Who gains from the SEC’s turmoil? Alas, not UGA

More trolling by Mark Bradley. South Carolina? Really? I’ll go ahead and wager that South Carolina wins no more than 8 games next year. Want to take that bet, Mark?

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nice try!

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Second?

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Mark

Weren’t you the one that said that it was good that UGA tried to get a big name DC even if it didn’t work out? That they at least had to try? Now you crush them for it? I think you are wrong about this tarnishing UGA and I think it’s silly to say that South Carolina is going to benefit from all this. UT, UGA, and UF will all lose a few recuits, some to each other, but at the end of the day one post season in turmoil will not change the power structure in the SEC. Relax.

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TROLL!

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What a load of crap Mark. If they hadn’t gotten huge pay raises, any one of them would be in Athens right now. Those type of articles are deceiving. Especially to a recruit that may be reading here. UGA will be fine as soon as they get a DC. Richt has been very good (except for the CWM mistake) for UGA and will continue to do so.

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If some of those Tennessee recruits consider coming over to Georgia, I’ll pull some strings and get them in as pledges to the Delta House!

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Alabama owns the SEC and will next season as well.

Florida is a close 2nd..

After that who the hell knows.

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Mark, I think you are being a little to negative on UGA. We will be better. UF will drop off, maybe not much, but they are losing proven talent. UT will be off. New coach and loss of talent

South Carolina will be better, but they will not contend for the East in my opinion.

If anything all this turmoil in the league takes a little pressure off of Richt. But, the DC hire obviously needs to happen soon.

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Mark you are starting to p!$% me off!

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South Carolina! Hehindeedy!

You’re too much, Bradley.

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Without a doubt the vast majority of the Dawgnation are solid Mark Richt supporters. I’ve come across a few of the fair weather types that run him down but the vast majority—the ones that bleed red and black love mark Richt and look forward to seeing the best Richt years yet to come!

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Don’t forget about the powerhouse class Florida has been putting together, Richt should worry about that one to.

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Mark, do you guys get bonuses for huge blog responses? If that’s the case, I guess I would try my best to piss everybody off too.

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Wow, you’ve gone down hill quick with your columns about the DC search. What’s next Vandy will win the East by going undefeated?

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I’m sorry Mark you are an idiot…. Did you see the beating USC took at the hands of UConn in their bowl game? CONNECTICUT!!!!

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Excuse me for my typo – make that TWO Sec titles for Mark Richt’s Dawgs with 3 SEC title games. And don’t forget a 7-2 bowl record.

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Yeah and like UGA does almost as frequently as it does against Tech, UGA will beat South Carolina AGAIN in 2010.

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Mark, seriously. You could make a million anti Georgia statements, but to put Georgia behind South Carolina is insane. South Carolina has no high-school talent, and Georgia only has to get the middle of the crop in this state to stay above them.

Spurrier and all of his offensive genius have REALLY become old and stately.

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Wow. Mark you set off a firstorm with this article. When I started writing my post there were no comments and by the time I hit the submit button there were 10 posts all blasting you for your negative atttitude and baseless article. There is a message there somewhere!

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You really think South Carolina will finally turn the corner? Weren’t people, including Spurrier, saying this last year?

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If that’s what you “see” Mark, I think you need to get your eyes checked–no disrespect intended. UGA will hire a DC and will move on. Doesn’t have to be a marquee name, has to be a talented coordinator. Aaron Murray will benefit greatly from our running game, which as I think you saw, developed nicely near the end of the season. Georgia is but a few years removed from playing in the Sugar Bowl, they remember how to win, it hasn’t been that long. When was the last time South Carolina played in a BCS bowl? Do you remember when you last saw that?

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Mark I am not going to forget this!(when you eat crow)

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MB has his head so far up his A$$, and is using other peoples blog, he does not have a clue to what is going on at UGA AL TN or anyother school in the country. Why does he not get off his A$$ and go out and get the truth rather than use other peoples blog or better yet write about KY basketball coach who is two steps ahead of the NCAA at his last two stops

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South Carolina fans get geeked up every preseason only to come back to reality around early October. Why would this year be any different? Besides, whether or not the fan bases are enthused is going to make little difference to the actual team playing on the field. That’s when your second favorite Al Davis quote is applicable.

Georgia is going to get a significant upgrade at DC regardless if the fans are disappointed after dreaming of Smart and Foster. Conversely, the Gamecocks didn’t even show up to play against a team from Connecticut of all places. You must be reading the tea leaves because I don’t follow your logic in this one.

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Do yourself a favor and compare Spurrier’s time at South Carolina to Ray Goff’s at UGA. They are almost the same. This comes from the Georgia Sports Blog “Spurrier needs 6 wins to surpass Goff’s win total during his first six years in Athens. However, he’ll need to go at least 11-2 to surpass Ray’s winning percentage over the same number of years…by only .00079 percentage points”. Here is a look at Spurrier’s first 5 years at SC and Goff’s at UGA: Overall record SS- 35-27 RG- 34-22. SEC Record SS-18-22 RG- 18-19. 10 win seasons SS- 0 RG- 1. 9+ win seasons SS- 0 RG- 2. Bowl Record SS- 1-2 RG- 2-1. Top 25 finishes SS- 0 RG- 2. This is the guy that you think can win the SEC East? You’re almost as big of a joke as he is. South Carolina is returning the same core of a team that fell apart over the last half of the year finishing out 2-5. They will not be a factor in the East.

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MB – I have praised you on many boards and am a loyal reader. but this one is a reach. USC is losing its best player -Norwood. And he was their BEST play by a country mile. So UGA replaces a bad QB with a young one with more upside – wash. It improves its D with new scheme (no willie – nuf said).

And Richt in trouble. Dude has the 3rd best winning % of any coach with more that 50 wins. You do not have the real pulse of UGA alumni and donors (which i am). He is not in trouble. Not even close. Even if you and AJC would like to portray him …. and help drive your blog hits.

Cmon Mark – you are better than this.. much better.

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Seriously Bradley move back to Kentucky

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Alabama owns the SEC and will next season as well.

Florida is a close 2nd

Whoa, respect on the National Championship this year but you are getting a little ahead of yourself saying you own the SEC. 2 SEC Titles and one National Championship in ten years is hardly owning this conference. Two or three years from now you might well be able to claim that but not today.

SEC Championship Game :

Florida – 10 appearances, 7-3
Bama – 7 appearances, 3-4
Tennessee – 5 appearances, 2-3
LSU – 4 appearances, 3-1
Georgia – 3 appearances, 2-1

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(continued from above)…have they ever one…that’s right–NOTHING! You have completely lost your mind and proven yourself to be maybe the most ignorant sportswriter, blogger, whatever, in AJC history.

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South Carolina may not compete for an SEC championship but they sure as heck stand in our way this coming Sept. With that I think Bradley makes some good points. If we lose that game we probably don’t win the east.

Bradley makes more sense than most of us are willing (or able) to admit and herein lies the problem. Most Dawg fans have their head firmly up their you know what to be able to see clearly!

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Mark,

1. If you are implying UGA will offer Smart the HC job if Richt is fired assuminig a bad season next year then you are wrong my friend. UGA will never make an offer to Smart again.

2. If The Dawgs can’t pull it together – and I don’t see how they can at this point, for a run at the SEC East then this is one Dawg who’d like to see SC take it. I don’t like Spurrier but you’ve got to admit those Gamecock Fans have stuck with their team for decades. Their players never quit. Despite a prik as HC SC has class.

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Spurrier’s career at USC makes mine at UGA look like Bear Byrant’s.

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Fellow Dawg fans, the truth hurts, but it is still the truth. Open your eyes and minds: next year doesn’t look too promising, and that is all this opinion piece is saying. The stats and records don’t lie: UGA is on a downward trend while SC and others are on an upward trend. The constructive thing to do is not kill the messenger(s) but support the program and target your worthy and deserved criticism to AD Evans and HC Mark Richt. The latter is a great coach and good man, he can handle our criticism make something work. As this article points out, he’s done it before. We may need to wait a few years for another NC, but first we have to turn this ship around and get back on an upward trend. We can start with next season, in which the SEC East should be wide open. The New DC, whoever he will be, will be competent…trust in Richt.

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these pretzles are making me thirsty

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I’ve got aa idea. Rather than Bit#$ and moan about Bradley and Schultz, how about nobody rsponding to their ridiculous attempts at journalism.

I know it will never happen but that would be an obvious snub to these two and would bring about immediate results as far as putting an end to this divisive, rear view mirror reporting.

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South Carolina cost the Dawgies a shot at the National Title in 2007. If the Dawgs beat them and still lose to Tennessee that year UGA would have won the East and played LSU. Who knows what would have happened then? Instead the Dawgs were a 2 loss team and the tiebreaker went to the Vols.

9/8/07 South Carolina 16 UGA 12

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this is a bull$hit article, has no substance. sometimes its better to have your mouth shut. Folks, lets boycott Bradly and stop commenting on his articles, maybe that will teach him to think twice before he writes something.

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Mark-He is 14-8 over his last 22 with a joke for a DC. He will hire a very good DC for us. It may not be the sexy hire but albeit a good one. I for one am glad he went after the “name” candidates because it shows that he is not conservative and he can be “bold”. If he had not gone after them and hired a “no name” guy out of the gate you along with the other pundits would be screaming that he did not have the stones to do shoot high. You cannot have it both ways. The fact that VaTech, LSU and AL countered with substantial increases to keep their guys indicates that the GA DC is a premiere job that they would have been interested in therefore a threat to take them. If not they would have called Foster’s, Chavis & Smart’s bluff and told them if you want to go to a “lesser” program go ahead. If it was say USF calling I promise you they would not have received these increases to stay where they were because they would not have left in the first place. Just sayin…

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DawgGoneRight – USC on an upward trend. Cmon man… 7-6. 7-6 -missed a bowl… what the he*k are you smoking? How is that upward? That looks pretty average to me… pretty flat, flat like a Jersey Shore’s star pre-bo*b job.

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Jack Bull – BINGO… GO READ JACK BULL’s post. that is the truth mark. I am sorry, i know it doesn’t help you hit 10 million “views” of your blog, but it is true

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Garcia is a quality and capable and now experienced QB but SC has lost great players,especially on their D. Garcia is also ………Garcia. he came to Columbia as a kid that made personal bad choices and he was in the doghouse constantly with SS. Now? He is mature but he still has issues.

UGA has the offense, the line, the running backs ( not great but quite adequate ) the receivers and um did I say the receivers and more of them in Orson Charles and soon to be heard from Fred Lynch from Mass. We are fine.

On D? When UGA gets an unknown but quality coach installed, by mid October and 5 or 6 games, his name and his position coach’s names will be well thought of. Folks, this ain’t rocket science and anyone knows that UGA is one of the top 20 PLACES to be. Always has and yes, it always will be and long after Rev. Richt has passed through the hallowed arches.

I have followed UGA as a HS student and UGA student and grad student over nearly 50 years and UGA is well thought of. ALWAYS WILL BE TOO. To say otherwise is simply foolishness. Most that agree with the “uga is slipping” are not even college grads. Stay at home while mommy works kids they are.

Look at UT after 13 months …….. Lane is gonna do this and Lane is gonna be that and Ed O is gonna be this and Daddy Kiffen is gonna be that. HAHAHAHAHAH A ship of fools at UT and local sports ahem, um, experts. The UT recruits? Fools, suckered and punked by a twirp and now scrambling, because too many schools have locked up their 2010 frosh class. Where oh where are the Orange Spirit bimbos now??? Hmmm?

Goooooooooooooooooo Dogs. 8-4 or 9-3 type of year and 2011? We win big.

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You are an idiot Bradley!!!! The Lane Kiffin of journalistic bull s–t.

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By the way Mark, how did that SEC-tested DC at SC do against UGA this past year?? I thought so…

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Oh and by the way no way in h*ll South Carolina wins the East next year. You can’t really believe that. Did you see Garcia in their bowl game? I would take Aaron Murray (even after being redshirted last year) over that guy any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Yes, they do have a good defense but that is all they have. Even the Evil Genious himself cannot make lemonade out of lemons. That is comical Mark, really.

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Give me a break. Not any commentary worth reading here.

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Yes, Richt was criticized for not having the nerds to fire Willie because they were friends. Then, it was UGA wouldn’t spend the money to get a “proven” DC. And, now it’s taking too long. Then you have bloggers who want to criticise the man’s religion and character. Well, all I have tos say is when you see what Lane & company did to the Tennessee program, we should all thank our lucky stars to have a coach who has been successfull and is of the highest character. I am proud to be a Georgia Bulldog!!

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All Georgia fans hear from you is negative. Go write for some team you love.

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Oh boy, Mark.

“But the Gamecocks did go 7-5 in the regular season, just like Georgia.”

Wow! And then got depantsed against UCONN in their bowl game. Way to go.

“And South Carolina does have a seasoned quarterback.”

Who also sucks, but hey, whatever.

Georgia, BTW, returns 10 starters on offense. Aaron Murray was a 4-star recruit. That Urban Meyer wanted, I should add.

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Mark you are a good writer and I usually enjoy your articles but this one is very poor. SC??? Georgia got rid of a poor defensive coaching staff and will get one FAR superior whether it is Grantham, Van Gorder or whomever. They are LOADED on offense and they always finish ahead of SC. Did you watch SC’s bowl game? The turmoil with TN and Urban is perfect for GA.

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The cancer (Martinez) has almost killed the patient. If Richt had removed the cancer when he was supposed to things might not be so bad. On the bright side almost any DC would be better than Willie.

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Disappointing article, Mark.

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Mark has become the Boortz of sports! It’s all about the entertainment factor. Keeps up coming back for more! Go DAWGS!

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I am absolutely amazed that you managed to write a UGA story today when are only a few hours drive from the Knoxville meltdown. What this says to me is that Bulldawg Nation rules the ATL and all of the Southeast regardless of record or perceived coaching issues.

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Yep, Carolina will benefit fr the SEC mess. Withers has 6 guys from his defense going to the pros at the end of the 2010 season. Come on to Carolina where whe have a tradition of sending defensive players to the NFL. We know how to recruit em and coach em up at UNC!

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maybe MB AND JS can’t see the truth since they always standing in the shadows cast by CPJ’s man boobs?

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Mark, we wouldnt be going through all this if CMR had just kept me on the team.

that decision looks worse by the day. observingly, willie

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We’ll see. I think you will be eating your words in a year. You’re articles are inconsistent. Read the piece you wrote after UGA thumped Tech. You said something to the effect that the new bulldogs could a fierce thing to deal with. Now you are writing them off for next year. Which is it?

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i hate you mark bradley. i hope the ajc does more cut backs and you are the first on the chopping block. happy new year you over-paid, under-worked tool!

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the situation with Tennessee should be a lesson to any of the dawg lunatic fringe who want Richt gone!

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I’m trying to recall the history of this. Why did CMR fire WM and the others prior to having another DC already on the line?

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Bradley, I can’t wait for you to write your mea culpa on the UGA DC situation just like you had to write one about UGA hiring me. Seriously, do you never tire of being so wrong so often?

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Granted, I stand corrected on that point. You did not say that they would win the East. So exactly what “gains” are you talking about? Winning 8 games instead of 7? Not getting destroyed in their next bowl game by a Big East “football powerhouse”? If the “gains” they receive do not help them win the East then so what. What is the point? What did they actually gain? Mark- I for one actually like your columns and blogs and am glad you are not a homer – it makes for good dialoque.

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Has the AJC really whacked Bradley and Schultz and there is a 12 year old kid ghost writing these columns? Seemingly, it is an arms race between these two as to who can produce the most thoughtless, hyperbolic and childish perspectives. They are seeking to supplant Terrence Moore as the resident AJC idiots or they seek to become the new Skip Bayless and Jay Mariotti.

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Mark you never answered the question; do you get paid by the responses?

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The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Read my blog!

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Get the picture, it is a glorious fall day, with the stadium filled with red and black and the dawgs will be going left to right on your radio. Lets go to Loren – Loren, whachagot? Larry, there are sports writers falling out of the sky on their heads down here! The AJC has just started to lose a few as well, one looking like erk with glasses, the other a little moviestarish and boy they really look lost down here. I am just not sure they will be able to continue in this game, what with bumping their heads Larry and boy they are not making much sense. I am just hoping they stay out of UGA’s way. I would try to interview them but I am thinking it is a waste of time.

I am thinking there is a pattern here Mark. I am thinking that you just love to aggrevate the crap out of dog fans by filling your articles with little jabs. What in this article is slightly correct other than the stability of Vandy?

I am just not sure South Carolina is ahead of either team you mentioned. They are barely ahead of Furman and certainly not ahead of your yellow jackets. Where Georgia is ahead of both of the programs you mentioned is the quality of the man coaching the bulldogs.

If you had a son who was playing collegiate sports you would understand that sometimes we are all faced with the reality that not every collegiate athlete will turn pro and we want someone that is not an idiot to influence our children. That puts Georgia ahead of say most teams in the SEC and at least one or two in the ACC. And I know that you can’t believe this but at the end of the day,I think that Richt will hire a pretty good defensive coordinator.

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As I figured; at least you got some attention. You should be an advertising headline writer.

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Hey Mark,

About 18% of the readers agree with you….hahaha.

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Coach Smith;

I appreciate your argument about the impact of losing the NFL’s #1 and #12 picks.

The issue is that we weren’t very good with them-being destroyed by Bama and UF.

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Mark, don’t sports journalists make more of a team or program’s “psyche” than there really is? I mean, do you think Mark Richt’s psyche is damaged? Do you think the players are now psychologically damaged because there’s no defensive coordinator in-house yet? The fanbase? MAYBE. But (and I’m a fan) WHO CARES if the fans are psychologically wounded from the process. At the end of the process, if Richt’s hired a damn good coordinator, name or no-name, the program’s better off, whether ‘Dawg fans are popping anti-depressants or not.

The one area where this transition may affect Georgia is in recruiting; however, the program’s BEEN recruiting top-flight athletes on both sides of the ball, and Willie Martinez proved that great talent can still be badly coached, and Nick Saban and Kirby Smart showed that ‘decent-to-good’ recruits can become terrific defensive units, just by being well-coached.

Go back and compare the school’s 2009 roster on defense and what “star” level each player was ranked in various recruiting services, and you’ll be surprised to find that ‘Bama’s cumulative score was lower than Georgia’s. Didn’t matter on the field, though, did it?

Screw “psyche.” When Richt hires a defensive coordinator who knows how to coach the IMMENSE talent ALREADY in-house and snags the pieces on the recruiting trail needed to keep things going, the program will be fine.

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Mark,
Let me see if I can straighten you out. I have failed to convince Tony Barnhart, but I have hope for you. Steve Spurrier is a mediocre coach. Yes he won big in the 90s at fl.Look at all the talent in the state of Fla and how many programs it is supporting. He was a miserable failure at Washington. He has not had a bigger season than Holtz. He is losing the support of the fans in a big way. I have a son who is a USC grad and lives in Columbia and he tells me the “old money alumni” are fed up with Spurrier. His agenda is to win three more SEC games and move ahead of Dooley and then retire. It is all about Steve and always will be. South Carolina may beat UGA this year(Murray’s second game) but they will be 7-5 or 8-4 like Spurrier has been the last five years. And that my friend is a MEDIOCRE coach.

Richt and Georgia will be fine. If we can beat GT with WM and A&M with two grad assistants, we will be ok with real DC. I think you could coach the Dawgs defense and we would win 8 games.

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FLASH———lane kiffin replaces pete carroll at seattle

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Mark, are you that bored that your mind leads you to think SC will be better than Georgia?

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Mark — You have devolved into the 14 year adolescent who is wearing Goth clothing, taking up smoking, etc., all in a sad attempt to garner attention. There has to be a better way man. Seriously, while you still have a paying gig and an opportunity to regain some credibility I think you need to back away from the keyboard and reassess where this thing is headed. Just to give you a head start on that introspection — it is NOT headed in a direction that is good for you.

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We usually always beat the poultry….if not the coach will get sent back to Moultrie…that’s already happened…

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I won’t believe that USC can win big until they prove it. Mark Richt has proved it, and I think he will again. And I agree, all he has to do is win a few big games next season and everyone will forget all about the overblown attention this DC search has gotten. Of what I consider to be the “Big Four” rivals (UT, Florida, Auburn and Tech; no, not USC), Georgia won two of them this year. No, we lost to Florida again and that has to change, but Richt has done better than his two predecessors against these teams. And he’s never had a losing season which Dooley, Goff and Donnan all had. We’ll be fine.

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Let us speak about Richt and his “failure to land a name brand” D coach. Ok? Honesty is best.

We are mostly men here correct? If you dated, or tried to date, we always were told to ask a beauty out first and if she declined, then ask her gorgous friend until we found just one cutie. Isn’t that really how it works in courting and dating and the S word? Stand at the bridge area near Memorial Hall at Sanford stadium in springtime and you will fully understand my point here. BEAUTIES ARE EVERYWHERE ……… except at Go Taliban U. Mark only needs one to get where he wants to, correct?? It takes only one GOOD ONE to have some fun in the SEC.

Richt did just that with ( if even true ) with Koenig, Foster and Chavez and now K Smart. Where is the crime here??? These “beauties” were ALREADY at great and WINNING SEC programs, except for Koenig and I am sure geography came into play there. I did not want him anyway and neither did 98% of the UGA fan base. He does not count at all and neither does Foster. I know this to be true.

Richt just needs one “beauty” and UGA will be fine. Smart looke good and Richt was rejected. SO what. UGA is not “damaged” or “radio active” anymore than a yong man at the bridge is………….by the way my bride of 35+ years was one of many UGA beauties and that is that. It only took one ask out for me and to this day I know that I got the better of that deal.

Richt ALSO only needs one to run with.

UGA wins big and soon. Go Dogs.

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As far as preparing for next season, we don’t really need a DC until spring practice — no disadvantage there. But if ever South Carolina was going to challenge for the east division, next year is it. They’ll be returning a starting QB, they play us early, and we’ll be starting a new QB against their good defense while installing a new defensive system against a Spurrier offense that looks to be the best he’s had in Columbia.

I haven’t looked at their schedule, but seems to me that if they can beat us and beat Tennessee, there’s a chance they could lose to Florida (at the end of the season when their lack of depth tends to show) and still win the division, depending on what kind of season the Gators have after losing several of their best players and coaches. Florida will probably just reload, but it could be interesting. If we all beat each other up, the division will be wide open.

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[...] like I said, that’s fairly mild stuff compared to Bradley, who’s outdone himself with this post today.  Talking about the state of the SEC East in the wake of Kiffin’s departure, the ironies [...]

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My only concern if I was a Dawg fan would not be about CMR trying to hire probably the 3 best names for a DC and being turned down because they each proabably had valid reasons; none of which would be the impending demise of the UGA program. My real concern would be why in the world would they not get whomever the best of the 2 Freshman QB’s some game experience because now he will start the season with either last years backup, which seems unlikely or 1 of 2 totally untested freshman. It makes no sense, because with today’s top atheletes (see Stafford and Moreno) very few stay 4 years anyway. That kind of decision making as the head of the program is what I would be concerned about.

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UGA and CMR will be just fine, I see the Dawgs going 9-3 or 10-2 next season so things will get back to the norm in Athens. If they had played next year’s schedule this season they would have been 9-3 and WM would still be inhabitating Butts-Mehre!

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Wake me up when Bradley doesn’t try to pick a fight with UGA fans and when South Carolina wins 9 games in a season. Until then, everyone should see Bradley and South Carolina for what they are jokes trying to be taken serious.

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Mark – Your ramblings have gotten more and more ridiculous. Richt will soon have a DC and staff and Georgia will be much better on defense, with a good to great recruiting class to boot.

You describe yourself as a blogging fool…….it’s time to remove the blogging description……

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Did I mention that I am an intern at the AJC and I report to Mr. Bradley?

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Another useless article written by the baffoons from the ajc! Do you and Jeff “nerd” Schultz compete to see who can write the most worthless nonsense. I’m surprised Tony “Mr. College Football Nerd” Barnhart hasn’nt chimed in yet regarding the coaching search… oh wait, no one has really heard anything from him UGA related since before the Tech “nerd” game.

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I am a UGA grad and I love the Dawgs as much as anyone but I have no problem with what Mark is saying here or in any of his blogs about UGA for that matter. He calls it like he sees it and is more often then not right regardless if some blind, inbred loyalist UGA fans choose to accept it.

Vangorder was the real genius behind the UGA program and now that he is gone we have and will continue to slip.

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Bradley can’t even get a headline right: It’s the SEC East, not all the SEC!

Move along, nothing to see here…

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Richt to Tennessee for $5 million? Anyone buy that?

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Mark, you sound like Chicken Little. “The sky is falling, the sky is falling!” You make it sound as if making 3 offers and being rejected is the end of the world. USC (who sportswriters like yourself continually annoint as one of, if not the, top program in the country) just had to make 4 offers to find a head coach. Wasn’t Nick Saben the 2nd or 3rd coach offered the Alabama job? Neither, Lane Kiffin nor Gene Chizik were Tennessee’s or Auburn’s first choice. It doesn’t matter who rejects your offer, but rather it matters who accepts. Wait until after hiring a defensive coordinator to slam UGA and Mark Richt. Frankly, even then, you won’t know if it was a good move until after next year. I remember when Mark Richt hired Brian VanGorder, nobody I know was impressed. Boy, were you, me, and everyone else wrong! Mark Richt knows what he is doing. You don’t win 90 games, 2 SEC Championships, 2 BCS Bowls in the SEC East over 9 years without knowing what your doing.

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Wow! I don’t what you’ve been smoking but you need to put it down! Are you trying to keep people from coming back to read your articles? I don’t know if I’m disturbed more by the fact that you get paid to write this tripe or the fact that I come back to read it. I actually feel I should have been paid to read this one Mark. Spurrier’s day in the sun is OVER!!! He has done nothing at SCar but produce 5-6 loss seasons. Below is my “bottome line” response to this article.

1.) Spurrier is stubborn. His offense is antiquated, and he hasn’t realized that he will need to establish an effective running game to be successful in the SEC.

2.) Spurrier is 1-4 against UGA since 2005.

3.) UGA’s worst season under Richt (this year) equals Spurrier’s best at SCar (2006: 8-5)

4.) UGA formula for improvement next year is simple: 1.) Reduce turnovers and 2.) improve on defense. UGA’s defense will improve. It really couldn’t get any worse. I don’t care who the new DC is, UGA’s defense will be better.

5.) Spurrier will be feeling more heat and be under more pressure than Richt by the end of next season.

This article is just horrible! I actually considered not reading and responding to your future articles, but I’m not going to do that. I don’t want to give you the satisfaction.

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Since Vangorder left Richt has been exposed for what he really is. A slightly better then average coach who must really on superior talent and a superior DC to save his behind. Now if he can go out and find an excellent DC then I think he will be fine but if not he will be gone within the next 2-3 years.

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Mark – The fact of the matter is Foster or Smart wouldn’t have left their current positions for any other programs in the country, period!!! Yet we were a nats a$$ from getting them both. Richt and UGA have handled this search beautifully with no drama or controversy. Had Richt hired George Edwards (who?) and not Meyer at Florida, you would have deemed that the worst DC hire in the history of college football!!! There’s a ton of great DC’s out there, and Richt will finish the drill……just wait and see!!! P.S. – Aren’t you the guy that said Mark Fox was a terrible hire?? Yeah, thought so!!! Go Dawgs!!!

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Bradley, How did you get into this line of work. You’re stupid! Really. Almost anyone could do better. No wonder the AJC is sdoing so poorly. Oh, Cynthia Tucker. Your worse. What crap. It would be great to have someone inteligent and unbiased to read.

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Lame.

Let’s vote. Here in Atlanta, which team do you like better, Georgia or South Carolina?

Thought so.

Where do I pick up my paycheck?

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Let the blow hard go, he is just trying to generate a response and we fall for it evey time (me too). Put your money where your mouth is now Mark on South Carolina winning the SEC Championship. I think you could get some incredible odds. No, I didn’t think so.

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Boy lots of news around SEC East this yr…..Dust will eventually settle and let’s see how things look then…..Florida still the favorite in the East…too much talent and the 4 & 5 star recruits keep on saying yes to UF….will Fla be as good next yr..Have a lot to prove and losing players to NFL and new DC has to prove himself…Meyer being there or not makes a difference too. South Carolina has had the most stable offseason so far…but talent level at SC has been inconsistent with ability to win games and not make mistakes weekly.If SC signs Lattimore and he proves out to be as good as advertised—then a really good running game gives them at least 2 more wins for next yr…Tennessee got slapped in the face by Kiffin–the new HC hire will be huge for them—In the long run—Tennessee comes out on top in the future with Lane leaving—He lacks sound judgement at times and does impulsive ill advised things….UT may lose some recruits this year, but if they make a sound hire–they will be ok in future…Would look around at coaching candidates available..would really consider David Cutcliffe. Eli & Peyton Manning believe in Cutcliff….Kentucky will do ok with Phillips..about the same as with Brooks……Now for my team –UGA..If Richt has another subpar yr–heat will be on as He really will be perceived as being too laid back…the hiring of the DC may not be entirely his fault if he does not have enough authorization to outbid the present DC schools…..Again they make the mistake in playing the DC game without using enough ammo to win the coach….As long as Richt makes a quality DC hire and he gets some pretty good additional defensive coaches who are good teachers & good at coaching players up–think that UGA will be ok with decent recruiting class..does not have to be great, but good decent class…If UGA gets back to winning big, more recruits will follow….New QB has to be ready to go & hopefully running game can take pressure off QB some…..So really there is a lot of dust in the air at many SEC East schools…meanwhile in the West—things are stable at Bama, Auburn, and LSU…

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Your columns get funnier and funnier by the hour….that said, they get less and less interesting.

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Mark – Slow day at the AJC today? This is about the 10th article I’ve seen from you and the other staffers about how lousy Richt is. Can’t you come up with something a little different? There really hasn’t been much going on lately in the college sporting world. I hear there might be something brewing in Tennessee, but can’t confirm it.

Normally I like reading your articles, but talk about beating a dead horse… I can guarantee that when we finally do land a DC, that it will get about 10% of articles this has..

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jellybeandawg….get off your knees and out from under Mark’s desk. It ain’t gonna get you anywhere in life. Choose to call yourself a dawg and then call us “blind, inbred loyalists”? You sir, mam, IT, don’t deserve to be a dawg.

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Murray was hurt in fall camp is why he didn’t play. Dawgs are going to be fine!

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Who gains? UGA gained immediately after firing CWM. Looked how well they played in the bowl game with virtually NOBODY running the defense. We can only get better – thats how bad he was & thats how good our talent is…. Forget Bradley and all his nonsense. Hire a good & aggresiveand up & comer and move on to recruiting…

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ringthebell , Murray was hurt for most of his senior year also. The kid is great but injury prone.

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Gdawg84 is absolutely right,

I think UGA’s program is in trouble. It’s not just a defensive coordinator that Richt needs to hire but also 3 DEFENSIVE ASSISTANTS! Richt will be gone by 2012, bank on it guys.

With that being said, South Carolina isn’t going to do anything next year either. Carolina has decent atheletes, but they lack a killer instinct and are stuck in a mediocre mentality. Does Carolina have the ability to win the SEC East? Yes. But they don’t have the right mentality and that comes from coaching. Spurrier has been there for 5 years and his teams absolutely tank it in bowl games to inferior opponents. And there is no excuse for it! I think Spurrier and Richt are alike in that both of them are at their best when they’re hungry and have something to prove. But once they get their big contracts, they lose their edge and become lazy. South Carolina is nothing more than a retirement job for Spurrier, and that’s not the kind of mentality that you want your head coach to have.

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This is completely stupid, Mark. Really. Yes UGA will have a new QB, but this time, he will have a solid running game with him. It took half the season to find a running game to replace the early departure of Moreno. The schedule was rated top 5 toughest in the nation…that gets a LOT easier. LSU is replaced by Miss St. Oklahoma St is replaced by Colorado.

UGA will have a D coordinator soon. I doubt he will be worse than Martinez. The defense will be fine, UGA will will at least 9 if not 10 games this year. As for South Carolina? Keep dreaming. As long as their November schedule is UT, UF, Arkansas, and Clemson, South Carolina will be at best an 8 win squad. They dont have the personel to win at least 3 of those games.

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Mark
I have mostly enjoyed your work at the ajc tho by your own admission
you are often wrong. Because its is all about speculation and opinion
and have found your opinions mostly thought provoking and entertaining.
Though to be candid I say comparing your work with other ajc sports
columnist and the others guys who work, and have worked for the ajc
are not exactly award winning talent if you know what I mean.
And I don’t expect you to be on top of your game every day but
damn dude this blog opinion has got to be the most ridiculous take
you have ever come out with. First of all you could not have thought it out deeply or you would not used the SC QB as a great strength.
If he was anything special it would have shown up by now. All the
guy is is a frustration for Spurrier to deal with. Spurrier has not
recruited badly but there is not enough manifest talent to compete.
Sorry anybody can have a bad bowl game but SC but aside from losing
to a so so Connecticut team they continute to disappoint.
Finally, this is a crazy time to project this even if you truly buy it.
We will know more about the standing on the Georgia program after a few
games next year and i will tell you why. It is because as long as CMR
is coaching there the success of the program will be determined by the
quality of the quarterback play irregardless of how strong the running
game is. Though that’s not to say that the running attack is not important because it very much is , but because of the check system
empolyed by CMR the QB will always be the key indicator in terms of
expectation. And at this point QB is the great unknowm much to early
to project how next season will play out. Now if you had made such
statements after a bad beginning to the season you would at least
have given something to truly debate. I know you are not going to do
a mea culpa that is just not how things work with you guys but at some
point in the day you ought to at least hang your head down on your chest
and go ” what the hell was I thinking ?”

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Mark, really South Carolina, are you serious? You must be trying to stir up Georgia fans for fun. Spurrier doesn’t have the talent pool in SC to win like he did in Florida. I don’t think he will ever get there. GA on the rise again baby.

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This stupid article was inevitable after the Smart article last week. If Georgia hires the coach from the Cowboys it’s a great hire. Being snubbed by three coaches who received big pay raises in what would be a lateral move isn’t a sign of weakness.

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Mark, If they’re brown and your obviously not a girl, try Brown Eyes and you have two options, Destiny’s Child or Lady Gaga. Hope that helps.

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I’m continually amazed that people can see the same circumstances and come to wildly different conclusions. As we wake this morning, only one SEC program can be said to be ascendant right now – Alabama. Everyone else it seems finished this past season 8-5 or 7-6.The departure of Lane Kiffin demonstrates why it’s necessary to get the right coach / co-ordinator, rather than simply getting the first one available. With the right co-ordinator in place, Georgia will be where most of the other SEC schools are right now – in position to step up and fill the vacuum caused by the questions (and early departures) at Florida, the chaos at Tennessee, etc. As for South Carolina … I’m 49 years old and for most of my entire life, I’ve been hearing that next year will be South Carolina’s year. I’m still waiting. Cold hard fact of life … if the Gamecocks got every single prospect in SC, they still wouldn’t have enough talent to compete in the SEC east. The best news of all for Georgia fans is the Stephen Garcia WILL be back for that Sept. 11th game. The next big game performance he delivers will be his first. As I watch the events of the last 24 hours unfold, I still believe that Georgia is lucky to have Mark Richt. And the reasons that I’m glad for that, are the same reasons why Georgia will be back on top of the SEC, and sooner rather than later.

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Fellow Dawg fans…

Don’t berate Bradley just because he’s (again) posted an unflattering article on the site about our beloved program; can we at least get some civil responses, with reasoned rationalizations instead of childish whines and put-downs?

He’s dead-wrong, and a few souls have managed to hit back with facts and stats that back up their assertions and combat his “gut feeling;” seek those posts out (not to toot my own horn, but what I wrote earlier, I think, bears fruit if anybody cares to comment on it), and let’s at least keep the conversation on a civilized level.

Do I think Mark Bradley’s got an anti-Georgia bias? Heck no. His job’s to increase clicks on the site and sell more copy of the AJC, so he presses folks’ buttons.

He’s just been so VERY wrong lately, and it just so happens alot of his erroneous thoughts have been about Georgia (re: Mark Fox).

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Mark, contact Pat Dooley with the Gainesville Sun and you’ll find out Urban Meyer has been in his office everyday since his “leave of absence” and will be coaching the spring game. So the SEC East is still the Gators to lose.

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South Carolina? Get real! Even with a bad D coordinator, Ga beat usc next year like a rented mule. Ga 38 usc 23

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Yes sir MB you might be right about Carolina….1st UGA can’t find anyone to take DC job, 2nd UF coach has chest pain..is panic attack or a heartattack, 3rd UT needs a coach or else most of the recruits will split..yeah you might be right this might be Steve Superiors’ year with Howling Chickens

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thinking about the UGA record this yr and what difference a quality DC would have made…Tommy Tuberville—said recently that he was surprised that CMR fired CWM as the problem was not with CWM…..But the defense was so poor…I don’t understand why TT said that……Now O-Line had problems particularly when Sturdivant when down and it took them a while to get the right combo of players…Running game was suspect until the latter 1/3 of season…QB play was inconsistent all yr and too many mistakes that reaked of inexperienced QB……….Certainly have to say that Defense being so soft gave up a lot of yards and points & did not create turnovers….Special teams was bad on the kickoffs to opposing teams…teams consistently starting at the 40 yard line and We had way too many penalities all the way around the team…Drew Butler was bright spot….UGA was still 8-4…which is good consider all the bad play. Damon did not do too good making out the schedule..playing Oklahoma State and getting beat—while UF is tuning up and killing Charleston..so looks like we have plenty of areas to work on……A good defense & we win against Kentucky & Oklahoma State…..we just got whipped by UF and Tennessee……But the good thing is the we can fix a lot of our problems….CMR has the ability to do this and let’s hope that he exercises the good judgment to do what it takes to get it done…I am thinking that he will and UGA will be improved….We just gotta get the QB’s ready and teach them not to make too many mistakes…they don’t have to play great, but just minimize mistakes and hopefully running game has big year.

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correction—UGA 8-5…not 8-4 this year..my bad

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South Carolina? Seriously? Just when i was begining to think Shultz was a bigger moron than you, you go and write nonsense such as this. by the way, have you ever played a sport, any sport? hackey sack doesn’t count?

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Mark, didn’t UGA just beat USC this year? Didn’t USC have an experienced quarterback this year compared to Cox who never started in SEC play? Didn’t USC have an experience DC this year to outmatch CWM? I think all of us on this blog are certain that UGA quarterback play AND DC will be better this season than it was last! Richt will not hire anyone who’s worse than Martinez. And either of the two freshmen will be an upgrade over Cox after the spring and summer practice. So if UGA replaced their two greatest weaknesses last season (a season that they beat USC) how could you possibly imagine that USC will do something this year? The very year they’ve lost majority of their defensive tackles/sack in one player?

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Mark,

I wouldn’t exactly say that the 3 guys declined Richt’s offer because they saw more opportunity where they already were; they just saw more money. Kirby Smart of course is the only exception, as he would clearly not make a lateral move from a team that just won it all. But the other two simply saw the green that their current schools shoved in there face and made their decision. Richt has been going for really smart hires, but he’s just been unlucky.

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Bradley you are an idiot!

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gatorman – Murray breaks his leg his senior year of High School and now he is labeled injury prone. Good one!

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“Now, heaven help me, I see South Carolina as the program on the rise.” Now, heaven help us all, this utterance is from the best sports prognostigator in the South, with a sterling record of accuracy. Get real……………

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I personally think it is Vanderbilt!

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If we get to the SC game healthy at all positions…we are going to win 10-11 games regardless of defense.This is going to be the most loaded offensive team Richt has produced at UGA

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YEEEEEEHAWWWWWW !!!!!!! I’m REAL smart. Here’s somea mah typical rants :

Mark Bradley is an idiot
Mark Richt will hire a fine DC (after all, he was an excellent judge of Willie M.’s ability)
The Dawgs will be fine.
We’re the most prominent football program in the nation, right up there with So Cal, Alabama, Texas, Ohio State. Yeah, buddy.
Mark Bradley can’t write.
AJC is a piece of crap.

Now where’s the keys to mah pick-up ?

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Mark:

The old ball coach has certainly accomplisehed a lot in five years in Columbia. Finishing off a 7 and 6 seson with demoralizing losses to Clemson and UCONN show a program ready to launch.

Nice prediction! Now about that search for a defensive coach at GA Tech ….

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What makes you tick, Mark? In two years you’ve gone from annointing Georgia as the best team in the country to finding every fault you can in every aspect of the program. I thought your colleague Jeff Shultz wrote a pretty good column yesterday in assessing the situation. His piece was certainly pointed and not particularly flattering, but it was lot more thoughtful and measured than this absurd exercise in piling on that you just delivered.

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gatorman – I have friends in Tampa and they said he was never hurt.

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Be delusional then and don check your facts Yep!

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Mark – please let Ginger write for you. You are not very good at it.

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gatorman – my friends are more trustworthy then yours.

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The thing is if we can get a cheap DC then we will be able to build that indoor practice stadium sooner.

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Bama just showed the Nation that you can win big with a strong running game and a great D. You don’t need a seasoned QB if you have a ground attack. Wasn’t Bama’s QB a 1st year starter?

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Mark………are you smoking crack ?

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Mark,

Thanks for predicting a South Carolina title…history would suggest that you just guaranteed a UGA SEC East Title in 2010!

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Mark:
As you know I really enjoy your work but this time you have missed by a wide mile. I don’t think South Carolina will be able to overcome all of its problems this year. While it’s true they have a lot of starters returning, there doesn’t appear to be a real break through player on offense other than the QB, and the defense loses some major contributors.

Georgia on the other hand, has an extremely talented offensive team returning to help a young QB develop. Talent is also available on the defensive side of the ball. If you had the opportunity to listen to broadcasters this year, almost all of them referred to the smaller size and speed of SC players compared with those from the top tier of SEC teams. In other words, the overall talent level isn’t the same as at UGA, FLA etc.

In regard to the defensive coordinator position at Georgia, while it’s obvious CMR has struggled to find a replacement, he has gone after the leaders in the profession (something every Dawg fan has demanded) realizing his sell would be difficult. I really don’t see his tenure as damaged goods. Although the win total hasn’t been there, UGA is still posting winning seasons and winning bowl games.

I’m not blinded by my enthusiasm for CMR and UGA enough to think that they’ll win the SEC and national championships in 2010. But I do know that the coaches meeting is this week and that CMR will work to get a good DC in Athens. The off-season work by the coaches and players will dictate how well the team does next year, but I get a sense that CMR has had enough of the negative phone calls on Sunday nights, internet posts etc and that he will right this ship back into the winner’s circle!

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Florida will win the SEC East next year- NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. They’d probably even win it if Richt was their coach!

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Unlike the AJC sports department lineup, Coach Richt is aiming for the top Defensive Coaches out there. Nothing wrong with that.

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No you didn’t he’s still in Shreveport

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Bradley, maybe the AJC shouldn’t pay you anymore. You might be able to write like this:

http://blutarsky.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/did-mark-richt-forget-to-renew-his-aj-c-subscription/

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No one rational thinks Richt is inept. He’s a fantastic football coach. He simply got comfortable like Phillip Fulmer and hired the wrong guy a friend as DC and then they had a lot of guys especially on the offensive line that just didn’t pan out. UGA has as many skill position players as anyone in the country. The meat and potatos is where they have lacked and the technique is where they’ve really lacked. Anyone accusing Richt of being inept is either crazy or delusional. He’s just had a down period.

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Mark. Editors pushing you for more page hits?

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South Carolina has YET to develop a QB worth anything since Spurrier got to town. Some of that is not his fault. The guys they have are either immature or not very intelligent or motivated. Great Defense. Very good skill players…. abysmal at QB.

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(MikeInValdosta): Is this Catfish???

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During all this turmoil Florida continues to sign almost any top player they want. Dawgs, get a DC and start catching up with the Gators before it is WAY too late!

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Mark, I can never put a line on you. You’re worse then John Kerry waffling. First UGA is through, then they aren’t. I realize you’re inciting a riot to generate page views but dang. Schultz was an idiot this morning which I expect from him, Terrance the racist Moore blogs no more… but I do expect a little better from you.

Let’s be both honest and realistic about Mark’s search. The “offers” if you’ll call them that went like this:
Foster: “hello”
Richt: “Bud, Mark here, like to gauge your interest in being UGA’s DC?”
Foster: “Mark I’d love to talk about it.”- Hangs up calls Beamer
Beamer: “hello”
Foster:”Frank, UGA wants me, offered a bunch of cheese.”
Beamer: “Double the salary to stay and you’re Coach in Waiting”
Foster: “thanks I’ll tell Mark”

Same with Chavis… the search took 6 weeks because of Kirby. The UGA fan base, media, alums, booster and yes probably even Mark wanted Kirby. Period. And he was busy so instead of making overtures to other guys he didn’t want, he waited. And in order for Mark to survive this hire, he had to make Kirby say NO. If he’d skipped Kirby and aimed low the way Schultz seemed to endorse, and has a bad year he would be on the hot seat. As long as it’s Kirby, or at least Kirby said no, he can survive a sub-par “rebuilding” season next year.

You guys would have crucified him either way. And frankly most of us fans get it. But it still draws anger, which you want anyway. You didn’t crucify Paul Johnson for not hiring one yet. You didn’t crucify him for not firing him at the same time Mark did. Seems you think Tech is too fragile a program to handle criticism, but UGA is so strong that an outsider stroking the nerve is just what we need to unify the fanbase in support of Mark.

If you don’t think we are firmly behind our captain… go take a quick read through this blog and Jeff’s… you’ll get the picture. Mark, more-so than Kirby or anybody is…. is OUR guy!

Go Dawgs!!!

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SC will win the East. Of course the Bulldawg Spurrier haters will discount him but the fact is that Garcia was the second best passing QB and they are loaded on both sides of the ball. They will play UF in November for the East. Lattimore will lead the way running; Garcia throwing.

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Mark Bradley, sports commentator with the AJC, has been nominated as UGA’s favorite sports annalist of the year. Mr. Bradley is dearly beloved by the many fans of the bulldog nation, and regularly receives many positive comments on his blogs.

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What a surprise, Mark. More talk radio like trolling for page hits. How do you sleep at night? Do you ever wonder if your old journalism professors read your work?

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Mark: At long last, sir, have you no sense of shame? On a day in which all responsible sports journalists are (justifiably) inveighing against the exposure of one of the biggest phonies in the college ball universe, you (ever the smug, self-appointed “bad boy” of local sports journalism) giggle and maliciously direct your column against one of the few remaining decent and ethical head coaches in the game (universally regarded as such, and not just by us locals). Why? Why? Is it your own little fiefdom’s version of McCarthian witchhunt? Is it because (as you just congratulated DAWGGoneRight for pointing out) you get your pay/bonus/praise based on sheer number of blog comments, no matter their content or thoughtfulness? (If so, then, congratulations, you are officially just a shock jock.) I like to think it’s because you couldn’t get enough of poking sticks into anthills when you were a boy, but that’s just the romantic in me.

You truly hit a low point today. I hate it when “journalists” blithely call for someone’s job (as you have so often done), but today I wouldn’t disagree with any of the above comments suggesting that the ajc find a new (unsullied) voice for its blogs. There are many, many solid reporters (with writing flair and humor) in the blogosphere with huge fan bases that a smart paper might just want to snap up (e.g., Orson Swindle, David Hale, MGoBlog).

You really should feel ashamed. (Of course, I also feel a little ashamed myself today, because instead of finding some way to reach out to help the millions of earthquake victims in Haiti in today’s truly important story, here we all are acting like the sky is falling over this ultimately meaningless bullrot.)

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Kirk Herbstreit knows infinitely more about football than Mark Bradley. In his wisdom, he stated that South Carolina starts stong and then fades every year because they cannot recruit as much elite talent as other SEC schools and, consequently, they cannot compensate for injuries. Kirk has been right every year so far of Spurrier’s tenure.

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gatorman – FYI, our coach is not slowly dying a little bit every day like UM. Do you think he will make it till summer?

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SC Boy – lay off the drugs man!

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I have a comment. Fire Mark Bradley. Do your homework fool. If there is a program on the rise it would be Auburn. A tough search for a DC doesn’t make Richt inept or Georgia toxic. No one with any experience would say that. Name the winningest coaches in the last 10 years in major college football. Right. The biggest point, take your foolishness to Columbia, I hear the paper there is looking for someone to write a blog on trash collection in the suburbs. How can a paper based in GA keep you employed.

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[...] Mark Fox has been named the SEC’s Twitterer of the Year.5.  Mark Bradley of The AJC believes South Carolina is the program best set to benefit from the turmoil in the SEC East.  (He also links back to one of our stories so may find yourself [...]

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gatorman – are you sure about that? Did you speak to his doctor? BTW, I am friends with his doctor and know everything.

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…..Bradley is just utilizing the same cock logic used in Columbia.

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Kirby Smart has just scheduled an 11:00 press conference to announce that he still isn’t coming to UGA. Count on it, this is certain, there is no doubt, I’m not kiddin.

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Richt is a “ministry person”, not a “corporate person”.
…and just like all non-profit corporations, he has rendered himself jello.

Actually, below jello.

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Tons of posts = you’re doing your job. That does not make your inane ramblings any less hackneyed.

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Of all the bullsh!&%#&t I’ve read on the AJC site, this may take the cake. Bradley, I thought you were a sports writer not an emotional, fair weather fan. To take such a short sighted view of what is happening at UGA is completely miopic. Thankfully, the people commenting seem to be able to see that this is mindless drivel.

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2010 represents a brief opportunity in the SEC east for teams that aren’t UF. UF has an unbelievable recruiting class coming in this year and they get results out of their recruits. After 2010 you’ll likely be looking at another 3-4 yrs of UF winning the east. The window of opportunity will close quickly.

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Atl Dawg, thanks Atl Dawg

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Dont thank me Gatorman, he did it to himself.

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Wow, South Carolina as the breakout team in the East. I don’t know. Spurrier hasn’t exactly set anyone’s hair on fire in about a decade. I’ve been wondering how he keeps his job, because I’m pretty sure he wasn’t hired to lose 5-6 games each season. Don’t tell me about how USC (South) is a coaching graveyard, either – Lou Holtz had back-to-back 10-win seasons and Outback Bowl victories over Ohio State that shot that theory down. The right coach can get it done there, Spurrier just doesn’t seem to be the guy for whatever reason.

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I think the people who will benefit the most from all this are Mark Bradley and Jeff Schultz. The way things have gone in the last month, y’alls columns should practically write themselves.

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CMR is reportedly asking his first three choices if they have changed their mind.

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Someone actually said that South Carolina cost UGA the 2007 NT.

LOLOLOL!!!!!!!!

No, your crappy football team cost you two losses. And guess what, you guys CHOKED the next year when UGA was HIGHLY overrated.

WOOF WOOF WOOF!!!!!! We’re preseason number 1!!!!!!

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You obviously don’t know or have not talked to true UGA fans.

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“You obviously don’t know or have not talked to true UGA fans.”

That’s because no one wants to go into creepy trailer parks to find them.

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I wouldn’t want to enfringe on your territory Yep.

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MB is an idiot who only gets people to read his crap by dramatizing things that don’t mean much. Mark Richt is now hated by some Georgia fans? Seriously? For what? The man has ran one of the most respected programs in all of CFB. Who else has done that in the SEC? In our worst year, we still beat Tech. We’ve been to a bowl game every year since he’s been here. We’ve won SEC championships, went to BCS games, had many many many players sent to the NFL. Now, you’re telling me, Richt is on the hot seat because you think we can’t find a defensive coordinator to come to Athens?

The reality is that Richt went after some really exceptional DCs. It’s understandable why they sincerely considered coming but in the end, respectfully declined. Maybe Richt has more patience than his fanbase. If that’s the case, then the fan base needs to learn from the Dawgs’ head coach. Furthermore, you, Mark Bradley, need to get your head out of your ass and write something that’s actually intellectual, thought provoking, and worth reading.

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Atl Gator, thanks Atl Gator

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Dumb asses

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You media guys will say ANYTHING to have something to write. And just when I started to think you were above this, another stupid story from a lame journalist –from no other than the AJC. What a joke you are Bradley. South Carolina?? You forgot one small ingredient: TALENT, Bradley, TALENT. lol

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South Carolina in 2010 will be like Ole Miss of 2009. Ole Miss was returning their starting quarterback along with most of the other starters. They got a lot of preseason hype and everybody thought they were going to finally turn the corner. The same thing will happen to South Carolina. Mark, I bet you picked Ole Miss to win the SEC West in 2009.

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“South Carolina in 2010 will be like Ole Miss of 2009.”

You mean better than UGA?

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1980 – so 90 wins in 9 seasons isn’t a respectable amount of wins?

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South Carolina is and will always by just South Carolina, lou or The old ball coach will never make them any thing but South Carolina, a middle of the pack team.

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1980 – after reading your other post no need to answer my question. You have no creditability and obviously just being an idiot.

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“1980 – after reading your other post no need to answer my question. You have no creditability and obviously just being an idiot.”

Typical UGA fan. Ain’t none too bright.

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Hillbilly Deluxe – great comment – and probably true!

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Top ten college football wins.

1. Michigan: 872-297-38
2. Texas: 832-320-34
3. Notre Dame: 831-285-42
4. Nebraska: 827-337-41
5. Ohio State: 808-306-53
6. Penn State 801-349-43
7. Alabama: 799-316-43
8. Oklahoma: 788-300-53
9. Tennessee: 776-327-55
10. USC: 765-303-54

Where is UGA?

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Mark: Crap like this is why I cancelled my AJC. Yes and my bird knew best. You see when I wounld put the your article on the floor of my parrot’s cage he would start screaming Butt Head Butt Head over and over again. I flinally realized that he is right You are A Butt Head, Butt Head Butt Head.

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“PLEASE try and find something positive or SHUT UP.”

Athens is pretty nice. That’s about all UGA has to offer.

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““Ain’t none too bright” Can you please find an interpreter and repost please? Thanks!”

Sure, just head on over to the nearest trailer park, look for the UGA flags and stop to ask one of your brethren.

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Mark,

Look guys, the SEC East is shaping up to be one sorry conference division next season.

UF has lost a DC and more starting players than they want to even think about and Meyer’s hiatus is causing major second thoughts on their blue chips commits.

The Dawgs have no DC, lost some great talent to early departure to the NFL, have Bobo calling O plays and Richt in the hotseat for the first time in his life.

UT has lost…………….well, everything!

Vandy, KY and SC have as good a shot at winning it as any of the others.

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Mark is still and idiot, I’m just saying….

South Carolina, blah, blah, blah.

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Hyperbole.

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Bradley, just take it back man. Say you were having a bad day, you know, all this turmoil in the SEC. You just over analyzed this one. Most of us will forgive you, probably even Richt.

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“Look guys, the SEC East is shaping up to be one sorry conference division next season. ”

Now THAT is the first intelligent comment posted on this blog.

Alabama, LSU, Auburn(maybe, they just recruited some top players), Arkansas, Ole Miss and Miss State are all headed UP while the SEC East is headed……down.

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Mark Bradley—Tell it like it is.

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UGA should hire Vince Dooley as their DC.

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It’s only morons like you Bradley who make these kinds of assumptions and comments about our coach. Nobody that matters perceives him as “inept” or anything close to that. But please Coach, please hire someone (anyone) so this will all go away. It’s like the freaking OJ trial. It just goes on and on and on…

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Sorry Mark I must have overlooked that talent in the Papajohns Bowl. Sometime the Chattanooga rag is a better read!

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The prestige of UGA is possibly a tiny bit lower than Alabama due to its title history and current success, perhaps Florida due to its current success as well, but UGA is certainly on par with Tennessee, LSU, Auburn, and well above the rest of the SEC.

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“point well taken UGA is #11 behind USC. #11 isn’t close to being in the top 10 at all. Out of 119 Schools UGA is #11. That is certainly a middle of the pack team.

11.Georgia 732 389 54 .623 113 1175.”

Yep, and what do you clowns have to show for it?

Hell, GT has more National Titles than you gals do. Yet UGA fans always talk about how UGA is the top football school in JAWJAW!

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“so you live in a trailer park? How is that working out for you?”

Well, it’s fine right now. Your family says “Hi!”

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“The prestige of UGA is possibly a tiny bit lower than Alabama due to its title history and current success”

Bama=13 National Titles

UGA=1

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“but UGA is certainly on par with Tennessee, LSU, Auburn, and well above the rest of the SEC.”

Auburn is WAY above TN right now. They are about to sign the top running back in the country. Also, they are about to sign a 5 star QB. Just hope he doesn’t start stealing laptops again.

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“You just showed how uninformed and petty you are.”

That sums up UGA fans.

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“1980 – so would you say that TECH has a better football program then UGA?”

Uh……yeah.

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Mark Bradley is a troll. The AJC sucks…

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Mark, I have read you for years, since you came to Atlanta, in fact, and have almost always either agreed with you or been able to at least glimpse your point of view. South Carolina? Really? Richt as ‘inept’? Really? After a year where he went 8-5? Keep in mind that this team, like the ‘07 team, found their running game well into the season, which bodes well for helping Murray, Gray or whomever is qb next year. Do you really think this Pennington guy knows his elbow from third base?
You seem to indicate that Richt has forgotten how to coach, or that the game has passed him by. He’s 50 and only two years removed from a #2 finish, your argument sounds weaker that OJ’s and you don’t have Johnny Cochran to make it for you. Not your best effort, my friend.

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1980 – your credibility is lacking my friend. If you are going to post on here at least do some research first. UGA has 2 NC’s not 1. You aren’t representing our fans very well if Bama is who your team is.

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Fact: No one talks about UGA outside of Georgia. UGA is considered the Cleveland Browns of college football.

Trust me, I know.

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What pray tell will SC use for a football team? UConn, a second rate team from a second rate conference gave the Poultry a football clinic!I GUARANTEE UGA will beat SC or whoever Bradley’s dartboard choice is to win the east!

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Hey Mark Bradley – You’re inept and the AJC is a sinking ship… Is this the National Inquirer?

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Another swell article written by a jacka$$ at the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation! You’re a Moron Bradley!

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There has to be a spreadsheet somewhere at the AJC logging the negative article competition between Schultz and Bradley, with a column listing the number of bites they get from irate Dawg fans. Right now I’d say Bradley by a nose. Who knows what they will come up with next, how about “Russ had a sex change operation”. It would be about as interesting reading.

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“Another swell article written by a jacka$$ at the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation! You’re a Moron Bradley!”

Yep, the entire country respects UGA fans! Yep.

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“You have to be the biggest LOSER I have ever seen on ANy of these posts! you must have a sweet job to posts so many posts that u do. It is obvious that there is a hint of jealousy on your part by how much you are saying. By a gun and pull the trigger, loser!”

Yep, you must be a UGA grad. You can’t spell or write a complete sentence.

I guess that’s what UGA will do to a person.

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Bradley was fisted by Jan Kemp, he holds a grudge…..

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1980, Who talked about Bama before Last year this whole Decade, and ya’ll better not get to comfortable over there. Remember Les Miles and LSU? That # 1 class they had last year been marinating quietly. At best Bama is second place in the West next year. Remember your QB is the Buck Belue of this Decade. Just hand it off and let Mark run!

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JUST A REMINDER. HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHA

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1980 – who is your team?

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“1980 – who is your team?”

The Pittsburgh Steelers.

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1990. Tech. Dumbazz. Unless you’re a newbie sidewalk ‘Bama fan. And if you are, your team hadn’t done anything in almost a decade before Nicky “I’m the original Lane Kiffin” Saban came slithering in.

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he hides his love of anal pain at the hands of jan in each post its a manifestation of his desire to be dominated by a uga alum in drag…

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“Tech. Dumbazz. Unless you’re a newbie sidewalk ‘Bama fan. And if you are, your team hadn’t done anything in almost a decade before Nicky “I’m the original Lane Kiffin” Saban came slithering i”

Yep, and we still have 12 more national titles than you gals.

Oh, and UGA has not won one in over 30 years.

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“Ok so you discount UGA’s title in 1942 because it was so long ago. So using your logic, 2 of Tech’s titles were before 1930 so those wouldn’t count either. So that would mean UGA has a better football program then TECH based on more recent history. I see!”

And your point being what?

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“Bet you are from Steeler town…yea right… Um Mom called and said get off the computer and get to your homework.”

Nope, I am from Georgia.

Yes, I know your mom called. Please tell her to stop calling me. She’s embarrassing herself and you for that matter.

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What shots will Mark & Schultz throw at UGA & CMR in tomorrow’s blog? Many more like this and Mark won’t be writing for the AJC much longer. At least Schultz is funny.

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“well I feel like an idiot arguing college football with you. No wonder you sound like you have no clue about college football. It is because you are NFL guy. I was beginning to wonder but know it makes sense.”

Yeah, you know, with the Steelers having just won the all-time Super Bowl win record, what would I know about football?

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Florida will be dominant again – Meyer is not leaving, Brantley will fill in Tebow’s shoes well, and Rivals, Scout, and ESPN all rank our class at No. 1.

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“Any student of the SEC would have to go with Georgia over South Carolina in the SEC any year over the last several, and for 2010. to say otherwise, is inept common sense.”

Yeah, since Georgia lost to Kentucky…..sheesh, yeah, they WILL beat South Carolina.

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“National Championships in Football are only recognized by the NCAA after 1930. Claimed championships are at all institutions because writers that are not recognized did give out championships to schools. If everyone went by claimed instead of consensus, UGA would have 5 NCs to Techs 4.”

And Auburn would have 13. But sadly, they only have 3.

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“let me slow down for you, earlier you said TECH had a better football program then UGA but then discounted UGA’s 1942 Tile because it was so many years ago. Two of Tech’s titles are from before 1930. So using your logic UGA has a better football program then Tech does.”

You really aren’t good with sarcasm, are you?

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“It isn’t a question of course you agree but you are going to respond no because you are like a 10 year old kid and want to be ignorant.”

Well, considering you’ve called me how many names? I figured you were the 10 year old.

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“I didn’t see that you didn’t know anything about the NFL and the Steelers. I am sure you do.”

You didn’t see? Huh, you really are bad with grammar ain’t cha!

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Haha so is 1980 a Bama fan that just got a computer?? Or a UT fan that is obviously in shock after that loser bailed on them??

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Yes, I know your mom called. Please tell her to stop calling me. She’s embarrassing herself and you for that matter.

LOL My 88 year old mother is chasing the young girls again. Bet she just wants to wipe your snotty nose…. She would be proud that she is the subject of a blog..not that she would know what one is….

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1980- I do apoligize for typing see instead of say. Will you forgive me?

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“My 88 year old mother is chasing the young girls again. Bet she just wants to wipe your snotty nose…. She would be proud that she is the subject of a blog..not that she would know what one is….”

Sounds like your family should be on Springer.

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“I do apoligize for typing see instead of say. Will you forgive me?”

I was never mad at you.

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Ah, Bradley. Shame on you for for daring to say what you think. You know by now that criticism, even though it be unintended, riles the faithful up. As my old 5th grade teacher used to say, “Hit dog hollers.” No pun intended. You know there are a lot of “crazies” out there, especially in Atlanta, and I bet some hold a grudge. Perhaps you should couch your observations and conclusions in a more discrete and less irritating manner in the future.

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“Every year all I hear from you is that Georgia Tech will have a stand-out year & Georgia will be mediocre at best…”

GT did have a stand out year…..and UGA had a crappy year……as usual.

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Whoa, since when did Bama fans get on ajc?…

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“Whoa, since when did Bama fans get on ajc?…”

Since we learned what a computer be! Yee haw!

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1980 – we rolled over Tech you moron! Did you even watch that game?

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1980- so who do the Steelers play this weekend?

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who’s “we”? I don’t even know who you’re for.

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Lanier Dawg

Actually the NCAA does not recognize any FBS college football champions because there is no NCAA sanctioned championship or tournament event for FBS football. Thats why BCS champions get a crystal football and not a real NCAA championship trophy like other sports.

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“who’s “we”? I don’t even know who you’re for.”

Roll Tide, Roll!!!!!

War Damn Eagle!!!………

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Mark have you lost your mind or is it just wishful thinking on your part. UGA is in an excellent position to challenge UF. USC no way.

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“What was the score of the UGA/Auburn football game last time they played?”

31-24

And your point?

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“UGA is in an excellent position to challenge UF.”

Yep, and UGA was preseason number one, too……..

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No worries — might just be my internet connection or something.

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“I’d put Georgia down for third in East.”

I’d put Georgia down for Fifth in the East.

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The Georgia fans who can’t keep themselves from responding to these blogs are clueless. Bradley and the rest of the gang have to get webhits and comment posts to justify their existence and hopefully advertising for the paper, that’s the bottom line. If you want to force these guys to write interesting, worthwhile stuff, boycott them for awhile.

In the meantime, you will get one provoking, snarky opinion blog post after another, because that’s what gets so many idiots out of the woodwork to respond!

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Mark, you need to put some money down on Terence Moore writing better articles than you because you’d be a rich man right about now…

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“Let me guess you were a Auburn fan up until they started losing a bunch of games”

Um…..Auburn went to a better bowl than UGA. They also beat the team that beat the team that beat GT in the Orange Bowl.

Just sayin…

Auburn had one bad year in how long?

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Richt is 20-2 when Georgia rushes for 200 yards.

Next year, we return 10 out 11 offensive players. Lineman, WR’s TE’s, RB’s, all top rated in the country.

King & Ealey very impressive in last 5 games. Both are averaging over 5 ypc, LSU or Fla could not stop Ealey.

Georgia will be undefeated or go 13-1 if we get 200 yards rushing a game, NO MATTER WHO OUR DEFENSIVE COORDIANTOR IS, so chill out.

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1980, thanks for pointing out that Georgia is the 11th winningest football program in the nation. Out of 120. That’s top 10%, 91st percentile, pretty good any way you look at it.

And the point you were trying to make is that Georgia sucks? I think you just proved the exact opposite.

Keep talking, boy.

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“thanks for pointing out that Georgia is the 11th winningest football program in the nation. Out of 120. That’s top 10%, 91st percentile, pretty good any way you look at it.

And the point you were trying to make is that Georgia sucks? I think you just proved the exact opposite.”

Yep, and out of those 11 teams, GA has…………..1 national championship. Poor puppy dawgs.

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1980 UGA has won four in a row against Auburn! You must be a Tech fan because you have no clue about SEC football. If Auburn has been doing so great than why did they fire their HC two years ago? Just saying

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“And I suspect that 1980 is not his/her birth year. Rampant immaturity such as that would have run it’s course by now.”

Wow, you get the award for most obvious observation! 1980 was me mocking the last time UGA won a national title.

Oh, and speaking of obnoxious, be sure to pick up your drunk students and take them home with you the next time Bama destroys your puppy dawgs.

Thanks

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4 in a row against Auburn.
8 or 9 against tech.
2 sec titles this decade
46-39 All time against florida
90-27 Richt’s winning as head coach

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Wow, I didn’t know a journalist (sic) could be a troll. I-75 runs straight to Lexington.

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“GA has won four in a row against Auburn! You must be a Tech fan because you have no clue about SEC football. If Auburn has been doing so great than why did they fire their HC two years ago? Just saying”

1: And Auburn still went to a better bowl game, went undefeated and claimed the 2004 national title.

2: Tech? You is none too bright! Like I stated earlier, I went to U of Alabama. You know, the school that just won its 13th national title?

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Well this Bulldog fan for one isn’t in the dumps at all. I always thought it was a longshot to get Smart to move from Alabama. Not that we couldn’t make the GA position attractive enough, but rather that Alabama was unlikely to let him go without a fight. No matter how much money we could throw Kirby’s way Alabama was bound to at least match it, and as far as building street cred towards his own head coaching job, he could do alot worse than DC at #1 Alabama or any #1 team for that point. The Bulldogs will get their man, someone who wants to be there for all the right reasons. There is a lot more talent out there than people believe, unproven maybe, but talent all the same. Coach Richt you’re still number one with me!! GO DAWGS!!

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1980
Thanks for the japes. Very humorous, they never even knew.

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What’s the deal with little Kirby Smart?

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it’s the curse of larry munson…uga record since his retirement is atrocious…come back larry!

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If Mark Richt took Mark Bradley’s advice then he would panic and hire Lane Kiffin. Lucky for all the Dag fans out there that he is a strong enough person to ignore the criticism and not just go run out and find the first sucker off the street that would say yes. He has been patient, diligent and I know will get UGA the best possible D Coordinator there is out there.

Bradley – You could also look at this time of transition and say that Richt is about to do something big as he has in the past after down seasons. Look at his track record and write something original instead of the popular opinion of what is happening!

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UGA Alumn,

Just to add insult to injury, your home boy Vince Dooley went to Auburn. You know, the guy who brought you clowns your last national title 30 years ago.

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“Yep, and out of those 11 teams, GA has…………..1 national championship. Poor puppy dawgs.”

Actually 2, but since national titles at the 1-A level are only mythical, who cares? Georgia trails Alabama and Tennessee (one less) in the SEC title race. If we’re going to talk titles, let’s discuss real ones.

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