Head-scratcher: Aaron Murray has been great, yet UGA is 5-6

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Simple Mark, it boils down to a few key turnovers at inopportune times (e.g. Ealey’s fumble at SC, CK4’s fumble at CO) coupled with some hug plays allowed by the defense (e.g. Arkansas, Gaytors).

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It’s all Auburn’s fault if you read some of the other blogs. Nick Fairley and Cam Newton have caused the Bulldogs to have a bad season because they are cheaters and play dirty. What ever.

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its cause Georgia has no defense.

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The defense is not where it should be, don’t have the players for the system yet. When you score 30 points a game you should win.CTG needs a couple of years to get his style of players in.

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Being the genius that you are Bradley, if you can’t figure it out, nobody can.

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Murray has the best receiver in football. Sure he was out 3 games, but still.

Also, and this is a fact but many will say it ain’t so but the sec east is very down this year. Tenn and vandy are awful. Colo has no defense. And you played to cupcakes. So it’s easy to see why he has great stats. Tech will only make them better.
But next year losing Green and Durham will hurt and I think it will be a sophmore slump big time.

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Mark, it boils down to DISCIPLINE.

Under Mark Richt, the Dawgs have no discipline, because they do not fear (respect) him.

They have no discipline on the field. They have no discipline off the field.

This also goes against the strength and conditioning coach, too, who is supposed to be the guy besides the head coach who fosters and grows the discipline of the team.

It is BEYOND time for Mark Richt to fire VanHallinger, but he’ll NEVER do it. They’re closer than brothers, far closer than he and Soft Willie were.

Also, Richt’s idiotic decision to do away with two-a-days played right into all the late game collapses this team has had over the course of this season.

This team is soft and undisciplined. A piss-poor reflection on the head coach and the strenght and conditioning coach.

I think they both need to go. We already know McGarity doesn’t have the stones to make the right move with Richt, so Richt needs to make the right move and fire VanHallinger.

Too bad he won’t. He has a vast history of putting personal relationships before the good of the program.

Which is why Richt DOES NOT deserve to be the head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs, no matter what moron blind homers who are frakking cowards who fear change (quite possibly the most irrational and illogical fear of all) might say.

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It’s been the defense, pure and simple. Look past the statistics. In three losses – South Carolina, Miss. State and Auburn – Georgia could not get the other team’s offense off the field, even though only Auburn scored a ton of points. But the offensive domination in time of possession during those games limited Georgia’s opportunities on offense. That’s why they didn’t score more against S.C. and MSU. Grantham needs more time. Anybody calling for his job after one year is an idiot. As for the Colorado loss, it will never be explained.

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2011 schedule

OOC: louisville,Coastal Carolina, New Mexico State at GT
SEC: SC,MSU,KY,AU-at home Vandy,UT,Ole Miss-Away Florida in J’ville

I don’t see anything there to point to a slump for Murray. I see an opportunity to win a lot IF the defense improves.

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Urban is 17-7 without Tebow

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UGABugKiller- I do agree some that Richt and Hallinger should be gone but you know on Saturday before the Auburn game Mcgarity basically said Richt is not going anywhere at least for one more season

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Georgia’s problem with offense in 2010 has been the Offensive Coordinator, not the Quarterback.

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Murray’s numbers weren’t so great during that four-game losing streak. In the sc, miss state, and first half of the Ark games, he was learning the system. It wasn’t just AJ being out. The Colorado game was a fluke, but we still could have won. Losing three in a row, having to go all the way to Colorado, and Colorado played their best game of the season.

Here is the reality. We haven’t be whipped by any team. The dawgs have been in every single game. Many years, you can pick out two to three games that we could have lost. Not this year, but you can look at all of the loses and say that we could have won.

The future is bright. The D will get better. Murray is the future.

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I think next year Georgia wins 9 or 10 games. Defense will be better and offense will be as well. Hopefully we can eliminate the late game turnovers.

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@Gene …I don’t thing it was UGA fans saying that he was to small, it was Techies, Gators and the other haters wishing they had him mostly saying that.

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Where would the Dawgs be without Murray?

The vaunted offensive line hasn’t played as well as expected…maybe we expected too much.
No A.J. made a huge difference early. Chris Durham tried to make up the difference, no one else did.
RBs in and out of the lineup…no continuity in the run game. O-line woes.

Defense vulnerable to the run and the pass. Too many big plays allowed. Too many square pegs in round holes.

Lack of passion and fire in the players….and in the head coach.

The future looked bright. Without some changes, next year will be “Return to the Future”.

Where would the Dawgs be without Murray?

Hairless and scoreless.

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MB:

You are silly. You put out a column implying that Mark Richt aint what he was, and then you say it’s a head scratcher why a UGA team with talent is underachieving. Is this a joke?

I’ll ask again. When do we get the why Mark Richt should be fired column?

HT

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Point of order: Georgia went 9-4 Stafford’s freshman season. Carry on.

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if A.J. is not suspended we are 9-1 (AU loss) maybe 8-2 (SC loss)

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Aaron Murray isn’t the problem though. We said this before the season Mark when people were whining about spring game nonsense.

Georgia’s roster isn’t very good. They have a lot of really high potential guys, that haven’t gotten better or bigger or stronger since high school. If they have they are progressing incredibly slowly. Georgia has no elite backs, no elite offensive linemen, outside of AJ Green no elite WR’s.

They should be better they could be better…. Orson Charles is a player.

Tavarres King…could be good… he’s too interested in being drunk and committing personal fouls.

Marlon Brown…all kinds of ability still waiting.

Georgia hasn’t had a safety who could cover worth a crap probably since Shawn Jones. They have had a lot of dumb guys who feel like their only job is to hit someone as hard as they can though.

Outside of about 10 players in 85… Georgia has a lot of guys who just haven’t lived up to thier potential. Sad really. A waste.

It shouldn’t take years to learn simple concepts or how to play hard… but it does at Georgia.

Next year, isn’t going to be much better. It could be worse becuase they lose two of the three impact players on the team.

I think Jones and Samuel will be fine additions to the linebacking corps… but really… expectations next year should probably be around 5 or 6 wins…. unless a switch goes off and these guys start playing better… the roster just isn’t very good.

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The defense sucks

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DEFENSE…..a blind man could see the difference.

Give Grantham some time to institute the system and get the right players. Get the offensive line back to par (maybe time to make a coaching change there). A lot of the offensive problems were directly related to the failure of the highly touted offensive line to produce.

Lastly, recruit some running backs that can step up and play immediately. The running game has been average at best with King and Ealey. Maybe Malcome and Crowell will be the answer.

Championship football teams ALL to two things well…..play defense and run the football. UGA doesn’t do either very well this year.

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UGABugKiller, Remind me again what your record was when you were head coach of the Bulldogs . . oh, sorry you never were. Mark Richt doesn’t have to earn the right to be the head coach – he was hired to be the head coach and the AD can fire him at any time. He has earned the right to continue coaching by having one of the best ten-year records in the country, two SCE championships and no losing seasons.

With your logic Vince Dooley would have only lasted a couple of years as head coach rather than 25 years.

Why don’t you and those other folks who can’t seem to support the program when things are tough should go find another team to “coach”, since you obviously know much more that 90% of college football coaches.

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I have been trying to make sense of this season and it didn’t take long once I looked at the roster. Besides the number of juniors of the team, the team is overwhelmingly freshman (redshirt and true) and sophomores (redshirt and true). Now of course mathematically this makes some sense, but we do not have very many seniors at all on the team. This team is young and I think once the younger players start playing and we get some fresh recruits, you will see a different team. For whatever reason, these past two years just did not have the right mix and talent. I have a hunch (based on Georgia’s constant recruiting elitism) that some of the talent that has been recruited in the past but has not played will make ALL the difference. New leaders, etc.

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Easy to answer. AJ’s suspension, new defensive coaches, tough early schedule, but mostly Richt’s inability to instill discipline. I just learned that the Georgia players danced on Auburn’s logo before the game. Are you kidding me? You’re trying for at least one big win in a bad season and you allow this type of idiotic behavior? What a lack of focus! In the preseason, Richt said, “This could be a tremendous season”. It should have been.

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Great? that’s overstate, Mark. Is he great when AJGreen is not in the games? or is it possible AJGreen make him look great?

His number with/without Green should be interesting.

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Good turn Worm.

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MB, Rather than write a column of this ilk, I think we’d prefer you just give us your ideas as to why…the answer in my mind is that the defense, good at times against the run, abysmal always against the pass, is still beyond a work in progress. The offensive line has been an underachiever for two years now, and the backs are average, at best. Perhaps the backs suffer from an undercoached line, perhaps we just missed on our evaluation. But know this, South Carolina with Murray would indeed be 9-1, perhaps 10-0 and Urban Meyer would sacrifice goats on campus to have Murray. When it’s boiled down, football is, more than any other sport save soccer, a team game and Murray is just one player. He does really good things, but without a line to block for him or backs to make Bobo’s play fakes work, he can’t do really great things consistently.

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The change over on the defensive scheme has been the problem. Mainly the secondary and coverage. Too many receivers left alone to make the big plays. Definitely an improvement over WM’s however we are seeing them on the field way too long. Not enough breaks to keep them rested. Get a running game going that we can rely on and run some clock out. We will definitely need a big play WR for next year with AJ and Kris gone. Tavarres can fill one of the roles, he hustles. Maybe Marlon will be the other guy.

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I think you and yours have an unnatural Florida fixation.

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FUMBLES in key spots……

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The main reasons that UGA is sub-500: Our secondary is beyond terrible and we don’t have a big-time RB. That’s it. How many of the losses have been because we couldn’t get the running game going and/or our CBs and Safeties got burned? #18 has gotten burned 2,000,000 times this season.

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Very simplistic commentary. QBs don’t play D usually. Next year is the make or break bridge year for CTG’s D, and therefore for CMR and the Dawgs as we know them. If only he had had this change after 2007 or 2008 and booted Willie. This still haunts CMR and the entire program.

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Real Dawg,

Excellent points you make. Agree with you I do.

(Don’t ask why the Yoda-speak. I have no idea where that came from.)

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The Colorado game is the stinker. Other than them and Florida, everyone else that won has had a great year for them. SC, Ark, Mrs. ST., Aub etc.. and each game just about came down to a play or 2. There is a finer line between winning and losing than we would like to admit.

Also the last 2 times we only scored 31 points we lost. Head scratcher. Go DAWGS win your bowl. Tech.

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Mark, I think the answer to your question is fairly obvious. Never before have the Dawgs scored 30+ points in six consecutive games, so Murray’s greatness (and barring injury, he’ll be one of the UGA greats) and Green’s greatness have nothing to do with the Dawgs’ poor record. If you’re scoring 30 points, you should win.

Unfortunately, we’re giving up more than 30. This is on the defense. I think the jury’s out on Grantham, as he definitely needs time to recruit players who can make a 3-4 work, but based on the results (and the Wash. Redskins experience with the 3-4), I’m not at all sold on its effectiveness. Bottom line: UGA’s not going to be a top team until that defense, which has been poor for several years now, improves.

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Simply put,..Defense. The Grantham era defense has been getting better (for the most part), but still isn’t there. I believe Chip wrote earlier about the right type/size player for the 3-4 positions. The D line needs mass, speed, and strength to pressure the QB the way the system calls for. I think next year, this system works like a well-oiled machine, especially with Jarvis Jones coming in! Go Dawgs!

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RealDawg, that running game problem IMO is the play calling. Always up the middle against fat DL’s that our OL can’t seem to more one way or the other. Never to the outside. Maybe Ealey and King aren’t fast enough to get around the end. Thomas has the speed and size for that type of running.

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The question needs to be asked of each and every member of the staff – Is this the best available person for this job? If not, go out and get the best available person. Bye bye Bobo.

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If the offensive line doesn’t protect Aaron Murray more than what they’ve done, he won’t be around long enough to anyone to see how great he can be. This guy has taken some vicious hits in just about every game this season and it’s got to be taking a toll on him.

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We have become sissies. This is football, and we now whine when our quarterback gets hit? A player who has 2 personal fouls all season long is a dirty player (fairley). Come on people man up and realize that our problems are our own and stop laying blame on everything else.

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Any of you stat hounds have the number of runs that we have had over 15 yards this year?

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Did UGA really improve on Defense? I mean I don’t think we tackle good, seem to always be out of position and give up way too many 3rd down plays. Our O-line which was supposed to be a strength cannot pass block worth a darn. I cannot believe the licks that Murray has taken. That is one tought kid!

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For clarification: Not Jacksonville STATE University (of Alabama) which beat Ole Miss this year. Jacksonville University Dolphins (of St. Johns River, Florida) which had two sever footers, Artis Gilmore and Pembrook Burrows, in the early 1970s, coached, by the way, by a gentleman by the name of Hugh Durham.

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Can we hate Auburn anymore than right now?….I don’t think it is possible. You better start saving your money for the next big recruit…

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Hey Buck, Urban Meyer has already stated in multiple media outlets that Steve Adazio will be the offensive cordinator next year. Also, he is not on Charlie Strong’s watch list. I live in Louisville and he is extremly happy with his coaches. Last but not least, Dave Van Hallenger is retiring after this year.

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The 4 game skid at the beginning killed them. They played about as bad as possible. They couldn’t run the ball and were completely inept on offense. Add the 1 bad game our frosh QB played (Florida) and losing to the best player in college football at home and you’ve got our season. A mediocre year followed by a terrible year (in a year where the East was prime for the taking) makes it seem worse. Not to mention that at this point they are putting together a mediocre recruiting class to go with it.

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This team has definitely been less than the sum of it’s parts.

The offense has scored enough points in most of it’s games to win. However, we have failed to effectively control the game clock and grind out long drives because of the inconsistency of the running game. Also some really big fumbles at key times of the game. Blame the offensive line and the running backs.

The defense while improving statistically from last year has given up way too many big plays. Also, we have a maddening propensity to give up first downs on 3rd and long. We still have a long way to go in the takeaway department also. We need bigger bodies on the line to stop the run and get a better push on the pass rush. My biggest disappointment is that I thought our secondary would be way better than it is.

Overall, I think, we lack good strong senior leadership. Somebody should have stepped up earlier. It doesn’t help that your best player and perceived leader was suspended for the first four games either, but where was Justin Houston earlier?

This team is definitely an enigma. But it only needs a few additions and tweaks and a little more experience and we could see a big turn around.

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MatthewsDawg I’m with you. Funny how the AJC doesn’t pile on Tech since they are having such a bad year. Wonder how Paul Johnson is not catching any heat from MB. Also, MB said UGA has had the more disappointing year compared to Tech. Hmm when was the last time the reigning ACC Champions finished the season at or below .500?

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I think Marcus Lattimore is still running through UGA defenders…

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Man, posts just disappear into the ether.

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Excuse maker, about as many excuses Auburn came up with when you went through a major funk two years ago and also when the NCAA gets all the paying for Cam Newton’s services sorted out.

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Georgia’s team is very young–in 2011, with a deep and experienced offense and a much better defense that has learned the 3-4 scheme, Ga should dominate. Auburn, LSU and alabama are the only teams in the SEC with talent next year to challenge UGa. Look for Ga to easily win the SEC east and beat LSU for the title!!!

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Easy, and it’s been posted already – AJ Greene being suspended was HUGE. Think about how the landscape of the SEC and really, college football might have changed if AJ Green wasn’t suspended.

1. Georgia beats South Carolina. South Carolina packs it in like usual and doesn’t upset Alabama.
2. Georgia probably beats Arkansas.
3. Georgia beats MSU.

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Mark, you are not the only soul who gets frustrated and confounded when you look at play of a very good young QB with an offense that was suppose to be above average. Unfortunately, Murray is surrounded by some terrible coaches, McClendon, Searels, Lilly, and Bobo. The offensive line can not block consistenlty for 4 quarters. They like to take a play off every now and then. Plus they lack fortitude and speed. And the running backs…probably the worst blocking backs in UGA history. They do not run with speed and authority. They can never get in a crease or edge. They like to stop and spin. Think of that. You stop and every defender is moving to you at full speed. You spin, and you lost vision and timing. The most unproductive tailbacks and fullbacks backs ever at UGA. Count the plays where the missed blocks, fumbles, and missed assignments figured into the game. That is why this team is 5-6. Coach Richt said before the beginning of the season he would be surprised if UGA did not run the ball well. Eleven games in and he is still waiting to see his offense run the ball. I’d bet he is shocked at the lack of blocking and rushing from his offense. It is ashame that this preseason highly regarded offensive line and running backs have been such a failure.

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This team has been less than the sum of it’s parts and has lacked leadership from the seniors. Our best leaders are two Juniors (Green and Houston) and one of them was suspended for four games.

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funny… You’re a dirtbag. Gamecocks will be packing to come to Atlanta.
Deal with it.

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Let me be clear….I despise UGA and all your redneck obnoxious fans. I hope they lose every game. Now that I have that off my chest, Aaron Murray is a stud and UGA has a baller in him that will make them Champions again if he can get some help. The Houston kid is going pro and that reciever that sells jerseys on the side will be an All Pro! The rest of the guys seem a little scared and fold when they popped in the mouth. Let me repeat I despise UGA but you have the nucleus to have a great team again very soon. CMR will get it turned around. SEC is a tough place to grow up. Maybe the Dawgs should consider a jump to the ACC to become relavent again.

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The answer is simple. JAWJA just an’t no good this season. But TEK is worse.

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The team didn’t play that bad during the four games stretch. All those games were close. Sure the big mistakes cost us the wins but the kids played hard and never have given up in any game this year. The poor tackling is a symptom of being out of position. Once the kids get the postioning down the tackling will improve IMO. Got to get that secondary straightened out though.

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UGA is not off by much. The AU game if I am not mistaken is our worst loss. CTG needs to get the right personnal to run his defense. If the defense holds the opponents to fewer points and not get gashed like the AU game then we can win the close games that we have loss all season long. Yes, people my self included look at the win loss record but I feel this is a better team than what the record indicates. Obviously our much preseason vaulted line has not quite lived up to the billing as well.

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@MatthewsDawg and jason13…very good posts, your points are right on…as far as the S&C program with the dawgs, I think that you will see a change there based on what i’ve heard, but i’m not going to say its set in stone, but their are some changes coming at the season’s end, but it isn’t with our Head Coach, that you can count on…I have to concur that Tech does not seem to get the same treatment from Bradley that he gives to the dawgs…Wonder why that is?…MB stated that it has been a disappointing year for the dawgs, well who doesn’t know that, so i’m trying to figure out why he consistantly brings to hammer on it.. but i guess you got to hand it to him, he knows how to stir things up…I’d like to see some article regarding the underachieving Tech team, and thats not to pick on them, it just would be nice to treat both teams fairly basing things on this season…If i recall wasn’t Tech rated higher and expected to have a better season than the dawgs anyway?…

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Well, the answer is pretty obvious then I would say. The defense has not stopped anybody all yr long. Stupid question, stupid article!!

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What doesn’t make sense is offensively this season we have scored 369 points. Defensively we have allowed 243. a difference of a positive 126 points et our record is 5-6.

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UGA gets less out of it’s best recruits than most of the better teams in our league. Was Knowshon Moreno the first sophomore to jump to the NFL? A.J. Green owes UGA one more year for his B.S. What Mcgarity does not realize, (or maybe he does), is that Richt will be judged on his every move next year by the money people, who really have been taking the position that Richt would be back in 2011 no matter the outcome of this season, even if he loses to Tech. Richt will be expected to field a team that seriously contends for the East next year. The money people will form McGarity’s thought’s on the condition of the program next year. The problem is, Richt won’t have the players to seriously contend, but the money people will look at that being Richt’s fault as well. There was surprisingly little grumbling among the large contributors this season, at least publicly, because of this being McGarity’s first year, Murray being a freshman,ect. There are a good many of these money people in Columbus, and the majority of them are saying that without great improvement in 2011, that major pressure will mount to replace Richt, and will come quickly as it did when Donnan was fired. Richt had better do every thing he can to get Green to stay in school for 2011, as well as make wise choices in every aspect of his coaching plan. Grantham will be expected to have the defense playing like a UGA defense next season as well. Ray Goff was given too much time to right the ship, that was one reason why Donnan was not given as much time, even though he faired better than Goff in his limited tenure. Bottom line as an alum put it at a game I attended early this year,”Richt will be expected to win all of the games he should win next year, and a couple that he should not”.

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In ancient days, Coach Butts said that you had to pay the price. He meant that you had to have a team effort and discipline yourself to be the best you could be individually. This included all the coaches as well. You also had to play rugged football at every outing. We have not seen any consistency as a team this year.

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Sad to say it but I wrote about a 5 loss season on on the AJC page following the lafayette game because I was not impressed with the Oline and their ability to create holes for the running game. I got blasted by the most the rabid fans, but something did not feel right about this team. I am impressed with Murray, however, he does have the best receiver in college football to toss it too in most games. I would be will to say the at least half the shots he sent to green would not be caught by a lessor man. Too often Murray had to scramble for yards on broken plays. I know that is how Auburn does it, but frakly it is just bad football. Runners run, QB’s throw. Scrambles mean something went wrong. I hate to say it can only get worse next year. No great receivers coming to help. No great running back to save the day. Oline will not imrpove.

Now to the worst part. The defense, they need some key players. We don’t seem to have them. These guys are not big or fast enough for the SEC and are not very competent. They seem to be confused a lot. No stars coming to help us. It is probably going to take a few years to get this fixed. Maybe when Murray is a senior we can give him team.

The only good news is everyone else who is good should loose their stars. Florida is down as well. Tennessee is struggling with a young team. Alabama lost a ton of folks to the NFL. Auburn sure decided to shine at the right time. Our dumb luck seems to give us a really good team when Florida has a great team. Florida is down and we are worse.

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Great Article! There is a disconnect between the defensive scheme and the defensive players. It could be the wrong players in the system or a need to better educate the players on expectations. We can’t afford another year of waiting on players. The coaching staff will have to educate the returning guys AND bring in the appropriate players. Mike Bobo has done a MUCH better job this year in play calling and getting his young quarterback ready for the SEC. GO DAWGS!

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Keep Mark Richt, fire Mark Bradley.

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McDawg…you lost at CU WITH A.J.

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Yea, it had to be the doing away with a couple of 2-A-Days (still had one) and practising for MORE hours on MORE days to give the defense a little MORE time to learn, that did it all in!

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Ron D is right about not being able to wait..UGA and CMR better right the ship next year..and i thought this years schedule shaped out nicely, but next years is even better..

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You already know the answer to your question Bradley, plus it’s been answered here…a kid decided to sell a jersey…critical mistakes at critical times that cost us every game we lost this season – OK, maybe that’s the way it happens to every team that loses, but in our case one fumble, or failure to recover one, in each game cost us that game…we weren’t blown out by anybody and could very well be undefeated. The fact that we’re not you want to blame on Mark Richt – what’d he ever do to you anyway Bradley? You’ve been on his case for as long as I can remember…maybe you just want to get us all pi$$ed off – well you’re doing a good job of it – or is it that you’ve had your nose up Paul Johnson’s rear end for so long you’re starting to get used to the smell and want to deflect all the criticism toward Richt.

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I don’t really have any info to back this up but when it looks like team aren’t getting it done for no apparent reason then it’s usually the strength and conditioning….which has a lot to do with mental toughness late in games…and we certainly have blown it late in games this year…

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This year should not have come as a BIG surprise if you look at the recruiting class ram=nkings for the past few years. While UGA may have been ranked fairly high nationally, we were 5th or 6th in the conference. That’s middle of the pack; what’s the surprise?

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Clearly if the defense was in year two, UGA wins 3 more game at least, everything/everybody else being exactly equal.

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it’s the defense, it’s still terrible, and has been all year……couldn’t stop USC, Colorado, Arkansas, Florida (who had scored 7 points at home the week before to MSU), and got absolutely shredded by Auburn…..the defense stinks, and all of the excuses “don’t have the people to run the 3-4, or give it time to lear the 3-4″, are just that, excuses…..first year defensive coordinator at Miss. State seems to be doing well……if UGA didn’t have the people to run the 3-4, then why was a coach hired to put the 3-4 in??? i thought we got a new defensive back coach too??? why are our corners and safeties never in position and always getting toasted??? someone said earlier, and it’s true, if you score 30 points a game, you ought to win those games.

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Is this blog still reserves for guys that: never played football, can’t get a job, can’t get a date, and live in their parents basement?

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Wondering – This is the place. You’ll fit right in.

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This season has been an epic disaster on all fronts. From our pathetic AD to our horrid coaching decisions, nothing has gone right and a loss to GT would not surprise me at all. I have seen many of the quotes after the Auburn game and there seems to be allot of finger pointing and blame going on. You may now have a divided lockeroom which is not good.

Next year will not be better unless Grantham finds some studs in JC. We are in major trouble again on the defensive line and at linebacker. Akeem Dent has been the only player this year that has been a bright spot on defense and he is a senior. UGA is looking at another 6-6 season in 2011.

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Richt is the Wade Phillips of College football…..nice guy but no discipline…….12 arrest this year alone and the high number of penalties in each game hurt them. I’d guess he has 1 more year before the axe falls…….nice guys never finish at the top of the BCS polls

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I’m not a fan because I’m calling for CMR head? Let me ask you this! Is a 2 year Murray better than a 3 year Stafford and Mereno? It’s always next year with you people. The writing has been on the wall since 35-0 halftime Alabama. Why wait after next year and be in an,even bigger hole

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how about the fact that the rest of the team (outside of green and houston) is real average. is there another “great” player on this team? maybe the kickers, but that doesn’t win sec titles.

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What the hell happened to our OL this year? Searels has done some great work in the past but this was not his finest hour. NO run game to speak of. Run the ball with any amount of decency and we win at least 3 more of those games. My words of wisdom to the OL…if you were ticked at the end of the Auburn game, bottle that up and use it. Play with anger, aggression and a sense of urgency

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Hurt Kurbstreit @11:40

Which ones fit you?
Unemployed?
Never played football?
Can’t get a date? or
do you live in your parents basement?

Wondering

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When you fired Willie Martinez it was all over.

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Mark, you’ve been stuck at the typewriter too long. Try this one…….. Hell he didn’t have all his players for the first 6 games! Woulda, shoulda, and damn coulda!

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hurt–why was the running slow to develop? the backs are experienced and so is the line. they just are average players.

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Mark, not sure if it’s been said yet but also factor in:

1) turnover margin is WAY better this year
2) Penalties are down
3) Defense is over a touchdown allowed better
4) Kickoff coverage is light years better

Yet, here we are. Most confounding and frustrating season in my 35 years as a Dawg fan.

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Buck, I liked Shockley as much as the next bulldog fan but can you really argue with Greene? Only the winningest QB in college football up until last year. Shockley is one damn good dawg and always will be IMO.

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It’s the system Buzzboy, not the “superior athletes”. Just ask your pompous a$$ of a coach CPJ. He’s already said he doesn’t need superior athletes. Some may argue after Tech’s latest season.

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Murray’s a two-bit punk who had one good season. You watch, he’ll be another Reggie Ball.

Or, just as likely, he’ll do a Mettenberger and be dismissed from the team.

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I wish we had Murray as he has surprised me with as well as he has played. He is a smart quarterback and will be a great one. Maybe we will sign his main competition from last Spring, Zach Mettenberger, who is visiting LSU this weekend.

I think Georgia’s problem is a lack of discipline on and off the field. Richt is responsible. If Miles was 5-6 right now he would be gone and he won a national title 3 years ago.

Richt is making huge bucks and with the talent the Dawgs have, they should have won the East, especially with the Gators rebuilding this year.

The bottom line is Georgia should be no worse than 8-3 and maybe 9-2.

Georgia has the facilities, support and huge talent in the state. They should be much better and should not be down to the last game to become bowl eligible.

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FIRE BOBO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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4) GT Football games
5) GT Basketball games

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jumbeauxtiger,

If you get Mettenberger have fun. He attended the same high school I did. Kid is a stiff.

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Coaching, plain and simple. We battle with the other top schools in the country for the same players. Just about every starter wearing red and black was highly sought after by just about every other major college in the country. Yet in the past 5 years the vast majority of those players never pan out. Look at the other schools pulling in top 10 recruiting classes. What kind of seasons have they had?? Bama, Florida, and LSU all have NCs. Ohio St. Texas, and OU are all in the National Championship mix every year.

The only other school that does less with more is probably FSU. UGA has a plethora of talent and athleticism on that field. Always has.

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Mr.Obvious:
LEAVE IT UP TO SOMEONE REALLY STUPID TO POINT THE FINGER AT AN OFFENSE THAT SCORES 30 POINTS A GAME…MR. OBVIOUS, YOU ONLY REPEAT WHAT OTHER PEOPLE HAVE TOLD YOU CAUSE IF YOU COULD ASCERTAIN FACTS YOU WOULD NOT COME UP WITH SUCH A STUPID SUGGESTION….

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We are recruiting the wrong kinds of players???? Plenty of other schools recruit the same players. All of the top schools are going after the same kids, you get some you lose some. Other schools are winning with the same kinds of recruits.

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A new rule for next year…each time a player is arrested, CMR pays $20k, it could make him take a more vested interest in the players. I would love to say next year looks good, yet until we condition, teach to win above all else, excel in D, and have some creative play calling, it could be a pete or repeat…

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Why do you dawgs hang your hat on Ealey’s fumble at SC? Garcia did the same thing deep in UGA territory. Conveniently forget that one, didn’t you fleabags?

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Defense sucks. It’s easy. This defense is as bad as any of Sucky Willy’s. It’s pathetic.

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There are a number of reasons top one offensive play calling:

Why when you are passing the ball effectively do you run the Wild Dawg?
Bobo did it at the South Carolina game and in the Colorado game and in the Auburn game.

One in HS, I was the point guard on the BBAll team. The coach at half team asked me why I constantly passed the ball to the rigth wing. I said ” because they cannot stop it”. And he said ” your right , never mind keep doing it.

Moral: YOU PASS IT UNTIL THEY CAN STOP YOU! you dont go, wait , I think we should run the wild dawg. That is BS play calling. You break their backs with what they cannot handle until they adjust and then you adjust in kind. Guess our OC never learned that in HS.

Second: The offensive line has been as below average. This is a line that should have been the strength of the team. Yet teams like Colorado, Miss State, and and others kicked them around. Same could be said of the defensive line….lack of size has been an issue.

Secondary appears lost at times…no consistency.
Defensive…..no ability to stop teams on 3 and long. And that is probably a defensive focus issue.

But beyond that looking 6 games, well I think it is hard to figure how even with those problems they lose six games.

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A.Murray is going to be the best QB that Georgia has every had if AJ stays GEorgia will have back to back Heisman Tr. winners and a National championship . YOU WAIT AND SEE PLEASE STAY AJ YOU CAN HELP PUT GEORGIA RIGHT BACK ON TOP. THE MONEY WILL BE THERE NEXT YEAR.

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Have you douches passed the .500 point in all time football wins yet?
You might have, I’m not sure. If so, please post your all time winning %.
I need the laugh.
You win the East when everyone else sucks and you think it matters.
Don’t tell me things are different now, because they’re not.
You are just another Vanderbilt.
There’s a reason you used to be in the Metro conference, because you belonged there.
We did you a favor and let you in, so the other SEC teams could have a conference homecoming game.

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Stay the course! Get the Defense the personnel it needs to run the 3-4. The offense can score at will
as we have seen. Give Richt a chance. OR ….we can coach shopping for a decade and pray we stumble across someone who can do better. All fail at some point. Persevere!

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Ha Ha Ha…If “ifs” and “buts” were “candy” and “nuts” we would all have a Merry Christmas. You dawgies are really disgusting.

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Hey South Carolina..you sir are an idiot.

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Only because you buy into the hype. I think there is room to say if Murray was not that good, the Dawgs would be better. They have a tendency at Georgia of falling in love with their quarterbacks. The line blocks for a passer, the defense against Georgia sets itself for the pass, they work on it the week before playing Georgia and right on schedule Georgia does exactly what they are suppose to. The greater story than Murray is not being able to get Green into the offense. Very much like our situation of Gailey not being able to get Johnson into Ga. Tech’s offense. The best receiver of his class, just like Green is in his, both asking themselves why it mattered I stayed around another year. Alabama gets Jones in their offense by running the ball.

When Georgia played Tech last year ,because of the idea of using up time and keeping the ball away from Tech, Georgia played an entirely different game plan. They ran the ball and ran it better than Tech run it, could have done it all year against lots of teams, but didn’t try it until they played Tech. Georgia playing South Carolina the second game of the year every year is not good either. South Carolina, Spurrier, shows the rest of the SEC a study on what he sees as Georgia’s weak spots and the rest of the year the rest of the SEC teams game plan with Spurrier’s masterplan in hand.

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Just think where we would be if we didn’t have Murray at QB. Is it too late to abandon the 3-4 defense? Seriously. Can we please recruit a big, fast tailback that can break tackles and/or run over someone ala Tim Worley or Keith Henderson?

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fumbles in the redzone account for 3 losses.

Not getting fumbles in the redzone account for one

blown defensive assignments account for 2 losses

Wake up Bradley it is really not that difficult.

Overall the big problems from last year were turned around. decreased number of penalties, TO ratio and improved but not great defense.

unforseen issues. AJ out for 4 games and underachieving OL

Add it all up and it is not that hard to grasp.

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OUR DEFENSE IS COMING ALONG YOU GOT TO GIVE IT SOME TIME.

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UGA over the last 4 or 5 years has only been ranked like in the second tier ……….14th, 13th or like last year ( 09 ) 17th. LSU, Florida and Alabama and recently AU have all had ( top 5 ) far superior classes. See? THEY ALWAYS rank in the top 5 but NOT UGA. This is the # 1 reason why UGA is 5-6.

One reason that we had some modest ranking ( second tier ) is that we always seem to get one great kid like an AJ Green ( clothing rep ) or a QB like Murray or an over rated kid like marvelous Marlon Brown and one or two kids inflate the otherwise low rated class. Without these one or two or three per year so called “can’t miss” kids, UGA ends up with tons of the Ben Jones, Ealey, Hutson Mason or the Arby Jones variety of decent players but not top tier players. That Kenarious Gates is an accident. He was going to KY but decided to try UGA. We got lucky with him. Same is true of David Pollack.

The UGA recruiting has been awful. Please do not start with the “oh, we are always top 5 recruiting” stuff ………..we have not neen there in years …….5 or 6 or so. Kevin Butler talks about this every Sunday at the Indigo Hotel on WSB. Our recruiters have failed UGA . Period. See Rodney Garner. See Mark Richt. See Searels. See former D coach WM.

Take Brandon Smith ……………highly regarded as what? A track star? Yes, he is fast but what has he done for UGA beyond one or two TDs? His fumbles in 09 vs KY and others have more than off set his contributions. Either he was vastly over rated as a football player or we do not know how to deploy him.

Richt has one more year or the MONEY FOLKS and the UGA Alumni ( I is one ) will STOP spending it.

Go Dogs.

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Bradley. The answer is staring you in the face. Richt is the problem. Unless and until Adams and McGarity dump him and Bozo, and find a head coach that knows how to win against first-class competition, athletes like Murray will not be able to realize their full potential at UGA. If Richt is still there at the end of 2011, and I am sure he will be, the same people will be writing the same comments on this and other blogs at that time. The truth always hurts. I guess the long-suffering UGA fans that have already figured this out are just going to have to put up with mediocrity until change finally comes. Unfortunate, but there is not much they can do about it.

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Conservatism is as out of place in this country as it is in college football. Stretching the field, as in expanding your minds,is the only way to have a chance at succeeding. Without AJ Green,there was no other
weapon to stretch the field.Compound this with bad coaching and a loss of institutional control with your inmates.
Perhaps we should attach blame where it needs to be,Barack Obama!
If he weren’t in cahoots with Hitler and Satan, ‘dem dawgs would be everything you want,right?

Go Gamecocks!

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If McGarity allows to keep Mark for more 6,7,8 win seasons, and tell us what a wonderful man he is, we are screwed……I don’t want to be Auburn, I just want a chance to win every time we take the field.

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Scoring 35 every week and losing. It ain’t rocket science.

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One can analyze, scrutinize and hypothesize until the cows come home about what went wrong, but sometimes it comes down to only this: your team just sucks. I’m just saying.

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Always going negative on ‘em dawgs. You should have the same outlook Barnhardt and his lapdawg Sclablach do—-giddy because a signiture win over Tech and “ta-da” “Em dawgs will be bowl eligible! Arf-Arf !

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poorly coached teams are either void of talent or void of dedicated coach’s with a good hard direction in which to develop team work without the “I”. in my eye site coach richt spends to much time doing f-150 ford truck commercials and tv shows ect. get the point. players and coach dont fear him and dont mind taking plays off. i would look for a coach to come in after richt leaves for south fla and takes shannon place, to make amid with the local police dept so that these stupic arrest can be put down before they have a chance to reach the public. envoc strict discipline on and off the field. which means lots of training to ensure they understand the rules front and back, they are young and should be able to handle abuse, (take bear bryant for starters) you win with abuse…period, to win you cant sorrund yourself with pus—y’s. well bottom line another year of the same sh– or find a hard noise ball coach, by the way lets all pull for the ol’ ball coach and the secound coing of hershal majic marcus lattimore, ol’ school running back and a great kid who loves the game and loves is team first himself 2nd. may the walls that surround all’burn football fall, fall hard and fast. nobody can suport thug football and that includes ga non disciplined band of run wild do whatever wont 2 bees. time will hill this wound, i guess adams created this situation by firing coach donnan for no god d—m reason, bad carma yaaaw. fire adams as– and let coach dooley back at the top too select a qualified A.D and president and new coaching staff!!!!!, or just do what is right and re-hire coach donnan.

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MR – I love your posts. You really should take your act on the road. You are truly a comic genius.
I know that tool-gobbling behind the 7-11 dumpster is lucrative for you, but consider my suggestion.

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Furman Bishop,

Good points. Richt is the equivalent of Bobby Cox. Cox needed to be canned about 10 years ago, but based on past glory, he was given an unlimited free ride. Same thing happening with Richt. He won a couple of SEC titles, and based on that, the Richt loyalists claim he deserves another 10 years to right the ship.

That’s not good enough people. Richt will never get past Meyer, Saban, Miles, and now you can include Chizik, Petrino and Mullen. Richt will never win another SEC title. The recruiting has gone south, all the top recruits go out of state now. Richt is probably the 7th or 8th best coach in the SEC.

Richt’s glory days are behind him, just like Bobby Cox’s was long behind him. Yet I see UGA falling into that same trap the Braves were in.

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fast forward to 2013, Aron Murrany’s Sr. yr. 0-4 vs Florida, no SEC titles.

Eric Zier # 2, except he plays in the NFL and excels in the mold of a baby Drew Brees.

The guy is damn good, but like AJ Green, Moreno, Stafford, MoMass on and on, nothing to show.

Thanks MR and Bobo, you clowns.

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Murray is actually a redshirt freshman; better known as a sophomore. His primary problem is seeing over tall D lines and throwing in the lanes between is own O line. He is just too short to take the Dawgs to the next level. Hmmmm, kind of like his HC.

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virginia dog,

It is unbelievable that Richt recruited Cam Newton as a tight end. Yet Florida recruited him as a quarterback. Richt said something on the call in show this week to the effect of they recruit players that fit the system. So I guess he thought Cam didn’t fit our system as a QB.

Well, in that case you modify the system to accomodate a player like Newton. Florida certainly saw the potential in him, but our brain dead recruiting team did not.

Good point about Moreno. We settled on Brandon Smith and let Greg Reid go to Florida State. Big mistake there. If we don’t get Crowell, some heads need to roll over that one getting away.

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It is all coaching… Mark Richt needs to right this ship and now!

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Murray has done well in his first year. He has missed some passes& and some open receivers all along–that still shows the redshirt Freshman status. He did not secure the ball on a fumble at midfield in the Florida game…..But overall–he has done well for first year player.

The defense is allowing too many points….we are still learning 3-4 …learning how to line up….learning what the assignments are…..we have given up some easy TD’s….We need a true dominating nosetackle…..feel we need to get a JUCO guy at nose with some experience. Houston is a great pass rusher, but we need others that can sack the QB…..We need some dominating hard hitting corners and safeties….Florida has the best pair of safeties in the Nation and they were tough hard hitters who were in positions to make plays….The defense has also dropped several interceptions…..Right now…UGA is not good enough to overcome mistakes and missed opportunties…I think that we are getting there though and have great hope–particularly if we recruit the right players.

The offense does need to breakaway speed at running back….Our backs are good…but not take it to the house threats….Durham and Green are great…but we need more threats at receiver…We need to sign Mitchell from Valdosta and Crowell from Columbus….Come on men and sign with UGA…You will have a great QB in Murray….

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Bradley why are my posts being gobbled up?

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The defense is giving up 31pts a game in these 6 losses…to hell with some fluffy stats..take away the 3 cupcakes and Vandy and they would have horrible numbers.The 3rd down conversion rate is over 65%…that’s ridiculous!

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I agree, Grantham is a punk and is an embarassment to UGA. Richt only hired him because everybody else he wanted turned him down. Richt was desperate when he hired Grantham.

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Georgia is 5-6 because their opponents have performed better. Player ratings and statistics don’t mean a thing if you get outplayed and outscored. Reality is a @*&$^%*!

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Josh Patrick, at least you are posting with some clarity today.

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2011 schedule

OOC: louisville,Coastal Carolina, New Mexico State at GT
SEC: SC,MSU,KY,AU-at home Vandy,UT,Ole Miss-Away Florida in J’ville

Next years sked has 5 wins baked in: CC , New Mexico State ,Vandy , Kentucky ,Ole Miss
Probable Losses : Florida , SC , MSU
Toss Ups – Louisville , Tenn, AU,Tech

That means that the season (and Mark Richt’s tenure) is really going to be decided against these toss up teams.7-5 means that he’s gone. 8-4 (depending on the 4) probably means sayanora. I believe that it will take 9 wins to keep his job and that looks like a tall order,but attainable. Richt can take a lot of the pressure off of his regime by starting off with a win against Louisville.Lose that one,and it will be really hard to get to nine wins against this schedule.Tennessee has found the bottom and will get better from here,so teh Dawgs had better bring their “A” game. Auburn will be a wild card. Lots of “ifs”. IF their is some smoking gun in the Cam Newton story,IF Newton is back (unlikely), IF the Tigers win the NC…Hard to tell this far out.Tech is a rivalry game. It will be a knife fight no matter what.

Of course ,its an eternity until next season,but its fun to play “what if?”

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Murray is a better QB as a freshman, but does not have the tailback/ running back that the others did. That is the difference in the record, IMO.

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It is easy to figure when you have a poor defense. The defensive dawgs are awful…there is no other way to put it. There is a reason the D coordinator never stays anywhere too long. He won’t be long here either.

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This year the state of Ga is loaded with high school prospects…it is more loaded than it has been in recent memory…we cannot afford a coaching house cleaning right now…we need to hold the coarse..because, if we don’t, other schools will be beating us with our own states players. We cannot afford to disrupt this years recruiting

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Aaron Murray has not been the dawgs problem this year. Poor offensive play calling and a porous D have doomed the dawgs to mediocracy. We have been outcoached in at least 4 losses this year.
Arkansas – we have the ball with 1 & half minutes to go in the game with a first down at midfield with an all american kicker. We should win this game 90% of the time. Pick up 15 yards & the game is over. Worst case – run out the clock and go to overtime. No way we should lose this game.
Miss St – completely outcoached from start to finish. This team runs a high school offense with mediocre talent.
Colorado – again from the start we are out coached by a loser coach who has already been cannned. Does anyone think this team has talent close to what we have.
Florida- after not using AJ for the whole game, allegedly he was double teamed. Every great receiver gets double teamed. That doesn’t mean you do not throw them the ball. Jerry Rice, Reggie Wayne, Michael Irvin were double teamed their whole carreers but their coaches still had enuff imagination to get them the ball. That’s what great coaches do. The last two minutes of the Florida game was the worst excuse of coaching in UGA history. First, from our own 5 yard line, BOZO decides to throw the ball from our end zone. Rather than run out the clock & let’s get to Overtime. The ball almost gets picked & Murray almost gets sacked in the end zone. We end up punting to Florida & giving them another chance from midfield. Amazingly the D holds and Florida punts with 5 seconds on the clock. A midget league volunteer coach would know better than to try and field a punt at this time. But we put Branden Smith back on the goal line to catch the ball as the whole florida team is running at him full speed. Rather than just getting out of the way, he tries to catch the ball near our goal line & fumbles. Common sense tells you to let the punt go & lets go to OT. Then in OT, we do what BOZO does best. Pass on first down, run on 2nd down. Go back and check this year. This happens about 80% of the time. Then on third down, we throw into a crowd. With an all american licker and Florida with their punter kicking, no way we should lose in OT.
We have been outcoached for several years now and the results prove it. We continue to lose to teams with much less talent. This happened in the Donnan era. This happened often in the goff era. Now it is happening under CMR. It is time for changes. Murray will be better next year but without changes in coaching we are doomed to mediocracy. We will continue to lose to Florida. This rivalry has become a joke. There are great coaches available that would give anything to be a UGA. Enuff is enuff.

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Yeah Phil. It would have been a great idea to get Newton. I thought we wanted to clean up our image, not recruit another lawbreaker.

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Mark-

How in the world did you have Georgia at 9-3 this year? Seen their schedule?
Auburn, MSU, SC, Arkansas, Kentucky, Ga Tech, road game against Colorado

Most experts said Georgia would really stuggle this year due to the new staff, defensive scheme, QB inexperience, 3 losses to the NFL at DL, schedule, etc.

Georgia might finish 5-7, 6-7, or 7-6, about right where they should have finished.

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Agree Josh, best post I’ve read in years. Thanks for spending the time with us.

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thanks guys, really appreciate it. No, no, I’m not some kind of genius. Just using my common sense. Yes, I do intend to have my own radio talk show, in the works. Have a great afternoon gentleman.

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Brent,

Good point about the 3 DL gone to NFL, boy did Georgia miss those. Mark Schlarback said that all summer, but I didn’t think he was right. He was dead on. Against Auburn, and SC, Georgia’s run D got busted up. Miss those big experienced DL.

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UGA cant stop the run for sure. They were exposed against Auburn and they will probably get exposed again against GT even with their 2nd string qb. If A.J. wasn’t a thug then they may have won a game or two more. Overall their offense is good but tech and uga’s defenses are not built to run that 3-4 defense right now.

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to gauge Georgia you need to be realisitic.

It’s year one in the 3-4 defense for goodness sakes.

Saban went 7-6 in 2007 in his 1st year wiht the 3-4 at Alabama.

georgia, if they beat Tech, and win the Bowl will finish at 7-6 too.

That’s actually excellent for year 1 folks, it’s all a process, but there needs to be MAJOR improvement in year 2. No excuses.

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I can tell you why Mark Bradley

A coach who has 55 seconds left in the half tied up with the #2 team in the nation has a time out left but instead chooses to run and then take a knee

And you wonder why we are 5-6 come on Bradley

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I would not say that Murray has been great. He lacks the ability to throw over the middle off the play action. While that aspect has improved over the last few weeks it was a glaring flaw in our offensive scheme through he first 5 or 6 games. Our offense has got to be able to put the ball over the middle to the tight ends and backs on the screen. It just has not happened. In fact, I will go so far as to say that if LeMay can deliver the ball over the middle with greater efficiency that Murray could be a back up next year.

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i don’t like Georgia’s scheudling in 2010. You play cream puffs in non-conference games, and 7 home games. Do what Florida does. Georgia played 5 top 25 teams, not enough home games, not enough cream puff games, and plays Florida every year, in Florida, always an away game.

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2-8 vs FL

I could care less about his 10 wins crap

I will take plenty of 6-7 7-6 8-5 seasons like we had under Dooley or what Saban has done if it will deliever championship runs, beat downs to FL, or just the oportunity to play in SEC championship game win or lose.

Frankly Im tired of year after year hoping FL will lose out so we have the oportunity to maybe play in the SEC championship game

Sorry people but at my job results like we have had, get you fired, not a pay raise that makes you the 6th highest paid coach in CFB especially with the caliber of talent we have had

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im awaitin yaaaw fo that next f— up from goega football team, been a couple of weeks yaaaw, im tired of being nice yaaaw, im alookin foo a goege boy yaaaw, hahahahahah loosers 5-6, dont blame me i just enforce the law yaaaw, need to get back in the paper yaaaw, coach donnan been paying me well yaaaw, hahahaha will run that fla boy off yaaaaw, hahahahahah

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I will miss Omar, but love the bat we got..I know that’s Braves talk but love me some Dawgs and Braves…Loved the BB game last nite too

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Will ignore outlandish comments from those who are far more knowlegible than me…Because I know there proven right..Hope you get the sarcasm..Bye to those of you who complain and can second guess the day after,the week after, a year later… Hel. some can corrrect things that happen 10 yrs. ago are better

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Georga has been the underdog in the betting lines against:
South Carolina
Arkansas
MSU
Florida
Auburn

They were expected to LOSE these games.

The only game they lost where hey were favored to win, was Colorado

No surpises here about 90% of the games.

Bradley might have expected Georgia to beat Auburn, Florida, etc., but Vegas didn’t.

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I remember reading pre-season Georgia was expected to go 5-7, and finish around #64 ranking. Expectations wern’t high coming into the season. The writer said the #64 ranking was due to th QB and new defense, and loss of leadership on the defense.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/sports_college/2010/06/college-football-2010-countdown-no-64-georgia.html

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Only the naiive woud be shocked when a team has a 7-6 year 1 time per decade, to expect 10 8+ win seasons in a row, is naiive.

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Miss St & South Carolina both beat Alabama, so they’re excellent teams.

Kentucky beat South Carolina, and Georgia eat Kentucky, didn’t expect Georgia to win that one.

Auburn’s #1 ranked team in the country.

Arkansas has the #1 offense in the country.

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DEFENCE!!!!

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Disappointing year? Darn right! Reasons: drinking, staying out late, not being in shape, not knowing the plays, not executing during games,
The Coaching, what coaching? I saw confusion, disconnection, repetitive lapses of poor play calling, underperforming coaches and players
“wait till next year”………….more of the same.

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It’s quite simple. Football is still blocking and tackling and GA can’t do either. The OL still can’t block and never will as long as Richt is there, and the defense is still terrible.

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Duh, Randy Marshmello..Did you actually watch the Tech game last year..I could go and find you stats, even from this year, where GA’s running game was good..but that wouldn’t do you any good you would just make some broad totally incorrect statement about something else..calling you a liar is no good, because someone has to know about something before they can lie about it..i knoww you posted awhile back but I do hope after reading what you had to say you get to read my opinion

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TMZ .COM IS REPORTING CECIL NEWTON RECIEVE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FOR HIS SON TO GO TO AUBURN. PROBATION OR THE DEATH PENALTY IS COMING $$$$ AUBURN $$$$N.

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The pblm is, and has been, the coaching plain and simple…they kept Murray bottled up early in the year until they fell behind and then they turned the keys over to him and he performed well in each loss…if you recall CMR had to get involved, well actually ordered CMB to turn Murray loose…did it really take them until game 5 to realize that they had something special in Murray…until the return of # 8 the team had no identity…# 16 did a great individual job, but the team didn’t rally behind him, nor did they get behind # 3 or # 4, there was no one to follow, no one stepped up to lead, Murray was being held back by CMB…I’m sure that killed Murray having to watch, but being a choir boy and being very coach-able he did what they wanted…heck, they wouldn’t even let him use his wheels…step up they said trust the pocket, don’t try to make any plays on the edge…nope, this season lies at the feet of the coaching staff…sure # 8 and # 16 will be gone next year, but if the coaches stay out of the way, you can bet that Murray will step up and he’ll make All-American candidates out of #12, # 7, and probably # 15 if he works on his routes this summer…hopefully the coaches aren’t so timid next season

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I must say Jim, I have heard the voice of reason in the midst of all the insanity..Thank YOU

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I could at least read his article tonight without getting pis.. off, because at least he did not use gutless ?????????????????????

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Select plays and turnovers have certainly had negative effects on this team. Blown assignments on defense are disturbing. I thought they would be corrected by the new defensive coaches but that hasn’t happened and I REALLY don’t understand how they happen … between practices and film sessions they should be eliminated.

The lack of two-a-days obviously eliminated the toughness of the team. CMR instituted live practices during the week to reverse the trend and he has said the 2011 pre-season practices will be more physical. I would hope the conditioning during the winter and summer will be enhanced.

As for next season’s schedule, once again the Dawgs don’t play Alabama and LSU from the West which should help with the results. But we thought Mississippi State would be a W as well.

Time to get after it in the off-season and right this listing ship!

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UGA has one of the toughest off-season mat drills for conditioning..Let’s be honest..A fumble against SC conditioning? two passes that could have been easily intercepted against Ark ?…a fumble against Col?..interception against Fla in overtime after having come back from a deficit? conditioning give me a break..maybe it was because the watergirl has been going to her son’s games instead of UGA’s ..Even without the fumble or the interceptions I’m not saying we win..I’m just saying 2-days..conditioning are you people kidding me do you actually watch the games

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When you make mindless comments as though you have some great insight to GA’ practices, coaches, gameplan,and ect.. you peole make me laugh so hard I almost want to fall out of my chair..I’m sure you have the inside on GA’s practices and have personally set in on a meeting where coach Richt had to discipline a player

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To all true college football fans, buy you a copy of “Death to the BCS” and read it when you get through you will have to take a shower to wash all the sleeze and slime off of you..Written by David Wetzel and others..He also has an article in last weeks sports ill…

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arson is Carson

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A few factors are at play I think.

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Inexperience at QB explains Texas, Florida and Georgia.

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Okay, you eplained, but the coaches had to protect AM…I hope that is what you mean

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Aside from the usual complaints about the defense and guys not living up to potential, I think another main factor not being mentioned is that the competition is a little stiffer in the SEC now than it was for some of those other guys. The West used to be a lot weaker, and the only teams you really had to worry about in the East were UT and UF. Now, the entire West is in the Top 25, save Ole Miss. SC, Arkansas, and especially Auburn are all significantly improved from the last several seasons. Georgia is simply closer to the bottom of the pack than they are to the top, regardless of who is at QB.

I’m not as pessimistic as some of these other people, though, about the future of the program. For one thing, Murray will be here for another three seasons, so there’s time to improve. Jury is still out on Grantham, but as weak as the defense has been in spurts, it is still improved from last year, so no reason to think that can’t continue. Also, they are closer to being back on top than people give them credit for…my main argument for that is UGA has been competitive in every loss, except for possibly the Auburn game, and even then they were within four points well into the 4th quarter.

I think the main two areas needed for improvement are in the secondary and at running back. There is some promise with Ogletree at safety. I don’t see any stud RBs in our recruiting class this year, but they better go find one, because Caleb King and Ealey simply don’t scare anybody. They are average SEC backs, and are going to remain that way.

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Murray’s middle of the pack in the SEC when it counts:
3rd down- 8th
4th quarter- 8th
Red Zone- 8th

He’ll get better when it counts with experience, just gets nervous, due to inexeprience, not confident in the Red Zone, 4th quarter or 3rd down–he’s an average QB when the game is on the line.

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It’s easy to get caught in a whirlwind of confusion over where to pinpoint why UGA is not winning. But at the end of the day, DEFENSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIPS. I think the Dogs have a star QB that proves he can go to war in the brutal sec, and UGA will recruit on par with anyone on offense. The O will score enough points to win. THE question is, can Grantham build a truly smash mouth, old school intimidating D. The kind that other schools dread playing. The kind of D that has its own identity and plays with pride, discipline and always full throttle. One that even our own offense doesn’t want to mess with. A defense that WILLl get the 3-and-out, the crucial stop, create turnovers and generally wreak havoc. If this can happen, UGA will dominate the East and bring home that crystal trophy. Is Grantham the man that can do it? Screw both auburn and bama. I wish they could both lose. I HATE to hear Dog fans crying ‘roll tide’ because UGA couldn’t take care of bidness. My concern is for UGA to get back to playing to WIN, not trying not to lose. Erk summed it up in “The Letter” he wrote before the 1980 season…”I mean like whipping Tennessee’s ass to start with, then ten more and then another one. This is the game plan. We have no alternate plan.”

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Murray’s National Rankings, in the When it Counts, categories:

4th Quarter Completion %:
84th best QB out of 120 teams

3rd Down Completion %:
78th best QB out of 120 teams

Red Zone Completion %:
86th best QB out of 120 teams

When it counts, Murray is actually AMONG THE WORST QB’s in the nation.

Which should have Georgia fans worried about 2011.

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@kral…guess you didn’t watch any games, or maybe you don’t jack…take off the red & black beer goggles and see the team for what it is…totally uninspired, no leadership until AJ came back…am I wrong? Just ask Boss Bailey why HE was asked to come back and speak to the team about what it means to be a DAWG…when was the last time UGA had some leaders? sure wasn’t Stafford or Moreno, wasn’t Cox…the team is now 5 and 6 with a goal of becoming bowl eligible and maybe heading to Shreveport again…wow, now that is something to hang your hat on and be proud of…you’re a good fan standing up for your team, enjoy your mediocrity

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I’m impressed you know Boss bailey Your more amazing than I thought KP

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Hel.. Kp that means you must know Champ and Kenny Bailey all great defensive players at UGA..you must be From Folkston like the three bailey brothers

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to bing impressed with stats would love to know where you got them would like to see those for myself..Not calling you wrong just would like to read them for my on personal knowlegde..Appreciate if you would publish them…kp, sorry dude if you come on a blog and make comments you can’t back up and I am there..I promise you I’ll rip you a new as…… Get the Picture

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[...] go.”5.  The Liberty Bowl would love to land Georgia if the Dawgs can beat Georgia Tech.6.  Aaron Murray has been great… but his team hasn’t.7.  Mark Fox’s team is 2-0 after surviving a scare from Colorado [...]

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Bing, are you saying that history has shown that NCAA football player across the nation never show any improvement in their play (and stats) between thier first and second year? Why would we assume 2011 wouldn’t look good from the QB standpoint? You just used the term “inexperience” as the issue.

Also not sure things like Longest pass ranking inside the red zone is that telling. Red zone is inside the 20 right? I’m thinking from top to bottom some of those stats, there is more circumstance than meaning. I guess a guy theoretically could have thrown 3 passes this year, completing just one, but for 20 yrds, and been both #12 and #1 somewhere in there.

The other facts that lead me to believe your stats are cherrypicking a bit and not really the clear picture is that UGA as a team is actually in the upper third of the nation as far as 3rd down conversion, and scoring, #12 in the nation as far as red zone scoring. Murray is #15 in the nation as a far as overall pass eff %.

And just the eyeball test would tend to lead most UGA fans to say we lost the games we did early, rather than later. Putting aside (your) stats, Murray has shown pretty good poise and guts late in the game. Can’t be said for everybody else though.

But to say Murray could always improve his own game in critical situations is correct. And UGA’s record is certainly in part due to having a freshman QB, who has made a lot of mistakes that really didn’t get a lot of attention at the time, but I would bet they did in the film room.

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Murray lacks poise in pressure packed situations (3rd downs, 4th quarter, red zone). You could say he’s atrocious, awful, terrible, in those situations, and be accurate. My guess is Georgia doesn’t rep those game specific apps enough or realistically enough with Murray, because he’s not confident. Worst case, if a QB lacks poise, and is at his worst when his team needs him the most, you do not have a Tom Brady or Matty Ice, you have a problem. I don’t know if this can be improved or not. Newton has poise and plays great in the pressure packed moments, the more pressure, the better Cam Newton seems to play–it’s uncanny–but he does have an extra year of experience at Jr Coll on Murray, or he could just be the type of guy who handles pressure with ease and plays his best when his team needs him the most.

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dear dear bingo you must have talked to some of Ga’s offensive starters and they told you that Murray was shaking, crying, and sucking his thumb in tough 4th quarter situations or you were in the huddle and could see the fear in his eyes…

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My guess..Key phrase in your last blog..bingo..Pretty much everything you say is you guessing..dam…I wonder if you ever guess wrong.. Let’s see you quote stats so well…When you guess are you usually 75%”50% or 30% RIGHT OR THE TRUTH BE KNOWN MAYBE YOUR 100% WRONG ALL THE TIME

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Reference pt. 5 matt

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Nickie you must be a psycho-analyst to make such a determination about MR personality

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Poor nickie…out coached…we got Malletted by Ark…Lattimored by SC..Burttoned by fla… and nuked by Newton..Give me a break

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Kral, I did not mean to say that I do not think that Richt and company have not done the right things about suspensions etc. They have. In fact, looking a other situations, I am pretty proud of the way our coaches did stand up and make some very tough decisions. I just think this has to go further. Character building exercises. I am not in any way proclaiming to have all the answers, I just think that these kids still need guidance and positive reinforcement of responsible behaviors. I don’t even claim to have the answers, but I believe that there must be a way to show these kids the right way and still keep em touch enough to play an awesome game of football in the SEC.

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I’m just being fair, Newton, in the When it Counts areas, is money: 4th quarter, 3rd down, red zone–among best in country, Murray’s just not. That’s poise–newton handles pressure with ease, Murray chokes.

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It’s because of BOBO…it’s time for him to GO-GO….or at the VERY LEAST turn play calling over to Richt…..

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The answer is elementary dear Watson. It’s the defense stupid (or lack of it). We you score 30 or more points and lose you got a big problem there don’t ya think!

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