Report from a Dawg behind enemy lines: LSU fans ‘feeling cocky’
LSU fans are feeling good about their team and the Mad Hatter. (Associated Press)
For a view from Tiger land on how our opposing fandom is approaching Saturday’s SEC Championship game against Georgia, I checked in with my old friend Owen Scott, who grew up with me in Athens (where his mom still lives), graduated from UGA and has been a clinical psychologist in Baton Rouge for many years.
Owen’s wife is an LSU prof, his oldest daughter in a huge Tiger fan and his youngest daughter graduated from UGA last December but is “a Tiger first, Dawg second,” he admitted.
However, Owen, who’s been following the Dawgs all his life, has remained true to the red and black and posts comments on the Blawg under the name Dr. Morpheus.
“I’ve attended most of the LSU-UGA games in Baton Rouge and seen some great wins (2008) and tough losses (2003) here,” he said. He just lucked into two tickets to the Georgia Dome game at face value and will be in attendance Saturday.
The buzz in Baton Rouge, Owen said, has the locals “feeling cocky.”
Typical of the attitude, Owen said, was the discussion Tuesday on a Baton Rouge sports radio show where the host, former LSU basketball player turned football sideline reporter Jordy Hultberg, thought the Tigers being favored by 13 points was right on the mark.
Said Hultberg: “You gotta be loving what’s going on!”
LSU has seldom trailed, Hultberg said, and even when they were down by 14 points to Arkansas the Tigers had no problem quickly scoring 21 points. “They feed off of big plays, whether it be a big return, a turnover, a breakthrough run. … It was over at halftime.”
Owen Scott lives in Baton Rouge but has stayed true to UGA.
The host asked an on-air guest (a local insurance exec) for a prediction on the game with the Dogs and the response was, “I don’t want to be overconfident, but this team has taken care of everyone. It will be worse for Georgia than Arkansas,” which lost to the Tigers 41-17.
In an exchange with a caller, Hultberg said the LSU defense “is smothering. It just makes life miserable for the opposing quarterbacks. And I don’t see any difference with this coming Saturday. We’re coming to win. There’s no back door, we’re coming through the front door.”
Summing up the mood in Baton Rouge, Owen said: “The LSU base is not taking Georgia seriously. They expect to come into the Dome and blow the Dawgs out with their overwhelming defense and pounding rushing attack. It’s up to our guys now to show LSU and the sports world we belong on the same field with the best of the SEC West and consensus No. 1 team in the nation.”
But Owen, at least, is optimistic. “If the LSU players are drinking the fans’ Kool-Aid,” he said, “they will be in for a surprise when they see that, unlike Arkansas, Georgia can stuff the run and pressure the QB. Go Dawgs! GATA!”
Trust him, he’s a doctor.
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Joe Bob Thibodaux
November 30th, 2011
7:58 pm
This just in:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BeFt1Kcr7M
Owen Scott, III
November 30th, 2011
8:21 pm
Greetings from Baton Rouge, fellow Dawgs. Like Jarvis Jones, I like Les Miles and have great respect for the LSU football team. They’ve earned their ranking at the top and they deserve to be favored. But, as Jarvis said, we’ve got a pretty good team, too. I haven’t seen us excited like this in a long time and I have to like our chances of proving the doubters wrong. But, win or lose, there’s one thing I know: It’s great to be a Georgia Bulldog! See y’all at the Dome.
CHDawg
November 30th, 2011
8:24 pm
Joe Bob, here is your problem…you obviously haven’t ever seen a real bulldog. Cute pooch, though.
dawgs kill cats
November 30th, 2011
8:25 pm
Talk about alot of bulletin board material for the dawgs i say let the kittys and their fans keep talking ,dig that hole kittys,dig
CHDawg
November 30th, 2011
8:28 pm
Don’t feel bad Joe Bob; Russ, the interim mascot, called Coach Johnson on the phone and barked at him, and the GT coach hung up on him and accused him of being a Walmart employee! That was last week…
Big Dawg
November 30th, 2011
8:31 pm
Time for some hard nosed smash mouth football.
1.)Biggest offensive line in the Country… Show me something ….Murray better not get touched.
2.)Crowell better not go out in the 1st qtr.
3.)Figgins needs to hammer them
4.) Grantham better do his homework and pound the center
CHDawg
November 30th, 2011
8:32 pm
Coach Johnson didn’t recognize a real bulldog either, or he thought he was a retarded human who worked at Walmart…not sure really. Again, that is water over the dam.
C P Johnson
November 30th, 2011
8:38 pm
LSU fans are a bunch of RETARDS that work at Walmart.
tigeringa
November 30th, 2011
8:42 pm
I’ve lived on both LA and GA for 20 years each. Trust me, the difference in a red-neck homer and a coon-ss is the coon-ss has better taste. in girls, food, and ESPECIALLY football. As welll as UGA has done in a very weak SEC east, come to LSU’s home away from Home (yes, the dome with your name on it) Bring your best game, fondest memories of Larry, and take your whipping. Don’t quit until the sixy minutes are gone. The best team will win.
tigeringa
November 30th, 2011
8:47 pm
Enter your comments here
JB_UGA
November 30th, 2011
8:49 pm
Its not just the LSU fan base. No one is giving UGA a chance in this game. Time to shock the world! GO DAWGS!
Corn Dawg
November 30th, 2011
8:56 pm
I like to put a lil’ mustard on my Dawg before I chow down.
Corn Dawg
November 30th, 2011
8:57 pm
Tickets are cheap for the Corn Dawg Bowl.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 30th, 2011
8:59 pm
The ESPN Sports Nation poll is “Who will win UGa or LSU”. Not even the state of Georgia picked UGa to win. Dawgs No state in the US thinks the Dawgs have a shot.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/fp/flashPollResultsState?sportIndex=pollindex&pollId=128143
Corn Dawg
November 30th, 2011
9:04 pm
Idaho is the only state backing the Dawgs. I like a lil’ mustard on my taters too.
Corn Dawg
November 30th, 2011
9:06 pm
4 Cokes
4 Corn Dawgs
4 Taters
4 Tickets
Come to the Corn Dawg Bowl!
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 30th, 2011
9:07 pm
CHDawg……………as you Dawgs like to say….There are no TECH fans because we can’t fill our stadium. You think the 5 or 6 Tech fans are on this blog acting like LSU fans? Who’s fan base is the one that is obsessed? You are sounding very Paranoid. If you check the Falcon Blogs there are a TON of Louisiana folks still in Atlanta after Katrina. They didn’t go home.
Dawg48
November 30th, 2011
9:10 pm
Check this out on teneesse football.
http://tonybasilio.com/index.php?page=tony
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 30th, 2011
9:11 pm
Corn Dawg 50% is EVEN not winning or backing the Dawgs more than LSU.
kme
November 30th, 2011
9:16 pm
Actually, I was talking to my father. He is going to the game…has good tix. He knows…that LSU is the overwhelming favorite….but…
as I told him…it only takes LSU to overthink their possibilities…to be at their worse…or to have a bad game….GA Dawgs can take it to them….either LSU will prevail 31-17….or GA could pull the upset 24-21…..
We shall see!
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 30th, 2011
9:18 pm
48…………..Damn, just Damn. I figured Dooley was meaner than that. Boy has to get a pair real fast.
Corn Dawg
November 30th, 2011
9:20 pm
It’s still the strongest state on the map. Them TaterHeads is actually more delusional than the locals.
Whoda Thunkit?
Les miles
November 30th, 2011
9:22 pm
Damn I love grass! Go dawgs!
Can't figure you out!
November 30th, 2011
9:25 pm
How can your doctor friend whose younger daughter is a UGA grad, as well as himself, consider that he’s a Tiger first, Dawg second??? Born in Athens, UGA grad, daughter UGA grad, and mom still lives in Athens, should definitely make him a Dawg fan. Something fishy here.
Dawg48
November 30th, 2011
9:27 pm
Still
I know it’s kinda shocking…….
I thought bray seemed like a good kid……. But you never know…
Not good to have civil war in the locker room.
Corn Dawg
November 30th, 2011
9:27 pm
He’s a Corn Dawg.
Wouldn’t you like to be a Corn Dawg too?
Still@theKool-aidBAR
November 30th, 2011
9:28 pm
I thought Bray was a GOOD kid too. The EGOs on many of the players these days is just crazy.
Dawg48
November 30th, 2011
9:30 pm
Looks like Dooley is loosing all the way around…..
I Would not be shocked if we here he is gone before Christmas.
Corn Dawg
November 30th, 2011
9:31 pm
I know I’m just a weenie on a stick (with a tasty honey-crisp batter coating), but I’d advise against treating a personal blog rant as if it were an actual work of journalism.
Can't figure you out!
November 30th, 2011
9:35 pm
Wow! Dawg ‘48,,,,that was interesting. Barbara D. will NOT like reading that. Thank heavens Da’Rick didn’t choose UGA, but I seriously doubt Georgia’s coaching staff would allow that disrespect. Who was that rich guy in NW GA that funded Da’Rick?
dawgs kill cats
November 30th, 2011
9:37 pm
i kinda like the idea that espn and the kitty fans keep trying to make us irrelevant adding fuel to that fire gona be an explosion outa athens i say let them fuel blow em up dawgs shoch the world…
Dawg48
November 30th, 2011
9:43 pm
Nash nance
Rumor is he is leaving Tennessee going to a ivy league school…
Dawg48
November 30th, 2011
9:46 pm
http://georgia.247sports.com/Board/19/Junkyard-Question-5897569
Owen Scott, III
November 30th, 2011
10:43 pm
@Can’t figure you out- You and AFDawg need to read it again: it’s my daughter who likes the Tigers- she grew up in Baton Rouge. I bleed red & black just like you.
Jordan
November 30th, 2011
10:52 pm
http://isportsweb.com/2011/11/30/sec-championship-game-preview/
Corn Dawg
November 30th, 2011
10:55 pm
Readin’ comprehension ain’t exactly our forte here Dr. Morpheus. But we’re tasty with a little mustard on the side.
Corn Dawg
November 30th, 2011
10:58 pm
@Jordan
I’m thinking Cotton.
son's who
December 1st, 2011
4:48 am
I like the way this college football season has played out, in regards to the upcoming National Championship game. I propose that the NFL follow the same format for the Super Bowl. No matter who wins the playoff games or League Championships, New England and San Francisco should play in the Super Bowl. After all, they are the two best teams in my opinion. That’s all that matters.
Corn Dawg
December 1st, 2011
7:07 am
I dunno. There’s something to be said for division playoffs that pit the #1 team against the #5 team.
How else will those #5 teams ever get to a Corn Dawg Bowl?
son's who
December 1st, 2011
7:23 am
Next season’s World Series will feature the Philadelphia Phillies vs. the New York Yankees.
Dem Jawjah Puppies...YAWN...
December 1st, 2011
7:29 am
So irrelevant, so delusional, so stupid, so disappointed after the BEATDOWN from LSU…keep spewing facts, hubris and bravado….LSU cares about one – points allowed and we’re the best..we win…don’t confuse your cupcake schedule and 10 wins with your ability to hang with LSU….you can’t and won’t…you lose….
Super Dawg
December 1st, 2011
7:38 am
How can you say that LSU will win?
You don’t even know which unis the Dawgs will be sporting. We’re keeping that under wraps – it’s our secret weapon.
Fear the Uniform!!!
Dogs Smell
December 1st, 2011
8:12 am
TampaDawg – Go choke a co worker as it shows you have not ever been in Athens on a weekkday ! Dogs lose badly.
01HAWK
December 1st, 2011
8:44 am
The Bulldogs also were the only SEC East team that did not have to face any of the SEC West’s top three teams — LSU, Alabama and Arkansas, which have a combined record of 33-3. Instead, Georgia faced the Western Division’s bottom three — Auburn, Mississippi State and Ole Miss, which have a combined record of 15-21.
NUFF SAID………………………………Everyone watch the BEAT DOWN.
Honky Talkin
December 1st, 2011
8:48 am
Georgia is 2-2 against ranked teams. LSU is 7-0 against ranked teams. Georgia fans are delusional to think they can even keep it close. LSU 42 – UGA 10
papadawg
December 1st, 2011
8:57 am
Truth is Arkansas does not have a defense and the DAWGS have a D better than the kittys have seen except for maybe Bama. Please keep thinking you’re going to score 40 or more. I hope your players are thinking the same. Remeber our two losses was the first two games of the season one of which the DAWGS gave away.
Dogs Smell
December 1st, 2011
9:06 am
papadawg- I guess when you say gave away you forget BSU called off the dogs and even took a knee in order to not score again. Yes it was the first 2 games and from then on it was the easiest schedule in the entire SEC. Look for LSU to make a statement.
Red Stick
December 1st, 2011
9:28 am
Super Dawg
December 1st, 2011
7:38 am
“You don’t even know which unis the Dawgs will be sporting. We’re keeping that under wraps – it’s our secret weapon.
Fear the Uniform!!!”
Like the “black out” game against Bama?
Ralph Meadows
December 1st, 2011
9:29 am
Dang! I’m sure glad the “Coke cans” clown suits are NOT coming back! When I first saw them, I was extremely embarrassed. This was not what Georgia wears, not MY Georgia! How could ANY GeorgiaDawgFan like those things! They are ALMOST as bad as having a big ‘ot orange”T” on your helmet.
BirdDog
December 1st, 2011
9:29 am
Ark has no D and the Dawgs have one of the best in the country. No way they score 41+ points unless they get a bunch of turn-overs. We shall see… Go Dawgs!!!