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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KB
October 9th, 2010
1:18 pm
MY GOD AND MY GOD
Mark Bradley
October 9th, 2010
1:18 pm
How about that? Muffed punt, snatched by UGA in the air
CDAWG
October 9th, 2010
1:18 pm
oh my goodness!!!!
Andy
October 9th, 2010
1:19 pm
Wow.
Jimmy
October 9th, 2010
1:19 pm
Man that ball is bouncing our way today.
Aggressiveness pays off!
45ACP
October 9th, 2010
1:19 pm
Well that was easy. Big play.
Cuz
October 9th, 2010
1:19 pm
Oh my God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
uga1989
October 9th, 2010
1:19 pm
Sounds like an indictment of O. Hale Almand Jr. to me. Go peddle your wares elsewhere, troll.
pbj
October 9th, 2010
1:19 pm
I can’t believe the Tn mistakes
Jimmy
October 9th, 2010
1:19 pm
That should be a facemask penalty. 15 yrd.
OoltewahDawg
October 9th, 2010
1:19 pm
Dawgs recover fumble on punt. Is the ball bouncing our way or what!
Saluki Mike
October 9th, 2010
1:19 pm
Next time comes quickly.
SOS Dawg
October 9th, 2010
1:19 pm
can you say muffed punt?
Andy
October 9th, 2010
1:20 pm
That was a horrific facemask.
Cuz
October 9th, 2010
1:20 pm
Good facemask call.
Rico
October 9th, 2010
1:20 pm
You Dawg fans who keep repeating “30-24″ like a mantra enjoy yourselves all you want. The thing is… Tech alumni and fans have lives that don’t depend entirely on what a bunch of kids does on Saturday afternoons. College sports are fun to follow, but the biggest reason for going to college is to get an education.
UGA fans don’t seem to care about anything but football, and they don’t care if their players are enrolled in silly majors that no parents who are paying the bills would send their kids to UGA for. The very few football and basketball players who graduate have no job opportunities and end up unemployed or working in menial jobs that hardly require a college degree.
Georgia Tech is a real school with serious academic standards, and that includes scholarshipped athletes. UGA has a long history of being a party school, where parents send their kids for an easy degree, even if the degree itself is practically worthless.
Jan Kemp exposed the crap going on at UGA with athletes being enrolled in courses a ten-year-old kid could pass. That was almost three decades ago, and nothing has changed. If anything, the abuses are more blatant today. Way too many illiterate morons are being recruited, and the very high arrest rate shows clearly that Richt does not care if his players have any morals or self-discipline.
The bottom line is that most Tech fans have very good jobs and productive lives that don’t depend on Tech’s football record for their happiness in life. It would be great to beat UGA more often, but when you put scholar-athletes up against dummy-athletes, it’s usually no contest.
It’s pretty pathetic to see UGA fans who typically have never been within miles of a college classroom and who live or die with UGA’s weekly results on the football field.
So keep on posting your “30-24″ all you want, especially since you’re home with plenty of time on your hands. I wish you well, maybe you’ll get lucky and get your old job back at the Waffle House before your unemployment checks stop coming.
Mark Bradley
October 9th, 2010
1:20 pm
Nice fake and pass to Aron White
Jimmy
October 9th, 2010
1:20 pm
Pretty.
45ACP
October 9th, 2010
1:20 pm
The ball has been bouncing away from the Dawgs all season. Not today baby! Go Dawgs!
Cuz
October 9th, 2010
1:20 pm
You dropped the bomb on me baby. Cue the Gap Band.
Buzz
October 9th, 2010
1:21 pm
Who said little dooley doesn’t still have UGA allegiances? Sure seems to be putting the players out there to give UGA the game.
Dawg2010
October 9th, 2010
1:21 pm
That is one way to move the ball without Bobo.
SOS Dawg
October 9th, 2010
1:21 pm
give it to ealey…
KB
October 9th, 2010
1:21 pm
Nice play by murray and white
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Cuz
October 9th, 2010
1:21 pm
Hey Rico, 30-24.
Party school
October 9th, 2010
1:21 pm
Wow, how many gifts is UT gonna give?
Mark Bradley
October 9th, 2010
1:22 pm
Derek Dooley griping to the officials
45ACP
October 9th, 2010
1:22 pm
Rico = Uni Bomber Manifesto. hahahahaha
CDAWG
October 9th, 2010
1:22 pm
Rico, shut up, we are trying to enjoy our game. Get on your blog, oh wait you don’t have one because you are irrelevant!
CigarDawg
October 9th, 2010
1:22 pm
So nice to see us getting some breaks for a change. The attitude of the players seems to be so much more expectant than the past 4 weeks.
matthew
October 9th, 2010
1:23 pm
Hey douche… uh,I mean Rark Micht… isn’t there a train you can play chicken with?
Dawg 555
October 9th, 2010
1:23 pm
Rico…if you have better things to do on a Saturday afternoon, why the heck are you writing a book on our blog. Go engineer something else
Dawg2010
October 9th, 2010
1:23 pm
Da’ Rick Dooley
SOS Dawg
October 9th, 2010
1:23 pm
hope the dawgs get 7
Alphare
October 9th, 2010
1:24 pm
Has TN played Miss State yet? That would be an ugly game.
Mark Bradley
October 9th, 2010
1:24 pm
Dropped TD
Steve
October 9th, 2010
1:24 pm
RICO I have seen MANY of you Tech dorks post the score from TWO years ago. Get a life! UGA is also one of the best public schools in the country. Quit with your jealousy. It’s your own fault for choosing to go to a school surrounded by crime, has no women, and has a terrible football team who plays in a half empty high school stadium.
OoltewahDawg
October 9th, 2010
1:25 pm
Rico, if you really believed what you wrote, you wouldn’t be on UGA’s blog writing it. Get back to Tech’s blog, if you can stand them losing.
Mark Bradley
October 9th, 2010
1:25 pm
Washaun fumbles again — out of bounds
Jimmy
October 9th, 2010
1:25 pm
Ealey fumbles AGAIN in the red zone?
KB
October 9th, 2010
1:25 pm
Way to let mr fumble play at the goal line
Cuz
October 9th, 2010
1:25 pm
Someone keep the ball away from Ealey.
SOS Dawg
October 9th, 2010
1:25 pm
Ealey fumble ha ha how stupid Boo Boo?
Mark Bradley
October 9th, 2010
1:25 pm
Chop block on Georgia
matthew
October 9th, 2010
1:25 pm
Hey Rico – most Georgia fans make a few comments and like to hang out here, not write polemics about why they are better than people enjoying a football game. You’re the type of person that causes Georgia fans to consistently berate and insult you.
You suck, go troll someplace else.
SOS Dawg
October 9th, 2010
1:26 pm
CHOKE again
45ACP
October 9th, 2010
1:26 pm
Just more room for Murray to work his magic.
Dawg2010
October 9th, 2010
1:26 pm
Ealey should never touch the ball again! EVER!
zondy
October 9th, 2010
1:26 pm
another run to short side, another fumble by ealey, another drop by king, seems like we see this a lot