UGA fans, what’s an acceptable result in Jacksonville?
Is it possible to lose to the hated Gators and still feel good? (AJC photo by Pouya Dianat)
Georgia heads to Jacksonville unranked, which it almost never is, and a two-touchdown underdog, which it never is. It will be met by a team that hasn’t lost since September 2008, a team tracking a second consecutive BCS title. (Know how many schools have won consecutive BCS titles? None.)
Put simply, Georgia is up against it in a way unaccustomed to Georgia teams under Mark Richt. It lost to Florida 49-10 a year ago in what seemed a coin-flip game going in. This one is no coin flip. This outcome seems foregone.
But hope springs eternal in the breast of every fan, and on the day before Halloween I want to ask Dawg fans this question: What would you deem an acceptable outcome Saturday?
A narrow and honorable loss? (Within a touchdown, say.) Or is actual victory the only satisfactory result? And here’s a twist: If beating Florida convinces Mark Richt he doesn’t need to make changes within his program, would you rather Georgia lose? Or would beating the Gators when they’re ranked No. 1 be worth another year of Willie Martinez?
I’d put up a poll, but I don’t think the parameters of a poll are broad enough. I’m interested in your thoughts. So rather that click on “yes” or “no,” I invite you denizens of Bulldog Nation to avail yourselves of the white comment box below. And I thank you in advance. And you’ll hear from me again Saturday afternoon from you-know-where.
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Not Disappointed!
October 31st, 2009
1:52 pm
If and Only IF, Cox play error free and the defense grow a pair. The dawgs can keep it close. If not…….”It will be a long afternoon in Jacksonville. “Good Luck puppie!”
Ramblin Wreck!
Papadawg
October 31st, 2009
1:57 pm
C from Marietta, just go away
dawgstephen
October 31st, 2009
1:58 pm
While the AJC does give the forum, its like letting the inmates run the asylum. Join me on my blog for a LIVE BLOG and chat on yahoo during the game. Moderator approval on the blog, and invitation only after adding me on yahoo for the chat. taking notes AJC????
http://www.dawgstephen.blogspot.com
dawgstephen
October 31st, 2009
2:00 pm
THAT JACK@$$$ comment at 11:36am is the very definition of why USER NAMES and registration are needed on the blogs. that is completely out of line and bullchips. Mark, you do great, but at some point even you have to hate your employers stupidity
Papadawg
October 31st, 2009
2:10 pm
P B your are RIGHT it is a a game for entertainment and not for someone to have a mental crisis over. I enjoy watching the DAWGS play, win or lose (prefer that they win) and go on with my life and not let it consume me either way
nochancedogs
October 31st, 2009
2:14 pm
The thing you dumb dogs need to remember is you are a SEC team, not a SEC power. You are the type teams like Fl, Alabama, LSU, anf Tenn play on their homecoming because you are an easy mark. Mark May of ESPN said that Fl will hang half a hundred on the dogs and he is right, your defense sucks and your coaching is pathetic. Tebow will catch nd pass H Walkers record on the dogs, which is awesome, he is a better player than Walker ever was. Hope you enjoy the beat down you get today dumb dogs, Fl will run up the score on you and use all their time outs…..again
Papadawg
October 31st, 2009
2:24 pm
nochancedogs you are obviously a Gator fan. A BIG MOUTH and little or no brain. How many yards rushing does your precious Tebow have compared to Walker and how many rushing TDs are for more than 10 yards. GET REAL
Mark
October 31st, 2009
2:31 pm
Big 10 refs a joke like the sec. Ind just scored a td. The call on the field was a td. The replay confirmed it. The announcers say it’s a td. And they overturn it. What a joke. Guess they gotta keep the osu showdown at night for tv. These refs have to go. It’s becoming a joke.
fan
October 31st, 2009
2:32 pm
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JDawg
October 31st, 2009
2:32 pm
The most important result of 2009 regardless of our final record–CHANGE and big ones at that!!
fan
October 31st, 2009
2:46 pm
I do not like Willie Martinez as defensive coordinator. To say that he is a horrible coach would be inaccurate. Since he has been at Georgia he has been a part of some really good defenses( check the stats ). I would be okay with Martinez being demoted back to a position coach in fact I think it has to be done. The fact is a good position coach will not always make a good coordinator. I willie is as loyal to Richt as Richt is to him he will step down. My problem with this Georgia team is the lack of passion i see week in and week out. I watch teams like Alabama and Florida and they consistently beat the will out of their opponents. Georgia Tech is a great example of this. Those players will fight until exhaustion to win a game. Georgia’s coaches are to blame for the majority of the problems but the players should be held accountable for not giving 100 percent all of the time. They need to toughen up. Back to the defensive woes, there is only one solution. Georgia needs to kidnap will muschamp, remind him that he is a dawg, and let him choose his defensive staff.
fan
October 31st, 2009
2:58 pm
Tebow is better than Walker? Fact: Herschel Walker only played at UGA for three years. Tebow has been at Florida for four years. An extra year equals extra stats. Another fact: Herschel Walker”s touchdown total only includes those touchdowns scored in regular season games. Tim Tebow’s total includes all games he has played in. one more fact: Herschel Walker was the focal point of Georgia’s offense, to beat Georgia you had to stop walker. If tebow has a bad game Florida can still manage because his supporting cast is much more talented and diverse than was walker’s.Tim Tebow is clearly the most productive player in NCAA history, however alot of players have contributed to that. Look at Tebow’s stats with Percy Harvin and without. Fact is Tim Tebow could not do the same things as herschel walker and to think that he could would be ignorant.
nochancedogs
October 31st, 2009
3:01 pm
The beating will soon begin. It is amazing how easy the dogs are, almost a scrimmage. I think you should keep this coaching staff together for years and years. 5-7 and watching the Gators play for championships while you sit at home, what a year!
nochancedogs
October 31st, 2009
3:06 pm
Walker was not that great. His teams never won much, the one NC was bogus, the dogs were scared to play a top 5 in the bowl. Instead they played #10 Notre Dame and barely skated by. If they had played Pitt, Penn St, or USC in a bowl that year they would have been blown out. Walker and Dooley are what is known as closet champions, they were scared to play the best competition. Gators are about to make it 3 out of 4 NC’s, the dogs are nothing
SEC REF
October 31st, 2009
3:15 pm
Flag down…………….personal fowl……..UGA by showing up they are trying to draw attention to themselves, 15 point penalty and loss of the ball.
Great day for a football game
October 31st, 2009
3:21 pm
It will be fun just to be watch a great game with two great competitors – Go Gators and Go Dawgs – this post is from a couple – one is a FL Grad and one who is a UGA grad. Either way, we both win.
TXDawg
October 31st, 2009
3:26 pm
Early start on the blog today huh??
I’m convinced St. Simon’s lives on top of his keyboard…..geez!
TXDawg
October 31st, 2009
3:32 pm
Wow!!!! look at those UNIs!!
TXDawg
October 31st, 2009
3:35 pm
Man! Is there a blogging timeout call that I missed….where is everybody??
TXDawg
October 31st, 2009
3:36 pm
I wonder how many posts I can have before someone else jumps back in??
Cautiously Optimistic
October 31st, 2009
3:41 pm
here we go with the stupid penalties already!
TXDawg
October 31st, 2009
3:42 pm
New day, same results…..huh Willie??
TXDawg
October 31st, 2009
3:45 pm
Now I know why the blog started early….because nobody would be around come game time……Mark are you there??
Mark Bradley
October 31st, 2009
3:45 pm
I’m on the other blog, TXDawg.
TXDawg
October 31st, 2009
3:46 pm
Headed that way now….thanks!
Life long Dawg
October 31st, 2009
3:49 pm
Is this what Mark Richt thinks it gonna take to beat Florida? A stupid looking uniform change! We don’t even look like Georgia. I hate this crap!
Cautiously Optimistic
October 31st, 2009
3:53 pm
I was trying to be optimistic about this game but undisiplined, undisiplined, undisiplined! Stop with the stupid penalties already! Sheese!
BufordDawg
October 31st, 2009
4:04 pm
Nice game plan Willie, you’re making UF look like a NC team again. What’s the game plan – UF exhausts themselves running for first down after first down?
BufordDawg
October 31st, 2009
4:05 pm
Brace yourselves for the blow out we were expecting…
Timbo
October 31st, 2009
4:06 pm
Mark Richt forfeited this game on the first drive when he decided to punt on 3rd and long instead of put the ball up in the air . . .
nochancedogs
October 31st, 2009
4:09 pm
Dogs, black helmets? You have no idea what football is about. You are seeing what a real SEC power is. You are lucky you are even allowed to be in the SEC. What a embarrassment your football is
A Realist
October 31st, 2009
5:13 pm
Can we say….Coaching…Coaching…Coaching….that’s the difference. Georgia is going to lose this one…BIG TIME!!!! I’m enjoying the beatdown….The second half is going to get UGLY!!!!
Ed
October 31st, 2009
5:23 pm
Halftime Score:
Florida 24
Grambling 10
If only we had Doug Williams at quarterback…
Could we be a worse coached team? Unbelievable. What happened to the 2001-05 Georgia Bulldogs, who were twice an SEC Champion and three times a division champion? The team that beat Florida in ‘04 and owned Tennessee, especially in Knoxville. The “Finish the Drill” and “Knock the Lid Off” guys. Any of them still around?
Ed
October 31st, 2009
5:27 pm
If you have to alter the sharpest uniforms in the SEC to motivate your team and give them a glimmer of hope, then something is seriously wrong with your program. The uniform changes since ‘07 look like the desperate moves of a coaching staff that has completely run out of ideas.
Where did my Dawgs go?
Epiminondas
October 31st, 2009
5:35 pm
Time to clean house at UGA. CMR has had nine years, and in that time has beaten FL twice. Sorry. Not good enough. Dawgnation has to get real. CMR is now a mediocrity. Time to move on. CMR, thanks for the memories.
Yuck
October 31st, 2009
5:48 pm
All you CMR haterz are wrong. It’s not CMR’s fault that our players suck azz. CMR didn’t come out and throw an INT on the first play of the 2nd half. All our players with heart and ability have left. You can’t coach garbage.
Epiminondas
October 31st, 2009
5:55 pm
That’s right, Yuck. What was I thinking? You can’t coach garbage. So why recruit them? CMR out NOW. Let him do missionary work full time.
dogdownsouth
October 31st, 2009
6:02 pm
impotent defense, unstable offense, bobo must go, Limp willie defensive mastermind must go1 find us a headknocking defensive coach who doesnt mind his folks hitting someone hard
frustrated fan of forty years
October 31st, 2009
6:52 pm
41-17 in the 4th and it looks simple to me-it ain’t the kids,it’s the coaches.They can’t teach tackling,disipline,or call plays. MR,MB,WM,all need to go IMHO. 119 out of 120 in penatlies,sticking with a quarterback about as accurate as a Lebonese missle, few blitzes, substandard runningbacks,it’s amazing how little MR has done with these great recruiting classes. I’m a long time fan, but I am sick of this. MR’s record the last few years was down to M.Stafford and Moreno, not his,and certainly not Bobo’s coaching. And, please, replace Eric Ziare on the radio. A voice made for silent movies if ever there was one.
BufordDawg
October 31st, 2009
7:14 pm
Mark Richt has lost his mojo… Having to stoop to desperate measures like black helmets, what a laughing stock he has become. One more year due to his track record and this guy is on the HOT seat, he has no idea what he’s doing anymore.
TODD BEASLEY
October 31st, 2009
9:17 pm
ITS GETTING PRETTY OBVIOUS TO ME THAT NO MATTER HOW GOOD YOU RECRUIT, THESE KIDS STILL HAVE TO BE COACHED UP. THAT SEEMS TO BE THE PROBLEM WITH THIS TEAM.
Jasm
October 31st, 2009
9:22 pm
Willie Martinez is not good…….I mean really bad……..Please fire him now !!!!!
Kyle Josher
October 31st, 2009
9:40 pm
Willie Martinez is forever !!!!!!!!!!! I like him so much !!!!!!!! go gator !!!
Mark "Mensa" Richt
October 31st, 2009
9:43 pm
The idea of borrowing Grambling’s helmets was brilliant! If only UGA could’ve capitalized on the early moments of the game while the Gators were laughing their azzes off, this could’ve been a different game.
Yellow Fuzz
November 1st, 2009
4:06 pm
This just in. New AP Poll
1 Florida (38) 8-0 1448
2 Texas (13) 8-0 1408
3 Alabama (8) 8-0 1390
4 Cincinnati 8-0 1212
5 Boise State 8-0 1211
6 TCU 8-0 1147
7 Oregon 7-1 1130
8 Iowa 9-0 1127
9 LSU 7-1 1036
10 Georgia Tech 8-1 949
GERALD IN D VILL
November 3rd, 2009
11:26 am
THE MIGHTY GEORGE BULL DOGS sleepth today they are only just puppys
poor choached over paid coaches Yep its time to clean house fire all the loosers.Bring back some(look at what Bama did haired a winner)
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November 4th, 2009
2:19 am
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UGA fans, what's an acceptable result in Jacksonville? : Eye Opener News
November 15th, 2009
11:37 am
[...] UGA fans, what's an acceptable result in Jacksonville? And man, please keep bryan evans in the locker room and keep rambo and brandon smith on the field. Arrrrghhhh! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Coach willie has to go. . . . Georgia safety Bacarri Rambo suffered concussion He has motion and sensation in all extremities, uga said. " he was unconscious for a moment," georgia coach mark richt said late saturday night. . . . Dogs' running game back from the dead? Likewise on defnese i think baccari rambo was busy doing well. I' m likewise impressed with the bulk of the work from brandon boykin. He has covered well almost all of the year. . . . UGA Bearcats play well in victory Previous seminole region indian bacarri rambo had three solo tackles and a pass breakup for uga. rambo' s two interceptions on the season, both of which came . . . In a game and season going wrong, UGA gets it right | Mark Bradley Notwithstanding, i agree with uga fans that changes still must be made too frequently uga defense is not prepared to start out the game. Glad to see auburn get beat again congratulations. One last thing very glad to hear b. rambo is ok! . . . Question: Are we seeing a trend of more serious concussions this … It likewise appeared (in my badly limited medical opinion) that rambo for uga had a serious concussion at the end of the auburn game. Are we seeing more of these serious concussions this year or is the media just now paying a lot more . . . Bulldogs Blog: Fleeting Thoughts: Auburn Edition Give willie a ton of credit for this, too: after what happened with bacarri rambo with two plays left to go, it would have been very easy for georgia to fall apart. Emotions had to be running high. Auburn had a great deal of time to draw up a . . . three more sacks for the uga defense — geno atkins, justin houston and cornelius washington — and nine more tfls. Suddenly becoming pressure doesn' t seem like such a problem. — akeem dent finished with six tackles — 1. 5 for a loss . . . Prayer thread for UGA's Rambo – SEC Sports Forum | SEC Basketball … Location: sweet home alabama. Posts: 1129. Rep power: 96. Tsunami has a neat deal of esteem on the forums. Georgia prayer thread for uga' s rambo . . . Baccarri Rambo – Official Athletics Site of the University of … Courtesy: uga sports communications release: 11/03/2009. Career highs: 4 tackles (2x), . . . personal: bacarri rambo; born: june 27, 1990; major: education. . . . Rivals.com College Football – Message Boards Re: thoughts and prayers for uga' s rambo, reply. Dawg e. Style ugasports. Com. Post #5169 . . . re: thoughts and prayers for uga' s rambo, reply. Harvin4heisman . . . Georgia safety Bacarri Rambo suffered concussion0 Athens – baccari rambo moved into a backup role at safety alongside statesboros john knox for georgia when quintin banks went down with a torn mcl. [...]