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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Mark Bradley
October 9th, 2010
1:11 pm
Georgia picks up the blitz. Crowd wants interference. Mike Bobo as well
Saluki Mike
October 9th, 2010
1:11 pm
Maybe not.
SOS Dawg
October 9th, 2010
1:11 pm
can we just get 7 damn yards?
pbj
October 9th, 2010
1:11 pm
good no call
D Jackets
October 9th, 2010
1:11 pm
Now it’s a game. If Tenn can make a stop, GA may revert to previous form. I think this may the hardest I’ve ever rooted for GA to lose a game, besides when they play the Jackets!
SOS Dawg
October 9th, 2010
1:11 pm
tenn will make it 17 – 14…… a new ball game folks
Dawg2010
October 9th, 2010
1:12 pm
What an answer to the Vols touchdown! Good job Bobo! Where is Carlton Thomas when you need a a quick run up the middle.
Saluki Mike
October 9th, 2010
1:12 pm
They do look like they have opened it up a bit.
OoltewahDawg
October 9th, 2010
1:12 pm
That looked more like Butler from last year
Mark Bradley
October 9th, 2010
1:12 pm
Interestingly (or perhaps not), both bands have played “Immigrant Song” in the past few minutes
D Jackets
October 9th, 2010
1:12 pm
Great they made the stop while I was typing. Go Vols!
Mark Bradley
October 9th, 2010
1:13 pm
Da’Rick Rogers catches pass, loses yards, gets booed
45ACP
October 9th, 2010
1:13 pm
Da Rick da lost 3 yards.
San Francisco Dawg
October 9th, 2010
1:13 pm
Who do we have on the bench who could replace Rambo who got beat on the tenn touchdown?
Cuz
October 9th, 2010
1:14 pm
todd, you look fired up out there.
Mark Bradley
October 9th, 2010
1:14 pm
Tenn. to punt. AJ not back. Gray makes a nice return.
But check the flag
OoltewahDawg
October 9th, 2010
1:14 pm
Good coverage on 3rd down. UT punting
Saluki Mike
October 9th, 2010
1:14 pm
UGA gets the ball back and will score this time.
SOS Dawg
October 9th, 2010
1:14 pm
flag
KB
October 9th, 2010
1:14 pm
Stupid penalties
OoltewahDawg
October 9th, 2010
1:14 pm
Logan finally runs a punt back and we get a block in the back.
45ACP
October 9th, 2010
1:15 pm
Look at Logan gooooooooo.
Oh well at least he didn’t call a fair catch.
zondy
October 9th, 2010
1:15 pm
Bobo only runs to the short side of the field, it’s amazing that we can even score with him calling plays. It’s hard to even watch UGA this year, I know nothing about play calling but I know what he is calling 80% of the time and that is not a good thing.
SOS Dawg
October 9th, 2010
1:15 pm
stupis stupid stupid
KB
October 9th, 2010
1:15 pm
read that one all day long, what a smack
Andy
October 9th, 2010
1:15 pm
Blew that up!
pbj
October 9th, 2010
1:15 pm
that’s how to tackle folks
Cuz
October 9th, 2010
1:16 pm
That’s gonna leave a mark.
Mark Bradley
October 9th, 2010
1:16 pm
Caleb King got lit up
Dawg2010
October 9th, 2010
1:16 pm
Da’Rick Rogers is Da’ man form the K’town!
Saluki Mike
October 9th, 2010
1:16 pm
Who’s your momma?
45ACP
October 9th, 2010
1:16 pm
Good hit by Tennessee.
Jimmy
October 9th, 2010
1:16 pm
Who missed that block?
CDAWG
October 9th, 2010
1:16 pm
WOW, how do we not block
SOS Dawg
October 9th, 2010
1:16 pm
Tenn freshman is whipping out OL
Mirk Racht
October 9th, 2010
1:16 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?
uga1989
October 9th, 2010
1:16 pm
Seriously, O line?
Mark Bradley
October 9th, 2010
1:16 pm
Now a penalty for encroachment on UGA — on AJ
SOS Dawg
October 9th, 2010
1:17 pm
back to normal
Mark Bradley
October 9th, 2010
1:17 pm
There’s Orson C.
Gamecock Forever
October 9th, 2010
1:17 pm
Why do all the bucketheads from UGA talk smack AFTER they win a game?
Mark Bradley
October 9th, 2010
1:18 pm
There wasn’t Orson C.
Punt
Saluki Mike
October 9th, 2010
1:18 pm
Well maybe they will score next time.
Jimmy
October 9th, 2010
1:18 pm
Ok…Let’s go D
KB
October 9th, 2010
1:18 pm
Tn starting to hold us
Dawg2010
October 9th, 2010
1:18 pm
Orson Hodges?
Rark Micht
October 9th, 2010
1:18 pm
I’ve never understood how anyone – even an alumnus – could support and take pride in UGA’s football team. When you look at their history for the past forty years, how can anyone ignore Jan Kemp and the “remedial studies” scam, the Jim Harrick fiasco, the DUIs in the athletic office, the DUIs and other arrests of players, the #1 party school tag (i.e., the most drunk students), the suspensions and outright dismissals, the Fulmer Cup, and on and on?
As disgraceful and humiliating as it is, I don’t see many alums and fans demanding an end to this sordid activity. It sets UGA apart as the kind of school most people abhor, and it’s become an embarrassment to the whole state of Georgia.
Will it never end? Apparently not while Mark Richt is at UGA. Richt is perhaps the biggest hypocrite in the United States. But even with all the cheating and lawlessness that he ignores, he still can’t win the SEC.
So you’re paying him to be BCS champions, but he can’t even win his SEC division. So why do you pay him millions of dollars a year?
Just asking.
45ACP
October 9th, 2010
1:18 pm
Kick it a mile Butler!
SOS Dawg
October 9th, 2010
1:18 pm
pathetic series
pbj
October 9th, 2010
1:18 pm
both defenses settling down