Looking for the silver lining as UGA spreads the red
A look at Georgia uniforms of the past. (Heritage Sports Art)
So I return from vacation to find Mark Richt’s Dogs now a Top 20 team with opening-game uniforms that look like something out of a Japanese kiddie show.
Actually, I don’t mind the red on red aspect of Georgia’s Nike Pro Combat uniforms so much but I just don’t like that jersey, especially the black on the sleeves. However, the helmet actually comes close to being pretty cool; I just wish the red stripe wasn’t so wide. I could see those helmets — or a variation — brought back out for a future bowl game or something with our traditional uniforms.
Discussing the Pro Combats over the weekend with several fans, both young and old, I found a recurring theme that most would have preferred something a bit closer to a retro look (silver helmets, red jerseys, silver britches), but throwbacks is not really what the whole Pro Combat thing is about. Still, as my old schoolmate Rusty said on Facebook, “Well, they’re hideous, true. But I can live with them for one game.”
(For a closer look at the poster of the evolution of Georgia’s uniforms, go here. Artwork courtesy of Scott Sillcox. Each of the 15 actual pieces of original watercolor artwork used in the UGA uniforms poster are available for sale here.)
Meanwhile, I have to say I was a little surprised to see Georgia ranked No. 19 in the Associated Press preseason poll — the only team on the list coming off a losing record — but Boise State at No. 5 (making the Broncos the highest-ranked season-opening opponent for the Dogs since 1965) and South Carolina at No. 12 is about what I expected.
As Neil “Hondo” Williamson of the Georgia broadcast team points out, dating back to the first AP poll in 1936, Georgia has never opened the season against two top 20 teams (or top 25 for that matter). So in terms of how highly ranked the opponents are, 2011 will mark the most difficult opening two games in Bulldogs history (though I’ve heard several fans make a good case for the opening tandem in 1982 when Georgia faced defending national champion Clemson and a Steve Young-led BYU team).
Estimations of how the Dogs will weather those first two games and the 10 regular season matches to follow are all over the place, ranging from Phil Steele’s prediction of Georgia winning the SEC East to Sports Illustrated predicting a 6-6 record.
Of course, such predictions are, like the preseason polls, nothing but guesswork, but if there’s anything even sillier, it’s preseason bowl projections. That doesn’t stop various sports media outlets from trotting them out, though, and College Football News has Georgia playing Virginia Tech in the Chick-fil-A Bowl in its “way too early” projection, while both of ESPN’s bowl projections have the Dogs in the Capital One Bowl, with Mark Schlabach pitting Georgia against Ohio State and Brad Edwards pegging Nebraska as the opponent.
That’s getting way ahead of all the games, of course, in a season where even die-hard UGA loyalist Loran Smith isn’t sure what sort of team Richt is going to field but is cautiously optimistic, noting, “this team could play really well the first two weeks and begin the season 0-2. The good news is that, in the Butts-Mehre building, you won’t find anybody who believes that will happen.”
Neither do I. How about you?
Got a question for the Junkyard Blawg? Send it to junkyardblawg@gmail.com.
Find me on Facebook.
Follow me on Twitter.
Tell us what you think about the site
Customer Care »
Vacation stops, manage subscriptions and more
AJC Services
Sections
Other Editions
Visitor Agreement | Privacy Statement
© 2013 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
217 comments Add your comment
Newman
August 23rd, 2011
11:03 am
Steve Young threw 6 picks that day…
Joey
August 23rd, 2011
11:05 am
I just want to see this Dawgs team hit back when they get punched in the mouth.
Go Dawgs!
Randall "Pink" Floyd
August 23rd, 2011
11:06 am
Don’t need another uniform column.
DawginLex
August 23rd, 2011
11:09 am
That BYU game was the game where we tried for 4th and short and didn’t actually get it but the running back handed the ball to another player further ahead in the pile and got us the 1st down.
Pete
August 23rd, 2011
11:10 am
BSU 55-0
Pups might score in garbage time though, depending if Boise puts their Freshman 3rd stringers in.
DawginLex
August 23rd, 2011
11:12 am
Pete
Give it up son. Even your fellow Tech folks can’t stand you.
chilidawg
August 23rd, 2011
11:18 am
Let’s do this thing!
bdawg
August 23rd, 2011
11:21 am
Gonna start 2-0 baby!!! I think we will stomp boise like we did last time and SC will be close as usual but we win by a FG!!!
DawginLex
August 23rd, 2011
11:21 am
WELCOME BACK BILL
A lot of us thought you went to Aruba and got kidnapped or something
HiramDawgMomma
August 23rd, 2011
11:21 am
Desperately want to believe that we’re gonna have a good season. C’mon Dawgs, make me scream!
1982 BYU and Clemson were not ranked?
August 23rd, 2011
11:22 am
Never knew that.
I believe Vince’s teams won both of those games because we played hard for all eight quarters.
And, we didn’t need new uniforms to help give us some “juice.”
My how things have changed……
Gravy Train
August 23rd, 2011
11:22 am
I can’t wait until you are put out to pasture, Bill. You are more a fan of a bygone era than you are a fan of today’s football Bulldogs. Kids today don’t care about what happened when you were a kid. They don’t care about your opinions either. It’s a travesty that a fossil like you gets to write anything associated with UGA.
Spike
August 23rd, 2011
11:23 am
Let’s get over the uni thing.. A little change of pace is fun, and is not the end of the world. The players seem fired up about it, so what is the down side?
schmeckdawg
August 23rd, 2011
11:24 am
Herschel ran for 124 yards against BYU in a cast. Very close game. Kevin Butler had to kick a late fireld goal to win it for the DAWGS.
At 7:45 p.m. on September 10th, we will be 2-0! On Tuesday September 13th, we will be #6-7 in the country!
VR Dawg
August 23rd, 2011
11:30 am
We will beat Boise by at least 10 and then win a very close one in Athens in week two…I am sure of the first game, but my second prediction could go either way.
Joey
August 23rd, 2011
11:30 am
I bet that hurt Bill’s feelings, Gravy Brain.
You sure did get here quick to read Bill.
Nitwit . . .
Cobb Dawg
August 23rd, 2011
11:30 am
If the kids like the uniforms, and the purpose of playing in the Boise game is to get us on the radar of more recruits, then I say it’s okay. But I don’t want us to come off looking like Oregon, even if that’s what Phil Knight is after.
Texas Dawg
August 23rd, 2011
11:32 am
If the Dogs start 2-0, it will be a very good season. If they start 0-2, it can still be a good season if they hunker down instead of giving up.
Dawgmess
August 23rd, 2011
11:34 am
Gravy Train: The title of Bill’s articles is “Junkyard Blawg”. Write it on a sticky note and put it on your computer screen’ It’ll remind you not to click on it anymore. It should be easy, even for you.
Denver Dawg
August 23rd, 2011
11:34 am
Gravy Brain, if you are one of the “young, hipster crowd” that can’t relate to Bill, THEN DON’T READ IT! Not everyone is 18 years old and as cool as you…
Michael
August 23rd, 2011
11:35 am
Bill you are becoming a “Energy Vampire”, try to write SOME positive articles !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Russman
August 23rd, 2011
11:38 am
If those uniforms are so great for performance- why not use the fabrics for UGA’s regular gameday uniforms?
TossSweep
August 23rd, 2011
11:38 am
45-31, Georgia wins vs Boise State
31-27, Georgia wins vs South Carolina
Georgia goes 13-1 for the season…Loss against Alabama in the SEC Championship.
I just hope I’m wrong about the loss to Alabama
Preston
August 23rd, 2011
11:38 am
Don’t pay any attention to Gravy Bill. Just some jackass with no respect for tradition or history. Keep up the good work!
Abnerish
August 23rd, 2011
11:41 am
About the uniforms, I think Richt said it best when he said they aren’t normal uniforms but this isn’t a normal game. I could care less what they wear for one game. If this was their new official, every game uniforms, then I’d be upset about it. Frankly, I’m more offended by Nike calling them “combat” uniforms. Who came up with that? Kellen Winslow Jr? Anyone who compares football to war has never experienced war. Most injuries suffered on the football field heal and don’t require a prosthesis. I realize Nike just thinks it sounds cool, but don’t minimize what our true soldiers do for us every day.
Regarding our #19 ranking, I’d just say that ALL preseason rankings are pretty meaningless, whether we are talking about a #1 ranking or #25. The only use is to help TV sell more advertising spots.
Top Row Dawg
August 23rd, 2011
11:42 am
I think the 5 times we started with South Carolina and Tennessee under Ray Goff were the toughest.
Starting with tennessee, texas A7M and Clemson in 1980 looked rough on paper.
I know these two teams are ranked, but they are not traditional powers of college football. And if we lined the teams up for drafting, I don’t think many of the BS boys make the start at UGA. With the home field both games, with the talent and the fire I see this year, I’m all in.
RAID
August 23rd, 2011
11:43 am
This isn’t a beauty contest people………I dont care if the dawgs come out of the tunnel wearing hot pink……..It’s about the players perfomance on the field………Why are we so concerned about uniforms?……We should be more concerned about the product on the field………Anyways, rest assured that if we win the BSU game the bookstores in Athens and the rest of the state will have empty shelves for all the Dawg fans will snatch them up immediately
Lowcountry Bulldawg
August 23rd, 2011
11:44 am
SI has to put us at 6-6 to help CMR fit nicely into the “coaches on the hotseat list”. If they couldnt target Richt then who? Nutt? I mean that is just for blog hits no way with the schedule as easy as it is that they go .500.
how2fish
August 23rd, 2011
11:47 am
@Gravy Train a little free advice you don’t like the blog don’t come on the blog. Your a self righteous troll and you always have been. As IF anyone old or young gives a tinkers darn what you think. Bill glad your back less than two weeks till kickoff and it’s time to talk football not uniforms etc.
LHarding Dawg
August 23rd, 2011
11:47 am
The only place I predict scores is in Las Vegas. You can actually put your money where your mouth is there. I do feel better going into this season than I did last season. That being said, it’s why we play the game, no one really knows what is going to happen.
SSIgator
August 23rd, 2011
11:52 am
“opening-game uniforms that look like something out of a Japanese kiddie show”
That is because they play football like a Japanese kiddie show. Might as well dress for the part.
sogadog
August 23rd, 2011
11:55 am
The new uniforms look like Halloween costumes, but if the players like them, beat Florida and win the SEC, let em wear the d@#* things for the bowl game.
Let the new uniforms serve as a reward to the players for winning a championship. (But make the britches silver and the red true UGA red.)
Nub
August 23rd, 2011
11:56 am
Let me summarize …. We have lost 18 of the last 21 games against the gators …. And 8 out of the last 10….. When is the last time we beat USC, Tenn, and UF in the same year… Who really cares about Yeck they are irrelevant to our success both in the SEC and on any other measure ….
King Gator
August 23rd, 2011
11:58 am
Georgia gets treated worse than a Bulldog on a scooter in the SEC….Go Gators!
WDE
August 23rd, 2011
11:59 am
@SSIgator remember we took your bunch to O.T last year with a freshman QB and new D scheme..speaking of new how many wins that new HC of your have again? I heard he closed practice was that to help Brantley’s confidence or so the media and fans wouldn’t see Ol’ Charlie eat the scout team.
Columbus Dawg
August 23rd, 2011
12:01 pm
I believe that from what we have heard from the practices that the Georgia Bulldog Football team has returned to form. Now that being said, the comparisons to Virginia Tech, Oklahoma, and Oregon, some of Boise’s bragging points, well, simply do not compare. The conferences don’t compare, the speed on the defenses don’t compare, the overall team makeups don’t compare. I am glad that the Boise folks have already marked down a “W” by this game, but boy are they gonna be sad sacks when they have to travel back to potato land.
If we have not been scammed on how the Dawg D has improved, then I have to compare the potential to some of the better Defenses of Richt’s tenure. Now the 2005 D was not all that great in my opinion, what with the Auburn fiasco, and the West Virginia Suger Bowl flop, but was more than good enough to stuff Boise’s attack. I know this is a different Boise team, but it will still be smaller and slower than the higher rated SEC players they will face. While it is true that Virginia Tech and Oklahoma would easily hang with the worst team since the Goff days, they flat out would not hang with an up to par UGA defense.
Brag all you want Boise, but the Dome ain’t gonna be friendly to you on the 3rd.
Mad Dog 1
August 23rd, 2011
12:03 pm
welcome back Bill, As for the unis I don’t think they were ment for us older fans. Don’t rember the last time a 50 or 60 year old suited up for a game at UGA. Lets all let the kids have a good time. When was the last time you did something just for the he!! of it. GO DOGS
SSIgator
August 23rd, 2011
12:04 pm
WDE -
That’s right. I guess you are one of the people that would count that as a “moral victory” so this year there will be a won-lost-moral victory football stat sheet. How many “moral victories” does it take to equal a win?
441North
August 23rd, 2011
12:05 pm
I’m OK with the uni’s for one special game. I think we are going to be so strong in the middle defensively with Jenkins, Geathers, Jones, Robinson, and Ogletree, that we are going to be hard to move. Defense should carry us until we can get our running game going.
Old Dawg
August 23rd, 2011
12:05 pm
I’d like a replica of the 1927 jersey. I love old football jerseys, they’re great to wear at games and around town.
King Gator
August 23rd, 2011
12:06 pm
Who needs victories, as long as we get to dance after touchdowns! Go Gators!
Dirty Dawg
August 23rd, 2011
12:07 pm
I wouldn’t go so far as the ‘gravy’ man, Bill, but you could use a bit of updating on your perspective about stuff. It’s great to be nostalgic, and to recall with fond memories good times past, but to not ‘get it’ when it comes to being able to ‘adapt’ to change simply is being stubbornly simple-minded. You remind me of business people that hire high-priced architects or advertising agencies for their success and talent in design and recognizing, or establishing, trends, then nit-pic over the most idiotic stuff…’you don’t like the black on the sleeves’? Jeesh man, as Richt said, ‘get over it’…I mean if the players like it, and it gets ‘em even more fired up, then why not – it ain’t like the football Gods are gonna strike us with lightening or something.
I happen to think that this ‘pro-combat’ look is as good as any I’ve seen, not that I’m interested in making a permanent change mind you, but to not like it because it’s ‘all-red’ is to fail to notice that virtually every school we play – Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Mississippi State, and more – have at one time or another used their ‘core’ color for both the jersey and the pants, so what’s the big deal. Trends in style – athletic or otherwise – start with the young. If they like it, then it’ll fly – unless of course, we stink out the place come 9/3, in which case, like the red tops and black pants we used in that Florida game some years back (we looked like the Red Coat Band, and played football like ‘em as well), we won’t be using ‘em again any time soon.
thisGuy
August 23rd, 2011
12:08 pm
can you guys tell us where we could buy one of these new georgia jersey so i can where it to the game? I can’t seem to find them anywhere.
allwehaveishope
August 23rd, 2011
12:08 pm
All dawg fans want to be 2-0 after first two weeks of the season but 1-1 is more realistic. SC game will be the tougher of the two. Of course, beating SC is more impt than beating BSU. Truthfully, no one really knows how good this GA team is this year. They have good key position players and from what we read a lot of potential from younger players. Based on last seasons performance if they can reduce critical turnovers, stop opponents from making big plays, both passing and running, and run the ball, they can be a good team and capable of playing in the dome for the SEC Championship.
Then again, haunted by performance of seasons past, that creeping doubt seems to loom close by. If CMR can do complete turn around from 2010 record he deserves to be SEC coach of the year and contender for national honors. Wouldn’t that be a hoot.
WDE
August 23rd, 2011
12:09 pm
@King Gator If memory serves me well we won the game after we danced, bye the bye what is the exact total of pot related arrests so far for the Gators year to date?
Old Dawg
August 23rd, 2011
12:10 pm
One more thing, the Nike Combat Uniforms stink to high heaven. In fact, all of Nike’s combat uniforms are a disgrace to the game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WDE
August 23rd, 2011
12:12 pm
@SSIgator nope no moral victory I just got a little sick of Gator fans talking about beating us last year with your worse team in a decade, like ours wasn’t too. No no I’m really looking forward to this year I’m just hoping both squads are healthy and highly ranked.
Dixie Highway
August 23rd, 2011
12:12 pm
Clown costumes for a clown team. Adios to Richt, and don’t let the door hit your azz on the way out.
AceDawg
August 23rd, 2011
12:15 pm
Assuming there are no critical injuries, if UGA settles for anything less than 2-0 to start the season, they’ve already lost the season. After last year, its fine for fans to be a bit worried, but even in a terrible year, UGA was in range to win each game and not far from having a fairly good year despite everything that went wrong.
No matter how many times Boise St. finishes with a one or zero loss season, I’ll never accept a team like UGA losing to them. The Dawgs have plenty of talent to handle what Boise throws at them, so coaching will be at fault of the Dawgs fail. With South Carolina, Spurrier or not, give me a break that a 9-5 team last year from Columbia is so special that the Dawgs shouldn’t expect to be the better team. South Carolina has indeed gotten better talentwise, but they aren’t some sort of legendary juggernaut. C’mon Dawgs – this can be a big year if you strive for and meet the expecations you should have for yourselves.
Doom in the Dome
August 23rd, 2011
12:15 pm
Boise State over UGA in the humiliating beatdown of the year.
Well, until the Gators lunch on the hapless mutts.
GIVE ME A BREAK
August 23rd, 2011
12:19 pm
As a GT fan, I hope UGA goes 2-0. It will make November even sweeter. Good luck, dawgs. ” GO JACKETS “
DawgByte
August 23rd, 2011
12:19 pm
I like the Nike Pro Combat uniforms. The whole damn thing. Love the helmets… wide stripe and all. The most important thing is that we win. The new uniforms are an interesting side show. We’ve got to win this first game, period!
SSIgator
August 23rd, 2011
12:20 pm
“The good news is that, in the Butts-Mehre building, you won’t find anybody who believes that will happen”
Of course not. That’s because da Preacha Man and his Straw Dawg coaching staff have the KoolAid machine running full tilt and and the bar is now open 24/7. Step right up boys.
King Gator
August 23rd, 2011
12:20 pm
…and Georgia has beaten Florida since. or Central Florida for that matter… Keep dancing, playing dress up and losing. We’ll just enjoy or victories, SEC Titles and BCS Titles. Go Gators!
RedandBlackDAWG
August 23rd, 2011
12:20 pm
If anybody is interested, fox sports rates our regular season uniforms as number one, I am assuming in the NCAA, due to things like tradition and how well they are put together color wise. There is way too much concern over a uniform UGA will only be wearing for one game. If the kids playing in those uniforms do their thing, the uniforms will be remembered more for that, then any style statement they are suppose to make for Nike.
King Gator
August 23rd, 2011
12:24 pm
Who cares about the uniforms, it’s the accessories that matter – like SEC and BCS championship rings. Get some bling dawgs, then you can wear what ever ugly uniform NIKE makes you wear. Trust me, we know. Go Gators!
Brian
August 23rd, 2011
12:24 pm
Dear lord will you people quit complaining about the uniforms!!! It’s the Chick-fil-A Kickoff. It’s two highly recognizable programs on national TV. It’s about dollars and cents, not about tradition or mojo or any crap like that. Alabama wore a Pro Combat Uniform. So has Florida, Boise St, Virginia Tech, and a couple of other schools. This is not some publicity stunt like the “Black Outs”. This is Nike being a major contributor to the game asking it’s two participants (who both wear Nike equipment anyway) to wear it’s product on the field for one game. September cannot get here soon enough so we don’t have to read/listen to this crap anymore!!
WDE
August 23rd, 2011
12:27 pm
@SSIgator talk about kool-aid drinkers you have NO HC experience leading your team, your starting QB has been at best shaky , your OC is installing a new offensive scheme while destroying every buffet in the state of Florida. There are as many question marks on you OL as ours and you and King Gator are ready to anoint yourselves as SEC champs and world beaters.. koolaid…its just not for Dawg fans…
Buster
August 23rd, 2011
12:27 pm
Enough about the freaking uniforms! Let’s play some football!
SSIgator
August 23rd, 2011
12:30 pm
WDE -
Maybe King Gator alluded to that, but I sure have not. Have another glass my friend. It obviously distorts your reading comprehension.
WinderDawg
August 23rd, 2011
12:33 pm
Georgia opened 1982 against defending National Champion Clemson at night when Herschel had a broke his thumb in practice…I actually sat in the club level with Herschel’s family.
Then played the Mormon’s – never saw so many white shirts with black tie’s…
Good times….
Buster
August 23rd, 2011
12:33 pm
BTW, thank God we don’t have to listen to Loran Smith much anymore! I think of him more as a blowhard than a diehard! If it weren’t for Herschel and he coming from Wrightsville we would never have had to put up with old syrup mouth for so long!
WDE
August 23rd, 2011
12:39 pm
@SSIgator so you think you have what this year a contender, a pretender or you going to bank on moral victories? Come on sport let us know what we can expect from those “mighty mighty Gators” this year. I’m sure your chomping at the bit for a rematch with the Tide in early Oct…
SSIgator
August 23rd, 2011
12:39 pm
“this team could play really well the first two weeks and begin the season 0-2″
Huh? Doubtful. If you start the season 0-2 you obviously are not playing very well. Another “whatta ya got Loran” moment. What a tool.
Top Row Dawg
August 23rd, 2011
12:41 pm
Loran has been with Dogs since the 1960’s. His history articles for the Athens Banner along with anything by Dan MaGill are the best things to read in each Gameday. He is a survivor and a damn good dawg, lay off Buster.
Huck
August 23rd, 2011
12:44 pm
I really do expect Georgia to dominate Boise State across the defensive front, much as they did the last time the Broncos dared to play the Dawgs. 37-21 Georgia wouldn’t surprise me. South Carolina is a much bigger game with more at stake. If the team can somehow avoid a big let-down after a huge opening day win those lucky enough to be in attendance could see an old fashioned war on Sept. 10.
SSIgator
August 23rd, 2011
12:45 pm
WDE -
You are the one that believes in “moral victories” not me. I prefer the old fashioned won/lost stat sheet. As for the Gators; who knows. If I had the answer to that I would also have more money than any of the other suckers in Vegas.
JDawg1785
August 23rd, 2011
12:59 pm
Welcome back, Bill! Honestly, the only thing that matters for the Dawgs right now is that game on the 3rd. They could be ranked #1 or #100 for all I care.
UGADawg83
August 23rd, 2011
1:16 pm
Quotes from a friends facebook page? Advertising for a friends artwork in your column? Wow and I thought you’d turned the corner Bill.
Russell
August 23rd, 2011
1:18 pm
I think your poster of the past unis is wrong. In 80 the white road jerseys were worn with red pants (Just ask Bill Bates, we all know he remembers!)
Spike 80DF
August 23rd, 2011
1:19 pm
SSIgator, is this you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JZVbanZWsE
Spokesman for the SEC East
August 23rd, 2011
1:23 pm
Yea spike 80df and this is you:http://www.google.com/imgres?q=redneck+uga+fan&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&tbm=isch&tbnid=5FazBPnpOpiVIM:&imgrefurl=http://forum.gon.com/showthread.php%253Ft%253D254063%2526page%253D2&docid=pXZYpZoDUgQ01M&w=407&h=331&ei=mOFTTtnPO8PZgQeS6pBH&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=184&vpy=87&dur=497&hovh=202&hovw=249&tx=120&ty=77&page=1&tbnh=138&tbnw=181&start=0&ndsp=30&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0&biw=1280&bih=867
Spokesman for the SEC East
August 23rd, 2011
1:24 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh1Er9KKutw
another humper
WDE
August 23rd, 2011
1:26 pm
@SSIgator so let me see if I get this you don’t have a clue about the state of Gator Nation but you know everything that is wrong with UGA….you call us koolaid drinkers I call you troll…how sad is it when you care more about your opponents flaws than your teams strengths , weaknesses and challenges….
Athens= God's Country
August 23rd, 2011
1:26 pm
They look much better on a human. The uni on the dummy looks, well, dumb. Its all red vs. all blue. Yall know that, right?
P.S. WHO CARES?!!!
Dawgs> 30 = Victory
WinderDawg
August 23rd, 2011
1:27 pm
Georgia wore silver britches in the 80’s except for Tenn…Herschel’s debut!
DawgDawgDawg
August 23rd, 2011
1:37 pm
Boise is a much better football team AND program than they were when we last played them. And our program has been on a slide the past few years. Any UGA fan who thinks we’re going to destroy Boise should take a hard look at what is going on with our football program. Just the fact that we’re coming out ranked #19 and Boise is #5 should scare the silver britches off any true UGA fan. Serious changes need to be made at UGA. And I’m not talking about the uniforms.
LHarding Dawg
August 23rd, 2011
1:39 pm
WDE – SSIgator is probably Saint Simons and knows absolutely nothing about the gators or football in general.
Remarkable
August 23rd, 2011
1:40 pm
If they win vs. BS I say let them wear the unis every game until they lose one. If they don’t win, burn them in front of the Butts-Mere Building.
JB
August 23rd, 2011
1:48 pm
We ask ourselves ( or convince ourselves) that this year will be all different and better….and hope that it is….but at the same time, what in 9 months going by is STILL there that caused us to go 6-7. Not bad luck, but real stuff like not being able to open holes for the running game or not being able to stop folks from running up the gut on us for 7,8 10 yards. The real stuff that wins and loses games? What’s left over from last year that’s still there? A lack of talent? A lack of depth? Have the coach’s rethought things?
Athens= God's Country
August 23rd, 2011
1:48 pm
DawgDawgDawg
You are right. Let’s fire everyone right now and not let the coaches correct the issues. Forget that we have a 2nd year all SEC qb, and a scary 2nd year D. But, yea, lets get rid of everyone now, snatch up our ball and pout all the way home. GIVE ME A BREAK YOU WHINEY LIL B.
here is a link to the nike website. These look much better. http://inside.nike.com/blogs/usnikefootball/2011/08/19/red-black-and-silver-dawgs
DawgFan88
August 23rd, 2011
1:48 pm
My final thought on the uniforms – why didn’t Alabama play in clown suits when they played in two of these games? I’ll tell you why – they respect tradition, they respect what Alabama means. Unfortunately at my alma mater, it’s who writes the biggest check.
Athens= God's Country
August 23rd, 2011
1:52 pm
JB
The only thing EVERY SCHOOL IN THE COUNTRY has is hope. There is nothing wrong with that.
Bill King is a..................
August 23rd, 2011
1:55 pm
Bill, you are still a goober. What i cant get over is this…….for a team (UGA) to have as many diehard fans as we do, there are so many negative people on the uga blogs. If you dont like us, then go fck yourselves! I’m very optimistic on our season. Have any of you morons actually looked at our players?? Do you people not get that we have a DC that is starting his second season. We had our learning curve last year for our defense. Look for them to be much better. Murray is a year older, our starting five on offensive line are pretty good. We do have to pray that we dont have any bad injuries. We have no depth there. that will be what gets us if anything. We no longer have Caleb or Waushaun. Those two contributed to the bad attitudes we had last year on the team. The whole team morale will be better without those two thugs. We have a great placekicker. The only other thing we have that might be a liability other than no depth at O line is Mike Bobo. If our players can overcome him, we will be just fine. Look at our LB’s, look at our D Line. Our secondary will look much better because we finally have some players who can get pressure on the QB. The Dawgs will be fine….look for them to make a second trip to the Dome in December. And once again, to all the naysayers…..leave the UGA blogs alone, we dont need it. Go pleasure yourselves!! This is going to be a good year for the us
Spokesman for the SEC East
August 23rd, 2011
1:57 pm
JB, most realistic post I have seen by a Dawg. The question I would ask if I were a Dawg is, who made the decision to kick the fieldgoal against UCF on 4th and inches inside their 5 yard line early in the 1st Qtr in a meaningless bowl game?
WDE
August 23rd, 2011
1:58 pm
@LHarding Dawg you could be right…he is never one to talk football just take shots at UGA.
JB
August 23rd, 2011
2:04 pm
Against UCF, in a meaningless bowl, in the first quarter, I would expect Richt to go for it on anything inside the 50. What the heck was he thinking?
ga gator
August 23rd, 2011
2:05 pm
Welcome back Bill. Too much good and bad has been said about the uniforms. They will not make you win or lose or make the fans like you or hate you more. The kids like them as well as recruits plus they make the school some money.
HardTruth Soldier
August 23rd, 2011
2:13 pm
Lets clear something up, Techies, Gators, Bama Hillbillies, and Nat’l Champs, and Fake East champs S.C. Georgia, who all of Dawg nation will admit had a bad year last year didn’t get blown away by SC, blew BSU out last time here, and I guarantee will be 7-0 when we go to Hator country. Bank on it we’ll beat alot of people down.
AltamahaDawg
August 23rd, 2011
2:20 pm
“Silver Lining”???
Gawgalmighty Bill, Georgia is about to kick off another season of the best entertainment known to man playing in a huge game in 2 weeks. Are you really looking for the silver lining?
destin dawg
August 23rd, 2011
2:23 pm
Earth quake in N.Y. city… airport closed.. building evacuated… huge traffic jam !!
destin dawg
August 23rd, 2011
2:24 pm
Dome to Dome this year… we win 3 games in Atlanta this season ~!
mark
August 23rd, 2011
2:25 pm
I can’t believe BYU wasn’t ranked in 1982…I always thought they were. Man, it poured that day…still got a crumpled, rain soaked program. Uniforms: Agree completely on the helmet…it’d be nicer with a smaller stripe. It does have potential and I like the DAWGS print in red on black above the facemask alot better than the current one that doesn’t stand out at all. The pants are stock issue that anyone could just purchase at nike.com. They could’ve done more with that jersey if they wanted to make money selling it. Supposedly we’ll get an explanation as to what it all signifies later this week or next.
Shrimp N Grits
August 23rd, 2011
2:28 pm
JB
Its to show the guys on the team that in a meaningless bowl against a “bad” team, you play hard no matter what. You get the touchdown/first down in three plays, not four. He was proving a point. He did the same thing in his first year against a “bad” team (BC) in a meaningless bowl. Dawgs lost 1 game the next year.
Would you be proud if we won that game? I wouldn’t.
no dog
August 23rd, 2011
2:30 pm
The new uniforms are the perfect excuse. If you win, they were great. If you do not win, they were the reason. Win/win!?!
I have not a good feeling about that dome game. Happy trails however to all dogs.
Burma Shave
August 23rd, 2011
2:34 pm
UGA players
Are clowns anyway
But how much to Richt
Did Nike pay?
BURMA SHAVE
DawginLex
August 23rd, 2011
2:34 pm
SSI is too stupid to realize that we could start 0-2 and because of who we played and how we played, we could be much better than a year ago. Starting out with 2 high school scrimmages tells you nothing about your team.
We will know a lot about our team after the 1st 2. The gators won’t know anything except their coach can scream and their OC can eat and SSI is still obnoxious.
Anyone notice collegefootballnews.com predicting an 0′fer for the gators in October? How the mighty have fallen…………………………….
DawginLex
August 23rd, 2011
2:35 pm
BURMA SHAVE
Is a TROLL
Don’t even need
to take a poll
Idiot
DawginLex
August 23rd, 2011
2:37 pm
BURMA SHAVE
He likes men
Wants to marry
a guy named Ken
DawginLex
August 23rd, 2011
2:39 pm
BURMA SHAVE HATES NASCAR
Loves Elton John
That explains
What Pole he is on
DawginLex
August 23rd, 2011
2:40 pm
BURMA SHAVE
Played no sports
Just drinks his beer
Wears his Jorts
SSIgator
August 23rd, 2011
2:44 pm
DawginLex -
Don’t wait by the phone for Jay Leno to call.
destin dawg
August 23rd, 2011
2:45 pm
this is Todd Grantham’s career breakout season… he knows it… Todd’s a great coach… we have the players… favorable schedule… Junkyard Dawgs are BBBAAACCCCKKKKK !!!! !!
Chris S
August 23rd, 2011
2:47 pm
If the Dawgs beat Boise St, I don’t care if they wear orange and blue and Mark Richt throws his golf visors
destin dawg
August 23rd, 2011
2:48 pm
Coach Richt please help Bo Bo call the offense… Grantham can call the D.. Go Dawgs !!!
frodawg
August 23rd, 2011
2:49 pm
Go you Silver Britches!!!!
destin dawg
August 23rd, 2011
2:49 pm
Uga 31 Bosie State 17.. Uga 24 S.C. 17
Middle Georgia Dawg
August 23rd, 2011
2:50 pm
I believe we will split the first 2 games with a close loss to Boise and a very close win against USC. I hope it doesn’t work out the other way. A win against USC would be huge!
destin dawg
August 23rd, 2011
2:50 pm
Boise State … we will win 3 in Atlanta this season !!
Pete
August 23rd, 2011
2:55 pm
It’s crazy and delusional and completely homer to for pup fans to have the audacity and ignorance to think the game against Boise will be close.
Remember UCF Colorado and the other 4 team you lost to? Boise is still better than all those teams that rollled uga….. and Boise will be OWNING the Dome just as they own FedEx. Just another notch in the post.
SSIgator
August 23rd, 2011
3:01 pm
destin dawg -
“we will win 3 in Atlanta this season”
Sounds like you are expecting the UGA basketball team to go very deep in the SEC tournament.
WDE
August 23rd, 2011
3:08 pm
@SSIgator and still nothing on the state of Gator Nation….trolling trolling trolling tho’ the streams are swollen keep kicking at the doggies troll on! @Pete just tell me how your going to outplay a bigger,stronger and faster team on both sides of the ball…we listened in 05 to all that Boise jive, win a game vs the SEC and perhaps some will start to give the respect you so badly crave…by the way I hear all day long “this isn’t the same Boise” and I think you much better but 6 years later and you still haven’t won vs the SEC …proof is in the pudding.
DawginLex
August 23rd, 2011
3:09 pm
Pete you are an idiot of the highest order.
Virginia Tech led that game until less than 2 minutes to go in the 4th quarter.
If that is “owning” FedEX Field, you might want to re-think your definition of owning.
Boise is going to get beat. Accept it. Move on back to the Tech blog.
AltamahaDawg
August 23rd, 2011
3:09 pm
Shrimp and grit, I loved what he said to the boys “if you wanted a first down, do it right there when you are supposed to, don’t come running over here asking me to go for it on 4th down”.
Top Dawg
August 23rd, 2011
3:12 pm
Welcome back Bill…cutting it a little close to season don’t ya think?! Should’ve typed a quick article while away for us to nibble on…..oh well, hope you had fun.
Top Dawg
August 23rd, 2011
3:15 pm
Newman…we had some great DB’s that made all those picks in ‘82…Thankfully we also had Butler to win it.
kerryb
August 23rd, 2011
3:22 pm
Pete, we don’t think that the Boise State game will be close. I’ve said all along that UGA will beat Boise State 35-14. I don’t get this love affair with Boise State. Who do they play? Nobody. You can’t count beating a Virginia Tech team that lost to, I believe, Jacksonville State the next week. They are coming to try and play big boy football in the SEC which they haven’t been able to do in the past. This year will be no different. Get out of your mind the Georgia team that was 6-7 last year and lost 4 close games. This will be a totally different team than last year. Bigger, faster, stronger, more athletic with more experience than last year.
kerryb
August 23rd, 2011
3:24 pm
Oh, I’m sorry. I was wrong it was worse. Virginia Tech lost to James Madison the next week 21-16.
WDE
August 23rd, 2011
3:24 pm
@kerryb VT lost to James Madison the week after Boise.
Still@theBAR
August 23rd, 2011
3:27 pm
The helmet is just ugly
kerryb
August 23rd, 2011
3:27 pm
Then Virginia Tech ripped off 11 straight wins. Boise State won the Virginia Tech game 33-30. They would not have beaten Virginia Tech at the end of the year.
kerryb
August 23rd, 2011
3:29 pm
My point is that Boise State beat a Virginia Tech team that was just looking at Boise State as another team to play to start the season. Georgia players are looking at Boise State as redemption on the national stage which makes this a dangerous game for Boise State.
how2fish
August 23rd, 2011
3:33 pm
Not football related but would like to send my condolences out to the Tenn fans regarding Pat Summitt’s condition best of luck to her, her family and the Vols, she has been a great coach for a long time and our prayers are with them.
Top Dawg
August 23rd, 2011
3:37 pm
Down to business….Bill those uniforms are BUTT-UGLY! Thought Mark Richt was over this uniform crap. Fans and alumni hate it and CMR knew we would, so as to introduce them early “to get over it”! Darn bad choice of words Coach…coming across as not caring whatsoever about fan base…Could’ve easily said they wanted to introduce early so fans could “get USED to it” for ONE game.
This is not Nike U…JUST SAY NO TO NIKE….There are much more credible companies out there UGA could do business with pertaining to uniforms.
and if this is just a marketing ploy to sell more stuff, UGA has more money than God already and our fans will still spend the same amount of money on merchandise regardless of it being new……Smacks of New Coke!
Don’t let the kids tail wag the dog of the program. They’ll turn it into ghetto nike.
Shrimp N Grits
August 23rd, 2011
3:38 pm
Altamaha
I’m glad somebody remembers that. I was upset watching that game, but I knew what CMR was doing. We lost to BC. The next year was year 2 for the qb and year 2 for the D. We lost 1 game. Look out. There are many similarities.
Dome to Dome
Shrimp N Grits
August 23rd, 2011
3:40 pm
Top Dawg
sthu. Clever name for a Yechie.
Alphare
August 23rd, 2011
3:43 pm
Here is a reality for your dog fans:
(1) Boise State is a national power house. Just read the article on AJC about Hawaii playing football in Japan. It says so in there. While Boise State is national power house, what’s UGA? regional power house?
(2) SCar has Lattimore/Jeffrey/Garcia. Who does UGA have? Murray? he couldn’t even throw a TD against CFlorida.
Andy Landers deserves a NC
August 23rd, 2011
3:45 pm
Always knew Pat Summit was nuts.
SiddyBoy
August 23rd, 2011
3:47 pm
Let’s get something straight !!! UGA wears dull gray pants not silver. If you don’t believe me, speak with the UGA equipment manager who said so on The Mark Richt show a couple of years ago.Or just look closely at them.I think they detract from the appearance of the uniform. Bring back the silver pleaseeeeeeeee;and put some bright red UGA numbers on those dull white road jerseys.We had white with red numbers in the early 70’s and they looked great.I also loved the red pants !!!
Dawg Walk?
August 23rd, 2011
3:48 pm
Anyone heard if a Dawg Walk is scheduled for the Boise game?
DawginLex
August 23rd, 2011
3:49 pm
Alphare
when Boise state makes their living going 11-1 and 12-0 in the SEC, I’ll be impressed. Otherwise, they are a team that plays 9 OOC jokes that we schedule for patises in the SEC.
The SC/UGA game is going to be a war. It always is. To say otherwise just shows your a lack of knowledge about the history of the series recently.
Gatormeat
August 23rd, 2011
3:49 pm
georgia starts 0-2, gets blown out in Jacksonville by Florida, again, and ends the year 6-6 or 5-7.
Ming the Magnificent
August 23rd, 2011
3:50 pm
Do they have a Nike uniform for the miserable mutt, or are they just going to paint his butt again like last year?
Inquiring minds want to know.
DawginLex
August 23rd, 2011
3:51 pm
Florida goes 6-6 including a Jacksonville beatdown by Georgia and embarrassing losses to LSU,Auburn,Bama,FSU and Kentucky.
Kentucky breaks the streak this year in Lexington 31-30
Weis eats Gainesville
DawginLex
August 23rd, 2011
3:53 pm
Ming
Let him borrow your Jiffy Lube shirt that says “Ming” on the front
“Ready on Bay one”
Ming the Magnificent
August 23rd, 2011
3:53 pm
@Gatormeat we will have a better record that the Gators this year. once the tide beats you like they own you..just like last year the crying starts but it won’t end there Gators 6-6 at best.
Gatormeat
August 23rd, 2011
3:53 pm
Maybe the dogs could wear those Grambling helmets again when they play Boise, we all know how well it worked against those Gators a couple years back
Gatormeat
August 23rd, 2011
3:55 pm
Gators will be in the SEC title game this year. No one else in the East is even close
Top Dawg
August 23rd, 2011
3:55 pm
?
The Ghost of Wally Butts
August 23rd, 2011
3:55 pm
Sometimes you have to loose a limb to save a body, I guess.
Maybe after we are embarrassed by Boise, the Leeburn-Adams Athletic Association will end all of this gimmicky business about changing uniforms to try and recruit thug-wanna-be types and let us wear the classic look once and for all.
Top Dawg
August 23rd, 2011
3:57 pm
Bill, Is Jenkins turning out to be an out of shape bust?
I hope Kwame Geathers is real deal if Jenkins summer is any indication of his play.
Patriot now and forever
August 23rd, 2011
3:58 pm
@DawginLex: “The SC/UGA game is going to be a war.”
With the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have given their lives fighting in wars to defend this country, please don’t disrespect them and trivialize war by comparing it to football.
I’m sure you didn’t mean to do this. I just cringe when someone says [fill in the sport of your choice] is war.
Ming the Magnificent
August 23rd, 2011
3:59 pm
@Gatormeat I think they should do the endzone dance seems to have worked the first time!
Top Dawg
August 23rd, 2011
4:01 pm
At least Damon Evans had the balls to say we weren’t going to change uniforms again on his watch. Time for new AD to step up on subject.
Guess Mark didn’t care for that or us fans.
Ghetto is as ghetto does…ghetto kids will want ghetto uniforms…Where are the adults in the program?!!!!
DawginLex
August 23rd, 2011
4:04 pm
Patriot
I would never disrespect the military.
They are the reason we get to blog as we choose to and go to football games.
it's ok
August 23rd, 2011
4:05 pm
Patriot, understand your point…but getting too sensitive….it’s just semantics and has always been described in those terms throughout history….some just take it to extreme.
how2fish
August 23rd, 2011
4:05 pm
@Patriot now and forever you might be on the up and up and if you served please let me say thanks, but I’ve had this discussion with my Dad,uncles, cousins and friends who have served over the years in every conflict from WWII to our current sand boxes …no a one have any concerns with the “going to be a war” statements a couple have objections with calling pro or college players “warriors” but never the more abstract ‘going to be a war” description for a game…just my 2 cents again to all the vets thanks for your service.
DawginLex
August 23rd, 2011
4:06 pm
Top Dawg
McGarity booked the opener
McGarity agreed to the uniforms
Richt hadn’t seen them until a couple of weeks ago.
Not Richt’s call
Top Dawg
August 23rd, 2011
4:09 pm
The helmet is especially atrocious! Don’t F with the uniforms….Leave the trash for the trash states surrounding us.
Alphare
August 23rd, 2011
4:09 pm
DawginLex
While Boise State is ranked around #5 by numerous media outlets, UGA is ranked around #25.
Be careful, don’t get your tail stomped while sleep walking.
Top Dawg
August 23rd, 2011
4:13 pm
Dawgin Lex, That makes sense, but Mark implied he asked players if they wanted as if that would have canceled all production contracts had they said no, they didn’t like.
I wish players showed some class and said they didn’t like or want to wear them!
Top Dawg
August 23rd, 2011
4:20 pm
Time for adults today to TELL children what they will and will not have….not other way around.
Who raised these wimpy parents today? Sure as heck wasn’t my parents.
its a crazy world
August 23rd, 2011
4:23 pm
feeling like its an upside down sponge cake
RedandBlackDAWG
August 23rd, 2011
4:26 pm
There are a lot of historians on here daily bashing UGA. If there is a sport at the amateur level that changes more than college football does in one year for a school, I don’t know what it is. Kids graduate, leave, quit or are dismissed on every team in the NCAA, and teams improve and fall down each and every year. Each year is a relatively new beginning for each team that plays the sport. Statistics from the previous year and years gone by, mean very little for the following year. Right now, every college team in the NCAA is 0-0. Some might want to wait a few weeks before bashing UGA or crowning their team, the new NC at least.
Dawg Walk?
August 23rd, 2011
4:45 pm
Anyone still complaining abt any part of the Nike combat uniform, Please, Please go look at Maryland’s new unis and then be very very thankful for the one UGA got.
Pat Summit's
August 23rd, 2011
4:58 pm
Still Nuts
Top Dawg
August 23rd, 2011
5:00 pm
Dawg Walk?,….I don’t care about Maryland’s or any others uniforms….I CARE about UGA…two wrongs don’t make a right.
DawginLex
August 23rd, 2011
5:11 pm
Yeah and we were ranked #1 preseason in 2008
how’d that turn out?
There should be no rankings until October 1st. CFB turns over every year with a different group of players.
Beast from the East
August 23rd, 2011
5:53 pm
Dawgs go 8-4 and battle it out for second place in the East with UF.
Win the bowl game and end the season 9-4 with a top 20 ranking. Lose the bowl game and end the season 8-5 and unranked.
That’s been my prediction all year. Only a few weeks until we sort it out!
Columbus
August 23rd, 2011
5:53 pm
Realistically, both games could go either way. UGA is at home for both, even though one is at the dome. The dome will have to be DEAFENING for a HUGE NEEDED ADVANTAGE AND I KNOW IT WILL BE!
UGA had USC beat last year IN Columbia and without Green and others but we fumbled the go-ahead touchdown. This year UGA defense shoud be as good as theirs or better, if we had them beat last year at HOME and with UGA at home this year, I say UGA is the FAVORITE BABY!
2 HARD games could lose both, could win both. I am not sure about Boise, but I think UGA wins a hardfought game with SC by taking over in the 4th quarter. If we do not make mistakes against Boise, I say we MANHANDLE THEM IN THE 2nd half and score late to win the game on a long run after the catch by Crowell. Matter of fact, I say Crowell dominates the game, we keep their offense off the field and our D rested and dominate the 2nd half. If we use that same pattern against SC, we go 2-0 without turnovers and if Crowell can handle the load. We need Samuel in there too so we dont work Crowell too hard.
We are gonna need him to run on LSU, ARKANSAS OR BAMA in the SEC CHAMPIONSHIP BABY!
Run Bobo Run and that also MEANS runs by the backs after the catch! Short passes to the backs after the receivers have spread the D thin and they are isolated with a linbacker to beat then off to the races! You compute that Bobo? Think Herschel…..Crowell can catch that rock too!
Pete
August 23rd, 2011
5:56 pm
Funny, the only articles I read or even blogs I read that have anyone thinking the pups will dominate the lines are here at AJC………
Does everyone on earth telling you pup fans you’re gonna get dominated on the lines and everywhere else scare any of you?
Or do you really believe the crap that comes out of all your mouths? Only here does anyone in the world think the pups have a chance. Only here do you delusional fans say stuff like, faster better players haha LOL!
Only here are people so delusional and misinformed. You are all in for a rude awakening.
UGA FRIEND
August 23rd, 2011
5:59 pm
The Bulldog fans get up tight over so many little things.
You people should be thankful for everything about football that you have. You bash your coaches, the uniforms, and anything else you can find to be negative about. Chill out UGA fans and get a life. Its only football.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
August 23rd, 2011
6:06 pm
Pete
Stop daydreaming and finish peeling those potatoes
Boise isnt beating UGA. You barely beat VT. VT is nothing to brag about
Pete
August 23rd, 2011
6:10 pm
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville————————–
Great example of what I mean…….. You can’t even beat crap UCF or Colorado.. and have the ignorance to say beating a ranked VT conf champ isn’t much? VT was ok but holy crap….. if VT ain’t much, then what does that make a 6-7 unranked crap uga team mean?
Frigin retards.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
August 23rd, 2011
6:37 pm
Pete
VT couldnt even beat James Madison High school the next week
Im the retard, take a look in the mirror
RedandBlackDAWG
August 23rd, 2011
6:44 pm
Pete,
You are going to feel pretty stupid, when Boise get’s it’s butt handed to them in the Dome. No worries though, since the WAC conference is given a berth in the BCS bowl series I think, so you might still be able to get in. Until then, it would be wise of you to stay off of blogs, if you can only insult UGA and act childish. The old saying goes, “It is better to be thought a fool, than open ones mouth, and erase any doubt”. You my friend have erased any doubt.
War Dang Dawg
August 23rd, 2011
6:45 pm
Bad news: 0-2 to start, 7-6 overall. Losses will come against Boise, S. Carolina, Tennessee (let’s face it, we’ve stunk up Neyland the last two times we’ve gone there), Miss. State, Florida (a given), and either Auburn, Tech, or the bowl opponent.
Good news: Richt will be gone, and Georgia will finally land a marquee, proven head coach to lead us in 2012 and beyond!
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
August 23rd, 2011
6:53 pm
War Dang Dawg
If that happens I we get someone thats not a start up
Gary Paterson
Chris Peterson
Would be my first two picks
War Dang Dawg
August 23rd, 2011
6:58 pm
Spike 80DF , entertaining video. But it offends me when “Gator” and “Redneck” are used together in the same sentence. I hate redundancy.
LakeDawg
August 23rd, 2011
7:03 pm
Top Row Dawg
August 23rd, 2011
11:42 am
I think the 5 times we started with South Carolina and Tennessee under Ray Goff were the toughest.
————————————————————————————————————————————————
LOL Any 2 games under Goff would be tough.
Beast from the East
August 23rd, 2011
7:03 pm
“Spike 80DF , entertaining video. But it offends me when “Gator” and “Redneck” are used together in the same sentence. I hate redundancy.”
War Dang Dawg,
Newsflash! If you took all of the rednecks out of the state of Georgia, you’d be left with no one outside of metro Atlanta other than people of color. Does Florida have their share? Yes, they do, but Georgia is WAY out in front…..and most of the UGA faithful are proud of it.
however
August 23rd, 2011
7:09 pm
I still don’t see how Boise St can be ranked so high – they lost all of their D-Backs and most of their top receiving corp from last year. UGA (along with any top 25 team with a decent QB) should be able to light them up with the pass. And any top 30 Defense should be able to stop their really good QB – with the receiving corp BS has this year. So – UGA wins this one handedly.
War Dang Dawg
August 23rd, 2011
7:13 pm
Flat Tire, either one of those guys would suit me just fine. In my memory, Georgia has never landed a proven head coach from another major program. Other schools do it routinely. Look at Alabama -hiring away Bear Bryant, Gene Stallings, and Nick Saban is as good as it gets.
If schools with lesser tradition like South Carolina and Florida can hire the likes of Lou Holtz, Urban Meyer, and Steve Spurrier, there’s no reason Georgia can’t do the same. It’s time for this program to shed its small time mentality. The rest of the SEC is passing us by.
Runnin
August 23rd, 2011
7:14 pm
What difference does it make what the uniforms look like? Dawgs are Dawgs no matter what they wear. I see a 9–4 season coming including the bowl game if we don’t have too many injuries and our guys can stay out of jail. Ga.- 42 Boise – 28. “GO DAWGS”!
icedawg
August 23rd, 2011
7:19 pm
If we have any semblance of a running game we will score points against anyone. But the season will hinge on how well the defense can keep the opponents from scoring. We had difficulty stopping people when we had to late in the game. If the defense can turn it around then we can have a very good season.
whatsgoingon
August 23rd, 2011
7:31 pm
To Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville –
You made the statement “VT couldnt (sic) even beat James Madison High school the next week”. Many people have mentioned this as if VT was some weakling – remember your glories doggies got beat by UCF. But also – does that mean that Michigan is a weakling team because the lost to Appalachian St a couple of years ago? Or (using your logic) was FSU much better than Florida last year because the beat the gators 31-7? Or that Clemson nearly beat (should have – Clemson kicker missed a 32 yarder that would have sealed the game) the national champs Auburn? Does that mean that Clemson (who went 6-7 last year) was just as good or better than Auburn? Once again – using your logic with VT – I would have to say “yes”. So be careful when giving comparisons based on a lose here and there.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
August 23rd, 2011
7:40 pm
whatsgoingon
VT 1-19 vs top 10 teams just a side note
Now this time using that book you just wrote me; use that same statement to respond to Pete at 6:10
Now after re-reading Pete’s repeat after me “So be careful when giving comparisons based on a lose here and there”
Delbert D.
August 23rd, 2011
7:42 pm
however – They didn’t quite lose *all* of the DBs. One returning really good safety and 1 CB with some experience. The other safety listed has been in the program for awhile. It’s not like last year, when they returned 20 of 22 starters.
*S George Iloka 3L 6-3 216 (63 T, 3 TFL, 2 INT)
CB Jamar Taylor 2L 5-11 194 (35 T 3.5 TFL 2 INT)
S Travis Stanaway 2L 5-11 203 (9 T)
* Iloka is preseason 2nd team AA (Athlon)
Runnin With The Dawgs
August 23rd, 2011
7:48 pm
Boise has a high powered offense and I’ll give them credit for that, but their defense will fold under UGA’s offense. I think Ga. will score everytime they get the ball.
Delbert D.
August 23rd, 2011
7:52 pm
VT had one defensive lineman returning in 2010, and he had made only 8 starts. No safeties (their Rover had 4 starts), and 1 of the returning CBs had only 2 starts. They had to learn on the job. It doesn’t explain their offensive problems, though.
I’m not a VT fan, by the way; just throwing out some info, as usual.
RNB
August 23rd, 2011
7:55 pm
Everyone needs to quit worrying about the uniforms and worry about winning some games. In case you missed the last two years the Georgia football program is a joke. I don’t care about the uniforms all I want is some wins against top SEC competition.
Delbert D.
August 23rd, 2011
7:56 pm
Other than Moore, RB Doug Martin, and OT Nate Potter (preseason AA), the defensive line is the real strength of the returning players. DT Shea McClellin and Billy Winn are preseason AAs.
Delbert D.
August 23rd, 2011
7:58 pm
Oops! McClellin is a DE; Winn is a DT. Winn is preseason AA-1st Team – SN and Athlon; 2nd Team Phil Steele and Lindy’s
Hairy Perry
August 23rd, 2011
8:02 pm
These loud mouths come on here and talk like Georgia’s had a loosing record for the last 50 years.
Three down years and UGA football is irrevelant, terrible and meaningless. People don’t get on the blogs of meaningless teams and hang out for hours. Your own actions contradict your comments.
Hairy Perry
August 23rd, 2011
8:06 pm
i believe Georgia wins this game by the 3rd quater. I don’t believe Boise State is as good as every one wants them to be. As usual.
Hairy Perry
August 23rd, 2011
8:06 pm
Adios Amigos!
Michael Clayton
August 23rd, 2011
8:07 pm
Blah, blah, blah, blah let’s suit it up in whatever and see who’s the “Big Dawg”! It’s okay to discuss but a “True Dawg Fan” will be supportive and positive about our team and their efforts. Golly geez I am ready to see this team play…
bad brad
August 23rd, 2011
8:30 pm
Bill,
You are a Bulldawg columnist and you went on vacation with the season upon us; you should be fired. No excuse for that.
ugaclassof2004
August 23rd, 2011
8:50 pm
I’ll tell you one thing right now, if Richt goes below 8-4 with THIS easy schedule, he should be fired immediately!! Shoot, if he gets less than 10 wins than he should be fired. No Bama, No LSU, NO Arkansas. Tennessee, Florida, and Auburn will ALL be down. Tech and Vandy will be horrible. The only teams that are even remotely menacing are South Carolina, Boise, and MSU: all of which are still winnable. If Richt can’t rebound from last season with THIS schedule, then he clearly can’t motivate this generation of player in which case he must go. Shoot you give David Greene & Co. this schedule and they’d go 12-0. Get it done Dawgs! Enough of the excuses.
Terminezza
August 23rd, 2011
9:44 pm
The uniforms look like Bozo the Clown’s costume. But then, UGA is full of clowns, isn’t it.
Boise State >>>>>> Georgia
The Broncos in a major beatdown over the doggies.
Erk Russell's Dog
August 23rd, 2011
10:00 pm
@PETE
Go back to the bugz blog .Enjoy your free hot dog and coke.Western Carolina will have more fans at the flats than tech does.
Pago Pago DAWG
August 23rd, 2011
10:36 pm
Actually we agree with Abnerish…Nike using the word “combat”..we all should offended by this term!
You’ll never see ‘Bama, ND, Penn. State being told by Nike to wear silly looking uniforms..
Erk Russell's Dog
August 23rd, 2011
11:36 pm
@Pete
Your comments about some of Georgia’s opponents last year ,specifically Colorado and Central Florida,after TCU moves to the Big Least ,both Colorado and Central Florida would be the toughest teams on your schedule. Join a real conference where you have to play tough games back to back. this year after the Georgia game Boise does not play another ranked team until November 12 TCU. Your schedule is a joke ,you basically have to play two tough teams and then you want to claim a spot in the BCS . So you better show up in the dome vs. UGA because if you lose you can kiss the BCS goodbye.you cn host Ga.Tech in the Humanitarian Bowl,if Ga.Tech can win 6 games this year.
Erk Russell's Dog
August 23rd, 2011
11:48 pm
@Pete
One more thing actually, after Georgia plays Boise State they have South Carolina the next week.Who does Boise play next the mighty Toledo . I think Georgia plays a tougher opponent in week 2.
PowerDawg
August 24th, 2011
3:05 am
UGA 44-24.
ATLER (Ramblin Wreck)
August 24th, 2011
3:20 am
Yuk!!!! Smells like a wet dawg in here!!!!
Old School
August 24th, 2011
5:39 am
Those 1894 Uni’s are money! Bring em’ back!
Thomas Brown
August 24th, 2011
7:23 am
11-3 which better not include a loss to Boise State, given Mark Richt’s # 11 avg Scout.com recruiting rank the last five years compared to Boise State’s # 69 avg Scout.com recruiting rank the last five years. We do have the Dream Team, right
chazzo
August 24th, 2011
7:29 am
1) Richt is playing it pretty close to his chest. Even the most rabid of us aren’t talking national titles. Everyone seems to be fairly sober (in attitude at least) about the team.
2) The players seem overwhelmingly positive and express a pride about playing for UGA.
3) I haven’t heard Richt call a practice early one time, and they are tackling to the ground.
4) This is a team with a lot to prove.
Don’t know and don’t care about the record or the bowl or the polls!! This will be a greatly improved team. I am excited to see these young players achieve there dreams.
Black pants would have been cooler with the combat outfit, but the designers at Nike are way cheesy. I fall 100% in the don’t really care category. Glad the players are excited.
WDE
August 24th, 2011
7:30 am
@ATLER (Ramblin Wreck) sorry pal that not a wet dog you smell that is PROBATION !!! Enjoy you will for 4 more years !
WDE
August 24th, 2011
7:37 am
@chazzo that was a great post couldn’t agree more, most of Bull Dog Nation is tempering our expectations with a hope for the best, but we know this this and this have to happen for us to have a good year…we don’t expect it to happen just because we want it to…this kids have stayed out of trouble, worked hard all summer and are saying and doing the right things I hope they are successful they have worked hard toward it..what more can you ask of them?
RedandBlackDAWG
August 24th, 2011
7:46 am
UGA’s defense will greatly influence the outcome of the game. It is going to be lost or won on the line, and our defense is stronger, faster, and a lot bigger there. Boise will be starting a tackle that must protect their QB’s blindside and he has never started before. Their center, is coming off a major leg injury and will give away almost 60 pounds and 6 inches in height to either one of UGA’s nose tackles. If UGA controls the line, their defense can control Boise’s offense and that will be the key. Make their QB move around all day with happy feet and the game belongs to the DAWGS.
GO DAWGS and GATA
Thomas Brown
August 24th, 2011
7:58 am
Improved chazzo ?
We have to go back 58 years to 1953 to find one of our teams who lost more than the 7 games we lost last year.
No wonder you don’t want to put up a record for us 2011-2012, that and the 10 CUPCAKES we play. You see ? Putting up a record, would then obviously beg the question, just whom was it we beat this season, wouldn’t it ? Yesterday we all read with horror how Mark Richt has done the last 4 years compared to teams with LESS TALENT as judged by the Scout.com # 11 ranking average the last 5 years making up this team this season. Mark Richt’s record vs teams finishing in the AP Poll Top 10 and Mark Richt’s losses to teams not finishing in the AP Poll Top 25, even, including their win over Mark Richt. Makes you wonder where such a person came up with such an idea. Judge a “coaching staff” put together by Mark Richt and for whom he and he alone is responsible compared to the truly great teams and compared to the truly lousy teams. All 10 years, it has been the same. It is not a 4-year deal on this one of the worst coaches in America beating teams finishing in the AP Poll Top 10 and losing to teams not even finishing in the AP Poll Top 25, even with their win over us.
3-9 vs teams finishing Top 10 AP Poll all 10 years Mark Richt
10 more losses to teams not even finishing that season in the AP Poll Top 25 Mark Richt
Improved, sir, would be to actually beat teams who then finish in the AP Poll Top 10 instead of losing them all.
Improved, sir, would be to actually not lose to lousy teams who even with their win over Mark Richt’s “coaching staff” they still did not even finish that season in the AP Poll Top 25 even.
11-3 is not improved then. It is just more of the same with no significant team beat, yet again, and probably with a loss to a team who doesn’t even finish in the AP Poll Top 25 as usual too.
Mediocre describes where we have been, where we are and where we will be. And, it better not include a loss to Boise State.
WDE
August 24th, 2011
8:16 am
@Thomas Brown you one of the longer winded trolls on the board, the Bear is dead every team has off years we went 20 years without a SEC championship not that long ago..ask BAMA how that 4th place finish in the West felt ask the Gators how getting schooled by Bama last year felt, it felt like 6-7 crappy! If 11-3 is mediocre your never going to be happy, you can rant and rail all you want no one wins them all, 10 cupcakes really we have a 11 game season and play UF, USC and Boise all in the top 25 do the math where do you get 10 cupcakes…take your stats and head on back to Bugville Thomas. And what will you do if we do lose to Boise..start saying bad things about the coaching staff, the team, withhold all the millions you give to the school, hold your breath till you turn blue?
Bait
August 24th, 2011
8:43 am
Enough about the Unis. Look, we are going to beat BSU. I’ve met several folks from Idaho, and they were all (unlike Techies) good, honest people, with a healthy respect for the outdoors. So WHEN we beat them, let’s do it with class (unlike the lizards). Let’s be LOUD, but respectful. I don’t want to be able to hear myself think in the Dome!
The last couple of years have been rough. As Bagger told Junah; It’s time to come out of the shadows….
LogicalUS
August 24th, 2011
9:05 am
“can be ranked so high – they lost all of their D-Backs and most of their top receiving corp from last year”
Well Boisy fans would probably point out that a 6-7 UGA team lost its top receiving corp along with all its running backs, its best player on defense and yet it hasn’t stopped UGA fans about predicting national championships and a rout against them.
So it goes both ways,
mackeyboi
August 24th, 2011
9:51 am
vince dooley is the most overrated coach in UGA history! if it wasn’t for herchel walker saving him in 1980 he would be considered the 2nd worst coach in UGA only behind Ray Goff
War Dang Dawg
August 24th, 2011
10:01 am
“vince dooley is the most overrated coach in UGA history! if it wasn’t for herchel walker saving him in 1980 he would be considered the 2nd worst coach in UGA only behind Ray Goff”
Couldn’t disagree more. Dooley wasn’t a great coach, but he was pretty good. Much better than Goff or Richt. They didn’t have two guaranteed win cupcake games every year when Dooley was coaching. Nonconference games included Clemson, South Carolina (before they joined the SEC) and Tech every year, and Georgia played UCLA, BYU, Pitt, Michigan, TCU, Texas A&M, and FSU among others. No Idaho States or La.-La’s on Dooley’s calendar.
And the best part of all: 17-7-1 against Florida. And that includes wins over some darn good Florida teams. He denied the Gators SEC Championships at least 4 times that I can remember.
That’s my kind of coach. I’d take Dooley over Richt any day.
LawDawg
August 24th, 2011
10:40 am
Grown men talking about what teenagers are wearing is equivalent to watching the red carpet before the Oscars. Stupid and embarrassing. Let’s talk football, not fashion.
Dirty Dawg
August 24th, 2011
11:41 am
As much as I agree that we need to be thinking football rather than uniforms, one thing that occurred to me. I hope that their ‘dress rehearsal’ today includes wearing these new unis…I’d hate to think we could end up with a ‘massive’ wardrobe malfunction on national television – now that would be embarrassing. Oh yeah, and they probably need to wash ‘em at least once before wearing to make sure they don’t fade – who knows we could end up with a washed-out color of red…kinda like Tennessee’s orange that looks as it it’s been left out in the sun too long. Of course the worst ‘wardrobe malfunction’ on that night would be to lose in the damn things.
Big Dirty Dawg
August 24th, 2011
4:23 pm
Alphe…if i remember…Garcia didnt throw a TD versus the Dawgs last year. so whats your point?
Big Dirty Dawg
August 24th, 2011
4:32 pm
Who friggin cares about uniforms….lets just play some ball!!!
G-Man Phoenix
August 24th, 2011
8:05 pm
There’s a lot of tough talk here with a lack of knowledge and even minimum research. BSU/UGA 2005 is ancient history and doesn’t apply. BSU has been on an upward trajectory for several years now, which means bigger, faster players. You put this together with the only caoch to have won the Bear Bryant award twice, and it’s a powerful combination. Also, BSU’s QB crashed in that game and was personally responsible for about a 1/2 dozen turnovers. Who wouldn’t get creamed if that happened. Last year, 5 mos before the Labor Day game, VT hired a coach to do a thorough play x play analysis of BSU in an attempt to figure out their “system”. VT had NC aspirations, took that game very seriously, and they were as prepared as they could be. That’s one reason it ended up being so close. Check the stats. They lost that game on a Monday night, then had a 4-hr bus trip home, then had school. The loss was devastating, and 5 days hardly gave them enough time to practice, let alone recover from the loss. It’s no wonder that a good James Madison was able to take advantage of the situation. The dawgs could be in a similar situation, but with a more difficult 2nd opponent. BSU with Moore as a freshman QB, beat Oregon in 2008 on their home field, one the toughest home fields in the country. After that, don’t you think Oregon would have been prepared for revenge in the 2009 opener in Boise? They didn’t get a first down until 3Q, and LaGarrete Blount was held to minus 5 yds rushing. BSU made a lot of first game mistakes, including several fumbles on snap, or the score wouldn’t have been so close. I’m sure CMR and the team know what they’re up against, and will be prepared. And I doubt they’re expecting a walk in the park.
chazzo
August 24th, 2011
8:14 pm
Improved? No. I said greatly improved. I think Mark Richt has addressed very issue thrown at him. I think he is improved. I think the team is improved. I don’t really care about the record. This is a young crew. I’m betting this will be the most exciting team to watch since the Greene/Pollack days.
I’m not making far out predictions. I’m not talking smack.
I just flat out think this group has come together as a team, and they seem excited to play some football. I’m excited for them. WDE said it best. These guys worked hard. They deserve our support. Anybody with a heart knows that.
Thomas Brown
August 24th, 2011
11:53 pm
WDE cannot even count to 11-3. Quote WDE to me ? Mark Richt has addressed, every issue. Great Scott. Is Mike Bobo the offensive coordinator ? Is Bryan McClendon the RB coach ? Did we recruit a fullback the last 6 recruiting classes, I missed somewhere ? There is a single player who plays the forward pass in our entire secondary ? Do we have a hole in the OL in the starting 5, and is there anyone behind them ? Were there now 26 players who would have played vs Boise State who no longer on even on the roster. All those 26, whom Mark Richt is given great credit for bringing here, none of them are Mark Richt’s “coaching staff’s” responsibility for running off this roster ? Will we not lose the game number 11 in the 11 years this season of Mark Richt and his “coaching staff” to a team who does not end up in the AP Poll Top 25, like Florida for example ? Will we beat Florida or go 2-9 vs Florida his 11 years here ? Are we better than South Carolina in game 2, or will it be not a winning record vs The SEC East the last 6 consecutive seasons the night after the game 2 ? Oh, yeah he has really fixed things. All issues fixed. Hands us all yet another wardrobe malfunction with lies that all the players just love looking like a Japanese cartoon CLOWN SUIT. Will not have beat any team finishing in the AP Poll Top 10 yet again this season. Have our wide receivers just awesome out there.
lttl ms G
August 25th, 2011
6:53 pm
Look a hear boys you can only raddle a bulldogs cage just a lilltle I promise ya he won’t forget you knw as they say every dog has its day : and its comin so lookout!! GO Dawgs always and forever
bama fan
August 27th, 2011
9:50 am
We gave a few suits away to a few players and people are saying it going to get ugly when the NCAA comes down on us but not have as ugly as Ga. uniforms. Talk about ugly!!