Who really won the G-Day game?
Christian LeMay showed a lot of promise on the winning touchdown drive. (Brant Sanderlin / AJC)
When I was a kid and we attended G-Day games, a favorite joke was to ask who won the game and answer, “Georgia.”
Ask me who won Saturday’s G-Day game on a sunny but breezy day in Sanford Stadium, and I’ll answer “the defense.”
Doesn’t matter whether they were wearing red or white jerseys, Todd Grantham’s troops looked surprisingly solid Saturday, despite the fact that most of the first-string secondary wasn’t participating because of injuries.
In the first half especially, the Red and Black team offenses had trouble sustaining drives, as witnessed by the baseball-like halftime score, with the underdog Reds leading 5-3.
And, in fact, the most scintillating player on offense in the intrasquad game was borrowed from the defense: Branden Smith, who had a couple of nice runs and caught two passes, including a beautiful 28-yard scoring play on which he juked cornerback Derek Owens and raced down the sideline.
The defensive player who generated the most chatter, however, was sophomore nose guard Kwame Geathers, the spring defensive MVP, who made such a statement on the field that Grantham has indicated we may wind up seeing him in the game at the same time as incoming JUCO star John Jenkins rather than just backing him up.
Geathers seemed to be having his way with starting center Ben Jones at times Saturday. He was commanding double-blocks, just like you want of a nose in the 3-4 scheme, made four tackles (two for loss) and in general just stopped up the middle, a big change from last year.
Of course, when both sides are Georgia Bulldogs, one aspect of the team looking good means another part of the team didn’t. The offensive line is, of course, still reeling from the loss yet again of Trinton Sturdivant, but the middling showing of the running game and the eight sacks given up by the two teams didn’t exactly fill you with confidence about our OL.
Glass half full or half empty? Geathers looked so good Saturday that I’m voting half full.
Other thoughts and observations from G-Day …
We saw a lot of starters Aaron Murray and Hutson Mason, a good bit of Christian LeMay and, this being G-Day, a surprising amount of playing time for scout teamers Parker Welch and Greg Bingham. Murray looked solid, hardly breaking a sweat, though he did give up a safety on his first play from scrimmage. But the two best offensive drives of the day were the game-opener when Mason led the Reds down the field (before the first of Carlton Thomas’ two fumbles ended it) and the 10-play, 75-yard comeback drive by the Blacks, engineered by LeMay and featuring a nice catch by Orson Charles to set up the 12-yard touchdown run by Ken Malcome. LeMay looked relatively poised, had a really nice fake at one point in the drive and showed a lot of promise. …
As mentioned earlier, the running game was, well, missing for much of the day. Caleb King looked pretty good, what little we saw of him. Thomas had a couple of nice runs, others that, more typically, didn’t go anywhere, and those two fumbles. Malcome, who’s been hampered by injury this spring, also showed some flashes, particularly on his scoring run. Generally, though, the ground game was unimpressive. …
Not surprisingly, Tavarres King and Charles looked like the class of the receiving corps. As for the continuing game of where-in-the-world-is-the-Marlon-Brown-we-expected, the junior did have four catches for 47 yards but also missed badly on what should have been a long completion from Murray. …
Redshirt-freshman defensive back Connor Norman had one of those out-of-nowhere days in the injury-depleted secondary, with his name frequently called out by PA announcer Brook Whitmire. He ended up with five tackles, three pass deflections and a great, reaching interception. If Sanders Commings does indeed move to safety, the rise of Norman in the DB corps could be welcome news. …
Matt Stafford won the halftime QB challenge, as expected. (Brant Sanderlin / AJC)
OTHER NOTES OF INTEREST
Matt Stafford won the halftime quarterback challenge, but since he’s the only one of the four contestants who’s still an active player, it would have been shocking if he hadn’t been the winner. … My old Athens High classmate Andy Johnson was the coach of the winning team in the pre-game letterman flag football contest for the second straight year. Among those former players still showing some juice were Fred Gibson, Garrison Hearst and Kelin Johnson, who showed up late on the field but ended up making a couple of nice catches. … My former Redcoat brother had clued us in that the word was the band will be playing from the west end zone stands this season, as they did last year at G-Day and again on Saturday. A good move that should make them much easier to hear throughout the stadium. … A pre-game announcement on the video screen about the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game said both Georgia and Boise State will wear their home colors in the Georgia Dome. Game exec Gary Stokan told fans he wants to see a lot of us in red, too. Awright, RED-OUT! … Isaiah Crowell wasn’t playing Saturday, but he was easy to spot on the field and signed quite a few autographs over the hedges (as did departing Dog A.J. Green). … We wound up Saturday at Foley Field, where the Diamond Dogs took a 7-2 win over the No. 4-ranked Florida Gators. It was already a good day in Athens, but that was the perfect capper.
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D A DoubleU G
April 16th, 2011
11:46 pm
Great day in the Classic City!! Too bad the dogwoods bloomed so early this year, and they are already gone.
I am stoked that the band is moving to the West End Zone. They sounded great today, and will be an asset when opposing teams are driving down there this fall.
140 days til kickoff!!!!
Go Dawgs!!!
D A DoubleU G
April 16th, 2011
11:48 pm
And Bill,
Did you take advantage of the Butts Mehre expansion Open House??
It was a real treat to Dawg fans. We undoubtedly now have facilities that are rivaled by no one!!
D A DoubleU G
April 16th, 2011
11:56 pm
It also just hit me….
Gary Stokan’s announcement the Dawgs will wear home red in CFA Kickoff should put to rest all the gawd-awful rumors of “Nike Pro-Combat” unis….. Right?!?!?!
Stevo
April 17th, 2011
12:13 am
How’d Ken Malcolme look overall? I’ve been interested to see if he will get playing time. He seems good enough, and big to the point where he can muscle forward if blocking breaks down…
Steve Superior
April 17th, 2011
12:14 am
The offense still stinks. But then again daws smells.
Steve Superior
April 17th, 2011
12:15 am
dawgs smell
Louie Kablooie
April 17th, 2011
12:18 am
Dawgs are in trouble big time on offense. Our O line still cant runblock through a wet paper bag. Bring back Vince!
Kibbler Elf
April 17th, 2011
12:26 am
Ben Jones got waxed all over the field. He is a fudge pud.
Kibbler Elf
April 17th, 2011
12:27 am
oops thats Keebler
Rain
April 17th, 2011
12:32 am
Bill,
Right on, best 3 drives offense of game were first 2 long drives by Hutson Mason, both ended in fumbles (red team should have had 14 points right there) and then Lemay’s go ahead td at the end. Also thought Mason’s go ahead td in the 4th was another nice drive.
I doubt Mason or Lemay will ever start a game at Georgia though, Murray’s in Richt’s special place, Murray and Richt are a lot alike, spiritual, shy, underachievers at QB. So he and Richt really share a deep connection that I don’t think will be borken for 3 more years. Murray’s too short and innacurate to get drafted in the NFL, so he’ll be a UGA a while. Unless Richt gets fired this season, which will happen if he sticks with Murray. Murray doesn’t have AJ or Durham like he did last year, and Murray only won 6 games with those 2 future NFL receivers.
I guess I came away dissapointed again by Aaron Murray. The coaches had hyped him all up with the Spring MVP stuff, I guess I believed the press. He really started out so poorly in the first half, the safety wasn’t a good start, Murray is a slow starter, as we’ve come to know. But he did seem to pick it up in the 3rd quarter, man is he good in the 3rd quarter. Always has been. I also expected Murray to put up 2 or 3 td’s against a depleted secondary pretty easily with his experience. Frankly, without a remarkably athletic play from Branden Smith, Murray would have blanked td’s again like last season.
Kwame was amazing. But I doubt he’ll ever start. Pretty sure Grantham made Jenkins a bunch of promises ot get him to come.
In other words, a typical G-Day under Richt.
Rain
April 17th, 2011
12:35 am
I realy hope I’m wrong about Murray, but if you watch Murray’s 1st half, you’ll see my concerns. You don’t expect that from someone in their 3rd Spring.
Fire Mark Richt
April 17th, 2011
12:36 am
Four months and counting. Can’t get here soon enough. Go Dawgs!
Lets Face it
April 17th, 2011
12:38 am
Our offense still has got big problems. Defense? Who really knows because the offense sucks. Just like last year. This will be Mark Richts farewell tour. The dean of the SEC is toast.
Rainblows
April 17th, 2011
12:41 am
Rain,
You are an idiot an obviously a Tech nerd. Go find your own blog.
Rain
April 17th, 2011
12:42 am
Unfortunatley, I’d have to agree. This has to be the last year of Richt. Too bad, he’s such a terrific guy. But he just can’t figure out a way to run the ball or score enough points.
I was also dissapointed that while Lemay and Mason connected on deep throws, Murray missed each time, although Brown dropped a catchable ball. But as you can see, without AJ there to haul in every pass from Murray, it’s going to force Murray to be precise, and I’m not sure Murray has anythign close to the precision skills sets of Mason & Lemay. Loved that pass form Lemay to White, went for 36 yards, both Mason & Lemay are so poised, it’s such a stark contrast to Murray’s nerves.
Rain
April 17th, 2011
12:49 am
Tech? What are you talking about, I can’t stand Georgia Tech. What specifically did I write that made you think I liked Georgia Tech?
Burma Shave
April 17th, 2011
12:52 am
Defenses tee off
And go for the sack.
Because your best runner
Is a defensive back.
BURMA SHAVE
Burma Shave
April 17th, 2011
1:01 am
Georgia’s offense
So easy to defend.
Because your best players
All play tight end.
BURMA SHAVE
Rain
April 17th, 2011
1:01 am
Almost all of Murray’s yards and his 1 td came at the wrong time in the game. Not in the 1st or 4th quarter when the pressure was it’s highest. So they really don’t mean anything.
As usual for Murray, that’s his thing.
I’ll take Lemay’s 3 completions in the 4th to win the game anyday.
Burma Shave
April 17th, 2011
1:05 am
Nothin’ left now
But hopin’ and wishin’.
Because Georgia’s problems
Are much more than nutrition.
BURMA SHAVE
Burma Shave
April 17th, 2011
1:11 am
A year of frustration
For Georgia’s QBs.
Your receivers were dominated
By scout team DBs.
BURMA SHAVE
Burma Shave
April 17th, 2011
1:17 am
Your offensive line
Are dawgs that can’t hunt.
Got beat up all day.
By a three-man front.
BURMA SHAVE
nuttsache
April 17th, 2011
1:22 am
Rain. You’re as wet as a mop. Give Murray a break you cumulis nimbis. Murray didn’t have AJ for 4 games last season. Also wasn’t Murray the best rated FR QB last season you limp noodle….. Where am I????
Get on the….where am I and why am I here???
Burma Shave
April 17th, 2011
1:24 am
Poor strength and conditioning
Made you weak in the trenches.
So many Georgia players
Sat hurt on the benches.
BURMA SHAVE
Burma Shave
April 17th, 2011
1:29 am
G-Day’s first score
A fumble and safety
Let Georgia fans know
It’s not 1980.
BURMA SHAVE
nuttsache
April 17th, 2011
1:30 am
bURMA sHAVE typing away
late at night, anyway.
he/she/it blogs all day and all night long,
about the dawgs of which he/she/it wishes to belong.
Sam
April 17th, 2011
4:02 am
Rain…Its idiots like you and the rest of the fire Mark Richt crowd that makes Dawg fans look like idiots…I would bet the only football (or any sport) you ever played or coached was on an X-Box or PS3…CMR is a heck of a coach. He’s done more with this program in 10 years than any other UGA coach ever did.
Ssgt Dawg
April 17th, 2011
6:18 am
People always take way too much from these spring games. Especially this year when your entire starting backfield is unchosen , the starting LT’s career is over and the best players are probably not even suited up yet.
Murray will win games for you but the weakest group on the team is by far the receiving core. There is no such thing as replacing AJ he’s a once every 10 years type of player.
O'Leary
April 17th, 2011
7:46 am
I love Georgia Tech. Georgia on the other hand, can’t stand them.
It Ain't Rocket Science
April 17th, 2011
7:49 am
I can’t quite understand the negative comments about Murray that people seem to make on these blogs. Things like, “He lost all 6 games against winning teams”, comes to mind. He is just one player out of 22 on the team, and I think as much as he could, he displayed control of the teams offense last year. Ask the players whom they think gives them the best shot by being a QB and helping the most at the QB position for their team. Surely, you might be a little less nonsupporttive then. He will not be all world this year either but he gives the DAWGS all he has and is a good field general. The offense will be successful, if they control the game clock this year, because I think the defense is going to cause a fair amount of 3 and outs, if the safeties step it up a bit. Murrays stats. were very good last year, even though he got less than stellar perfromance from a lot of the others on offense. Give the kid a chance, and he will be just fine. Mason should be a capable back up and LeMay is good for the 3rd. I do not think CMR will let Murray stay in a game if he becomes rattled or is having a bad day this year. He could pull him for Mason or LeMay if the game situation dictates. I just don’t see that happening too much though. I am sure Murray understands this is well, and will do his level best to perform great. I don’t put too much stock in the G Day performances, as I think they in large part, are mostly for the fans benefits. There is no way to know how any QB will react when the rush is actually full steam ahead and the sacks land you on your back. Murray though has a year of experience already, so he at least knows what to expect. A scrimmage is still not a true test of all the players capabilities.
chs
April 17th, 2011
8:04 am
Burma has no life.
Lives in his basement.
Away from daylight,
his kids, and his wife.
Everywhere else,
He’s a zero.
But, when down in his basement…
…and in the recesses of his mind…
He thinks himself to be quite the hero.
JB
April 17th, 2011
8:05 am
YA know, these blogs are generally responded to with some serious buffoonery but the comments by “Rain” and “Burma Shave” have to be some of the all time stupidiest stuff I’ve ever read. “Murray is an underachiever”??? There’s nary a program in the country that wouldn’t take AM. “Lemay will never start a game”? Really?
This is Burma fool acts like what was seen in a Spring game will be exactly what a team will look like in the fall.
You to need to run along and never come back. Just wow!
BTW, I’ve always been all about us doing a “Red out”. But frankly, it should always be that way and not a gimmick but just what we do.
old time dog
April 17th, 2011
8:13 am
D A Double U G…. stoked? red? D A Double U G= retard. Pansies like you ought to support GT instead of the Bulldogs. Get something else going BOY.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
April 17th, 2011
9:17 am
Bill
What about Arthur Lynch come on if we put him out there charles and hopefully 2 others we have a good recieving core
The running game is still a question mark
RMikel58
April 17th, 2011
9:22 am
Branden Smith…….. Does anybody know why he’s isnt starting on Defense? A 5 Star player with a 4.2 speed. CMR has got to start this guy on D otherwise its a waste of talent. You know i cant believe that you people come on here bashing the Dawgs even before the season starts.
Give them a chance- Defense will mature and get better and the Offense has got to see who’s gonna start this year. I wouldnt be suprised if all the negatives are coming from Ga. Tech and Florida Fans here. All you Dawg haters let me ask you a question.
Why are you here? Being a Georgia Fan you dont see me in the Tech or Florida rooms blogging negatives toward those teams and acting childish. I know you have the right to express yourself in any room but the more you bash Georgia, the more foolish you look here.
Children do that sort of thing you know……. trying to get people upset and arguing over nothing. Some of you no matter what has to stir the pot up and get off on creating controversy and i bet youre the same way at work and at home.
Can you not just enjoy watching these kids grow up and being blessed to have an opportunity to play on the college level without chopping them up?
You get out there and play with them and see how difficult it is to compete with better athletes than when you were in highschool and come back and tell me how easy it was.
Dont these kids have enough pressure just growing up and going to a major college without everyone expecting them to be in the college hall of fame. You got grades to keep up, team meetings, scrimmages, practices, family issues and memorizing assignments without listening to people get down on you all the time because theyre not living up to our expectations.
After all this is a game to most and the ones that chastize are the ones who make their kids play through their dreams of what they could not have been in college and not just let them graduate from college with a degree in hand and a lifetime of enjoyment to pursue their own dreams.
Only 3% of all college players ever get to go to Pro’s, so support them, lift them up, stand by them no matter what, and let them grow up and if they fall be there to help pick them up. They will never learn anything if you dont allow them to fail because that gives them better character in the end.
If you wanna bash then go to another room where your team is but dont come here because most of these Georgia Fans have gone through the droughts with the Dawgs and are here to stay.
We dont need to listen to all the negatives from Techies and Gators and/or “Fair Weather Fans” that have nothing in their miserable life but to complain about anything that gets a rise out of others. Remember Misery loves Company and those ppl ought to seek help mentally.
Bulldog59
April 17th, 2011
9:43 am
Good to see walk-on,Connor Norman, getting recognition! I know the family personally, top-notch all the way. All 3 Norman boys are hard workers and great kids!
Macclenny_dawg
April 17th, 2011
9:43 am
Well Grantham beats Bobo in spring game!!! I wonder how many times we say Bobo got us beat again!!! I sure hope Grantham has the defense ready looks like the offense can’t hang on the ball!!! Every rb needs to be made 2 carry the ball everywhere they go and everybody needs 2 try 2 get it from now 2 the season starts!!!
T-Dawg
April 17th, 2011
9:47 am
RMike — word. Gotta not get sucked in to taking it all too seriously. Grill them when they get to the pros, but cut some slack in the meantime. Wonderfully entertaining watching them play.
Eaassyy
April 17th, 2011
9:49 am
When and what channel will the game be re-televised (if at all)??
SOGADOG
April 17th, 2011
10:00 am
Its past time to hire a running backs coach.
BobDawg
April 17th, 2011
10:02 am
I say we load up on the D-side this year and play a 2 tight end offense and win games 20-17 all year long…
tide roll
April 17th, 2011
10:23 am
Your concern over the offensive line is well founded. The starters are competitive, but there’s not enough depth to sustain time consuming drives or ball control. It will be more of the same throwing it all over the place and “taking shots down field.” There’s an arrogance about Richt and Bobo that hurts the Dawgs. They would rather show how they outsmarted the other guy than simply win the game. This is the danger in having former QBs in both the head coach and offensive coordinator roles. They support rather than challenge each others decisions. Richt and Bobo think too much alike. This is why you lack balance on offense.
51WTGW50
April 17th, 2011
10:44 am
Will Bobo be the head coach when Richt doesn’t have a good season. Bobo will make a Great UGA Head Coach. It is time to make him the Coach in Waiting right now.
DawgNation
April 17th, 2011
10:56 am
@tide roll….YAWN!!!!! You are Nothing here. Move along.
Get a life
April 17th, 2011
11:01 am
Some people like Rain, Burma Shave and Roll Tide need to get some friends or a hobby. I will be a die hard Dawg fan until the day I die, and hate Auburn, Bama, and Gators with a passion, but it would never occur to me to go on an opponent’s blog, make comments on an opponent’s blog, and I certainly would never spend one minute composing even one “poem” about an opponent.
1eyedJack
April 17th, 2011
11:16 am
tide roll wrote a new script!!
AltamahaDawg
April 17th, 2011
11:36 am
old time. I thought D A UU G was spot on. Did you actually disagree with something he said?
51WTGW50
April 17th, 2011
11:36 am
1eyedJack
The question is are Richt & Bobo still reading the same old script?
A New Uga needed. A new great Running. A better Defense.
Sounds like the same old Script to me.
AltamahaDawg
April 17th, 2011
11:37 am
Except that I was certain I saw Dogwood petals blowing past the press booth
If the defense...
April 17th, 2011
11:41 am
…was missing a lot of its “starters”, and still looked good, maybe those “starters” are really second team and the coaches are just slow to understand that – and why soes that not surprise me?
And Branden Smith is not starting on defense because, obviously, he cannot play, just like Richard Samuel…
1eyedJack
April 17th, 2011
11:41 am
51WTGW50, had you been paying attention you would know that CMR previously opined that they would not be running any new ball plays, thus not giving Boise anything new on film to prepare for.
Say hey to Andy Johnson
April 17th, 2011
12:32 pm
I was a 5th yr. senior in Fall of 71, when Andy Johnson made his soph. debut at QB. He is one of my all time, all time favorite UGA players. Bill, tell Andy Johnson “hello from a UGA classmate”. He and Jimmy Poulas are two of my favorite Dogs.
Recall the GT game in 71 when Andy drove the Dogs the length of the field and hit Jimmy Shirer for the game winning TD? I loved that drive. He led another long drive two years later, vs Bear Bryant and Alabama, only for them to win it late. Bear said it was one of the best drives he ever saw.
Heck, I recall listening in the GA State Championship game with Athens HS and Johnson vs Valdosta.
Go Dogs.
RabidDawgFan
April 17th, 2011
12:35 pm
Burma Shave must have no life
Little does he know I banged his wife
Rabid Dawg Fan
51WTGW50
April 17th, 2011
12:35 pm
1yeydJack
That is always such a joke. You run plays because they work or then don’t bet Steak or Beenie Wennie dinners on a game plan that is made to FAIL. Richt & Bobo have been at UGA long enough for BSU to have plenty of tape on the plays that will be called in the DOME. It is not like Bobo is some Offensive Guru or something.
RabidDawgFan
April 17th, 2011
12:37 pm
Anyways, the defense was the obvious winner in this game on both teams. But it’s just a scrimmage. When we kick off agianst Boise we’ll have all of our recruits in there raring to go and hopefully everyone will be healthy and ready to go. Our defense looked great out there yesterday and that’s without Boykin, Commings, Hamilton, etc. I think Norman should definately get some playing time this season. He’s a ball-player. I want to see more of him on the field.
51WTGW50
April 17th, 2011
12:39 pm
RabidDawgFan
Same can be said to the Husbands of most UGA coeds that are married. Everybody had a shot at those chicks during their college days. I know your wife I mean Ex-wife very well.
RabidDawgFan
April 17th, 2011
12:40 pm
Is it just me, or does Christian Robinson not make a lot of plays? You can’t convince me that he’s better than Richard Samuel. I think Samuel and Ogletree should be our starting ILBs. Not to say that Robinson doesn’t deserve to play because he does, but is he really a starter? Ogletree will be All-SEC and Samuel has that potential, but will Robinson help us change games? Is he a game changing linebacker? I doubt it. Like Grantham says “Put the best players on the field.” Time to do it Grantham.
SugarHillDawg
April 17th, 2011
12:45 pm
I thought you had to walk it if you talked it. Robinson’s name seldom gets mentioned over the PA during play. Someone else needs to pick up the mantle.
1eyedJack
April 17th, 2011
1:03 pm
Sometimes your job is to ensure that others make the plays.
Dawg4ever
April 17th, 2011
1:58 pm
Christian Robinson was the 5th best linebacker on the team last year. I haven’t seen this motor mouth make a play behind the line of scrimmage since he’s been at UGA. Shows how little depth UGA has on defense if this guy is starting. Watch Geathers blowup the Softass Ben Jones over and over again, and he was in the backfield all day. Wouldn’t get too excited about him yet, every SEC team with a big D.L. dominated jones last year. Jones will get dominated again this year, just like the rest of this terrible O.L. This is the worst O.L UGA has had since they had to start 3 freshmen several years ago. It’s a shame that UGA’s O.L’s have been so pathetic since Richt has been here. You would think that after watching his O.L getting dominated for 10 years that this clown would have figured it out. Games are won and lost in the line of scrimmage, not by throwing the ball all over the field, but this genius and his O.C. have no clue how to win in the SEC. It will be another long season watching this line get manhandled in the SEC, yet Preacherboy will have another one of his classic excuses. The excuse is now obvious, and it is Richt and BooBoo. UGA fans deserve better, and after this season hopefully we want have to watch this clown and his buddies embarrass UGA anymore
dawgfan
April 17th, 2011
2:12 pm
I just don’t get the optimism of some of you folks. I’m sorry. Why would you take a glass half full view of the O-line’s performance in the G-day game? What have they done to deserve the benefit of the doubt? This is the same O-line that had its azz handed to it on a silver platter by the best SEC D-lines for the past three seasons. Is Geathers really that great or was he going against one of the SEC’s worst O-lines? Since past performance is the most reliable predictor of future performance, I’m going with the latter.
Thanks a pad load Chet.
AltamahaDawg
April 17th, 2011
2:24 pm
What harm is there in being optimistic?
Actually, forget all that…….more to the point. Why does it seem to bother you so much if folks prefer to be optimistic? We get it. You are not. Super. You would rather die a thousand deaths. Great. Obviously thats how you deal with your college football experience. But. Is there any reason that do will not allow foks to behave in the manner that they enjoy more? Especially about voluntarily enjoying a sport game? What exactly is your agenda here?
UGA FRIEND
April 17th, 2011
2:51 pm
I predict UGA will go 11-1 or at worst 10-2 in the regular season. Soft schedule against SEC West and
weaker opponents (Florida/Tennessee) in East. I think they will beat Boise State easily and win a close one against SC. The rest of the schedule (yes including Auburn) should be cupcakes
51WTGW50
April 17th, 2011
3:30 pm
Down 5 runs to the Gators in the baseball game.
FRIEND the dawgs will split with USC and UK
Split with Auburn and UT
Lose to the GATORS as usual
Lose to BSU.
St.Petedawg
April 17th, 2011
3:36 pm
I swear some of u people on here are the most pessimistic people that i have ever heard in my life! Damn the offensive line wasn’t that good because they were mixed together! How would the running game get going when the line didn’t have any chemistry? This is just spring practice people. If all u do is down everything they do then find another team to “root” for.
Mobile Dawg
April 17th, 2011
3:46 pm
No harm in being “optimistic”, however it pains me much less to be realistic. I’m looking forward to watching the defense play this year. I believe this will probably be the best we’ve seen since Pollack and company.
The Andy Johnson post brought back some old memories. The bad before the good. I saw him beat my beloved “Red Elephants” of Gainesville High School, coached by the legend “Bobby Gruhn”.
dawgfan
April 17th, 2011
3:48 pm
For the love of God Altamaha, STOP READING MY POSTS. I’m begging you. All you do is whine about them. Why do they BOTHER YOU so much? My agenda? LMAO. Have a beer man. It seems that YOU are the one taking things too seriously around here, not me. I just disagree with those that are optimistic. That’s all. I’m sorry I have an opinion that apparently differs from your own. Please forgive me.
St.Pete, we’ve been hearing that excuse for a while now about how the O-line can’t “gel” because of injuries and blah, blah, blah. Its old and I’m tired of it.
Mobile Dawg
April 17th, 2011
3:54 pm
dawgfan, a buddy of mine building a log cabin long ago taught me a valuable lesson. After viewing his creation “of which he was very proud”, I told him I didn’t care much for log cabins. His response, “if everyone in the world drank Dr. Pepper, Coca Cola wouldn’t be in business.” As Dawg fans we can all agree to disagree at times. After watching Richt’s “coaching performance” the last few years I often wonder out loud why he still has a job.
College Football Spring Scrimmage Notes - 4/17/2011 - Florida State, Georgia, and More
April 17th, 2011
4:05 pm
[...] The Black beat the Red 18-11 in yesterday’s spring game. Though the real winner was likely the defense. [...]
Fire Mark Richt
April 17th, 2011
4:37 pm
Hey numbnuts, quit trying to run each other down and support your teams and their coaches instead. I for one share Altamaha’s enthusiasm. Enough with the pessimism. Go Dawgs!
Pago Pago DAWG
April 17th, 2011
5:06 pm
Yesterday, they only had 25,000 at The Big House. No admission, but they asked for donations for a local kids hospital…..UM raised about $325,000.00.
What did UGA for a local charity yesterday?
AltamahaDawg
April 17th, 2011
5:08 pm
No, I think I will just stick to giving you a hard time about that broken record. How’s that?
AltamahaDawg
April 17th, 2011
5:11 pm
You clearly play it to get personal attention, so why pretend it bothers you when you get it?
Lets Face it
April 17th, 2011
5:32 pm
Enter your comments here
AltamahaDawg
April 17th, 2011
5:37 pm
Mobile, knowing what a good guy you are I can safely say that you didn’t go on and on and on about how much you didn’t like his cabin. You didn’t keep asking him how in the world he could possible like that cabin. You didn’t suggest that him “liking” that cabin somehow was the problem with the plumbing. I am positive that you didn’t suggest that if you insulted his cabin enough, somehow it would be a better cabin. So that example isn’t going to mean anything to the boy.
Bawbie
April 17th, 2011
5:38 pm
FIRE DAVE PERNO!
Lets Face it
April 17th, 2011
5:59 pm
Yeah so much for our baseball team. They stunk it up once again to the Gators today 14 – 7.
51WTGW50
April 17th, 2011
6:08 pm
Why would 3 people drive from Columbus to steal stuff for the UGA players lockers? That sounds odd. I would think they had to know the building would be open for the Faculty thing or they know some of the ball players. Will be interesting to see if they are Carver Columbus fans or students.
It Ain't Rocket Science
April 17th, 2011
6:35 pm
I have read as much information as I possibly can about other teams spring games in the last day or so, and it seems, with very few exceptions, the defenses have been the better part of the game. That’s why I am not all that concerned with how spring games end up score wise, or if the defense dominates the game. We also, as fans, aren’t going to see the full offensive game plan put into play so it is pretty hard to judge the offense in a spring game. The defense is pretty much going to operate except for changes in personnel, much like it does in spring ball. Only the players on defense will change. A 3-4 will still opoerate the same way in the real games as it operates in a spring game.
Willie
April 17th, 2011
6:40 pm
Who won the game?
Lemay. Took the team down for the go-ahead touchdown to get the win.
Poise.
BigDawg
April 17th, 2011
6:49 pm
this Boise game is exactly the oportunity this program has needed for about 2 years
not since the Bama game in 08 has UGA had a nationally important game against a top ten team with big national media and national pre-game hype, a win could potentially be the boost this program desperatly needs
G-Day
The Good: blitz schemes, d-line, good play from 3 different qbs
The Bad: o-line played horribly but imo not as bad as people are making it out to be
The Ugly: recievers played horribly, Charles looks great and King is pretty good, but nobody else looks capable
Destin Dawg
April 17th, 2011
6:53 pm
Mason was a Parade Magazine all American…. great H.S. Stats.. he should have played more last year… if Richt doesn’t give Mason and Lemay chances to play if they out perform Murray… I’ll be the 1st to say.. time for a change
Destin Dawg
April 17th, 2011
6:56 pm
we do need to give dream team recruits.. a chance to play early.. shake ‘em up… play ‘em all play.. ‘em early !! open up the offense… Go Dawgs !!!
Carlton
April 17th, 2011
7:29 pm
“..and the 10-play, 75-yard comeback drive by the Blacks, engineered by LeMay and featuring a nice catch by Orson Charles to set up the 12-yard touchdown run by Ken Malcome.”
Bit of a Freudian slip there Bill?
trupert
April 17th, 2011
7:36 pm
I hope and think most of these negative comments are from worried Alabama fans, Auburn fans and Tech fans that don’t want to see their teams get beat by Ga again.
The offensive line was devided between two teams and the offense is always behind the defense in the early going. Ga will be much improved on defense and the offense will again put up 300yds passing a game and 30+ points a game against many teams. The special teams are special and it will be a great year to be a Bull Dawg.
OldDawg55
April 17th, 2011
7:47 pm
Hey, “Rain”…why don’t you get an early start at season tickets at U.S.C., or Clemson…maybe even Georgia State. We don’t need your negativity in the Dawg Nation. You whine like a little puppy but really don’t have good Dawg blood. Your analysis is flawed and nothing shy of a 13-0 season would impress you (You could get impresed this year!!) But all in all, we’d be much better off without your contributions to our football blogs. In short, get lost!!!
James
April 17th, 2011
8:03 pm
Hutson Mason would have won the game if he’d been allowed ot take his team down for the winning drive.
Parker Welch? Geez, what drama. Guess Richt sent the word down to try and get a win for Murray’s confidence.
But pretty sure, if the ball was in Mason’s hand with a 1 minute to go, Mason’s side wins.
Reece
April 17th, 2011
8:09 pm
Murray keeps gathering more stats that don’t matter (non-pressure situations).
Like his big 3rd quarter, take that out, and you got 40 yards, and o td’s.
Murray only scored 5 touchdowns aganst ranked teams.
75% of Murray’s stats are in non pressure situations, on G-Day, and last season.
Reece
April 17th, 2011
8:16 pm
Lemay went 5 for 7 (70% completion) passing in last 2 Spring games, for 2 td’s, including a game winning td to come form behind with less than 90 seconds to go in front of 40,000 fans. Man, the kid’s throwing a touchdown every 3 or 4 passes.
Dawgdown
April 17th, 2011
8:26 pm
The real winners in the G-Day game are Bama and Auburn, whose spring games showed considerably more talent and promise. I HOPE we go undefeated and win a NC next year and every year, but I KNOW that in recent years our expectations have been too high and I see the same cycle starting again already. I don’t blame Richt for the expectations–he’s usually a straight-shooter and realist in predicting outcomes–but regardless, we’re setting ourselves up for another letdown if we believe the numerous excuses, provisos, and explanations for the mediocrity of the spring scrimmage game.
Dawgdown
April 17th, 2011
8:30 pm
Like trupert and others have said, many of the negative comments here are from trolls, and I don’t want to sound too negative myself as a Dawg, I do think we have shown some progress and there were good indications, but our recent seasons and yesterday’s scrimmage game leave me with some concern for the upcoming season. I’d personally rather go in with modest expectaions and be very pleasantly surprised next season.
AltamahaDawg
April 17th, 2011
8:32 pm
Imagine how good he is going to be after redshiirt year. We’re all pulling for LeMay. You and all your alias’ couldn’t give less of a crap about Lemay. Just your next excuse to be a pest.
At least you can actually say you have seen him throw football once in your life, unlike last week when you were pretending to know anything about him.
AltamahaDawg
April 17th, 2011
8:36 pm
Didn’t see Bama’s but the only thing I found remotely interesting about Auburns was that rec-league scoring method. Everybody get’s a trophy for trying.
They looked very average to me. Ark looked as polished as AU.
Dawgdown
April 17th, 2011
8:38 pm
Boise State will tell us much and then Carolina will tell us the rest we need to know about next year’s team. Of course we could start out 0-2 and still end up 10-2, but even then we will see how well we play in those games, and how much improvement we make from the first to second weeks. I’m not going to get too up or too down until then.
Dawgdown
April 17th, 2011
8:40 pm
Altadawg, I agree with you about Lemay. He could be a great spark when we need it, and may well be Murray’s successor.
51WTGW50
April 17th, 2011
8:45 pm
I still don’t see what everybody sees in LeMay. I still think Mason is for real and needs to play. If he doesn’t get at least 15 min. of real game experience by the end of the 3rd game, then he needs to really consider transferring. Hutson Mason is too good to be wasted by Bobo and Richt. Mason could probably go to Clemson or USC and get a real shot at starting.
Dawgdown
April 17th, 2011
8:56 pm
I agree that whoever is number two and three on the depth chart at QB needs to get more playing time and more reps, especially number two. Make the third or fourth possession an almost-automatic series for the backup, to give him some significant, meaningful reps as preparation for the time he will inevitably need it. I sometimes wonder if Bobo is just holding on by the skin of his teeth offensively and game-plan-wise without looking at the big picture. At the very least, backup QBs need to be played in the closing minutes of already-settled contests.
dawg fan
April 17th, 2011
9:03 pm
since they both will be wearing home colors that means they both will definitely be wearing the nike pro combat uniforms… im interested to see what nike will have for us
dawg4651
April 17th, 2011
9:56 pm
No one has stolen from the locker room today. because Auburn players only rob trailer parks. So all lockers are safe.
51WTGW50
April 17th, 2011
10:01 pm
4651
They are looking at people from Columbus. You know where Crowell is from?
Comment -139 days
April 17th, 2011
11:33 pm
Lets be realist. The offense did look pretty poor. However the team was divided up (supposedly draft picks by players) evenly. It is really hard to get a grasp of the team in this format. I think that is what CMR really wanted. He apparently wanted to leave a great deal of opposing coaches and coordinator guessing. Mission Accomplished. However he also left many many UGA fans guessing as well.
The defense is ahead, as expected. The questions surrounding the offense with the losses of Green and Durham are still very high on the priority list of ” Who want to be a Starter?” The summer program is going to be more important than ever. If the guys we hope are going to come in and play actually arrive early, work hard starting in 5 weeks when summer session begins we may move forward in a postive direction. Yet to be determined: The weight on I. Crowell’s shoulders. I know he was a great high school prospect, but we have seen this all too many times before only to see an injury, attitude, or over hype bring us back to earth.
The defense will keep us in games early unti the offense gets a rythmn. We will need them to. Boise St will be a more than adequate test for us. The USC game will be a test of “wills”. Are our younger players “willing” to lay it on the line and become a positive part of our team. All the recruiting buddy buddy stuff is over, now those guys are going to work to protect their jobs just as CMR is doing with his job.
Lets Face it
April 18th, 2011
12:24 am
A lot of Kool Aid drinkers here just cant see it . Our Offense stinks people!!!!!
7576DAWG
April 18th, 2011
4:05 am
LeMay took the red team down in the last few minutes, scored and won the game. That’s pretty impressive. When the game is on the line our QB has got to be able to arise to the occasion and not panic. Murray had a chance in nearly every lose last year to drive down and probably win the game. But he failed every time. You can’t teach that kind of leadership.
After LeMay learns the play book I hope CMR will give him a chance to see if we have one of those rare QB’s who has so much leadership, the more pressure he is under the better he plays..
I like Murray but he has not shown very much leadership at the end of a game when everything is on the line. Hopefully he will do better this year. He also played two inferior teams from Florida last year and lost both games. He has got to get over his phobia about playing a home state team and treat the game like any other game.
AltamahaDawg
April 18th, 2011
7:21 am
Well in all fairness, Murray was expected to do it pretty much single-handedly. In at least 3 of those “didn’t get it done” he DID get it done, but somebody else made critical mistakes. That has nothing to do with leadership. It seems to me that his team has spoken often and early often about what kind of a leader he was. They are the opinion that matter. Not many Freshman have the all the leadership skills they are ever going to have eiterh. Maybe you can’t teach leadership, (although that is debatable) but it is certainly learned, mosty from experience.
It’s also the UGA defense responsibility to not let the other team come down the field an take the lead right back.
He made tons of mistakes, so would Lemay. Both will be fantastic QBs in thier career. BUt lets ot compare an SEC schedule to one series in a controled scrimage.
Nub
April 18th, 2011
8:00 am
3rd and 9 to go….. Let’s run a draw or throw a latteral pass…. Huge concern …. Come on Bobo…. Same kinda play calling will result in more of the same…
Davis
April 18th, 2011
8:07 am
Bobo & Richt don’t have common sense.
Why do you get Greg Bingham & Parker Welch reps?
Should have had Mason in there at the end to give the red team a fair shot, Murray & Lemay vs. Mason & Welch?
Davis
April 18th, 2011
8:10 am
lemay would have made mistakes too? Really? I don’t think so. 5 for 8 passing so far for 2 td’s, and 0 int’s. Including the last minute game winning drive, something Murray’s never done.
Hunkerdown
April 18th, 2011
8:33 am
Stay after them Kwame. Ben you better tighten up a bit.
DawginLex
April 18th, 2011
8:46 am
This team will be ok, not great, but OK.
There is no doubt, the defense will be much better.
I’m not worried about the offense as some on here. Branden Smith looked good and he looks bigger and stronger.
I’m hoping we don’t have to score points like on a video game this year which would mean our defense is stopping folks.
The SEC West appears wide open. Everyone annointing Bama and LSU is not paying attention.
Right now, I give the nod to Arkansas. Their defense is good enough and they have the best QB in Wilson.LSU will be good. so will MSU although they will slip on defense some.
Bama looks horrible at QB. I’m not buying “Oh but they were playing against NFL players”. They are in trouble with either QB in a game where the other team can score-like Arkansas.
My picks:
Arkansas
LSU
MSU
Bama
Auburn
ole Miss
CHDawg
April 18th, 2011
9:36 am
The one thing this blog confirms beyond a doubt: fans are pretty clueless. Even the coaches are are frequently wrong when guessing how well their teams will play. We have every possible piece of advice here, from Murray stinks to Murray is great; Lemay is great, Lemay is a HS kid dressed in a Dawg uniform; our defense is terrible; our defense is great. We should run more; we should pass more. We win the BCS title; we go 7-6. I guess that is what makes it interesting–nobody knows. Time for us to take a break from the expert advice and frustrated rival fans who get satisfaction from trashing Richt and the Dawgs on the AJC blog. Go Dawgs. Looking forward to a great matchup in the Dome in a few months.
PMC
April 18th, 2011
9:40 am
why was anyone watching the starting QB? It’s a spring game. He doesn’t need to be sharp. It’s meaningless. It’s practice. The only really good outcome is no injuries.
The game is huge for guys who never get to play, or guys who are borderline, or back up QB’s trying to solidify backup slotting.
Much like Mettenburger years ago, way too much excitement over backups. It’s a freaking spring game. I was pleased with the way the D line and linebackers looked. The front 7 will hopefully cover for the secondary.
The offense will score plenty of points under Murray. I’m just not sure yet if they’ll be able to run the ball or keep guys off the QB especially from the right side.
It Ain't Rocket Science
April 18th, 2011
10:04 am
I feel somewhat honored to be among so many people who use their crystals balls to predict UGA’s future with so little knowledge about football and especially UGA football. It would take me all day to prove you all wrong by using reasoning and statistics but I guess it is just easier for the most part to ignore your stupid moronic reasoning and just wait until the DAWGS prove you wrong. You all will just keep on posting your dribble and then when UGA proves you wrong, either change your names on these blogs, or go hide rather than admit your reasoning, if it can be called as such, was as far off as it could be.
I hope you support your own team, whatever they may be, and aren’t as negative about them as you are UGA and I suspect, most of the things in your lives. Your comments and negative point of view are probably a reflection of your view about your own life. Somehow it makes you feel better to come onto a sports blog and spout your crap on here.
AltamahaDawg
April 18th, 2011
10:29 am
Of cource not Davis. The college football history book are littered with freshman Qbs who never made mistakes in live games.
SSIgator
April 18th, 2011
10:36 am
“the running game was, well, missing for much of the day”
It was missing all of last year. Why would this game be any different?
Florida Dawg
April 18th, 2011
10:52 am
Those who can coach and play football do. Those who can’t, complain and make unfounded comments on AJC blogs!
GO DAWGS!
Alphare
April 18th, 2011
10:57 am
Dawg fans,
here is some reality check for you guys. Your team is an average SEC team with good talents. Don’t expect a ring if I were you.
Your offense cannot score because your defense is too good? Just wait to see how they will do when they play a real good defense of another SEC team.
DawginLex
April 18th, 2011
11:13 am
SSI
My florida predictions for 2011:
6-6 record
Lose to UT at home
Brantley benched for Murphy
Weis and Muschamp start arguing
Losses to Bama, LSU, UGA, SC and FSU
Foley declares Muschamp hire “questionable”.
Foley allows Muschamp to fire Weis as Muschamp declares “Weis destroys all you can eat buffets and major college football programs equally”.
Foley privately begs Mrs Meyer to let Urban come back.
2012 recruits flee commitments to Florida in droves since the program is perceived to be in shambles.
Ceasar
April 18th, 2011
11:37 am
Glad to hear Redcoat Band is playing Dixie the year. Sanford will rock!!!
Davis
April 18th, 2011
11:59 am
Murray’s offense averaged 18 a game last season against ranekd teams.
Good for 11th in the SEC.
Cannondog1980
April 18th, 2011
12:23 pm
Bill,
I was one of the contestants in the halftime QB Challenge and wanted to see if I could purchase some pics of myself and the QB’s you took. Is it possible to email you?
Thanks
Averyboy
April 18th, 2011
12:23 pm
So…what you’re saying is that THuga’s starting offense coudn’t do anything against the scrubbs on 2nd and 3rd team D??????? Heee heeeee heeee heeee heeeee!!!
DawginLex
April 18th, 2011
12:58 pm
So what is obvious to all of us averyboy is that you are an idiot?
IT WAS NOT 1ST TEAM VERSUS 2ND TEAM MORON.
THERE WAS A DRAFT SO THE TEAMS COULD BE DIVIDED EQUALLY.
IDIOT.
AltamahaDawg
April 18th, 2011
2:29 pm
You know the SEC conference standing for points against specifically ranked teams last year? Ah the weekend troll sessions at the freshman dorm. Had your little charts out. Ummm. Better than cosplay.
I would ask if anyone even blinked when noticing that GaTech was not one of those winning teams on Georgia’s schedule, but that never really seems to matter to you guys does it?
Better Dawgs!
April 18th, 2011
2:31 pm
D- is going to rock this year. For the UGA haters; you keep trying to figure what shampoo to eat with your salad.
ugaclassof2004
April 18th, 2011
3:31 pm
The best thing that can happen to this program( and most of you are REALLY going to hate this): finish 5-7 with a loss to Tech, with Richt getting let go. Hitting rock bottom will force McGarity to replace Richt, which will make him unpopular with 70% of the Bulldog fanbase. But at least with Richt gone, the program will be able to move in the right direction instead of staying in neutral like it is now.
The WORST thing that can happen to this program?: UGA finishes 8-5 or 9-4 this season. This will mean that all the Richt supporters will say ” See I told you so!!! Richt will right the ship”, which of course means that UGA will go 7-5 or 6-6 in subsequent season as the program further plunges into mediocrity.
I’m not sure I can deal with 3-4 more years of 7-5 or 6-6.
Ogeechee Dawg
April 18th, 2011
4:12 pm
Hoping for a great year – but to be honest – we were a bad team last year – and our O-LINE has tons of work just to be mediocre.
AltamahaDawg
April 18th, 2011
4:28 pm
Of cource a better thing for the program is to win a lot of games now, and in the future. I think most folks prefer that.
Barack Dawg
April 18th, 2011
5:42 pm
Loving my Dawgs and hating on Tech
kicking the ass of the rambling wreck
hanging around and doing the wave
kiss Georgia’s ass Burma shave
truedawg
April 18th, 2011
5:50 pm
hope the o line gets better, if not a long year. But if it’s better i can see big things for this team. I still wanna see how the players look in the 4TH , see if the conditioning is better.
Nate the Great
April 18th, 2011
6:00 pm
@ugaclassof2004: I was here through the Goff years and I’m still a fan. You would be suprised how long you can cheer for a losing team and hate everything about the coaching staff, but still support the boys that suit up every Saturday.
I love CMR, but I feel as though this is his last year at the helm. Our oline IS terrible and they will cost us 5 games minimum. Not RBs fumbling or QBs throwing INTs, but missed assignments on the oline and/or just simply getting over powered will be our down fall. IF these guys can get it together, be a single unit, and impose their will on the other team, then its a 10+ win season easy. We all know games are won and lost in the trenches, and this group looks like they will lose us more games than they win for us.
One last thing, the oline WILL have their way with Boise State, but after that it looks shakey at best.
AltamahaDawg
April 18th, 2011
6:18 pm
I wasnt sold on the O-line last year. Said so. Had hoped they would be better of cource, but never a big fan of Searles. We seem to ahve betetr talent, thna results on that line last 2 years. Though to be fair they probably took more than thier fair share of the blame. Rbs have not been exactly the easiest to block for either. freshman QB calling the plays doesnt help either.
Wjat we do NOt know now, is what kind of a job Will Friend is doing. I caught something on the SCC replay that Richt said that sort of got glossed over. That he really liked what he had done “already” in developing a cohesiveness. Interesting that it was worth ementioning that specifically. Just sounded to me like it was the unspoken “as opposed to the past”.
We will also see if the new conditioing has some noticable effect.
can’t tell a darn thing from teh G-day game, most of the starters were blocking for back-ups holding the ball too long, and still hanging in their pretty well. Black team had all subs, some very newly at thier postions, or back from injuries. I think if everybody was on one unit, they have the numbers.
We’ll see. they will NOT be worse. The defense WILL be very much improved.
Delbert D.
April 18th, 2011
7:36 pm
Okay, so the Red team was the home team and wore the red jerseys. The Black team wore the visitors’ white jerseys. What happens next year when the Black team is the home team?
One thing that is most unreal about spring games is that there is nobody to boo, and no fights in the stands. I guess that is two things.
I really wish it were August instead of April…
AltamahaDawg
April 18th, 2011
8:12 pm
That was bad typing even for me.
AltamahaDawg
April 19th, 2011
7:05 am
I’m guessing a tech man found that huge crowd at a football venue kind of unreal?
Diablo
April 19th, 2011
8:27 am
Now that we’re in the off-season, wouldn’t this be the perfect time to take an in-depth look at UGA and have a serious discussion about the problems at UGA and why the arrest rate of players is the highest in the country? it’s common knowledge that UGA is a party school, but have any dawgtard players every actually graduated with a real degree? Jan Kemp exposed the school and the coaches almost three decades ago, but there is no sign that anything has improved; if anything, the arrest rate shows that things are getting more outrageous every year while the clueless Mark Richt has absolutely no control over his players. And then there is the infamous “red panties” incident that will haunt UGA for decades.
UGA has become a major embarrassment to all Georgians, and we want some answers starting now.
Beatdown City
April 19th, 2011
8:29 am
Boise State 57, Athens Correctional Institute 10.
Let the beatdown begin!
Saint Jan
April 19th, 2011
8:48 am
I wonder if any of the books about UGA football include the perspective of someone speaking for the late Jan Kemp? The perspective that “student” athletes like Lindsay Scott were playing years without taking college level courses? That the proudest moment of the football program was earned by players who never earned a single college credit?
Dawgtards love to return to 1980, but their memories are really short when it comes to remembering an earthshaking event that happened a few years later that showed the world what a joke UGA athletes were and what a scam artist their beloved Vince Dooley was (and is). So for all those dawgtards with short memories or who think their athletes are actually taking real courses and trying to graduate, here’s the quote that broke the trial wide open and showed what a slimeball Dooley is:
O. Hale Almand Jr., a lawyer for the defense, 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.”
Nothing has changed at UGA, they just do a slightly better job of keeping things quiet, but that’s hard to do when 45 of your player-thugs have been arrested, isn’t it?
UGA: WINNER OF THE FULMER CUP AND THE CESSPOOL OF THE SOUTH.
DawginLex
April 19th, 2011
8:49 am
Diablo here is an answer for you:
SHUTUP OR I WILL PERSONALLY SHUT YOU UP
DawginLex
April 19th, 2011
8:50 am
same for you saint jan. And get some new material;
Dawgtards?
Cesspool?
It is real old stuff. Even the TROLLS complain
Snoop Dawg
April 19th, 2011
9:35 am
Hey Doggs, sounds like this Deion Bonner kid will be a good fit at Auburn…
It Ain't Rocket Science
April 19th, 2011
10:03 am
Avery,
Heee Heeee Heee. You sound like a sissy. Is that the best you can do? Another SNERT makes his prescense know on a big peoples blog.
Diablo,
The embarassment to the state of Georgia is people like you. You haven’t got a clue but you act as if you are an expert on all things UGA and the state of Georgia. You are the problem and not the solution.
And finally there is saint jan with complaining about events that are 30 years old whom I suspect is a Techie ball fan that can not even come up with anything original to say on a blog. “CESSPOOL OF THE SOUTH”. If that were indeed true, I suspect that you would have been the first thing that was flushed into that cesspool.
See how easy it is to make all of the childish comments you see on these blogs. I think there are a lot of you that post crap on these blogs that need to mature a little bit. You actually only make yourself look stupid with your continual negative crap. People reading this stuff from other schools and regions, must have a high opinion of Georgians based on your childish petty crap you repeat time in and again. How many of you people would have the guts to say the same thing to those players and coaches to their faces? Not one of you would and that is the truth. Best you just keep your mouth shut if you have nothing to say good about somebody or some school. Better to be trhought a fool than to open your mouth, or in this case, your keyboard and confirm the fact.
John
April 20th, 2011
7:50 pm
Burma Shave…UGA recruited Cam Newton to play tight-end, and Joe Cox to play QB, that shows you how smart UGA coaches are.
John
April 20th, 2011
7:54 pm
G-day game was the same, CMR doesn’t like his 1st team offense to go up against the 1st team defense…it might hurt Murray’s confidence. CMR lied when he said every position would be open, it’s obvious that no starters lost their position and no 2nd teamers had a chance because they were all on the black team with walkons and scout teamers.
Kim Stafford
April 21st, 2011
12:49 pm
I love my Dawgs! I always read this blog…and when I’ve had my fill of sports I read Twenty-First Tycoon. It’s an awesome site and it’s based out of Georgia…which is better than supporting some stupid New Yorker!