Live from Athens: Will the Big Orange get to party in the UGA?
There's a clash of colors beyond the hedges. (Photo by M.B.)
Athens – Earlier this week I posed the musical question, “Where did it all go wrong for Mark Richt?” Walking into Sanford Stadium this morning, I got the musical answer.
The Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana song “Party in the USA” was playing over the stadium’s PA, and nobody who has followed Georgia football can hear that song without wincing. Not because the song is awful — it isn’t, and this is coming from someone who has seen Miley/Hannah in person — but because of the unfortunate orientation video in which the Bulldogs’ coach had a cameo.
Richt has since rued his participation, describing the “Party in the UGA” video as “awful.” But I respectfully submit that nothing has been the same for this program since Richt partook of the infamous “party.”
Today Georgia plays Tennessee, which is coached by Derek Dooley, whose dad was the greatest UGA coach ever and who hired Richt. Vince Dooley has said he won’t attend today’s game but will root (for his son) from his famous home on Milledge Circle. And if Richt loses to young Dooley, the current Georgia coach might not attend next week’s game or any thereafter.
OK, I’m exaggerating. Richt isn’t getting canned no matter what happens here. But what happens here will go a ways toward determining Richt’s quality of life going forward. As bad as it has been for the Bulldogs, imagine if they lost at home to an even worse bunch of Vols coached by the offspring of Vincent and Barbara.
Enough. I can’t imagine it. And I don’t think it will happen. I think Georgia will beat Tennessee. I also think it had darn well better.
(Speaking of Barbara Dooley: She’s here. She’s wearing, if you can believe it, red slacks and an orange sweater.)
And with that, the floor is open for comments, questions and nominations for Georgia’s next coach. (Kidding! I’m a kidder!) I’ll be here all day, and I’d appreciate if you’d … er, join the party. Speaking of which:
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45ACP
October 9th, 2010
1:45 pm
Ball on the ground, ball on the ground, lookin like a fool with the ball on the ground.
OoltewahDawg
October 9th, 2010
1:45 pm
Draw play got about half of what they needed. Punt time
Mark Bradley
October 9th, 2010
1:45 pm
A blocked punt would finish this drill
Vance Duuley
October 9th, 2010
1:46 pm
Why did the TV announcers just show a tribute to Vince Dooley? Dooley was just a two-bit sleazebag who created the football factory in Athens that Jan Kemp courageously exposed.
Dooley should be in the Football Hall of Shame.
UGA TOO SCARED TO PLAY BAMA
October 9th, 2010
1:46 pm
can uga get their second win of the season?
Mark Bradley
October 9th, 2010
1:46 pm
Halftime. UGA by 20 pts.
OoltewahDawg
October 9th, 2010
1:47 pm
Take a knee into the half
KB
October 9th, 2010
1:47 pm
looks like Richt is giving Todd an earful
45ACP
October 9th, 2010
1:47 pm
I like the attitude. Keep it up Dawgs.
JB
October 9th, 2010
1:47 pm
where’s this team been all year……………………or is UT that baddddddddddddddddddd……?
Precious
October 9th, 2010
1:48 pm
In the 1986 Jan Kemp trial, O. Hale Almand Jr., a lawyer for UGA, offered a justification for the favorable treatment accorded the athletes, citing a hypothetical player. “We may not make a university student out of him,” he told the jury, “but if we can teach him to read and write, maybe he can work at the post office rather than as a garbageman when he gets through with his athletic career.”
That trial exposed UGA for the football factory that it was, and exposed Vince Dooley as a fraud and a sleazebag. It also derailed Dooley’s plans for a political career. That’s why we see the decrepit old fraud doing TV commercials even now.
Mark Richt is just the latest in a line of sleazy UGA coaches who coddle athletes and discard them after four years of football. He recruits illiterate morons he knows aren’t smart enough for college, but he doesn’t care, as long as they help him line his pockets with millions of dollars each year.
Suntanned Saint Mark isn’t all he appears to be, is he?
Party school
October 9th, 2010
1:48 pm
This game is for cheerleaders. There’s no competition from UT at all. I don’t mind if the dawgs win but I wanted to see a game. What else is on?
pbj
October 9th, 2010
1:48 pm
Ga played a great half and turned every turnover into points
JB
October 9th, 2010
1:49 pm
WE STILL can’t run the ball….
pbj
October 9th, 2010
1:50 pm
Tn has not solved the blitz all day
UGA the 8th I am
October 9th, 2010
1:50 pm
Mark Richt is giving the refs an earful…. Says his players are getting roughed up… Come on CMR Man up its smash mouth football…
UGA TOO SCARED TO PLAY BAMA
October 9th, 2010
1:50 pm
Vols are that bad,,,,don’t get too excited girls
GTBob
October 9th, 2010
1:51 pm
Hmm, I thought UT would at least put up a fight today. They are pretty awful.
Jimmy
October 9th, 2010
1:51 pm
This team looks better today.
It is not just about our opponent.
They are playing hard.
They are wrapping up.
They are tackling the ball.
The D looks better.
The team is playing with more fire.
UGA the 8th I am
October 9th, 2010
1:51 pm
Barbara is making an undie change at halftime….
OoltewahDawg
October 9th, 2010
1:52 pm
Precious, are you from Ga Tech? You should know that UGA’s standards for athletes are now higher than every SEC team but Vanderbilt.
ryan
October 9th, 2010
1:52 pm
Who care what you haters think we Dawgs fans have to something to cheer about so what if there no competition AJ Green is the man .
Dawg2010
October 9th, 2010
1:52 pm
Barbara Dooley is a buffoon.
amb
October 9th, 2010
1:52 pm
what was CMR yelling at TG for
pbj
October 9th, 2010
1:53 pm
It appears that ga is playing their best game of the yera
and Tn is playing their worst game of the year
UGA TOO SCARED TO PLAY BAMA
October 9th, 2010
1:54 pm
Georgia 1 win and on SEC TV Again. SWEET!
UGA the 8th I am
October 9th, 2010
1:56 pm
TG was letting some words fly…. CMR told him dont do dat no mo…
UGA TOO SCARED TO PLAY BAMA
October 9th, 2010
1:56 pm
Ron Zook beat Mart Richt too.
Jerry
October 9th, 2010
1:56 pm
A few plays that won’t show up on the stat sheet.
a) Gray’s 30+ yard punt return
b) Murray’s had 2 td passes dropped (AJ & King)
c) Ealey’s fumble
DJ Hall is an upstanding man
October 9th, 2010
1:57 pm
UGA has beat Alabama 3 out of the last 4. Alabama fans tend to forget how awful they were not too long ago. Get ready to lose tonight to South Carolina.
amb
October 9th, 2010
1:57 pm
UGA needs a coach with some fire! TG had those guys fired up week 1. since they have looked like crap. maybe TG needs to tell CMR to piss off!!!!!!!!!!
MVP
October 9th, 2010
1:57 pm
Ron Zook beat Mark Richt
Party school
October 9th, 2010
1:58 pm
Mark, what’s the time of possession look like? Is it as bad as I think it is? Say 22 min to 8.
Mike
October 9th, 2010
1:58 pm
Ok, perhaps the recent onslaught on articles by certain writers about Mark Richt’s inability to coach, were, let’s say, mistaken.
San Francisco Dawg
October 9th, 2010
1:58 pm
Grantham called a timeout and Richt wanted the clock to run out…I think Grantham is right…we would have had 20 to run two or more plays…Richt can’t even coach a big league…
Danton
October 9th, 2010
1:59 pm
It’s kind of sad to see all the Dawg fans getting so excited this year (just like the year before, the year before that, etc.). How long is it going to take for UGA fans to realize that UGA is simply no longer relevant in the SEC? In the national picture, UGA isn’t even a blip on the radar, and hasn’t been since the preseason #1 ranking two years ago.
Sit back and be grateful for the seven or eight wins you’ll get every year. Coaching genius Mark Richt may take you to 8-4 or even 9-3 occasionally, but Florida will still win the SEC, meaning no BCS bowls and no top 10 final ranking. Most years, UGA will be very lucky to finish in the top 25, and only after a big bowl win over a nobody opponent.
It’s a different world now, and Dawg fans need to adjust their expectations downward to reflect reality.
Unfortunately nothing is going to change until UGA changes its mediocre coaching. That’s where the difference is, and that’s why everyone outside Dawgtard Nation just laughs at Dawg fans getting so excited year after year about what a great recruiting class UGA gets. It doesn’t matter how many blue chip high school players go to UGA, they simply don’t get the coaching they would get at Florida or Alabama, to name two schools whose programs are far ahead of UGA. And that’s not going to change as long as Mark Richt is in Athens.
Get your heads out of the sand and face reality. And mediocrity and irrelevance.
Mike
October 9th, 2010
1:59 pm
Walsh’s kicks goin out of the end zone, Butler’s booming, offense is socring, and defense is forcing turnovers.
Might be a nice season after all.
Heath
October 9th, 2010
2:00 pm
The nerds can cut and paste their little diatribes like nobody’s business. Do you guys actually saves those things in word or something?!? LMAO!!!
Get a new script. And hope you enjoyed your one victory for the decade over us two years ago.
amb
October 9th, 2010
2:00 pm
UGA will be doomed if we don’t step on their throats. they need to score everytime they touch the ball
Annis
October 9th, 2010
2:02 pm
Ealey, king, and Green are gone. UGA just dismissed them from the university and the football team.
Buh bye, dawgtards!
RRT
October 9th, 2010
2:02 pm
CMR is going to wash TG’s mouth out with soap and make him go to sunday school tomorrow if he keeps on talking dirty to the players since their virgin ears have never heard such vulgar things in their sheltered lives.
SOUTHGADAWG88
October 9th, 2010
2:03 pm
We need to hang 50 on these guys.Exorcise some demons
Dawg 555
October 9th, 2010
2:04 pm
Danton…..you had better get your head out of the sand if you think Fla will win the SEC. You want to get ripped a new one by the Tide again…or wasn’t once enough?
45ACP
October 9th, 2010
2:04 pm
Spew your poison and hate elsewhere Grima Wormtongue.
pbj
October 9th, 2010
2:04 pm
Mark I never realized how many coaches you have here on your blog
Must be tough to write for this knowledgeable crowd eh?
Mark Bradley
October 9th, 2010
2:05 pm
Time of possession: Tennessee 14:11, Georgia 15:49.
Mark Bradley
October 9th, 2010
2:06 pm
We’re hoping to get Leslie Miles on here, pbj.
Mike
October 9th, 2010
2:06 pm
Grantham’s D won’t be giving up 45 to Tenn like Willie did last year.
I’m thinking Tenn scores less than 22. Georgia goes above 40.
Derek Dooley
October 9th, 2010
2:06 pm
looks like i picked a bad week to quit taking prozac
pbj
October 9th, 2010
2:06 pm
Ga has had field position all day short fields too