UGA fans have visions of four- and five-star tailbacks dancing in our heads
Isaiah Crowell is talking the right talk. (Associated Press)
Coming back from a week’s vacation, there’s plenty to talk about, even if there thankfully wasn’t any major news in Athens amid the continuing coaching upheaval in the SEC, with South Carolina losing Ellis Johnson the latest development.
The rumor mill was working overtime about Mark Richt and Isaiah Crowell, but Richt’s not going anywhere despite the efforts of some folks in the media to send him to Texas A&M or Penn State.
And apparently Crowell isn’t going anywhere either, contrary to all those bulletin board sources, though he does find himself behind Boo Malcome on the depth chart heading into the Outback Bowl. Still, a little competition never hurt and it’s encouraging that Crowell is saying all the right things about needing to apply himself more and take more responsibility. Maybe he’s finally growing up.
There’s also been the usual wondering you normally get this time of year about which underclassmen will leave early for the NFL (with Orson Charles and Bacarri Rambo seeming the most likely) and which ones still want to play college ball (thank you, Jarvis Jones).
Plus, of course, speculation on whether backup quarterback Hutson Mason will transfer or take a redshirt year to give himself some class separation from starter Aaron Murray (I’m hoping he chooses the latter); Outback bowl tickets have been a hotter item in Athens than in East Lansing (not surprising); and we’ve learned that the ridiculous NCAA rule book doesn’t allow Richt to play Santa Claus with his staff unless he clears it first with the athletic administration.
A Twitter dream ... (Melchizedek Lockwood)
Meanwhile, it might not have been visions of sugarplums dancing in our heads, but after his visit to Athens four-star running back prospect Mike Davis tweeting that “IV Horsemen” picture of him along with Crowell, UGA five-star commitment Keith Marshall and fellow four-star prospect Todd Gurley certainly had Dogs fans dreaming of big things happening in the running game.
How about a Dream Tailback Corps this year?
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True Dawg Fan
December 20th, 2011
3:59 pm
Bobo is Not the Problem
December 20th, 2011
3:16 pm
OoltewahDawg, we have not deserved to be in a championship game since 1980. Mark May probably thinks they could have beat Georgia because Pitt did in fact beat Georgia two years later in the Herschel era.
AltamahaDawg, Chris Leak was the starting QB for Florida in 2002.
Bobo is Not the Problem
December 20th, 2011
3:19 pm
The biggest problem with UGA is the culture of excuse-makers as represented by the folks on this board. You have so many excuses you couldn’t fit them all in Santa’s huge bag. Everybody else cheats, ESPN is against us, we don’t get any breaks, the refs are against us, the NCAA is against us, blah blah blah blah blah!!!
Get over it. No one is against us. And no one can create a culture of excellence except for us.
I had to start saving some of your crap so I could let you know how dumb you are when I finished looking through the posts.
You take idiot of the day and then some (maybe idiot of the week).
If you dont think that ESPN hates UGA you have been living under a rock. Compare 2007 to now thats all the proof you need. 07 they said we didnt deserve it for not winning the conf, no mention of the disparity in losses. but in 2011 its ok for Bama to get a SECOND shot, even though they didnt win division or conference. Everyone knows ESPN hates us, excpet for retards like you.
So bc Pitt beat UGA with Herschel 2 years later that means they would have beaten them if they had played in Sugar bowl? ahahahahahaha thats the worst logic I have ever heard. Was there coaching turnover, did any players leave, did new players come in. Did they play outside or inside, was it sunny or night, was windy or calm, was it cold or hot?
FYI since your prob too dumb to understand that, that means there are too many variables to say they would have idiot.
As for Floridas 02 title. They owe a lot of it, and I MEAN A LOT OF IT to Tebow. Throwing that gay jump TD pass to stun LSU. Without that TD pass they lose the game and prob dont make it all the way. Tebow was their biggest weapon that year even if Leak started at QB.
So thanks for being an idiot, it has been a pleasure letting you know how dumb you are. If you continue to post I will continue to laugh at you and remind you how dumb you are.
Joey
December 20th, 2011
4:02 pm
Lordy, the techies are posing as MSU fans now. Will the madness ever end? Ever?
True Dawg Fan
December 20th, 2011
4:03 pm
Still@theKool-aidBAR
December 20th, 2011
3:56 pm
I said when not due to injury. The Injury years were where more backs got fewer carriers. Without injuries Bobo and Richt give 1 RB the carries. Notice how much Murry runs too. I know it is because the NFL sized O-Line UGa has sucks, but it shows even more Pass Attempts that failed so Murray had to run. those 4 RB’s would be Stupid to go to UGA because 1 will become the coach’s favorite. It happens EVERY TIME.
wow your an idiot. This is why nerds shouldnt post bc they dont know football. Richt shares the rock with the RB’s that are good enough to tote the rock. IF you dont practice well you dont play. He has always had this philoshophy and always will.
You are a retard and most likely always will.
True Dawg Fan
December 20th, 2011
4:03 pm
Joey
December 20th, 2011
4:02 pm
Lordy, the techies are posing as MSU fans now. Will the madness ever end? Ever?
There team is a joke so no.
True Dawg Fan
December 20th, 2011
4:03 pm
Thier
AltamahaDawg
December 20th, 2011
4:04 pm
And Cox didnt “suck”, he tried to carry the team and clearly was not able and made a lot of mistakes. And got very little support. He also had some pretty darn good games. Not just “anyone” would have been better.
True Dawg Fan
December 20th, 2011
4:04 pm
Their
True Dawg Fan
December 20th, 2011
4:05 pm
AltamahaDawg
December 20th, 2011
4:04 pm
And Cox didnt “suck”, he tried to carry the team and clearly was not able and made a lot of mistakes. And got very little support. He also had some pretty darn good games. Not just “anyone” would have been better.
There was no one else to play QB that year. Had we wasted Murrays redshirt that would have been the dumbest thing we could have done. Dont let these idiot fringe fans get to you. Most of them barely know 5 players on the team and then they know even less about how the game is played.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
December 20th, 2011
4:07 pm
They’er?
Still@theKool-aidBAR
December 20th, 2011
4:08 pm
Thair?
DawginLex
December 20th, 2011
4:08 pm
Anyone who doesn’t think Tebow was a huge part of the 2006 title for florida was not paying attention.
He is their Herschel.
They won’t win another one without him.
AltamahaDawg
December 20th, 2011
4:10 pm
Tell the line of Dawg fan that have cried that Richt tried TO share the tokes too much , all these years.
The point that 4 equally talented RB aren’t going to get the exact proportional amount of carries is a pretty weak attempt to criticize us any way.
4 backs, not all the same carries. Ya Think!
2 will RS most likely. the other will compete and get exactly what they deserve.
But I would give it my ” favorite” at the time too.Be stupid not to.
Dwayne
December 20th, 2011
4:11 pm
No wonder people call YALL koolaide drinkers. UGA was going no where with cox, had AM played, he would of had some experience the following year and maybe by now, he would of played better in big games, like the Boise St. game and the SC game and maybe even the Florida game last year? dont bore everyone with stats, stats are for losers.
True Dawg Fan
December 20th, 2011
4:12 pm
Still@theKool-aidBAR
December 20th, 2011
4:07 pm
They’er?
Watchout if you correct your own spelling, captain spell check will still make a retard comment about it.
Get a life loser
True Dawg Fan
December 20th, 2011
4:13 pm
AltamahaDawg
December 20th, 2011
4:10 pm
Tell the line of Dawg fan that have cried that Richt tried TO share the tokes too much , all these years.
The point that 4 equally talented RB aren’t going to get the exact proportional amount of carries is a pretty weak attempt to criticize us any way.
4 backs, not all the same carries. Ya Think!
2 will RS most likely. the other will compete and get exactly what they deserve.
But I would give it my ” favorite” at the time too.Be stupid not to.
Which is just palying the hot hand. Wonder if anyone else in the history of football has used this concept? (Sarcasm for the retards)
True Dawg Fan
December 20th, 2011
4:15 pm
Dwayne
December 20th, 2011
4:11 pm
No wonder people call YALL koolaide drinkers. UGA was going no where with cox, had AM played, he would of had some experience the following year and maybe by now, he would of played better in big games, like the Boise St. game and the SC game and maybe even the Florida game last year? dont bore everyone with stats, stats are for losers.
wow you are just lost in this whole notion of football arent you??
Yes lets waste an entire year of Murrays eligibility and play him in 4 games. (once again that was sarcasm) You make no sense. Maybe you should try brushing up on the way college football works.
AltamahaDawg
December 20th, 2011
4:15 pm
I don’t really put Dwane in the idiot fringe category. I just am not with him on this point.
Mark (another one)
December 20th, 2011
4:17 pm
So, what is the all time record between the Big 10 and the SEC? Does the Big 10 have any wins?
AltamahaDawg
December 20th, 2011
4:17 pm
Let’s just conveniently gloss over the fact that as far as RB’s goes, the “favorite” usually changes a few times as the year goes on. That certainly doesn’t work well with the point.
True Dawg Fan
December 20th, 2011
4:20 pm
AltamahaDawg
December 20th, 2011
4:15 pm
I don’t really put Dwane in the idiot fringe category. I just am not with him on this point.
I dont know about that. He seems pretty far out there and not very informed on how things really work.
He is sitting there arguing about pulling Murrays redshirt to get him some experience and take over for Joe. Thats the sound of a fringe retard to me.
Redshirting him gave him the ability to learn the playbook and mature a little before actually getting into the game. Throwing him out there at the end of the season his True Freshman year would have been the worst move Richt had made to that point in his career. It makes no sense hence why it was never even contimplated. Joe wasnt anything spectactular but he didnt stink it up. He actually had some really good games. And some games the defense cost us big time. But fringe fans dont factor those things in. Funny
True Dawg Fan
December 20th, 2011
4:21 pm
AltamahaDawg
December 20th, 2011
4:17 pm
Let’s just conveniently gloss over the fact that as far as RB’s goes, the “favorite” usually changes a few times as the year goes on. That certainly doesn’t work well with the point.
No that certaintly wouldnt make there arguement any stronger hence why they leave those little tid bits out…… to look better!
AltamahaDawg
December 20th, 2011
4:24 pm
Dwayne, I am just not willing to trade his BEST year, for 4 games of his WORST year on the pure specualtion that he “might” have learned something that he wasnt capable of getting working every week on the scout team and with a group of preofessiona football coaches. He wasn’t just sitting around doing nothing. I understand the “game experience”, but its a poor trade off to me. He was not in shape, wasn’t fair to everybody else, and it’s just specualtion what “could” have happened. He “could” have got beat up too.
There is also this small matter of beating out the guy in front of you to start games. Are you in favor of just starting people based on thier future potential, and them not earning it?
gdawg
December 20th, 2011
4:25 pm
SSIgator,
you must be really bored looking at this blog, perhaps a more intersting blog would be the demise of gator football or which moron wants to coach with muschump? Or muschump or dooley, who is the first to go in 12.
Lakedawg
December 20th, 2011
4:27 pm
Columbusdawgs—Sir no true Dawg fan gives a crap about what you think.
AltamahaDawg
December 20th, 2011
4:28 pm
What do we think Aaron Murray would say if we asked him about this?
Dwayne
December 20th, 2011
4:28 pm
I know how college sports work.
True Dawg Fan
December 20th, 2011
4:30 pm
Dwayne
December 20th, 2011
4:28 pm
I know how college sports work.
Sure fooled me!
Dwayne
December 20th, 2011
4:31 pm
Now I’m a fringe retard, for having an opinion on a blog. Thank you.
Dawgcollar
December 20th, 2011
4:31 pm
“The Four Horseman”….I like that..During the four years the “Four Horseman ruled @ Notre Dame, Knute Rockne lost only 2 games, both to Nebraska in Lincoln. Back then their was 4 backs, Quarterback, 2 halfbacks and a Fullback. I believe the “Four Horseman” Fullack was named Jim Crowley.. Anyone else see a slight resemblance in the names..Lets hope we break Knutes record and go several seasons without a loss at all..Giddy-up Horsies!!!!!
True Dawg Fan
December 20th, 2011
4:32 pm
Dwayne
December 20th, 2011
4:31 pm
Now I’m a fringe retard, for having an opinion on a blog. Thank you.
For having a stupid opnion yes
True Dawg Fan
December 20th, 2011
4:32 pm
Opinion
BAMA
December 20th, 2011
4:34 pm
Georgia will never be a powerhouse title contender because the fans just don’t care enough. They don’t live and die football. Georgia likes to think it’s one of the elite programs in the country, but it’s just not. Def aren’t in the Top 5 and probably not even in the Top 10. The sooner they realize that, the better.
Mark (another one)
December 20th, 2011
4:34 pm
Wasn’t AM injured his red shirt season? I thought he was rehabing a shoulder problem.
Still@theKool-aidBAR
December 20th, 2011
4:35 pm
True Dawg Fan & AltamahaDawg
If you don’t know UGa is a FEATURE Running Back Offense then you don’t know UGa too damn well.
AltamahaDawg
December 20th, 2011
4:35 pm
How is my opinion about who should have played in 2009 making me a “koolAid drinker” Dwayne? Did you just figure you’d throw that out there gratuitously?
Dwayne
December 20th, 2011
4:35 pm
ok True dog fan, pass me a cup of that koolaide…hold on…let me take a sip…ssssssssssiiiiiiippppppp…mmmmmmmmmmmm…We will win the NC next year, CMR will be COTY!!!! AM will win the Heisman!!!! Florida sux, GT sux, LSU got lucky, we would have beat Boise St. if Olgetree didn’t get hurn, SC got lucky when the pounded AM like a ragdoll, if we had a special teams coach …what else is thre?
AltamahaDawg
December 20th, 2011
4:36 pm
I think I am pretty comfortable with My UGA knowledge Bar, thanks. You are morphing your point now anyway.
True Dawg Fan
December 20th, 2011
4:36 pm
BAMA
December 20th, 2011
4:34 pm
Georgia will never be a powerhouse title contender because the fans just don’t care enough. They don’t live and die football. Georgia likes to think it’s one of the elite programs in the country, but it’s just not. Def aren’t in the Top 5 and probably not even in the Top 10. The sooner they realize that, the better.
hahahahahahaha
So now we dont care enough??? I would bet my enitire salary that there are at least 50K fans that would heavily disagree with your moronic statement.
Bama will be in the sellar when Saban leaves for Texas and the investigation into all those free suits your players got is done.
Enjoy another probation and post season ban. This one should be land at least 3-4 years of post season ban.
Dwayne
December 20th, 2011
4:37 pm
sorry about the typo’s,
True Dawg Fan
December 20th, 2011
4:38 pm
Still@theKool-aidBAR
December 20th, 2011
4:35 pm
True Dawg Fan & AltamahaDawg
If you don’t know UGa is a FEATURE Running Back Offense then you don’t know UGa too damn well.
ahahahahahahaha You clearly dont know anything about anything much less UGA football. They have always been RB by committee and just used the hot hand. The only exception to that was Musa and Knowsean, bc they were always the hot hand.
Ric Flair.
December 20th, 2011
4:38 pm
They will have a lot to live up to being called the 4 horsemen. The original horsemen was myself, Arn and Ole Anderson along with Tully Blanchard……What a team!…Championships too!……I say GO DAWGS!
Ric Flair.
December 20th, 2011
4:39 pm
Woooooooooooh!
AltamahaDawg
December 20th, 2011
4:40 pm
typos are a badge of honor to me.
True Dawg Fan
December 20th, 2011
4:40 pm
Dwayne
December 20th, 2011
4:35 pm
ok True dog fan, pass me a cup of that koolaide…hold on…let me take a sip…ssssssssssiiiiiiippppppp…mmmmmmmmmmmm…We will win the NC next year, CMR will be COTY!!!! AM will win the Heisman!!!! Florida sux, GT sux, LSU got lucky, we would have beat Boise St. if Olgetree didn’t get hurn, SC got lucky when the pounded AM like a ragdoll, if we had a special teams coach …what else is thre?
Well some of your post is right.
Florida and GT do suck.
SC was gifted the game with TO’s and our specials teams play was horrid.
LSU got dominated in the first half and then just took care of business with short fields off turnovers in the second half.
Dwayne
December 20th, 2011
4:40 pm
Bama, you better enjoy it while it lasts, Saban wont be there much longer
Mark (another one)
December 20th, 2011
4:40 pm
BAMA: Georgians will never be jealous of Alabama. Get real! Birmingham, home of the largest public bankruptcy in history.
True Dawg Fan
December 20th, 2011
4:42 pm
And yes I dont think anyone will argue the fact that LSU was lucky at the half that we dropped two TD passes and we werent up big.
they out played us in the second half but doesnt take away from the luck of 2 dropped TD passes.
True Dawg Fan
December 20th, 2011
4:44 pm
As for this kool aide you mention, I am pretty thirsty right now. but you have never heard me nor will you see me predict us getting into the NC next year or Murray winnning the heisman.
jalexan49
December 20th, 2011
4:45 pm
Davis and Gurley Georgia needs you now!!! I also would like to see Robinson, Morris or Brantley join them!
I believe it’s time for Samuels, Malcome, Crowell and the others step up in the Bowl game. If these guys will give 110% it should make for an interesting day for Georgia!
The defense is solid and the wide receivers and tight ends are playing extremely well. I believe the offensive line will be solid.
Best of luck!! Four-Horseman? Sounds pretty nice!
life long UGA fan
December 20th, 2011
4:49 pm
UGA and fans s/d be happy with 10-11 wins as long as we continued to invest less than competitive programs and continue to graduate more and refuse to over-sign. Eventually we’ll breakthrough and those 10-11 wins will be a NCS. However, we cannot expect to play for it every couple of years competing with teams with more money, less rigorous academics (not that ours are all that rigorous), and no compunction when it comes to over-signing. Let’s be proud of our team and our approach!