over and through the defense. Very impressive to watch, something we lacked all year. Of course, maybe it wasn’t just desire but strength too.

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I didn’t realize that Ealey was the 2nd coming of Herschel Walker.
Someone else must have been wearing Ealey’s jersey in these games
South Carolina – Ealey had 19 carries for 75 yards (avg 3.9) – plus a lost fumble
Arkansas – 18 for 87 yards (4.8)
MSU – 10 carries for 36 yards (3.6) – plus he fumbled at the 1 yard line
Florida – 11 for 37 (3.4)
UCF – 16 for 60 (3.8)
He also sat out a couple of games for disciplinary reasons

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What game did Ealey win for us? Not one. You can’t point to any game he single-handedly dominated.

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Alabama & SC both had a better O-Line coach than Georgia, yet Ealey still hangs with both Lattimore & Ingram.

And Ealey had a freshman QB who wasn’t accurate of the long ball, so folks brought 8 in the box, especially SC & Miss St.

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Ealey’s 5 td game against Kentucky wasn’t too bad.

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Nope, not anymore than Murray’s 4 to’s cost the Florida game, or 23 to’s cost the UCF game.

TRemember, AJ was out in the SC & Miss St game, so Murray didn’t have the DB’s doubling anybody, so they brought 8 in the box, and Murray only connected on 1 long pass in those 2 games. I’d put both of those losses, and Florida & UCF, on Murray.

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Ealey would have won the game against Colorado, but Bobo sat his best back on the bench. King fumbled away that game.

Ealey would have won the Arkansas game, he was getting 4.8 ypc, but Bobo went to the pass at the end of the game.

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Ealey’s 157 yards & 5 td’s won the Kentucky game.

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What were the average distance of those td runs tony?

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Ingram was hurt much of 2010 year and only ran about half as many times as he did the previous year. He ran for over 1600 yards last year. He will be a high round selection in the draft. He is a powerful back with speed,not so much Ealy. I doubt seriously Ealy gets drafted, but maybe he’ll turn things around.

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5 td runs for Ealey covered as distance of 10 yards. 3 yd run, 2 yd run, 2 yd run, 2 yd run, and 1 yrd run.

I do appreciate all 5 of those runs though.

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TB, GATA!! Get rid of Caleb King. Run his arse off and kill two birds with one stone. It would get rid of his underachieving fumbling play and bad attitude. Second, it would get the rest of the teams attention. Thomas Brown is proof that it is not the size of the dog in the fight, but rather the size of the fight in the dog!!

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What did Ealey do against Aub and Ark?

Sorry, I’m beginning to lose interest….

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Lake Oconee you are a fool if you thing Bobo is a good play caller, The Offense scored points despite Bobo thanks to talent alone. You know nothing about football if you can’t see that. Bobo is the most incompetent and predictable play caller I have ever seen at any level.

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IngraM GOT:
3.9 ypc vs. Fla
3.7 vs. SC
2.9 vs. MSU
3.6 vs. Auburn

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One thing to Tony’s credit, Rarely has CMR ever tried to lineup and play rock-em sock-em football.(establish run 1st) He’s a finesse guy,a trademark of his teams.How many games did CMR start out with 2-3 passes on the opening drive,several of which we through deep on the very 1st play(never worked) and now we are 2-3 possessions into the game before we even try to establish the run. For several years now we have been a pass 1st, if that doesn’t work, try run up the middle team.

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Aub & Ark? Glad you asked.

Ealey got 4.8 ypc against Ark, Lattimore got 2.7 ypc
Ealey got 7.3 ypc against Auburn, Ingram was 3.6, Lattimore 2.4

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Tony,
Ealey had 44 yards against AU for 7.3 per carry and 87 against Arkansas for 4.8 per carry. Funny that I don’t remember any of them.

All the best to you and Ealey. I really do hope he becomes something special.

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I wish Uga could find a way to start Burnette at Center, move Bean Anderson back to right guard, thus allowing Kenarious Gates to move to Right tackle. You’re pretty much set on the left side with Sturdivant and Glenn. Hate losing Jonathan Owens and Tanner Strickland though.

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It doesnt matter people

Dont you realize that if Herschel Walker was a freshman this year for us he to would sit the bench until next year because he has to get in the weight room, learn the playbook, and run block

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I’m not sure what Tony’s relationship with Ealey is but he does have one thing right. Ealey has more potential then anyone we have. With TB’s help, he could turn out to be a good featured back.

One other thing he is right about, Murray cost us a lot of games this year! He needs much improvement.

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Hiram Dawg AND Monty:
HOW TO YOU HANG YOUR HAT ON A RUNNING GAME WITH A RUNNINGBACK WHO CAN’T BREAK A TACKLE? SEEMS THEY RAN IT A FEW TIMES WHEN THEY HAD KNOWSHON…THROW IT TO GREEN OR HAND IT TO EALEY? WHAT YOU GONNA DO, COACH HIRAN DAWG? or give it to Carlton Thomas? Staff has known all along they couldn’t count on Caleb King, so don’t even factor him into the mix…

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Even the idea that someone would compare a no-name back to Herschel is crazy.

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Ingram lost a fumble to blow the Auburn game, it happens when you’re trying to get more yards.

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In Bama’s 2009 NC championship year they ran for over 3000 yards. Same for Florida in 2007 and 2008.Auburn ran for almost 4000 yards this year! Oregon Ducks 3500 or so. Hello!!! ANyone see a trend here or is it just me? Georgia numbers this year 1853yds.,2009-2093yds,2008-1928yds(knowshon’s last year)wow-very telling. Never gone cut it with the big boys CMR.

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Lattimore fumbled in a bowl game and got knocked out of the game with a tackle.

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Tony,

That is the stupidest thing I have ever seen anyone write on here. I’m not joking.

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Stupidest is not a word.

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PER DUDE TONY, I AM TODAY STARTING A CAMPAIGN FOR “EALEY FOR HEISMAN”. THINK THAT MIGHT GET ABOUT AS FAR AS GEORGIA TECH’S “NESBITT FOR HEISMAN”. EALEY IS A HARD WORKER, AND PLAYS HARD…BUT THE PLAYERS EVEN KID HIM SAYING “MAKE A MOVE, EXLAX” THEY KNOW HE RUNS HARD, BUT UNLIKE MORENO, CAN’T STICK HIS FOOT IN THE GROUND AND MAKE A MOVE AND MAKE SOMEBODY MISS HIM…NOT BIG ENOUGH TO RUN OVER PEOPLE…KING COULD MAKE SOMEBODY MISS AT THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE, BUT WATCH THAT FUMBLE THAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN…GOLDBERG GOT THIS DEAL FIGURED OUT, GIVE HIM A SHOUT…

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Bobo is not all bad, but you have to admit that Georgia’s offense doesn’t have any wrinkles at all. They run the same 10 plays. Murray seems to lock up under pressure, but let’s give the guy a break, he made some great plays and was only s RS freshman. He will only get better.

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It is good to see you guys finally talk about the RBs. Where have you been for the past 2 years? I got blasted for saying that the Dawgs ‘never had a full roster’ and that King was a substandard, high-maintenance, never-available to play, unproductive RB. This where CMR has a weakness. He should have run King out of the program. Shortly followed by his position coach, McClendon.

CSS was a good line coach, but not outstanding. If you think was prove it with the numbers, Look at the drive chart, the yield per carry, and the number of rushing TDs. Now some of this can be laid at the feet of CMR, Bobo, Lilly, and Van Halinger. CMR and Lilly are infatuated with WRs. They had Green, a top NFL pick, but where was he the past two years with his numbers and the teams overall 14-12, 6-7, and etc.
Here is a bit of free advice. Run the players in addition to S&C, develop sets and schemes that feature the TEs and a power running garme if you want to stay with a pro set, otherwise move to a hybrid spread.

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It is a word, it is in the dictionary, and not surprisingly, your picture is next to it.

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Personally I am convinced that with TB , the new S&C program, & more competition at RB that the run game will be much improved in 2011. Hope we get an OL coach that will get after the OL. It appears that it is all coming together for a change. Still not convinced that changing the OC is the way to go. 2011 will tell the tale.GATA.

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Thanks to Tony we at least know that they piped the internet to Twin City.

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We certainly do need to change some things up with our offensive scheem and we need new blood in RB. I don’t agree that Bobo does a bad job. I really don’t think we have players with the right talent level or attitude. Now that may be a combination of poor recruiting and coaching.

I think Murray is average but he is no savior. I have talked to players and former players and they all agree we missed the boat with Zack Mettenberger. That was unfortunate because he was actually probably going to be our starter and respected more then Murray in the huddle. Watch out for him on highlight films soon.

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Ealey is not half the back that Knowshawn was at UGA.

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That’s not what you said dude. You said it wasn’t a word. As far as proper grammer, you are wrong there too, because both stupidest and most stupid are acceptable. It depends on which book you check. You might want to research stuff like this instead of crunching Ealey’s numbers all day.

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7576 DAWG YOU ARE RIGHT ABOUT GARNER GAINESVILLE GOT 5 BOYS THAT HAVE GONE D1 TO GA TECH,ALABAMA,NOTRE DAME, STANFORD,AND NOW TENNESSEE AND GARNER DIDNT REALLY PURSUE ANY OF THEM REAL HARD ALSO FLOWERY BRANCH HAS HAD SOME GOOD KIDS THE SHAW BOYS , CROSS AND ANOTHER KID AT TECH BUT WE KEEP GOING FOR KIDS LIKE BAILEY AT EAST HALL TEAM GAVE UP OVER 40 POINTS A GAME AND KID FROM NORTH HALL CURRY WIDE RECEIVER CLASS OF 2012 CAUGHT 11 PASSES THIS YEAR ALREADY PULLED THE STRING AND OFFERED HIM A SCHLORSHIP BUT DIDN’T EVEN TALK TO THE KID THAT SET THE STATE RECORD FOR SINGLE SEASON CATCHES AT SANDY CREEK,WHOM COACH WALKER SAID CAN PLAY AND IF COACH W ALKER SAYS HE CAN PLAY HE CAN PLAY

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Actually, if you compare Ealey’s ypc average, it’s the same as Moreno averaged. Both at 5.5 ypc.

Moreno did score td’s more often, at 1 td per 17 touches, vs. 1 td per 20 touches for Ealey, but that’s only 17% difference, not a 100% difference like was suggested.

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BAD RECRUITING GOT US INTO THIS HOLE, AND ONLY GREAT RECRUITING WILL GET US OUT OF THIS HOLE…AND JOE T’S KICK A$$ ATTITUDE FOR THE STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING PROGRAM…

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Flat Tire, Hmm. Throwing Stats out there like Tony? I’m not sure if you actaully watched the games last year and saw our record. He was a freshman and did a good job. Doubtfull he will lead us to the promised land. It was obvious he got worse as he year went on. If anyone is drinking the “kool-aid”, it appears to be you.

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Flat Tire, maybe you should throw Murry into the Hiesman race with Ealey!

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Ealey and KIng have proved that they cannot be counted on for anything. They likely will both flunk out. When that happens, UGA fans (I am an alum) will be ill. I suspect that they both flunk out over the winter/spring semester.
UGA needs to sign not one but TWO solid, durable, SEC caliber backs to go along with Boo Malcomb. Otherwise, we are far worse off than I even imagined.

Go Dogs.
UGA class of 71 & 73

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That abandoning of the running game seemed to be most prevalent when it wasn’t working.

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You mean to tell us that king is Still on the team!? Amazing..

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Thomas Brown and John Casey senior ( I knew him at UGA in the 60s) and Joe T will be huge. Most of the alums my age recall Coach Sam Mrvos. He was the scout team coach and did things all around the football program and ran the S&C program for the jocks.

He was demanding and he got results. I had him as a coach for a PE class and at 160 lbs of bucked teeth and skin and bone, he had me maxing out with 245. He taught the sport ………….weight training. Joe T and Thomas Brown and John Casey are of the same cloth and in fact, all but Brown trained under him.

Old School always works. Always. New titles, new names and new facilities and equipment are wonderful but it still comes down to reps and conditioning and diet. Mental toughness will follow and that is where UGA is lost in the SEC’s dust. They are candies on the D and O line. Candymen like GT is the UGA rep now when they face the Floridas or the KYs or the UTs or the AUs or the Bamas of the conference. Candies we have become. This is at the feet of Coach Mark Richt too.

This will change immediately with the kids and come next year our new regime will install a similar tough regime in S& C to validate my point.

GO Dogs.

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Tony,

You are a trip. I guess some people just see what they want to see. Maybe Ealey saved your kitten from a tree, or he is your cousin, or maybe YOU are Ealey himself on here spouting his numbers. Just remember, you are trying to compare a current player, who has been regarded by most as a disappointment, to arguably, the greatest college running-back of ALL TIME. You get that? Watch ESPN the next time they do a piece on the greatest players ever. Hershel usually ends up #1 or #2.
Jeez. I’m out.

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Yeah, Bobo is SUCH a great coach. That’s why ZERO other schools have even inquired about talking to him for any of their openings. Even Willie had a school or two at least talk to him while he was here! You score 30+ points a game for a stretch bc you have a ton of talent, play terrible defenses, and have no running game so you are forced to pass which will lead to more scoring. Tons of SEC teams could average more points per game, but they’d rather run the ball and salt away a WIN instead of scoring 30 in a LOSS. How could a good play caller score 6 against UCF, that’s the question!

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That is what is wrong with edumacated and lake oconee’s analysis of Ealey. They both say he is a disappointment and they are just morons hiding behind a computer screen.

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Bill Goldberg

Mark Richt

13-12 in SEC East since 2005
2-8 vs FL
7-10 against Top 10 teams
1-4 against Top 5 teams
71% of his victories are from unranked teams
Never appeared in an SEC championship game without the help of FL losing out (Not beating them on the field)

All while having Top 10 recruiting classes except once this past 10 years
and UGA ranks 4th since 1999 in putting players in the NFL

Do you really think Murray is the problem after one yr where he was good enough to break records

When you cannot even win a SEC east title with Stafford Moreno Green and Maseqoui on the same team do you think things are going to get better

If you do Im selling my ocean front beach house on Peach Tree St in downtown Atlanta

Keep drinking the Kool-Aid the problem was here long before Murray put a uniform on

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We scored 6 against UCF because Murray sucked.

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Flat tire, think the problem is more Richt then Bobo. I never thought Staffard was a great “college” qb. So keep throwing all the stats out there you want. The results speak for themselves. Murray is average. Just watch the freaking games. Truth be told, we need a running game and we don’t have one.

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The problem is Richt. He tries to reform football players instead of developing their talents. That is why the team is not playing with heart. Richt has confused them. Instead of playing football like they have done all their lives, they have to live up to Richt’s standards.

Go dogs.

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That is right yo. Richt would not go for it on fourth and two inches. He is killing all of the players drive and determination. Richt should have been fired right then for that play call.

Go dogs.

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Oconee and Goldberg are Richt’s and Bobo’s wives and Tony is apparently on the down low with Washaun Ealey.

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I doubt we’ll see Ealy again. He’s going to end up in jail or just decide he’s good enough that the NFL will waive that whole three years rule for him and hire an agent. Then, upon getting denied, he’ll gain 50 lbs and go undrafted the next year. He’s like Maurice Clarett, but without talent.

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its not about yards per carry. Those can be inflated by controlling clock against weaker teams.
It is about winning.

And Ealey and King in college have not been winning the big games.
Until they do, Walker is and always will be head and shoulders above them.

They both need to dedicate themselves to the game, their school, their team, and their position.
Or fully expect to see someone else run the football at UGA.
Malcome, Crowell, whomever will get it done.

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I know a lot of the dog fans and Bill King want Ealey to quit or get kicked off the team. That would would be terrible for the football team in 2011. We need Ealey and all the other players. We need more positive articles written about our football players and not all this negativity that some people post about certain athletes.

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any news on who UGA is going to coach the O-Line, me personally I hope they get Robbie Caldwell

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We need to get rid of King and Ealey…they are nothing but full of themselves……I would rather take my chances with whoever comes to UGA to play the position than to depend on these two morons…..will CMR had the balls to kick them off this team…..

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So who does that leave UGA looking at for O-Line

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I go absolutely nuts when Bobo calls the draw play on 1st or 2nd down with twenty plus yards to go. I will never understand that logic. It fails miserably every time he calls it. Also, it seems since Musa or maybe even Knowshon, we no longer have any backs with a burst. King or Ealey go down with a shoestring tackle. UCF’s back ran with a lot more desire and determination than any of ours. Whatever happened to the screen out of the backfield, seems non existent?

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THINK EALEY CAN BE A CONTRIBUTOR, BUT WHAT HE DOES WITH JOE T AND SPRING BALL WILL DECIDE THAT…

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Does Crowell have 133 touchdowns like Ealey had in High School? If not, I’ll just imagine he does and use my wishful thinking power.

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So what if Ealey averaged the same yards per run as Walker and Moreno, Walker & Moreno broke a LOT more tackles than Ealey ever did, it just didn’t show up in the yards per run.

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Man, if I were Ealey, after reading all this, I’d transfer. What a negative bunch of folks Georgia fans is.

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Bucky:
WHAT IF YOU WERE A UGA COACH AND READ THIS CRAP? HOW WOULD YOU HIRE ANOTHER HEAD COACH WHO READS ABOUT THE CURRENT UGA HEAD COACH WHO WINS 90 GAMES IN 9 YEARS AND HAS A COUPLE SETBACK YEARS AND THE REDNECKS WANT TO SEE LET GO AND THE STAFF THAT WAS PART OF THE 90 WINS…WOULD YOU WANT TO COME COACH A TEAM WITH A BUNCH OF REDNECK FANS LIKE THAT….

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Is this a “fan” blog? Don’t seem like Ealey has too many fans on this blog, except one or maybe two.

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I DON’T SEE WHY GUYS LIKE EALEY, LEMAY OR MASON SHOULD EVEN SHOW UP SINCE IT’S ALREADY DECIDED THAT IT’S CROWELL & MURRAY IN 2011.

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Lake Oconee Dawg

If you ask me I just think CMB is predictable and our execution of the draw play and the screen pass this year were lacking just MHO

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just a fan:
YOU SAY THAT COACH BOBO IS PREDICTABLE…GOT A DEAL FOR YOU…SIT BESIDE ME AT ALL UGA GAMES NEXT YEAR, AND BEFORE THE PLAY YOU TELL ME WHAT THE PLAY WILL BE…ON EVERY PLAY THAT YOU CALL CORRECTLY, I WILL GIVE YOU $100…ON EVERY PLAY YOU CALL INCORRECTLY, YOU GIVE ME $100…AT THE END OF THE SEASON, I WOULD OWN YOUR CAR, HOUSE, BUSINESS, ETC CAUSE THEY RUN ABOUT 75 PLAYS PER GAME…YOU MIGHT GET 1 OUT OF 15 RIGHT…UGA SCOUTS THEIR OWN FILM SO THAT THEY WILL NOT BE PREDICTABLE TO PREVENT PEOPLE FROM KNOWING WHAT IS COMING…I COULD GET A COPY OF COACH BOBO’S CALL SHEET AND WE COULD SIT TOGETHER AND YOU COULD JUST LOOK DOWN THE SHEET AND POINT TO THE ONE YOU THINK HE WILL RUN NEXT…I COULD QUIT MY JOB AND JUST WATCH GEORGIA FOOTBALL….

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RUSTY:
HOPE WE GET TO THE POINT WHERE ALL OF THESE GUYS MUST PRODUCE TO GET ON THE FIELD FOR THE BULLDOG…COMPETITION JUST TO BE ABLE TO PLAY IS THE BIGGEST MOTIVATOR THAT THERE IS IF YOU ARE A COMPETITOR. YOU OCCASIONALLY GET ONE LIKE DAVID POLLACK WHO HAS FIRE BURNING WITHIN HIM…IT IS HARD FOR THE COACH TO PUT IT THERE…IT IS MORE A PRIDE THING WITHIN THESE TYPE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SHOW THE WORLD THAT THEY ARE JUST AS DAMN GOOD AS THE 4 STARS AND 5 STARS….WHEN YOU FIND ONE THAT THE FIRE BURNS WITHIN, YOU REALLY GOT A PRIZE…NOT EVERY YEAR WILL YOU HAVE ONE OF THESE…BUT WHEN YOU DO, HE CAN LEAD YOUR TEAM BY EXAMPLE AND PERFORMANCE WHEN THE OTHER GUYS ON THE TEAM SEE A GUY WHO DOES NOT HAVE EXCEPTIONAL SIZE BEATING UP ON PEOPLE WHO HAVE ALL THE GOD GIVEN TALENT…THAT WILL EVEN GET AN OLD MAN LIKE ME EXCITED TO SEE THAT KIND OF PASSION ON DISPLAY…GIVE ME THE DAVID POLLACKS AND THOMAS BROWNS OF THE WORLD, PEOPLE WITH A PASSION FOR THE GAME AND THE DAWGS….

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just a fan:
YOU SAY THEY OUTSCHEMED COACH BOBO THIS YEAR…TELL ME EXACTLY WHAT THEY DID THAT YOU SAW AND COULD IDENTIFY THAT TOLD YOU THAT THEY WERE OUTSCHEMING HIM???

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THOSE ARE THINGS THAT I HEAR ALL THE TIME, AND IT IS BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN PASSED FROM LIPS TO LIPS….ITS EITHER THAT COACHES OUTSCHEME COACH BOBO AND THE UGA OFFENSIVE STAFF OR THAT THE PLAYS THEY CAUSE ARE TOO PREDICTABLE…BUT NOBODY CAN GO INTO DEPTH AND TELL ME EXACTLY WHAT THEY HAVE IDENTIFIED THAT WOULD MAKE THEM BELIEVE THAT COACH BOBO AND COMPANY WERE OUTSCHEMED…AND IF IT WERE ONLY SCHEME, WHY DIDN’T VANDY, TENNESSEE, AND KENTUCKY JUST COPY THE DEFENSIVE SCHEME THAT WAS SUCCESSFUL AGAINST GEORGIA AND USE IT TO BEAT THEM… AND ON TO PLAY PREDICTABILITY, SOME SAY YOU CAN SIT THERE AND CALL EACH PLAY ONE BY ONE THAT BOBO WILL RUN…I HAVE OFFERED A BET OF $100 PER PLAY TO SIT BY SOMEONE WHO CAN PREDICT HIS PLAY CALLING AND IF THEY GET IT RIGHT, I PAY THEM $100, AND IF THEY PREDICT THE PLAY WRONG, THEY PAY ME $100…NOW HOW BIG A BOY ARE YE?? IF YOU WANT SOME OF THAT, JUST LET ME KNOW AND WE WILL SIT TOGETHER AT ALL UGA GAMES AND LET YOU CALL EACH PLAY…AND DON’T SIT WITH THE GENIUSES THAT AFTER THE RUNNING PLAY IS OVER AND GAINS NO YARDAGE, SCREAMS OUT THAT WE SHOULD HAVE HAD A PASS PLAY CALLED…THEN ON THE NEXT PLAY, WHEN WE PASS AND IT IS INCOMPLETE, THE SAME GENIUSES HOLLAR, DAMN WE SHOULD HAVE RUN ON THAT DOWN…SELAH!!!

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What do you guys do for entertainment; for exercise; for work, anything? I see where some of you spend 2-4 hours sitting at a computer “talking” through your rear ends about a subject you know little about. Oh…that doesn’t matter, huh? You just make up what you don’t know?

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Phyllis

I am watching the bball Dawgs with my son

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I am sick of seeing 3rd and 7 or 8. The running game must improve. How many times did Ealey or King get taken down for a little to no gain on first down? How many times did we take a loss on 2nd down via sack or penalty? Then how many times did Ealey or King run for an 8 yards that results in 4 and 5? Happened every game… 5.4 a carry. Really?Break a tackle or find somebody who can? To compare Mr. Walker and Ealey is blasphemy. Walker got it done.. How many times did he give the DAWGS a 2nd and 3? How many times did we see that this year? Diffence in 6 wins and 10 wins rate there…

Thomas Brown is a great addition to this team. I have been saying for a good 3 years that we are getting beat off both sides of the ball and we have better skill position players than most teams we play.

Bring on Cromwell!!!

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I have to disagree with one statement. I saw Ealey run hard. I also often saw him met at the line by defenses. Georgia appeared to try to set up surprise runs with passing game rather than setting up the play action with running. I absolutely agree with crit of Bobo giving up on the run too quickly. If there is any kind of time pressure, it seems like UGA tries to get it all in one pass instead of picking apart an opposing team’s spread. Also, it seems like anytime the Dawgs make it to the other team’s 30, they start throwing for the endzone instead of using the strategy that got them there.

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I think Ealey can’t break tackles like Herschel, even though Ealey gets more yards each time he carries than Herschel did, I just don’t choose to believe that, so mabye that makes it not true. I’m going to imagine Ealey average better each carry than Herschel, I also don’t think Ealey got 5 times more td’s than Caleb King this year, I just can’t believe it, because if he did both of those, Bobo is an absolute…well, never mind.

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http://isportsweb.com/2011/01/22/ranking-the-new-college-football-head-coaches-for-2011/

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Just for info Boise State at this time have 5 star-0, 4 star-0, 3 star-12 and 8 not rated. They must be good coaches out there’
With all our talent on paper we should beat the heck out of them.
But I’m sorry to say we don’t play the game on paper.

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The blocking was a major problem but, Ealey and King are two overrated players that don’t have any heart. They don’t have the mentality to run through you or over you. They are maybe 2 star recruits at the most and shouldn’t even be playing in the SEC. No break away ability and lack of speed. We need to start recruiting better at the RB position and we need to start stock piling at that position. With a new OL coach, hopefully will bring in new blocking schemes and also a more physical mentality to beat up the other teams DL. We need to recruit big nasty lineman, not baby fat lineman that will probably not amount to much after their college careers are over. Plain and simple, we have to go into other states to recruit top lineman and we are not doing it. It alll comes down to recruiting and coaching and that is lacking right now.

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Play Ken Malcome? Who was redshirted this past season and play Crowell when he sign with us and put Easley and King on the bottom of the depth chart and make them earn playing time, too many times ga players thought they had to play because there was no one else, I would play a one or two player who showed he wanted to play rather than playing a inconsistence player who think of himself rather than the team.

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as for your info hershal walker played at a 1a school in johnson county

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The discussion with Tony was highly entertaining. Ealey and King both show potential at times. Besides Ealey’s two killer fumbles and their suspensions my biggest problem with both of them is that they seem to lack vision. Ealey does run hard and King has some really good shiftiness but I’ve seen both them make the wrong cut way too many times — sometimes turning what could have been a long gain into a 10-12 yarder. I think vision is something you either have or don’t. We’ll see.

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@Carlton
January 22nd, 2011
4:20 pm

Couldn’t agree with you more on your assessment of our running game. Good post. … Go Dawgs!

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@Carlton

Thank you. I want to say my opinion and if someone argues against it I’ll argue back.

@Phyllis
Get off your high horse and get off our blog.

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i think everyone is off point. college football is about the Jimmy’s & the Joe’s, not the x’s and o’s. You have to be able to recruit and once you recruit the you have to develop it and it has to perform on Saturday. Too often our talent plays but only after a better coaching staff develops it to play on Sunday.
As they say… show me a kid with a lot of heart and i’ll show you someone who can take a a$$ whipping over and over.
It’s all about talent and putting it on the field. Everything else is talk and our current staff is not getting it done, and more changes are coming.
LAKE OCONE DOG: yes knowshon played, but only 2 years instead of three. Our genius coach put a red shirt on him his freshman year. I guess they did that because they can spot talent. Heck, Richt himself made fun of that gaff. i also remember hearing our staff thought Cam Newton would make a fine tight end.
PS: I like T Brown. Average players make good coaches. Good players make NFL careers. Like Lumpkin, Ware and our boy Knowshon. All players that stood on the side line to watch little Thomas play.
Last September i don’t remember the old ball coach taking his freshman stud running back out for a breather. All i remember is him running the ball down our throats.

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When I read the comments earlier I thought TB was very much in the right for coming out and addressing this. His attitude as a assitant to the S&C program may be the best addition CMR could have made since he hired BVG a decade ago.

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Brown was the strongest on that entire team. Signing him to help out was a great idea.

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I agree that the backs were not impressive, however some plays they had to break 2 tackles just to make it out of the backfield.

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Tony
January 22nd, 2011
11:16 am
Ealey’s an amazing back. Let’s remember, Ealey uncorked 8000 yards in high school, and over 130 touchdowns, that’s unreal. Ealey had 11 td’s to King’s 2, so I couldn’t figure out why Bobo kept rotating the guys so much.
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Not to take anything away from Ealy, but. he was playing single A ball. Not a whole lot of competition; like the 4 and 5 A teams.

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no, what was missing in the running game was that coach Searels just forgot how to coach….right???

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Washaun has a 5.5 yards per ball carry career average at Georgia, where Walker’s is 5.3, Moreno’s is also 5.5. thought it pretty kool that ealey got 11 td’s this year on @150 totes, almost as many as Mark Ingram who was at 13 td’s, now Ingram is a baller.

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Ealey got 4.4 yards per ball carry against ranked teams, while Lattimore only got 3.7, in other words, Lattimore jacked up his stats against bad teams.

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Ealey was one of 3 players in the nation to score 11 or more rushing td’s on less than 160 carries. Ealey only got 157 carries, ranked #87 there on number of carries. Baller. Pretty kool must say.

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Tron Fan : Now you see why the only stats that matter are the W’s and the L’s. The rest are window dressing…

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Richt must go.

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Without Crowell, there will be problems. Expect to see a lot more of Ken Malcome. I’m quite past ready to see the gigantically overrated Caleb King leave Athens (reminds me a lot of Jasper Sanks). I knew King was not the answer when he was playing locally in high school. Ealey was alos nothing more than a second or third back in a rotation. Mark Richt clearly needs to look for more Knowshon Moreno types. They are out there. Ask Ga Tech!

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IMHO…Georgia has recruited the best running backs in the nation in the past 5 years. Check the stars of Richard Samuel, Washuan and Caleb King. None have lived up to the high school hype. I think about Knowshon, and what comes to mind is how hard he ran and how many tackles he broke or jumped over. It came down to “Attitude”. Knowshon had attitude and he was not going to let any one tackler bring him down. What changed? UGA lost the attitude of nobody can stop me, from the backs to the O-line. Who gave it their all this year? IMHO, Orson Charles, Aaron Murray and Justin Houston ( and I did leave out AJ) . The rest seemed to be entitled as did CMR. The O-line was gassed by the 3rd, the D-line was gassed by the 4th qtr.. I like what I see in our recruits coming in. They not only seem to have attitude but they seem to be coming with the attitude to turn Georgia around. And I like what I see and hear. The recruits seem to have a strong network via phone, text, facebook, twitter, etc. I do not really know what Moxey means, but if I do , this years recruits have Moxey. I’m not looking back at 2009 and 2010. I’m looking forward to 2011 and beyond. Georgia can dominate college football. Alabama and Auburn winning the last two NC’s is a disgrace. They do not have the access to talent in their state that UGA has. They come here and get the players and that crap is over after this year. The Dream Team has materialized and now it is time for the fan base to get on board. Go Dawgs! I’m all in.

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Dude, seriously, ya’ll need to read up on Georgia football. First, Thomas Brown ain’t never ran for 11 td’s in 1 season like Wshauan Ealey just did, so don’t talk to my about no “effort”. Second, Thomas Brown ran for 4 td’s, on 147 carries his sophomore season, Ealey got 11 his soph season. It’s all about the td’s boys.

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Hey, Ya’ll heard bout me? Look what I was doing while I still was able to kick me some dawg. Gotta go..got me some sour…P.R. chick and a whole lot going on in Gainesville. See me in the NFL!

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You guys don’t see the bigger picture do you?
Run off all the assistants and you might figure it out.

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It’s criminal what this coaching staff has been doing.

The Kool-Aid coaching staff is not going to put up with Blair Walsh or Thomas Brown telling them they are FOS – which, of course, by these specific examples, they are.

Redshirt Knowshon Moreno because some lesser running back was ahead of him on the Depth Chart – entitled. Then, we saw him 2 years here only – now successful NFL running back – what are the running backs ahead of him on the Depth Chart doing in the NFL by direct comparison ?

2006, Joe Tereshinski III is entitled. Joe Cox is entitled to be # 2 on the Depth Chart 2006 behind Joe Tereshinski III, who lost to Florida with all that talent we had 2005 – causing us to Start DJ vs Auburn before he was clearly recovered, and Matthew Stafford is # 3 on the Depth Chart at QB 2006 behind these 2 entitled ahead of him.

Kwame Geathers cannot even get on the field to show up those entitled ahead of him, not getting the job done.

And, the walk-ons are entitled to play Special Teams, so despite having 11 you can put on the field at any given moment, we have all these great players standing watching the whole game, while we play walk-ons for them to watch get a down while they don’t.

I’m fed up with it. If you’ve got something positive to say about this, have at it DISNEYdawgs.com. Oh, no all you got is personal attack a Flame, thus none of this ever happened. Right ?

I have always been a Thomas Brown fan. This is nothing new from him. He is a great man.

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Brick January 22nd, 2011 11:37 pm

“ya’ll need to read up on Georgia football. First, Thomas Brown ain’t never ran for 11 td’s in 1 season like Wshauan Ealey just did, so don’t talk to my about no “effort”. Second, Thomas Brown ran for 4 td’s, on 147 carries his sophomore season, Ealey got 11 his soph season. It’s all about the td’s boys.”

Thomas Brown ran for 875 yards 2004 with 16 catches for another 150 yards and a kick-off return of 18 yards scoring 8 touchdowns leading Georgia to finishing with a # 7 ranking – dominating in the wins over Florida, LSU and Wisconsin. 1043 yards and 8 touchdowns for # 7 UGA.

2005 Thomas Brown ran for 788 yards with 6 catches for 67 yards and 2 kick-off returns for 19 yards 874 yards and 4 touchdowns for # 7 Georgia, SEC Championship with DJ Shockley taking a lot of the running load. 1 tackle.

2007, after his injury 2006, Thomas Brown ran for 779 yards and 10 rushing touchdowns plus another 2 receiving touchdowns for 12 touchdowns total 2007, catching 10 passes for 84 more yards. 15 kick-off returns for 333 more yards. 3 tackles. 1,196 yards and 12 Touchdowns for # 2 Georgia 11-2.

It’s ALL about JUST ONLY WINNING.

DISNEYdawgs.com

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Brucerugby79, I guess what you hadn’t heard about Hugh Nall is the fact that he contracted a life threatening disease and is down on his health and luck right now!!!! This blog is so far out of touch with reality that I am ashamed of most of the remarks made here! I recall the first game Waushan Ealey ever played at UGA against LSU in Athens a few years ago! We were pretty glad to see him that afternoon! The lake dog and the old coach should pack up and head for Auburn! I heard they had a Nat Championship to crow about for a few more weeks! I wouldn’t trade Coach Hugh Nall for the whole lot of you belly achers! He was a “Damn Good Dog”!!!!!!!

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“I recall the first game Waushan Ealey ever played at UGA against LSU in Athens a few years ago! We were pretty glad to see him that afternoon!”

You remember the game ? You remember he ran 8 times for 33 yards no touchdown and LOST to LSU ? Or, is there something else you remember about the damn LOSS ? The other part of that game I remember, is that the coaching staff could not find a Tailback all season long, then, with the SEASON OVER, in the 3rd Quarter of the 5th game, we rip the redshirt off Washaun Ealey. DISNEYdawg.com

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There sure are a lot of statisticians on these blogs. My question would be: how many of those great running stats. were made against the quality teams we played against. If you mix all of the stats. together for all the games they can look pretty impressive. Now take out the stats. against the bad teams or warm up games against secondary division teams and then see how those yards per carry, td’s per carries and other stats. add up then. When Moreno played, if memory serves me right, very few teams, no matter the calibar, stopped him. C. King’s attitude I believe is holding him back and I believe Ealey could have used some more time in conditioning. To be fair, it might have been good to have the O line in that room with Ealey.
Now, from what I saw of Lattimore; This kid is special. His motor runs 100% all the time he is on the field, he is as tough as nails. Ealey will have to be a a back that doesn’t look to run over tacklers, but rather around them. To compare these two is like comparing a bull to a matador. The matador can win if he doesn’t engage the bull fully, but uses his weapons to bring him down.
I think that CMR can succeed again and I believe the program can be turned around. More spark from the head coach, more beef on the defensive front, more conditioning, and the desire to be team players, versus me players, will go a long way. I think we have a great defensive coach, and with the addition of some strength training, and hopefully, Mr. Jenkins, from JUCO, the defense could be special as well.
It all seems like we have the ingredients to make it all happen, but much like a cook; All the ingredients in the world do not make a good meal, if the cook is lousey. I think we have the right pieces in place to make it happen on both ends, but time will tell.

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If we played one of the toughest schedules in the nation, then why did we only beat 6 teams all with losing records ?

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We took 12 arrests and put them in the bowl, added 5 players kicked off the team and 2 more transferred out along with 1 just out and out quitting, then we mixed in NCAA suspensions with those of Mark Richt adding 17 players suspended – some for multiple games, then to top it all off we beat 6 teams all with losing records and lost to all the other 7 two of those of whom also had losing records and so we lost 3 games without AJ Green and 4 games we lost with AJ Green including the worst loss of the season to 5-7 Colorado – so when it got time to put it in the oven, we concluded that being # 72 in 1st Downs, # 55 in 3rd Down Conversions, # 56 in Total Offense and # 62 at being sacked means we don’t need a new cook – the one we have now is great.

So, why do the vast majority of us have a sour taste in our mouths following 14-12 over the last 2 years with half the team arrested / suspended and not finishing being ranked both of the last 2 years ?

Our recruits are all great. Our stadium is always full. We make the most money. We send the most to the NFL. But, we are 2 wins 11 losses vs teams finishing in the Top 25 over the last three (3) years.

CONCLUSION : The cook is 4-Star. So, why the sour taste from our football program the last 3 years (frankly over the last 5) ? Clearly, 4 of the last 5 – no one can argue. I’m sorry. I follow the logic of our excuses. They do not hold water.

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OK here we go. With fewer running backs to compete they probably did not get as many touches in practices due to Bobo’s philosophy to give the numerous WR’s and TE’s and opportunity to make catches in practice. Does that mean the OL had to practice more on pass protection than run protection…Realizing that the FB probably spent 95% blocking at practice an possibly the RB’s also had to spend a lot of time pass blocking. Is it possible the running game was neglected even in practice sessions?

Everyone is talking about all this competition for running backs what about the competition for QB. Seems like in my memory, especially Stafford claimed entitlement. Richt gave entitlement to Green, Shockley, Stafford, Cox, and now Murray… If Crowell comes to UGA, unless he is as good as Lattimore or Jackson, Walker or Herst he should not be a starter immediately if so I doubt that the others will compete at all. Right now we need desparately to find a good FB and Backup.

Ealey, King, Thomas and the Red Shirt Freshman are what we have. Is the TE turned FB the only FB we have?

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Brown needs to be our running backs coach. At least he played the possition….really well…I hope he is never asked to coach the receivers.

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Ealey was in top shape this year, got 6.6 a carry in the 4th quarter.

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Thomas Brown went 8 td’s to 4, to 1, his freshman through junior seasons. Bown’s per carry average dropped from 5.1 to 5.0 to 4.1 his fresh through junior season. He got worse 3 years in a row.

Ealey went from 4 td’s his freshman season, to 11 his sophmore season.

Brown needs to learn a few things from Ealey.

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Guys, Washaun Ealey had more td’s in 1 game against Kentucky his Sophmore season, than Thomas Brown had in 2 seasons as a fresh and soph.

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Don’t kid youraelf, Murray had 8 fumbles and 8 interceptions, Ealey had 2. You tell me who cost Georgia the season.

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Murray only scored 4 td’s in 2010 against ranked teams and gave up 12 sacks in those games, and his longest pass in those games was for 18 yards.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/player/splits?playerId=480210

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Why does a team need both an offensive coordinator AND a running game coordinator? One too many women in the kitchen. No wonder there was friction between Searles and Bobo.

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The thing that would help our running game as I see it is to utilize the Fullback more. If you go back to thinking about the talent we have had at Fullback. All the way back to Pulpwood, JT Wall, Hayes, Thomas etc. We had Chapas which I consider a great FB but we didn’t use him. Even Donnan used the FB as a lead blocker. We have that one delayed draw that we use and like the blogger above said it takes too long to get him to the line of scrimmage.

If we use the FB we could use play action more. The main reason to hit the Linebackers in the mouth as the Tailback comes thru the line. We are top predictible with our play calling. We need to put two backs in the backfield and play smash mouth.

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From the Austin, Tx “Statesman”…
“….In 2010, Georgia finished the season ranked 30th in the nation in scoring offense with an average of 32.1 ppg. In 2009, Georgia completed an 8-5 season with a win over Texas A&M in the Independence Bowl. The Bulldogs averaged 161.0 rushing yards per game and ranked sixth in the nation in fewest sacks. In 2008, Searels took a line that featured three freshman starters, and the unit ranked among the best in the nation fewest sacks allowed, giving up just 17 (21st NCAA). The offense also ranked 22nd in total offense (426.0 ypg), 29th in scoring offense (31.5 ppg) and 16th in passing offense (277.7 ypg). In 2008, Searels was faced with starting three freshmen, whom he helped tutor into Freshman All-America honors in 2007. The Bulldogs completed an 11-2 campaign that ended in a Sugar Bowl win over Hawaii and a final ranking of No. 2/3. During his time, at LSU the Tigers won a National Championship and a SEC Championship (2003), and two SEC West titles (2003 and 2005), while compiling a 44-8 record. LSU’s offensive unit in 2006 finished first in the SEC in total offense (417.5 ypg/11th NCAA) and scoring offense (33.7 ppg/ninth NCAA), second in rushing offense (165.8/31st NCAA) and third in passing offense (251.7/18th NCAA) and fewest sacks allowed (19/24th NCAA)….”

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What’s wrong with UGA football ? It has to be one of three things: insufficient talent, the wrong player attitudes (behavior, disposition, enthusiasm, whatever you want to call it) or sub-par coaching. Since the first two are a function of coaching (the coaches evaluate and recruit the talent and the coaches mentor the athletes), it all boils down to ONE thing: coaching. Coaching hasn’t changed lately, so look forward to more of the same.

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BOWEASIL,
My feeling is you would always lose and have lost quite a bit in your life already. Must be tough being you and sour all the time. Where exactly do you call home anyway. I think you would do better to keep your comments to yourself, since they only take up space, that intelligent people could use. I am sure I am not alone in these sentiments.

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OLD COACH,

The way he comments I would almost be willing to bet he is a Tech, Bama, or Auburn fan. As much negativity as he spouts, and his lack of original comment, points to that. Bet he could have fun going to another teams website and complaining about their team and not lose a bit. I try real hard to refrain from even commenting on another persons blogging, but I think it shows a real lack of charactor if you can not even own up to who you really are. If UGA has a resepctable showing this year, and I highly suspect they will, he will only find something else negative to write, since I believe he is very unhappy in his own personal life. It is ok to have opinions, if you think you have solutions. If all you exist for is to negatviely comment on others opinions, you need to get a life.

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I seriously doubt that even if Herschel was in the back field he would have been able to do much. Our O-Line gone whipped up front on just about every snap of the ball. I look forward to a new S&C coach and Thomas back there whipping these guys into shape. We have to win the battle in the trenches to be succesful, period. That means on defensive side of the ball as well.
What’s the latest news on that Jenkins kid coming out of Juco? We need him more than Crowell!

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LAKE OCONEE DAWG: Quit yelling. Nobody likes the guy who types in all caps. You’ve got some decent points, but just the fact you can’t type with proper captialization makes me disagree with you.

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DIT,
The last thing I heard was he was on an official visit this weekend to UGA. Sure hope we get him because he is already trained at the position and I am sure he will sufficient time to catch on to the defensive scheme UGA uses. As for the offensive line. I still believe a lot of their problems will be cured by the new S and C coach. Probably will not hurt either that Murray will have had this year as experience and will make his decisions a little quicker and get rid of it a little quicker. Opening some holes for a quick back to get through might be real nice also. I believe that our O line will be ok, like I said, when they get in good physical shape. It is up to the new line coach and offensive coordinator to utilize them more effectively also, and play to their weakness’ if they need to.

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“…negativity…”?

Since when did giving statistics become negativity?

You boys just keep your heads up Mark Richt and Co’s butt and see what our football program looks like when you pull out after ‘11.

I just can’t figure out why you guys keep spouting the “winning %, SEC titles,” etc, etc.

Have y’all been asleep the past 3 years? Tons and tons of talent (You want proof? Look at NFL rosters and drafts) and not even contending for the SEC East.

1-8 record vs UF.

Winning one game vs a favored opponent.

Losing to a Colorado so pathetic, they lost 7 games in a row AFTER defeating UGA and fired their coach before the season was over.

40+ player arrests.

But Richt’s butt must taste really good the way you guys smooch it.

BoWeevil cares.

I care.

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@woebegong

Sounds good. Let’s hope that CMR can bag Jenkins this weekend!

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Smoke em if ya got there Eldridge!

Walker is a college football legend and most believe the best RB ever to comer out of college. Funny, I don’t hear Ealy’s name in any conversation like that?

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Comparing Ealey and Lattimore??? Are you nuts?? Ealey played in either A or AA. Lattimore played against the best in the highest classification. There is a BIG difference!!!!

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Ealey got 11 td’s on only 150 carries.

Considering Ealey jumped from 4 td’s in 2009, to 11 in 2010, a jump from 11 to 15 in 2011 seems modest.

I expect Ealey to get 30 carries a game this year, and basically over 14 games, that’s 420 touches, keep averaging a td every 14 carries, like he did in 2010, and Ealey scores 30 in 2011, and breaks Herschel Walker’s record in his 3rd year, just like Herschel got 49 td’s in 3 years.

Then Ealey goes Pro and Crowell takes over.

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Emmit Smith is a better comparison to Ealey, but Smith’s not in Ealey’s league either, Smith only scored 107 td’s in highs chool, Ealey scored 133.

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Herschel got 300 carries a season, Ealey only gets 150.

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Richt claims to be a student of the game of football. Fine. Over the last 3 or 4 years, UGA has been in a deep slide toward the very bottom of the SEC. Even to most UGA haters, that level is unusual even for UGA. For about 15+ years UGA was an Outback Bowl or Cap One Bowl or sometimes Sugar Bowl bound team, even in the “down years.” Not lately.

Now, with AD McGarity, we are “opening things up” for Rict to study the game ………..again. Really?

My issue is, if Richt is a student of the game, when did he put his book down? Why has it taken radio sports talk shows and TV talk shows and blogs, and McGarity and the horrific two year SEC w/l record for him ( McGairty ) to make changes and had McGarity not come in to UGA, (Thank you Damon for your daliances) maybe we would still be rolling along with CMW and Van Halanger and Stacey Searels and etc.

If the squad does not win 10 and make a very fine effort to be in the Dome as East Champion, then it will be over. Period. A bowl trip to Tampa at 9-3 would not do it ……….. this time.

Time will tell and it starts with the G Day game and then ……………..summertime and it had better be quiet in Athens. Shhhhhhhhhh!

Boise State and SC and MSU and UT will be the markers of the 2011 season.

Go Dogs.

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Eldridge, Ealey can’t stay un-suspended long enough or hold on to the football enough to get that many carries. Bring on Boo!

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@ Hey Eldridge: isn’t in funny the up and coming RS Fr. RB had no off-filed incidents and is high in the coaches’ opinions of what the RBs should be doing and is supposed to be a more physical back than what we have now. I’m excited about the return of #24 between the hedges.

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i’d prefer to compare Ealey to Emmit Smith, Walker simply isn’t in Ealey’s league.

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“Walker simply isn’t in Ealey’s league” ??? seriously? Have you started happy hour early?

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Georgia needed Buck Belue for Herschel to get those records. Belue could stretch the field. opening up the running lanes.

ealey has murray. not exactly a fair comparison.

ealey needs to get 25 carries a game, and he needs his Buck Belue, don’t know if that’s Mason or Lemay or Gray or Marshall, but Georgia has to fins a QB who can accurately get the ball down the field against great teams.

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The Oline and the RB’s are both the problems. The RB’s don’t break tackle, and really they don’t even look like they try to break tackles most the time. However, when the defense is in the backfield every time UGA tries to run the ball it does make it very hard to run the ball good. That was the great thing about knowshon, he would always break 1 or 2 tackles and make 1 or 2 guys miss (usually atleast one of those guys was before he passed the line of scrimmage).

I can’t blame bobo for abandoning the running game, it was nonexistant. UGA had probably the best freshman qb in UGA history and in my opinion the best group of receivers since richt has been there. I wanted them to pass the ball more. There was a lot of games at the start of the season where bobo ran the ball on first down regardless of how the running game was doing, this did hurt the running game, not to mention the score.

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GirliePups:

No Guts, No Glory. But in your defense, though none is due, Nobody told you that you might have to be the toughest RB on the roster to get the carries. You just had to show up for Sunday School…
SEC Football requires all girliemen, girliecoaches, and girliefans to stay home, play it safe & stupid. Let SC, UF, and all programs willing to man up, continue to abuse our girlie fannies in front of 90K fans not impresses by gimmicks, blackouts, and arrest reports. Fire Coach Now. Today

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Murray has 5 td’s against ranked teams.

Newton and Mallett both had 14.

That’s what’s been missing in the Dogs.

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Brown???? really??? Hmmmm…Was thinking along the lines of Herschel Walker…

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The running game needs to find a new QB who can score against ranked teams. 4 or 5 td’s a year, won’t cut it.

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Don’t know what Brown can teach Ealey, Brown got 6 td’s a year av at Georgia, Ealey got 11 in 2010. Brown got about 5 a tote, Ealey’s at 5 1/2 a tote. I think Ealey needs to be coaching Brown.

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My stars people, Mark Richt better soon find a new Quarterback who can beat the good teams, he cant be starting no 0-6 guys at QB, need somebody who can beat the big boys. Lemay ain’t scared of nobody. His strengths are poise and leadership. Georgia’s in good hands with Lemay, as long as Georgia benches Murray, sorry folks, beating Vanderbilt isn’t good enough, you need a guy who can beat Florida and South Carolina.

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Westside Ricky………..what qb do you know can beat any SEC team with a defense as bad as UGA has? I don’t care if Peyton Manning was at UGA this season they still would’ve lost games. We simply had NO defense. This isn’t the Pac 10 or ACC where you win titles without defense.

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You need a QB who can win it down the field to help run game, and beat some good teams, no Florida fans, Murray won’t be back, nice try.

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Westside Ricky, we’re trying to win THIS year. I think we’ll go with the Soph. starter Murray over a true freshman. Lemay will probably redshirt unless he’s needed for an injury emergency or unless he can play wide receiver.

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No Georgia player could make it as a statrer at Alabama!

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Prince of Alabama, everybody is entitled to their own opinion….it’s just that yours is stupid.

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I’d rank the Georgia QB’s, by wins against good teams like so:
1- Green
2- Shockley
3- Stafford
4- Cox
5- Terishinki
6- Murray

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We need an offensive coordinator who has accomplished things somewhere other than UGA. BOBO’s biggest job outside of UGA has been QB coach at Jacksonville State. He’s been in the same place, doing the same thing, holding a job that’s too big for him. Can you imagine a big time program hiring someone with BOBO’s resume or lack thereof? Compare what he’s done with what Weiss has done.

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Murray played great last year, all year, he’s a star. Hope Georgia starts him in 2011.

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Here’s what’s been missing in Dogs.

take the Colorado game.

You got a team that has the #110 worst ranked pass defense in the country, who has only beat teams like Idaho State, and Murray LOSES to Colorado????

Unacceptable.

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bilbo
Your analysis of Bobo is dead on , that’s why some many are criticizing CMR and McGarity when they didn’t at least demote him.
Bobo is all DAWG and was forced into the position by CMR because every successful coach has one or both coordinators with the program for up to 20 years . The defensive and offensive coordinators call all the play’s and will make or break a head coach. So, CMR promoted two very loyal FRIEND’S into the position and neither had the successful background to deserve that kind of blanket confidence that they could do the job. Both were way over their head in ability.
After giving Martinez three years too long he finally was forced to admit Martinez was riding on the VAN GORDER success and did not have what it took to handle a major college’s coordinator job himself.
The problem is CMR doesn’t want to possible lose Bobo. I will be the first one to admit Bobo’s importance when it comes to Quarterback’s and his number one asset , which is RECRUITING. CMR should demote Bobo as offensive coordinator make him Recruiting coordinator and Quarterback coach.
Keep Garner as recruiting coordinator if you are afraid of the BLACK WHITE thing, we will just have two recruiting coordinators.but Garner isn’t getting the job done. He is getting credit for what his coaches are doing. Garner’s handling of the A.J. Johnson recruiting proves he is not doing a good job.

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Our RB’s do not see the cutback lanes they will run up the back of our linemen. Neither back can make something out of nothing. Moreno had some of the best 1 – 3 yard gains i have ever seen making two or three players miss our line was bad then Moreno made them look better than they were. Our backs have no vision or balance and do not run with bad intentions. Ealey is horribly conditioned too. We have a wide receiver coaching our RB’s and a running back coaching our wide receivers what kind of crap is that. Makes no sense to me

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Comical the way Georgia fans try to blame Bobo for Aaron Murray’s struggles.

Bobo coached what, Stafford, Cox, Shokley, Greene, they all consistently beat the teams with winning records.

Murray just chokes.

That’s what’s been missing, a cluth QB, not 0-6 Murray.

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Murray’s like a shorter version of Joe Cox, without the ability to beat good teams.

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Auburn has Newton, Florida has Tebow, a dual threat QB is tough, as Shockley proved.

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Appreciate the comments. My son who is a UGA grad and lives in Nashville, sat next to The K.C. Chiefs scout at the Music City Bowl and the scout stated that if Clint Boling played for Alabama he would have been a top 5 draft pick. Also, the scout stated that current Bulldog linemen take 2 to 3 years to be prepared for the next level. For whatever it’s worth.

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Georgia will not win with King or Ealey. They are both headcases.

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The thing I can’t understand is why Bill and his brother along with the majority of you guys didn’t apply at Michigan when that job was open. Geez you all know so much.

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Georgia will never win with Aaron Murray against a winning team, he’s 0-6, even lost to lowly Colorado.

Bring it on Lemay.

Turn a new leaf.

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Virginia Dog look at the numbers. Thomas Brown was a better running back than Danny Ware. Yes Danny is still in the pro’s but rarely plays. The same for Lumpkin. But all three were a very good set of running backs. As for knownshon, Richt did not need him at the time, he had the other guys. Really..Revisionist history is not needed.

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Why would anyone suggest starting a freshman who did not play HS football this year over a red shirt sophomore who had an excellent year even though the record was 6-7? How can you ever put all the crap that went on this year on the QB. This is the same QB some of you wanted to start over Cox last year and who beat out everyone in the spring for the Starting position. I cannot understand why Richt benches an RB for fumbling and never benches a QB for his mistakes…Different pholosophy for different positions…This creates an entitlement attitude by QB’s and gives no experience for any backup nor gives the starter any competition.

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Georgia coaches are not gonna listen-
Bobo is the sole reason or biggest reason why Georgia ranks low offensively in both SEC and Nationally.
He has a QB’s frame of mind so he likes to pass. The problem is that he lacks “Knowledge” of what to call in certain situations.
CMR you do not EVER promote an inexperienced QB coach to O.C. !!!!!!! EVER. That takes years to climb the ladder. Bobo would start out as QB’s Coach then be promoted to OL Coach or to WR Coach and that would only happen in DIV 2A and several years to accomplish.
You only put a guy like Bobo into the OC position from a team thats been sorry for alot of years and most of the time its temporary until filled or its for a small college.
Bobo has cost us SEC Championships, Rankings, Wins, Early departure Athletes, and Recruiting. Now he will cost you your job after next year.
You have done the same to great recruits with big time potential and played them as small school players on Div 2A schools.
Do anything you want with the program, promise recruits playing time without competition, play more smaller schools so your win/loss record gets better, let players run amock getting drunk and going to jail and be very lax on rules but at the end of the day you will not be winners because Bobo will still be there calling plays that makes no sense at all.
Keep making excuses for keeping him and do this while youre walking out the door telling people bye for the final time.

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DISNEYdawgs.com sitting there squirming in their seats to come up with yet another set of EXCUSES and SPINS, are the major reason why the team feels entitled. Instead, you must demand more than this of them, or you are a Richt Apologist drinking Kool-Aid dragging this # 11 All-Time Football Program into the Ground :

It’s not a talent issue, but coaching and discipline, which has brought us this these last three years :

Lost – to # 21 Central Florida 6-10
Lost – to # 01 Auburn 31-49
Lost – to # 15 Missy State 12-24
Lost – to # 12 Arkansas 24-31
Lost – to # 22 South Carolina 6-17
Won vs. # 13 Georgia tek 30-24
Lost – to # 03 Florida 17-41
Lost – to # 17 LSU 13-20
Won vs. # 24 Michigan State 24-12
Lost – to # 22 Georgia tek 42-45
Lost – to # 01 Florida 10-49
Lost – to # 06 Alabama 30-41

2-10 last 3 years vs teams who finished in AP Poll Top 25

Cease telling the majority of us that we are bringing the program down to not accept this the last 3 years, and you say we have to accept it more than 1 more year.

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Yeah, do you remember Ealey’s two fubles that cost da Dawgs wins this year against SC & Colorado ? He might have been great in high school but he sucks in college. He’s got a bad case of Fumblitis…

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Throwing the ball 7 times to A.J. in a game is like giving Lattimore 10 carries for SC. Or letting Jake Locker throw 10 passes in a game. Just simply retarded.

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I dunno. Maybe its just me but I’d rather have a top high school qb from Georgia instead of Tampa Fl. ? Stafford was from Texas but let’s get a home grown qb that has Georgia running through his veins.

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Hutson Mason is too slow to make it in college. They will not give him reps and therefore he will not develop either. Anyone thinks the NC supposedly phenom will be up to where he should be after not playing his senior year has their head in the sand.

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If not for sharing carries Ealey would’ve posted back to back 1,000 yd. seasons. He’s a good back but Thomas Brown is correct; competition breeds excellence. He needs a little kick in the pants though. It would help if there was conistent run blocking though.

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I guarantee you someone will beat Murray AGAIN over the public Spring games. If I’m wrong, and Murray blows them all away, great, but if I’m right, and Richt ENTITLES Murray again at QB, look for transfers, and another 6-7 season or worse.

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Last spring, Zack M was boozing it up in Valdosta and pinched some gal. He was out of line with the local police when they questioned him and from there it went south for ZM. It should have too. Arrogance is useless.

That incident might have been such a blow to UGA football in 2010 and beyond that we will never know. In the last G Day game, he looked like a NFL QB with touch and distance on his passes. A Murray in the same G Day game looked anxious, nervous and full of tight emotions ………….. in the G Day game. He threw pics too. He could not see over the line.

Think back …………….maybe Murray better portrayed his real style in that G Day game, cause we saw the same bundle of nerves in the MSU game, Florida game, the UCF game and a few others.

Those Batman gloves in the Liberty Bowl for me were the final straw. UGA needs a QB that can play big boy ball. Period. Murray will very likely play 95% of the time this upcoming year but the new UGA coach will bench him.

ZM??? Oh, he since has won the NC for his JUCO team and earned AA honors there and was recruited and has committed to LSU; arguably the best upcoming SEC team.

Murray? He is still 5′9″ and forces the ball to his HS chum Orson Charles for pics or he fumbles. He has yet to win vs any body in college football.

UGA mna, class of 71 & 73

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All of the back and forth here is fun. I enjoy listening to you young men ( kids ) but y’all need to grasp what CHARACTER means. This is missing in WE and CK.

Caleb and Washedout Ealey can run ok, but they are average backs. They let their team down so many times. They lack character and personal pride. Real pride, not arrogant strutting HOOD pride. That is bravado and is false and seen thru by all.

CHARACTER is the difference maker and that lacking in both will bite them come NFL time. PRO Teams do not want punks and morons, which these two are. Period.

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Ealey, Tavarres King & Mettenberger were all slam dunks as far as production went for earning a starting position.

But others were given snaps, too much ENTITLEMENT goes on right now with Georgia on offense.

Ealey’s 11 td’s to King’s 2, and they’re splitting carries EVENLY? Come on.

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The biggest change that CMR needs to make is to stop recruiting the low-class illiterates and thugs who he seems to think will win for him and keep his oversized paychecks coming in. People like Marcus Dowtin, A.J. Green, Washaun Ealey, Caleb King, and others too numerous to mention are not team players, they’re thug wannabes who are much closer to a gang than a team.

It’s sickening to see felons and goons like these representing the state’s flagship university.

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The OLine is not always the problem. They may be opening some holes but our backs are not good enough or quick enough to find them. We need better backs

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The O-Line did a good enough job blocking for Ealey & King, both got over 5 yards a carry. Thomas and Murray just wern’t productive, had wasted carries.

But Bobo calls less running plays than almost anyone in the SEC. Only 35 per game.

Georgia is ranked 9th in running attempts per game.
35 run plays a game.

Ealey got 13 runs (37%) a game at 5.2 yards a carry, 11 td’s
Caleb King got 6 carries (16% a game) at 5.5 ypc, 2 td’s
Thomas got 6 carries (16%) at 4.2 ypc, 2 td’s
Murray got 7 carries (16%) a game, 1.9 ypc, 4 td’s

Bobo rotating guys, cost Georgia 13 rushing td’s. Had Ealey got all 35 carries a game, since he scored a td every 14 carries, Ealey would have scored 32 td’s. As Bobo did it, the above 4 scored 19 rushing td’s.

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There were a lot of things for the dawgs to celebrate this year. Let’s see…

1. A drunken, whoring athletic director with red panties in his lap.

2. Twelve players arrested. And 41% of UGA football players are arrested during their time at UGA.

3. A player suspended for violating NCAA rules.

4. Winning the Fulmer Cup for the most players arrested.

5. Winning the title of #1 party school (i.e., the most drunken student body in the USA).

6. A sleazy assistant coach who razzes opposing players, unethical coaching conduct in violation of NCAA rules.

7. A super sleazy head coach who thinks he’s a saint, but recruits thug wannabes, gangbangers, and illiterate morons.

8. A 6-7 record despite having a team full of 4- and 5-star recruits.

That’s really something to be proud of!

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Why doesn’t Bobo let Ealey pass for 6x a game, I mean, he lets Murray run for 6x a game?

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Hopkins, Coach Bobo also called less TOTAL plays than pretty much everybody else in the conference. Surprised that you didn’t catch that when you looked it all up.

As a percentage of plays, he ran the ball 56% of the time, which is exactly what Alabama and SC (and most others) did. So would we conclude that thier OC just didn’t understand what Ingram’s or Lattimore’s TD/Touch capabilities were either?

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Yes, Ealey averages more yards per carry than Herschel Walker, but I don’t like those facts, so I’ll just ingore them.

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If Bobo ranks 9th in number of run calls a game, you think that’s GOOD?

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-the majority of Murray’s run were not “called plays”..in fact I would bet that as a designed QB run, he had 4 all year. The rest were Murray decisions.

-I’m sure you are just pretending to not know Ealey wasn’t actually available for several games. And that was not Coach’ Bobos decision.

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Sounds good to me.

Ealey getting 50% of Murray’s pass calls makes about as much snese as Murray getting 50% of Ealey’s rushing calls.

Bobo is a GENIUS.

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Why is Murray running the ball 7x a game, when he doesn’t even run for 2 yards a try?

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Buddy: When do you get your learners license? How’s the acne lately?

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Ealey does average 5 1/2 yards per carry, Herschel got 5.3. But I don’t believe that when I read it, so it must not be true.

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Listen, let’s see here, Bobo averages 9th in his conference ins running plays per game, yet Altahama thinks that’s AMAZING? Uh, no, 35 rushes a game ain’t enough. 9th in the conference man, get it, 9th?

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Richt’s 40-3 when he gets a 100 yard rusher.

Let’s see here, that’s a 93% winning percentage.

Ok, now, reviewing the Georgia Florida games under Rict, there’s only been 2 wins.

Ok, each win, Georgia got a 100 yard rusher.

Ok, if I’m Coach Bobo, and I want to lose, what one thing can I do to guarantee Georgia loses?

Ok, it’s the Florida game, what 1 thing that has worked 100% of the time for Richt in this match-up do I want to avoid?

Yes, make sure no running back gets 100 yards in one game.

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Trojan,

Thats the most hilliarious crap I have heard on these blogs-Comparing Ealey to Herschel-LMAO-This dude needs help.

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Dude, these cats just playin. They realize Herschel can’t hold candle sticks to Ealey, ealey ran for 138 touchdowns in high school, shoot man, Walker didn’t crack 90. Ya’ll need ot find somebody on Ealey’s zone.

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Anybody noticed, if Ealey or King fumbles, they’re touches get limited after that, but if Murray throws multiple interceptions in one game (UF/UCF), he has no consequences from Bobo? I find that fascinating.

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Anyone noticed Murray stunk it up on G-Day, got outplayed by every other QB, but got the starting position anyways? Fascinating, the way Bobo’s brain works.

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How many dawgturd players arrested this week?

Oh wait, it’s only Monday.

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Look at 1st downs.

Georgia defense ranked 3rd in SEC in 1st downs. Good there. But 12th in SEC on 3rd downs, not good.

Georgia offense ranked 8th in 1st downs, 7th in 3rd down conversion rate.

So, Georgia’s got to get the offense the ball more by:
1- offense converting more 3rd downs
2- offense getting more 1st downs
3- defense better on 3rd downs

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Herschel was the greatest college football player of alltime. No one past or present is even close.

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Caleb King averaged 8 yards a carry on 3rd down, don’t know why Georgia was throwing the ball so much.

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Mike Bobo is going to be fired so ya’ll don’t worry about any of that. Mike Bobo’s inability to call plays is driving me and the rest of the staff nuts. He will be fired as soon as I get back from my missionary trip in Brazil..We’ll see you soon dawg nation.. We are going 12-0 this year.. for sure!!

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Murray is a lot like Joe Cox, size, interceptions, 3rd down percentage, except Murray can’t beat a team with a winning record, only difference. Joe went 8-5, Murray went 6-7.

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No, both were first year starters and both had lousy season, especially Joe Cox Jr.

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When Cox went against teams with bad pass defenses (Ark), he had a field day.

Cox Jr didn’t (Col, SC, Miss St, etc.)

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George Joe Cox was in the system for 4 years, Murray for 1..your really saying that was not in Joe’s favor the extra 3 years in the system? Plus Murray started his first 4 games without his no.1 target you think that might have skewed the stats just a bit?

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That would pretty much cover it.

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Hey George…maybe our 3rd down conversion rate last year was bad because of the play calling on 2nd down.

That stupid draw play on second and long…that every DC knows they are going to see at least 15 times a game…the one that never ever fools anyone…gets blown up to set up a 3rd and even longer.

Also Hunter…that 8 yard average is likely misleading. If he avereraged 8 yards and we were constantly in 3rd and 10+…you are always short at least 2 yards. I know on 3rd down most defenses will defend the first down line…now ours doesn’t but good ones do. All teams would gladly give you 8 when you need more than 8. Right?

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One thing that has been missing is games! The season ended last month so that would explain what is missing from the running game.

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Well at least todays arrest wasn’t one of ours…so we’ve got that going for us.

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Caleb King was not worthy of the scholarship. He was not talented enough to begin with and it has shown. He is from a Christian school that does not play against tough competition

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http://isportsweb.com/2011/01/24/texas-am-to-the-sec/

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Cutting out two-a-days and #1 vs #1 scrimmages last year weakened this team as much as Coach Van Halanger’s health issues did.

With no true venue to compete, we had very little idea who you could count on in the fourth quarter against SEC-level competition and who you could not count on.

Again, we did not use all of our scholarships (only used 80-81 last year) and had fewer players competing for playing time than our competition did.

Also if a player loafs, an assistant coach should be able to use negative motivation tactics as well as positive ones without fear of intervention from the head coach.

If McGarity and Richt have not already fixed these issues, Coach Richt will be coaching somewhere else next year.

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I think it’s a pass 1st offensive philosophy, that doesn’t work in the SEC.

Ealey gets 5.5 ypc over his career, King ain’t far behind that.

1) Too low % of run calls
2) poor 3rd down conversion rate by QB

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Also, Georgia uses the same check down signals at the line from year to year. This isn’t hard for opposing teams to figure out either.

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