Shaking up Dawgs’ football schedule a great idea
With the release Wednesday via Sicemdawgs.com of Georgia’s tentative football schedules for 2013 and 2014, it looks like we’re starting to see Greg McGarity’s influence, and he isn’t afraid to shake things up.
Both schedules feature two open dates (though, unfortunately, neither is the week before the Florida game) and the nonconference games are spread throughout the season (both seasons open with the latest home-and-home with Clemson). The Dogs do have an open date before Georgia Tech in 2013, and they tune up for the Jackets the next year with Charleston Southern.
But the most noticeable change is that South Carolina no longer occupies the traditional (since 1991) spot as the Dogs’ SEC season-opener, with a trip to Vanderbilt (!) being the first conference game in 2013 and the Dogs opening the SEC wars on the road against Arkansas the next year.
The 2013 plan is a bit unusual in that the Dawgs are on the road for the first two games, but overall it’s a very attractive home schedule: at Clemson (Aug. 31), at Vandy (Sept. 7), South Carolina (Sept. 14), North Texas (Sept. 21), at LSU (Sept. 28), at Tennessee (Oct. 5), Alabama (Oct. 12), Kentucky (Oct. 26), Florida in Jacksonville (Nov. 2), Appalachian State (Nov. 9), Auburn (Nov. 16), at Georgia Tech (Nov. 30).
In 2014, it goes like this: Clemson (Aug. 30), at Arkansas (Sept. 6), at South Carolina (Sept. 13), Vandy (Sept. 27), Tennessee (Oct. 4), LSU (Oct. 11), at Kentucky (Oct. 25), Florida in Jacksonville (Nov. 1), South Alabama (Oct. 8), at Auburn (Nov. 15), Charleston Southern (Nov. 22), Georgia Tech (Nov. 20).
I don’t know about you, but I like mixing the schedule up a bit. I’m as big a traditionalist as you’ll find, but aside from the Jacksonville game being in the vicinity of Halloween and the Dogs closing with rivals Auburn and Tech I don’t see any reason for Georgia to be locked into playing the same teams at the same point in the schedule each year. And I particularly like having the less challenging games sprinkled throughout the schedule instead of all bunched up in the first few weeks like it used to be.
What do you think of this scheduling approach?
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108 comments Add your comment
JYD
July 21st, 2011
10:49 am
GATA
Cobb Dawg
July 21st, 2011
10:52 am
Don’t think the order of the games matters all that much. But the skeds definitely look tougher in both of those years.
Frank Lane
July 21st, 2011
10:53 am
Agree. Better.
UGA Alum
July 21st, 2011
10:56 am
Love it!
Troll Power Ratings
July 21st, 2011
10:58 am
Win this year.
Klinger
July 21st, 2011
10:59 am
How long is Greg McGarity’s contract? I’m not sure McGarity will be around to watch these games if the team keeps losing so many games. I still can’t figure out why McGarity scheduled Boise State for the opener, and opted to keep the Florida game in Jacksonville instead of rotating to Athens. McGarity is lost 4 years down the road, instead of focusing on what he can do today to help get this team back to winning football games.
Newman
July 21st, 2011
11:02 am
Greg McGarity is the best thing to happen to UGA athletics since Herschel Walker.
Delbert D.
July 21st, 2011
11:03 am
McGarity’s stated plan for scheduling when he gave his first press conference was to not schedule out of conference home-and-home games. Did alums talk him into the Clemson games? I think they are great for the fans.
JB
July 21st, 2011
11:04 am
I wish we could move the South Carolina game to like 8th in the year. They ALWAYS fold like a cheap beach chair at years end, but play pretty good the first 3 or 4 weeks. Kentucky clobbered them late last year.
JAWJeRDAWG
July 21st, 2011
11:05 am
Need an open week each year before the FLA game. Definitely an advantage for the Gators when they do and we don’t, and they usually have one. .. Go Dawgs!
JB
July 21st, 2011
11:07 am
Florida on the way back to being Charlie Pell like.
Vance Duly
July 21st, 2011
11:10 am
Give us a patsy in for the season opener (so that suspensions for idiotic behavior can be served, etc.) and an open date before Florida, and that’s all I would need. Clemson could be a dangerous opening game……. Gotta look out for North Texas’ long snapper, though!
Kevin
July 21st, 2011
11:18 am
The Clemson home-and-home series was scheduled by Damon Evans back in 2005.
UGADawg83
July 21st, 2011
11:23 am
At least we’re not flying out west to play a mid-tier team in order to expand our brand. Maybe that was just Damon’s way of expanding his pantie collection.
11Dawg
July 21st, 2011
11:25 am
I don’t understand the bye week placement at all. In 2013, we have LSU, Tennessee, and Alabama all in a row, then a bye week before a home game against Kentucky. In 2014, they come before Vanderbilt and Kentucky! In what universe does that make sense?
onegadawg
July 21st, 2011
11:25 am
UGA should never play Clemson. There is nothing to gain for UGA sho already plays the other South Carolina school. UGA only gets one or two recruits out of SC each year. Clemson and SC get 10 – 20 recruits per year out of GA. Clemson needs the game but UGA does not.
" HOT " seat
July 21st, 2011
11:26 am
Coach Richt,
Please don’t run off Richard Samuel,
he is the only decent experienced running back left on the roster.
jesus gave it all....mark richt....not so much
July 21st, 2011
11:29 am
the “load em up front” schedule was adopted by ray goof so that he could be 4-0 before he played UT. I like keeping Clemson permanent. We used to play Clemson and South Carolina back to back. but then again….we used to have a hard nose, tough, leave it all on the field football program……
jasont13
July 21st, 2011
11:30 am
You all must not understand how football schedules are put together. The SEC gives you select dates to take your bye week. Also, the out of conference games are scheduled years in advance and are contractual. In order to get out of these games there is usually a buyout agreement.
JB
July 21st, 2011
11:31 am
Samuels will be known by ALL SEC followers by mid season. He has matured greatly in two years since he played RB….and At 6′2” and 240 with 4.5 speed. look out. He also has been preparing his body for LB the last 12 months. Have mercy on any DB trying to bring him down.
sogadog
July 21st, 2011
11:37 am
If Florida takes an open date the weekend before the Ga Fla game in 2013 and 2014 then this schedule puts the Dawgs at a disadvantage.
JDawg1785
July 21st, 2011
11:38 am
Sounds good to me!
Lowcountry Dawg
July 21st, 2011
11:38 am
Would love to see us play Clemson every year again!
bill
July 21st, 2011
11:40 am
Beat the Gators or be gone…that’s this year’s mantra.
F*cking A
July 21st, 2011
11:50 am
I always wondered why UGA took their bye week before Tech instead of the week before UF. I guess it’s better to own the state than the southeast and keep some of those locally grown kids from going to Tech…
Athens= God's Country
July 21st, 2011
11:53 am
2013 looks brutal. We should have a SPECIAL team that year, however.
I love moving the USC game to at least the 3rd game. I agree with the blawgger who said that UGA has nothing to gain from playing Clempson. Clempson has everything to gain. The SEC is hard week in and week out. Throw a Duke, Baylor, or Syracuse in there. Weak teams, but enough to keep the fans interest.
JDog
July 21st, 2011
11:54 am
Does the schedule really matter? 5 ranked teams in 13′, 4 in 14′, Richt can’t beat ranked teams anymore, 0-5 against ranked teams in 10′.
7-5 in 13′, 8-4 in 14′. Losses to all ranked teams, just like last year.
powerhouse?
July 21st, 2011
11:54 am
Dogs have some recent history of one game suspensions, Scheduling a BS game first is an obvious gamble. If you win, I’ll promise to come back and praise you.
slydog
July 21st, 2011
11:55 am
before you all blow mcgarity’s horn, let us not forget former ad damon evans. mcgarity would not be able to make all of these moves and pull any of these strings without the soundness of finance and management that was damon evans. it doesn’t matter if he got caught wearing drag, it has nothing to do with how he went about his business at UGA. He did not hire CMR or Coach Fox. He is not responsible for the expansion of Buuts-Mehre or Stegman. Let us see how he handles all of the teams, the coaches, and the pot of gold he was left with before we sing his accolades.
Boise Dawg
July 21st, 2011
11:56 am
Delber D. I think his stated plan was to never travel out of the south for a road game….(Arizona St., Colorado). This is why he cancelled the Oregon series. Personally I love the national exposure and playing a variety of major programs around the country. I like the series with Clemson, but don’t want to see a situation where the only big OOC games we play are against ACC teams.
SSIgator
July 21st, 2011
11:59 am
Bill King -
“Both schedules feature two open dates (though, unfortunately, neither is the week before the Florida game”
Why should that matter? UGA loses either way.
KeepDreaming
July 21st, 2011
12:07 pm
Im not so sure I like it. Admittedly it sounds good, but I like to think that getting S.C. early in the schedule always contributed to our dominance. Once S.C. gets going throughout the season, every SEC fans knows what they are capable of (or who they upset for that matter). UGA almost always looks better on paper when compared to S.C. , so getting them early is to our advantage IMO.
Richt is GONE!
July 21st, 2011
12:14 pm
No way our current coaching staff makes it past those two years. Even if Richt pulls another rabbit out of his hat to save his job this year in the weakened down East…he will not survive years where he must face LSU and Bama plus adding a quality OOC game with Clemson simply nails the end of the Richt era on the wall. No way Pollack or 680 the fan will save his job a second time and third time.
Dawg 39
July 21st, 2011
12:22 pm
I sure like having the open date before the Fla. game this year. Not sure about 2013 & 14 but the schedules are about as good as we could expect. Will Richt be around ? Doubful… Will the next coach be better or even as good ? Doubtful…
Ricky 4
July 21st, 2011
12:27 pm
Who cares. Let’s play ball.
The Ghost of Wally Butts
July 21st, 2011
12:30 pm
South Alabama….North Texas….Charleston Southern…..App State…..?
And here I was thinking we were a Division I School all this time!
Silly me.
ca dawg
July 21st, 2011
12:38 pm
i’d actually like to play SC even later in the year–they almost always have depth problems, and we play them when they’re healthy and fresh. georgia teams under richt have as a rule improved as the season went on, not gotten worse. i think it would be an advantage to play them later on.
NC Dawg
July 21st, 2011
1:00 pm
Open date before Fla. should be top priority…middle of the year…good time to rest bodies and mind. Aside from that, I have no problem scheduling some “lesser” teams if it means added victories. Florida does it and no one complains about the extra wins.
Theron Sapp
July 21st, 2011
1:11 pm
I’m not sure North Texas and Appalachian State are the stuff of a “very attractive home schedule.”
Alabama Jack
July 21st, 2011
1:17 pm
Who cares? its only jawga.
Bob
July 21st, 2011
1:23 pm
Has anyone seen the Florida schedule for the same two years? If the Gators have both byes before Georgia AGAIN, then McGarity needs to be gone. I realize that an AD has limited control over this, but he needs to be pounding the SEC offices like Nick Saban (rightfully too) did when it came to light that they were facing so many teams that had a bye. Folks complain about the game being in Jacksonville every year and while that has some validity, but Florida having had off almost every week before this game since 93 while Georgia was playing an SEC opponent is FAR more disadvantageous. That needs to be balanced out like it is this year.
Dawg Man
July 21st, 2011
1:25 pm
We are going to be National Champs anyway for the next 6 years!!!!!! With all our dream team recruits, we will run everybody off the field.
Delusional
July 21st, 2011
1:36 pm
These schedules suck. We need the easy games early (like NFL preseason games) to evaluate talent in game situations, give freshman experience before being thrown into the fire, and get the offense back in a rythm. And, it is suicide to not have an off week before Fl. 17 losses in 20 tries proves it.
Cheech AND Chong
July 21st, 2011
1:48 pm
I’ll have some of the stuff Dawg Man is smoking.
Denver Dawg
July 21st, 2011
1:48 pm
I’m not one to make excuses, but since Florida has an open date before us EVERY YEAR, it might be smart to copy them for this one thing. Just sayin’…
Urban Meyer
July 21st, 2011
1:53 pm
Do you GA fans realize how silly you sound – instead of trying to manipulate the schedule why don’t you stop making excuses and beat UF if you can.Open date here, open date there, Clemson yes, Clemson no, SC early, SC late – why don’t you just shut up and beat us?
DawgFan
July 21st, 2011
1:57 pm
The SEC has 12 teams. The Big Ten now has 12 teams. I would love to see one weekend a season where, just like in basketball with the Big Ten – ACC showdown, you have the Big Ten – SEC football weekend. Imagine it. Alabama vs. Ohio State, Florida vs. Penn State, Georgia vs. Nebraska, LSU vs. Michigan. Play six games at SEC stadiums and six games at Big Ten stadiums. Then flip the venues for the next season. It’s basically a conference vs. conference home-and-home.
Will
July 21st, 2011
1:59 pm
Auburn,
tech and Florida are the only games that should always remain just about where they are.
I hope that we will continue to play tech and one other real college team each year. As for the other games against teams like Coastal Carolina and South Alabama, I guess this gives me a chance to give those tickets to friends and relatives who never get to experience gameday in Athens.
Sorry we have abandoned the home and home stuff started under Evans. Going to Boulder and Tempe was like going to a Bowl game. Their fans could not get over the number of fans traveling with the Bulldogs and adding a few days after the game gave us a chance to see the area.
Going to Stillwater? Not so much!!! At least I can mark that off my list of places to ever visit again!
Ceasar
July 21st, 2011
2:06 pm
Why so many cupcakes?????????
Quintin
July 21st, 2011
2:17 pm
Me don’t think da schedule is da porblem.
gbal
July 21st, 2011
2:22 pm
non issue. new topic
the microphone assasin
July 21st, 2011
2:22 pm
check. check.
gbal
July 21st, 2011
2:25 pm
and first on page 2!
John
July 21st, 2011
2:38 pm
Split up trips to Tennessee. Have Vandy home, then TN away and vice versa the next year.
gtfanfrom1951
July 21st, 2011
2:42 pm
I’m with Coach Dooley and would like the UGA vs Tech moved to early in the year.
Buckeye
July 21st, 2011
2:44 pm
Two words regarding the schedule:
cream
puff
7576DAWG
July 21st, 2011
2:58 pm
I don’t blame any of the schedule on McGarity through about 2014, that’s all Evans doing. But with us playing 7or 8 top 20 teams almost every year out of the SEC we do not need to play Clemson, ever if we can avoid it. I know it use to be a big rivalry but we have nothing to gain and everything to lose by playing them. They have a lot of UGA rejects on their team and these boys will play at 200% trying to show us they should have been offered a scholarship to UGA. That game is always way too close for comfort. Same problem with South Carolina but we have to play them , nothing can be done about that.
Also we are complete fools for having the Georgia Florida game in Jacksonville every year. Florida is way too good to give them any advantage voluntarily just so the Alumni can party and stay drunk for a week. The merchants of Athens and Gainesville lose million every other year. Again , you have to ask what advantage are we getting by having the game in Jacksonville , except maybe one recruit from that area every 3rd or 4th year.
Lindsey
July 21st, 2011
3:07 pm
I like not having to play SC at the very beginning. They seem to start off the year strong and get weaker, GO DAWGS!!!
59bulldawg
July 21st, 2011
3:16 pm
A little concerned about opening the SEC schedule with Arkansas in 2014 but I like it. Wish we could open with Vandy every year. And Clemson should be an annual game like it used to be.
DawgFan
July 21st, 2011
4:04 pm
I love how people rail on Georgia for scheduling “cupcakes” but no one seems bothered when Ohio State plays the weakest non conference schedule in the country. Face it. Big conference teams will schedule weaker schools because the rules allow it. You want to stop the “cupcake games,” then change the NCAA rule allowing one victory over a Div II school to count toward your bowl record.
BIG Joe
July 21st, 2011
4:05 pm
I agree –Leave the GA-FL, GA-AU & GA-GaTech game where they are & change up the rest. The only complaint I have is not placing an open date in front of FL. FL has been doing this for years — If I’m not mistaken Spurrier implimented this –and it has worked. The only times GA has beated FL they had an open date before the game.
BTW… I have a feeling that with the coaching change at FL, UGA will start winning this series again.
GO DAWGS!!
ATLnative
July 21st, 2011
4:48 pm
Uh oh, we better win 10 this season…
GDawg65
July 21st, 2011
5:19 pm
Clemson is a waste of time. We’re better than that and should be playing better teams. Scheduling them seems like something Red Panties would do.
Hairy Perry
July 21st, 2011
5:20 pm
Big Joe,
I have a feeling your right.
Hairy Perry
July 21st, 2011
5:22 pm
GDawg65,
Your post sounds like something a GT TROLL would do.
Hairy Perry
July 21st, 2011
5:25 pm
I’m pulling for Richard Samuel, seems like the opposite of the two we had.
RTR
July 21st, 2011
5:31 pm
You can go ahead and mark that Bama game as one for the loss column. Can’t hang, never could. Roll Tide!!
Charlie Hayes
July 21st, 2011
5:33 pm
These are horrible schedules for UGA…..Both feature three (3) open games that are tough. UF plays cupcake teams for the first two (2) weeks to get all the wrinkles ironed out. In 2012, UF plays Bowling Green first and then another chump non-conference team. In 2013, they start off by playing Toledo. UGA is setting its self up for a dismal future with the schedules that they are selecting………I like UF’s idea so you can get into a rhythm and then really go after the big boys with a full head of steam. These UGA schedules are not only tough, the open dates are horrible. Listed below are the reworked schedules that I would like to see UGA adopt. GATA McGarity and get these schedule changes made ASAP!
2013 Georgia Football Schedule (Desirable)
• 08/31 – North Texas
• 09/07 – Appalachian State
• 09/14 – South Carolina
• 09/21 – Open Date
• 09/28 – at LSU
• 10/05 – at Tennessee
• 10/12 – Alabama
• 10/19 – Open Date
• 10/26 – Kentucky
• 11/02 – Florida (at Jacksonville, FL)
• 11/09 – at Vanderbilt
• 11/16 – Auburn
• 11/23 – at Clemson
• 11/30 – at Georgia Tech
2014 Georgia Football Schedule (Desirable)
• 08/30 – South Alabama
• 09/06 – Vanderbilt
• 09/13 – at South Carolina
• 09/20 – Open Date
• 09/27 – at Arkansas
• 10/04 – Tennessee
• 10/11 – LSU
• 10/18 – Open Date
• 10/25 – Charleston Southern
• 11/01 – Florida (at Jacksonville, FL)
• 11/08 – Clemson
• 11/15 – at Auburn
• 11/22 – at Kentucky
• 11/29 – Georgia Tech
Charlie Hayes
July 21st, 2011
5:37 pm
Are you kidding? I just compared the UGA schedule in 2012 to our foes in the SEC. This has got to be a joke….On the road at Clemson, then on the road again at Vandy, back home for USC and finally a cupcake team in North Texas. Then back to LSU, up to UT and back home for Bama. We better win the SEC East this year as it aint gonna happen in 2012 for sure with this schedule!
•08/31 – at Clemson
•09/07 – at Vanderbilt
•09/14 – South Carolina
•09/21 – North Texas
•09/28 – at LSU
•10/05 – at Tennessee
•10/12 – Alabama
Charlie Hayes
July 21st, 2011
5:43 pm
Didn’t we learn anything from the Ok State Cowboys….Don’t book road games as the season opener and don’t book highly ranked teams. Boise State is okay as it is basically a home game and they are an overrated flash-pan team…..I can still hear the chants from 05′ “overrated, overrated, overrated”….
Charlie Hayes
July 21st, 2011
5:49 pm
Every year the schedule should look like the 2012 schedule…..That is a very good schedule…..
Mike T.
July 21st, 2011
6:28 pm
SSIgator
“Both schedules feature two open dates (though, unfortunately, neither is the week before the Florida game”
Why should that matter? UGA loses either way.
We had an open date in 07 and won. 42-30
Rabun Dawg
July 21st, 2011
6:53 pm
I have mixed feelings about Clemson being back on the schedule. Even though this has been a great rivalry in the past, we have nothing to gain by playing them, and a lot to lose in the recruiting game, as they, as well as USC recruit Georgia heavily. Why give them any edge? I say forget playing any ACC other than Tech, and play some intersectional games such as we did with regards to Az. State and CU. For those that went to those games, very good trips, and fun to linger in parts of the country that many of us do not get to very often. That being said, with regards to playing in Clemson, I live 42 miles from their stadium, but not a great place to get in and out on game day. Plus, heaven forbid, we could lose!
SSIgator
July 21st, 2011
7:09 pm
Mike T. -
With Tebows bum shoulder. Nice try though.
Slick
July 21st, 2011
7:36 pm
Richt had one of the easiest schedules in 2010, no Alabama, no LSU, still couldn’t win 7 games. 2009 was a little tougher and he only won 8 games. Schedule doesn’t seem to matter with Richt you know you’re going to win 6-8 games regardless.
Place your bets now...
July 21st, 2011
7:45 pm
Boise State 49, Dawgtards 13
Don't Matter
July 21st, 2011
8:47 pm
For Richt’s sake, he’d be better off gone in 2013 when it’s Alabama, UT and LSU. Going down to Honduras won’t beat Saban or the Mad Hatter.
LawDawg
July 21st, 2011
10:07 pm
I am aware that this is McGarrity’s scheduling style, but I will really miss the great road trip opportunities out west. That was a nice break in the routine of playing the same teams year in, year out, with cupcake fillers thrown in. Kinda takes the sting out of being a mediocre team when as a fan you get to travel to Tempe, take over the town, and play TPC Scottsdale. Really sorry we lost the Oregon and Louisville travel opportunities.
RedandBlackDAWG
July 21st, 2011
10:10 pm
Klinger,
At the SEC conference in Destin, CMR explained why UGA scheduled Boise. He stated that he thought UGA had lost some respect the last couple of years and a game against a top 10 team to start the season off could be good for UGA. If UGA wins, he looks like a prophet, and if they lose, it looks like he stretched a little too far.
Steeledawg
July 21st, 2011
10:14 pm
Apparently all of you advocating for adding cupcakes to the home schedule are not season ticket holders. I want to win an MNC as much as anyone, but I am tired of paying for glorified scrimmages. I can live with 2 gimmies, but I think we should still schedule a legit opponent for the third nonconference game.
RedandBlackDAWG
July 21st, 2011
10:21 pm
THeron,
Bet ya that the Michigan wolverines can give you at least one reason, not to take App. State lightly, LOL.
jwebb
July 21st, 2011
10:32 pm
Open dates before Kentucky and Vandy! Woo Hoo! Boy we really needed that! Meanwhile, Tennesse, LSU and Bama back to back to back, no sweat! Good job!
Still@theBAR
July 21st, 2011
11:04 pm
When is the last time any UGA fan has seen a Bulldog that looks like the mascot at the top of the page on a Sanford Stadium sideline? That is an American bulldog not a Fat rollie pollie English Mutt. UGA will never have a mascot look like that drawing unless you allow Color and an American Bulldog.
Still@theBAR
July 21st, 2011
11:15 pm
jweeb
you will only play LSU and Bama once in 20 years like this again. Join the West and you could have a REAL SEC schedule like this every year. UGA & Richt are making a living off playing Kentucky, Vandy and So. Carolina. All UGA has to worry about is Florida, Tennessee, and Auburn most years. Those 3 teams are the difference in the Dawgs going 12-0 to 9-3. You have to love Richt’s 10 wins when he only really has to play 3 teams every year. The Dawgs being tied last year at #8 – #10 in the SEC was great. Only slightly better than Vandy and Ole Miss.
Still@theBAR
July 21st, 2011
11:21 pm
Steeledawg
July 21st, 2011
10:14 pm
Apparently all of you advocating for adding cupcakes to the home schedule are not season ticket holders. I want to win an MNC as much as anyone, but I am tired of paying for glorified scrimmages.
Now THIS is a REAL FOOTBALL FAN.
He wants to pay for GAMES. Basically McGarity wants to give you guys an NFL Preseason. You pay all that money for a game NO I mean NOBODY wants to see. That is what the NFL makes Season ticket holders do. You have to pay for preseason joke games. I thought all you DAWGS wanted to beat your chest and tell the World how Great the Dawgs are? Make your OCC TECH, Clemson, and (I am sure Richt can get) FSU plus Ga. State. Prove you are the Junkyard Dawg You Pretend to be.
Still@theBAR
July 21st, 2011
11:28 pm
7576DAWG
we do not need to play Clemson, ever if we can avoid it.
Go sit on your bag of Ice you BBB aka Uga VIII pu…y. I wanna play Ga State, Morris brown, and West Georgia. The SEC is too Tuff. Well we do play Kentucky, Vandy, and So. Carolina plus one Miss school. They are just KILLERS.
Still@theBAR
July 21st, 2011
11:34 pm
Charlie Hayes
Clemson? Clemson?
TECH beats Clemson on a regular basis and you Mutts are afraid of Clemson? HAHAHAH. Junkyard Dawg my Mutt!! AHHAHHAHAH Scared? I am glad you said SCARED. Go find you a nice spot under the porch.
7576DAWG
July 22nd, 2011
1:03 am
Still@theBAR
You mentioned our easier 4 opponents. We play 12 games to 14 every year. You forgot Tenn.,Auburn, GT, Fla. and also South Carolina are all huge rivalries, every year We don’t need another one. Clemson is a huge rivalry because as I said, most of the Georgia boys on Clemson’s team were not even offered a scholarship by Georgia and they have a chip on their shoulders about it. They are in the ACC so there is no benefit on Georgia’s part in playing them. It give Clemson some credibility by playing Georgia but we win nothing because we are expected to beat them.
If we win the East part of the SEC championship we will play either Auburn again or LSU or Alabama for the second time in a year unless they are not in the rotation that year but we still don’t escape from playing them at all. Now Arkansas is starting to become an annual force.
You obviously are very young and are being guided by your testosterone level. Thank goodness we have a wise AD in McGarity .Damon Evans scheduled Clemson not McGarity . Unless they join the SEC 2014 may be the last time you see them for a long time.
The one thing nobody can say is any SEC team play’s too weak of a schedule.
Still@theBAR
July 22nd, 2011
1:28 am
7576
UGA plays 3 OOC jokes. GT and USC are Owned by UGA to hear you dawgs talk. Add in Kentucky, Vandy, and a Miss school and that is 8 wins relatively easy.
McGarity wants to play Morehouse, Ga State, and West Georgia.
Just admit UGA is a mid level SEC team and is scared to play a hard schedule. It is OK. You can admit it. hell tech OWNS Clemson but you fear them HAHAHA. Say Scared Dawg.
If you think paying full price to play the JOKE OOC schedule is OK then “A Fool and His Money are Soon Parted” applies to you so well.
You would be better off paying to go watch Clarke Central play.
Would you play full price to see Half a movie?
Grow a Pair and play the Best teams that you can schedule.
Still@theBAR
July 22nd, 2011
1:47 am
in the last 9 years Tech is 8-9 against the SEC. Tech played Miss St(2-0), Vandy(3-0), Auburn(2-0), LSU(0-1), and UGA(1-8). Those are OOC games too. We like to play in the south and keep money close to our home state.
You OWN GT and USC are you scared?
Tech Owns Clemson. Clemson Owns USC. UGA owns USC and Tech. What are you so scared of?
With Richt as your coach i bet it would be no problem playing his Alma Mater. Dawgs would love a trip to Miami. A game with FSU should be no problem either. I mean they are just weak ACC teams. The SEC wants to expand and all the Dawgs want Clemson and FSU as possible teams. Why nnot play them Now?
Junkyard Dawg my Mutt. Stay under the Porch.
Still@theBAR
July 22nd, 2011
2:33 am
GADawg83
July 21st, 2011
11:23 am
At least we’re not flying out west to play a mid-tier team
To funny. You are talking about the mid-tier teams like Colorado and Okie State that beat you?
UGA finished tied for 8 – 10 in the SEC ahead of just Vandy and Ole Miss. Who are you calling Mid-tier? 8th out of 12 makes UGA the LOWER THIRD. UGA is not even mid-tier.
rlterziaiii
July 22nd, 2011
5:06 am
I may be a little biased on this one, but I have always had the Tennessee on the weekend of my birthday (Oct. 9). It has always been a blessing or a curse. I rented a big screen in ‘99 (before big screens were both affordable and practical), and we lost big. So, I had a bad birthday. Yet, there have been many good ones too. I’m a HUGE traditionalist, and I don’t like messing with the schedule.
DawginTX
July 22nd, 2011
5:47 am
I always wish we could switch SC and Auburn. Auburn seems to start a little wobbly and finish strong, while SC starts with a roar and folds like a cheap suit late in the year.
Dawg back from Malta
July 22nd, 2011
8:01 am
Who cares what the schedule is in ‘13 & ‘14?
Let’s handle the business @ hand.
As they say “Take 1 game at a time” much less year to year.
Let’s worry about 2011 first and foremost.
Go Dawgs!!!
THE DUDE
July 22nd, 2011
8:27 am
IT IS AS SIMPLE AS THIS, LETS GET HER DONE. 10-4.
Dawg8589
July 22nd, 2011
8:43 am
We should play Clemson every year for one reason: THE FANS. It is the closest Division I school with the expection of Tech.They value football as much as any other SEC school. So having another away game up the street is beneficial to us in so many ways. It doesn’t help them in recruiting. It sounds smart to say that it does, but it doesn’t. They get 2nd and 3rd tier players from GA and they always will unless they move into the SEC. I hope it becomes a permanent fixture, but it won’t.
As far as the rest of the schedule, as a season ticket holder, I want value. I don’t see much value in this year on next. North Texas, Coastal Carolina, and App State are unacceptable.
ugaclassof2004
July 22nd, 2011
9:04 am
I think folks make too big a deal about the bye weeks. Yes they’re nice, but ultimately its all in how your team prepares during that time. I also don’t understand the need to move Vandy earlier in the year. I find that teams that start off 4-0 playing crappy competition usually come crashing down to earth later. Whether South Carolina is the SEC opener or not doesn’t really make a difference to me. It would be different if we played them say in October, but they’re still the 3rd game of the year.Not really sure how this favors UGA in any way. If ever there was an easy schedule for the Dawgs it would be this year. But honestly there is really no such thing as an “easy” schedule in the SEC. Even crappy teams can knock you off if you don’t bring your A game. The schedule is what it is, just go out and play ball.
Wes
July 22nd, 2011
9:24 am
Typical move by Greg McGarity. Paying attention to stuff that doesn’t matter. Alabama had one of the toughest schedules in the NCAA the year they won the National Championship. It’s a non-issue. The problem is the coaching plain & simple. Good coaches can beat aynyone, bad coaches have ot have their schedules re-arranged.
YouNoleIt
July 22nd, 2011
9:37 am
Per Clemson, they will be very competitive in the next few years as they have brought in some really good talent. The question is, will Daba Daba Doo be around to coach them down. If CU ever gets a really good coach, watch out.
PMC
July 22nd, 2011
9:40 am
while personally as a fan of college football I like matchups and I hate these gimme games like North Texas and think they should be banned entirely…
This is the right move for Georgia as a program. If you want to win championships, you have to schedule cupcakes in the non conference early to give the team a chance to grow together.
Wes
July 22nd, 2011
10:02 am
Alabama in 2009 played 6 ranked teams, opened against #7 Virginia Tech. played #1 Florida, #2 Texas, #7 VTech, #9 LSU, #20 Ole Miss, #22 South Carolina. And they played Auburn, Miss St and Arkansas.
Went 14-0.
If the coaches can coach, the schedule doesn’t matter.
ugaclassof2004
July 22nd, 2011
10:38 am
@Wes
Yeah that powerhouse Georgia State program that Bama played last year. That was a real nailbiter! LOL.
I think you’re right about good teams wining regardless of the schedule. However, you must admit that playing primarily in the southeast is different than going out west to play Arizona State then turning around to play Bama in a primetime matchup. Even NFL teams struggle with jet lag. That 2008 schedule in no way shape or form favored UGA to win a National Title. It was all about Damon Evans trying to market the UGA brand instead of trying to be a legit National Title contender.
DawginTX
July 22nd, 2011
10:55 am
@Wes, the only one Bama had control over scheduling was Va Tech. And the two top ranked teams (FU and Tex) you played in 09 weren’t in your regular season schedule. What we are talking about is regular season OOC schedule, which is the only thing a school has control over.
hgrady
July 22nd, 2011
11:41 am
I like the scheduling approach…now if my minority position of putting JAX in a rotation would just gain some traction. I like the idea of either rotating b/w the Dome and JAX each year or a 4 year rotation of home-home-Jax-Dome.
beebee
July 22nd, 2011
12:22 pm
Wes, you’re a god!
Thank you!
beebee
July 22nd, 2011
12:29 pm
my god ugaclass of 2004.
if your blind coaches had paid attention to making a solid defense you might have had your national title in 2008 even with that schedule.
no, they were more concerned with perfecting their dives.
RedPantsDawg
July 22nd, 2011
12:36 pm
at LSU (Sept. 28), at Tennessee (Oct. 5), Alabama (Oct. 12)
That’s a very tough stretch.
RedandBlackDAWG
July 23rd, 2011
10:04 am
Do I detect, that Bee Bee is a yellow jacket? Somebody get the can of raid out please. No wait, let’s be EPA correct. Get the fly swatter instead.