Bulldog Nation struggles with after-effects of big loss
Let's keep the emotional connection between UGA fans and players a healthy one. (Brant Sanderlin / AJC)
As we’ve already discussed, the Bulldogs’ face plant on national television Saturday night was plenty embarrassing by itself, but that was nothing compared with the classless display of pique that transpired later that night at the Athens home of some team members.
As was first revealed in a Twitter posting by linebacker Christian Robinson, the house he shares with quarterback Aaron Murray and several other players was egged and rolled with toilet paper after the blowout loss to South Carolina.
The timing couldn’t have been worse for Murray, who learned the day after the game that his father would have to have cancer surgery, part of what he described as “probably the worst 12 hours of my life.”
While the idiots responsible for the vandalism no doubt were unaware of the situation with Murray’s father at the time they were engaged in their childish act, the two bits of news naturally got connected in national news mentions, including on ESPN’s “SportsCenter” — exacerbating the damage to the Georgia football program’s image and, probably, its recruiting efforts as well.
A disillusioned Robinson, after returning home to find the vandalism in Athens, tweeted, “Seems that people turn on you when you’re not perfect. Thought we were in this together.”
At least one tweeter, who may or may not have been involved in the vandalism, responded: “We didn’t turn on u cause u aren’t perfect we turned because u didn’t put up a fight … your play deserve egging.”
I find that response every bit as moronic as the act that was being discussed.
I agree with one caller to this week’s “Bulldog Hotline,” who said that anyone who would commit an act like that is not a fan. They’re a criminal.
But while I truly believe that only a tiny fraction of fandom thinks like that, I can’t deny it’s a part of the sports scene today. As I noted a few months back when I wrote about some of the positive aspects of extreme fandom in college football, UGA is not alone in that regard — whether it’s the poisoning of trees at Auburn’s Toomer’s Corner, sexually humiliating a fan from an opposing team or even fatally shooting each other over the outcome of games.
I’ve seen plenty of disgusting behavior over the years by fans in red and black, and in this very forum I’ve experienced firsthand the depths to which the lunatic fringe of Bulldog fandom can sink. I recall a few years back having to ban one UGA fan because of language he’d used in the Blawg comments. This was shortly after my Dad had been hospitalized, and when I refused to reinstate the commenter, he sent me an email saying he looked forward to the day my father died.
And then had the gall to follow that up with another note asking if I’d changed my mind!
Obviously, we’re not talking about the sharpest knives on the rack here.
Fortunately, the Georgia players don’t appear to blame Bulldog fans in general. “It’s a small group,” Robinson said this week. “That’s what I’ve been hearing and that’s what people have been talking about. It’s a small group of people. Right when I sent out that tweet, I had probably 700 people tweeting me reminding me of that.”
When I put the question to Junkyard Blawg followers on Facebook and Twitter — Is this just a few isolated morons or is fandom getting out of control? — the majority seemed to agree with Robinson.
“They’re not real fans,” said Johnathan Tatman of the vandals. “I may have cussed [Murray] and the rest of the team for 4 quarters and wanted to puke, but a real fan will not do something so childish to their team.”
Some looked at the bigger picture. “I think it’s indicative of the way the world is now,” said Marcus P. Cannon. “Look at Kansas City’s fans applauding Matt Cassel’s injury on Sunday. Sick people. But you add alcohol to young dumb college kids and they throw eggs.”
Said Luke Jeffrey Mills VIII: “I think this is a sign of where our society is headed. Granted there will always be the core that will support through thick and thin, but it seems prevalent that the fringes are the ones with the loudest voices. Just look at fandom in pro sports and how it’s getting out of control, and compare that with politics. It’s getting to the point where it’s my team/affiliation is the best and you’re stupid for cheering/agreeing with the opposing side. Infantilism is running rampant in America.”
Alan Cason complained that “the lunatic fringe always gets the publicity. It’s the true fans who continue to support the guys who are representing Georgia on the field that should get some PR.”
Reggie Warren feels criticism of the team was deserved after the South Carolina game, “but retaliation, threats, and vandalism are criminal and despicable.”
“As a former player,” said Michael Kavouklis, “I was mad at the the outcome and I was embarrassed by our team’s poor performance, but they don’t deserve this type of treatment. It’s frustrating to all of us when we lose ALL of the really big, significant games for the last four years BUT HAVE SOME CLASS!!! It’s still a game and we will have our day. Show the recruits why they should come here, not why they should stay away from a bunch of stupid, ignorant fair weather fans who think that they are the only ones disappointed by the outcome. TRUST ME, the players are already hurting more than you can imagine. Fans can only share the credit if they support their team in the bad times as well as the good times. As embarrassing as the loss to SC was, these idiots are 1000 times more embarrassing to the UGA community!”
And that’s the bottom line we should all take away from this, I think. The team did not play well and the coaches did not do a good job. And it’s completely valid for fans to say so. But we should always keep in mind that the players are college students, not hardened professionals. Pouring salt in an open wound, as the Dogs’ Artie Lynch put it, isn’t going to help matters. Let’s keep the emotional connection between fans and players a healthy one that both can benefit from.
And while it’s perfectly OK to be concerned about and frustrated by the direction of the Georgia football program, we should keep it in perspective and not overreact to one loss.
As Michael Askins put it: “I love college football and I get emotional when the Dawgs lose a game. But I remember that it is just that … a game. There are a lot more important things in life than winning a football game.”
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Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 10th, 2012
10:34 am
First
fss
October 10th, 2012
10:34 am
I think the same passion that leads to spend $$$ on t-shirts, car decals, tickets, etc leads some very childish people to act in childish ways. I disagree with this kind of stuff following these players to their homes, period. Same with the coaches. No one should ever have to fear for themselves or their families.
I do think it’s time for a coaching change at the top. When CMR got here, we were the 3rd best team in the East. Now, 12 years later, we’re…the 3rd best team in the East. Give Tennessee a few more years, and we may end up 4th. Each loss the last 4 years or so has been because we are not physical enough in the trenches. Until our coaching staff puts emphasis on that on special teams and basic tackling, we won’t go anywhere…
Oh, and CMR is not a religious figure. I can be a “real fan” and think he needs to go. It’s the team that’s important, not the staff…
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 10th, 2012
10:35 am
Brainiac
Columbus
Lobosolo
Truth??
Where are you guys; I thought the meeting at the Jedi Kool-aid temple would be over with by now
Derek
October 10th, 2012
10:41 am
Mark Richt has built a great program and he will be here a long time. GA wins out, SC loses next two, GA wins SEC and the skies the limit. But if none of that happens–the LAST thing we need in Athens is a coaching change.
Flo-Ri-Duh
October 10th, 2012
10:42 am
There will always be idiots disguised as fans at UGA though the vandals may have never been UGA students or alumni. Hopefully the police that are so good at arresting students for DUI can catch these criminals that egged the house but I won’t wait on it. What is so sad about the game is that Spurrrier coiuld have beat UGA by 50 if he had wanted to. With the big lead he got conservative with his offense in the 2nd half. This was a bad job of COACHING and playing. Jarvis Jones has been injured ever since the the Missouri game and it appears that there is NO one else that can rush the QB. Shaw had all day and half the night to find a receiver.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 10th, 2012
10:46 am
The morons that did this arent UGA fans they are bunch of idiot criminals using the loss as an excuse to do something criminal
Anyone blaming the players for the loss is a moron as well
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 10th, 2012
10:48 am
Derek
Seriously this team isnt winning out
Get your head out of the sand
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 10th, 2012
10:49 am
Thoughts and prayers go out to Murray and his family
dawgfacedboy
October 10th, 2012
10:50 am
CMR needs to go. It’s not a gut reaction from yet another embarassment on national t.v. I said it last year when we won 10 games. We will 10 games most years with Richt. THere is a BIG difference between 10 wins and 13 or 14. If UGA is happy with 10 wins and 2nd tier bowl games then fine. Let’s all just readjust our expectations.
JAXDAWG
October 10th, 2012
10:52 am
Derek
I totally agree with your post.
gomdawg
October 10th, 2012
10:55 am
Look the SC game is over there is not on e thing we can do but move on I think our players fill just as bad as we do . SO LET’S STAND BY THEM AND PULL THE SEASON OUT WE HAVE A LOT TO PLAY FOR WITH A LITTLE LUCK WE CAN WIN THE SEC EAST. I HAVE SEEN SOME GREAT TEAMS LOSE AND COME BACK STRONGER I FILL WE HAVE THE TEAM THAT WILL DO THAT.
GO DAWGS I’M BEHIND YOU 100 %
dawgfacedboy
October 10th, 2012
10:57 am
If Jones is hurt then sit him. He’s more use to us healthy and rusty than hurt and ineffective.
I can’t really blame it on the players. UGA goes up against the top dogs in recruiting and wins some and loses some. They continually pull in top 7 classes and have gobs of kids go to the NFL every year. What do they have to show for it? A few 10 win seasons? Really? That’s what all of the hype is about every year? Hell there is 8 players on that D right now that will be in The League in the next year or 2. I don’t get it.
Statick
October 10th, 2012
10:59 am
I could believe it when I heard that the players’ houses got vandalized. Just shameful. If you cowardly punks wanted to egg someone’s house so badly, especialy when they were out of town, it should have been Richt’s. He’s responsible for getting the team ready to play and he failed miserably. AGAIN.
gomdawg
October 10th, 2012
11:04 am
Player for player we are a better team than SC but the crowd and mistakes is what lost that game so get over it if it had been played in Athens it would have been a diff. game
FL Dawg
October 10th, 2012
11:09 am
I wish I knew who did this because I would walk up to this idiot and punch him right in the throat!
Truthiness
October 10th, 2012
11:10 am
I’m not sure how to talk about the direction of the program. The program’s pretty much where it’s been for a while, and there’s little reason to believe that without a lot of intervention by other teams that clears UGA’s way, things are unlikely to change a great deal. CMR fields a good team with good athletes, and he’ll win a lot of games on that alone—even in the toughest league in college football. The fact that the national champions also belong to that league and are largely doing it with players from the same gene pool we fish in can definitely be galling. I agree that if you want national championships, there’s little reason to believe CMR will deliver. But if you take the bigger view of what a state university ought to emphasize and that football is essentially just entertainment, then we’re probably doing okay. The question is who decides that? Right now the administartion and the big money donors must think the latter. And by the way, the fans who acted like idiots are in fact idiots.
Tuck Fech
October 10th, 2012
11:10 am
I’m not spending any more of my hard-earned money on UGA football. It’s the same story every year. Great recruiting class builds offseason excitement, 3-8 players get arrested/suspended/kicked off team, UGA shows up flat on national television and loses a game to an opponent with inferior talent and superior coaches. Then it’s wash, rinse, repeat. We will have the same thing happen again next year, and then again the next year. I, for one, am done contributing anything financial to this sham of a football program.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 10th, 2012
11:11 am
gomdawg
Give me a break it would have been the same result if the game was played on the moon
Jim
October 10th, 2012
11:13 am
With the exception of Clowney, our talent was as good or better than that of SC!. It is ALL about coaching!!!!!!
ARdawg
October 10th, 2012
11:16 am
Bill
There you go adding salt to the wounds and fanning the fire. For Robinson or anyone else to blame the fan base because their house was egged and rolled is azzinine. Now here you perpetuate the rumor as well. It’s not the fan base and blaming the fan base on the actions of a lunatic is nuts and hyperbole. Stop it
ARdawg
October 10th, 2012
11:19 am
Let’s cottle the players blaming the entire because a house was rolled and egged? Really? Houses all over America is rolled and egged with regularity. These players need to grow a pair and reflect possibly on the houses they’ve egged and rolled. Geesh.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 10th, 2012
11:21 am
UGA’s talent is far better than SC
The coaching is far worse and that made the difference
Football Bat
October 10th, 2012
11:23 am
Leave the players out of it. Those eggs should have gone in Mark Richt’s hairdoo, along with a bag of self-rising flour (I’m joking, goon squad). WAKE THE HELL UP COACH VALIUM!
Gimme Hines Ward with 3 good team coordinators and we’ll find ourselves on the field fighting to win instead of running for the locker room with timeouts on the board and time on the clock. Richt won’t fire Bobo (just like Martinez) despite a proven inability to make adjustments at the half. Nepotism is NOT a Christian value.
astrouga
October 10th, 2012
11:23 am
Anyone see this? That would help explain why USC seemed to perform better than they have all season against us:
JADEVEON CLOWNEY, South Carolina sophomore DE said Murray was tapping the center’s leg before snaps to signal for the snap:”The offensive line gave away when they were going to hike the ball, so I got a good jump on it and our crowd got into it.”
That and the usual poor outing by the dawgs in a big game.
ugab
October 10th, 2012
11:27 am
We need a coach.
Topher
October 10th, 2012
11:29 am
UGA recruits as good as any team out there, we have talent on the level of Bama, Florida, Texas, and any other team. Yet continually we have 10 win seasons, think the program is going somewhere and lose. This game reminded me of the 08 black out against Bama. The team was highly ranked, playing another highly ranked team, but still expected to win. In both we came out flat and were down big at half time. Then finished the game beaten, out coached, and out played. My biggest worry is that in just a few years Spurrier has built a great team that could beat us every year, just like we used to beat them every year. Florida has made a huge comeback since Meyer left and looks better every week. At this point UGA is the third best team in the east and 5th, maybe 6th in the SEC. I’m not ready to jump on the fire Richt bandwagon yet but if we lose to Florida, and the bowl game then come out and lose to Clemson on opening weekend next year I just might.
gomdawg
October 10th, 2012
11:30 am
GO DAWGS BRING ON KENTUCKY ONE GAME AT A TIME . THE SEASON IS NOT OVER
DCJohn
October 10th, 2012
11:30 am
That was nothing compared to what happened in Billy-Brice Stadium. I saw a Souf Carolina fan slap a woman on the behind, because she was a Georgia fan. When her husband and the coward/chicken who ran off about got into, that’s when we decided to leave. The best part of the game: the Souf Carolina Department of Labor Unemployment advertises to individuals out of work to collect benefits. I guess their target market is Souf Carolina fans who attend in person?
Fbfan
October 10th, 2012
11:33 am
Didn’t some Clemson fans egg Taj Boyd’s place last year after the Ga. Tech loss?
Wow….Georgia’s fans are now acting like Clemson!
How low can you go?
bill arp
October 10th, 2012
11:43 am
The direction the program’s going in?!? What direction is that, exactly? It’s not going downward.
The direction of the program is fine. I still say we finish 11-1, which is what I thought we’d do all along. Maybe 10-2. I for one can live with that. Our day will come when we play for the NC. Soon enough.
oakisland
October 10th, 2012
11:43 am
Enter your comments here
Inlet Dawg
October 10th, 2012
11:43 am
Still have a lot of love and respect for all of my players.
OkieDawg
October 10th, 2012
11:49 am
Just go out and play hard and everything will be just fine for the players, coachs, fans, administrators, Hartman fund, students, graduates and Russ.
bubba4dawgs
October 10th, 2012
11:50 am
This too shall pass! It’s not the end for UGA! This team will rebound! Surely, the loss is hard to take after such high expectations. Plain and simple, the team was not ready for this game! It was a flat day for the DAWGS! Any other day, this same team most probably would have played much better! Once they were hit in the mouth in the first quarter, it’s like they stopped and didn’t really give their best the rest of the game! THIS is where the coaching comes in! It wasn’t until later that the team was assembled and given a pep talk.
The DAWGS still have a lot to play for and I believe they will…..Flori-duh being the primary target! They need to win this one and it will probably take their best game to do it! It can be done!! Have a good game plan and just do it!
Meantime, our thoughts and prayers are with Aaron Murray and his family!
Get Real
October 10th, 2012
11:51 am
Topher
October 10th, 2012
11:29 am
“UGA recruits as good as any team out there, we have talent on the level of Bama, Florida, Texas, and any other team. Yet continually we have 10 win seasons…”
You WISH you continually had 10 win seasons. You haven’t been paying attention lately, have you?
SSIgator
October 10th, 2012
11:53 am
Uh, oh – This just in:
USA Today: “According to several LSU players, it was too hot. Yes. It was too hot.”
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This is really bad news for St. Markus Rectumus. He won’t be able to use that excuse (like he did a few years ago) if UGA gets waxed by the Gators again this year.
Music City Dawg
October 10th, 2012
11:53 am
Bill – can you give us an update on Aaron Murray’s dad and how he is doing? I believe the vast majority of us really do care and want to know. Thanks!!!
Octoberdawg
October 10th, 2012
11:56 am
A win in Jacksonville heals all. I am not ready to give up on CMR or this team. I agree that UGA gets some of the best recruits every year….but so does Alabama, Auburn, Florida, USCw, Ohio State, Florida State etc….
I submit this thought for your consideration: What if we win out and slide into the NC game? What if we win? What then? If CMR and the Dawgs go 10-2 next year are we calling for his head again? Some of you out there would….because you are unrealistic. Look at Chizik. Two years removed from a NC and there is already talk of replacing him.
I am as humiliated as the next fan by our lack of effort against USCe. However, I love our coach…I love our players and more importantly I will support these guys to the end. A true fan does that.
Bill King
October 10th, 2012
11:59 am
ARdawg, it’s obvious from your response that you didn’t really read what I wrote. But I have to admit your creative spelling is entertaining.
robodawg
October 10th, 2012
12:01 pm
Well said Bill. Some fans don’t deserve a winning team to cheer for. You want your players to show some class, you’ve also got to show class in the way you support them — win or lose.
I love my Dawgs and hate to lose, but at the end of the day, it’s a GAME. Get some perspective people.
Bill King
October 10th, 2012
12:01 pm
Music City Dawg: Last word I saw, Aaron’s dad appeared to be recovering well from surgery.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 10th, 2012
12:05 pm
Octoberdawg
Time to wake up you shouldnt have drinked so much kool-aid last night
For one this team has no shot at the national title even if we win out due to all the coaches and sports writers will all say UGA’s schedule was easy and they beat no one.
Two this team has no chance against a team like Bama and a better coach
Three 10-2 next year isnt happening with all the players we lose on defense this year; If Grantham cant do better than what he has done with his current roster the he sure isnt going to do anything losing 9 starters
Four this coaching staff cant win a big game period
Now again please lay off the kool-aid at night it will give you delusional dreams
robodawg
October 10th, 2012
12:11 pm
Jim
October 10th, 2012
11:13 am
“With the exception of Clowney, our talent was as good or better than that of SC!. It is ALL about coaching!!!!!!”
Their entire defensive line was as good or better than our entire offensive line. Their DBs played exceptionally well, knocking balls away at the last second. And Lattimore is easily one of the best backs in college football. SC was favored for a reason.
SSIgator
October 10th, 2012
12:12 pm
Bill King:
Don’t be too hard on ARdawg. He is a recovering KoolAid drinker that just came back to earth. However, I would agree that his spelling is very creative.
Cuz
October 10th, 2012
12:14 pm
I can confirm that there are more important things than football. Many of you know I have sat in hospital rooms with my daughter praying that she would live through some of the problems she has had. I have had to do it more times than I would like to recall. Right now she is okay. One year ago her future was very much in doubt.
Sometimes we should just step back and take a deep breath.
lol
October 10th, 2012
12:16 pm
they should of egg mark richt’s house and then arrest him for stealing public fund.
Kirby Smart
October 10th, 2012
12:17 pm
Last time UGA beat an SEC team that finished with 10 wins or more? Aub – 2006. Richts record vs. UF – 3-9. Last two bowl games lost to UCF yes UCF and MSU. This man should have been fired no less than two years ago and would have been at UF or Bama. Our idiot fans are to blame for what happened last week. Those of you who still support Richt are morons. UGA deserves better that the outback bowl every year.
Real Daws Fan
October 10th, 2012
12:18 pm
The same ole idiots on here trying to fire Mark Richt. He’s one the best and most respected coach in the land. You act as if we don’t play in the hardest conf in the world with really great teams. You guys obviosly have no historical perspective on UGA football. CRM has brought this program out of the MUD that Donnan and Goff had us stuck in. THANK YOU CRM and here’s to many many more.
Real Daws Fan
October 10th, 2012
12:21 pm
Mark Richt led us to finish 2nd Nationally twice and won SEC titles!
We shoulda played in NC game in 2005 and 2007. Greatness is cyclical like anything in life. We can be patient for our next turn OR we can rotate new coaches in every 3 years (like every other program) chasing our tails!
OkieDawg
October 10th, 2012
12:23 pm
Spurrier is pretty impressive on the side line. He is in total command of his team. He calls the plays, lectures the players for their mistakes, throws his head gear and tosses his play chart. He is so into the action. He looks as if he is on the playing field. The team feeds off that passion and it shows up on the field. He is COACHING!
Contrast that with CMR. He has his hand over the headset mic, removes the headset to hand comb his hair, scratches his nose and seldom shows any facial expression or emotion. The team feels the lack of intensity and it shows up on the field. Start COACHING!
Real Daws Fan
October 10th, 2012
12:29 pm
He brings a calm and steadiness that you want in a head coach. Spurrier hates UGA more than any team in the land. Jesse palmer said it perfect ” Coach Spurrier will coach his tail off against UGA”.
Plus you idiots would have tried to fire Spurrier after he had a couple 8 win seasons. He’s no better than CRM and time will show you that. But just like life: you just need some perspective.
Monfongo
October 10th, 2012
12:30 pm
I was out and had to DVR the game, did not watch it and plan to press “Delete”. I think South Carolina will win out.
OkieDawg
October 10th, 2012
12:34 pm
Real Daws Fan…What is a Daws?
dwagdawg
October 10th, 2012
12:36 pm
Has anyone seen PuffDawggy (aka superDawg)?
superDawg
September 26th, 2012
7:50 pm
ss you are a little man that likes to hide behind others.If sc beats UGA I will come down and tail gate with you and your brethren at tek.
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Thanks
NCDawg
October 10th, 2012
12:37 pm
I am a real fan and I have suffered through thick and thin with UGA football since I was old enough to know what football was. (IE: @1970). I I think that it is time to for a culture shift in Athens. There is something broken in a our program. You just do not lose big game after big game with the kind of talent we have unless something is off. I don’t think the coaching staff knows what it is and therefore can’t correct the problem. If they can’t correct it then it is time for a regime change and a new set of eyes. Progress is not being made.
I hate it because I think Mark Richt is a good man, a good representative of the school, and a good football coach. But there comes a time when results are all that matters… especially when you are being paid alot of money to produce BIG results. The talent level is there so something has to give.
ARdawg
October 10th, 2012
12:41 pm
Bill King
I’m not really that ig’nant
your filter is hypersensitive and it is getting more and more difficult to state what one wishes to say even without something nasty or vulgar. You should loosen it up just a tad perhaps?
ARdawg
October 10th, 2012
12:42 pm
Enter your comments here
funny,,,
October 10th, 2012
12:46 pm
These are the same idiots that throw the footballs at opposing players.
Take a step back people. Being a Bulldog is a privelidge, not a right. Handle it as such.
BIG MIKE
October 10th, 2012
12:48 pm
I think it would bode well for people to realize how many Freshmen and Sophmores we are counting on this year. Guys that haven’t had time to develope…mentally or physically. Whether you like it or not, this offensive line is, one year in the weight training program, away from being competitive on the same level as USC’s defensive front (all of which will be in the pros soon). I honestly can’t wait for next year. The offense CMR and Bobo have built will be unstoppable on any level once the O-LINE gels. They already are against most teams and will be against UF.
SSIgator
October 10th, 2012
12:49 pm
Still missing in action:
The Yoda of all things UGA football – AltamahaDawg. However, his friend Nancy did show up yesterday, so he must be around here.
Rooster
October 10th, 2012
12:52 pm
What gets me with UGA fans and the media in Athens is when they don’t like a player or players on the UGA team they rip right into them. Now when something happens to Murray or Robinson or St. Richt everything is fine and dandy. What a bunch of hypocrites.
Johnny Depp
October 10th, 2012
12:52 pm
He brings a calm and steadiness that you want in a head coach. Spurrier hates UGA more than any team in the land. Jesse palmer said it perfect ” Coach Spurrier will coach his tail off against UGA”.
Plus you idiots would have tried to fire Spurrier after he had a couple 8 win seasons. He’s no better than CRM and time will show you that. But just like life: you just need some perspective.
Err….. I tend to think Spurrier’s record against UGA, his NC, and his resurrection of the South Carolina program all point to the fact he is a better COACH than Richt – a better man? No way.
Dawg Haus
October 10th, 2012
12:53 pm
Decent fan perspective on Richt’s job security: http://grittree.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/it-only-matters-when-you-lose/
Rooster
October 10th, 2012
12:55 pm
Where is WDE or the UGA Insider????
SSIgator
October 10th, 2012
12:57 pm
Our minister is thinking about retiring from the church this year and he really likes college football. He is a good man – a fine Christian man – where does he send his resume in Athens?
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 10th, 2012
12:57 pm
Real Dawgs Fan
I see we have gone from kool-aid to bong smoking
Coach Richt will show us he is better than Spurrier
LOL
Richt isnt even in the same planet
Richt has never beaten every team in the SEC east yet Spurrier goes to a joke program at SC and does at SC what Richt has yet to do
Richt has backed into every SEC championship game thanks to the help of other teams Spurrier can say he didnt need that when he won his Championships
Oh and thanks for putting this quote for me “Coach Spurrier will coach his tail off against UGA”.
Im sure glad we have a coach that doesnt want to do that against FL and against Spurrier I would hate to hurt their feelings by beating them on the field
Did you graduate from “How to Be a Loser University?
OkieDawg
October 10th, 2012
12:58 pm
If we beat Florida, we will be a perfect 1-0 against against ranked opponents.
BIG MIKE
October 10th, 2012
1:02 pm
@Johnny Depp
Better coach…..BS. He is more experienced. He’s been coaching a lot longer than Richt. Unlike Spurrier, Richt has been successful everywhere he’s coached. UGA is no different. He has already made the necessary changes to be successful year in year out. Time is all that’s needed for the wine to furment. I expect UGA to be unbeatable next year…….but this is college football, so you never know. The fans might screw it all up. They may make recruiting more difficult than it already is. We could shuttle coaches in and out the door for years and not find another winner like Richt. When you make a coaching change, you have to allow minimum 3 years before moving on to the next coach. Do you think getting rid of Richt is worth another 10-15 yrs of GOFF-DONOVAN type success…..or maybe we just see if he can get the ship right again.
I say wait and support!
SC Dog fan
October 10th, 2012
1:03 pm
Senidng out prayers for the Murray family. Better times ahead both on and off the field.
ARdawg
October 10th, 2012
1:08 pm
Big Mike
Freshmen and Sophomores it may be, but wouldn’t most coaches take that into account for game planning. Opps, we don’t have a coach that does much of that. When you have two beasts like Clowney and Taylor up against Fr and Sph. Why not go to a two wide out set and double team them with the TEs? Did you see that even once on Sat?
We have a coaching problem my friend. Ignoring it and trading it off for 10 win seasons against lesser opponents doesn’t make it go away
BIG MIKE
October 10th, 2012
1:14 pm
There’s no doubt, the coaches screwed the pooch on this last game. Badly. Spurrier almost did the same in USC’s game against Vanderbilt and again at Kentucky. I don’t know why UGA didn’t gameplan for the UGA O-LINE; USC D-LINE mismatch, or if they did…what did they do and why did it fail? I would love to hear somebody in the coaching staff answer for this. The fact is, we may never know. They aren’t going to give the fans a film/strategy breakdown without tipping off future opponents. So, suffice it to say “we know they screwed up and they know we know”. FIX IT!
Lakedawg
October 10th, 2012
1:15 pm
Flat Tire—Having a big time since the Dawgs lost one are,’t you.
Don’t clebrate to much because your sorry program does have to come to Athens and no mercy will be had on your bees.
NCDawg
October 10th, 2012
1:20 pm
I get really tired of people tying Mark Richt competence to his being a outspoken Christian. Tom Osborne rarely showed any emotion on the sideline. He won 2 National Championships. Stoicism and being Christian do not go hand in hand. Being gentlemanly is not exclusive to being Christian but someone who follows Jesus is supposed to be civil. Doubting a man’s commitment to football because he chooses to go on missions trips is just stupid. I tend to stop reading when I see this. Try some other tack… you just look like a bigger idiot than you probably are.
Mike Bobo 17 INT
October 10th, 2012
1:22 pm
There is always next year….
Mike Bobo 17 INT
October 10th, 2012
1:24 pm
Where is Dawginlex or Altamaha Dog?
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 10th, 2012
1:30 pm
Lakedawg
Um Im a dawg fan but you wouldnt know that because you’re too drunk on kool-aid to realize this program has become a national joke along with VT
still hurtn
October 10th, 2012
1:32 pm
mark richt=underachieving&overrated- being christian AINT GOT NUTHN TO DO WITH IT. P.S. i know “the sun still came up Sunday”,corch to another loss to another ranked football team. just shows how important Uga football is to you huh?
RiffRaff
October 10th, 2012
1:39 pm
I think Rambo had something to do with the vandalism – there was egg on his face early in the SC game.
TC
October 10th, 2012
1:42 pm
Loyal dawg fan and a realist.Yes, I was upset at our performance. It was hard to believe that SC had a 21-0 lead and their excellent defense had only faced our offense for 7 snaps. After that, they could play out of their minds in a frenzied stadium.with very little risk None of us would have changed places with our offfensive line to willingly face Jadaveon Clowney unleashed.
The team fought hard after that, and I respect them. Regroup and move on with the season.
Go Dawgs!
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 10th, 2012
1:47 pm
Yea
Regroup for another embarrassing loss to ranked teams
Coach Scott
October 10th, 2012
1:48 pm
There’s no excuse for bad behavior. But, here’s the problem. College athletics has become a significant business as evidenced by endorsements throughout the stadium and attached, I believe, to radio and television. Merchandising is off the chain. And, no fan can escape having to financially support machine in order to be close to it. And, for many, when personal money goes into something, well, there’s a customer service expectation. If I go to McDonald’s, I expect McDonald’s to do every single thing it can to put the best food in front of me. And, if they feel, they have a responsibility to listen to the customer. Now, the customer has a responsibility to personal decorum, too. All that to say, Georgia doesn’t always seem to be listening to its customers, or at least acknowledging that it’s listening. It’s not enough to say, “You don’t understand football.” True. But, if I have a plumber come fix my plumbing, I may not understand plumbing but I have a right and they have a responsibility to provide good customer service and provide a great product. Or, at least listen and explain the situation. Sadly, major college athletics has become a significant business with millions of customers, and those customers have a right to expect the best product available and the best customer service possible. But, regardless, customers have the responsibility to maintain decorum, civility, and poise. My opinion.
Derek
October 10th, 2012
1:49 pm
You fire coach richt crazies have no idea what you are saying. Unbelievable the lack of football knowledge on this blog.
Inlet Dawg
October 10th, 2012
1:51 pm
I still like Ray Goff and I like Zaxby’s but I don’t want him as a coach,CMR has had a good run but it is over now it is time to move on as we did with good old Ray.Bottom line you lose in Columbia look for a job.
Benji
October 10th, 2012
1:58 pm
UGA will never win a NC with Richt. Never.
Now What?
October 10th, 2012
2:04 pm
Enter your comments here
Topher
October 10th, 2012
2:05 pm
Get Real
October 10th, 2012
11:51 am
@Get Real
I meant UGA’s best seasons are 10 win seasons, when the last few years Bama/Auburn/Florida, and other national champions have been able to go undefeated or just lose 1. UGA can never get over the hump and win the big game or perform in the big moments that lead to those chances.
blackbird
October 10th, 2012
2:08 pm
Well, UGA has owned Tech but look at Tech—I mean what in Gods name is going on at that rich ass football team—they have everything in the world to win with except leadership and someone to teach them how to win big—Richt never had to do that in the SEC at Flardy State—–my god and then they bringin some kid from Tampy to quarty back——Blahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!—I have had enough—-
Time For Change
October 10th, 2012
2:11 pm
UGA is just above a middle of the road program. CMR hasn’t even played in the BCS Championship Game yet. Recriting has always been good at UGA but it never seems to produce a BSC contender. Rodney Gardner walks around like he’s God and yet he can’t coach his way out of a paper bag with those huge kids! He’s managed to land a few recruits in his day but word is from the bigger and better recruits is they don’t like the way he comes across. His don’t call us we call you approach isn’t well recieved at all.
Is Kirby Smart really ready to be a Head Coach?
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 10th, 2012
2:12 pm
Derek
It doesnt take much football knowledge to know something has to change when UGA puts more players in the NFL since 2001 than FL AL and LSU
All 3 have won 2 National titles since 2001
yes thats right 2 National Titles since 2001
Going to say it again so you get it
222222222222 National Titles during Richts tenure
and UGA cant even beat top 10 teams much less top 20 teams
Lay off the bong smoking and your mind might become a little clearer
Ed
October 10th, 2012
2:21 pm
My house was egged and rolled recently, probably for no other reason that I have an obnoxious teenaged daughter who goes to school with the perps.
I didn’t find it to be that traumatic an experience. Annoying maybe.
Seems like much ado about nothing.
Kirby Smart
October 10th, 2012
2:29 pm
Real Dawgs Fan – You mean like UF rotates coaches? And wins NC’s with them. YOU are whats wrong with our program. Its expectations! You have none compared to Bama ,LSU or UF.. wake up!
By the way even Ron Zook had a wining record against Richt and he didnt make the cut at UF.
1969 Graduate
October 10th, 2012
2:30 pm
The behind-Richt-crowd-no-matter-what-happens isn’t going to change their mantra no matter what happens.
Mark Richt could possibly change the fire-Richt-crowd’s tone? How? Win the big games. Fire Mike Bobo. Admit failure. Will any of this happen? No. Mr. Richt is fine with the situation as it is, and so are the die hard Richt supporters.
Anyone who thinks we will eventually win a NC because the cards just happen to line up right is missing the point. Yes, it helps to have a player like #34, but, even with Mr. Walker on board we didn’t win the NC every year.
Mike Bobo wouldn’t know what to do with a Hershel Walker if we had one. That’s the problem. Our coaches don’t know what to do with the athletes who come to Georgia.
Kirby Smart
October 10th, 2012
2:31 pm
Flat Tire – Thank You!!!!!!!
Inlet Dawg
October 10th, 2012
2:36 pm
CMR’s best finish to date????????
Couldn’t even win the east that year backed into the Sugar Bowl and played a sub par Hawaii team.end the year #2 Start the next year #1 end up a disappointment.(Doing Less With More)
chet
October 10th, 2012
2:36 pm
Always losing to to the good teams makes the Dawgs mediocre at best. Still vandalism is a petty act carried out by……well, petty criminals that need to get a life.
Time For Change
October 10th, 2012
2:37 pm
I agree with FLAT!!! It’s time for a change. There is nothing wrong with the quality of our players. They have all made the transition to the NFL and go onto decent careers. You take Matt Stafford who never won a BIGTYME GAME at UGA and he’s manage to bring CJ aka “MEGA TRON” and the long lost Detroit Lions back! Brandon Boykins would put this team on his back and carry them to wins! I love CMR and I appreciate those 2 SEC Titles and the trips he made to the GA DOME but it’s time to move on. Look what Muschamp is doing already at FL. UGA has to make sure that they don’t end up with a Cheznick type Coach… oh damn! He has a BCS Ring to!
CLTdawg
October 10th, 2012
2:47 pm
dont start annointing UFand SC as the beasts of the east just yet. we’re only mid-way through the season with a lot of football to be played. neither is going to go undefeated. mark that down
Dawg Haus
October 10th, 2012
2:51 pm
I support Coach Richt, but it does seem that he’s become almost reluctant to adapt in an evolving conference. Compare Richt of 2002 to Richt of today. The difference is almost night and day. His early teams at Georgia had a confident swagger about them, almost never lost big games, were a sure shot winner on the road, etc. They were focused, prepared and mentally tough, which we really can’t say nowadays.
I don’t think it’s Richt per se that’s the problem; I think it’s his refusal to stay ahead of the curve in a constantly changing league that’s leading to this problem.
Regardless of how you feel about the coaching staff, some of the players, the mascot, whatever, the Georgia Bulldogs are our team and its our job as fans to get behind them 100%. Dawg till I die!
UGA does not beat the good teams !
October 10th, 2012
3:08 pm
Hey Mr. Bill King,
Appreciate that you support UGA program and Mark Richt, but there has to be an improvement. UGA cannot beat the really good (top 10) teams. If win all the rest this year except Florida, will go 10-2. Same as last year. And this team should be better than last year’s. Goes back to coaching, with talent level UGA has. Are we going to accept always being one of the 2nd or 3rd place teams in SEC? Richt has to step it up a notch, or go bye-bye.
gomdawg
October 10th, 2012
3:09 pm
ON ANY WEEKEND ANY TEAM CAN GET BEAT THE SEASON IS NOT OVER. LET’S GET BEHIND OUR TEAM AND SUPPORT THEM. GO DAWGS
Kirby Smart
October 10th, 2012
3:19 pm
Derek – here is some football knowledge- Richt sucks. Great guy, bad coach. No coach has done less with more in the SEC (see facts submitted by Flat tire above). Richt is 3-9 vs. our biggest rival. His record the last 3 years vs. winning teams is a joke. They actualy look very Kentucky like. Soft coaches have soft teams and thats what we have been or some time now. You dont have to have great “football knowledge” to understand wins and losses.
bugsquacher
October 10th, 2012
3:26 pm
ITS NOT THE PLAYERS AND I AGREE, THE ONES THAT DID THE EGGING ARE CRIMINALS….NOT FANS….
UGA needs to decide, do they want to be middle of the road or contend for the NC every 4-5 years? Richt has proven with his record lately, he cant play with the elite teams. Do you really believe it is lack of player talent? I dont think so….
So, does UGA want to play for NC’s or not? I guess as long as Richt is in charge we have our answer. How many years ? How many years?
UGA does not beat the good teams !
October 10th, 2012
3:27 pm
Kirby Smart,
You are correct. Richt cannot beat the good (top 10) teams. At least not in the last few years. Are we just content to be an also-ran in the SEC every year? UGA backed into the championship game last year, and look what happened in that game. UGA can and should do better with the TALENT we have.Goes back to the coaching.
JRW7
October 10th, 2012
3:31 pm
CMR is a good coach, good enough for about 10 wins per year, BUT CMR is not a GREAT coach, not great enough to ever win a NC! I want to be great enough to win a DAWG NC!!
JRW7
October 10th, 2012
3:33 pm
Are you real DAWG fans content to win 10 games per year????? CMR has to go!!!!
Dog4Life
October 10th, 2012
3:40 pm
OK Bill, I keep asking and you keep avoiding me. Still think that loss to carolina is okay? I just heard today that a 4 star d-Tackle committed to carolina. This is why i said the loss to carolina would be worse than a loss to Fla. Fla is going to recruit well regardless of the Ga/Fla outcome in Jax’ville. –sure, a UGA win can aid Ga some, but it is not the deciding factor–but to start losing talent to carolina–well that puts us further down on the tier of the sec; we are on par with MSU, Au, and Tenn and maybe Ol’Miss. This really hurts–Carolina–can you really say this without being sick–we are losing to carolina on a regular basis–I quote Spurrier, “The dogs don’t own us anymore!” In fact we are owned by several, but we own no one but tech–i guess that is the saving grace.
Kirby Smart
October 10th, 2012
3:43 pm
JRW7 – The folks who dont understand that will say “real fans support the team in good times and bad”. The thing they dont get is that demanding a change IS supporting the team. Real dawg fans hurt when we get killed every time we play a good team. Real dawg fans get pizzed about that. Its like spanking a child, you dont do it because your angry with them, you do it because you love them.
Dawg Haus
October 10th, 2012
3:57 pm
Let’s all say McGarity does decide Richt is no longer the man for the job. Who are some proven candidates who would win big Georgia? When Florida was tired of Zook and his mediocrity they hired Urban Meyer. Bama hired Nick Saban. LSU did the same when they were tired of DiNardo. All of these schools got the results they wanted: national championships.
In the spirit of friendly blog conversation, who are some proven, high-caliber coaches out there who would not only take the job, but could win a national title at Georgia? Please don’t say Jon Gruden…
UGA does not beat the good teams !
October 10th, 2012
3:57 pm
Supporting the team does not mean always supporting the coaches, in good times and bad. That does not mean I think Richt really has to go. But he has to take it up one more notch. Some say, you should be happy if you get a 10 win season.We have not even had that consistently past few years.
Hofner Bass
October 10th, 2012
4:02 pm
Give South Carolina some credit. They have assembled a superb football team. And I don’t believe that UGA’s cupcake schedule helps. They simply aren’t tough enough to compete with the elite teams in the conference and the nation.
Dawg Haus
October 10th, 2012
4:04 pm
I agree, Hofner Bass. When everyone was talking about Georgia’s soft schedule being an advantage, I never saw it that way. Look what happened when they played the first good team on the schedule. Gotta toughen up somehow.
Troup Co. Dawg
October 10th, 2012
4:10 pm
Let’s go ahead and predict how many failed drug tests, arrests there will be after spring break next year? Dawg fans are fed up with the mediocre approach that this program uses year after year after year? When folks get tired of contributing thousands of dollars each year and find Better things to contribute their money to! Then what? Back to what Tennessee is at this very moment?
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 10th, 2012
4:13 pm
Yea
Give SC some credit their coaching staff has assembled a great football team
Give UGA some credit our coaching staff has assembled another team that cant beat top 20 teams with another loaded NFL roster
ARdawg
October 10th, 2012
4:17 pm
Hofner
2006–09 UGA had one of the toughest schedules in the country. Strength of schedules has no effect on the team ability IMHO. The soft schedule this year hasn’t hurt UGA in the least. If anything helped them. Soft coaching however is a killer
The Rest of the SEC
October 10th, 2012
4:26 pm
@Hofner Bass
I’ll wait a few weeks before I proclaim South Carolina’s greatness. They haven’t really played anyone yet.
Octoberdawg
October 10th, 2012
4:31 pm
Hey, Flat tire. Go back to the basics of reading comprehension. I wasn’t saying the Dawgs will win the NC. I was pointing out that IF we did….there would be those who wouldn’t be satisfied with 10-2 next season. Stay on your NATS blog, nerd.
The Rest of the SEC
October 10th, 2012
4:33 pm
Flat tire is a Dawg fan. It’s difficult to detect, because he isn’t delusional.
Phil
October 10th, 2012
4:49 pm
Richt needs to get his 10 wins this year while he can so that buffoon McGarity will give him another extension. Looking at next year’s schedule he will be lucky to win 6.
Thogwummpy
October 10th, 2012
4:53 pm
I remember that once we had an offensive coordinator smart enough to know that you can slow down the opponent’s defensive pass rush pressure by hitting slants, or short tosses to the tight end or full back open down the middle. That genius was Bobo. Unfortunately the coordinator we have now, can’t grasp that concept, and would rather run 14 times to the left side behind a struggling freshman OL that can’t manage to block…and churn out a pathetic 5 net yards in so doing. The current ‘tard who can’t adjust is…..BOBO! In the meantime, CMR yawns…and it infects the whole flat team. Sigh…..
Kirby Smart
October 10th, 2012
4:55 pm
Dawg Haus – I think the fact that UF was willing to take a chance on a young guy who had no HC experience says a lot. Not saying Kirby is a cant miss but considering where he’s from (recruiting ties) who he played for and who he has been learning from for the past several years, I would think you have to look at him. Im not hung up on him, its just that no one else really jumps out at me right now. What say you?
Kirby Smart
October 10th, 2012
4:59 pm
I think McGarity is closer to pulling the plug on Richtthan most people think. Dont forget, this guy was the right hand man for the best AD in the country at UF. I wouldnt be surprised to see it happen the day aftr the train wreck in jax this year.
Return to Glory
October 10th, 2012
5:08 pm
Love the dawgs and respect CMR to the highest level as a man.However the bottom line is we are not an elite team, we do not compete with the elite teams. If we were playing hard fought close games against the best and coming up short I would have hope and a feeling of we are close…but we all know that since 2008 we have been blown off the field everytime we play a truly elite team.We have too much talent for this and need new leadership. But we won’t get it, we will win 10 games this year, losing to the gators again and beating the weak teams just like 2011 and next year the cycle will begin again.
Dawg Haus
October 10th, 2012
5:09 pm
I’m with you, Kirby. Florida took a risk by hiring Muschamp; time will tell whether it was a good decision or not. Smart could be a great head coach one day, but if Georgia’s going to hire a new coach, I think it should be an established one so we don’t have to pay for the learning curve. I just can’t think of anyone out there who would take the job and win a national title for us.
OkieDawg
October 10th, 2012
5:14 pm
I’m listening to Finebaum and Herbstreit will be on @6:00 today. I wonder if he will again totally eviscerate the Dawgs like he did on National TV. He said Georgia’s performance was the most disappointing showing in a game ever, except maybe, last year’s LSU performance in the NC. He wondered how the #5 team in the Nation could be so flat when facing the #6 team in the Nation.
But CMR said they were not flat. I wonder what Richt calls flat. Can you say DENIAL?
NCDAWG
October 10th, 2012
5:15 pm
Overreaction week sucks. Did anyone honestly think this team was going to go undefeated? This is the only time in my life that I can honestly say that SC was just plain better. Their Defense is awesome. No shame in losing on the road to them. The 2007 team that got beat by Tennessee looked way worse on the road than this team and they were arguably the best team in the country by the end of the season. It is not a stretch to think that this team could run the table. Florida is the only stumbling block on the schedule and they don’t look as good as SC. Everybody needs to chill out and stop overreacting!
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 10th, 2012
5:19 pm
October Dawg
Um I did read your post
Your posting was a bunch of what ifs and I gave an answer to your what if’s
I responded to your “I submit this thought for your consideration”
“What if we win out and slide into the NC game? What if we win? What then?
My response was “this coaching staff cant win a big game period” and I also said
“For one this team has no shot at the national title even if we win out due to all the coaches and sports writers will all say UGA’s schedule was easy and they beat no one.
Two this team has no chance against a team like Bama and a better coach
Also
Your 10-2 comment “If CMR and the Dawgs go 10-2 next year are we calling for his head again? Some of you out there would….because you are unrealistic.
My response was saying 10-2 isnt happening anyway with all the players we lose
As for your reading comphrension comment; if you actually knew how to read my posts would tell you that Im a dawg fan and not a Tech fan
Your what if’s are nothing more than a bunch of delusional scenario’s that you still believe will happen but you dont want to admit it
Now back to your bottle of kool-aid
gofortwo
October 10th, 2012
5:20 pm
I feel like we’re the Savannah State of the SEC after the no effort showing we gave in the game.
SC Dawg
October 10th, 2012
5:31 pm
I don’t know why they are mad at Murray it is the O-line and Wootens fault we lost. Plus Bobo got to predictable on the other side of the fifty. Poor act by the fans who did this act.
Mobile Dawg
October 10th, 2012
5:34 pm
Speaking of Finebaum, it was reported that Smart may not be going anywhere. He’s being groomed by Saban as his replacement when he retires. Of course we know how that turned out for Muschamp.
On another note, those of you who think that Mark Richt will one day win a NC think about this. IF, he was half the coach you think he is I can think of three seasons that his “inability” to coach cost us shots at a NC. Why do you think all of the sudden things will be different some year in the future?
dawg
October 10th, 2012
5:38 pm
Be Kool Mr. KING….. next head coach at UGA……….Kyle Whittingham (Coach at unversity of Utah)……..
SenoiaDawgs
October 10th, 2012
5:56 pm
Look folks I am traveling this week for work and in Toronto.
My personal opinion on the egging. Without social media and the 24/7 sports world it wouldn’t be a big deal. Crap like this has happened for a long time and while it’s wrong it been going on for decades.
As for the UGA situation, I have talked to at least two dozen SEC fans this week in the airport and Toronto that I have never met. All representing one team of the SEC except Ole Miss. All of them have one thing in common:
Each said UGA was an embarrassment Sat. Night. All of the UF, AL, AU, TN, LSU, USC, TXAM fans all hoped UGA keeps Richt and doesn’t fire him because they all think UGA is not going to take the next step with him and they have a chance of winning instead. Each believe UGA gets the same talent level or better in recruiting and they never get better. Also the suspension thing is a joke around the league and all the teams hope to play UGA early in the season.
Folks it’s not just in GA it is from all around the SEC.
ARdawg
October 10th, 2012
6:10 pm
Herbie was absolutely correct, wasn’t he? I have never seen a #5 team lay down, get punked and submissive for the #6 team. Ever, anywhere
OkieDawg
October 10th, 2012
6:25 pm
Herbstreit was just on Finebaum and said this:
UGA was completely dominated on the line of scrimmage. I hope they can come back after a loss like that. Georgia fans are frustrated and they should be. Their team is a major disappointment. And the finger should not be pointed at just CMR, the fans have a right to be upset with the players for not competing. They looked like they had rather be on the bus headed for home than playing in the game.
So, that’s not an indictment from a bunch of over zealous fans but from a guy who is considered to be the top college football analyst in the Nation. Sad days for the Dawgs. I hope CMR is listening.
1st
October 10th, 2012
6:25 pm
flat tire was first. he’s special.
topdog
October 10th, 2012
6:27 pm
sc will lose to uf and lsu—ga beats uf again in jax and wins the east!
WhinyBabies
October 10th, 2012
6:27 pm
If I had participated in that embarrassment of a tail-whipping on national TV, I don’t think that I’d have even noticed a few pieces of TP and some eggs.
That’s like totaling out your car and then crying because your bumper sticker got scratched in the process.
WhinyBabies
October 10th, 2012
6:29 pm
@topdog
Georgia will lose to Ole Miss and Florida. The only question is whether Auburn will also whip those Dawggies.
dan
October 10th, 2012
6:40 pm
Here is the breakdown of our donors( and most donors for that matter).
There is 1/3 of our fan base that will support Mark Richt regardless of what happens. The guy could go 2-10 and lose to Tech 8 years in a row , and they will still support him. There is not point in trying to talk to these folks, their minds are entrenched.
Then there is the 1/3 on the opposite end, who are on Richt’s case regardless of what he does, good or bad. While these folks tend to be over the top in their disapproval of Richt, they do have some valid points.
Then there is that middle 1/3: which is the more reasonable contingent. These are the folks who have been disappointed with the recent events in Athens but will also, until this point, note that the Dawgs have been making improvements( good recruiting classes, 10 game win streak last season, rejuvenated play of the defense etc.). Up until this point, this group has been swayed to the Richt supporters side. But now in light of the South Carolina debacle, there has to be some serious concerns as to how much more Richt can do for this program.This is the kind of loss that can set your program back 3-5 years. Its the kind of loss that destroys morale. If the Dawgs get beat badly by a Florida team that is still getting their act together, this group could be swayed to pull the trigger on Richt.
This Greg McGarity might have to make a very tough decision, maybe even at the end of this year. Lets be honest, if it weren’t for the easy schedule, this team would be 8-4. And the schedule will only get harder starting next season. There is really no difference in being 8-4 or 10-2 if both land you in the Outback Bowl. And 10-2 really means nothing if you can’t pass the crucial tests on a very favorable schedule. So the real question becomes: would ANY of you be willing to pull the trigger on Richt after a 10-2 season? Remember, desperate times sometimes require drastic measures.
dan
October 10th, 2012
6:41 pm
Here is the breakdown of our donors( and most donors for that matter).
There is 1/3 of our fan base that will support Mark Richt regardless of what happens. The guy could go 2-10 and lose to Tech 8 years in a row , and they will still support him. There is no point in trying to talk to these folks, their minds are entrenched.
Then there is the 1/3 on the opposite end, who are on Richt’s case regardless of what he does, good or bad. While these folks tend to be over the top in their disapproval of Richt, they do have some valid points.
Then there is that middle 1/3: which is the more reasonable contingent. These are the folks who have been disappointed with the recent events in Athens but will also, until this point, note that the Dawgs have been making improvements( good recruiting classes, 10 game win streak last season, rejuvenated play of the defense etc.). Up until this point, this group has been swayed to the Richt supporters side. But now in light of the South Carolina debacle, there has to be some serious concerns as to how much more Richt can do for this program.This is the kind of loss that can set your program back 3-5 years. Its the kind of loss that destroys morale. If the Dawgs get beat badly by a Florida team that is still getting their act together, this group could be swayed to pull the trigger on Richt.
This Greg McGarity might have to make a very tough decision, maybe even at the end of this year. Lets be honest, if it weren’t for the easy schedule, this team would be 8-4. And the schedule will only get harder starting next season. There is really no difference in being 8-4 or 10-2 if both land you in the Outback Bowl. And 10-2 really means nothing if you can’t pass the crucial tests on a very favorable schedule. So the real question becomes: would ANY of you be willing to pull the trigger on Richt after a 10-2 season? Remember, desperate times sometimes require drastic measures.
OrlandoDawg
October 10th, 2012
6:51 pm
Our coaches are great men, but they better step it up and not get out-coached again…I don’t blame the players, if a D1 coach can’t get the guys pumped up for 12 games a year (regular season) with them making at least $25,000 per game! What the hey will it take!!! CMR makes over $200,000 per game! Yes, it is a year round job, but all that effort is for 12 games! 12 games of 60 minutes each, 30 minutes basically for the O and 30 minutes for the D…60 to 70 plays each per game! And a player may not be involved in but 15 to 25 plays at that…. ESPN GameDay, Big Stage, National TV audience…This really hurts…now get the guys coached up and ready for Florida…if we come out flat, I’m hawking my season tickets for the rest of the season! I’m disgusted, no fire, no fire, no fire, better not see that again!
Texas Dawg
October 10th, 2012
7:06 pm
Still not over this loss…..makes me sick that people are already saying we can “slide” into the Sec Championship game when and if SC has losses…….I was thinking finally this year but yet again we looked “very” outcoached in the big game……
Leadership is lacking from both the coaches and players…..OUR all-american safety get suspended the first four games of the year…..it still boggles my mind that he put himself in that situation.
Lamar
October 10th, 2012
7:14 pm
WOW!!! Bill is right to NOT BLAME THE KIDS, THEY ONLY PLAY THE WAY THEY ARE COACHED!! THESE KIDS WERE COACHED BETTER LATELY IN HIGH SCHOOL, THAN THEY ARE IN COLLEGE NOW!! IT IS WRONG TO EGG THEIR HOUSE, WHO EVER DID IT SHOULD HAVE EGGED MARK RICHT”S HOUSE AND GRANTHAM’S AND BOBO’S!!! ENOUGH SAID!!
Lamar
October 10th, 2012
7:21 pm
Here is the problem at GA. When Richt was winning the first 5-6 years, only a hand full of teams had their talent. Now all the high ranked kids are choosing SC, Arkansas, ETC which means more and more teams have as much talent as GA. When you have a team that has equal talent as you, the ONLY WAY TO BEAT THEM IS WITH COACHING!! You cant blame these kids for choosing the middle talent teams because its easier for them to get playing time with the middle teams of the SEC than it is the POWER HOUSE TEAMS THAT HAVE TONS OF TALENT AT EVERY POSITION!! 5-6 years ago Richt was beating up on these teams, NOW THEY ARE BEATING GA BECAUSE THEY HAVE BETTER COACHES THAN GA DOES!! SAD BUT TRUE!!
Dawg Tired
October 10th, 2012
7:29 pm
Bill – The egging folks are simply sick. It is where our society has been headed for a long time. It is very distressing, but, as a friend of mine on our law school faculty told me last week, “When the financial meltdown that’s coming arrives, the most valuable thing you can own is your ammunition.” This from a law professor! Alas, I admit he’s got me thinking about where we are headed. Out of control spending has the deficit increasing faster than the universe. The egging incident, as sickening as it is, is minor compared to what may be on the horizon. Yet, we, as a nation, continue to ignore the obvious.
Archie@Arkham Asylum
October 10th, 2012
7:36 pm
@Bill King: Beware the rage of illiterates!
Texas Dawg
October 10th, 2012
7:41 pm
I read the comment on this blog from BIG MIKE……wait till next year??????????
I’m tired of waiting till next year….by the way we loose what 9 starters on d next year……..
The egging is wrong but everyone saying society is headed down just fails to look in the past……..same thing happned in the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s ect… I can remember back in the 80’s when folks were puking in the stands…..everyone would sneak in Jack & Jim……fights all the time folks have been egging and rolling homes for years……..don’t make it right
OkieDawg
October 10th, 2012
7:52 pm
Well, one thing is for sure…Murray didn’t egg his on house. If he had thrown an egg, it would have gone over the house. Sorry, that’s not funny…I apologize.
WhinyBabies
October 10th, 2012
8:02 pm
Dawg Tired wins the Tinfoil Hat Award!
Look, I’m old. Trust me, kids have been egging houses for as long as there have been chickens.
dwagdawg
October 10th, 2012
8:03 pm
That was actually pretty funny, Okie !!!
WhinyBabies
October 10th, 2012
8:04 pm
@OkieDawg
Yes it IS funny!
Bill
October 10th, 2012
8:05 pm
Just wondering . . .
Is Bill King a Tech fan?
Dawg Tired
October 10th, 2012
8:08 pm
You’ll need more than a tinfoil hat when it all unravels.
WhinyBabies
October 10th, 2012
8:11 pm
Paranoid fruitcakes have also been around for quite a while. You didn’t invent it.
Dawg Tired
October 10th, 2012
8:17 pm
You’ll need more than the fruitcake when it all unravels. After all, there is only one fruitcake and it is simply mailed from one house to the next.
Reilly
October 10th, 2012
8:20 pm
And it just gets worse: Florida 45, Georgia 24
WhinyBabies
October 10th, 2012
8:22 pm
Dawg Tired,
They will deliver them in black helicopters, won’t they?
Reilly,
The worst of it will be losing to Hugh Freeze.
smart dawg
October 10th, 2012
8:23 pm
One lose is a big deal when the expectations for the dawgs are so high this year. A second lose will be heart braking!
no dawg
October 10th, 2012
8:33 pm
What is wrong with all the GA fans truth hurts
no dawg
October 10th, 2012
8:33 pm
Were is all the support
Browndog
October 10th, 2012
9:19 pm
Give SC their due……..they played a great game. SC is a talented team and if they beat LSU they will have a great shot at winning out. Based on the performance of LSU thus far, got to give SC the nod.
joe jenkins
October 10th, 2012
9:24 pm
I’m just about through with being negative about this loss. We all knew our offense was not going to run as smooth without bennett….Still alot to play for. if we win out theirs no telling what might happen…..if we win the sec……I still think we lose two more….i hope not……but our o-line is really just to young to win a championship and it’s no surprise because we really havent had a good o-line since 02
LowcountryDawg
October 10th, 2012
9:27 pm
Coaches records against nationally ranked teams:
Auburn’s Gene Chizik (since 2009): 11-7 (.611)
Alabama’s Nick Saban (since 2007): 14-9 (.609)
LSU’s Les Miles (since 2005): 21-14 (.600)
Georgia’s Mark Richt (since 2001): 18-27 (.400)
South Carolina’s Steve Spurrier (since 2005): 8-24 (.250)
Tennessee’s Derek Dooley (since 2010): 1-9 (.100)
Kentucky’s Joker Phillips (since 2010): 1-9 (.100)
Mississippi State’s Dan Mullen (since 2009): 1-13 (.007)
Vanderbilt’s James Franklin (since 2011): 0-5 (.000)
Florida’s Will Muschamp (since 2011): 0-5 (.000)
OkieDawg
October 10th, 2012
9:44 pm
Hey Low C Dawg…And your point is?
LowcountryDawg
October 10th, 2012
9:51 pm
Just thought I would throw it out there. Interesting everyone above him has a NC.
salioD
October 10th, 2012
10:02 pm
hopefully, usc loses to lsu and fla so the Dogs can win the east title when they beat fla in jacksonville in a few weeks!
LowcountryDawg
October 10th, 2012
10:09 pm
salioD,
Not trying to attack you, but your comments are the prime example of why this program accepts mediocre. We hope we can back our way into the SEC championship? Really?
Is that what Champions do? Oh hey lets’s back our way in. NO! Great teams are ready to rise up to the big occasion and make statement. They prove to the country they can compete with anyone. They WANT to play the best in the land. Pathetic talk.
SatillaDawg
October 10th, 2012
10:10 pm
Disappointing and frustrating loss, but I will always love my Dawgs, win or lose.
Go Dawgs!
OkieDawg
October 10th, 2012
10:11 pm
My bad LowCdawg…I missed the message. You are correct and your point is well directed. Good point.
LowcountryDawg
October 10th, 2012
10:15 pm
I’m just as dire hard as the next guy, but I’m tired of all this. And hey at end of the day it would be nice to be back there, but by god if we make it there we better beat Bama. With us backing in, it only continues the vicious cycle that Richt is the greatest coach
Derek
October 10th, 2012
10:20 pm
Yes, I am a Richt loyalist but not blindly so. He has put together some great teams–better than most programs in the USA. He is one of the top ten active coaches in America. And you want to fire him? We should be thankful that Richt plans to finish his career in Athens–he is, thankfully, not looking to leave UGA. And the AD is very happy with Richt. So cry all you want Richt is here to stay.
Mobile Dawg
October 10th, 2012
10:26 pm
Bill, no struggling here. I’m mad as hell, tired of the imposter we have as a head coach. I’ve been tolerant with Richt, hoping he would learn, apply, see results. The guys recruit very well ranking wise, but we never have an Oline, one of the two strengths of a great team. They put numbers of players in the NFL, but can’t produce results themselves. I’m done until Richt is gone, or until he proves me totally wrong. I think we lose two more this year minimum.
Last but not least, Richt takes none of the responsibilty for his failures.
OkieDawg
October 10th, 2012
10:28 pm
Hey Derek…Is that you Barbara? Are you trying to deflect the criticism away from your little boy’s performance at Tennessee? Do you support De’Wreck Dooley? Disgusting…Barbara
Mobile Dawg
October 10th, 2012
10:29 pm
Derek, in the immortal words of Larry, no not Munson, God rest his Bulldog soul, the Cable Guy. You just can’t fix Stupid.
LowcountryDawg
October 10th, 2012
10:38 pm
Let’s back our way into another SEC Championship!!! Then we can get stomped by Bama, since we will probably take the week off to prepare, then we can beat up a BIG 10 team this year and guess what??? Man Dawgs look good this year they have a returning stud QB and RB’s, let’s put them at #8 preseason. Repeat…..
Mobile Dawg
October 10th, 2012
10:42 pm
We don’t back in this year LC, let’s hope McGarity is for real, Richt’s not. My worry is that nothing will happen until Adams is gone.
LowcountryDawg
October 10th, 2012
10:48 pm
In my view with our schedule so easy it’s going to take awhile. It will take two seasons with the bottom dropping out to make it happen, which will never happen because we keep enough talent to remain around 8-10 wins. Only stance McGarity has is to walk in with his record against ranked opponents and top ten’s.
VeeJay
October 10th, 2012
11:15 pm
We have a GREAT HEAD COACH.
Mark Richt’s teams have finished in the final AP Poll top 10 20 out of last 25 seasons.
Let’s get behind this team, and start focusing on things to FIX stuff.
1- Let murray run to slow down the passrush
2- Use 2 te’s and Malcome or Samuel to slow down the passrush
3- Line up with 2 TE’s and ram the ball down their throats
4- Use some big fast guys at DE in pass situations like 6-8 Lowe, 6-7 Morant, 6-6 Stripling, 6-6 Drew, 6-5 Faloughi. Must get more pressure on the QB, need more sacks.
5- Let the young guns loose at OLB to get double teams off Jarvis like Jordan Jenkins & Clemons.
6- Move to 4-3 in run situations, bulk up dline with new blood like Geathers, Smith, and Thornton. New guys need a look, the current front 3 are getting demolished.
7- Oline, focus on legal cutblocks, makes up for inexperience
8- Wide REc’s, get off the jam, use your hands, run some picks play, stack 2 or 3 WR’s, etc.
SSIgator
October 11th, 2012
12:31 am
VeeJay -
Are you related to Patrick?
Voyager Dawg
October 11th, 2012
12:33 am
I don’t think you should ever blame the players and it is way out of bounds to ever vandalize anyone’s home. The S. Carolina game was like most of the big games over the past decade and ended in a disappointing loss. The players haven’t been at UGA over that period of time, but the coaching staff has. For whatever reason this staff just can’t get a team up for the big games, or at least hardly ever. Like Aaron Murray’s father, I’m dealing with the big “C” word and realize there are things in life much more important than a football game and it is horrible that the young man had to deal with everything over such a short period of time. I wish Aaron Murray and his family all the best as they deal with the health issues. I will always support the Dawgs win or lose. I am just learning to set my sights on the really important things in life…….
AJ
October 11th, 2012
2:11 am
Richt is asleep at the switch. Terrible coach
Consider This
October 11th, 2012
6:33 am
When UGA fans are frustrated with their coaching staff, they take it out on their players.
There’s something about that that just ain’t right. What did Mark Richt do, exactly, to attain his Messiah status at Georgia? Who does he have pictures of in compromising positions? The entire fan-base?
The AlphaDawg
October 11th, 2012
7:52 am
I would like to apply for the head football coach position at UGA. It can`t be too hard. I will do it for 500K. The first thing I would do is close the borders. No more teams beating us with players from Georgia. I would bring pride and motivation back .Its nothing like playing for your home state. I will be the special teams coach. Put the junkyard back in the defense. If CMR did half of this we would have at the least one NC.
Head in the sand.
October 11th, 2012
8:17 am
I feel good about our D. Our special teams get a bad rap…….SIGH…. TIME TO CLEAN HOUSE!
THWGT
October 11th, 2012
8:28 am
Let’s face it, its time for Richt to go….
He’s not coaching, he’s not developing, he’s too loyal to a Coordinator who is obviously outmatched (unless its a second tier school), we hear more and more stories about recruits who haven’t heard from Georgia after they’ve been offered…. What more do you need to know?
During the off season Richt made a statement that McGarity had removed some “duties” from his plate that would free up more of his time to get more involved… well??? Where’s the involvement? Where’s the planning and reviewing? Where’s keeping our kids out of trouble?
Richt needs to go.
Kirby Smart
October 11th, 2012
8:47 am
Derek – 3-9 vs. UF. just want to know how you defend that? And how does it feel to watch 4 other SEC programs win NC when we are losing to UCF in our bowls? To say that you are not blind is a joke.
ARdawg
October 11th, 2012
9:18 am
THWGT
Yeah this “cutting edge football” is wearing a bit thin
Bud
October 11th, 2012
9:19 am
who would you get to replace caoch richt?
Bud
October 11th, 2012
9:23 am
I hope coaching staff reads veejay’s comments. especially murray runing and the cut blocks for o line.
old dog
October 11th, 2012
9:25 am
Anybody who watched the game (and anybody who ever played on any level) saw that we got torn-up up front. We have not recruited o-line talent, we have not developed what we did bring in, and S.C. exposed us. Florida will do the same, and laugh if you want Dooley will take the next step in Tennessee because he (like his Dad) knows that the game starts up front! We cannot compete with the top-tier, and Murray is shouldering too much of the blame. Our backs can run wild on the lesser teams, and we can pass all over the field. But if your line is not top notch, it will get exposed, like ours did!
old dog
October 11th, 2012
9:26 am
p.s. (and it ain’t all about size) but our center is no more six-feet than Micky Rooney…just sayin’…….he’s 5′10 on a good day!
UGA man class of 71&73
October 11th, 2012
9:52 am
So easy this is. SCwanted to win and UGA was flat, out of it, dazed and had no manhood for the game. A UGA player from the Goff/Donnan era told me this week that SC TOOK UGA’ s manhood and the current players know it. he said this will hurt us down the stretch with more ugliness.
UGA is headed backto Shreveport at best. We are middling level team in the SEC and do not belong now in the upper tier. We are exactly where the ADM wants us to be. Filling the seats and just taking it.
UGA IS the FSU mold from the 70s
October 11th, 2012
9:57 am
FSU used patty cake lines on O. UGA is like that. CMR is STUCK in the mold of that era.
CMR does NOT get it, that in the SEC, you win on the LOS. UGA is a 9 win team, over 11 games.
UGA in the ACC would be number 1. Problem is that we play in the SEC.
old dog
October 11th, 2012
10:10 am
Bill,
You are nicer than the rest of us, and I know you are a fan. But can’t you TRULY( even though you cannot put it in exact terms) see JUST HOW BAD WE ARE up front?
sprouse27
October 11th, 2012
10:49 am
Well, I do enjoy reading the posts and absolutely think it’s time for a new head coach in Athens. CMR is a fine guy, but where is he leading this team? We get beaten year after year by teams that don’t have the same level of talent and resources as the Dawgs. Too many UGA fans have the same mentality that keeps people in jobs they hate. I hate my job but if I change to something else it MIGHT be worse. A known devil is always better than an unknown. Get over it. I’d much rather see somebody fresh and fired up than another year of CMR ordering happy meals on the headset during the game. Could we end up with a TN scenario? Sure. There are some risks. But the known is that we are not likely to win the SEC again under CMR no matter how many 9-10 game win seasons we have. I loved CMR those first five years and I still think he’s a great guy who runs a mostly clean program. But it is absolutely clear to me that he is not a BCS quality coach. There aren’t many of them out there, either. But I sure think UGA could do better in that department than what we have now. Or else we stay at mid-tier mediocity until CMR decides to retire. Just the way it is.
Kirby Smart
October 11th, 2012
11:05 am
sprouse27 – correct and my point exactly. Its better to try two or three times before we get the right guy than stick with the same and slip further in to the middle of the pack. Look at Florida it took a Zook (2-1 vs. Richt) to get an Urban.
sprouse27
October 11th, 2012
11:21 am
Well Kirby, I’m all for ‘nothing ventured, nothing gained.’ Don’t want to see CMR embarrassed, and truthfully, I really doubt the AD is going to replace him. But wow I’d love to see some new HC blood in Athens. Might mean we have a few 7-5 seasons, or worse. But hey, if we’re BUILDING towards something then it’s worth it. But watching the Dawgs these last five years has proven that we are in a rut. For some a comfortable rut, and for others, a very frustrating one. But TN will get it right eventually, and then we’ll have FL, SC AND TN beating up on us. Maybe we move to the ACC then?
ARdawg
October 11th, 2012
11:44 am
Bud
There has to be a coaching opening at UGA before it can be filled. One thing at a time. Let’s get the opening and then shop for the best available coach. Naming names at this point is pure conjecture but then, so is the vacancy huh?
ARdawg
October 11th, 2012
11:49 am
sprouse
We’ll likely have to break some eggs for a good omelet. A few 6-6, 5-7 seasons might be in order for a good coach to come in and get things right.
augDawg
October 11th, 2012
11:59 am
What more can be said ? We have seen Georgia come out in big games for the past 3 – 4 years and not have an answer for anything offense , defense or special teams that our opponent has come up with , thats a fact . Im sure like many others during the game I thought to myself that if we could just get some points before the half we could get back in the game . I have seen Georgia teams in the past come back from much worse . As the third quarter came to an end I realized that times have changed at Georgia . We are no longer a Team that responses well to being punched in the mouth . Teams from the early to mid 2000’s took that first lick from people and came back with their own . After the game while waiting in traffic we were talking in the car and this topic came up . We are no longer a Tough team full of 3 – 4 star players who have something to prove . We are now a bunch of 4-5 star players that are soft and feeling a sense of entitlement . I saw two things that really say alot about our program in its current state . 1st We did come out flat and EVERYONE except our Coach knows it . I dont know if Richt belives we were flat and he just could not say it to the media or if he truly belives that we were not flat . 2nd For the first time in a long time I saw a Georgia football team quit . When the hardest lick that was thrown all night was a hit out of bounds by our ALL-AMERICAN Safety late in the game out of frustration THEY QUIT . I have seen a bunch of talk about the lack of coaching and I agree to a point with most of it , but when you have to go back on a Coach to Motivate players in the Biggest Football game of most of their Career , who talk all year about giving it their all for 14 games to win the National Championship and then go out and look like they have never seen a football you cant put that on the Coaching .At some point as an Athlete you have to want to win that game . Its one thing to say we going all out for 14 games but its another thing to do it . I hate to keep referring to our ALL-AMERICAN Safety but when a 5 – 9 170 pound receiver takes a ball out of your hands that only says one thing , HE WANTED IT MORE . Im not sure if that is preparation or the lack of will to win . As I read the post this week i see alot of people calling out other fans for calling out the coaching .To the people that are saying Georiga fans are jumping ship i would like to say your wrong , I am a die-hard Dawg fan and have been for many years and I will be in Kentucky next week cheering for the team , but at some point people are going to start asking are they getting the ” bang for their buck ” its just the way the world works now. Georgia has a huge fan base that donates millions each year to the program and at some point Fans are going to get tired of losing the big one year after year . I know i am well past that point . I will close with this and I can only wish the higher ups in the athletic department would read this and give it some serious thought , When our program ( players and coaches ) say that it was just one game and the sun came up the next day so we still have a chance to win the east is the answer we get , then Georgia’s football program has taken a leap back into the mid-tier of the conference . Winning is everything these days and lately Georgia is not doing a very good job . Teams
Hanky Panky
October 11th, 2012
12:08 pm
UGA: HIRE JON GRUDEN FOR UGA HEAD COACH.
DRAFT JON GRUDEN. MAKE THE CALL. MAKE IT HAPPEN.
DAWG NATION: START THE MOVEMENT. JON GRUDEN FOR UGA HEAD COACH.
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AndtheHITSjustkeepcomin
October 11th, 2012
12:13 pm
Where is DawginLEX – is he still here or has he finally switched over to BAMA?
sprouse27
October 11th, 2012
12:18 pm
UGA would be a true powerhouse with the right head coach. It’s just crazy that we’re not. I believe CMR has done his best, and he’s elevated the program. But he has no clue how to take it to the next level or he’d have done it by now. His best is mid-tier in the SEC. That’s it.
Jacket99
October 11th, 2012
12:26 pm
I don’t recall Bear Bryant showing much emotion on the sideline, either. Derek Dooley will be looking for a job after this season. He’s almost as animated as Dabo.
wreckmaniac
October 11th, 2012
12:38 pm
These comments about Gruden are funny. UGA fans act as if Lombardi would climb out of his grave to come to Georgia. The place to look is among up and comers. Example: Brian Kelly at Notre Dame who came from Cincinnati. UGA needs to look at that level. I am not saying Kelly will leave Notre Dame (who would?) but find a guy like Kelly currently at the Cincinnati level.
Tek
October 11th, 2012
12:39 pm
Look at the Nerds falling out of the sky. Look at Neeeerds falling out of the sky!
Head in the sand.
October 11th, 2012
1:17 pm
Since the 2008 season, Richt is 2-14 against teams that finished
the season nationally ranked. That includes an 0-10 mark against SEC
teams that finished the season in the Top 25 of the Associated Press
poll.
dwagdawg
October 11th, 2012
1:21 pm
Tek
October 11th, 2012
12:39 pm
Look at the Nerds falling out of the sky. Look at Neeeerds falling out of the sky!
__________________________________
superDawg, is that you? (notice how tek is spelled)
superDawg
September 26th, 2012
7:50 pm
ss you are a little man that likes to hide behind others.If sc beats UGA I will come down and tail gate with you and your brethren at tek.
____________________________
superDawg, are you gonna join us or not? Put your hate down for 1 day, man up and keep your word. Looking forward to seeing you on the Flats.
Preacher Dawg
October 11th, 2012
1:34 pm
What Now? Total TEAM LOSS… Including fans…Yes I heard the Booing of Tennessee and other Teams’ players entering our Stadium. Our “D” not living up to the hype..lost themselves some major cred…and without some major improvement some major $$$ dinaro! O line all hyped up after the TN game…Probably lost KG a 1st round in this one..if things don’t get drastically better. Murray..Millions. Grantham, BOBO, CMR, probably do bear most of the blame for this one..affected the least of the major players monetarily, still questioned relentlessly………SOooo WHAT NOW? Well I’ll tell ya…Get up! Shake yourself! And Fight like each day will be your last! Each Day at this level requires you to put increasingly more into it. To compete with the best ALL self pitying emotion has to be set aside immediately…FANS INCLUDED. As you may remember even GOD ALMIGHTY has NO TOLERENCE for Whining and Complaining…Left the Children of Israel in the desert for 40 years and a generation because of it…So if you can’t say something good please just Say NOTHING.
The Old Coot
October 11th, 2012
1:58 pm
We got beat by a better team. Most teams do.
The only people I see overreacting are the media ladies of the night, the Tch haters. and some UGA “fans” who are spoiled immature children whose parents should not have bought them a computer.
I am sure the players and the coaching staff have reviewed the films. done their best to make adjustments, and are practicing for the second half of the season.
Do Dawgs. Lets go 11-1 and maybe make the SECCG and a great bowl.
LakeDawg
October 11th, 2012
2:04 pm
Its a shame that the egging occurred. The players should NEVER be blamed in college ball. However, lets keep things in perspective. A few dumb kids egged a house. While definitely reprehensible, its not like the Dawg nation is rioting in the streets. A lot of people are using this incident to label anyone that criticizes the state of the program as the lunatic fringe. POLITICS. Its obvious that Richt has plateaued. Its time for a change.
ken farrar
October 11th, 2012
2:58 pm
intensity of fandom needs to remember these are 18 to 22 year old guys. more disciplined than others for sure but not necessarily more mature. they’re gonna have bad days. let’s hope not many more. winning the rest is fine with me. but i’m not gonna let it affect my mood or self-worth for the weekend.
Come on
October 11th, 2012
3:17 pm
There comes a time to make a change, our dismal record vs ranked competition, and failure to win the big game is proof of this. This is not just a one game knee jerk reaction,LSU and Boise St last year, Bama in 08, Florida in 08 and 09 in our Grambling uniform.Bama fired Mike Shula and moved on,time for us to do the same.And no I don’t hate Mark Richt.
I would have no problem of him staying as a recruiter or QB COACH however I doubt he would consider it.
old dog
October 11th, 2012
3:29 pm
@ The Old Coot;
All teams get beat, true enough. But year after year when everybody under the sun KNOWS we are not bringing in top-notch linemen, and that you cannot win in the SEC without them, it should be obvious we need to do better. We bring in decent skill players, but we just KEEP lettin’ the top-notch linemen go; this is why we cannot compete at the top level….period. Our center (as previously stated) is point-guard size, and our o-line lacks fire, discipline, and ability to competete at the top level. If we had Alabama’s o-line we would be in national contention right now. People are giving Dooley a time in Tennessee…..watch him get the hosses up front and bring ‘em back. Muschamp has already showed he can do it. And, here we sit, not addressing the most obvious need……we are going to keep posting back and forth until that MOST GLARING AND OBVIOUS need is addressed.
MT
October 11th, 2012
3:29 pm
wreckmaniac,
How did SC land Holtz and then Spurrier? Or Bama Saban?
Man this is UGA,ranked 11th in all time football wins. 6th largest stadium.Got the resources to a pay top name coach.It can be done.
old dog
October 11th, 2012
3:30 pm
p.s.
While other points are arguable, o-line problems are not. They are non-debatable!
Dawg Fud
October 11th, 2012
3:39 pm
How does anyone justify that we should have played for the title in 2007?
In a playoff, yes, we could have had a shot.
Current format, no way.
We lost to South Carolina at home that year….did not even score a TD. You don’t deserve to play for a title if you cant score a TD at home. Lost to Tenn on the road but I will give them that. Losing at home to an inferior opponent, unacceptable.
Sunbury Ga dawg
October 11th, 2012
3:53 pm
Guys, in the words of bill Paxon…..Game over man, Game over,
We will always be where we are right now until we get a leader who can lead.
I was a big supporter of Richt, that’s over now!
we never start with our full team on deck. We never come out ready to play and win the games that matter.
Game over, please wake up and put the kool aid down!
Being better than tech isnt good enough anymore!
UGA cannot beat the good teams !
October 11th, 2012
3:56 pm
Some of you are calling it “fan over-reaction”, but fact remains our boys (and COACHES) fell flat on a national stage, once again. Maybe we have to accept being a 2nd tier team in SEC, but I don’t think so. And as for egging and rolling a house, that is really nothing new ! And hardly a “criminal” act. More just like an annoyance for the homeowner! Life goes on,a nd UGA needs to win the big ones!.
Dog4Life
October 11th, 2012
4:09 pm
Let’s see, 32 yrs w/o a shot at the national title–so Preacher dawg you are saying God has relegated us to the proverbial desert of college football–interesting comparison–considering God, does not give a rat’s A#$ about college football. John Wooden said it best i don’t pray for victory, i prepare and coach for victory–maybe we should start preparing and coaching and quit all this praying for victory–pray everyone remains healthy during the game–but one prepares for victory during the week before the game.
The Gator
October 11th, 2012
4:12 pm
Bill, as a Gator fan I’ve always had fun with these comments. It’s entertainment. But all your points are right on the money.
And while I do belong to the camp that believes Mark Richt is a great guy but not a great coach, it may be time now, with the benefit of five days’ reflection, to consider for a moment that maybe… just maybe… South Carolina is scary good.
This isn’t meant to suggest that they are 35-7 better than UGA. It is meant to suggest that they are so good that the UGA team was shell-shocked by the talent. I could see LSU and the Gators beating South Carolina, not because they’re that much better than UGA, but because the UGA-SC game properly set their expectations. At a bare minimum, they’ll run right at Clowny for several downs in the first half to wear him down.
UGA cannot beat the good teams !
October 11th, 2012
4:49 pm
No matter how you look at it, something is not as should be in Athens, GA ! Getting embarrassed on national TV every time UGA plays a top- ranked team ( Boise State, Alabama, South Carolina) is not the sign of a championship team. Is that what UGA has come to be? A 2nd tier school? Not acceptable…
LogicalUS
October 11th, 2012
5:20 pm
“bare minimum, they’ll run right at Clowny for several downs in the first half to wear him down”
Then you didn’t LEARN anything from the UGA-SC game at all.
Geez…You get the ball away from that guy as fast as possible.
Preacher Dawg
October 11th, 2012
6:01 pm
D4L..Go back and read it again..never mentioned praying, although I do believe in it…the point is whining and complaining are the enemy to progress/maturity/faith/growth and therefore victory not just in but including sports. I didn’t know John Wooden, sounds like a sucessful fellow, doubt you’d hear him sittin aroung whining…my point.
The One After 909
October 11th, 2012
6:57 pm
Football is a game. You win some and you lose some.
We had won 15 straight regular season games and it was out time against a better team.
Hope the team concentrates on winning the next 6 and going to a great bowl.
Maybe SC drops two and we go to the SECCG. The ultimate revenge.
Bill
October 11th, 2012
8:22 pm
Are Bill King and Flat Tire cousins?
1984 grad
October 11th, 2012
8:25 pm
where gonna win out; beat bama in the dome and beat Uregon in the natl champ game. Bank on it.
Dee Nile
October 11th, 2012
8:30 pm
We still have a chance to win the National Championship, right?
joe jenkins
October 11th, 2012
9:08 pm
The problem with defense and if yall dont believe me yall are blind….our DE’s are not making play i think the front three should be jenkins…garrison smith and abry jones or try getting more playing time for ray drew…whatever happened to sterling bailey…yall guys can put all the blame on coaches if you want to…but i’m putting a lot of the blame on the players as well…they are simply not steping up and making plays…for god’s sake corn is the most overated player on defense…I think we should use murrays running abilty more…he is a duel threat qb…he is not a pocket passer like david greene!!! I guess richt is scared he will get hurt and he has no confidence in lemay…cant say i blame him on that…lemay is god awful…btw fire rodney garner
angry mangy mutt
October 11th, 2012
10:47 pm
Programs who build there foundations on discipline and aggression are often time the most successful. A disciplined team is foundamentally sound, mentally tough, and unshakable. An aggressive team is relentless, punishing, and relatively simple by design. Our offense has long had issues up front. This is largely bc it is a finesse offense. We look like a Big 12 team trying to move the ball in a big game. In the SEC, it leads to what happened Sat night. With our dawgs, it happens in bowl games and season openers against teams much smaller and less athletic. This is a second DC who seems to put 11 guys on the field who seem to be lost – or just thinking too much. The Dawgs can throw out 11 guys who are superior athletes and instead of keeping it simple and attacking, they hesitate, move slow, miss tackles, and blow assignments. This is not a strength and conditioning issue. It is not that CMR is calm and maybe collected on the sideline. It is not that the DC is that clueless. It goes for the same on the Oside of the ball. We have seen it numerous times on STs. There is a weakness at the foundation of this program. Not all on CMR, before him there were different problems that resulted from trying to build on different spots but on the same crumbling foundation. Heck, if the Falcons’ organization was able to get to where it is now from what many of us can remember it once being, then I must hold onto the hope that someone can come in and clean this mess up.
Archie
October 11th, 2012
11:22 pm
Gee willikers, folks! Get a grip! There are six more games left or there were the last time I checked! “It ain’t over ’til it’s over!” -Yogi Berra
DAWGMAN
October 12th, 2012
2:22 am
Someone please offer CMR a job that is more suited to his coaching ability. Some place like Davidson, Wofford, or Presbyterian College.
I think CMR is listening to elevator music on his headset on the sidelines. His players just about trip over him as they come and go. He ignores them. He ignores everybody. That’s not serenity;that’s not SEC Football Coaching either. I don’t recognize whatever it might be. I am frustrated and disappointed with it.
Is this the Dream Team we heard about? Right now it feels like a nightmare with elevator music…
Let’s pension him off and find a good coach. Please, please, oh please. No mas!
Nash
October 15th, 2012
12:30 pm
I’m not saying the egging was justified, or that I support the vandalism, but I do think it is indicative. Not of the state of the world, but of the state of Bulldawg fans. The difference between the prior examples you gave and this instance is that those fans were doing it to OPPOSING teams! Their rivals! What I saw last week made me nauseous. The week before I busted my ass, and wallet, to get to the Tennessee game and I got to watch our offense make some great plays but what I saw was an overall lack of greatness, and an even greater lack of focus/discipline. It seems the culture of the Georgia Bulldawgs has become about what’s good enough. Well we didn’t get to the NC but hey the Sugar Bowl was good enough! Hey we didn’t win the SEC but at least we made it to the Capitol One Bowl Game! That’s good enough! Our players have gotten so full of it that it wears on you as a fan. You want to know why that house got egged? Because while the entire Bulldawg Nation watched their hopes of having a National Championship caliber team get crushed AGAIN, the players were tweeting pictures and jokes etc. You can say it matters more to the players, and maybe it does. But it doesn’t come across that way. To see our recruiting and talent and where we end up every year is pathetic and frustrating and in some way I’m glad the house got egged because MAYBE this will get the Dawgs to fight back for once! We’ve gotten soft, and this program has become more of a stepping stone for the players to get rich in the NFL than it is about the school or the team. Don’t patronize me with this “thought we were in this together” BS. Players get treated with special treatment and are showered with compliments and praise and we allow them to be arrogant and generally pretty rude. All the fans want is something to take pride in, and that performance was disgusting. I miss the old Georgia. The Georgia that when ESPN was talking about upsets, it was talking about UGA beating a ranked team. I miss having pride in a program that respected itself and left it on the field, not this, not what we have now.