A very short post about a very big topic – UGA’s coaching

FIRST!!

1) Georgia and it’s not even close.
2) Kentucky made adjustments and took the gifts handed to them to win the game.
3) Freakin’ ridiculous.

I love the DAWGS, and I am a fan for life. I hope things get better quick, I know way too many Tech fans!

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spot on brother

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Yes, but how is everyone doing on bowling night?

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after a full season of coaching, i’m not sure another month of the same is going to help…. this year or next. please turn down any bowl invitations, and spare a once proud program any more embarrassment.

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Offensive line coach must go too.

Wasn’t that suppose to be a strength of the team this year?

Strength and conditioning coach needs to go as well.

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Mark, Most people think Willie is the problem. Is he? As a fan, I see the results and I have a gut reaction. But Tubberville and Kevin Butler think Marinez is not a problem and it sounds like Butler gets to watch a lot of practices. Was Brian VG that good, or did he inherit great players from Donnan? Is it the players? Is Coach Richt too nice? Would replacing Martinez actually make a difference? As a sports columinist, do you have an insight into the Georgia program that we fans don’t see?

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They obviously can recruit as the freshman talent on offense is sensational with Brown, Wooten, King (Rs freshman), Ealey, Smith, etc. They have forgotten though a few things: 1. You build from the line. 2. The defensive coaching is obviously awful – how can you have three d lineman (Atkins, Owens, and Weston) plus Curran and Jones all getting ready to be drafted? The pieces don’t fit to make the whole piece. That is coaching. The kick coverage has been awful for years. It’s time for change or as much as I love Mark Richt Damon Evans will have no choice to let him go after 2010.

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We suck. And apparently, we’re proud of it. GT, just be gentle on Saturday.

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Offensively I believe it is the fact that UGA did not prepare for Stafford’s departure. All you have now is Joe Cox and freshman. If you are going to be bad then why not be bad with freshman. The UGA head coach is too soft. He will not make the hard decision. I am sure he will pray about the situation and do what is best for WM and BoBo. They will be back. I don’t think you want VG, look how he is doing with the Falcons.

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Altamaha, he uses my picture because I’m by far the most photogenic guy on the sidelines. and Mark Bradley told me that himself. best, willie

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Spurrier nailed it years ago…..”I don’t know what happens to the players when they get to Georgia” Saturday night did it for me as a UGA supporter (e.g. money) and fan. I just wish this bunch of bimbos would have lost to Auburn so we would not have to go to a bowl game. If this team had any kind of class- they would decline going anywhere and save us the embarrasment like we had Sat.

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Were should a man’s priorities lie…… God, Family, career….. All of your questions can be answered from that statement ….. Go Dawgs ….. Go Richt……

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the biggest problem in athens is the water girl wandering around the sidelines asking people dumb questions.

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I think Willie Martinez and Brian Van Gorder are the same person in different bodies. Never have I seen two team that are identical in allowing wide open receivers and third and long conversions.

Both should be fired and never allowed to coach again!

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hell, i even taught drew butler how to tackle.

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AND I taught Bradley how to write. There can be no better endoresment of my abilities than the results of the Butler tackle and the Bradley writing. willie

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See, i actually used to be a sportswriter at the ajc calling myself norman aery.

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“willie martinez,”

Grow up and find a job!

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I cannot bear to watch the dawgs defense on the field. URGHHHHHHHHHHHHH! And, as mentioned in previous posts, why did we stop going to Orson Charles? I am a loyal dawg and will always love them. I keep my UGA banner flying in the back patio with all the Gator golfers passing by, laughing. I keep my UGA tag on the front of my avalanche. Please stop this pain!!! Make the changes and lets keep our recruit commitments and move on to next year.

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The problem starts with the recruiting that has has been done recently, Bad players make bad plays….Let a freshman run kick offs back fumbles will happen, let freshman running backs play and fumbles happen….Let Joe Cox play Losing happens…I love my dawgs but i don’t like this collection of players.

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Mark, I get it now— I am DAWG GONE!!! thanks coward!

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I can’t think of one phase of the game (except punts and field goals) in which UGA has excelled this year.

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That second half was about the most embarrasing performance that I can ever recall. Missed tackles, supid penalties, flat footed defense, fumbles, crappy kick off play, no fire and on and on. No more money from me, no T shirts, no hats, no alumni support until I see improvement.

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larry, you misunderstand. i have a job as dc at uga. understand?

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Just because Kevin Butler, who I went to school with and is a great guy, doesn’t think WM is the problem doesn’t mean he is right. I may not be a weather forecaster but I can tell when a storm is coming.

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Mark, do expect Richt to make any more changes other than firing Bobo and van Halenger?

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No doubt coaching is the problem. But, Bobo is a big an issue as Martinez. Orson Charles has a career first quarter, then we quit using him? We run a draw play on third and ten with two minutes left in the game on Kentucky’s 30 yard line? Give me a break! An Offensive Coordinator’s FIRST job should not be at UGA! He is a QB coach, Martinez is a cheerleader!

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adam

finally an intelligent dawg post. i realize that we have our homers too but your fellow pups talking about blowing us out is great motivation for our team and fans. we will savor the win even more and be more likely to remind those very same homers of how foolish they were if we win. i think this will be a close game with leads from both sides. i think tech is the better team and i agree with the post above that the best teams usually win in rivalries. but we play the games because anything can happen – like kentucky for example.

go jackets! thwg

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D-I-S-C-I-P-L-I-N-E. See: Urban Meyer, Nick Saban, Les Miles, Houston Nutt, Paul Johnson, annnnd Richard Brooks.

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Whatever they are doing, please keep it up. you mutts deserve this. You think you are so high and mighty. Walmart carries a complete line of ugag rags. woooooo…. now the damn worm has turned and you muttnutt fans can’t handle it. it’s about damn time. I hope this continues for a long while. oh, btw, the autopsy came in on ugavii. he died of a yellow jacket sting on the butt. cheers…

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Turnovers and penalties. You tell me what traditionally are these symptoms of?

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hey canoe – isn’t it supposed to be “sure ARE a lot of football experts in this world”? seems like you are the illiterate one. just sayin don’t knock us if your one of us!

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The most ridiculous thing is that the Techies are going to be crowing like crazy after they destroy us this weekend. Like it’s some big accomplishment; they’ll just be the latest in a long line.

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dogcrappy – at least weve got apparel in wally world, which means our gear is actually SELLING. how about the nerd crapwear? yep, thought so

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We are over-reacting. Kentucky has SEC talent. The defense did not lose that game.

It is one off year for the coaches. Don’t you think they know where the issues are?

Tech is #7, but they run a HS offense and do not have SEC-level athletes. No worries!

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This team is so bad it gave UGA a heart attack!

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Here’s the first thing that needs to be done and it’s very simple: take Richt’s Xanax away from him and flush it down the toilet. He’s w-a-a-a-a-y too mellow on the sidelines.

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We need to wear black helmets, black jerseys, black pants, black socks and black shoes at Tech Saturday night!

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Our team needs to wear black helmets, black jerseys, black pants, black socks and black shoes at Tech this Saturday night.

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Not a single coach threw an interception, fumbled a kickoff, missed a tackle, all those are physical plays that the players themselves should get the credit or blame for, whichever applies. The coaches are responsible for the poor kickoffs because of the philosophy they have which never seems to work. We never seem to have players sprinting down the field and breaking up the wedge – it seems like they are told to always stay in control and I believe that takes away from aggressiveness. Special teams play was poor in this game to say the least – I believe that is the area that needs the most attention in the off-season and cries out for a coaching change.

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Big Mutt – Our ‘high school offense’ beat your high school team. LOL

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Shortest and most effective blog ever.

FIRE MARK RICHT.

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Mark-my-werds -

You are exactly right. The only way to plug the leak is with a SEC and/or NC. That is not gong to happen ant time soon.

Georgia will nao fire Rrot the next few years and cost the program dearly

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someone please, break Willie’s typing finger.

thank you

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Adam – thanks for some realistic posting. I won’t diss you as a sincere dawg fan – we just wish there were more like you. Yes, UGA has always had a problem with obnoxious fans (yes we have them too – St Simons will be on here eventually) and part of the animosity of our team fans and other SEC fans toward your program are your fans more so than your team. So kudos to you for calling out some of your fellow fans.

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I hear waht you are saying…but the coaches are not out there committing all the ridiculous turnovers. Cox lost this game for us. he is horrible and we need to rip the red shirt off Aaron Murray. The coaches preach turnover margin all the time, but ultimately it is up to the players to not give the ball away in the ridiculous ways they did. Can you really blame our coaching staff for those 2 picks or fumbles? thats the better question. These 4 and 5 star recruits need to have some accountability to.

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One more thing. The Mark Richt show with Chuck Doodle is USELESS. What a mighty fall that show has taken in the 10 years since I last watched it. Richt was barely conscious, hardly showed a pulse as usual, but he did comment 3-4 times about the second half kickoff. So they show the highlights and don’t show the one play Richt thought was pivotal. Further, no coaching comment on the plays. How absurd is that? Finally, NO COMMENTS ON THE CRITICAL FUMBLE AT THE 1-YARD LINE!!! Are you kidding me? What was QB thinking? What was RB thinking? Who blew it? Whose great idea was it to run a toss play anyway? And finally, WHERE IS THE COACHING, THE REPETITION IN PRACTICE, THE DRILLS, THE ABSOLUTE DISCIPLINE, THAT SHOULD KEEP THAT PLAY FROM HAPPENING???

FIRE MARK RICHT.

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As a gator, I have no dog in this fight, but I do firmly believe that UGA has superb talent on their team. It is more fun for me as a fan to play and beat the Dawgs when they are top SEC contenders. The current episode in Athens reminds me of the dark days we Gators suffered through in Gainesville during the Zook years and the ’70s and ’80s. It is not for me to pontificate on the problems with the Dawgs, but I am totally convinced that you will be back with a vengeance in the very near future. My many Dawg Fan friends are so remorse these days that we refrain from our good nature ribbing about football. I know how you feel, and you your loyalty does not deserve the current situation. Hang in there and good luck.
Sorry to hear about UGA VII.
Go Gators!

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You know, I agree the defense looks lost in the secondary, and how can you let a non starting qb, and there two best player make us look silly in the second half. However, you cant blame it completely on coaching when you fumble the kickoff on the ga 14, qb looking like a deer in headlights and just throwing two int and giving the ball inside the 15 again, and the fumble on the 2 yard line was rediculus, qb are supose to look at the line up before snapping the ball to make sure everything is all right, he should have readjusted ealy if he was to close. The main problem this year besides martinez and bobo are that we are young and very inexperienced at the important positions, qb, rb,wr. there is hope dog nation with the young talent coming up. but next season starts today, we got to make changes!

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While I think it’s certainly easiest to blame the coaches and without question they do indeed shoulder some of the responsibility for the down season, from what I’ve seen the biggest problem Georgia has is something a coach can do very little about: chemistry.

What the Bulldogs are this year is a collection of players, not a team. They are awfully quick to point fingers at one another and seemingly the team isn’t all that fond of the rah-rah cheerleader mentality of Joe Cox.

The good news for Georgia is that chemistry issues tend to change annually. Sometimes bad teams can have good chemistry and overachieve while good teams can have bad chemistry and underachieve. It will be up to the team next year to truly decide where the program is headed.

As for UGA rejecting a bowl, forget about that. Mike Slive made this whole “bowl tie-in” garbage his bastard son; there’s no way he’d let an SEC team turn down a bid.

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MB- the most important number that was missing from the list:

The mass exodus was the most amazing event ever witnessed during a GA – KY game. I could not believe the DogNation up and left.

Then they talk about our “pitiful” little team that is sitting at 10-1 and how bad we are because we don’t play anyone of merit, how condescending.

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So Joe Cox gives us the best chance to win CMR? Really? Is that what happened on Saturday? Was that the best that us Dawgs can expect from our program? Have we really failed this miserably to have good players on the field? Where are all of our 4 & 5 star recruits? If the only excuse for Cox being on the field is to win, where are all of the wins?

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Last year’s season should have been GREAT with our talent, it wasn’t. This year has been one blown opportunity after another. If so many of the coaches below Richt need to be replaced, what does that say about our lead Dawg as well?

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Mark Richt is a liar.

On the Mark Richt show, he said GA had “nearly 500 yards of offense.” The stats show they had 427. Quite a difference.

That brand of lying, or baseless optimism, or stretching the truth, or whatever, is exactly the attitude that has kept Mark Richt from a serious look in the mirror, from manning up and taking responsibility for once, for showing even the smallest smidgen of passion about his job. Things are always rosier to Mark Richt than to everyone else. We always just had bad luck, or lost despite “playing so well” or winning the statistics battle.

I puke up on that attitude.

Man up and look in the mirror. The coaches have let us all down. Starting with the guy at the top.

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I keep coming back to the AJC in hopes of reading “Willie has been Freed” but I’m always disappointed.

Maybe when Tech hangs 50+ on us they’ll get the picture. I won’t hold my breath.

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Obviously the most likely replacement is DC. Not because of this year, but the sum total of several years. UGA’s D needs a new attitude and more discipline. While Kirby Smart is the most likely candidate to replace WM, were I making that call I would contact Tommy West. Not only is he a superb defensive coach, Tommy is a tough guy, a no excuses guy. He comes from the Danny Ford school of football. Physically whip your opponent. Danny Ford used to say, “I’ll take mine and beat yourn. Then I’ll take yourn and beat mine”. And he could back it up. Tommy West can put the junkyard back in the Dawgs D.

Special teams deserves a look as well. Like everyone else I despise those corner kicks, but the problem runs deeper than just that strategy. Personally I would love to see the kickoff moved back up 5 yards.

Bobo? Not yet. Coach Bobo’s offenses have been relatively prolific.UGA’s red zone % has gone up dramatically under Bobo. Bobo didn’t throw all those interceptions or make all those bad decisions. Bobo also doesn’t get to make the decision to take the redshirt off a kid either. Besides that, unless you can get a Norm Chow, Steve Sarkesian type, what’s the point at this juncture. I also seem to remember some of you Bobo bashers were also some of the more vocal in screaming for Coach Richt to hand play calling duties over to him.

Coach RIcht? Simply stated, to fire him would be absolute lunacy. When this team matures and develops the kind of senior leadership past teams enjoyed you will like the results.

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Hey HBTD – or could it be that Walmart has the Dawg gear in stock because it’s not selling and the Tech stuff is flying off the shelves? Just sayin……

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This down fall excelerated with that end zone stunt a few years ago for the pups. I’m no fan of ALA or Tenn, but things are not going to get better for Ga the next few years even with new assit coaches. Sad.

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That was ugly. I don’t think they need to get rid of Bobo just yet. He doesn’t have a lot to work with this year, besides Green. Let us see what he does with one of those freshman next year first. Martinez, on the other hand, needs to be put out to pasture. 6-6 record sould be blamed on the DC not the OC. The Offense actually puts up numbers from week to week.

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For Adam

We fans we have very few meaningful ways to show our displeasure with a team. Leaving a game with time still on the clock is one of them. Many fans have come to realize that being down 7 points with 2 minutes left is insurmountable for these coaches and players. Many fans have also come to realize that “we got to work harder” or “we got the keep grinding” and “we’ll reevaluate everything at the end of the season” are completely meaningless statements from our CEO. Staying put in a seat or not voicing your objections to the direction of the team IS being a blind homer. The current state of our team is a direct result of what the majority of fans will accept, mediocrity.

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We are TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE !!!!!I love the Dawgs Always but this is a business and the bottom line is wins and loss’s…MR makes lots of money for us to be so bad in so many areas….sooner or later you gotta produce!! How long will this University wait???Seems to me time is up!!Martinez and Bobo have to go!!

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Bank Walker, Texas Ranger

November 23rd, 2009
7:58 am
Kiffin’s players don’t have the problems……is armed robbery a problem

Those aren’t Kiffins players they were kicked off the team along with about 14 others since spring not willing to do what it takes to have discipline on and off the field.

Kiffin hate him if you want but he has taken a team with little talent, the worst qb in the league at seasons start(now has 25 td passes) and a jv defense and overachieved
something Georgia coaches would know nothing about.

imagine in a couple years when he gets a few more top recruiting classes!

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Richt needs to go. It’s as simple as that.

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Not to change the subject, but Mark, why not do a blog with your opinion of the whole “conference bowl tie-in” situation? I hate the idea because it makes some bowls (Independence for the SEC, Humanitarian when it was an ACC bowl) places of shame which is not really fair to cities like Shreveport and Boise.

I say drop that silly notion and let each bowl create the best match-up it possible can. Your thoughts?

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82CAT. Tennessee does not have a JV defense. They have one of the best defensive teams in the SEC and certainly the best defensive player in the country. They are going to lose Berry and others on D and several of their top offensive players to boot. I think the Vols regress next year and in the years to come under Lame Duck’s lack of leadership. Scandal will be the topic in Knoxville’s future…not championships.

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Tech Tony. Bowls and bowl tie ins are all about guaranteed money to the conferences. The system is not going to change unfortuantely. But I for one agree with you.

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i’m afraid gator hootch is right. i havent seen the talent that were supposed to have on the field either. my gawd, cox is absolutly awful! thats the best we can do????? we have a few margee players on both sides of the ball and thats it. either these recruiting services are full of it or we only look at the number of stars and not the important things… or the most probable reason is that we are not coaching up these young men. either way its coaching: picking them or coaching them. it aint happened folks! we need changes to a stale program

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You ever play poker? A college fcotball coach is like a poker player. He has to make everybody think, I mean everybody year after year, that he has has a straight flush, a four of a kind, or a full house, when in fact, and he probably wishes he could say this, he really only has two pair, one pair, or a high card. The cards were on the table saturday night.

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This is just everyone beating a dead horse. What has not already been said since the start of the season? Same problems on the team for two years in a row (penalties, turn-overs, game plans, special teams, adjustments), and there is no solution yet. The problem is the leadership is not doing its job.

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This Team is SOFT.I don’t blame the players, it is all coaching. From the soft, non-agressive defense to our kickoff and kick coverage schemes to our finesse style on offense. We haven’t come out of the locker room and punched an opposing team in the mouth since Florida 2007. Now it seems we’re afraid to be aggressive. One of our biggest problems is a lack of FORCING turnovers. You don’t sit back and wait for the other team to make a mistake, you pressure them into making a bad throw or fumble. Playing against a freshman QB you need to bring the blitz and rattle him. On one drive we get down to the 11 yard line, and get a nine yard gain on first down. Second down and one from the 2 yard line we attempt a pass. WHY? And don’t get me started on the directional kicks.

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Other than Berry name one player that will be drafted off that defense —(crickets chirping)

by the way still waiting on that 60 urban was going to hang on us for what kiffin said, for all the bluster thats all the best team in the country could do at home against an below average UT team
I dont blame you for being afraid of kiffin.

top 10 recruiting class last yr top 5 this year.

Also know your history when georgia is down Tennessee is up because UT depends heavily on georgias recruits.

I guess we will see what happens in 2010 in Knoxville

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First of all, let me say that I am a Tech fan. However, I am not a “UGA Hater”.

From my perspective the UGA coaching staff was “drunk from success”. During the past few years, the offensive coaches have had a cannon armed QB, a crazy good tailback, and two “freak” receivers. Those guys really covered up the lack of talent from the other offensive positions and the defense. So – now the entire staff is suffering from a epic hangover! The coaching staff will step up and fix the problem during the next two years – AND – it will take atleast two years to fix because of the overhyped recruiting class of 2008 and 2009.

The UGA program will be back soon – AND – just for the record, if Kentucky can beat UGA, UGA can beat Tech this week. If we turn it over 4 times, our butts will be cooked. So, all you Tech fans, please keep your mouths shut this week and act like you have been there!

GO JACKETS!

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How in the hell does the punter get a personal foul for a facemask (would have been a first down)? This is yet another example of the type of downright stupid, stupid, stupid plays that our players have made all year long. I certainly have not made it to the “Richt-is-the-man-to- go” mindset, but these issues (penalties/turnovers) are undeniably discipline related, and it is his responsibility to fix them — whatever coaching changes are made. We have felt this team slipping even from last year, and this meltdown is really no surprise. The team is in disarray from top to bottom. Kentucky made those two interceptions because they knew exactly what play was going to be run. We need a new DC, a new QB, and a new freakin’ [euphimism] attittude! My only question now is if we can stave off a losing season. Tech is going to beat us like a stepchild. Maybe our bowl pairing will be so low that we can fnish the season 7-6. Not to plagiarize Tennessee’s motto, but “Wait’ll next year!”
Go Dawgs !!!

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I can guarantee you this because this is the truth:

An undisciplined team and a uninspired defense is not going to contain the triple option.

It is that simple.

Georgie couldn’t handle it last year, we have seen what it is not capable of this year, so do not expect some sort of defensive ephiphany to occur in 6 more days…..

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Steve Spurrier to UGA? Are you kidding? He has morphed into Chan Gailey @ USCe.

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More of the same next year. dogs will lose at least 6 again and it will go downhill from there. Are the dogs really going to fire richt and bring D Dooley to athens? That is what they are saying on ESPN this morning

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I agree with gator hootch. Aside from AJ Green, I haven’t seen a player that is deserving of a five star rating. Well, maybe Rennie Curran (I guess that is how you spell it).

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The problem is not Martinez alone…..but he is a problem. Too many offenses marched all the way across the field and scored on us with little effort. In defense of Willie ( not enough to defend his job), 19 of the 26 turnovers Georgia has had this year were in Bulldog Territory. ( I got that info from a tweet by Jeff Owens himself) Therefore, our offense has not helped our struggling defense. I also wrote in my blog about what we lack most. We lack heart. When momentum changes it takes heart to turn it again.

We have enough talent to beat that Kentucky team 45-zip. In the end, we were outclassed by a bunch of guys with a lot of heart.

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Its embarrassing when the TV announcers keep talking about the penalties we commit every game and we keep on committing them like someone on crack who can’t stop.

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Sorry, “euphemism” is spelled with an “e.” Go Dawgs !!!

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FWIW, my phone lit up over the weekend and I heard many times over from some decent contacts in Athens that Logan Gray, who knows he won’t be the starter next year, will be transfering. That will leave us with exactly two QBs, Murray and Mettenberger, both redshirt freshmen. So how will we perform with that level of inexperience? Next year doesn’t look too promising if we stay put with the existing coaches.

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Though I’m a Yellow Jackets fan, I will root for UGA the other 11 games out of a season. I liked the Mark Richt hire from the get-go. As a matter of fact I was a little jealous since I was hoping he might take Chan Gailey’s place and stay in the ACC when he made his move all those years ago. However, this year has shown me something different. I think it started in the off-season when it seemed like every week or so another Bulldog player was getting into some kind of trouble (legal and otherwise). This was not the Christian, character-driven program that I was used to under Coach Richt. This lack of discipline has permeated the playing as well. Think of all the dumb penalties, blown assignments, weak effort, etc. we’ve watched this entire season. Sadly, Richt seems rather aloof and non-chalant about these issues. He used to lead his team with an expectation that you play your best under him – now he seems to make excuses more than anything (which reminds me of Gailey actually). I still think he’s a good coach but he’s got to get this program under control.

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Now the real trouble begins, whuf, whuf!

Date/Time TV Opponent Result Tickets
09/04/10
Time TBA TBA Louisiana
09/11/10
Time TBA TBA at South Carolina
09/18/10
Time TBA TBA Arkansas
09/25/10
Time TBA TBA at Mississippi State
10/02/10
Time TBA TBA at Colorado
10/09/10
Time TBA TBA Tennessee
10/16/10
Time TBA TBA Vanderbilt
10/23/10
Time TBA TBA at Kentucky
10/30/10
3:30 p.m. ET Florida 1
11/06/10
Time TBA TBA Idaho State
11/13/10
Time TBA TBA at Auburn
11/20/10 — Open Date — —
11/27/10
Time TBA TBA Georgia Tech
12/04/10

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What a bunch of whiners! The Dawgs have one off year and you morons are ready to fire the entire coaching staff. After the Dawgs DESTROY the Jackets 49 – 7 on Saturday, let’s see how you guys react.

Go DAWGS !

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Adam, Excellent post. Well said, and totally called for. I’ve been saying the same for weeks. I’m a Dawg through and through and hate the current situation as much as anyone. But I’m still a Dawg, and I was there at the final buzzer Saturday night, painful as it was. As far as South Carolina, they’ve been saying next year will be their best year in twenty years for the last thirty years, Mallet will be in the NFL and ‘Arky’ will be qb-less again, and I believe Richt will make the needed changes. If not, then that’s another post for another day. Still shocking, though, how this thing came so unraveled so fast. At any rate, Go Dawgs

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Keanu Reeves might be a better coach. He looked pretty sharp in “The Replacements.”

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Obviously, discipline has abandoned UGA’s football program. It’s evident in all the penalties and turnovers. It’s evident in the fact that players can’t be bothered to get a valid driver license, but continue to drive. There is no sense of responsibility. And, on top of that, Joe Cox is a turnover machine.

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I’ve always argued that gingers shouldn’t be allowed to play sports at the college level.

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Mark – 1) Georgia 2) Kentucky 3) Nothing. This game was lost because of fumbles in the second half and @@it happens. Many better teams from top to bottom – including better coaches have lost because of a fumble or pass interception or bad call that went against them. There’s no way this loss can be an indictment of bad coaching – the blame for this one lies squarely on the shoulders of the offense and the individuals who turned the ball over. If you’ll recall (mainly last year) Tech kept putting the ball on the ground and were questioning coach Johnson’s offense – and before that with Gailey – Georgia won 4 years by Ball completing passes to the UGA folks not us. Of course, our question then was why Gailey continued to go with Ball and the answer came back the same as CMR’s – “he gives our team the best chance at winning”. If Cox is the heir apparent with no experience, after Stafford, and throughout the season has mustered 6 wins, who do you think could actually come off the bench with no experience either and do better. UGA hasn’t had the luxury of being ahead far enough in any game to put anyone else in to get any experience. Cox was a winner in high school. Don’t you think some one should start questioning the play of his supporting cast on offense? At this point does it become relevant to question the offensive coaching staff. However, there was no need to make major adjustments at half when you’re leading by two touchdowns. Exactly what was the coaching staff supposed to do differently at half time or in the second half that would have prevented those turn overs? If you’re the coach, wouldn’t you think that with a 20 – 6 lead everything was OK and nothing really needed fixing. If you can explain that – then we have something to talk about. This was just a tough loss to a lesser team because of turn overs – nothing more. If you want to bring up the topic of poor coaching, couch it in terms of the whole season or in issues of how to make the total offense / defense play smarter / better but don’t hang this one game on the coach – it wasn’t his fault. I’m actually a bit surprise that this bandwagon got rolling last year after the beat down by Florida and especially after the lost to Tech. The poor record this year has poured fuel on that fire. UGA has a storied history of winning football and losing is hard but I can almost guarantee you that if UGA wins Saturday PM CMR will be the apple of every UGA fan’s eye again and the season will go down as a success. The thing is – fans remember from last year and figure CMR got out coached by CPJ (which he did) and that Tech beat UGA with the “high school” offense (which they did). So, taken all together, a poor season and a Tech win spell Poor Coaching Staff. But wait, what about you’re storied history? Anyone want to stop for a second to remember all the great seasons – including those many wins over Tech, prior top this one, where CMR has been revered and every one has been thankful he ended up at UGA. You’ve all been winners for so long – you’ve forgotten how to lose and what it takes to rebuild a program.

My take on all of this is that if you either get him fired or run him off because of all the negativism after one season and one loss to Tech, you will be sorry and look back with regret. If he goes, what makes you think there’s anyone better out there? One year – I can’t get over it – one year! We had to suffer through Gailey’s 5 years. If you suffer through 4 more years of the same thing that happened this year – I’ll give you some love and sympathy – but come on – you’re not even giving the guy a chance to rebuild or appreciate what he has done for the program since he’s been there.

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Mark Richt loves Jesus. I mean there are so many coaches out there who hate God and hate our lord here in Georgia. We are lucky to have a man who loves God and Country coaching our team to glorious holy victory. The score doesn’t matter as long as Richt is on the side of Jesus and Our Lord here in Georgia. People who go to Georgia Tech hate God and are evil. Bless Mark Richt and Bless Joe Cox for being such a great lordly quarterback.

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I think Joe Cox decides before the play who he’s throwing to and throws it to that person (or in their general direction)no matter what. And he needs to learn that taking the sack is sometimes the best way to go.

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MB:

Willie is a disaster and will be fired. No doubt. But let’s take your column one step further. Willie was not the biggest problem on Saturday, though of course he was one. Bobo and Richt clearly have blown it with the offense. The playcalling stinks, which is on Bobo. Cox has not gotten any better, which is on Bobo and Cox. And Cox should have been benched many games ago, in order to give the freshmen some reps to get them ready for next year. That is on Richt.

Look at it this way. If Joe Cox gave the Dawgs the best chance to win, then considering how stupid his interceptions are, what does that say about the need to get the freshmen some much needed reps so that they can give the Dawgs a good chance to win next year. Richt has blown this one big time. This was as dumb as redshirting Knowshon.

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Gator Downeast,

I was the blogger who made the Meyer reference. The possibility exists for Meyer to entertain the offer. No better time is there for him to take the job than now, with Tebow leaving. Meyer has already called ND his dream job. Of course UGA has to only worry about itself, but CMR has to look down the road, not just next season but 5 from now and see where this program is heading.

The question is, if Meyer does leave, is Georgia in the best place as a program to capitalize on it? The answer is NO! And will continue to be unless so changes are made.

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I am thankful this year that I dont have to hear Bob Davie tell me that Willie Martinez is a great defensive coordinator or that Joe Cox is a great QB ever again. That man needs to be fired from the booth. After Cox threw those unexplainable interceptions I wanted to drive to Athens and punch Davie for once again telling me Cox is a great QB.

Theres a reason your in the booth and not coaching you stooge.

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This comments are the same each week….no discipline, poor coaching etc.etc. Georgia started their downfall when they charged the field against Florida. The penalties increased and the losing started. Georgia’s coaches are not coaching them on the field or they have a bunch of thugs who are not coachable. One of the two has to be happening to be last in the country two years in a row. Tech is going to blow them off the field this weekend.

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All we had to do was beat Knetucky at home and we go to the Chik fila bowl. Very disgusted with this team and I won’t be travelling to any bowl now.

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Tech’s defense is as suspect as ours, they have a tendency to fumble the ball, and Rambo will be back, meaning limited snaps for Evans. Now, if we can just teach Butler how to block.

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UGA Coaching Staff:
Kentucky QB Morgan Newton is a true freshman and threw no interceptions.
Georgia had 75 yards in penalties, Kentucky had 20 yards.
Georgia had four turnovers, (2 Cox interceptions, 2 fumbles) Kentucky had zero turnovers.
Georgia had 487 total yards, Kentucky had only 260.
Is this not COACHING?

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gatordowneast is absolutely correct. UGA is looking up at UF, UT, SC and now KY. There was a time when UGA was feared by most on their schedule, but not the case any longer. UGA has to start from the bottom and earn everything they get. Question is are the coaches capable of coaching the players to the next level. UGA is definitely regressing. Football is a business and this season the coaches are being paid way too much. In the corporate world the CEO would look at the numbers, tell the manager in charge of the underperforming group to fix things within a time certain and then if not done, hire the best person available to correct the problem and move on. Loyalty only goes so far if the results are not there.

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It is not coaching when 2 first yr players lay it on the turf allowing 2 touch downs and a loss… the kick offs…”stupid” strategy! Long year for USC, ND, LSU, and our beloved DAWGS.

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Apocalypse Dawg is the Rev Al Sharpton of sports commentators. Both are idiots.

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Stop the money people. Stop donating, stop bying tickets, don’t go to the bowl game, stop bying gear. Send a message to Evans and Adams. When the money stops changes will start. Count on it!

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Give Richt a year….

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I will be the first to say that our defense quite often finds its back to the wall and all the points scored cannot totally be contributed to them. However, rather than look at POINTS allowed, let’s look at YARDS allowed. After 11 games our defense is allowing just over 327 yards per game. Absolutely unacceptable. It will only get worse after tech.

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Clean house and FIRE Richt, Bobo and Martinez. These guys have not and will not get it done. Just a bunch of hype – that’s all it’s ever been for GA. If these three bozo’s are around next year, expect the same thing.

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Spurrier? Bring in Steve Spurrier? This guy will soon be retirement age and has been a miserable failure at this last two coaching gigs. Good grief, may as well pursue Papa Bowden.

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THE BOTTOM LINE: Richt gets paid a pretty good sum to put a sucessful team out on the field. If he is a morally upright man, he should understand that his first and only loyalty is to the college that gives him his paycheck so he can put food on the table. Not friends, fellow coaches. If the job is not getting accomplished, the moral thing to do is to get rid of the problems…COME’ON RICHT! LET’S SEE SOME MORAL OUTRAGE OUT OF YOU OK?? OR QUIT COLLECTING THE PAYCHECKS. E’NUFF SAID.

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In the Tenn game, Bobo got:
O TD’s
O Red Zone Attempts
4 turnovers
Called a 65% pass play mix

Bobo was in that game outscored by the: punt block team, ko return team, defense, and field goal kicker?

Gerogia’s Team got 19 points, Bobo’s offense got 0 Points and 4 turonovers.

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I’ll follow Mark’s lead and ask a very brief question:

What D1 colleges have requested permission to speak with either our DC or OC? Nuff said.

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3 to 4 offensive turnovers in 4 out 5 of our losses. No DC in Amercia can win with that.

Willie’s D held Kentucky like CRAZY many times n the second half, Bobo just couldn’t get a 3rd down conversion (1 in the second half).

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I know of an experienced NFL coordinator that is still looking for a job. He is already drawing a paycheck from an NFL team and a college team, so he won’t need much money to get him to come. He even has Georgia roots. Chan is your man UGA!

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I am a dawg fan to the bone. First time I ever had a thought cross my mind that we might be shaving points. I know, call me an idiot for thinking it but I have no other explanation for the 2nd half meltdown. Don’t get me wrong, Kentucky just abused our d-backs out on the edge and they didn’t turn the ball over. Just the way we handed them the game and our kick cover team. Oh my gosh; How bad was that? I know it isn’t true but Art Schleister got convicted and spent time in prison for shaving points and he didn’t do as good a job as our guys did Saturday night. One last thing, thanks Barrow County Sherriffs Department for the 5 mile traffic jam at 1:00 am on Ga316. I hope you caught all the drunks. Holy Cow, bad ending to a bad night.

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Unquestionably, Damon Evans should require Richt to fire Martinez and hire a defensive coordinator OUTSIDE of our program as a condition of keeping his job. No internal promotion of guys in the Willie system. Nothing Richt can say or do would make keeping Willie anything short of absolutely ludicris and the most outrageous decision for all of 2010 college football around the nation. Even Charlie Weis could give Martinez a run for his money as a defensive coordinator – which is pretty sad considering Weis can’t even handle his offensive specialization.

It would take only one offseason to return to top form if the right coaching is in place. Personally I think that means goodbye Willie, goodbye Bobo, and a new opportunity for Richt to recover the program. I’m not against the idea of Richt being on the hot seat THIS year either and would support a different coach if we had a great one in mind, but at minimum if the Dawgs aren’t a solid top 25 team that has a chance to win the SEC late in the season next year, I’d tell him it’s time to move on. He must also be required to fire Martinez or be fired himself.

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You Georgia fans who talk about Meyer leaving Florida and life after Tebow. The bigger question is what are the dogs going to do if Meyer stays at Florida and Brantley is as good as we Gators think he will be?

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As I have said before, the problem in Athens is chemistry and coaching.

Organizations take on the personality of their leaders and the GA football team is no exception. CMR is a “nice guy” and so is the football team. You just don’t get the same feeling from GA as you do from FLA and ALA. The fire is lacking and since there is no “smoke” you can see why.

CMR is a good coach but he needs to bring in a supporting staff that will let him be the “Good Guy”. Someone has to be the “Bad Guys” however. I think that was the difference when Dooley and Russell ran things in Athens.

There are some plain stupid things going on however. Why are we still NOT KICKING THE BALL THROUGH THE ENDZONE ON KICKOFFS??? We signed Bogotay who did that last consistently in California last year…I guess the air is thinner there. We have to stop giving them the ball on the 40 or 50 yardline. This one isn’t hard…JUST KICK THE BALL THROUGH THE ENDZONE!

I don’t think Martinez or Bobo are bad coaches as much as I think they are just a bad fit under CMR. The DAWGS simply have TOO MUCH TALENT to have only won 6 games. The cure is obvious…the cause is still up for discussion.

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Meyers was beaten by Ole Miss at Florida when he was a 22 point favorite. Meyers got KILLED in a Bowl Game at Florida 41-0 against Michigan. Ga Tech got KILLED in it’s BOWL game last year against LSU 38 to 3. One game is not enough to make a decision–look at the whole context.

Did this article balance by mentionining Georgia’s best game or something positive? Nope. Journalism gives BOTH sides of an issue OBJECTIVELY, right? No BIAS, right?

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godawgs

November 23rd, 2009
10:01 am

WHat was Georgia’s best game?

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There are two things wrong in Athens, but I’m not a football coach or AD so I don’t know how to fix them.

First, the special teams are really bad … they can’t cover kicks and they can’t cover punts. I would like to see a statistic that shows how many times the opposing team got the ball at the 40 yard line or better. No matter how good your defense is, you ARE going to give up points to Division 1 teams when they only have to drive half the field.

Second, the turnovers are killer … again, no matter how good your defense is, you ARE going to give up points when your turnover margin is two to one or worse. Period. You can’t win like that.

Ask yourselves, seriously … how would Willie Martinez’s defense have made out this year without all those turnovers and with a decent kick coverage team?

I’m just not sure it is the DC.

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Dave in Buford

November 23rd, 2009
10:08 am

Forget points, look at the yards allowed per game. It’s about 327. Unacceptable.

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Oh, and knock it off with the “fire Mark Richt” lunacy … look at what happened to Michigan when they dumped Carr and went for the flavor of the month, Rich Rodriguez.

How many games has Oklahoma won lately with the “genius” Bob Stoops?

How about the “genius” Charlie Weis at Notre Dame?

You people are crazy … Richt has won two championships faster than Dooley did and will win more than Dooley did.

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Is 1 season the right context to make a judgment? Meyers and Miles had 4 loss seasons? Last time Richt had one, he got to #2 the next year.

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All I can say is one word:

TURNOVERS

the great equalizer

500 yards of offense and we lose? TURNOVERS

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You got it Randy…a bowl game entitles the team to an additional 15 practices. While I am not certain the coaches have done anything in a season’s worth of practices so far…to think that his team doesn’t need some extra practice time is just idiotic.

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” Joe Cox gives us the best chance to win”

Mark Richt, sometime in November, 2009………….

Wonder what Aaron Murray thought when he read that.

We haven’t a SEC QB, and a leaky D, which spells trouble in the SEC. Next year could be tough also, which means we could be looking at a new Head man in 2011.8 wins next year could save Mark, I don’t think 6-6 and another loss to Tech will. His winning percentage for his last 2 1/2 seasons will be a lot worse that Jim Donnan’s. Then there is this Obama guy. GEEZ.

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what is wrong with all you shameful people on here wanting to hire coaches like Hatcher, Friedgen, Weiss, West Tenuta? are any of these coaches winning a d@mn thing? How could they make it better?

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Section 320

November 23rd, 2009
10:16 am

Agreed.

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Respect all, fear none.
Pound the puppies,
then go to Tampa
and get ‘er done.

Roddy Jones just scored again…

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Maddog–

I don’t know what Georgia’s best game was this year, I imagine it would be a game where we had a lot of points of offense–balanced run/pass, special teams got us points, no turnovers, and defense held to low yardage pass & run, and maybe even got some turnovers?

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Dawg Lover, the main problem is attitude not experience or talent. Attitude from top to bottom. Have you ever seen one of the coaches get in anyone’s face? This team is soft. They are coached soft and the results are the undisciplined penalties and lack of intensity.

My seats are close to the Georgia bench. After Butler made the stupid personal foul, he and Walsh were on the sideline laughing and joking around. Butler might as well have gotten on the loud speaker and said, “Whatever, dude.”

That’s the issue. Everyone from Richt on down have the attitude, “Whatever, dude.”

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the kicking thing is what absolutely drives me crazy-set up the first score along w/ personal foul-we gave then 28 pts it was surreal-i was just getting excited about our future when it all went downhill

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…I may be mistaken bt I think Weiss has a couple Superbowl Rings. I think the only way to get one of those is to win the Super Bowl.

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I don’t care who they fire, they all can go as far as I am concerned, but the thing for me is I AM SICK of BEND but Break Defenses, both UGA”S and the Falcons. Both teams seem to be out of the mainstream as other teams do not employ such soft defenses. FGS, get up on the receiver and dog him. Play man to man coverage and learn to read the receiver. Our DB’s don’t seem to know to turn around and play the ball. I am not a football coach, but I believe even I could make this point with the DB’s. Send the house on third and long. We need a defensive coordinator on both teams that wants to drive them backwards instead of letting them slowly move down the field.

On offense, can we not learn to run the ball and keep running the ball as long as it works. Use the run to set up the pass. This used to be common offensive strategy, now it seems to be, hey we are moving so lets try this goofy play I have been wanting to try all week. nuff said.

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there once was a qb named gray
who said georgia’s where i’ll stay
things went wrong
bobo rang the gong
from athens gray now stays away

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Almost all agree Martinez and Bobo must go. Ok, let’s start seriously looking at, realistically speaking, who should Ga hire as the new coordinators? Who are the up-and-comers out there that would coach these recruits up. Who??

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Agree with 320. It’s embarrasing to see any grown man, literally get angry because the coach isn’t hearing what he is annon posting in a blog, and just can’t understand why we dont change up our coaching staff in the middle of the season. I’d be embarrased anyway..maybe they aren’t.

As far as the fire Mark Richt stuff..really? I mean….really? geeez.
Sit there and tell yourself that Saban is never going to have issues if he sticks around long enough, or that Meyers is going to have that collection of player forever. Then debate if you would rather have Batman or Spiderman as the new DC, you bunch of hero worshiping 10 yr olds.

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Richt is responsible for hiring and instructing the assistant coaches. He is respondsible for recruiting and training the athletes. The change has to start with him. Clean house. GO JACKETS!!!!

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Richt is not practical, he lets his feelings decide for him, Martinez should never ever be a DC after 2006! Cox and Joe T should never ever started, Eason should have never ever be a WR coach, Bobo is not ready for OC duties, BVG should have never let go, I would give him 600K salary. Fabris should have been fired in 2008! we should have never ever lose to Kentucky!!!

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Good posts Adam & Inhale. I am a longterm UGA fan and a graduate. I am as disappointed as anyone, but as said before our coaches did not fumble the ball or throw and interception. We held Kentucky to roughly 260 yards of offense, with 60 coming on the screen pass (where no defender was near the ball carrier.) I know that we have several issues and feel that they will be addressed at the appropriate time. We need to pull together for this program. I would like for all of the band wagon jumpers to either jump and keep their negative comments to themselves or support our guys this weekend. WE DO NOT NEED TO LOSE THIS GAME!!! All of this negative crap is not helping us and is aiding THE ENEMY. GO DAWGS. GATA.

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Georgia lost a huge part of its team when Morino amd Stafford left and you still have one of the top coaches in the country you need to know that Kentucky is a pretty good team,take away the Florida and Alabama loss.we play in a tough conference and a very tough division I like mark richt,he belongs at Georgia and the SEC,good luck aginst GA TECH

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Just curious as I do not know the answer. Which UGA QB has the most interceptions in a single season? Also, how many passing attempts did that QB make? I’d like to figure up the percent of attempts to ints and compare them to Cox.

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Also…how undisciplined do you have to be to get thrown off of this UGA football team? Apparently we do not recruit anyone with a valid Driver’s License. I guess to get dismissed from this team you have to literally brak another student’s face at a BBQ or something–oh wait…

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2:20 left in game. we have the ball…..it’s 3rd and 10………I told my wife before the play, watch this, hand off up the middle for 3 or 4 yards………………………………….BINGO……….How did you know that she ask………I said every Def. Cord on our Schedule knows it……………..If I know it, They know it…………….Bobo needs to go with Willie, along with Fabris. RB and WR also……
What could happen, a 6-6 year. Geez.

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uuughh, you’re right if a person doesn’t have emotion he might as well play chess. I’m not sure Richt would get mad if someone slapped his wife.

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might need a new OL coach also…….something ain’t right…….and it sure ain’t working…….every team has a bad GAME, but damn !

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I’m not a football coach or AD either but I can tell you how to fix the problem. CMR has allowed a bad culture to take root in Athens. Bad culture is like cancer, it spreads to healthy parts and slowly kills you. Radical treatment or surgery most of the time is the only cure. He accepts mediocrity and does nothing to change it. Naysayers spare me, he hasn’t made any changes to correct the problems we’ve had, poor defense, lack of discipline, penalties, kick coverage, poor game planning, etc.

The answer to one question will resolve this issue. If Nick Saban, or Urban Meyer walked into the UGA locker room and took over this program (and we know that won’t happen) what would UGA look like next year, in two years? They would be winners.

Truth is and this is only speculation, and my opinion, but I believe they could come in and keep the current coaching staff, install their program, set their expectations, and that alone would change the culture and the results in Athens.

CMR can stay and survive but as others have said and it’s painfully obvious, we need fresh blood, we need a new direction, a new identity. When a CEO in the real world (one with any sense) gets stale, they hire a personal coach to REGROUND them. CMR needs to be REGROUNDED. I’m not sure he can put his ego aside and admit he’s failed.

I groaned and rolled my eyes Saturday night on the first play from scrimmage, we throw a 30 yard pass. SEC football championships as are National Championships are won in the trenches, with a good supporting cast. We need a Dominant Offensive and Defensive Line, with good skill players to take advantage of them. Guess what, we have that, we just are working on the wrong things, we have a flawed offensive and defensive philosophy. CMR likes flashy, high profile offense. We have no patience to grind the ball, wear the opponents out. We seemingly give it one or two tries and give up.

I love the Dawgs but am sick and tired of watching the product CMR puts on the field. This isn’t a bandwagon fan folks, I’m UGA through and through, but I’m ready for a change, and I don’t make knee jerk decisions. I haven’t like CMR’s style since he got here, I’ve questioned many of his coaching decisions in key parts of key games we’ve lost over the years, but couldn’t argue with his record. Now I can, we can’t beat our rivals, we get blown out consistently, and we look lost.

In my book CMR gets a pass this year if he makes wholesale changes in the coaching staff. If he doesn’t and the results aren’t DRAMATICALLY improved next year, I want him gone.

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Another problem to look at is play calling—offensive, defensive & kicking team

1. you have to run effectively and use the run to set up the play action passes…we are throwing too many passes—but we get in trouble and have to start throwing at times…Teams that win are able to run the ball. Smash mouth…1st half against Kentucky was good…But Kentucky figured out how to stop our run and we could not complete our throws…better play selection…don’t get in situations where we have to get 10 plus yards in 1 play….must be able to make adjustments and get running game moving or be able to complete 4-5 yard throws and in 3 plays we move the chains…

2. Defensive play calling….don’t feel like we challenge the other teams enough…we should contest every yard and not the bent but don’t break philosphy…Saban defenses contest every yard..give them nothing and Saban always has top ranked defensives….We don’t create enough turnovers..Must do this.

3. Kick coverage strategy and plays….ours ain’t working….kick the ball out of the end zone and just make opponent start at 20 yard line…direction kicks—we just can’t cover effectively…players have to do something differently on kickoffs…they are either running the wrong way–taking the wrong lane or angle..or they are just getting blocked or not tackling correctly

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Just lost a DGP. Darn good post. My last post dissolved into thin air Mark and covered a lot of issues, unfortunately don’t have the time to repost it all.

I digress so, let me ask all you naysayers one question. IF Nick Saban, or Urban Meyer walked into our locker room tomorrow do you think the results would be different. I think they would.

I would go one step further, they could probably keep the same assistants, just install their program, their philosophy, and set the expectations. I think they would coach up the Coordinators, at least hold them accountable, and I believe that alone would change the culture and the results in Athens. Good day Dawgs.

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Beginning to hear some fairly credible rumors now about Richt being ready to resign after the GT game. Oh please, oh please, oh please let there be something to it this time.

And yes, Spurrier would leave SC and come to Athens if a decent offer is made. Spurrier would be a godsend for UGA, and he would have a field day recruiting in Georgia. Just imagine the Heisman-quality quarterbacks he would produce at UGA.

I’m getting giddy thinking about it.

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Seriously, was there a game on Saturday?

‘Cause I had the weirdest dream Saturday night. Usually, my dreams are during the day, but not this time. It was dark and my tan was electric. There were a lot of people screaming and there was a sense of urgency and wonder about me, but all I could do was look up at that giant jumbotron TV screen they have at the stadium…it was mezmerizing. Kind of like my tan.

Anyway, all I saw was blazing trails of red and white and blue streaking by me…it was weird. I couldn’t react. Like when you’re running in the mud or quicksand, although I’ve never actually done this. But I’ve dreamt about it.

Anyway, I kinda woke up under all of these bright lights, with some kid taking my little miniature microphone off my suit, and Chuck was there, shaking my hand and thanking me for another great show.

Weird. Has this happened to anyone else? Willie? Mike? Jon? I mean, besides the TV show part.

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Some insiders in the athletic office are definitely saying that Richt is seriously thinking about resigning. It makes me hope that UGA loses big to GT on Saturday. That should help him make up his mind. Losing again to Tech would be a bitter pill to swallow, but it would be worth the humiliation if it brings a change in coaching.

This also makes me think that Richt is getting some feelers, probably from ND and FSU.

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IF EALEY WAS ALIGNED WRONG, WHY DID THE COACHING STAFF NOT CALL A TIME OUT???? IF THE COACHES DO NOT HAVE THEIR HEADS IN THE GAME , HOW CAN YOU EXPECT THE PLAYERS TO HAVE THEIR HEADS IN THE GAME? MEYER OR SABAN WOULD HAVE SEEN THE FORMATION AND CALLED A TIME OUT. THE YOUNGER PLAYERS HAVE TALENT. AND WANT TO PLAY. THEY NEED TO BE COACHEDBY SOMEONE WHO CAN AND WILL COACH.

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godawgs

November 23rd, 2009
10:45 am

Not surprised that Cox has thrown more TDs than Tebow since Tebow is more deadly on the ground.

Less ints than Stafford in his first year? Okay, Stafford was a true freshman, Cox is a 5th year senior. Also, Cox still has one game to go to tie/surpass Stafford.

As I said, I didn’t know the answer, but was looking to put things in perspective. Bottom line, Cox throws waaaaaaay too many interceptions.

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Terri in Winder, are you serious about that or joking?

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Come on. Spurrier will never come to UGA. He’s stated his hatred for the Dawgs plenty since the 1966 GA-FL game when he was pounded to death.

Plus, he’s 64 years old. He got is membership at Augusta, and he’s not going anywhere else.

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Terri in Winder

November 23rd, 2009
11:00 am

Just how many Heisman QBs did Spurrier “produce” during his 12 year reign at UF?

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Go back to the days of Dooley, Dodd, Bryant, et al and field position was very important. Dodd punted on third down in order to give his defenses good field position. I know we can’t go back to that but defense still wins games. Bend and break defenses cause poor field position. How do you respond to that CWM?

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Full disclosure: I am a GT grad with a sophomore daughter at UGA.

The turnovers were just killers…not sure how you can coach around so many unforced turnovers. I think it was the worst 2H of football that they’ve played all year. All the coaches can do is come up with a game plan and call plays to put the players in position to win. The players simply did not execute. I expect a better game this Saturday.

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I wish I was taking pleasure in the state of affairs at UGA, but this is not good for the State of Georgia or GEORGIA TECH. I hope this is corrected before the start of next season.

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how can you have no one on the outside to cover a screen pass for a 61 yard td on second and 21?….georgia defense belongs in the defunct arena league….should put 8 men up against tech and make them throw…if we sit back and allow the option to develope it will be a blowout a la 2nd half last year in athens….weedeater here we come!!!

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It is inccorrect to work off the premise that the talent level at UGA far exceeds that of UK. There may have been a time when this was the case, but not now. This is part of your problem in athens. Look down the UK roster and see how many GA (Maxwell) and TN (Cobb) kids there are. Those ames should look familiar beacuse many were maiking plays to beat UGA Saturday night.

Georgia fan’s need to step back and get a dose of reality…there program is on the decline and UK has a program with momentum.

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MB:

Let’s get serious. When are you going to start pinning blame on Richt for this? Whether that’s directly or indirectly by remaining loyal to incompetent assistants? You continue to blame assistants and not place the blame where the blame squarely should rest.

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Dave in Buford, you’re an idiot. Comparing Richt to Dooley? Dooley won 1 NC on the back of Herschel Walker, 25 years into his coaching reign. Do you see a NC coming to us in 2026? Great, I’ll just wait then. Loser.

And your anecdotal examples of coach firings are nice. Here’s a few for you to ponder.

Florida fired Ron Zook and look what happened. Alabama fired Saban’s predecessor and look what happened. Tech fired Chan Gailey and look what happened.

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Dear UGA Coaching Staff,

the 3 words that best describe you are as follows and I quote
“STINK, STANK, STUNK”

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By the way. I WILL NOT PUT UP WITH PEOPLE SLAMMING the PLAYERS!! THAT IS SICK AND DISTURBING! These kids are giving it their all and whomever is posting as “JOE COX” and talking about the way he looks is a real JERK! Come on why do you have to use the personal attacks on the players? That needs to end NOW! The coaches are being paid crazy money the kids are playing a GAME and expected to perform like athletes being paid millions! SICK FROM SUWANEE!!!

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Dang I saw the sports headline “6 coaches to resign” and I almost hurt myself clicking on the link in hopes of seeing that CMR had finally seen the light cleaned house at UGA! LOL!

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Maddog:

Granted….alot of great players in GA. But it is arrogant to blanketly assume that your talent level far exceeds that of UK. We have come alomg way under the tenure of Rich Brooks. This year marks the first time in history we have been to 4 straight bowl games and we have one of the longest non-conference winning streaks in the country.

Give credit where it is due.

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Correction: 16 years, not 26. So our NC is coming in 2016! If we can find the next Herschel!!! Great!!!

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I am sure Gamecock fans would be more than happy to give you Spurrier….let’s see trade aq 6-6 for a 6-6 coach,…smart move

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oh yeah great idea..Im sure gamecock fans would be glad to trade you Spurrier for Richt…6-6 coach for a 6-6 coach great idea

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same to you Mark Bradley (see above)….thanks.

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This is all crap. Giving Kentucky 2 easy touchdowns and fumbling on the touchdown to tie the game sealed out fate. That is not coaching. The Kentucky game was just like Tech last year. We had the better players and coaches, but the players gave away to many easy touchdowns and we made to many errors to overcome that. Dawgs are the best hands down, does not always reflect in wins. That is why you play the game. GOOOOOO DAWGS! WRECK TECH!

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Does anyone else get the sense that Mark Richt’s heart just isn’t in it any longer. Maybe the job of being the head guy just isn’t for him. I wonder if he isn’t torn between the minsitry and coaching. Each time I see film of him on the sidelines when things aren’t going our way he just has a very defeated “I’m done” kind of look about him. Go back and look at film of older games when he would call a timeout and rally the players and inspire them to make the big play. It was like everyone could see the Kentucky game slipping away and he was just content to stand by and watch the train wreck. You look at the lack of discipline on the team and it just feeds right into what I’m talking about- it’s as if he’s just given up or conflicted about what he truly wants to be doing with his life. Does anyone else see this?

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My question is why didn’t Coach Richt employ the same philosophy he used in 2006. If you remember, Joe Tereshinski (a senior) waited on the bench behind David Green and DJ Shockley. When Shockley left Tereshinski was given the starting QB spot. After about 5 weeks, Richt had seen enough and after platooning Tereshinski and Stafford at the QB position he finally went with Stafford for the remainder of the season. The Dawgs finished with a 9-4 record, but Stafford was being groomed for the starters spot for 2007 and we all know how that turned out (Dawgs 11-2). This year none of that was done. Cox has struggled the entire season, looking good on some occasions but mediocre at best. I understand that you want to give a guy who has sat on the bench for 5 years his chance to start, but if he can’t produce then you need to look elsewhere. Now that the season is over, WHO do we have coming in next year as the starting QB? Do we hear the same excuse that he’s new and has to get used to playing under the SEC pressure? Why not after the TN loss didn’t we start getting him prepared for 2010? Come on Coach, you let us down this year with your dying loyalty to some of your players and coaches. Let’s ALL hope for a better 2010.

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Our talent is vastly overrated and has been for a couple of years now. Last year we had two NFL 1st rounders to mask our deficiencies. Now we don’t and the results speak for themselves. If anyone thinks we’ve got the same kind of players that Florida and Alabama have you are smoking some serious crack rock. I am not here to defend the coaches, but all this crap about how we have the talent to compete with anyone is complete non-sense. We clearly don’t. We have ONE All-SEC caliber player in AJ Green. That’s it. The fact that Rennie Curran is our best defensive player is a serious indictment of our talent level on defense. I love the guy but he is undersized and would only see the starting lineup in his dreams at Florida or Alabama. Its time to cut all the sentimental crap and get down to brass tacks. There is a lot more wrong with this team than preparation and gameday coaching. We don’t have the players anymore. That’s why I honestly don’t see this program getting turned around anytime soon.

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I’ve been telling ya’ll forever that the problem with UGA was about coaching and not about talent. UGA’s graduating players who are back-ups in school, but playing in the NFL. But, UGA isn’t winning any big games. That’s a problem. I can just see next year, Caleb King and Washawn Ealy becoming the Danny Ware and Kregg Lumpkin, meaning some other big-time recruit will be brought in and the coaches will say “we didn’t have the right RB last year”. Does anyone remember this happening to Danny Ware and Kregg Lumpkin when Thomas Brown came in the program. But amazingly, Danny and Kregg are both on NFL rosters. The problem is not the kids, the problem is the coaches and even some of the IGNORANT FANS who allow these crappy coaches to scapegoat the kids. Like I said before only at Georgia does this happen. At Bama, Tenn., and FL they point to the coach. Here the coaches and the rednecks look up and down the sideline to see which of the 85 scholarships they can blame!

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Mike

November 23rd, 2009
11:21 am

No one said UK wasn’t making progress. But prior to Saturday night, you guys under Brooks were 1-37 against SEC east teams (excluding Vandy). I doubt if there is even one D1 head coach that would take UK’s talent over UGA. Just sayin….

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I’m not on the fire Richt bandwagon yet either, but I sure hope he has the testicles to make the necessary changes to his staff. I’m not gonna point fingers cause I’m not a practice everyday, but there is some problems that cannot be ignored. We will rebound and be fine if he does so.

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1)georgia has the better players(obviously)
2)kentucky won(BECAUSE OF TURNOVERS, NOT COACHING!!!!!!) UGA DOMINATED THAT GAME.minus the dang turnovers…we could’ve had spurrier,carroll,saban,meyer, or anyone coaching that game and we would have lost with those turnovers..not coaches fault for fumbling on the kickoff(boykin was hurt, btw), not coaches fault cox didn’t see the DL on the int.(if the DL didn’t stumble, he wouldn’t have been there and the play would’ve went for 15 yds or more), not coaches fault ealey thought the play was a hand off and not a pitch..
3)keep coach richt, he’s one of the best 5 coaches in college football.. who needs to go? coach fab..

don’t get me wrong, i’m just as disappointed as anyone we lost, but this WAS NOT A COACHING ISSUE!!!!

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It’s easy to place the blame on different coaches but I really believe Georgia desperately needs an infusion of all new coaches with fresh and creative ideas and ones that know how to recruit the championship claliber talent. Georgia has been nice long enough and it’s time for Georgia Football to step-up and competete for not only SEC Championships but National Championships! My question is “WHY NOT GEORGIA”!

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Just from watching on TV UGA looks unbeatable on both offense & defense.

I have no idea what happens to cause the losses. Some contributing factors: 1) way to many personal foul penalties (this is usually a sign of a ME first mentality), 2) no committment to the running game (there is nothing wrong with second & 7 – make 3 or 4 more yards & you have a makeable third down), way, way to many off the field incidents (Richt is spending to much time on driver licenses, for example).
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ONE Question(s) – I realize I have stole from you, but the points need to be made. Good comment by you.

Look I am a Tech fan but for 11 games I am a UGA fan. My dream is to always have the Tech vs UGA game played by two undefeated teams.

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Oh and quit calling for Richt’s job people. Get real. Okay bad year, very bad year, bad defense, replaced 80% of our offense. Straighten out the defense, get Richt involved on the offense next year, get somebody to run a discipline program. Stop with the redshirting.

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Jack Bull,

I understand your logic that the coaches didn’t throw the interceptions, that was Joe Cox. But do you honestly feel that after the season Joe Cox has had, that he would be your starting quarterback if Urban Meyer or Nick Saban was coaching in Athens.

I recall that while Chris Leak was a senior, Urban decided to draw up some offensive packages that could allow a young talented quarterback named Timothy Tebow to get into the game, and get him some playing time and utilize his talents.

I think we both can agree that idea has worked out pretty well.

Jack bull, who do you think will be the quarterback in 2010 for the dawgs? whoever it is, I ccan promise you, they have never taken a meaningful SEC snap in their life. And that my friend, is a product of bad coaching.

5 personal foul penalties, thats a discipline issue. Jack Bull, remind us once again, where does discipline (or lack there of) come from?
Coaching

but i guess you’re right. Coaching didn’t have anything to do with it.

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Even though i’m a tech grad and can’t stand uga and hope they lose every game they ever play, i hate to see so much blame being placed on joe cox. How many kids do you know that are so loyal to their school, that they put in the work four years just to play one season as qb. Even though he is a senior, he’s really just a rookie qb and will make the same mistakes rookie qb’s make. It’s unfair to expect him to be another stafford or green. Not all those turnovers are his fault. It seens usa’s biggest problem is penalties, followed by turnovers. Their biggest problem is not talent at the qb spot. btw: having a so so season won’t get richt fired, but losing to gt three or four years in a row will, just ask Chan G. GO JACKETS

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simply not true,mr.give me a break, bryan evans was one the highest recruited players in America, he just didn’t pan out.. jeff owens has not been the same player he was 2 yrs ago.. curran can’t cover anyone, dent and gamble are not near as fast as bailey,witherspoon, or any of our past linebackers,

i’m just glad we have Damon Evans as our AD, someone who has played at this level and understands it, therefore is ignoring the lunatic fringe, whom has no idea what we have..

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good job mark your writing has improved a lot.

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Before Brooks arrived, Kentucky would be the team losing a fumble late in the fourth quarter two yards away from the game-tying touchdown.

Saturday night, that team was Georgia.

Before Brooks arrived, Kentucky would be the team suffering a crushing face-mask penalty negating a bizarre first down achieved when it recovered and advanced its own blocked punt.

(How often do you see that?)

Saturday night, that team was Georgia.

Before Brooks, Kentucky would be the team that outgained its opponent 487-260 and found a way to lose. Kentucky would be the team blowing a 20-6 halftime lead with four second-half turnovers.

Now Kentucky’s the team that shrugs off a hometown deficit and sends the unhappy crowd home early.

UK erased a 14-7 halftime deficit to win 21-14 at Auburn. It rallied from a 13-10 halftime deficit to win 24-13 at Vanderbilt. It rallied from 27-13 down in the third quarter to beat Georgia 34-27.

These Cats no longer slip on the banana peel; they have the team speed and determination to fly right past it.

No wonder ESPN’s Chris Low wrote Sunday, “If Kentucky does this coming Saturday what it’s failed to do every year since 1984 — and that’s beat Tennessee — the SEC Coach of the Year Award this season should take its rightful place in Lexington, Ky. The more you watch this team play, the more respect you gain for what Rich Brooks has done with this team.”

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I’m sure Damon Evans is glad to have the faithful dawgs who believe in “magic” and believe that “things will work themselves out”

If changes aren’t made, then will the faithful begin to smell the stink?

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ONE Question(s), Great post. Agree 100 %. I will tell you now. #9 Jones will go pro this year and possibly be a Pro-Bowler in 2-3 years. How can a guy like that be so bad? 6′2 215 4.5 or better 40. He hits, and he intercepts passes. What will be the difference? Coaching, plain and simple.

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If CMR is so great, why couldn’t he see this season coming if he didn’t make some changes? 3 butt ugly halves last year and then trying to hang on to beat lower tier teams in the conference, the inability to blow anybody out…… Gosh, it does not take a genius to figure out that changes were necessary.

Definition of an idiot: Someone who does the same thing over and over expecting a different result!

I’m not calling anybody an idiot, but dang! Some of us fans who know less about football than even CWM saw we had problems even before last season! Cotton pick! Why does GA pay a head football coach so much money if he can’t see down the pike any better than that?!

GA had 3 elite NCAA D1 offensive players that carried the team last year. The same 3 may be destined to be NFL greats. Couldn’t anyone see that GA was doomed this season with no changes in the coaching staff?

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icedawg, excellent post and by the way, after next yaer we won’t have AJ around as he will surely go pro after his Junior year.

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AJ green will go down as the biggest waste of talent UGA has ever had. Now, I am not saying it is his fault but the fault of the coaches because he will have had only one experienced QB in his stay at UGA. That his Freshman year. AJ, may not reach his freshman numbers again because of inexperienced QB play.

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One great thing is Tech is in a different conference, so it does not kill me to wish Georgia luck. Once a year I don’t return their phone calls but the rest of the year I am not really pulling for them but I don’t wish them any real harm either. This town is a little depressed right now with the latest illness of the dawgs. The parties are not as lively, something is not lined up right. Don’t get me wrong I want to smack em Saturday night but after that I kind of wish they would take a hard look and fix what ever it is that makes them loose to Kentucky. Don’t fix it until Monday but damnit man get it fixed.

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jack bull, hate to break it to you, but Evans was pulling the WR’s arm down throughout the entire play. Definitely PI. And No, Davis shoved the KU player down after the play. Davis should have been nowhere near that play, it was obviously over. As for the clipping, I didn’t see it, but I saw the hold on the WR on Ealy’s long run. There were 2 flags on that play.

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i guess pete carroll and bob stoops need to be fired this year, too….oh my goodness they’re having a bad year…fire em all, and we can throw les miles in there as well..

we win 10 games every year with a chance to win the SEC, (and we know what that means) we have a disappointing season and you want to run off one of the best in the business..

y’all are truly very scary…i know you bleed red and black, but you really need step back and take a deep breath..

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My beef with CMR is that he hasn’t adapted: not to the ‘new’ clock rule; not to running an offense in the SEC (HELLO CAN WE PLEASE REITERATE THE NEED FOR A FAT BACK WHO CAN GET 3 YDS JUST BY FALLING OVER – WORD UP MUSA); not to the BCS – Can we please run up the score just a little bit – OH and running up the score has a different name in my home town – it’s called KILLER INSTINCT; not to the rules of football where an false start is still a 5 yard penalty; not to the SEC – you cannot be sloppy and then throw your way out of trouble in the SEC – you can in the ACC. It is the style of football that CMR coaches that is going to continually get him into trouble.

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Talent is here. Coaching talent NOT. Fla,Ala,Tx are in the top 10 every year along with UGA. Where are they and where are we? It’s coaching, pure and simple. This has been coming for some time now. When BVG left that was the beginning of the end. CMR has never had a good offense since he’s been here but our good defense covered it up. Now that our defense is pathetic our offense is even more pathetic. play calling is just plain dumb.

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icedawg, Yeah, Freakin SUCKS. While King and Wooten have obvious talent, they are and will not ever be AJ.

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Hey Paul Finebaum,

What have you done with Mark??

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Cox has had flashes of short lived brilliance.

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i have begun preparing our defense for GT’s wishbone offenese….or is it the triple option?….or the spread option?….oh boy

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Here’s a fact: Only one Bulldog coach in history coached teams to win 3 of 4 games in which they played–and it wasn’t Vince Dooley or Wally Butts. Is it possible that Mark Richt has forgotten how to coach in a season and a half? Doubtful. I think the problem lies with the fact that so many fans don’t want a University of Georgia football team; they want an NFL prep team (without the NFL paying for it, I might add). As a result, they more or less demand that the school recruit players highly ranked by the recruiting services. Those players can play anywhere and go to the school they think will get them to “the next level.” They don’t bleed Georgia; they don’t really care that much about Georgia. They’re a little more selfish than the lesser ranked recruits. They probably aren’t any harder to coach than others, but I bet they’re harder to motivate. Why should a player put his future on the line for a college game when they’re looking at the big pay day at the end of it all? Perhaps, the UGA staff would be better off with recruits of slightly lesser ability who really want to be in Athens rather than superstars who want to be in the NFL.

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can someone tell me the last time Bryan Evans made a positive play? Hes been crap his whole career yet he continues to start? why? Our DC is the only coach in the country that wont pull him. I would rather see vince Vance play saftey than watch Evans try to do it again.

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An awful lot of Cox bashing on this thread. Hey, if we have this kid as QB at UK for the game Saturday, we win it by 20+. That first pick, our tackle (well blocked) just happened to pivot at the right time. And Cox did NOT cause the goal line fumble. The 2nd pick you have to credit to our LB AND COACHING ADJUSTMENT — that same play was a huge gainer for UGA in the first half.

What should concern Dawg fans is not that the team was ill-prepared for the game or did not execute well (20-6 @ the end of the 1H argues against that) but that the coaching staff reaction scheming in 2H was ineffective, relative to UK’s. You know who adjusts better than Rich Brooks’ staff? — Paul Johnson’s. And although the UGA ‘D’ between the tackles is pretty stout, UK had success on the edge (and, uhm, option 3 in the Tech run attack sort of goes there). On the other hand, Tech’s lack of secondary speed is a gift for Cox — and oh so vulnerable to UGA’s mix of under/crossing and vertical pass routes. Never mind that UGA CAN RUN against Tech.

Says here it’s another 80+ point game…

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jack bull-Bob Stoops and Pete Carroll have national championships in their resume’. That shows that it’s just an off year for them. I do not agree with those that say we should fire CMR yet, he’s certainly earned a chance, but if this off season doesn’t bring abou some serious positive changes he should resign, be fired, whatever.

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sure USC will be in a BCS bowl next year, look at who they play, silly..duh!!! but i’ll take that bet,,,i’m sure the ajc don’t condone gambling, but i’ll put 5k saying we beat tech this week, and another 5k saying we’ll play for the SEC championship next year…just tell me where to go to shake on it…

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Poor Joe Cox did not even want to on the field when the game was on the line, He was scared to death and could barely function.

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Any one watch Bryan Evans wiff on 5 or 6 tackles saturday? How about the ever so dependable personal foul? He is the worst defensive player UGA has ever had. Why is he in there?

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UGA-41, TECH-28…we dominated them last year, minus the 3rd qtr…

GO DAWGS, RUIN TECH’S SEASON….

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When your players are dancing and partying on the sidelines instead of focusing on the game, you have a big problem.

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wow, 5k on a gamble that the dawgs beat tech, tempting

5k on the fact that UGA will play for the SEC championship next year. Again, tempting.

You (I mean, your close family member) think Mettenberger is going to lead the dawgs to the dome next year. You’ve got them winning @ south carolina (with mettenberger at the helm) and beating tennessee and florida.

bold statement.

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so far, 5 out of the 11 teams you’ve played BEAT YOU!

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I’m a true dawg 4 life. Ga has just as much talen as Fla, but Richt don’t let his best athletic win games for him. No way Kentucky should have beaten us, nor Tenn or LSU. We need Rich Rodriguez, his style don’t fit Mich, but it’ll fit UGA. By Richt hello Rodriguez…We want Rodriguez,then maybe we will win a championship

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gadawg, I would love to believe you, but as good as UGA has been against the run… We have been killed on option and mis direction. The Spread option has killed us. UKs run suceess was in the spread option or wild cat. UGA does not play discplined football. There is noway we stop the triple option. I say Nesbit and Dwyer get us for a 100 each. Girst play of the game will most likely be Nesbit play action on the dive play with Dwyer and hitting Thomas deep with a 50 yarder. Why? The play action will have both Jones and Evans running to the line of scrimmage. Not enough discplined play by the defense. That will open up the run for the rest of the day.

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1. Which team has better players — Georgia or Kentucky? Georgia according to rivals and scout .com……Which team has more focused disciplined players. Kentucky

2. Which team won the game? Kentucky

3. What does that say about the losing coaches? That they can be as bad as they can and are not held accountable due to the HC’s loyalty…….Soon CMR is going to have to ask himself…..I am going to be loyal to my family and this University or Loyal to friend(s) that are in way over their head.

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Urban Meyers is NAMED after a Pope. Did you know he is also Catholic? Meyers used to be an assistant at Notre Dame. Meyers referred to Notre Dame as the ultimate coaching job in a radio interview and in his own book.
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2009/nov/21/david-moulton-dont-bet-urban-meyer-turning-down-no/

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To the people who asked why Orson Charles didn’t get the ball in the 2nd half- Did you consider that Kentucky may have made adjustments and kept him covered?

Why does Evans always start? Maybe he’s the best we’ve got at his position? Think about that?

Why not start someone other than Cox? The other guys aren’t quite ready yet.

The answers to the questions put up by some posters are so simple, but people are so upset over a game played by 18-22-year old kids that they can’t see it. To boo thses kids and walk out of the stadium before the game is over just shows that people’s priorities are way out of line.

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Bradley,
You have to be the laziest “blogger” on AJC’s payroll.

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Jason- i totally agree- i did say chance Last year in the first half we played the option very well because they stayed with their assignments. the second half is when they broke the long runs because the defense left their assigments-again discipline. the UGA players also are not focused and are just going through the motions- certainly a sad state of affairs.

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1. KY
2. KY
3. They should all be fired

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Mark Richt is the new Phil Fulmer (minus the Krispy Kremes)

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You have made it clear and often that you do not like Georgia’s coaches. It is time for you to be honest. You do not like Georgia period. You are a typical Tech fan and full of it. Although I am a Georgia fan I like to see Tech do well. Who has the best sportswriters: The Atlanta Journal or the Florida times Union?

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You’re not quite right, Austin — though the “frustrating” thing is spot-on. UK is actually quite a good team — of very well coached average to somewhat above-average SEC athletes — which despite woeful injuries has now won 3 conference road games (narrowly missing a 4th at SC) and has confidence. Overachievement is a wonderful thing. You can bet Tennessee is not pre-tallying a W for Saturday…

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What you fail to realize is why put Murray in now.. Forget the redshirt crap… Think of this.. who’s gonna be coaching them. The same fail coaches that are in place now. CMR is not a coach we all know that by now… He’s a manager. and he learned from one of the best managers in the game. The problem for UGA is we have idiots like CWM and CMB who aren’t smart enough to cut their own wrists and eliminate a few problems for Georgia.

Laters. Peace out.. and no….. I’m not traveling to Shreveport and probably not watching another embarassing game again with this cruddy staff in place. Damn shame when Ky fans are patting you on the back as you leave the stadium trying to console you on having a crappy team led by even worse coaches.

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Mark, all season long (including last year) we all can agree that the two areas the Bulldawgs have been lacking is discipline and turnovers. What bothers me is that we have not seen ONE IOTA of a change in these two areas. These are some of the sound fundamentals of football. I guess what Im trying to say is, CMR is paid to make sure that our team AT LEAST has the fundamentals of football down, and it REALLY worries me that we have not seen any changes in these two categories. CMR is the Head Coach and CEO of the Bulldawg Nation. Im afraid, as sad as I am to say it, that it may really may be time to clean house. I have been a strong supporter of Richt throughout the season, but cant for the life of me comprehend how that whole mess unfolded on Saturday night. Squib kicking with a 14 point lead? I mean really, who’s idea was that? And any head coach with common sense would BENCH a QB who has performed as poorly as Cox.

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UGA has the same problem Auburn had with Coach Tuberville last year….He would not fire his asst. coaches(buddies) who needed to go and it cost him his job. There was some other factors(recruits, Dye), but he took his 6.2 million$$$$ and went to ESPN. CTT will be coaching at Univ. of Virginia next year

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Jack Bull- I’ll gladky take that bet… when/where? Lets make it $20K. Im a life long Dawg, just realistic.

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Good news
Good news
Good news Boss

Next year Ga is ranked again in the top 10 in recruiting

With another year of Willie I think we will finally be able to turn the corner

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The very first sign that Ga was in trouble was this – the very first play of the spring game – if you saw it then you know and the more of the game I watched the worse it got. The only qb that looked promising was Murray on that day. I can’t believe the ga qb’s over the years Joe T are you kidding me? What kind of crap was that? What is going on in Athens?

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Compare the two roster depth charts (from each School’s website):
Fact 1: Ga. Tech: Four Sr’s (Two starting)
Fact 2: Georgia: Twelve Sr’s (Six starting)
Fact 3: Consider Tech is operating under reduced scholorships due to Fact 4: Recruiting classes from Ga have consistantly & significantly outranked Tech for many years
Fact 5: CPJ has only two years of recruits under his belt(& one of those was with a late start)
Opinion: CPJ & staff much better than CMR & staff
Opinion: If Tech can retain CPJ, UGA is in for hard road forward

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I love it
I love it
I love it

Short kickoffs

A defense that bends but ((does)) break on every 3rd down

Coaches that won’t bench players who are hurting the team with their play and personal foul calls

Conservative offensive play calling

And a leader who praises Willie when we win no matter how many points we give up

Were going to get them DUKE BOYS Boss and win again KOOOT KOOOT

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You goons ain’t foolin’ nobody with your “Mark Richt Stinks” garbage. Yo, check this out Dog. Richt coached up 2 DIFFERENT QB cats to Heisman winners at FSU. Then Richt helped FSU win 2 Natl’ Championships. When Richt split from FSU, the winning days at FSU dried up like an old biscuit. I wonder why FSU stopped winning after Richt left the building? In 2001, Richt started at Georgia one of the MOST TRICKED OUT WINNING RECORDS EVER, DOG. Richt’s like in the top 5 winning % coaches from 2001-2008. Richt hit a little 4 game loss skid a few years back. How did he respond? Another MAXED OUT season finishing up #2 (shouda been No 1–we got robbed). We ain’t stupid man, we know cats from other teams jump on these blog boards tryin’ to talk smack about Richt. They scared he’s gonna stay and whoop their tails….or they tryin’s to get him to their team…ain’t gonna happen.

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No! Really I have no freaking idea who called for the spike. If you look at the footage I called for that Tebow dunk pass. I swear. Also I don’t know why I would run down the clock since I knew that Hail Mary would work and we would get into field goal position that’s why the field goal team was busy watching the jumbotron. I looked at them and couldn’t understand why they wer there cheering on the offense instead of kicking a game winner. Man I can coach. Hello Notre Dame, I wished they hadn’t called me before the game that was distracting.

Boy I wish I were Mark Richt right now, he can at least blame it on the penalties, the turnovers, the DC, the lack of discipline, the QB, and the passing of the mascot. These damn tigers live forever.

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I think Richt might have learned one lesson in all of this

Not to hurt the program or the team just because you have a 5th year QB

Now for his friend Willie Not so fast

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Coaches or players?? Look at the entire body of work. Confidence has a lot to do with the direction a season heads in. It is the coaches job to prepare players to do the best job they can. They can be prepared and not make plays. According to the recruiting rankings, recruiting isn’t the problem. Defensively we don’t measure up in the SEC anymore. Offensively we did give away the Kentucky game with miscues, but the body of work has shown that the offense has done enough to win but the “d” can’t hold their own. Richt has earned a chance to right the ship. With talent on the way, if he can’t win, then it may be time to make a change.
That being said, to attack Mark Richt’s faith is just wrong, regardless of how anyone feels about Richt’s value ON the field. I’ve coached in high school for 16 years, just because someone is yelling and screaming doesn’t necessarily mean they are “coaching.”

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Really people, Richt has had a couple of rough years here. Still won 10 last year. He knows we need to get a new DC in here to fire those kids up and give them direction. The talent will be here so coaching them up on defense won’t be that difficult. He needs to get back to calling some plays and getting more involved with the offense like he used to be. Sorry Bobo but it has to happen, no shame there.

He has earned the right to do that and I have faith he will get it done.

And if we can’t blow Kentucky off the line from the 1 right up the gut then we don’t deserve to win the game, plain and simple. You don’t need to pitch the damn thing, bad things can happen.

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Here’s Goff & Donnan’s records w/scores for each of their last seasons.
Who do the 2009 Dawgs mirror more closely?

Donnan Final Season 2000
8-4
W- GaSo 29-7
L-@SC 10-21
W-New Mex St 37-0
W-@Ark 38-7
W Vandy 29-19
W @Kentucky 34-30
L -Florida 23-34
L- @Auburn 26-29
W- OleMiss 32-14
W Virginia 37-14 -Oahu Bowl

Ray Goff Final Season – 1995
6-6
W- SC 42-23
L @Tenn 27-30
W New Mex St 40-13
L @OleMiss 10-18
L Bama 0-31
W @Clemson 19-17
W Kentucky 12-3
L Florida 17-52(Athens)
L Auburn 31-37
W @GT 18-17
L Virginia 27-34 Peach Bowl

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Im a Christian but I still must go out and perform my job, if I do not I will be fired its that simple.

Ga football is not a worship service to where we go and pray to God

Richt is going to have to make the right choices just like all of us in life

Willie should do the right thing and step down or asked to be moved and not watch his friend be put through this. That would be the right thing

To those who pray we should be praying that we all live Godly lives and for us to be a help to our fellow man. Praying for a coach to win football games is a waste, sorry it just is when there is way more important things and people to pray for

I like Richt but people are acting like if he is fired he is going to be out on the street begging for something to eat. I think if he has spent his money wisely he is probably worth around 15 million.

If we all lose our jobs I don’t think many of us will still have the money to go out and buy 3 or 4 mercedes and a couple of homes on the beach and still not have to work the rest of our lives.

Thank you

and God bless

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ptjackets…they do not play for the love of the game alone fool. The majority of them play for FREE college! They get free help in all of their classes, free tuition, free room and board, and more Nike stuff than Michael Jordan’s kids (there are probably hundreds of other un-traceable perks like giftcards discounts at local businesses ets). The only thing they have to pay for is their scooter that they ride to class on (with a suspended DL). Those that don’t go on to play in the NFL, start their regular career without the mountain of student loans a lot of us do. Don’t act like they don’t get anything in return for their commitment.

…not to mention the fact that the back up punter for the dawgs still probably gets more a$$ that a toilet seat at Macy’s in Athens.

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Coaching is a problem and has to be corrected (tops on my list is Fabris), but there is NO problem with Van Halanger, people! Our strength and conditioning is NOT what’s failed us. And really, our scheming has mostly been fine (with the exception of kickoff coverage). The real problem is our lack of focus, mental toughness, playing smart. That means: 1) look hard at the positional coaches — what’s happening (or NOT happening) during the week in practice is beating us more than gameday sideline decisions; and 2) some personnel changes (Martinez?) are necessary sometimes just to reset the team psychology.

Bobo’s playcalling has mostly been fine. He gets in a rut of predictability at times, but turnovers, inability to run the ball, and inability to throw the 10 yard possession passes have been the real problem. Martinez’s schemes, blitzes and coverages have been fine, but players being out of position, tackling poorly, and not recognizing pass routes has been embarrassing. The problem is not schemes, it’s performance. Why do we play so DUMB?! Which takes us back to points 1 and 2 above.

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Willie Martinez

You dipstick

I told you to get out there and go catch us some duke boys instead you make my team give up 33points per game

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I like as a coach a good man #1. I think players like to play for a good man #1. I think a good man will end up better off than a less than good man. I can’t think of a better man to coach Georgia than Mark Richt. #1 in character, #1 in class, #1 in grace under pressure.

Character is the #1 thing an investmant firm looks for in a CEO–they look for bankrupticies, credit history, etc. Character and ehtics are the #1 most important thing in a coach. That doesn’t ALWAYS translate EVERY year to wins and losses, but in the end, that takes care of itself.

Look at Wooden–10 Natl’ Championships. Great character guy. His players LOVED the man.

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November 23rd, 2009
1:35 pm
WELL SAID!!!!

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If other team’s fans love your coach and coordinators and don’t want them to go anywhere for a long time, they probably need to be fired.

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Quit knockin Richt’s personality or Christian faith.

Dungy, Tressel, Wooden–all have a more laid back style and won a LOT of National Championships (12 with just those 3 guys).

You don’t have to be an obnoxious atheistic jerk to win a Natl’ Championship.

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To Mark Richt is The Man…………………..But you have to have good quality Assistants………My question to you and other UGA fans……If Martinez and Bobo were such quality co’s do you think they would be loyal and stay at UGA if top programs were wanting them?

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Let’s just get someone in to coach the players up from where they are. They are good now, let’s move them to the next level. Make all the coaches re apply for the job. Then we can figure out who stays and who goes. Like you would do if you ran a busines that had just had a total collapse.

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ESPNU

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hey folks GT next be nice ruin there fun…Oh well if bobby cox plays (joe cox)we lose by 30pts it want be funny…there be a dead cow in Joe cox dorm room after that lost.willie will show his game by blamein the refs Mark Richt will run a draw on 4n1 when trailin 34-24 n get zip and cox will turn into Bobby cox n fumble n bye bye…Game as tech wins 51-24….

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I hate to say this, but I think Mark Richt is done. This problem is bigger than firing Willie. It’s the whole culture! This team used to scratch and claw and run through a wall for Mark Richt because they believed in him as a leader. But not anymore. The defense is straight up quitting on him and Willie. At one point in last week’s game, the Kentucky player actually walked into the endzone. When that happens, the players are showing their coach that they don’t care. The offense tries, but they’re just not very good, especially with AJ being hurt. I look at Mark Richt on the sideline and he just looks like a man who is desperate, looking for something: ANYTHING, to motivate his players. And nothing is working. They’re just not buying in. I’m saying it right now, next season will be Richt’s last year, especially if they go 6-6 and a lose to Tech again. I think being the class guy he is, UGA will give him a send off similar to Fulmer’s, but we’ll be in the market for another coach by 2011. I think SEC football has gone into a big business/marketing mentality similar to the NFL, and to be successful you almost have to sacrifice your values (ala Lane Kiffin/Nick Saban). And I just don’t think Richt wants anything to do with the cutthroat part of the business anymore. I think Richt has lost the love for the game, I really do. And it’s so sad to watch.

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NEWS FLASH, THIS JUST IN, NEW GEORGIA UNIFORMS FOR THE TECH GAME. Well, this week, its gonna be pink. Pink helmets, uniforms, shoes, socks, towels, and even pink headphones. Water Girl serving up pink lemonade. This should be the capper, lemonade, which should be the end of the big fat lemon laid several weeks on the football field, the streets of Athens, and anywhere else these ‘football players’ have visited.

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Mark Richt Is The Man!…Dungy and Wooden’s teams did not have problems with discipline. I really wish you would not compare Mark Richt to either of these Coaching Greats.

Here is a perfect example…Richt used to say no dreads and no facial hair. Now, he doesn’t care…that lax attitude has translated to the play on the field.

Wooden told Bill Walton that he couldn’t play unless he got a haircut once–Bill Walton! That is like telling Tim Tebow he can’t play with his religious Eyeblack. What coach today would risk losing their best player to stick to his guns?

I don’t think the coaches have the balls to tell a good player that they have to do something a certain way or get out. Bryan Evans is one of the worst players on the team…what does he have to do to get benched? I am thinking he would have to kill a hooker, and bring the body to practice…and then the coaches would have him come off the bench in the next game.

I think Richt lost the team when he stopped making them tackle in practice last year…or maybe it was one of the trips to the pool that wrecked it.

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go dawgs… mark richt is the man!!! can’t think of another coach anywhere i would rather have running my beloved program…

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HANG IN THERE JOE I HEAR YOU ARE THE NUMBER ONE DRAFT PICK IN 2010.I’M SURE YOU WILL MAKE A FINE PRO QUARTERBACK.YOU CAN’T BE NO WORSE THAN THAT 40 MILLION QUARTERBACK THAT THE FALCONS HAVE

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Mark Richt…a.k.a. Jim Donnagain.

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Unbelivable?!?!

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I cannot remember souch a dissapointing end to a season in my life. The only thing that getse to the next football season is a good end to the previous one. And I live in total fear if the tech game in atlanta. Why are there no more Woody Hayes’? Why does it not piss Richt off to lose to Tech or Florida the way Hayes HATED to lose to Michigan? Richt should preach that we don’t lose to rivals. A cultural change is needed. Someone to preach that it is unacceptable to loae to teams that you ARE superior to.

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I’ve followed every UGA game this year, expecting the usual swarming defense and steady improvement throughout the season. That’s what UGA meant to this Tech grad. I’m as puzzled as everyone, and wish I could spot some simple fixes, but suspect the problems may be complex and systemic.

I don’t see the usual team leadership from within the team. I don’t see the UGA spirit and pride. Maybe there’s a grain of truth in the 5 Star/future NFL athletes being out for themselves, instead of submitting to the team effort. The penalties, turnovers, missed assignments and lack of tackling are certainly indicative of “something”, but I don’t think it is anything simple. Maybe they need some young and hungry coaches who are building their career and would be grateful for the opportunity to play at such a great school and program? Anyway, you are getting a taste of what Tech had to suffer through with Chan Gailey.

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You idiots do realize that if we give up a bowl bid, that we forfeit the right to have practices after the Tech game. Practices that we desperately need! Every little bit helps!

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It must be nice to make $500,000 dollars per win. Who wouldn’t want to coach the Dogs even in an off year.

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and then have pratice.

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I get tired of the Fire Mark Richt posts. Lets look at the numbers entering the 2009 Season. Under Coach Richt UGA has a .788 winning percentage over the previous 8 seasons @ 88 to 22. I too am not happy about this season, but I have to remind myself, I didn’t have high expectations at the beginning of the season. Yes, absolutely coaching is an issue, and the indiscipline of some of these players is maddening. Games turn on a few key plays, and the turnovers have been key to how many losses this season. The raw talent on the field is obvious, but if they aren’t properly coached they remain raw talent. It would be good to see UGA find a strong D-coordinator, and I would even be happy to see CMR take over play calling again. We sure seemed to do quite well with him functioning as the O-coordinator. Ever since he has stepped back into the CEO role the discipline seems to have gone down hill. I agree a change is necessary, but firing Coach Richt is not the answer. I’ll point out also that CMR lead UGA teams have already surpassed his two predecessors(Goff 46-34-1, and Donnan 40-19), total wins over 12 in only 8 seasons. Replace assistants, but don’t go for the head shot just yet.

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if you don’t like the OFC and DFC and the STC It’s very easy people! YOU FIRE THE HEAD COACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PROBLEM IS OVER….NOW MOVE ON

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