Forget Tech. UGA’s biggest remaining game is Auburn
Having already lost to Kiffin, Georgia can't lose to Chizik. (Todd Van Ernst photo)
For all the impassioned history with Georgia Tech and Florida, Georgia’s watershed game has historically been Auburn. Sugar fell from the sky at Jordan-Hare Stadium in 1982, a hunkered-down day that marked the culmination of the Herschel Era. A year later Bo Jackson and Lionel James won 13-7 in Athens — “Tastes like dog meat,” Bo would say afterward, a sprig of hallowed hedge between his teeth — to signal the shift of SEC power.
Vince Dooley’s last loss was at Auburn in 1988. (Smokey Hodge blew up Tim Worley with a hit that resounds still.) Ray Goff saved his job — for a year, anyway — by tying the Tigers, who were 20-0 under Terry Bowden, in 1994. Jim Donnan’s breakthrough win came in four overtimes at Auburn in 1996. And it was at Auburn where David Greene threw deep for Michael Johnson to give Georgia its first championship since the aforementioned sugar deluge.
And now we come to another significant installment of the oldest rivalry in the deep South, a game of apparently modest portfolio — neither side is ranked in the AP poll — but massive importance. Georgia is 5-4. If it loses Saturday night, it must beat Kentucky just to achieve bowl eligibility and must then beat Tech to avoid its first non-winning regular season in 13 years. The Auburn game figures to define how history views these curious Bulldogs, but for Mark Richt there’s a more pressing concern.
Richt has been in place since 2001, and for the first time we can say his program is in decline. Even when the Bulldogs were 6-4 in 2006, they were doing it with a hugely gifted freshman quarterback and figured to get better. (And the turnaround game for Matthew Stafford came, wouldn’t you know, with an upset of No. 5 Auburn.) The prognosis this time is hazier. Georgia will have a new quarterback again in 2010, and he won’t be Stafford. Richt needs to change his staff, but there’s no guarantee he will.
Those are internal considerations. External forces are at work. Georgia has already lost to Tennessee — by 26 points! — in Year 1 under Lane Kiffin, and now the Bulldogs are a skinny home favorite over Auburn in Year 1 under Gene Chizik. The emphasis of both new men has been on recruiting, Kiffin with his helicopter and Chizik with his white limousine. Both Tennessee and Auburn are coming after Georgia products, which means both are coming after Richt.
Loading ...Kiffin’s bluster aside, Auburn has the deeper footprint in this state. Pat Dye won four SEC titles largely because he raided Georgia. (Tracy and David Rocker were from Atlanta. Jeff Burger was from Cedartown. Lionel James, the Little Train to Bo’s big diesel, was from Albany. Craig Ogletree was from Barnesville. Stacy Searels, now the Bulldogs’ line coach, was from Trion.) Tommy Tuberville went 13-0 in 2004 with Ronnie Brown and Carlos Rogers, Georgia products who became NFL first-rounders.
A weakened Georgia program cannot expect to parry the recruiting thrusts of both Tennessee and Auburn if both reconfigured teams own a victory over the Bulldogs in the same transitional season. As tempting as it is to believe in Richt — who has, we should stipulate, earned the benefit of several doubts — it canot be denied that this coach has never been put under this much pressure.
Georgia has been lapped by Florida in its division, and Alabama and LSU are established fortresses in the SEC West. Should the Bulldogs cede ground to both Tennessee and Auburn, it might be years before they again register in this conference.
Having already lost to Kiffin, Richt cannot lose to Chizik. Forget Tech two days after Thanksgiving. Auburn is the biggest game these Bulldogs have left.
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ROLL TIDE!
November 9th, 2009
10:59 am
First!
Suck It, Haters!
ROLL TIDE!
November 9th, 2009
11:02 am
You UGA Pound Puppies better be glad you are not facing Coach Saban this year. Playing against Auburn is like playing the Bama 3rd-String JV Freshman Team.
Mark Richt *F E A R S* Coach Saban and the Crimson Nation like a bleeding pit bull fears Michael Vick.
14th National Title, Here We Come!
Lenwood
November 9th, 2009
11:03 am
Agreed. Auburn is our oldest rival, and conference game.
norman cowins haircut
November 9th, 2009
11:03 am
I agree with this. Would also like to point out that with Worley and Wayne Johnson…we had some chances in 1988.
brandon
November 9th, 2009
11:03 am
very interesting perspective.
Saint Simons
November 9th, 2009
11:05 am
45-42 !!!!!!!!!!! hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
WILLIE M.
November 9th, 2009
11:06 am
UGA should schedule more teams like Tenn. Tech. GO DAWGS!!!!!
Old Dawg
November 9th, 2009
11:06 am
Nice, impolite, way to start the week Roll Tide.
Stat Man
November 9th, 2009
11:06 am
BTW – Don’t look now, but there are more ACC teams in the top 25 than SEC teams.
Anybody that says they saw that coming is a liar – BUT I LOVE IT!!!!
VolnATL
November 9th, 2009
11:06 am
Proper order will be restored to the SEC. Ga has no place at, or near the top of the SEC. This conference has and always will belong to the real powers of the SEC:
TN, AL, FL, LSU, and AU.
2 more losses on the way doggies!!!
HBTD
November 9th, 2009
11:10 am
Mark. You’re dead on the mark today. The Auburn game is huge for a number of reasons, but most notably is that it gets the dawgs back on track to make a late season run at a New Years day / New Years eve game. What do you think about the dawgs running the table and getting a bid to the Chic-fil-a bowl against Miami??
DawginLex
November 9th, 2009
11:10 am
alabama people still can’t count.
Some of those 12 national titles are about as legit as us claiming one in 2002 and 2007. Some years, the vote was done before the bowls were played and then Bama lost the bowl game.
what a freaking joke.
now on to Aubie.
Dead on right with this being a big game. I predict whoever has the ball last with enough time on the clock to score wins. Their defense may be worse than ours.
42-37 Dawgs
MEYER
November 9th, 2009
11:10 am
FLORIDA ROLLS TIDE. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!
PT
November 9th, 2009
11:10 am
Mark, Most of the UGA contingent is more excited about Murray with all the weopons then they were with Stafford. Stafford did not have the talent around him like Murray does. You are wrong to the aspect UGA is in decline. Was LSU in decline last year. NO, the rebuilt. Thats what Georgia is doing.
Blackberry Cobbler
November 9th, 2009
11:11 am
“Richt needs to change his staff, but there’s no guarantee he will.”
If that’s to be the case, then I say we fire ‘em all including CMR at the end of this season. More and more, CMN looks to be a Bobby Bowden clone…. I really nice guy, but his elevator don’t go quite all the way to the top.
Tech is clearly a better team this year. Loosing to Tech at their place, as painful as it would be, won’t be a surprise. Loose to Auburn and/or UK, and this season is pretty much toast as if it weren’t already.
Yellow Fuzz
November 9th, 2009
11:11 am
For once I hope the dogs win a game. I hope they beat Auburn or Kentucky. I want them to HAVE to win at Tech to get a bowl invite. I want that very much.
MASSDAWG
November 9th, 2009
11:12 am
Roll tidey: Mark Richt has a winning record vs. Nick Satan all time!!!!! have facts if you want to talk on here!
Mark Bradley
November 9th, 2009
11:12 am
Uh, Stafford had Knowshon Moreno, did he not? Is there a Knowshon on this roster?
Mark Bradley
November 9th, 2009
11:12 am
Don’t think it will happen, HBTD. I do think Georgia will win Saturday, though.
TechFan
November 9th, 2009
11:14 am
As a true fan of Tech, I would like Georgia to win against Auburn and Kentucky and lose against us. That way the computers will think we are better from a win against UGA (or a loss if that were to actually happen). Good luck to both teams. THWG on 11/28!
GIVE ME A BREAK
November 9th, 2009
11:15 am
The Dawgs can’t run the table, they run around the table and stay under the table. Youv’e got to be kidding.
HBTD
November 9th, 2009
11:16 am
Of course they can run the table. It’s not like they’re playing anybody of a real high calibre.
Villa Rica DAWG
November 9th, 2009
11:17 am
If we lose to Auburn it might be years before this team registers in the SEC again??? That’s a little over-dramatic…
Delbert D.
November 9th, 2009
11:19 am
I have to pull for Auburn in this one. I figure they owe me, for the out-of-state tuition I paid when my daughter decided to go there instead of UGA. Grrr…
Georgia Headlines – 11/9/09 | MrSEC.com
November 9th, 2009
11:20 am
[...] Mark Bradley of The AJC writes that Mark Richt’s program is in decline, therefore he must win against Auburn to fend off their recruiting invasion of the Peach State.4. About 7,000 to 10,000 folks didn’t show up for Georgia’s win [...]
Coach Martinez
November 9th, 2009
11:21 am
How ’bout that D last Saturday, Dog fans? My old roommate was so happy, he okayed my raise for next year!!!
Short Memory
November 9th, 2009
11:21 am
“Georgia has been lapped by Florida in its division, and Alabama and LSU are established fortresses in the SEC West. Should the Bulldogs cede ground to both Tennessee and Auburn, it might be years before they again register in this conference”
It has been – maybe – 18 months since you would have said Georgia has lapped Florida or is at least equal, and Alabama was 2 years away. LSU lost, what, 5 games last year. If UGA comes out next season and starts 5 or 6 and 0 all of this will be swept away. I know you sell papers and get people to read w/ hyperbole, but come on. There is no objectivity in this. Logic has completely left us. I am not saying there are no issues w/ UGA, there definitely are. I am just amazed at how quickly people jump off the bandwagon – and you were right on it with everyone else before last season. I have heard that things are seldom as good or bad as they appear.
HBTD
November 9th, 2009
11:22 am
Delbert. I hear you. I’m in the same boat!
AUBURN FAN
November 9th, 2009
11:23 am
This Saturday won’t be the last beating the Dawgs get this year.
All I'm Saying Is...
November 9th, 2009
11:24 am
We will truly find out what kind of motivator and coach Richt is over the next three games because — despite what most everyone thinks — these Dawgs can beat Auburn, Kentucky, and Georgia Tech.
Auburn is inconsistent and ripe for the picking.
Kentucky is Kentucky and this ‘aint basketball.
And Tech will come into that game thinking BCS and hearing Orange Bowl with a win…only to potentially have it blow up in their faces due to too many turnovers which is easy to envision with their high octane but high risk offense.
Can’t wait to see how this movie ends which is what makes the high wire act that is regular season college football great!
Tide Rising
November 9th, 2009
11:24 am
Old Dawg,
That was pretty funny; pointed and needed also.
RAMBLE ON!!!
November 9th, 2009
11:25 am
It’s almost sad how far and fast our Little Brothers in Athens have fallen.
…almost.
RogerDawg
November 9th, 2009
11:25 am
Bradley
You’re delusional. Georgia will win out…..they know their backs are against the wall and this past week helped answer some questions.
UGA 23 Auburn 17 UGA will control the ball during the game…Auburn can’t pass and won’t be able to run on the Dawgs.
UGA 38 Kentucky 14 This one won’t be close. Georgia wins in all facets of the game.
UGA 42 Georgia Tech 31 CMR will control the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball…keeping Tech off the field. Won’t be as close as score indicates.
Then it will be either the Outback or Chik-fil-A. I’d rather go to the Outback.
Go Dawgs
Coach Martinez
November 9th, 2009
11:26 am
Be careful what you ask for Fuzz, it’s only been what 3 years since we all were in this same position. I will submit that PJ is a heck of an upgrade over Gailey.
SWFLJacket
November 9th, 2009
11:26 am
Even if it improves our rankings to beat an improved Uga_y, still want both Auburn and Ky to walk easy.
Short Memory
November 9th, 2009
11:26 am
Ramble On…Do you always smoke crack before lunch?
P-Man
November 9th, 2009
11:26 am
The next game is always the most important. It’s the only way to play.
Delbert D.
November 9th, 2009
11:26 am
HBTD – Yeah, bad influences from her high school friends. A bunch of them went there. Funny, we heard a LOT about the roaches in their dorms for about 6 months.
NADADAWG
November 9th, 2009
11:29 am
UGA needs to close the lid on the casket, this season is OVER.
38-3
November 9th, 2009
11:30 am
RAMBLE ON!!! still waiting on those chick-fil-a bowl rings you MORON.
GT with a LUCKY win against Wake Forest. You are not as good as your RECORD, your defense will BETRAY you. It’ll be heartbreaking to watch, (FOR YOU), and FUN for everyone else who HATES the insects!
PMC
November 9th, 2009
11:31 am
Aaron Murray was one of the best QB’s in the nation last season. I have no reason to believe he won’t have at least as good a year as Matt Barkley next season. Georgia is plenty good at the skill positions the next several years though they could do better at running back.
I’m not sure that either line of scrimmage is good enough to play a full SEC schedule however.
cantondawg
November 9th, 2009
11:32 am
Mark Richt= Bobby Bowden clone. Great..I’ll that anyday..BB is one of the greatest coaches ever
willie martinez
November 9th, 2009
11:33 am
Thanks Mark. at last a column without a bunch of criticism of me! you’re learning bud.
Yellow Fuzz
November 9th, 2009
11:34 am
lol. I’m gonna copy and paste this one in a file and repost it in 3-4 weeks. lol.
RogerDawg
November 9th, 2009
11:25 am
Bradley
You’re delusional. Georgia will win out…..they know their backs are against the wall and this past week helped answer some questions.
UGA 23 Auburn 17 UGA will control the ball during the game…Auburn can’t pass and won’t be able to run on the Dawgs.
UGA 38 Kentucky 14 This one won’t be close. Georgia wins in all facets of the game.
UGA 42 Georgia Tech 31 CMR will control the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball…keeping Tech off the field. Won’t be as close as score indicates.
Then it will be either the Outback or Chik-fil-A. I’d rather go to the Outback.
Go Dawgs
HBTD
November 9th, 2009
11:36 am
RogerDawg. Agree. The game against the nats want be close this year. Last year’s 2nd half was an anomoly. UGA’s DL should be able to stifle tech offense. Tech’s defense and special teams are also very weak this year. Apparently Tech has put up some impressive offensive numbers against what looks to be a real down ACC this year. They also put some pretty big numbers up on two of the SEC “powerhouse” teams this year. I suspect the UGA game will be a little more like their game against Clemson where they won it on special team trickery and Clemson’s special team blunders. Dawgs win this one easily 42 – 21, but it want be that close. They’ll be no letting up on the gas this year in the 2nd half.
Can the idiot named VolinAtl not read?
November 9th, 2009
11:37 am
UGA not among the “real powers” of the SEC. Go (try) and read some history, fool. Friggin’ idiot.
SouthGaDawg
November 9th, 2009
11:38 am
This whole “decline” crap is ridiculous. Of course Georgia was going to be down this year. They lost Two first round draft picks from their offense (at the QB and RB position no less), however, to say they are in decline is a joke. I guess when Florida has its 4-loss season next year (which is going to happen – although Meyer has won two national titles, he also has two four loss seasons to go with them…he’s the poster-boy of “all or nothing” seasons), you will say they are in decline. I guess LSU was in “decline” last year. Heck, I guess Alabama has been in “decline” this decade for every year except last year and this year.
And speaking of Alabama….can all of the Alabama fans shut up until Bama has actually won something? Last I checked they haven’t had a back to back 10 win season in 15 or so years (and Saban never has…) and they haven’t won an SEC title since 1999. Oh but you guys have the Sugar Bowl victory from last year…oh wait…no you don’t. The fact of the matter is that you’ve had one so-so year with Saban (how about that UL-Monroe game?), and you still haven’t won anything.
And for Mr. Bradley….stop being ridiculous. Its so funny how you can be sining Richt and Georgia’s praises at the begining of last year, and now they are garbage after a few bad losses and a so-so year. But then again, you are in the paper business, and hopefully all of this hating on Georgia will sell some papers…
By the way Mark, if Georgia beats Tech this year will you then say that Tech is on the decline?
whatever
November 9th, 2009
11:39 am
Please Please forget Tech so they can beat your azzes monster style.
yellow fuzzy nerdo
November 9th, 2009
11:42 am
GEORGIA will beat tech , regardless of whether they have to or not as GEORGIA has beaten tech 67 percent of the time since my birth, which was in the 60″s!!!! GEORGIA owns tech even when
GEORGIA has a down or rebuilding type year. good luck tho, you trainbuilding buggie!!!!
wtf
November 9th, 2009
11:43 am
Ramble on and other Bama lovers. Were you all over the UGA blogs when your team was losing to La. Tech 2 years ago? Didn’t think so. Fair weather at it’s best…
38-3 dawg
November 9th, 2009
11:45 am
tech is as good is their record, you are wrong!!!!! and Georgia would only have one loss if they played all the weak SISTER teams tech plays, lmao
For What's It Worth
November 9th, 2009
11:45 am
Mark, Auburn actually is ranked #25 in the Coache’s Poll — so it’s a chance for UGA to beat a ranked team…
duber1958
November 9th, 2009
11:47 am
HBTD
Why you are trashing Vanderbilt’s and Miss. State’s defense why don’t you go back and see how many yarda and points your beloved #1 SEC Florida Gators put up against them. Granted, our defense isn’t the greatest, but neither is GA’s. I would rather face your offense with our defense than have your defense against our offense. I don’t remember your defense letting up. We just cranked up the Diesel and Roddy Jones, or don’t you remember.
Yellow Fuzz
November 9th, 2009
11:47 am
“We can’t let things happen like that,” left tackle Clint Boling said Sunday. “We’ve got to know the snap count. We’ve just got to get better at it, and I’m sure we’ll work on that this week.”
lol. Even Reggie Ball can count to 4 right dog nation?
Otto
November 9th, 2009
11:47 am
UGA 23 Auburn 17 UGA will control the ball during the game…Auburn can’t pass and won’t be able to run on the Dawgs.
Keep believing that. Auburn has a better passing game than Tennessee and we know how that game went.
When was the last time UGA controlled a game of any consequence by running the ball?
The defenses for both teams can’t tackle but Auburn has the better OC and more weapons.
Auburn by 10.
Kentucky will be close. At Auburn they liked to roll the QB out which UGA can’t defend.
GT the one thing UGA has defended decently has been the option. GT does run it better than anyone. Another close game.
Yellow Fuzz just be sure to call RogerDawg out and not all of us UGA fans.
UGA could very well end the season without another win but they have the talent if coached well to win them all.
gdawginkalamazoo
November 9th, 2009
11:48 am
Great thanks Mark, Now we are doomed. You have made this a must win game. We know how those turnout.
HBTD, the key to stopping GT or “slowing them down” will be the same type of defense that Miami played. Assignment defense. Do you think Willie will know what that is? He had two weeks last year to prepare and we got sorry results. We let Crompton pass all over us. Do you think we can make adjustments during a game? You can be assured that PJ will mix it up this year just to confuse Willie. Set him up like bowling pins. We might win but it will be because our offense found everything it has and won’t let up. I wouldn’t count on the defense doing it and it wouldn’t be the players fault. They are very talented back there. It needs direction.
HB
November 9th, 2009
11:48 am
It’s always funny to drop in on these blogs and read 5 or 6 “comments” (if you can call them that) from some of the fans of other schools hatin’ on the ‘Dogs. If Bama is so damned awesome why do you hang out with the “lowly” Bulldogs? UT? They’re what, 4-4? Go blow.
RogerDawg
November 9th, 2009
11:49 am
Again, Georgia Tech is over-ranked. You almost lost to WF. Give me a break. Wake Forest would lose by 14 to Georgia. So, believe me….Georgia Tech will have a tougher time with Georgia!
You nerds are screwballs.
cantondawg
November 9th, 2009
11:50 am
UGA has 16 starters returning next year and look to be better in every position but two. Adkins and Owens will be the two that we miss. We should be much better at DE, OL and TB. i’m very excited about next year and believe we can win the next 3 games…9-4 and losing 90% of your offense isn’t too bad. I’m very interested to see how FL will fare next year losing all of the players that they will
REGGIE BALL'S COUNTING DEGREE!!
November 9th, 2009
11:51 am
LMAO, reggie bell are ball or whatever the nerd’s name was could count to 4 alright , and he still threw it out of bounds, just another in a long line of tech chokers against GEORGIA, yellow fuzz nerdo
collegeballfan
November 9th, 2009
11:51 am
Good column, Mark & you are right on.
The same applies to Tech. Duke is the biggest game on the schedule.
The goal is the ACC championship game, Duke is in the way. The Georgia game on 11/28 is irrelevant to that goal. If Tech beats Duke, wins the ACC championship AND losses to UGA it is not big deal.
First things first & that first thing is the ACC Championship.
Yellow Fuzz
November 9th, 2009
11:51 am
georgia loses 16 starters every year don’t they?
PDawg
November 9th, 2009
11:52 am
I have a bad feeling about this weekend.
Yellow Fuzz
November 9th, 2009
11:53 am
He could count to 45-42 too
Chris O
November 9th, 2009
11:53 am
Auburn will win. This team has no structure. Coaching is a joke. No playmakers except for Green. Slow him and the dawgs lose big.
Aub 27
Ga 17
HBTD
November 9th, 2009
11:55 am
Kalamazoo. Two key plays and a defensive player failing to execute after being in position led to last year’s 2nd half collapse. (1) Pick 6 thrown by Matt; (2) Freshman fumble on KO; (3) free safety failing to execute on two plays after being in position to make the play. You can’t hang any of these on Willie. Willie’s defensive scheme was fine last year against Tech and did NOT cost us the game.
DawgHouse
November 9th, 2009
11:55 am
Yeah…but this is the weakest Auburn team in how long? Not sure a victory over Auburn or Kentucky would be “Very good” wins. Sure we are down this year but we certainly are a lot better than either of those two programs. Kentucky is the perennial joke and Auburn should be a two touchdown dog to us and likely a 4 td underdog to Bama.
BAMA STAN
November 9th, 2009
11:55 am
12 NATIONAL TITLES – 21 SEC TITLES!!!
AUBURN and UGA need this win – which will make for a hard hitting and exciting game.
However, My money is on Auburn.
WHY?
UGA has been undisciplined for 2 years in a row. Heck, UGA can not even play TN TECH without being flagged for 11 penalties!!!!
– Auburn will come out ready to go offensively – and will score early.
– UGA’s defense will concede underneath – and allow Auburn chunks of yardage
– UGA will have more penalties
– UGA will have more turnovers
IN an evenly matched game – have to go with the more disciplined team.
One other thing – Auburn has a winning record between the hedges. I called this game last spring and summer as a HUGE watchout for UGA.
MARK – you wrote, “Georgia has been lapped by Florida in its division, and Alabama and LSU are established fortresses in the SEC West. Should the Bulldogs cede ground to both Tennessee and Auburn, it might be years before they again register in this conference.”
TOO LATE – It WILL all ready will be years before UGA will “register” in the SEC.
WHY? Richt became a CEO coach – while other teams hired DRIVEN, HANDS ON, coaches with HUGE EGO’s.
URBAN – has LAPPED UGA
SABAN – 31 – 0 at the half???
Miles – National Title and more relevent than UGA
KIFFIN – beat UGA in blow out fashion – first year – TENNESSEE has won 3 of last 4 over UGA by blow out
AUBURN – passes UGA this year
SC = UGA – SOUTH CAROLINA has outplayed UGA last two years – thanks to Curran – two incredible plays saved UGA from back to back losses.
UGA is in down cycle mode.
TENNESSEE, AUBURN in up cycle mode.
LSU, BAMA and FLORIDA – in RELOAD – keep the program ahead and NATIONAL TITLE HUNTING MODE!
Believe me – I want UGA to win this weekend – but this is not a good team – and TN TECH proves that point….again.
ROLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL TIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Don
November 9th, 2009
11:55 am
Wake F would not lose to Ga this year. You obviously don’t know anything about them.
WTH
November 9th, 2009
11:56 am
Delbert,
They should have flushed the roaches down the toilet after they smoked them instaead of leaving them laying around the dorm.
Hey yellow fuzz please help
November 9th, 2009
11:56 am
I am in the market for a good pocket protector, can you recommend a good place in town to find one?
DBalcer
November 9th, 2009
11:57 am
Mark I would say Ealey is definitely a Knowshon caliber player. I also think A.J. Green figures into great things the rest of this year and next year. Branden Boykin and Branden Smith are part of the present and future. Watching all the young talent this past Saturday gives me great hope for the future. I know the DAWGS aren’t looking past this week to Tech. They are focused on the game in front of them. I hope our fans are behind them all the way. Go DAWGS.
Alex
November 9th, 2009
11:57 am
GT beats Miss st by 11
Fla beats them by 10
Gt beats Vandy by 25
Fla beats them by 24
Lsu beats Miss st by 4.
Bama? Porbably 17-13 game.
Nuff said.
Mark Bradley
November 9th, 2009
11:57 am
I’m not saying beating Auburn qualifies as a major win. But losing would be a major loss. If that makes any sense.
Denver Dog
November 9th, 2009
11:59 am
Yellow Fizz, you again prove your igorance of the game! Counting and snap counts are not one in the same. Snap counts are not even numbers. Here is a good question for you, what year did you graduatate from Devry?
Dave In Tampa
November 9th, 2009
12:00 pm
The next 4 games(including bowl game) will tell us what kind of coach CMR is. But as some have mentioned, let’s just concentrate on Auburn for now. If we get hungry and learn discipline the next 4 games we are easily 4-0. Play like we have for most of the season we are 2-2.
COACHING, COACHING, COACHING!!!
Alex
November 9th, 2009
12:01 pm
Therefore
Fla beats Ga 41-17
Gt beats Ga 49-27
Georgia Fan
November 9th, 2009
12:01 pm
Whether we win out or lose out what happens at the end of this season will not relegate us to inconsequential in future seasons or guarantee that we will return to prominence within the conference. There is plenty of young talent in Athens right now and we will continue to attract enough talented players to remain potentially elite.
Denver Dog
November 9th, 2009
12:02 pm
Bama Stan, why don’t you correct your national titles to reflect the ones that count and are recognized. Six is a good enough number for most people. You really don’t have to embellish that. It is kind of like saying Babe Ruth hit 15 more home runs that didn’t count
Jay
November 9th, 2009
12:03 pm
Um Ky beats Aub at Aub. If Ga loses to Aub, why would anyone think they wil beat Ky, much less GT.
Ramblin Wrecker
November 9th, 2009
12:03 pm
With all due respect, I think GT under Paul Johnson is WAY more dangerous to UGA than UT or Auburn. Because Tenn and Auburn have always been a recruiting equal in Georgia to UGA. I mean you list all those kids who went to Tenn or Auburn from Georgia in your piece. GT being BETTER than UGA is way more dangerous to UGA, even with a non-NFL offense. I mean other than QB, WR and TE, a kid that plays any other position can still go to GT and not worry about his NFL prospects.
Dave In Tampa
November 9th, 2009
12:03 pm
Denver Dog:
“Yellow Fizz, you again prove your igorance of the game! Counting and snap counts are not one in the same. Snap counts are not even numbers. Here is a good question for you, what year did you graduatate from Devry?”
‘Devry” – good one!
gdawginkalamazoo
November 9th, 2009
12:04 pm
Mark, yes that makes a lot of sense. Just like any loss to us is major.
Bama Stan, good luck in the Sugar Bowl. You guys might get to play Boise or Cincy.
devry yellow fuzz nerdo
November 9th, 2009
12:04 pm
he didn’t he is at elementary school learning to read with REGGIE BELL or ball whatever the trainbuilding nerd’s name was
Yellow Fuzz
November 9th, 2009
12:05 pm
lol denver dawg. I did know that but felt like no one here would. I figured all you dog bloggers thought it was still hut one, hut two etc. lol
tech's problem
November 9th, 2009
12:06 pm
Until they join the sec and play a full sec schedule there is no chance of them winning a bcs title, no acc school has a chance for that matter
sammie
November 9th, 2009
12:07 pm
38 -0 TAKE THAT! All you orange loving sooners, shouldn’t have made us mad on that freaky day in October. We taking it out on a everything Tennesse! Now the DAWGS are looking for Lambruth College and the U. of Chatt. Intramural FLAG FOOTBALL Champs we gon put sumpin on them too! Cause you don’t wanna make a JUNK YARD DAWG mad. You better tell lil LANCE he better stop flying round the ATL. in a helicopter looking for RECRUITS cause I don’t told them boyz on Bankhead that Lance has a DEA Agent in that helicopter wit him and them BANKHEAD BOYS are lookin out. Plus I”m going to see that lady named SISTER MARY see if she can work up sum chickin bones and bring FULMER back. And AUburn better not, you hear me . . . Auburn better not get too manish or we’ll schedule Samford and put a chewin on there behind! WE WANT ERIC BERRY TO FORFIET HIS RIGHT TO CROSS 1-285 for the rest of his life!!!!! WOOF-WOOF!
WHEW THAT FELT GOOD!
BugKiller
November 9th, 2009
12:07 pm
Again, reports from inside Butts-Mehre reflect Richt’s true thinking.
That he is “FANATICALLY” devoted to Willie Martinez and has absolutely no plans to fire him after this year.
For me, and a growing number of others, Mark, THIS was Richt’s benefit of the doubt year.
THIS YEAR, after he gave the worst DC in Georgia’s history a raise simply because the man is his best friend and not based upon anything he’s done here at Georgia or in his entire career at places like Central Michigan and East Carolina, where, not so coincidentally, he was also an abject failure as a DC.
THIS was Mark Richt’s benefit of the doubt year.
Now, Mark Richt is simply a man who has lost the moral authority to coach this program because he’d rather have a permanent job here at Georgia for Willie Martinez than do what is RIGHT by OUR program.
If there is karma in this world, then Richt won’t beat Auburn, won’t beat Kentucky, and get HAMMERED by Tech.
Hmmm. Who else finished 5-7 in the SEC last year?
You’re right when you say this program in in decline. And it is in decline BECAUSE of Mark Richt and the decisions he’s made and the decisions he has refused to make.
Miami waited a year too long to fire Larry Coker, and that guy won an MNC!!!
Georgia cannot take another year with Mark Richt and his fanatic devotion to terrible coaches who are unable to take mediocre players and make them good, good players and make them better, and great players and make them the best.
You know, like BVG did on an every year basis.
No, Mark Richt, even if the Dawgs finish 6-6, 6-7, or 7-6, needs to be fired THIS YEAR.
Otherwise, this program will miss out on truly great coaches who are WILLING to make the tough decisions it takes to win. Who are WILLING to do what it takes to win.
Weren’t you just talking about Paul Johnson like that, Mark? That he was willing to do what it takes to win? The thing is, you left out, “unlike Mark Richt, Paul Johnson is willing to do what it takes to win,” in your article.
Here’s the thing, if Georgia fires Mark Richt and hires Brian Kelly, who is Notre Lame’s first choice to replace Weiss after this year, then Georgia can then not only get a coach with some balls and who holds his coaches accountable, then we can also cripple a competitor!
WHO DO YOU THINK NOTRE LAME WILL COME AFTER IF GEORGIA HIRES BRIAN KELLY???
If you said either Urban Liar or Paul Johnson, you’d be correct!
If Urban wins another MNC at Florida this year, what does he have left to prove? If Paul Johnson finds himself on the outside of the MNC this year because of one loss or an at-large bid because of two, you don’t think he’d look at Notre Lame and thinks, hmmm, a one loss Notre Lame team would ALWAYS make the MNC game because of media bias, and a two loss Notre Lame team would ALWAYS receive an at-large bid to a BCS game. Quick trivia, the ACC has NEVER placed a second team into the BCS through an at-large bid.
By firing Mark Richt now, because let’s face it, his fanatical devotion to Martinez has made Richt fire-able by every sense of the word, then we can get Brian Kelly and cripple one of our biggest rivals in the process!
How can we lose in that scenerio? Get rid of one coach who isn’t willing to do everything it takes to win. Get a coach who is, and is known as a SUPER QB guru. Hire Kirby Smart to take over the defense. And then, Notre Lame is forced to either throw the world at Urban Crier, and if he refuses, Paul Johnson is their next target, and he won’t refuse.
Georgia wins, every way!
Now all we need to do is convince Adams to tell his puppet Evans to fire Richt.
Come on, big boosters, it’s time to unite and force Adams’ hand!!!
hut 1 hut 2 hike
November 9th, 2009
12:07 pm
you really would have confused reggie bell with that one fuzzy train man
W.T.Beavers
November 9th, 2009
12:08 pm
Mark Richt is as good a coach as Wally Butts. Paul Johnson is (so far) as good as Bobby Dodd. Dodd use to hand UGA their butts on a platter. Get use to it Doggies.PJ will do the same thing for the next few years. Dacusville Bill (66 years a Tech fan)
Dave In Tampa
November 9th, 2009
12:09 pm
Yellow Fuzz: Nice try on the cover up, but we all know better.
Froggy the Gremlin
November 9th, 2009
12:09 pm
If the dogs had Greene(David),Herschel,Jake the snake, they MIGHT beat the KY jelly. It will take ga 10 years to become one of the Big Boys like Tech. Recruiting is in the toilet.
WTH
November 9th, 2009
12:10 pm
GT is really not that dangerous to UGA. GT can’t stop them from going to the SECCG while AU and UT can keep them out of the SECCG. GT can only affect their NC hopes which happens every thirty or forty years. GT is dangerous to UGA coaches because if they lose three or four to GT over a short time period, they will be replaced.
MAJORPAYNE
November 9th, 2009
12:11 pm
If Auburn scores 30, the game is over and Auburn wins. BTW AU can’t run or throw. Wow last check they are in the top ten in total offense.
gdawginkalamazoo
November 9th, 2009
12:12 pm
Mark, what don’t you like about Ealey?
Mark Bradley
November 9th, 2009
12:12 pm
If I’m not mistaken, Kentucky hasn’t beaten Georgia in Athens since 1977 — the 33-0 Prince Charles/James Brown game. That was six Kentucky coaches ago. (Curci, Claiborne, Curry, Mumme, Morriss and Brooks.)
Old Dawg
November 9th, 2009
12:14 pm
Tide Rising: We may not agree on everything posted, but there’s no reason to get nasty about it. We all love our teams but we’re also fans of the game. Thanks for the compliment. Good luck to your Tide for the remainder of the season.
Mark Bradley
November 9th, 2009
12:15 pm
Ealey is a good back. Knowshon was a great back.
Dead Mike
November 9th, 2009
12:17 pm
Bring back Donnan!
HMB
November 9th, 2009
12:17 pm
I was at that game, a Kentucky QB named Ramsey and the next year Fran Curci got them on NCAA probation.