UGA’s McGarity between rock and hard place on SEC scheduling
The SEC’s athletic directors are meeting this week in Nashville on what to do about the football schedule in the wake of expansion, and it sounds like UGA’s Greg McGarity is beginning to waver in his opposition to adding a ninth conference game each season.
That’s because, basically, the SEC schools giving up a cupcake nonconference game is the best, least disruptive way to ensure that the traditional cross-divisional Georgia-Auburn and Alabama-Tennessee rivalries are maintained as an annual fixture.
Up to now, McGarity was like most coaches and AD’s in the conference: opposed to a nine-game conference schedule — despite the fact it would most likely draw more TV money — because they consider it tough enough to survive eight SEC games and don’t want to give up one of those sure home wins they buy from lesser programs hungry for the bucks.
Plus, they say, playing nine conference games would make it very difficult to pull the trigger on the occasional nonconference game against a big-time opponent. That’s especially true for schools like Georgia, Florida and South Carolina that are locked into a game every year against a nonconference in-state rival from a BCS conference.
But as this week’s SEC meetings approached, McGarity said he at least supports discussing the option of nine conference games.
The problem is that if the conference keeps the eight-game schedule in its current configuration, you’ll only play the teams from the other division twice every 12 years, aside from your permanent cross-divisional rival. A lot of folks think that’s too long, which has put the possibility of giving up the permanent rivalries on the table.
Really, only the only permanent rivalries that anyone cares about are Georgia-Auburn and Alabama-Tennessee. The others — Florida-LSU, Arkansas-South Carolina, Vanderbilt-Ole Miss, Kentucky-Mississippi State and Missouri-Texas A&M — don’t have much of a history or haven’t really developed any traction as rivalries.
Talking with the Chattanooga Times Free Press, McGarity asked, “At some point, does the conference make a statement preserving the historical pieces? I hope that there will be a level of concern and compassion for those two rivalry games,” but he acknowledged that, “the worry there is that it would be a 10-4 vote.”
With nine conference games, one of the three cross-divisional games could still be devoted to the permanent rivalries. But as McGarity acknowledged to The Birmingham News, going to nine conference games, as other conferences are doing, also would offer a more attractive product on the field to the ticket-buying fans.
“Many SEC fans have a decision whether to come to our game, or sit at home in front of their 60-inch HDTV,” McGarity said. “Would they be more likely to come to a conference game as opposed to a guaranteed [nonconference] game? I’d probably say yes.”
Other possible solutions to the problem have been floated, including petitioning the NCAA for a waiver to its rule that requires conferences with a championship game to be split into two divisions of at least six teams with each team in a division playing every other team in its division. If the SEC weren’t divided into divisions and simply had the two top teams playing in its championship game, the traditional rivalries would be protected. But whether the schools that don’t really care about traditional cross-divisional rivalries would support such a major upheaval just to protect Georgia-Auburn and Alabama-Tennessee is questionable.
And so it is that you have McGarity willing to talk about adding a ninth conference game. Because, as he told the Times Free Press, “Our top priority in the whole scheduling discussion is maintaining the rivalry with Auburn.”
It’s going to be interesting to see how this plays out.
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226 comments Add your comment
Joey
February 29th, 2012
10:14 am
First?
old dog
February 29th, 2012
10:14 am
first……….
old dog
February 29th, 2012
10:15 am
ok, my bad……2nd!
Rutledge84
February 29th, 2012
10:18 am
Down with the cupcakes. For the money the fans pay, they deserve a blockbuster every week.
Macclenny_dawg
February 29th, 2012
10:18 am
All this just because we had 2 add 2 more teams!!!
Bryan G.
February 29th, 2012
10:18 am
Go to 9 games. I’d rather keep Auburn than keep Buffalo or Georgia Southern on the schedule. Plus, McGarity is right: as a season ticket holder, I have little desire to drive to Athens to watch Buffalo when I can have a beer and watch it in HD on my TV. And I *love* Athens. But this year’s home schedule is rather light.
corey
February 29th, 2012
10:20 am
suck it up and play 9. dont need to play two cupcakes a year. its better for the fans.
Pdx
February 29th, 2012
10:22 am
9 conf games in the best choice for the league. I hate the cupcake games.
Bremen Dawg
February 29th, 2012
10:22 am
Heck, we can’t get back to NC game with 8 conference games, if we go to 9 then we will never get there.
BobDawg
February 29th, 2012
10:23 am
McGarity will do the right thing and support 9 games…. Man, he strung a good tennis racquet for me during my time on the TT and in Athens….With UF in Jax each year, we have to beef up our home schedule with more SEC west opponents….
Fridawg
February 29th, 2012
10:25 am
The TV argument is flawed. Since games have been televised attendance has sky-rocketed. The more people see it on TV, the more they want to be there. Games like Buffalo allow those fans a chance to get their. It looks like the Auburn game is on its way out.
Shane
February 29th, 2012
10:36 am
@Fridawg, most of the cupcake games are televised on smaller networks or at noon and we didnt even sell out louisiana lafayette last year. More conference games = bigger bucks and more CBS and ESPN national games.
CTDawg
February 29th, 2012
10:37 am
Drop Tech instead! It’s not really a rivalry anyway. Doesn’t one team have to win occasionally for it to really be a rivalry.
RealDawg
February 29th, 2012
10:40 am
The only real benefit to having two divisions is travel for the sports other than football. Since away fans get such few ticktets to away football and the teams only travel once a week versus basketball and others, football should not have divisions.
Get rid of the divisions for football and have a nine game conf schedule. Allow each school to have 4 fixed opponents (Au, Fl, SC, TN for us), the rotate the other 9. Over a four year period you can play everybody twice.
For the fans, please get rid of a cupcake. I would rather get to see another good game throughout the year than continue to pad the schedule in hopes of getting to the championship game. It is a waste of our (the fans) money to pay these cupcakes and then make us pay to watch you play them.
Old Dawg
February 29th, 2012
10:41 am
Why have a conference at all if you wait twelve years to play everybody.
Coach Bobo's Playbook
February 29th, 2012
10:41 am
With our current offensive play-calling, I’m not sure that we would thrive while having to “play not to lose” against yet another SEC team. 9 SEC games will give us one more opportunity to slip up and lose a game that we should win. At least we figure out ways to score 40 points against most of the cupcakes before we go into our 4th Quarter turtle shell…….. GO DAWGS! Play 4 Quarters of Aggressive Offense!
Newman
February 29th, 2012
10:45 am
Wouldn’t a simple solution to the 8 or 9 game controversy be to go back to no divisions? Just play your schedule like pre-1992 and the top two teams play in the championship game. Or is that too elementary?
knoxdawg
February 29th, 2012
10:45 am
Time to go to a 9 game conference schedule. Whomever comes out on top in the end will be assured of playing in the NC game. To be the best conference we need to have the best conference schedules and that requires a nine game schedule.
schmeckdawg
February 29th, 2012
10:51 am
Newman
February 29th, 2012
10:45 am
Wouldn’t a simple solution to the 8 or 9 game controversy be to go back to no divisions? Just play your schedule like pre-1992 and the top two teams play in the championship game. Or is that too elementary?
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I like that idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bronwood Dawg
February 29th, 2012
10:54 am
McGarity is finding out he is out of his league. He will be run over just like he was on the Missouri to the eastern division done by Alabama and Tennessee. Mal Moore and Alabama is running the SEC office, said moving Auburn to the east would give them an advantage with the Georgia prospects.
Douglas Dawg
February 29th, 2012
10:55 am
At the end of the day it wouldn’t kill me if we didn’t play Auburn every year….. things change….. an 8 game in conf schedule is plenty!
Mexdawg
February 29th, 2012
10:56 am
I support going to 9 SEC games a year.It`s time the AD`s started thinking more about the fans.Right now when you factor in the donation required to purchase season tickets and the cost of the tickets I`m paying about $152 a ticket for each game.Do I feel cheated with this years home schedule?You bet your ass I do and I`m sure there are a lot more out there like me.I would much rather drop a team like Buffalo to add a SEC team any day.
Gaaaaator
February 29th, 2012
10:59 am
CTDawg…that’s what we say about you guys.
Dawglasville
February 29th, 2012
11:00 am
Keep Auburn and go to a nine game. Or you could flip conferences for Auburn and Tennessee and you would keep those two rivalry games in tact. Once we finally get a playoff I would like to see us renew the yearly game against Clemson.
Daniel#12
February 29th, 2012
11:03 am
Bill, I’m ok with giving up playing the trade school on North Avenue and substituting Climpson or alternate Georgia Southern and Tech (always at home).
blazerdawg
February 29th, 2012
11:04 am
OK, go to 9 – but only after expanding by adding Tulane and Mercer. Cupcakes are necessary in this league. These guys do have to go to school.
SouthSide Dawg
February 29th, 2012
11:06 am
Do the Auburn fans want to keep the Georgia/Auburn rivalry?
Concerned
February 29th, 2012
11:06 am
In order to have a championship game, according to NCAA rules, you have to have divisions and play everyone in your division. No other conference or schools will vote to change the rules for the SEC’s sake.
In order to get a better TV contract, the only reason the SEC ignorantly expanded, you will have to play 9 conference games. So it will happen…maybe not in 2013 but soon after.
Finally, with 3 absolute joke games (Buffalo, Ga Southern, & Fla Atlantic), 3 SEC teams with losing records (Ole Miss, Vandy, & Tenn), & Georgia Tech (10 of 11), we need another conference game to have at least one decent home game.
THE REAL PHIL
February 29th, 2012
11:15 am
Season ticket holders will complain if you don’t play a top 10 team every week and they will complain if you don’t win 12 games every year. There is no pleasing some people. As long as other schools like Ohio State, Texas, Oregon, etc. are playing in conferences FULL of cupcakes, we need to play no more than 8 SEC teams. Just because a team plays a BCS opponent doesn’t mean the team is any good. We will make it next to impossible to win a championship when you throw in another conference game AND the SEC title game. The stadium would be close to full if we were playing Clarke Central.
Contractor
February 29th, 2012
11:18 am
If you can’t beat nine teams in the SEC then there is no way you can win the National Championship, because we now know you can end up meeting another SEC opponent in the National Championship game. A lot of talent and a little bit of luck are needed to get to the National Championship game, and playing nine SEC teams will allow a two loss team into the Championship game over a weaker one loss team from any other conference, I have no doubt. Beating up on cupcake teams will not prove well for our team, so getting that extra competition from the SEC will toughen our team up, and have us battle tested and ready to face a worthy opponent in any bowl game we may get into. Heck, it might even give Bobo some new insight into how to manage a game instead of taking games off and playing them all within a three point margin.
6-18 Against Ranked Teams Since '05
February 29th, 2012
11:18 am
Agree with Concerned
I’d rather not go to the SEC Champ game and play a tough scedule rather than play a cupcake schedule like last year, go 1-4 against ranked teams, and get embarrasingly blown out by LSU.
To my fellow Dawg fans (notice I didn’t say my fellow Richt fans)….where is your pride???
Desert Dawg
February 29th, 2012
11:18 am
Quality depth will certainaly become an issue. In UGA’s case to play nine SEC teams plus Tech can take it’s toll both physically and mentally. You need a few games to catch your breath. But all schools will be in the same boat, depth and recuriting will be vital to long term sucess. Go Dawgs!! .
IL Jacket
February 29th, 2012
11:20 am
The law of unintended consequences rears its head again.
Inspector G
February 29th, 2012
11:22 am
Matthew Stafford proposed a 9 game schedule back in 2007. It was a round-robin, non-divisional format that including brackets and a divisional-style set up where every team in the SEC played every team in the SEC during a 9 game conference schedule. He even invisioned our non-conference games to be slated as conference games, with a win against Tech roughly equal to a nickel or a bucket of hot dogs (whichever was greater at the time due to currency markets). When he finished this vision he went to Amicis in Athens and enjoyed some buffalo chicken gar-chee-mar which was delicious.
-Inspector G
blazerdawg
February 29th, 2012
11:24 am
REAL PHIL is RIGHT ON. This year’s schedule for UGA is not typical due to some unusual circumstances. Imagine the 2009/2010 schedules with another conference game.
Nine SEC games, now with Mizzou and A&M is a long haul.
Wait until the first time an undefeated Pac-whaterver faces an undefeated Big-whatever in the NC game, and the SEC gets left out because our champ lost one or two conference games due to that 9 conference game grind.
GeorgiaDuck
February 29th, 2012
11:24 am
Would have loved to see the Ducks take on Georgia at Sanford Stadium. McGarity cancelled that to fit Charleston Southern on the schedule. With a 9 game SEC schedule, there will be no more Oregon-LSU or even this years’ Washington-LSU games. The Pac-12 has been playing a 9 game conference schedule for 6 seasons.
pass me those taters
February 29th, 2012
11:27 am
http://growingcloser.org/gcblog/archives/congratulations-to-carli-shultis/
with all that bible-learnin’ in high school, I wonder what drove cute Carli to steal those hash browns? oh yeah, UGA is the #1 party school and creates soft athletes, soft graduates, and the school therefore contributes so much less than it could to our kids and our society.
drink up and let’s get trashed y’all!
Mr. Dawg
February 29th, 2012
11:31 am
I would hate to see the Georgia-Auburn annual rivalry end. But as far as I’m concerned tradition has been swept aside so much over the last 10-12 years there’s no point in stopping now. I’d rather see the Bulldogs play other conference teams on a more regular basis than Auburn every year if that’s what it’s going to boil down to and apparently it is. With more conference games there’s no reason teams can’t still schedule soft non-conference games. With a nine game conference schedule there is simply less incentive to play high caliber non-conference games. Instead of Boise State or Oklahoma State or Colorado you play one more tough conference game now.
MCDAVIDDAWG
February 29th, 2012
11:31 am
It’s time to get rid of some of the cupcakes. Expecting the large price Georgia wants for season tickets and than giving us mostly games no one cares to go to is getting more than old. This season is no exception. Too much money for too little. Who in is right mind wants to see Georgia play Buffalo? Is Savannah State next? Georgia already is not filling the stadium for these games and I think it’s going to get worse. Once you don’t fill the stadium, you can’t blackmail the fans to buy tickets, and everything changes.
Dump GT game
February 29th, 2012
11:34 am
UGA/GT game is a throw back really to the 1950s and 40s. GT has not had a major bowl invitation beyond the 1955 Sugar Bowl ( a nice win) and two Orange Bowl humiliations in 1966 and 2009 and the fractional % share of the 1990 MC and THAT game was played in the old, decaying Citrus Bowl and it then, was STILL NOT A MAJOR BOWl.
Playing GT helps GT more than it helps UGA in recruiting AND EXPOSURE. We deafted them this pas game and DROPPED in the polls …………………they simply engender 0 respect nationally, with writers and voters.
GT does cause UGA to sort of emotionally let down usually, and so I say dump them. That game can be jettisoned. We in the 40s and 50s and early 60s, were competitive, but that was long ago.
Go Dogs.
Gator Mike
February 29th, 2012
11:39 am
Mr. King, I do not totally agree with you that UF-LSU is not a long standing rivalry. They have been playing each other every year for a long time. It does not have the passion (and sometimes hate) as UT-BAMA and UGA-AU, but it has been very intense at times.
I also vote for getting away with the cupcake games and going to 9 SEC games. I have been turned off by the cupcke games since UF played Charleston Southern in G’ville a few years ago. That was a complete joke. Yes, all of our SEC teams beat the heck out of each other, but that is no excuse to schedule the likes of Charleston Southern, etc.
GTBob
February 29th, 2012
11:40 am
Drop Tech instead!
Agreed. Its time to end that pointless game.
beanster
February 29th, 2012
11:41 am
Play 9 games. The SEC made its own bed by letting A&M and Mizzou in. Trashing tradition isn’t the answer.
Hey, Gaaaaator...
February 29th, 2012
11:47 am
…we understand that we ARE NOT competitive with UF most years – and we hate it just like you do…a fact is a fact, however, so it would not hurt my feelings if we only played UF on a home and home basis since UGA has not be a factor in anything relevant since 1980, though we do still have a winning record against you guys in the long run (but Vince and Herschel and Andy and and Fran and
Pat ain’t coming back)…
Big Albany Dawg
February 29th, 2012
12:17 pm
This is TOO Easy. Trade AU and Bama for Vandy, KY. Rivalries stay b/c they are now east conference games. Problem solved.
Gator Mike
February 29th, 2012
12:18 pm
beanster: I totally agree with your assessment.
Brad
February 29th, 2012
12:20 pm
Mr. Bill, I believe the word you intended in the first paragraph was “waver”. No biggie.
Gotta keep GT – hate to lose AU, but it’s not the end of the world. Personally, I would rather limit the cupcakes and schedule a big non-con game. I think the pros outweigh the cons. Boise St was a tough draw last year, but still a great experience over NWSE Northern part of the Southern Half State. Alabama’s scheduling plenty of good outsiders on their march to take over the world. If you sit in a corner bullying the small guys and shying away from some possible classic regular season matchups simply to increase your odds at a MNC, you’re thinking backwards in my book.
SS Dog
February 29th, 2012
12:24 pm
Keep Auburn. Drop GTech, or move it to the opening game each season.
Bubba Mutt
February 29th, 2012
12:25 pm
Dump the Auburn game and sign Presbyterian
Nub
February 29th, 2012
12:26 pm
Drop the bugs !!!! And go to 9 conference games .. GT … Buf … GSU none of these teams mean much to UGA..
Red Stick
February 29th, 2012
12:27 pm
I would prefer a 9 game schedule. As a long-time LSU season ticket holder, I have gotten to where I don’t go to at least one cupcake game anymore.
I understand the point being made about a SEC Champion with one or two losses being out of the title game because of having to play a 9th conference game. However, what hasn’t been mentioned that with a 4 team playoff almost certainly coming to reality in 2014, the SEC Champ only has to finish in the top 4 and not the top 2 as is currently the case. I think it would be very rare for a SEC Champ or another SEC school not finishing in the top 4.
Geaux Tigers
SEC Champions
Big Dawg Matt
February 29th, 2012
12:31 pm
One thing that no one is mentioning is that if they do go to 9 game division, it will be that much more difficult for the SEC to continue its reign of playing for national titles. With the SEC already being the best and most difficult conference to win, adding an additional game creates another opportunity for a loss which might end up costing the SEC a lot of money in the long run. And since money IS the deciding factor in these decisions, don’t be surprised to see the rivalries disappear.
option z???
February 29th, 2012
12:50 pm
could UGA/AU & UofA/TN just play the rivalry game as one of their “non-conference” games?
7576DAWG
February 29th, 2012
12:55 pm
I think we should have an eight game schedule and keep the Auburn game every year. But the game that really doesn’t mean that much and will NOT be missed is the Georgia Tech game. Getting rid of the annual game with Georgia Tech is much preferred than losing the Auburn game.
LL2
February 29th, 2012
12:59 pm
Talking about us playing a tough schedule. Since our 1965 away game vs Michigan we have ONLY played one tough out of conference game outside the Southeast (Arizona St). So all the discussion about 9 SEC games being a burden is hogwash. It’s time we play more competitive teams for the folks who support the program. The more I hear from McGarrity the more I’m certain he isn’t a long term solution for Dawg nation.
ga gator
February 29th, 2012
1:03 pm
LL2, I guess Okie St and Colorado were not tough enough for you?
Texas Dawg
February 29th, 2012
1:04 pm
I really don’t see myself getting all hyped up and excited about a game against Buffalo or Ga southern………won’t be nearly the anticipation. We always do it up big with the BBQ ect before one of our big games is televised…..we usually don’t get these patsy games televised out here in Texas…..shame real shame if we loose AU or Tech………those games we get real excited about…………Buffalo….please…just a shame
I was really looking forward to playing Alabama this year…..honesty what true Dawg fan would rather watch us play Bama or Missouri? For me not even close………..If we want to be the best we have to beat the best.
LL2
February 29th, 2012
1:06 pm
Yeah playing a 3-8 Colorado team was tough in the loss column but not because anybody has ‘em rated highly.
LL2
February 29th, 2012
1:10 pm
Why can’t our AD dept go out and schedule attractive teams like LSU and Alabama play? I know recently they have played or scheduled Virginia Tech, Oregon, Michigan, Clemson, Oklahoma to name a few. Is it asking too much to skip Buffalo?
DodgerDAWG
February 29th, 2012
1:22 pm
I say drop a cupcake game. we do not need to play Tech every year
ga gator
February 29th, 2012
1:24 pm
LL2
February 29th, 2012
1:10 pm
Why can’t our AD dept go out and schedule attractive teams like LSU and Alabama play? I know recently they have played or scheduled Virginia Tech, Oregon, Michigan, Clemson, Oklahoma to name a few. Is it asking too much to skip Buffalo?
LL2 I would agree with you. My thinking he developed his philosophy from his former boss Jeremy Foley at UF and as a 59 year-old Gator who attends 7 or 8 UGA games a year with my wife, I don’t like that line of thinking. We spend over 2500 per year for our donations and seats and do not want to really watch Buffalo, FAU or Ga Southern. One thing about Bama and LSU, they do not mind scheduling tough games out of conference.
DawginLex
February 29th, 2012
1:26 pm
pass those taters
Hopefully, you have not reproduced any offspring…………..
ga gator
February 29th, 2012
1:27 pm
All of this may be a moot point after we add Clemson and VT to the conference for the 2014 season.
Flo-Ri-Duh
February 29th, 2012
1:30 pm
With 9 SEC games on the schedule the team DEPTH really becomes an issue due to injuries. etc. Getting only 19 scholarship players, like UGA did last year, will show up in the 2nd half of games against teams that are two and three deep with talent. Maybe the SEC east & SEC west should be re-aligned again to put rivals in the same division. This would solve the problem. Example, UGA, Auburn, Florida, S.Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee & Vanderbilt could be in the east and LSU, Arkansas, Missouri, Texas A&M, Ole Miss, Miss State and Kentucky could be in the west.
DawginLex
February 29th, 2012
1:31 pm
6-18 Against Ranked Teams Since ‘05
February 29th, 2012
11:18 am
Agree with Concerned
I’d rather not go to the SEC Champ game and play a tough scedule rather than play a cupcake schedule like last year, go 1-4 against ranked teams, and get embarrasingly blown out by LSU.
To my fellow Dawg fans (notice I didn’t say my fellow Richt fans)….where is your pride???
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So we play 9 games during a year where the schedule is loaded and we win them all. We also play a power OOC and slip up and lose. We go to ATL and win the SEC. We then get left out of the BCS title game because of the one slip up despite going 10-0 in the SEC.
you ok with that?
Also, just wondering, how are you a UGA fan and not a fan of our coach? You pulling for us to win ugly so you can continue to gripe about Richt?
Just wondering how that plays out while you are watching a game???
dawgfan
February 29th, 2012
1:32 pm
Disagree on Florida and LSU. As a general fan of SEC football this is one of my favorite games of the SEC season. Its usually very competitive and both teams are usually highly ranked. It would be ashamed to see this one go too.
Thanks.
BigGAdawg
February 29th, 2012
1:33 pm
So what if we play them home-and-home every twelve years instead of every ten!! Nine conference games in the SEC will only make it harder on the SEC, and easier on all the other conferences, when it comes to national rankings. Stick to eight.
Contractor
February 29th, 2012
1:34 pm
Georgia Southern is not a team I mind playing. Nick Saban said last season that Georgia Southern was the toughest team they played all year. They are usually a top fixture in D-1AA. I think the Buffalo’s, Florida Atlantic’s, and Western Kentucky’s are the teams that need to be folded in order to sustain some of the traditions Georgia is known for. Georgia gets a ton of publicity when it comes to “The Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry”, and I think recruits buy into the traditions of that when they attend. Just think if there was no original blackout game. There is no reason why there should not be a ninth conference game, and like some have said on here, the SEC brought two new schools in for appearance purposes, so they should accept the fact that another game has to replace a crappy cupcake.
LL2
February 29th, 2012
1:37 pm
ga gator
You bring up a good point about McGarrity’s association with Foley. I would venture to say Florida had the weakest first two games of the season of any SEC team over the last 8-10 years. I don’t agree with that mindset no matter which school is doing it.
LSU and Bama have proven you can add a tough game early and benefit from it, especially if you win. It’s a win-win deal for the program and fans.
If you read Wentzel’s “Death to the BCS” he has a chapter which covers scheduling over the last 40 odd years. It’s alarming to see how many fewer cross sectional games are played today, especially during the BCS era. Thanks for the feedback.
DodgerDAWG
February 29th, 2012
1:40 pm
@Ga Gator 1:24….This year LSU plays Idaho, Towson University and North Texas. Alabama plays Western Kentucky, Florida Atlantic and Western Carolina. Sure Alabama has Michigan and LSU has Washington this year, but no other AQ school outside of their SEC schedule. Last season we dropped a pay-for-play game to take on Boise and still had a AQ opponent in Tech. Our annual “rivalry” game with Tech prevents us from scheduling the same as Alabama and LSU.
DawginLex
February 29th, 2012
1:43 pm
Using LSU and Bama as the poster children for tough OOC scheduling is a joke. We add clemson and OSU in the future and have played ASU, Okie St, Boise St and Colorado. When they were scheduled, all were highly thought of.
Tennessee has consistently played the toughest OOC games
Joey
February 29th, 2012
1:51 pm
GREED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
AltamahaDawg
February 29th, 2012
1:53 pm
You sort of think they might have actually thought this stuff out before adding those 2 teams, wouldn’t you?
LL2
February 29th, 2012
1:55 pm
DawginLex
Claiming a 3-8 Colorado team as tough is called drinking the kool-aid.
LSU and Alabama have BOTH won National Titles twice during Richt era. The fact is they aggressively schedule tough teams to open the season. Bama has done this since the Bryant era. See Notre Dame and Nebraska for example.
Move On
February 29th, 2012
1:56 pm
Cupcakes are a cop out!!!
invictus mon
February 29th, 2012
1:58 pm
I’m done with the cupcakes. It wasn’t there fault but even FSU had to schedule a game with Savannah State for next year. Give me a break! They don’t even belong in the same stadium! The fans only get 7 chances a year to watch their team between the hedges at home. McGarity owes it to all of us to make those 7 hallowed days a good ballgame!
invictus mon
February 29th, 2012
1:58 pm
their fault…my god my grammer is going today
Jesus Christ
February 29th, 2012
2:01 pm
SEC fans are damn rednecks.
DawginLex
February 29th, 2012
2:05 pm
LL2
BS
Colorado is a decent OOC opponent, especially on the road. Not a D 1AA cupcake like Furman or wofford.
LSU and Bama’s schedules are loaded with cupcakes.
what does the national title stuff have to do with the scheduling discussion?
DawginLex
February 29th, 2012
2:07 pm
I noticed too that you picked out colorado from my list.
Are you a Jehovah’s witness who only reads certain Bible verses?
What about Tech, boise(twice), ASU(twice), Okie state(twice), clemson and Ohio state(future)???
LL2
February 29th, 2012
2:08 pm
DawginLex
Just pulled up Alabama out of conference schedule over the years. With a quick glance:
Missouri, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Texas, UCLA, USC, Notre Dame, Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, Virginia Tech, Clemson, Georgia Tech, NC State ……
Lakedawg
February 29th, 2012
2:09 pm
Lets not forget that the Dawgs play at Florida every year plus playing Tech home and home. Going to 9 would prevent Dawgs from ever playing Clemson or Ohio State currently set for home and home.
Would be suicide to play 3 home SEC games and 6 on road one year. If Florida moved to home and home or drop Tech only way to go to 9.
Kiss National Champioship good bye, because no one will 9 plus the SEC game in same year.
Hope league sticks with 8 for Dawgs sake.
Fumblin' Bumblin'
February 29th, 2012
2:11 pm
I still don’t understand Mizzou in the East.
LL2
February 29th, 2012
2:11 pm
DawginLex “Using LSU and Bama as the poster children for tough OOC scheduling is a joke.”
Keep drinking the kool-aid. I’ve read enough of your homer posts.
DawginLex
February 29th, 2012
2:15 pm
no you haven’t and even if you have read them you are too stupid to interpret them especially since I have openly commented on my high expectations for Richt and UGA in 2012
Wet Willie...keep on smiling
February 29th, 2012
2:23 pm
Old Doglexxie is such a joke. He can’t handle Alabama at all nor LSU but Bama really gets his goat. Keep wishing Lexxie but the fact today just as yesterday and that is UGA sucks at football. Big Hat and not Cattle.
logandawg
February 29th, 2012
2:25 pm
Why not switch Auburn to the East and Tennessee to the west? Seems most logical.
Dawgdad (The Original)
February 29th, 2012
2:31 pm
Go with the Nine game schedule. McGarrity wants to many cupcake games, he forgets that GT and Vandy are cupcakes on the schedule every year anyway.
DawginLex
February 29th, 2012
2:31 pm
wet willie, a continuous disgrace to a fine southern band
Nothing gets my goat on here, especially a idiot like you who can’t get out of his own way.
Whiskey Breath
February 29th, 2012
2:32 pm
The question is does Ga really have any rivalries? Is Auburn really a rivalry? Neither team carries the loss with them if they lose. Ga and Auburn are kissing cousins. The hate is just not there and you really need some good ole healthy hate to call it a rivalry.
Wet Willie...keep on smiling
February 29th, 2012
2:38 pm
Lexxie…I will show you our trophy’s if you show us UGA’s! I rest my case.
DawginLex
February 29th, 2012
2:39 pm
willie you big goofy idiot, we all have heard your rant a 1,000 times yet you continue to post it!!!!!!!!!
how stupid are you?
VERY
WnE
February 29th, 2012
2:44 pm
Honestly, BCS-level Teams should NEVER play D1-AA Teams.
I hope that All Conferences that are 14 Teams or more will play TEN conference games.
With a 12 game schedule, 10 conference game still leaves you 2 games to play any OOC rivalries that are necessary.
With the price of Tickets going up and the TV dollars sky-rocketing the colleges should EARN that money by playing better schedules.
When a playoff comes around, hopefully with 6-teams and the top 2 seeds getting byes, then NCAA should also institute a rule that D1-A will no longer be allowed to play D1-AAs.
It makes no sense for BCS-level teams to play D1-AAs given the prices that are being charged for tickets.
The more games that the Conferences play with each other, the better it is for the Fans, more quality games will be available for broadcast.
With 120+ D1-A Programs there should be no need for a D1-A team to ever schedule a D1-AA Team.
huddie ledbetter
February 29th, 2012
2:49 pm
If they put Alabama and Auburn in the East and move Vandy and Mizzou to the West – problem solved for the two games that matter and it makes more sense geographically
Mobile Dawg
February 29th, 2012
2:49 pm
Lex, got to jump in here. I can easily be a Dawg Fan and not a Richt supporter. Was a fan long before Richt, and will be one when he’s gone, “God willing”. The bookend season we had last year along with his personnel decisions just strengthened my position that he’s just not that good a “coach”. He doesn’t have the “it” factor, never will, IMO.
Wet Willie...keep on smiling
February 29th, 2012
2:49 pm
Dawglex…I think you’re about 27-30? Never played a down of football just a wannabe punk. I may missed the age but no doubt about the rest. Enjoy the Music City Bowl or Tampa.
Thomas Brown
February 29th, 2012
2:49 pm
Greg McGarity, just does not get it.
Extension for Mark Richt should have been a priority prior to Signing Day and as we saw on Signing Day, many of the top recruits were waiting to see if Greg McGarity was going to give it to Mark Richt and to Todd Grantham. When nothing had happened, we lost top recruits and left us short – with only 77 on Scholarship despite over-signing by 24 at 109 to our 85-Scholarship Limit.
We may never catch up on that. Now, everyone expects Mark Richt to give them away to multiple years to walk-ons. Walk-ons who like all the previous walk-ons, Mark Richt gave Scholarships to last year for example, never step foot on the field on offense or on defense.
Thanks a lot Greg McGarity.
Greg McGarity does want to keep the game in JAX. So, there is a good home game every other year, we continue to give up – one under what the vols’ get every year as a direct result.
Greg McGarity wants to maintain all these cupcakes he continues to schedule for us.
Now, he is positioning himself that he will allow the league to vote 4-10 to cancel Auburn.
Like we cancelled Climpsum.
And, we keep cupcake Georgia tek, instead.
Greg McGarity was not a very good tennis player for us.
He has been abysmal as our Athletics’ Director.
Former tennis player and not a good one at that.
All this cash 2nd most in the nation, and he cannot build us an indoor football practice facility with the whole field.
And, our basketball gym, stuck with a gym not considered in the top 75 gyms in the nation, where no one has allowed us to host a single basketball tournament game since 1971. 42 years since our gym was considered for hosting a basketball game.
Greg McGarity, try saying something correctly – for once.
Sir.
Auburn – Georgia is not going away. It is the oldest Rivalry in The South.
What’s so hard about saying that Greg McGarity ?
Do nothing Athletics’ Director.
Thank you Bill for discussing all this, and our Do Nothing Athletics’ Director.
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH
February 29th, 2012
2:49 pm
“UGA’s McGarity between rock and hard place on SEC scheduling”
Yeah, when you keep scheduling cupcake teams….
DawginLex
February 29th, 2012
2:50 pm
any athletic director at a D-1AA school will disagree with you because playing the big boys for a paycheck is the financial lifeblood for the smaller school
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH
February 29th, 2012
2:50 pm
“willie you big goofy idiot”
Grow up.
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH
February 29th, 2012
2:51 pm
“playing the big boys for a paycheck”
UGA is still in pee wee mode. They haven’t beaten a quality opponent in 3 years.
DawginLex
February 29th, 2012
2:51 pm
Riiiight wet willie, you have me pegged.
God you are dumb
DawginLex
February 29th, 2012
2:52 pm
Enter your comments here
huddie ledbetter
February 29th, 2012
2:52 pm
Having said the above, which probably wouldn’t happen anyway, I don’t have a problem with 9 conference games which would mean giving up a cupcake which nobody cares to see anyway.
Mobile Dawg
February 29th, 2012
2:55 pm
One cupcake per year is enough, period. Nine conference games, GT, one cupcake, one OOC option, and one bye week equals an exciting season with a couple of breaks if properly scheduled.
Nub
February 29th, 2012
2:59 pm
Enter your comments here
The Most Interesting Man in the World
February 29th, 2012
3:15 pm
I don’t talk to Alabama fans much. But when I do, I have to repeat everything I say.”
Stay obnoxious my friends
Joel . Jonewas
February 29th, 2012
3:18 pm
Does anyone remember when Ga.Tech was a member of the SEC, and when SC was’nt? Although it has been many years, I have always thought that SC should still be in the ACC, and GTech should be in the SEC. I like the idea of instate rivalries such as Ga. and GT.
Whiskey Breath
February 29th, 2012
3:20 pm
Let’s face it Dogs, you guys love playing cupcakes. It has always been the Ga way. You like it because
you can beat your chest and brag for months about it. The biggest one you guys love to beat your chest
is Vanderbilt. You are the only team in NCAA history that has gotten in a fight with Vanderbilt.
You don’t like tough games because the record says you have a good chance of losing.
So beat your chest after beating cupcakes, most people just consider that being a punk.
Thomas Brown
February 29th, 2012
3:27 pm
Which one is the cupcake ?
3-09 Buffalo bills
1-11 Florida Atlantic
5-07 vols
6-07 Vandie
5-07 Kentucky
0-00 Georgia Southern 1-AA FCS
2-10 Ole Miss
Mizzou ? Is that the one Cupcake ?
Georgia tek ? Is that the one Cupcake ?
I see Nine (9) Cupcakes, don’t you ?
7-6 Florida, is that a Cupcake also, again ?
That’s Ten (10) Cupcakes
Auburn ? You all said all this time last year how bad Auburn was going to be and they didn’t end up ranked either, in any poll.
Good Heavens, we play 11 cupcakes
Reality Check
February 29th, 2012
3:28 pm
Interesting how the Georgia/GT rivalry shifted with the integration of the black athlete. Look at the timing and draw your own conclusion
Mobile Dawg
February 29th, 2012
3:33 pm
I see six “should be’ sure wins, of the rest we should take three, I see potential losses to UF, AU, and USC. We could end up anywhere from 8-4 to 12-0 regular season.
UGA and Auburn . A REAL rivalry
February 29th, 2012
3:33 pm
I supect that 80% of the UGA alumni, which i am one, would much prefer dropping the Tech game in order to maintain our fabulous, very colorful, easy to reach both stadiums, football game. We do battle for the same SEC caliber kids, we intermarry and we end up with our kids attending the other school,etc and we are SEC cousins. I love stomping Auburn like this past year. I love it.
Tech is Tech and that game is boring. We have nothing in common with GT and in fact, their older almuni, my age, would FILL UP BDS@HGF with games vs Alabama, Auburn, UT and LSU and Florida,etc. Their real movers and shakers would love to be in the SEC but they are not, as they ran away in the late 60s to boost recruiting as an independent. How did that work out GT??
Georgia helps Tech more in football than we benefit. DUMP GT. AN idea whose time has come.
GTBob
February 29th, 2012
3:38 pm
Georgia helps Tech more in football than we benefit. DUMP GT. AN idea whose time has come.
While I agree that the game is pointless and should be dropped, i’m not sure how UGA helps GT in any way.
Thomas Brown
February 29th, 2012
3:39 pm
I agree Dump Georgia tek
Keep Auburn
What the heck is this losses to
Auburn an 8-5 team not ranked any poll
Florida a 7-6 team not ranked any poll
We start the season out ranked # 6 in the nation in all the polls, and we are going to lose to teams like this ?
This is where we are as a football program, that we run online and post that we are losing to 2 teams 2012 who just when 7-6 and 8-5, we as the # 6 team ourselves.
Rabun Dawg
February 29th, 2012
3:40 pm
Dawginlex, it is not our job to prop up the bank accounts of the smaller schools. Get rid of the cupcakes, who wants to have to pay for the likes of Buffalo, Directional Whoever, or the like. You had better believe we stay home on those days. Go to nine so we can play the Bamas, LSUs, etc. more often. Win or lose, you get your monies worth seeing the conference teams as opposed to the cupcakes. And, I too can be a loyal Dog fan and not have to be a huge fan of an Aaron Murray or a Mark Richt! Just saying…
Ed Pilcher
February 29th, 2012
3:41 pm
If we must drop a game, then drop GT. It’s not even a rivalry anymore. UGA/AU is a much closer rivalry and is much more entertaining, to boot.
Mobile Dawg
February 29th, 2012
3:42 pm
You of all people “Thomas Brown” should know with the brilliant tacticians that would be Richt and Bobo we’re capable of showing up unprepared on any occasion.
6-18 Against Ranked Teams Since '05
February 29th, 2012
3:42 pm
@DawginLex
“Also, just wondering, how are you a UGA fan and not a fan of our coach? You pulling for us to win ugly so you can continue to gripe about Richt?”
Simple……I’m a proud American, but can’t stand Obama……same analogy. Richt is doing the same to UGA as Obama is doing to USA…..get it????
As for UGA going 10-0 in the SEC….I don’t think you need to worry about that scenario under Richt. And what are the chances you lose to a cupcake while going 10-0 in the SEC……use your brain DawginLex
dogSTILE
February 29th, 2012
3:43 pm
The word on the ‘internet dirt sheets” is that Georgia is looking to get out of the Tech game and go to every other year / rotating home series with the Jackets. Who can blame the dogs? They already treat Tech like a red headed step child.
Mobile Dawg
February 29th, 2012
3:46 pm
Some of you really need to get your heads out. Seriously, we play “three” cupcakes this year, plus Vandy, UK, Ole Miss, GT. Go to nine and we still have one cupcake, GT, Vandy, UK, and Ole Miss. What are you afraid of?
Mobile Dawg
February 29th, 2012
3:48 pm
Really, who wants to play Tech when you can play the likes of FA, Buffalo, and “respectfully” GS. Next years schedule is really pathetic.
DawginLex
February 29th, 2012
3:49 pm
I did not say lose to a cupcake OOC. I said lose to a top notch OOC team which is who you want us to play.
And I’m glad you are the resident nostradamus here and can predict the future.
I love how I get called a kool aid drinker and a homer because I support the team.
i have also posted numerous times that my expectations for 2012 are 11-1 or 12-0 and an SEC title and that I want a platoon of murray and Lemay in some form or fashion.
Yet I’m a kool aid drinker.
Rabun Dawg
February 29th, 2012
3:54 pm
GTBob, I will have to agree with you on your last post. That is, just how does UGA help Tech out by playing that game? While I agree with most of the Gentleman’s recent post, not sure I do understand that part. Having grown up in Atlanta and having family members attending Tech, I loved the rivalry at one time, but can’t really see that it does benefit either of us by keeping the game. All of this conference expansion has thrown a ” monkey wrench” in many ways, but lest we forget, it is all about the money and TV at this stage. Really a shame that Tech is not in the SEC, and for that matter USC East not in the ACC. Texas A&M and Missouri in the Southeastern Conference? What a joke!
ChattaDawg
February 29th, 2012
3:55 pm
9 SEC games + SEC Championship Game = SEC Champion gets Automatic Bid every year to National Championship game no matter the ranking!
Thomas Brown
February 29th, 2012
3:57 pm
“with the brilliant tacticians that would be Richt and Bobo, that we’re capable of showing up unprepared on any occasion”
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Yes, just because we have Lost 30 games the current 8-year period with lesser or equal talent to ourselves at game time, doesn’t mean that I am going into a season ranked # 6 as we are and will be all season long, and think that we are going to lose to 7-6 Florida or 8-5 Auburn.
Thomas Brown
February 29th, 2012
4:00 pm
I certainly get it.
But, I don’t see any Republican to vote for either.
Obama and Mark Richt have both run everything down in the ground, and Greg McGarity has done nothing but make it worse.
This yet another example.
Greg McGarity should have issued a statement that the Georgia – Auburn Game as The South’s Oldest Rivalry is not going away.
Get rid of some of the other 11 cupcakes, like the 9 I listed before I listed Auburn.
Georgia tek is a prime example.
Georgia tek cares about nothing but beating us.
They could go 0 wins on the season, as long as they beat us.
Nothing to gain, everything to lose.
RxDawg
February 29th, 2012
4:01 pm
As a fan, I love the idea of 9 conference games. But I do get why the coach and AD are against it. But another real question is are our in state out of conference rivalries in jeapordy? Would they cancle Tech, Clemson/USC, UF/FSU?
GTBob
February 29th, 2012
4:07 pm
Georgia tek cares about nothing but beating us.
They could go 0 wins on the season, as long as they beat us.
This is a load of crap. GT doesn’t care nearly as much as UGA fans pretend they do.
Reality Check
February 29th, 2012
4:07 pm
There are many at Tech who would like to end the series as well. Never seen a more arrogant fan base visit BDS.
Beast from the East
February 29th, 2012
4:10 pm
I think we need to go to a 9 game conference schedeule. I also think UF/UGA will need to be moved to home and home or either the UF/FSU and UGA/GT annual games discontinued. Too little flexibility with an annual nuetral site game and an annual in-state/OOC team. Those are the 2 reasons UF and UGA have to schedule so many cupcakes. They need the 7 home games for financial reasons.
GTBob
February 29th, 2012
4:11 pm
Really a shame that Tech is not in the SEC, and for that matter USC East not in the ACC.
I think being in different conferences does really hurt rivalries. Usually when GT plays UGA there is no importance outside of bragging rights. If that is the only thing worth playing for then the luster of the game is going to wear off over time. Its the same with USC/Clemson, and Florida/Fla St. That’s why I think there is a real threat to these games ending. Eventually someone will ask, what are we trying to save?
DawginLex
February 29th, 2012
4:11 pm
GTBob
You can’t possibly believe what you just wrote???
It is on the sled on the practice field
It is in your fight song
It is in the goals of every Tech team preseason
It has been said time and time again by your fanbase and alumni “Go 1-11 and beat Georgia and I’m happy.”
To deny it is the ultimate lie.
Thomas Brown
February 29th, 2012
4:12 pm
Excuse me GT Boob,
That is all you have ever written on here – how badly you want to beat Georgia.
Inbred Dawg
February 29th, 2012
4:15 pm
College football’s endless search for more money is jeopardizing the very rivalries that made college football popular (and profitable) in the first place. College football just didn’t know when to stop, and it has hit the zenith of its popularity. The inevitable decline is coming.
Thomas Brown
February 29th, 2012
4:16 pm
GTBob February 6th, 2012 3:40 pm
“Awe, Stinger2 is trying to make friends on the UGA blog. How cute. If you aren’t against UGA all the time then you aren’t a GT fan, so quit pretending to be.”
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Which is it GT Boob ?
DawginLex caught you in another of your lies GT Boob.
GTBob
February 29th, 2012
4:19 pm
To deny it is the ultimate lie.
So you agree with Thomas that if we went 1-11 that we would be happy with our season? In reality it is our most important non conference game and has a little more importance then a few of the conference games as well. Usually by the time we play we have already ruined our season and don’t care much anymore.
GTBob
February 29th, 2012
4:20 pm
Which is it GT Boob ?
DawginLex caught you in another of your lies GT Boob.
Find one example of me saying that beating UGA is very important to me. I really really hate UGA, on levels much higher then football. The game at this point is just a tiny part of it.
dawgfan
February 29th, 2012
4:20 pm
“There are many at Tech who would like to end the series as well. Never seen a more arrogant fan base visit BDS.”
That’s because you rarely face teams in BDS (a.k.a. Mark Richt Stadium) that have beaten you like a drum for the better part of 3 decades like UGA has. We have every right to be arrogant until your joke program can beat us with any shred of consistancy. It seems to me that your angst is misdirected Techie. If you have a problem with UGA arrogance maybe you need to take that up with Tech’s administration and coaching staff. They are the ones responsible for making Ga Tech football competitive, not us. Don’t come over here crying to us because you can’t beat UGA and we’re arrogant about it. Its not our problem. Its YOUR problem Techie.
Tech doesn’t care about beating UGA. They just care about having their excuses. As long as they’ve got all their excuses and myths to use as a crutch to make everyone feel sorry for them they could care less what happens on the field. If they cared about beating UGA they wouldn’t be constantly kissing Paul Johnson’s backside. He’s 1-3 against UGA but has done no wrong in the eyes of Tech fans. Tech fans demand nothing but mediocrity out of their football program and then go crying like little girls when opposing fans are arrogant. They act like everything is completely out of their hands and they are victims. Its nothing but a straight up loser mentality down on The Flats and as a native Georgian I’m embarassed to be assoiciated with it.
Class dismissed.
Thomas Brown
February 29th, 2012
4:21 pm
“it is our most important non conference game and has a little more importance then a few of the conference games as well.”
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Like I said, DawginLex caught you in another of your lies.
Try reading these 3 quotes by you GT Boob
You cannot even agree with yourself, one post to the next.
Dawg1
February 29th, 2012
4:25 pm
Nothing to discuss. Go to a nine game conference schedule. I cannot imagine losing Auburn/Georgia.
GTBob
February 29th, 2012
4:26 pm
Like I said, DawginLex caught you in another of your lies.
How did I lie? You insinuated that GT fans care about nothing else every year except that one game. I said that is a load of crap. Prove me wrong.
DawginLex
February 29th, 2012
4:27 pm
thanks Beast
But don’t worry about it. It will never change on here.
Thomas Brown
February 29th, 2012
4:28 pm
“I really really hate UGA”
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That’s exactly what DawginLex just told you about yourself.
Think about it.
You spend your entire day, everyday, on our blog trying to get all of us to talk about Georgia tek.
You are a worthless school, of 29 percent women (0 ladies), 33 percent Asian males, who is on NCAA PROBATION back-to-back repeat offenders in FOOTBALL and are 1-11 vs our current coach.
So, you run in here with your football players unable to graduate Georgia tek like we graduate our football players and announce that you HATE US REALLY REALLY BADLY.
You personally are nothing but a LIAR.
You have zero interest in anything to do with anything.
You are a person never been anywhere and never going anywhere, who is CONSUMED with HATRED
of a school who does FAR BETTER than the school you purport to be rooting for daily in here, every minute of every day.
GTBob
February 29th, 2012
4:29 pm
Class dismissed.
I’m not sure UGA fans have any idea what class is. Either in the educational definition or otherwise.
DawginLex
February 29th, 2012
4:31 pm
Prove me wrong
*******************
go to any Tech site like stingtalk or anything else with just Tech people and give me the percentage of blog handles that reference something to do with UGA in a negative way
I guarantee you it is well above 50%
And yes, TB and I and others on here understand perfectly what class dismissed means from our days in Athens
GTBob
February 29th, 2012
4:33 pm
You are a person never been anywhere and never going anywhere, who is CONSUMED with HATRED
Well, you were right for once. I have a lot of hatred and I am not going anywhere. Get used to it. And I rarely ever bring up GT. I bash UGA and your only defense is to shoot back at GT. If you don’t want to talk about GT then don’t bring it up.
DawginLex
February 29th, 2012
4:34 pm
Just so you will be happy GTBob
a little tidbit for you……
I have to leave the blog and get back to work.
The fries are burning.
Thomas Brown
February 29th, 2012
4:36 pm
GTBob February 6th, 2012 3:40 pm
“If you aren’t against UGA all the time then you aren’t a GT fan, so quit pretending to be.”
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There is your proof.
GTBob
February 29th, 2012
4:36 pm
give me the percentage of blog handles that reference something to do with UGA in a negative way. I guarantee you it is well above 50%
Just went to Stingtalk, read the top thread, there wasn’t a single handle that referenced UGA at all in any of its 5 pages.
GTBob
February 29th, 2012
4:38 pm
There is your proof.
That post doesn’t say anything at all about the UGA/GT football game. I have already admitted that I hate UGA with a passion all the time, which is exactly what I said in that post.
ughhhhhh-a
February 29th, 2012
4:39 pm
This is like watching two ugly little girls arguing who is the prettiest.
Thomas Brown
February 29th, 2012
4:42 pm
GTBob February 6th, 2012 3:40 pm
“If you aren’t against UGA all the time then you aren’t a GT fan, so quit pretending to be.”
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GTBob February 29th, 2012 4:07 pm
“GT doesn’t care nearly as much as UGA fans pretend they do.”
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FOS to make both those statements together and ask for proof.
Roll Tide
February 29th, 2012
4:44 pm
You’re both irrelevant nationally, so who cares? Play or don’t play. It really doesn’t matter.
Thomas Brown
February 29th, 2012
4:46 pm
GTBob February 6th, 2012 3:40 pm
“If you aren’t against UGA all the time then you aren’t a GT fan, so quit pretending to be.”
________________________________________________________
GTBob February 29th, 2012 4:07 pm
“GT doesn’t care nearly as much as UGA fans pretend they do.”
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GTBob February 29th, 2012 4:20 pm
“I really really hate UGA”
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GTBob
February 29th, 2012
4:49 pm
You are doing a good job proving that I hate UGA, which I think everyone already knew. I am still waiting for you to prove that I don’t care about anything at all except the UGA/GT game and that I would be happy with a 1-11 record if we beat UGA.
Rabun Dawg
February 29th, 2012
4:55 pm
Ok guys, let’s quit the P…..g contest and we all agree that UGA vs GAT ain’t what it used to be and needs to be cancelled. I guess that what we are agreeing to? Whoever said it, true, that not being in the same conference takes the bloom off of the rose. Maybe bragging rights for a while, but that’s about all.
evil empire
February 29th, 2012
4:55 pm
EE is back…uga should drop ga tech…what’s the point…lsu dropped tulane and the world is still spinning…enough of the “traditional opponents” bs…who cares about uga/auburn??…bama/tennessee??…outside world could care less…its 2012 dawtards…schedule somebody, and, dawginlex, shut up…
GT is 4th rate high school team
February 29th, 2012
5:13 pm
UGA playing this North Avenue Trade School just makes them legit. Drop ‘em. LOL
ole yeller
February 29th, 2012
5:23 pm
line them up 8 or 9 conference games doesn’t matter to me everyone else will have the same number. when you are in the best conference in america you have to play the best like it or not.
BIGame
February 29th, 2012
5:38 pm
Is UGA looking to soften their schedule even more after getting THE EASIEST SCHEDULE IN THE SEC?
What a bunch of panzies! They also selectively suspend their criminal-laden team for cup-cakes.
LexinDawg
February 29th, 2012
5:40 pm
I’m the polar opposite of DawginLex. UGA sucks.
6-18 Against Ranked Teams Since '05
February 29th, 2012
5:56 pm
@Thomas Brown….
I mean as a UGA sports fan, the nerds don’t belong on the same field as UGA…
On the academic front, vice versa. Give me a GT diploma over UGA everyday and twice on Mondays…
It is what it is….
BTW….whatchya got against Asians???
Albert
February 29th, 2012
6:11 pm
GTBob claims he hates UGA but he comments on each and every blog about UGA.I think he is a secret admirer of UGA.
LeBleu
February 29th, 2012
6:16 pm
A University of Georgia soccer player is charged with trying to steal an order of hashbrown potatoes in her pants.
Obviously the football players are not the only theft-prone lowlifes at UGA. Do the UGA coaches all recruit from trailer parks?
Burma Shave
February 29th, 2012
6:25 pm
UGA players are dummies
The coaches all cheat
But in the big games
They always get beat
BURMA SHAVE
Paddy
February 29th, 2012
7:08 pm
It is about the fans and making sure they are happy, right? You must go for the 9 game conf schedule. All good thing, like the AU game, all come to an end. Too bad, but it is the best solution!
The Monger
February 29th, 2012
7:24 pm
We HAVE to keep the schedule at 8 SEC games. Do you guys really not want UGA to win a National Championship in the next century? Because going to 9 SEC games would essentially be doing that, because NO SEC team, not Alabama, or LSU, or UGA would have the slightest chance of going through that gauntlet without at least one or two losses. That might still be good enough to get in the NC game, but would you really want to risk it to chance like that? Then you have the SEC championship game ON TOP of that, to make 10 HARD, Grueling, tough SEC slugfests. Thats more injuries, more losses, and less chance of reaching #1 or #2 in the polls. I understand some of you are too stubborn to see that, and think we need to play marquee games every week to please the season ticket holders or whatever, but you need to realize that we play in the Hardest, fastest, most aggressive conference in the entire country, and we already play 8 SEC games right now. I mean there really are not any cupcakes at all in the SEC, even Vanderbilt gives us a tough game almost everytime. Miss St. beat Fla a couple years back. Why would you PURPOSELY make it EXTREMELY tough on UGA (the school y’all suppossedly love) just so YOU can be entertained one more time. I have really nothing to worry about, because I know for a fact that the AD’s, coaches, and players of the SEC dont want to go to 9 conference games either, so most likely barring some miracle we will be at 8 games still after this meeting. Im pretty sure we will lose Auburn, and it will be a 6/2 split (6 division games and 2 other division games) rotated yearly. So we will still get to play Auburn twice every 7 years, which is fine with me. Although I do love the rivalry it is not something that will devestate me like losing the UF game or something…
Lakedawg
February 29th, 2012
7:28 pm
Apparently Beast is about the only one posting that really understands the problem with 9 conference games. This year Dawgs have 3 SEC home games plus Tech.
Play 5 SEC games on road. Only team in SEC that does not play 4 home games. What about 3 home and 6 away SEC games, what kind of disadvantage is that.
You can not operate a football program with only6 home games every year. Would put Dawgs at big disadvantage. Only solution bring Gators home and home and plaay Tech every 2-3 years.
The Monger
February 29th, 2012
7:28 pm
So once again for those who want a 9 game SEC schedule, why do all of you who love UGA football want to make it extremely, terribly, almost impossibly hard on them to go undefeated. Do you not know that the SEC is head and shoulders the best conference in America by far? And you want to make a team that hasnt won a National Championship in 32 years win another conference game just to get into the NC game? Also, that would actually be 10 SEC games if you add in the SEC Championship.
Dave
February 29th, 2012
7:30 pm
Hey Bill….I was wondering if the Hasbrowns in the girls pants were scattered smothered & covered….Sorry about…I just couldn’r resist. As for which game to give up, that’s a tuff one…me I all for dumping Tech and Auburn….I’m not to fond of either place or school.
6-18 Against Ranked Teams Since '05
February 29th, 2012
7:32 pm
Uh….Monger, didn’t Alabama and LSU do just that this year. Especially LSU that beat a highly ranked Oregon and ranked WV out of conference
…..you’re an idiot. If you (you being a UGA fan who wants their team to be regarded as a pre-eminent national team) want to be the best, you gotta beat the best. NO CUPCAKE schedules!!!
6-18 Against Ranked Teams Since '05
February 29th, 2012
7:35 pm
BTW Monger, the way I was raised, I’d rather lose (hopefully competitively) to excellent teams than win against crap teams. Asides from the ONE win against Auburn this past year, the other 9 UGA wins were against crap teams (including FL and TN…they were crap teams this past year)
“to be THE MAN, you gotta beat THE MAN”…..and that’s the truth!
Chris
February 29th, 2012
7:36 pm
i prefer a 8 conferencee schedule season, but if we have to do it to keep auburn I am fine with it
Saban Never Sleeps
February 29th, 2012
7:41 pm
Keep an 8 game schedule. CMR would get fired with a 9 game schedule.
RED DOG 77
February 29th, 2012
7:57 pm
I want to make my point that we just signed 19 players, with only one 5* olineman, in my opinion because of all the negativaty about Richt and the poor 2010 season…………..BULLDOG NATION……….Stay positive, it rubs off on the players, creates chemistry, and helps build championships…………..The fan base plays a much larger role than many imagine………..GO DOGS!!! GATA !!!!………….RED
Gordon
February 29th, 2012
9:47 pm
There is a way to keep your two best conference rivals and play just 8 games:
Eliminate the divisions and just have 14 teams. Each team has 3 permanent opponents and rotates the other 10 teams in with 5 every other year. Every team would get at least their first two choices of teams they played every year (Florida and Auburn for UGA) plus one other. You would see every team in the league at least every other year and every team would play at your stadium at least once every 4 years. The top two teams after tiebreakers play in the SECCG.
josh
February 29th, 2012
10:11 pm
Tech, Vandy, and Kentucky. Isn’t that enough cupcake games
Mobile Dawg
February 29th, 2012
10:24 pm
Red, have you ever thought that the reason we didn’t sign 25 was “because” of Richt? Most people with basic intellectual skills can “clearly” see that Richt allowed the ship to steer off course. Most like me are just being honest in our assessment that we’ve seen the best of Richt in the past.
UGA does help GT more than it helps UGA
February 29th, 2012
11:01 pm
GT Bob: Um, ah, hmmmmm, um your STADIUM GETS SOLD OUT when UGA comes to town, your clown. MONEY is how UGA helps Tech.
GT needs UGA far more than UGA needs them ……………………..money baby!!! Show me the money!!!!
UGA DOES NOT NEED GT TO SELL TICKETS.
End of story.
PS avoid Ethel Street!!!
Go Dogs.
RED DOG 77
March 1st, 2012
12:29 am
@Mobile Dawg………….Point taken, I’m glad you grabbed the bait. My point is just this, while there are some intelligent differences of opinions of which I respect, Coach Mark Richt is your football coach, like him or not if you are a Bulldog, and probubly for at least the next four years. Young recruits read these blogs, and if you have been keeping up with the scouting services and reading as much as you can as I have , you will note a common theme with practically every service and writer…………The over the top negative buzz about Richt, Bobo and the basic poor moutthing of the football program did nothing to help us but rather hurt us deeply in securing the players we needed to create depth as Alabama, LSU has……………..Mobile, time will tell if you are right in your assessment of the coach, and some mature resonable discussions between Dawg fans is just what we fans do………….But the negativaty rose to such a pitch that it indeed hurt us. We may not always agree but lets be civil and supportive of our Dawgs while we ponder our Georgia Bulldogs……..just remember, the recruits read these things, and at their age, they want to be where it is cool……….and me? I think it is cool to be a Bulldog………….Regards Mobile, RED
Robert Jones
March 1st, 2012
12:40 am
If what we are concerned about is only preserving UGA/Auburn and Ala/Tenn, then move Alabama and Auburn to the EAST and Vandy and Mo. to the WEST. You can go to a nine team SEC schedule and actually have the divisions established on a true geographical basis.
Thomas Brown
March 1st, 2012
2:29 am
GTBob February 6th, 2012 3:40 pm
“If you aren’t against UGA all the time then you aren’t a GT fan”
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GTBob February 29th, 2012 4:07 pm
“GT doesn’t care nearly as much as UGA fans pretend they do.”
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GTBob February 29th, 2012 4:20 pm
“I really really hate UGA”
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3-9 Buffalo bills
1-11 Florida Atlantic
5-7 vols
6-7 Vandie
5-7 Kentucky
0-0 Georgia Southern 1-AA FCS
2-10 Ole Miss
8-5 Mizzou, not ranked any poll, 2 under 10-Win
8-5 Ga tek, not ranked any poll, 2 under 10-Win
7-6 Florida, not ranked any poll, 2 under 10-Win
8-5 Auburn, not ranked any poll, 2 under 10-Win
27 teams had 10-Win Seasons, not 1 we play
53-72 for the 10 of 11 teams 1-A FBS play 2012
42 % win percentage for 11 of 12 opponents 2012
11 of 12 opponents won an average of 4.8 games
And, you are worried about 9 Conference games ?
I am sorry but The SEC has many teams who are not very good. We’re one of them. Over the current 8-Year Period, we have Lost 4 games a season against teams who had worse talent than us or equal talent to us. RED DOG 77 submits that negative posts affects recruiting. Uh, no, Mark Richt affecting the recruiting by allowing our team to become irrelevant by Losing to Every Top Team in a Row for Years and Years, and by Losing to 4 Teams Every Year the Current 8-Year Period with Lesser or Equal Talent.
Positive statements come when you Beat Top Teams and when you don’t Lose to Less-Talented or Equal teams. We do Neither.
If you wish to be a Pollyanna and write positive posts with this Continuing, please have at it, as you are gone every regular season a couple games into every season every year RED DOG 77. Then, you reappear in the off-season to post your positive posts of how well we did.
# 72 nation pass completion % Aaron Murray Favorite at QB
1 yards per carry 6.44 carries a game all 27 games
22 Fumbles 27 games
23 Interceptions 27 games
41 % of his starts Lost
He can’t throw and he can’t run.
Runs up his stats vs Cupcakes, Lost 2 of those too
Now, if there is something positive to say about that, please share it with me.
Mobile Dawg is totally correct.
There is nothing to be proved.
It is proved, exactly as he states.
So, now today we have 11 of 12 regular season games, cupcakes.
And, you run in here whining that you don’t want to play 9 SEC games because you want Mark Richt’s job to be an even more cushy job than you already have provided to him, that being one of the 27 teams with 10-Win Seasons (beat no one who ended top 25 any poll) for 2011 is GREAT you say when we beat none of the 27 with 10-Win Seasons and had the MOST LOSSES with 4, dead last worst.
I am tired of all your lies every off-season followed by you running and hiding all season until the off-season comes around again for you to start your onslaught of how great we were, so great you had to run and hide all season long again.
The fans who do not want 9 SEC games, are the same fans who say how great Mark Richt is. You want to make his job as cushy as possible because you know he hasn’t beat the top teams, has lost consistently to teams with lesser or equal teams, and you are a Bible-Thumper, who then blames the kids not wanting to play for his coaching staff on what you call negative press.
-beat no one of the top 27 teams with 10-Win Seasons
-beat no one of teams ending with 9-Win Seasons either
-Lost to Every team ending Top 25 again 2011 as 2010
dagnabit
March 1st, 2012
5:26 am
Nine conference games and Tech-Jawja to start AND finish each season.
JB
March 1st, 2012
5:59 am
We’re kinda stuck on 8, 9, 10 win seasons, so it really doesn’t matter, Play a good team. More bang for the buck for the fans.
go thomas
March 1st, 2012
6:51 am
well said. UGA football is smoke and mirrors. smoke and mirrors.
go thomas
March 1st, 2012
6:53 am
i’ve come to the conclusion that The Monger is a wimp. he’d prefer that we play ga southern’s schedule and get a national championship.
hey monger – “to be the best, you’ve gotta beat the best!” – woooo!
- Ric Flair
SuperB
March 1st, 2012
7:36 am
Who cares if Georgia plays Auburn– big deal! The world has changed. I am sure Georgia fans want to play a team they best 45-7 last year– but the new generation could care less about this “rivalry.”
Playing 9 conference games is stupid if the SEC wants national championships.
Thomas Brown
March 1st, 2012
7:44 am
The SEC will NEVER vote to play 9 Conference Games.
KeithB
March 1st, 2012
7:46 am
If you don’t like it, change conferences.
Thomas Brown
March 1st, 2012
8:03 am
Is that what I’m supposed to do about this too ? Just root for a different Quarterback, too ?
Aaron Murray :
# 72 nation pass completion percentage
1 yards per carry 6.44 carries a game all 27 games
23 Fumbles 27 games
22 Interceptions 27 games
41 % of his starts Lost
He can’t throw and he can’t run.
Runs up his stats vs Cupcakes
Darrah
March 1st, 2012
8:04 am
The Big Three sports in 2011:
Basketball – Tech 1, UGA 0
Baseball – Tech 3, UGA 0
Football – Tech 0, UGA 1
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Total: Tech 4, UGA 1
TECH OWNS THIS STATE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rad Penties
March 1st, 2012
8:05 am
A few comments about UGA:
1. Four different SEC teams have won the last six BCS championships.
2. UGA was not one of those teams.
3. During that period, UGA did not win the SEC championship.
4. Red panties.
In other words, UGA has sunk into total irrelevancy both regionally and nationally.
So why is UGA paying Mark Richt millions of dollars a year?
chiefdawg
March 1st, 2012
8:20 am
Drop GT.
DawginLex
March 1st, 2012
8:44 am
evil empire
Try shutting me up
AltamahaDawg
March 1st, 2012
8:53 am
Of cource another reason that we signed 19 players is that was the exact amount of scholarships they had to give. At the time.
Obviously with the loss of a few now, they would have had a few more, but could it be that they simply focuced on signing who they needed and didnt go out of the way to oversign for the sake of it?
I believe they were prepared to sign a couple more at NSD, knowing attrition was always going to happen, but those were guys that we were never listed as in the lead for anyway. What’s with this Meme now that recruiting was somehow a terrible disaster (and all the conspiracy theories ranging from its all McGarities fault for not signing a contract that every person in the world knew was a formality at that point, to guessing that all the self loathing comments in UGA blogs leaked out to highschool locker rooms) ?.
It could also be that they got the vast majority of who they went after and just like every year, and every other team, missed on a couple of guys.
Personally, I would rather give a couple of left over scholarships to a proven, reliable, known commodity walk on upperclassman, than to take every 17 yr old recruit possible and still stay under the max guidelines just to say we signed 25. (which BTW would have mandated that we did get rid of a few somewhere to make room in the fall).
I am thrilled with the recruiting class, and very much looking forward to this fall, and the next few years.
bubba4dawgs
March 1st, 2012
8:57 am
Why play a cupcake you know you’re going to win?? It looks good in the win column but distorts the quality of the schedule and rankings. UGA had a cupcake schedule last year and ran off 10 straight wins then laid an egg in the game that mattered. They were totally outclassed in the title game. One even wonders how they got there……well, they played a lot of cupcakes along the way. BTW, what happened to the can’t lose in the 4th qtr. workout program that gave out of gas in the second half of the title game?
Alphare
March 1st, 2012
9:03 am
Of all people, why does UGA AD oppose the 9 conference game idea? For 2 years in a row, the majority of your games are cupcake any way. Do you want to keep that way?
Joey
March 1st, 2012
9:18 am
Mobile Dawg is right. Being a lifelong UGA fan does not require one to be a Richt-fan. And I am one who is not. Mark Richt is a fine, charitable man, but is barely in the top half of SEC coaches.
Speaking of Richt, I bet I know which side of this fence he is on. 9 conference games may endanger some of those magical, 10-win seasons . . .
Mobile Dawg
March 1st, 2012
9:29 am
Red @ 12:29, good response. I believe we’re well positioned athletically at just about every positon except the OL, and possibly DB’s. We do have the atheletes to play DB, just may have to shift personnel around a bit to get the best players on the field at the same time.
I’ve always believed in giving someone the benefit of the doubt, and calling things like they are, at least to me. As individuals we will always have differences in perspective. I believe the QB situation was mishandled last year, there were a lot of opportunities to get Mason in the game and our coaches inexplicably failed to do so. Murray cost us several games, will that trend continue? Time will tell as you said.
I haven’t posted much since the MSU game but read the blog almost daily. I read the situation about the same as previous years. Some people would support Richt at 0-12, some as me, think we underachieved last year with 10 wins, and a lot in between. I think the most interesting and possibly challenging thing Richt will face next year is handling IC.
Joey
March 1st, 2012
9:30 am
“…why do all of you who love UGA football want to make it extremely, terribly, almost impossibly hard on them to go undefeated.”
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Monger, going undefeated hasn’t happened in Richt’s first 11 seasons, even with some incredibly talented teams, so a 9-game conference sched won’t keep that from happening.
Richt will see to that himself with 1 or 2 inexplicable losses to underdogs, same as always . . .
huntersdad
March 1st, 2012
9:40 am
come on one win a decade is occasionally ? right?
Joey
March 1st, 2012
9:41 am
“The over the top negative buzz about Richt, Bobo and the basic poor moutthing of the football program did nothing to help us but rather hurt us deeply in securing the players we needed…”
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And the constant losing of every big TV game since ‘07, poorly prepared teams, a 14-12 record in ‘09 and ‘10, and invites to only terrible bowls didn’t have anything to do with that?
That takes the cake, blaming “buzz” on a stupid blog for UGA’s problems on the field . . .
robodawg
March 1st, 2012
10:04 am
We added A&M and Mizzou for this? ESPN incited the SEC office to panic (everyone in the whole world is going to superconferences!) and now ESPN is taking expansion to the bank.
This mess has NOTHING to do with giving the alumni and supporters of each team what they want.
Gary
March 1st, 2012
10:07 am
Why not have Tennessee and Auburn trade places? If Tennessee were in the West they would play Bama every year and if Auburn were in the East they would always play Georgia. Problem solved.
Atlanta Gator
March 1st, 2012
10:16 am
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again . . .
I have no interest in watching Gators (or Bulldogs) games played against Louisiana directional schools, Iowa State, Bowling Green, Duke, New Mexico State, Wyoming, UAB, Western Michigan, Coastal Carolina, Florida International, Buffalo, etc. Yes, I am a loyal fan of the Gators and the SEC; no I am not interested in watching a top-25 SEC team beat the crap out of lesser teams from the MAC, MWC, WAC, or the bottom of the other BCS conferences. SEC games, by definition, are meaningful, whether they are played against Alabama or Vanderbilt. Likewise, so are rivalry games against Florida State and Georgia Tech. And while I recognize that one or two early season games against such lesser opponents may serve as game experience for the Gators and Dawgs before the start of the SEC season, I’m sorry, but I will never spend a single minute watching a game against Charleston Southern, either on TV or at the stadium. My time as an adult and a college football fan is better spent elsewhere.
Buckeye
March 1st, 2012
10:32 am
Hey dogs, got hasbrowns?
Dog4Life
March 1st, 2012
10:39 am
No more hashbrowns–traded them to Pryor for tattoos–But Tressel prayed over them.
beanster
March 1st, 2012
10:41 am
@ Gary — Seems logical but then the Ironbowl would be in the same position as UGA v AUB is now.
Thomas Brown
March 1st, 2012
11:59 am
Why do you keep talking about BASEBALL LAST YEAR ? And, then try to compare that with THIS YEAR where hard to believe your basketball team beat us ? That is the only win Georgia tek has over Georgia Bulldogs all season this year.
And, that comes out in your pea-brain as 4-1 advantage ?
Wrong.
Football 1-0 us
Basketball men 0-1 you
that’s it Bubba.
Good try to lump in last year’s baseball.
You ain’t beating us in baseball and were fortunate to beat us in men’s basketball.
You LOST every other sport to us.
All of them, except men’s basketball.
And, you call yourself a math major ?
NERD
murfdawg
March 1st, 2012
12:10 pm
Just go to 15 games, play everybody every year and stop all the whining. Once the presidents see how much money they can make, they will buy into it. Then pay the players. Treat college football like a million dollar hooker, instead of a two dollar prostitute.
Reality Check
March 1st, 2012
1:39 pm
No hashbrowns Buckeye. No major probation either. What about the Cheatin’ Buckeyes.
BTW, it is common knowledge that your 2002 NC Maurice Clerett should have been inelgible to play, but somehow he stayed eligible to play in the game.
Stephen A.Dogg: Play the 9th SEC game and dump the cowardice.
March 1st, 2012
2:48 pm
The SEC administrators knew when ESPN inspired them to expand to 14 teams that the conference would have to go from 8 to 9 in conference games. They didn’t go into the details with the ADs and coaches, but even they should have known what adding teams would ultimately mean. McGarity isn’t between a rock and a hard place, Richt is because he’s fighting the hotseat trying to win SEC games. CMR must man up or get out and accept the fact that he has to play 9 conference games plus Tech and win to continue receiving 3 million a year. UGA went 10-4 in 2011 and won 10 games in a row feeding on OoC cupcakes and SEC cellar-dwellers/middling teams. They went 0-4 in all their marquee matchups versus winning teams, so CMR’s concern/cowardice over the 9th game is somewhat understood. However there are cupcake games within the SEC. Vandy, Kentucky, Ole Miss, and Miss.St have been homecoming sacrifices for decades so knock off the SEC is so tough stuff. Florida and Tennessee have slipped and are not as good as they used to be. Arkansas and So.Carolina are decent programs now, but Alabama and LSU are the real SEC powers at present. A look at the 2012 UGA schedule reveals at least 5 to 6 cupcakes and ESPN & other networks aren’t going to continue to pay out huge amounts for mediocrity in scheduling. Nobody is going to continue to watch UGA struggle through soft schedules. People want to see UGA play and win big games. I won’t be watching the Georgia vs. Buffalo or FAU game, but I will check to see how badly the Dawgs beat those teams. Last season I didn’t watch UGA vs. Vandy and fell asleep on the Ole Miss game because the game was so boring due to Georgia’s offensive problems. I even fell asleep off and on the bowl game vs. UCF and was disgusted with the Bulldog loss. That was a very long, boring, disappointing offensive game against an underdog opponent that Georgia should easily have blown out.
Richt should be concentrating on what he can control such as bringing in a new OC and removing himself (and puppet) from offensive play calling. I guarantee if Richt scraps his antiquated offense and brings in a proven, modern era OC, CMR won’t have to keep scratching the developing bald spot in his head over SEC scheduling. The bottom line is CMR had better win big now (2012), because the 9th SEC game is coming and he won’t be able to use that as an excuse for continued mediocrity. Go Dogs !
Stephen A.Dogg: Play the 9th SEC game and dump the cowardice.
March 1st, 2012
4:37 pm
ESPN is providing national & world-wide exposure to the SEC programs that are smart and bold enough to play the games the world wants to see. Case in point, on the same day Georgia is at home playing the mighty Buffalo Bulls, the defending BCS champion, Alabama Crimson Tide will face off versus the storied Michigan Wolverines. I’m a die-hard Bulldog, but if they were to play those two games at the same time, I’m going to watch “GO BLUE” tangle with the Crimson Tide. I’d shift to UGA-Buffalo on commercials only. Mostly everyone would, especially future recruits. During Bama-Michigan, you know Saban will find a way to talk with the top recruits, once again outworking Richt.
But we at Georgia know that the Bulldogs are not ready for an early season prime-time game against a top ten program. The 2011 season kick-off game at the Ga.Dome vs. Boise St. proved that fact. So are Georgia fans going to pay for and settle for re-run games year after year beating weak teams and being beaten by better coached teams or ranked teams? In a word, NO. CMR must change the offense if he wants to stay at UGA. The defense is stable and in good hands. Saban is beating Richt in many ways than just head to head games and recruiting. It’s past time for Richt to admit to himself that his FSU offenses of the 90s won’t work any longer in todays SEC. He must take a hands off approach and bring in a quality OC that will have total control. Richt, in essence would become a figurehead. But isn’t that what most head coaches are anyway. Saban and Miles are the most respected figurehead coaches in the SEC, but they know they have to stay relevant by winning big games. Sooner or later Richt will learn he must be willing to change or he is doomed. There should not be any further contract extensions beyond this current extension for CMR unless the Dogs drastically improve. If he hasn’t won a national title after 16 or 17 years on the job at UGA, it’s not going to happen. Go Dogs !
michael g.
March 1st, 2012
5:07 pm
For Dawg fans it’s a pick your poison. Stay at 8 conference games, lose the Auburn game. Go to 9 conference games, lose the Georgia Tech game. It all comes down to getting 7 home games a year to pay for the athletic dept.
AltamahaDawg
March 1st, 2012
5:08 pm
Agree robodawg, this is looking more and more like a knee jerkreaction (to a make up set of circumstances) and less like a thought out plan all the time. It’s almost hard to believe that they are actually sitting there, trying to figure out how to schedule SEC football games, now all of a sudden. Worse stilll, it sounds like they weren’t even prepared enough to realize this was the kind of thing that would need to be worked out. Gee, we never thought about our teams playing each other in this new deal.
AltamahaDawg
March 1st, 2012
5:10 pm
Anybody believe that the lower tier teams of the SEC are actually going to vote for never attending a bowl game again?
Still@theKool-aidBAR
March 1st, 2012
5:15 pm
michael g. why does the GT game have to go? UGa needs to BUY a win against Ga Southern? The Big Bad Dawgs are running and hiding from playing a full schedule of games that matter and the fans will pay to see? McGarity was the white chick in the car with DAMON when he was caught carrying the red underwear. McGarity is a wuss. The ONLY COACH at You GEE A that can fill a Jock strap is gone…..Suzanne Yoculan: Sometimes I’ll stick my foot in my mouth, but I say what I feel. If I think my team is unbeatable or whatever, I’ll usually say so. There have been some times where we’ve beaten them and she has said things about equipment, the bars, or judging or whatever.
Whatever, winners make adjustments. So we go back and forth alot, and I probably fuel the fire more with my comments. She’s able to keep her Shirley Temple persona, but if you listen to who says what a lot of it starts in Alabama.
I don’t mind being the Darth Vader team of the SEC. In fact, 10 years ago we made the decision to just embrace that Darth Vader image, and we wear black everywhere we go on the road. We’re an aggressive, confident team. That’s our style. That’s my style. I like enthusiasm. I like excitement. We’ve won a lot of championships because of that.
I don’t believe in failure. I’d rather go out on a limb now and have it break once and a while than to never go out there. That’s just my approach. It’s offensive to some people, but it wins for Georgia. So I recruit athletes who can embrace going for it.
We’re like Steve Spurrier vs. Georgia. No one in Georgia likes Spurrier because he beats us a lot. (PWD: Inferring that no one in Bama likes them b/c they never beat Georgia anymore).
Sarah is more of a southern lady than I am. She does and says the right thing, and has better manners than I do. But that’s not my style. I say what I think.
I respect her. She’s had the same challenges at Bama that I have had at UGA.
I don’t use nouns when I can use verbs. I don’t call my team “underachievers.” I say that they are “underachieving.” I don’t call Sarah Patterson a “loser,” I said “don’t gripe about losing.” I don’t hate anything but cauliflower and turnips.
I have never had a girl transfer away from Georgia in my entire career. What other coach in any sport at any school can say that?
in depth analysis guy
March 1st, 2012
7:01 pm
174th
RED DOG 77
March 1st, 2012
8:37 pm
@Mobile Dawg……Thanks for your response, and I do agree with some of your points particularly that of not using Hutson Mason. But what I believe we are doing is having respectful discussions, something we got away from last year……………and those who say I don’t want to hear any “negative” just didn’t get my point…………This is our team, our family, just as the fans are……….You, Mobile are one that I can respect whether I agree or not, it is your posture [no doubt you are a DGD]………..Me? I want to see what Christian LeMay can do this year, IMO he is our future………….And again, regardless of what my critics might say, Over-the-top negativety hurt us in securing at least four 5* studs……….[see recruiting services opinions] and yes Altamaha, we did have a good class, a class of need, but only one 5* Olineman………….The 2013 class is critical if we are to become a dominant force once again…………I respect all BULLDOG NATION, but please consider what I’ve said, and don’t spin it………….Thanks again for your response Mobile [great town, Mobile]……………..Best to all, RED
Mobile Dawg
March 1st, 2012
9:04 pm
Respectful indeed RED, thanks for the kind words. I stick to facts, or let folks know it’s my opinion. Only once was I caught using infactual information, Altamaha busted me on a series of downs in the Auburn loss in 2005.
Hairy05
March 2nd, 2012
1:07 am
EASY SOLUTION! Move Alabama and Auburn to the East and move Mizzou and Vandy to the West. PROBLEM SOLVED! Mizzou should be in the west anyway and Vandy and Bama are close enough to switch. Man, I hope the ADs are smart enough to think about this easy way to solve all the problems.
Thomas Brown
March 2nd, 2012
3:23 am
Aaron Murray said he’s working hard to “improve on my footwork,” which he believes will improve his accuracy. “I wasn’t as assurate as I need to be.”
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# 72 QB nationally Pass Completion Percentage
http://espn.go.com/college-football/statistics/player/_/stat/passing/sort/completionPct/count/41
238 completions of 403 passes 59 % completions
59 % completion percentage career as well
23 Fumbles, 22 Interceptions, 56 Sacks, 174 Carries, 27 Games, 0-9 vs End Top 25
11 Games to-date opponent’s QB Far Better than Aaron Murray
21-35 Boise State : 7 carries minus 33 yards, 1 interception, 16 of 29 passing 2 TD, 6 Sacks
42-45 South Carolina : 6 carries 11 yards, 2 Fumbles, 1 interception, 19 of 29 passing 4 TD, 2 Sacks
10-42 LSU : 8 carries minus 5 yards, 1 Fumble, 2 interceptions, 16 of 40 passing 1 TD, 4 Sacks
30-33 Michigan State : 8 carries minus 13 yards, 1 Fumble, 2 interceptions, 20 of 32 passing 2 TD, 4 Sacks
103-155 Totals in 4 Losses : 29 carries minus 40 yards, 4 Fumbles, 6 interceptions, 71 of 130 Passing 9 TD, 16 Sacks, opponent’s QB Far Better all 4 games (and 11 games to-date opponent’s QB Far Better than Aaron Murray)
Neutral
March 2nd, 2012
6:47 am
Brown = Mr Negative = Techie
Thomas Brown
March 2nd, 2012
7:14 am
I quoted you correctly that you called ten (10) different posters idiots in one blog by you yourself, calling each a Georgia tek fan, stating you are a soldier, drive a red Ferrari and no one should ever criticize the Bulldogs’ football team. Then, you added all these :
“OL still needs to improve
UGa was inches from beating SC and MS
They also looked good for a half vs. LSU
quit worrying.
I still would pick UGa if they played Michigan State again tomorrow!!!
Oh I forgot, you aren’t worrying because you are the enemy.
We need to get our offense cranked-up to give the defense a rest.
Be patient and believe in the Dawgs 1 more year.
take the pressure off Murray.
Yes indeed we need to improve
give Murray another season
I feel your pain”
Neutral = NEGATIVE = Techie
boykin
March 2nd, 2012
8:57 am
Your 1st positive blog..perhaps proving you are less blowhard and have a lil Dawg luvin in ya.