The doctor is in: What UGA must do to rise from mediocrity

The OL stinks. Every year it’s touted as a strength, and every year it lets us down.

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oh darn…only third

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If you ain’t first, you’re last….last again.

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Agreed Jarvis. And I’m not sure OL weakness is just because of Strength & Conditioning. I honestly think Searels might be the biggest deficiency on the coaching staff. We are consistently weak on OL from beginning of games through to the end of games. Beginning of the season to the end. Just don’t seem to have much of a clue in the trenches.

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martin, I disagree about being a pass first team this year. With a freshman QB, and three good RBs, why not pound the ball? Then, when they pull the safety in to stop the run, use AJ.

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First,you can change your name jawja to South Carolina or Auburn or Alabama! Then get a REAL coach.I’ve been trying “notify” dawgnation of the FACT that Richt is a holdover from the disgusting phase in Miami Hurricane history. He knows first hand about being DIRTY and only intimidating people with MORE TALENT and thuggish behavior on/off the field!

But dawgnation is JADED. Full of themselves from a party they had way back in 1980! Either you can produce good kids, or you can recruit dirtbags while allowing “legacy” kids to get degrees while the rest of them go pro, or go home to sell dope!

You guys should devote yourselves to coaching and not winning at all costs.

Go Gamecocks! 24-21.

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Mark…where did you go to medical football school? Online medical diploma?

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Maybe Georgia should look at the Falcons program. Ball control and time of possession will help make the defense better.

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I think if we’re to become elite than we’ve gotta get stronger. Remember Richt at FSU had great talent on skill positions with speed and athleticism but those FSU teams were also good along the lines and had great linebackers. That’s where UGA has fallen off in recruiting. It seems that all the OLine we recruit are 3 stars. We need some 5 star OL, DL and LBs’.

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Bradley- Didn’t Richt say Sunday that he didn’t forsee any changes in his staff? So Van Hanleger is staying, so nothing is going to change in that area.

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GTHorsie….rejoyce.

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“Finish The Drill” have, unfortunately, simply become words on a wall. It’s time to act it out again!

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34-35 and Merrry Christmas we give you 7 to cover.

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I love it……Richt is the problem. But PJ is a genius. And Paul Hewitt is a great coach……

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Stop concentrating on skill positions and sign some agile and hostile OL. Then, get someone that can coach ‘em up.

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“What UGA must do to rise from mediocrity”

FIRE MARK RICHT

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First, keep practicing harder. Tackle to the ground in the spring and preseason and during season. Amazing that the fumbles stopped when runners got tackled in practice. Second do not redshirt freshmen for seniors. Richt is loyal to a fault. If he had played Murray last year we wouldn’t have lost 4 games in a row this year. Richt is the only coach I know that would have red shirted Herschel and let Carnie Norris carry the load. Redshirting Murray was as big or bigger mistake than redshirting Moreno.

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You really delight in this crap don’t you Bradley. Tell me if you’re so damn smart why ain’t you doin’ better in your life. From what I hear you don’t have any real friends and whatever passed for a loving family has either left you or about to….and don’t get me started about what I heard you did in that airport bathroom…let’s see, that ought to get the rumors rolling and questions asked about who this guy Bradley really is or whether or not he needs to be run off…I mean what does he do on those canoe trips down the Cahoolawassee?

See Bradley, all you’ve got to do is throw the naysayers – who are likely Georgia-haters in disguise, or people that just happen to have some UGA stickers on their trucks but never darkened the doors, and certainly never has walked through the Arches legitimately – a little meat and they’ll run with it for you.

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We have to run the ball so that I can call a play action pass.

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Dr.? We need a trauma unit ! !

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The caption writer for the photo has mastered the art of missing the point. Nobody was celebrating Georgia’s disappointing season, but rather th evitory over a state rival. Georgia won again, 9 out of 10.

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MB….I think you’ve covered some of the issues, but maybe, just maybe Richt needs to decide what he wants to accomplish as a coach. Does he want to be the best in the SEC or not, or is he content to win a average of 8 or 9 games a season. Which is it?
Next, it would help if he recruited Georgia as hard as he does Florida.
Then try hiring the best position teaching coaches, not just friends or somebody who is available (maybe he oughta try hiring the opposing position coaches who’s players kick his position coaches players butts). And last, but not least; you’ve got to get bigger, stronger and faster as individuls and as a team to compete week in and week out in the SEC.

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I wish the Home for the Severely mentally Challenged would keep some of these droolers off the computer.

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Bradley, you love to beat a dead horse! Why don’t you go over and start a cooking blog because it’s obvious you don’t know a thing about football!

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How many points per game does the offense have to score to get you fools to shut up about the O line and the coaching?

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Get boosters like Auburn’s.

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Here’s hopeing they won’t do nothing.

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Essentially you are saying overhaul the entire way that CMR goes about business. Good luck with that theory. 10 years on the job, change is going to be slow. To many issues to fix, so how does CMR go about prioritizing the issues? That is what I want to see. In what level of importance does he view the changes that need made?

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Wait Dr., I commented to quickly, a little later in the game CMR warmly hugs one of his players after a good performance. That’ll probably toughen them up a bit….

Mark Bradley, I’m sick and tired of watching the “soap opera” in Athens. Said it on Barnhart’s site earlier today. My contribution will be “earmarked” to help CMR and staff move South. He’s already said he isn’t making any changes to his staff. I’ve pretty much lost interest in UGA football, it’s been a process in decline for five years….I’m disgusted with the state of UGA football and the product CMR is putting on the field.

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Mark — Here is a prescription for yourself….

Try and regain some credibility, which you have completely undermined over the past 2 years. You continue to crank out ridiculous pot-stirring pieces about how much of genius CPJ is and how hoeplessly broken UGA is, while the results speak loud and clear to the contrary. Admittedly, it is hard to un-ring the bell and your body of work has become a running joke, but the first humble step is a must for anyone who seeks recovery.

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Getting rid of Richt would be a huge mistake. I agree that we need better Offensive and Defensive Lineman. We are in need of a stud LB (Jarvis Jones)!!! We’ll be fine… I just wish these fair-weather fans would chill out. Every program has down years… UGA, UF, TEXAS, USCw, even our lil sister, GT. I guarantee every team on this list will turn it around next year.

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I have to agree about the offense. We have scored plenty of points. I have posted this before, but it’s relevant to what is being said so I’ll post it again. This time last year everyone(Dawgs) was on the Fire Willie campaign. Everyone(Dawgs) said that they understood that it will take a couple of years to let TG get his defense going. Small memories I guess.
Obviously, that was not true to most on these blogs because everyone is not giving TG time to get his players in and get the new scheme going. Man, I hated watching the defense this year, but I knew that we would be awful under the circumstances. I think it’s unfortunate, but understand, if CMR does not get back up to 10 wins next year and a good bowl game he will be let go.
Yes, I’m one that would like to see him turn it around, but if it doesn’t happen next year then he will be gone!

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Coaching is predictable. And any coach who doesn’t understand that when you have the ball with a minute left, and your opponent only has 1 timeout, and you’re only up by 8 points, that you TAKE A KNEE AND DOWN THE BALL AND WIN THE GAME should absolutely be replaced. Need evidence Richt is a MORON? Watch the last 2 minutes of the tech game. Idiot. Total idiot.

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Georgia needs to follow Bobby Bowdin’s example and join the ACC. Then it’s BCS every year, baby!

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Running game is pi$$ poor. Not sure if that falls on the backs (as they seem to rarely break a tackle and instead go down on first contact) or the highly touted line that was touted as the strength of this offense (can’t run block to save their lives and there is very rarely a hole to even run through).

Durham has proven he can stretch the field all year long and TK, MB, and both of the TEs have proven to be reliable when called upon. If the running game had come anywhere close to living up to its expectations this year we’d be getting ready to play in Atl. this weekend.

Coaching was awful on Saturday. That was the most confused, underprepared team with an extra week off as i’ve seen.

Gonna be a long offseason.

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After 12 games we were called for 5 men in the backfield on 2 occassions. RU kidding me!

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What kind of fool for a coach doesn’t have his team prepared for GT’s decision to let us score late? All we had to do was get the first down and fall down. Game over. Instead, Richt’s clueless bunch scored a TD and gave GT a chance to come back. Unbelievable lack of preparation and education. Strike that, very believable given what I’ve seen from Richt for 10 years.

FIRE MARK RICHT.

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If nesbitt played, gt would have had 600 yards and won by 3 td’s.
So be thankful to vt ga.
Losing 75% of your receiving offense will hurt big time so next year won’t be any better.

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Countermeasure, my rebuttal would be enough points to win more than 6 games. It’s people like you and CMR who don’t understand, it’s not how many points you score pg average. It’s how many you score when you have to win.

How many of you were happy AJ Green runs out of bounds three yards short of a first down instead of cutting back inside and going for the first down? That is the direct result of a “soft culture” in Athens in dealing with prima donna atheletes. You won’t see that from a “blue collar” player like Chris Durham. He’s made more big plays this year than AJ Green.

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1eyedjack – we already had Stafford and Moreno, who went #1 and #14 (or thereabouts) in the same NFL draft. It is written that despite any amount of talent, Mark Richt will find a way to squander it.

FIRE MARK RICHT.

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Georgia would be a pretty decent ACC team

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I think firing Richt would be a mistake as well….who do you want to take his place then? Do you have someone better in mind? I’d like to hear who….

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The comment CMR made in which he referenced the fact that there would be “no” changes to his staff means he is definitely interested in the Miami job. If he were serious about staying at UGA he would have said that some changes were necessary because 8-5 and 6-6 are not good enough.

I correctly predicted a month ago that the Randy Shannon era would end at the U and everyone on this blog thought I was nuts….Now hear this…CMR WILL be the next coach of the Miami Hurricanes and will take his entire staff. The new head coach of UGA???……. Will Muschamp or Dan Mullen. CMR will not even coach during the bowl game.

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Totally agree with the criticism of AJ running out of bounds. Moreno did the same thing. I immediately put them on my sh*t list. That’s complete suckage. You want to preserve yourself for the NFL so bad? Fine, you’re off the team, you can now go get an agent and prepare yourself for the NFL by playing Xbox. AJ is a LOSER.

FIRE MARK RICHT.

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Get June Jones!

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Wow. UGA wins the game, but you follow up with one column praising Paul Johnson, then the next proposing how Georgia can fix its problems. Tech lost the game. No one remembers moral victories because they are not victories. Dial down the man love for Johnson and bring on some serious analysis if Kentucky basketball doesn’t distract you too much.

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Yes yes. Willie Martinez is still haunting the Georgia D. He did terrible in recruiting these players. Got to give CTG credit though. We are statistically much better than last year on D. Give it time. Let the man do his thing.

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Van Halanger is a very sick man (physically) and another one of our S&C coaches (Grey) weighs about 400 lbs. Two terrible role models for young kids IMHO. UGA needs to get a bad a$$ S&C coach like the guy at Bama!

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I hate to identify a certain player, but if you look at the picture that accompanies this article, you see a player that might be the poster-child for the proposition that Georgia has a strength and conditioning problem. I’d say that many on Georgia’s interior line appear kind of soft compared to players on other teams. Overweight and under-muscled.

An earlier commentator mentioned Durham. It’s a shame that UGA didn’t get more out of this kid’s talents through the entirety of his career. Glad he got to shine his senior year; he was a real bright spot in a bad season. If you had told me that Aaron Murray would be this good and that Durham would be a real weapon opposite AJ Green, I never would have believed that UGA would be just a .500 team.

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South Carolina wins the east. South Carolina? Are you kidding me? 2 million a year? WTF?

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I disagree somewhat Mark. UGA needs to get more physical. The only way you do that is by futuring the run first and then run play action off of it. Uga does this about 50% of the time anyway, so its no big stretch for them. Your right that UGA could score more points by opening up more, but that requires you have a physical defense. The only way to have a physical defense is to scrimmage against a physical offense, i.e. run-based offense. A balanced offense that is run-based with a physical defense is what wins championships (see Alabama, LSU- twice, and yes even Florida-twice). Auburn/Oregon St. are flukes during a down year in college football and now that I think about it—Auburn runs much more than they pass out of the spread. UGA has failed when they go conservative, because they don’t scrimmage enough and don’t emphasize the run when they do.

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Tech Rx = Sack the program

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Another problem on our running game: both Ealey and King are good backs, but neither is a great tackle breakers/avoiders between the tackles; both are pretty elusive when they get some daylight. I noticed a huge difference between Moreno and King. King is better now, but the same blocking produced good results with Moreno between the tackles, and mediocre performance with King. Get him in the open and I think King may be a little better. The I formation relies on a lot of running between the tackles. I think more shotgun draws, quick throws out of the backfield, screens (we need better execution first), and plays designed to get them into open spaces, along with less rock pounding will yield much better results with our current backs.

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I think a lot of us Georgia fans have lost our perspective when it comes to Coach Richt. I know the last couple of seasons have been tough, but compare Coach Richt to Vince Dooley (a college football legend, and rightfully so): Under Dooley the Dawgs finished 6-4 in 1965, 5-5 in 1969, 5-5 in 1970, 6-6 in 1974, 5-6 in 1977, 6-5 in 1979, and guess what happened after that year…. Dooley took us to the National Championship in his 17th season!!! Dooley was 8-10-2 in bowl games, Richt is 7-2. The two bowl games that we lost were lost by a COMBINED 7 points! If Georgia wins their bowl game this year, Richt will have won as many bowl games in 10 seasons as Dooley won in 25!!! And I know that people are going to say that we are playing in worse bowls now because there are more bowls, and that I’m comparing apples to oranges, but in 1978 Georgia lost the Bluebonnet Bowl under Coach Dooley… so don’t give me that. Coach Richt’s winning percentage is the highest of any coach Georgia has ever had… In fact, even compare him to other coaches: Bear Bryant averaged 8.5 wins per season, Bobby Bowden averaged 7.3 wins per season, Joe Paterno averaged 8.9 wins per season, Richt has averaged 9.6!!! What the hell does he have to do? Does he need to take us to a BCS game every single year to keep his job? The team may have some problems, and the fans certainly do… But I don’t think it’s the coach.

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Oh and when you have the opponents defense worn down, don’t do qb drop backs or roll outs. Hand the ball off to your best back and pound them. Had we done that after the murray fumble, we would have won.

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A 6-6 team holding up a sign saying they “run” anything is embarrassing. And Georgia’s coaches were embarrassing themselves making “choke” signs to a kid who calmly drilled their azzes! That Florida kicker has more football acumen than the entire UGA football team and coaching staff.

I’m a dawg fan and I’m embarrassed by the shambles this program has become under Richt. Players drunk, half the team in the Clarke County jail at some point, accusations of sexual misconduct, stealing, “choke” signs (waaay out of line, no wonder half the team has been arrested, look at the role model coaching), and to cap it off, 6-6, and one of our little half-azz thugs is holding up a sign claiming to “run” something.

Run into the ground is more like it. Embarrassing. Time for some changes, Dawgs. As they say, the crap starts at the top and runs downhill. Time to take the turd off the mountain. At least you can save some of that money we’re wasting on Richt and start a victim’s assistance fund for all the people the dawgs have stolen from or assaulted.

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Perhaps the can deply your new strategies leading up to and in the B I R M I N G H A M B O W L

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CMR flaws have been exposed since the elevation of the coaching ranks in the SEC. All the coaches (do I need to name them?) that have come to the SEC have “schooled” CMR. We all have seen a rapid decline in the program in the last 4 years. I hate to say it, but I don’t see him changing. From the very apparent softness of the team, lack of both direction and discipline and his unwillingness to change staff until it is way too late. I wish and hope for the best, but unfortunately the results are not likely to change.
I am hearing Jon Gruden now mentioned for Miami…I was hoping Gruden was a coach UGA would look into to replace CMR.

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Jarvis says “at least we don’t fully have a loser’s mentality yet. We’re unhappy about the way we played in a win.”

Do you remember the losing streak to start the season!? Richt was desperate to point out a positive–any positive after the games. I am still sick of hearing about the dawgs being close. We are not close to a good team. We are a bad team, with a single truly great player and a few good ones…that bareley manages to beat other worse teams.

Our talent no longer carries us and our coaches never get the most out of our players. Our offense is tired and everyone knows what is coming.

Jimmy is a UGA fan and the insult that bothers him the most is that “UGA gets the least out of great recruiting every year.”

The reason this one hurts so much is that it is absolutely true.

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Sorry that should be NOT go

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I may be wrong but it seems to me, Georgia lost it’s edge when Brian VanGorder left. I think they could run the ball down most people’s throats and win if they had a defense. They have the players, and they are out of condition but a little more ball control would allow the defense to rest. I am not sure if that last touchdown was the only one Johnson gave up in a hurry. Keep the Dawg defense on the field at any cost is the way to beat Georgia. It is very hard to disciple the kind of players that Georgia recruits, so Richt needs to accept that as a fact and keep the ball longer on offense, by running it and letting the clock run, not throwing and stopping the clock, plus less plays. Alabama has two great backs, and Jones is put into the running game too. Auburn has Cam Newton, South Carolina has Latimore. You have got to control the time of possession in the SEC or you will not win. A running game alowed Alabama to play the fattest lineman in college football and he became an All American. You think Cody could last in a league that runs the ball at him every play? How is he doing in the pros?

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Brandon 11:40….we need to live in the NOW and not the WAS

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You’re right Lowcountry, I forgot what a “good role model” AJ was for his team this year. Without him no telling where we would have been. AJ Green as an “individual” and “leader” couldn’t carry Chris Durham’s jockstrap: how’s that for your IQ test?

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Here here Brandon!!!!!!!!!!!! Some people think that a NC is a reality every year!!!!!! IT IS NOT EASY TO DO AND IT TAKES A PATIENT AND SUPPORTIVE FAN BASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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@TouchUp,

He has been hurt a lot so that’s why.

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Paul Johnson’s Rx = Stop being so arrogant.

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South Carolina, Arkansas, and Mississippi St., the Offense lost those games.
Colorado and Auburn, the Defense lost those.
Florida, the defense and you could say A. Murray lost.

Once AJ was back and in the swing our Offense started laying the wood to everybody. Next year we have to get the fire lit early. Hopefully Boise St. will make us take the off season and fall practice seriously.

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Analyze all you want,

Take a close look at the “bad losses” over the yrs. under Mark Richt.

The championship attitude, edge, no nonsense approach, focus, all those things, not there under Mark Richt.

Greg McG is already off to a bad start, first it was telling Ga folks to not focus on Florida so much, seriously? Got news Greg, you’ve left Florida and it’s up to you to talk the brass in to the right moves. Miami is about to get Chuckie,

Good luck Greg

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Mister Falcon, you sir are NOT a Bulldawg. Leave now. We don’t need you.

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Great article. I agree with most of it, but I would substitute the part about being more of a finesse team with becoming a disciplined team. I’d like to see us run the ball more than we do. Nothing wrong with throwing it 30-40 times a game, but I think the most difficult team to stop is the balanced team, meaning a team that is good at BOTH. Auburn killed us running (QB) and throwing.

We need discipline in tackling, turnovers (untimely turnovers cost us at least 2 games this year), being in the right spot to stop the opposition from converting 3rd and longs at least we should be able to stop SOME 3rd and longs(easily cost us another 2 games this year). How many times did a team get 1 yard on 1st down, lose 2 or 3 on 2nd down and get a seemingly easy 15 yards on 3rd down. That is going to happen every now and then. 3 times on a single drive (kentucky)? Undisciplined.

Mark, I would be interested in an article about how many college football coaches that were given “one more year” actually turn things around and succeed. I can’t think of any and my guess is that it is a rare occurence. I would be interesting to read about a half a dozen relevant examples of the stories of coaches that turned it around and coaches that just delayed the inveviatable by a year, giving a program one more mediocre year.

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If you want to win you have to buy better players. WAR EAGLE!!!

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Mark,

Right on! Some other thoughts
Why play action, when the opposition knows you have to throw? Fix it Richt
Why run the wild dawg, when you are killing them with the pass? they did this in three games they lost. You do what they cannot stop, until they can stop it …and then you adjust in kind. Fix it Richt
You give no quarter to your opponent. This is not christian belief I know, but this is a sport and there should be a separation of chruch and state er sports. Fix it Richt.

Damn fix it!

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@ Sorry–What are you thinking? You think AJ is going to play a single snap for Paul Johnson!? Never. Great receivers don’t sign with coaches that throw the ball 6 times a game…neither do good QB’s or Tight Ends. Kids that want to go pro want to play in a pro style offense.

Nesbitt got screwed by Tech hiring PJ. He could have learned to play QB instead Johnson taught him to be a RB that is allowed to pitch sometimes. I feel bad for him.

GT realized that they would never be a football power and went with a gimmick offense. It clearly works but only on a tactical level. It will not bring in the great recruits needed to play big boy football–thus the drop off after Chan’s boys jumped ship.

I am in no way saying UGA is a good team. I am saying a poorly coached UGA team full of good recruits is in a better position that a well coached Tech team full of ok recruits.

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Let’s start by not having a high profile married administrator arrested for DUI with a scantily clad sleazy chick in his car.

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Mister Falcon….go home to Tech you loser. Richt 9 wins 1 loss against the Techies….now that is who really sucks…TECH.

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Absolutely agree 1eyedJack. Hopefully knowing the importance of that first game against Boise will keep us very focused next summer. We have had slow starts the last few seasons for whatever reasons. Green really hurt us this year by being out for four games. We can all look back and say “what if” but I think the outcome of at least 2 or 3 of those first four games would have benn different if Green was playing.

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Philosophically, I am not sure Bobo is capable of transitioning to a balanced run 1st offense, like Auburn, SC, and Alabama run. That’s a decision Richt needs to make.

with a 40-2 record when he gets a 100 yard rusher, it’s time to get serious about running the football.

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TECH = LOSERS
TECH SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!
TECH SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!

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For all of you morons who say that I’m “living in the past” by comparing Richt’s record overall to the all-time greatest coaches in college football, consider this: His career winning percentage is BETTER THAN NICK SABAN’S!!!! Just face the fact that all of you who call for his firing after what he is done with the program are hand-wringing idiots who will be nowhere to be found when we win a National Championship…

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freddy, I would just do my job if I were McGarity. Simply put I would look at the body of work CMR’s done and identify the problems I see. I would have some help putting together a list to make sure I didn’t miss anything and to insure I was being objective. I would then give Mark Richt the list, tell him to come up with a plan to fix every issue on the list along with a time line, offer to help him if he would like, and give me a detailed, outlined, plan for a step by step fix to every problem on the list.

I would post the list, and the plan. Mark and I would go over this list, and plan, once a week to insure we were accomplishing our goals. If we were, the results would show. If not, I would go back to my 11:50 post and find someone who fit the criteria I outlined there. This process would not take long to produce results, or show his lack of comittment, or inability to perform at this level.

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“College football is wonderful in that the previous year will have absolutely no bearing on the next year. We’ll have a different team, different players, possibly some different coaches, attitudes, chemistry etc.”
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Hate to pee on your excitement for next season, 1eyedJack, but:
1) Richt has already said there will be no staff changes
2) We are losing three of our four, best, big-play guys – Green, Durham, Houstin – leaving only Murray.

Wish I had your “glass half full” attitude, but I don’t want to even think of our offense without those two receivers.

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Just accept the fact UGA has historically been a middle of the road team in the SEC and let Richt go on about his business of trying to keep these kids out of jail and making sure they are in Sunday School if they want to play.

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agree! Thanks Moble.

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Mister Falcon is a joke. We had a chance at getting Saban? When?

And if we have a “mediocre” program, then why can’t we be next year’s South Carolina? They brought in a kid that is a game breaker. That’s all it takes in college. Hopefully Crowell will be our game breaker.

Quit saying you are a Dawg. You have no clue what you are talking about.

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Mister Falcon @ 12:03

Did you happen to catch the Auburn-AL game this past Saturday? Didn’t Auburn win? Weren’t they down 24-0? Didn’t Alabama blow it? Who is Alabama’s coach? Oh, THAT Nick Saban!

Just want to be sure about that.

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at least Mark has some solutions (although it lacks the most important one: fire CMR), Jeff schutlz is just clueless

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Mister Falcon…..if I had the wings of a Eagle, the A$$ of a big buffalo, I’d fly over North Ave and CRAP on you and the loser campus below!

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TCU is going to the Big East Conference? What the hell is that all about. You would think the Big !2 would be a better fit. Sorry but lately College football is getting screwed up. And most of it is a product of this BCS crap. TCU has to chase a BCS berth by locking in with a BCS conference. So they are going to do Home and Away with UConn!

If we had a real playoff system this kind of garbage moves would not be needed. As an FYI..I like TCU, nothing against the school. Just saying…

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DAWG fans remember that it took Dooley 16 years to win a NC and who knows if he would have ever won one without Herschel! I think that getting rid of CMR would be a huge mistake. We would just be starting all over again. Remember paranoid Ray Goff and underachieving Jim Donnan. Yes, there absolutely is plenty of room for improvement and if “we” know it, you had better bet that CMR knows it. Afterall, it is his lively hood at stake and I think he knows that if he has another year like the last two, he’s gone! 96-33, Playing in 3 SEC Championships, and winning 2, 7-2 in Bowl Games and 9-1 vs. The Joke By Coke gets him a pass in my book. Keep Hunkerin’!!

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Urban Meyer in his 2nd year, Nick Saban in his 2nd year, Gene Chizik in his 2nd year?,Mark Richt in his 10 years? Nope. We have had the talent, but not the coaching. MAybe Richt is a pretty good coach,or maybe he has benefited greatly from having great athletes.(you decide). THis league is extremely competitive. Florida NC two years ago and they get humiliated by the Noles. Bama NC last year and now Auburn is the pride of the state. Every Bama fan was talking about how they would be even better this year, but they weren’t. Lose a Tebow, gain a Newton and you get the picture.

We do need to get more physical(Tech’s fullback made our linemen and LB’s look pitiful, and we need to find a game breaker half-back(not sure why we can’t get a guy who has the speed to take it to the house if they get in the open, Ealy is slow and King is only a step faster. Then sadly we need recievers to replace Greene and Durham(not going to happen IMO). Every team has talent, it’s what you do with the talent that counts.

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Maybe they are waiting another year for Dooley over in Knoxville to ripen. You can almost see this if you look close enough. Lots of coaches have gone to other programs in the SEC, some were not even that good as coaches, just understood the SEC. Dooley is a little below the line right now but beating Kentucky helped. A few good wins, not even great wins next year may bring him into Athens. I would have thought it was a mistake after watching them get chewed up in Athens this year, but you have two great politicians in Vince and Mama Dooley lobbying right there in Athens at every gathering. He is on the radar, shouldn’t be but he shouldn’t be coaching at Tennessee either.

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If any of you people went to college and took a MGMT course, you would have learned that it costs more to replace than it does to retrain. We have had 3 chances to be in a NC game in Richt’s tenure. It requires alot of luck. If the cards fell our way we would have been in those games and won at least one of them. I’ll take that.

3 chances in a decade for a NC > two bad years.

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GT….I’d be worrying about Tech if I was you, I mean look at the QB, dang he can’t even underhand a pass 10 yds and for a Option QB he doesn’t look like he’ll break away too often. As for Defense, better find some real DB’s who know what pass coverage means

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There are more Tech fans on this blog than there were in Athens on Saturday.

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Its a mentality problem in Athens! Talent there, coaching staff there, no edge to em. No nasty streak anywhere to be found.

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Bradley – if you can’t see that the Georgia defense has a talent problem, then there’s no helping you. Tech was gouging UGA’s D-line because we just aren’t that good there. Dobbs is too small. Jones is still a baby. Tyson’s too small to play the nose in a 3-4. As for backups, Geathers still isn’t ready. Anderson would’ve helped, but got hurt. UGA’s biggest problem in 2011 was that we were just undermanned on the DL. Teams that lined up and pounded us had success. Safety play was also down, and it was clearly a talent issue. None of them except ‘Tree were highly recruited…and maybe you could add Hamilton there.

We actually did a pretty decent job against clubs that played pro style or preferred to throw the ball…ie, Ark and UK. Now we need to get some stuffers to clog the middle and continue to improve the talent at safety. And it would help if Boykin stays.

Our guys are strong as hell. Combine #s every year prove that. VH is staying, but we’re likely going to add some bodies to the staff. The bigger problem with S&C has to do with the mindset the S&C staff instills over the summer and into fall camp. Maybe that’s what you mean by ‘edgy’. We lost almost every close game we played this year. That’s a bothersome issue for me, and is something that I’m not quite sure how to address.

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Dan Mullen- Put him in a talent-rich state to recruit + his UF connection to McGarity…

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All the problems mentioned can be fixed. Agreed on all factors including changing the conditioning staff. It is interesting to note that Kevin Butler kept mentioning a change in the conditioning situation. He may know something we do not know. Also Doug Matthews a long time coach and now a sports talk person in the Nashville area said the same thing Mark, that the Dawgs are not physical as they once were.

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Oh, and UGA’s staple running play is not the sprint draw. In fact, we’ve hardly run it since before Moreno. It used to be a staple. Our staple running play is handing the ball off out of a one back set or even the sweep of late.

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The negative Georgia comments from the Lamecock fan is too funny, especially considering South Carolina’s rich football tradition. Decades of losing in Columbia and their fans are still arrogant is beyond belief !!!

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I think Butler was hammered on the post-game radio show. Anyone else agree with me?

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Good points, Mark. I would add the off-field problems need to be eliminated as well. They need to hit the field with the ENTIRE team next year rather than missing some players because of stupid behavior. You have to be able to hit the field when it counts with the same players you have been practicing with all spring.

UGA had some gaps to fill this year. Aaron Murray was as good as you could ask for. The only game he looked like a freshman was that first half against UF. It was his first Cocktail Party, so that can be excusable.

The Defense was bad up the middle this year for good reason. They lost their top 3 DTs, Curran at ILB, and Safety Rashad Jones to the NFL. Thats the entire middle of the defense that needed rebuilding. Hopefully, the young guys that got PT will show up better next year.

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I’ll give Tech this, it took one hell of an effort, but they almost always manage to find a way to lose to the Dawgs.

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I cant stress this enough, the DEFENSE is the key. UGA defensively has not been the same for 3 years now. Give Grantham a pass for his first year teaching these guys the 3-4 and retraining Martinez’s crew. Even Saban needed a year to get Alabama’s D in shape.

In the SEC, it is not enough to show up with an offense. Newton and Auburn have been the exception to the rule. For those teams that dont have the best player in CFB, you have to play defense in this league. If Auburn beats South Carolina Sat., they will be the first SEC champion I can remember that had to outscore teams to win. 99% of the time, the SEC champion must have a top notch defense.

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OkefenokeeDawg, every team loses their star players at some point. Next year somebody will have to step up. It happens all the time. I’ll grant you that AJ was a “star” the first day on campus, but Houston wasn’t a “star” until this year and Durham has been injured and floundered early in his time (I remember fans saying ‘what in the h@ll is Durham doing out there, he couldn’t catch a cold’ two and three years ago).

New guys will have to get better and step up. (Marlon Brown, Rantavious Wooten, Kwame Geathers, Jarvis Jones, Richard Samuel, Alec Ogletree, Branden Smith etc.)

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MB, not point to the fact that the 3-4 defense needs specific players playing the front 3. Georgia had gaps a mile wide to run through. I was puzzled. if the falcons had problems running against the 3-4, then what was the reason? the reason is that each 3-4 unit had massive nose guards clogging up the middle requiring more than one blocker to maintain the NG. now, i watched georgia, and i bet the nose guard is like 265-275. which is not big enough for the line to maintain the front. no mention of that, why?

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My Tech boys cried Saturday night and I ripped my Paul Johnson poster!

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For once, Mark Bradley, you’re right!!!

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With AJ Green, jawja is average. The prospect of running the table after his return was bogus. The prospect of a dirty dawg cleaning up its
act is laughable. As long as the good ole boys on the Board of Trustees
and in the alumni base are enamored with Da Mayor, Mark Richt.

Politics has kept the Gamecocks,as well as the State of SC, on a short leash for generations. Don’t let OLD CONSERVATIVE INDIVIDUALS CHOOSE YOUR COACHES! Take a look at the Clemson Tigers.

Go Gamecocks.

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@TC, the run offense compounds the defensive problems. Our inability to run helps produce the time of possession and number of opponent snaps we saw on Saturday.

You can’t expect much out of an already weak defense if they are playing 3/4’s of the game. The running game has got to improve in order to give our D the opportunity to improve.

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Anybody see the shot of the Asian Tech fan with his bookbag on near the end of the game?

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Mark……………..Has money changed you? Wow, I’d like to know what Richt calls you behing your back. Probably doesn’t use the same type of language Glavine did but the meaning is the same. Thanks AJC for the funny papers on a Monday.

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@Yuck…the caption is a cheap shot, but I’ve come to expect Bradley to take those.

If he doesn’t cheaply anger people, he knows the readers will actually reflect on his garbage and form an opinion on the merit of his writing, and that’s the last thing he wants.

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Its also very clear that Boise State doesn’t play anybody!!!!!!!!!!

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you can get all the 4 & 5 in the state you still have to have some one to coach them

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I have a feeling if the season goes bad next year and Richt is forced out you might see him replace Fulmer as a sports analyst? Then wait for the Miami job to open again after Shalala is gone. Or he might just get out completely and become a full time missionary?

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Please stop. Do you even read your own articles before you place them on the website? You are like a 5 yer old repeating himself over and over. Also, your grammar sucks.

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Hire more trash collectors?

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How did the “Genius” do in his last 5 games of the season. Oh…they went 1-4 with a victory over Duke.

That’s solid. Tech fans should definitely take solace in the future of their Program.

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“The issue: Van Halanger is Richt’s best friend.”

McGarity fires Van Halanger. CMR keeps his friendship and UGA gets strong!

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Nerds! Nerds! Nerds!

November 29th, 2010
1:22 pm
Anybody see the shot of the Asian Tech fan with his bookbag on near the end of the game?

so what is wrong with that? rather seeing fat and ugly looking redneck uga fan?

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All of these comments about what CMR needs to do in the future is non-applicable. By this time next week he will be the new coach of the Miami Hurricanes. I’m not guessing here folks….It’s a guarantee.

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I for one am sick of the way we play offensive and defense. For all you Richt supporters you cannot tell me when you watch us play that you aren’t cussing most of the time at our coaches and their dumb calls. What has happened the last 2 years is a joke and a total disgrace to a once proud and feared team. A friend of mine told me at the start of the season when my hopes were high that the only way Richt gets UGA back to the SEC championship game in Atlanta is to buy tickets. I’m starting to agree with him. WE NEED A CHANGE IN ATHENS.

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UGA Insider – Where are getting your info?

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Really Insider? He’s going to leave $3mm a year for $1.5mm?
Tell me the last time Miami has shown that they pay top dollar for a coach?

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Does Tech, as TV guys said, have the top rushing offense in the nation? Defense was on the field with them for 90 something plays??? Hell, I’d be tired too….I know it’s their job to stop’em..but..
I really think it’ll be addressed before next year…
On offense, I thought the mis-direction play with the FB leading was a great call all night long. Games shouldn’t be so close sometimes…but it’s Clean Old Fashioned Hate…and UGA WON!!!

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Let me get this straight,if Grantham’s defense can only work well when he recruits players with the size he needs to play the 3-4 then how many years away are we from having a really good defense. And the bigger question is does CMR have that much time available? Seems CMR made a mistake in hiring Grantham if it’s going to be 2-3 years before we recruit and mature “his” type players. Seems CMR would have better served his own interest by hiring a 4-3 guy. Watching Tech’s running backs do their thing and not having a clue how to stop it wasn’t pretty to watch. Glad we had Greene or we lose.

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Mark, no matter how you slice and dice it, CMR is a nice guy but has not and will not be able to coach UGA above where they are now. There are so, so many examples of his ineptitude in recognizing how to motivate, coach and manage his team that lessor coaches would have been fired for doing. He gave the offense to Bobo so he could manage the games. And yet at a critical time in the Tech game when all we needed was a knee with 1:29 left in the game and Tech with no timeouts, we risk everything by handing off to Ealey. Forget the fact that Tech had pre-arranged to let us score if we were stupid enough, the real issue in my opinion if I were Athletic Director is that rather than take a knee and ensure a bowl birth that means several million dollar to the university, we put all that at risk because CMR does not know how to manage anything, much less the game.

I like CMR but he is not getting it done. I have watched UGA football since I graduated from UGA in 1970, and I cannot remember us ever being this bad, this un motivated and un coached. CMR may be lucky next year because we again don’t play anyone, but with the schedule UGA has if he doesn’t win a substantial number of games – read here 10, he’s gone. Since UGA is his home and he has no plans to leave he can live in Athens and watch somebody else coach.

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Doesn’t matter what UGA does, you will have a bad year next year. AJGreen will be gone. Once he is gone, who knows how good Murray is.

I predict a 7-5 year. I started this year predicting a 7-5 or 8-4 season. Then I bought in with UGA fans’ hype and changed to 10-2.

Lesson learned, never listen to UGA fans again.

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What does Richt need to do to beat Tech more often? HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

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Alphare,

I agree-Heck I wont even listen to myself anymore lol

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Just a serious question here, if you know a team is not going to throw the ball but 3 or 4 times a game then how can you give up 400plus rushing yards, just makes no sense. Talk about the weak ACC but they all faired better against the option than you did….even Duke

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The best change that could be made would be for the
unrealistic, impatient and unthankful UGA fans that continually call for CMR to be fired or leave would simply leave him alone. The man has done a great job in his 10 years at UGA and a replacement of his caliber would be hard to come by. The group of fans that are calling for his ouster are the schools worst enemies.

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@brandon 11:40am Please tell me what year CMR took us to the NC
game in his 10yr reign to keep his job? 10yrs ZERO NC games or
wins. Stop this crap, CMR should be back next year, it’s NC game
or FIRE MARK RICHT cut and dry. We are not good and we should
demand more, not more of the same Crap? Anyone notice how UGA
does not get mentioned with the Fla’s, Bama’s, LSU’s and possibly
not with the AUB’s…hell we don’t even get mentioned with the
Miss St and USC, South Carolina won the friggin East, so yeah
Mark Richt is great he let’s them (UGA) eat the chocolate cake
but stop drinking the FOOL AID that this coach and program is
selling. DARE TO BE GREAT slogan for 2011!!! Sure hope all those
recruits stay loyal to UGA………..GO DAWGS!!!!!!

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Steps 1 & 2 are right on the money. S&C needs much improvement. CVH needs to implement some of the cross-training done by MMA fighters. Build cardio/endurance, explosiveness, etc. Diet (even off season) is key as well.

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lose not lost. typing a little too fast for my own good.

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UGA Insider and Will are GT Trolls just looking for a bite….CMR loudly and clearly said Athens is his home and he wants to finish his “career” at Georgia. Now he could always change careers at the end of the year.

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This is the difference between UGA and Georgia Tech. Georgia goes 6-6, beats Tech and still are VERY disappointed in the team and coach. GT goes 6-6 and loses to UGA and they are giddy
http://blogs.ajc.com/mark-bradley-blog/2010/11/28/a-canny-loss-to-uga-leaves-tech-fans-giddy-about-their-coach/

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Too many problems to list. 1. quit hiring friends. 2. Be open to new ideas and plays. 3. Have someone you respect come in the off season and TELL you why the offense goes into a funk for 2 quarters after going up 14 points. 4 Ask yourself this in January. If we can’t blow a poor, lightweight Tech defensive front off the ball on fourth and one, what must the front of LSU, AU,Fla and Bama do to us.5. Figure out a way to keep the other half of the TOP 10 players in Georgia home.

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No. 1. Pay more for your recruits. UGA had a chance to get me, but wanted me as a TE.
No. 2 Bonus pay for touchdowns, tackles, interceptions
No. 3 Go the JC route and get players who are already strong and they start right away
No. 4 Have other students attend class for your athletes. Have them take good notes for you.
No. 5 Instead of class have football players in weight room working out.
No. 6 Promises must be fulfilled to all players and parents..$$$$
No. 7 Provide drivers to all players so Arrest are limited.
No. 8 Open a players only night club.
No. 9 ATM Machines for players only
No. 10 Open a dog track and casino for the players to hide all payoffs.

As the starting Quarterback at the No. 1 team in the nation the Auburn tigers, I can firmly say that the items listed above is how business is done and should be done at UGA in order for THE BULLDOGS to compete against us at Auburn.

Sincerly

Cameron Newton

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Mark -

Here is another area that needs to be addressed!

Coach Rodney Garner… see Buck’s blog for further detail.

I’ve been saying it all season long… Richt has got to look at our recruiting strategy and the continual lack of progress in our defensive line. Sure we are sending players to the NFL… a lot of them. Hmmmmm, certainly begs the question why they aren’t giving NFL type peformances in a Georgia uniform. Garner can’t be Assistan Head Coach, DL coach and Recruiting Coordinator all at the same time. It makes no sense!

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Lazy Dawg:
AS THEY SAY AT FURMAN, FU TOO LAZY DAWG….WE LIKE OUR MAN BOBO….30 POINTS A GAME FOR THE LAST 7 GAMES, HARD FOR EVEN BARK TO CRITICIZE THAT, ALTHOUGH HE WANTS TO….BARK WANTS US TO ESTABLISH AN IDENTITY, SO WE BETTER DO THAT SO HE WILL WRITE GOOD THINGS ABOUT US….HIS FAVORITE TEAM GEORGIA TEACH AND FAVORITE COACH PAUL JOHNSON HAS AN IDENTITY, RUN THE FOOTBALL….THIS IDENTITY WILL KEEP THEM FROM RECRUITING THE OFFENSIVE TALENT TO COMPETE NOT ONLY IN THE ACC, BUT AGAINST SEC TEAMS AS WELL….BUT HE OUTCOACHES EVERYBODY, SO I AM HAPPY FOR PAUL…..

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Bradley

You are trying to complicate a very uncomplicated scenario. The problem is that Corch(int.) Richt has lost the ability to coach at UGA. I don’t know why and apparently you do not either. All we are left with are the results at the end of the week and as now, the end of the year. One could claim all 6 of the games we lost were close games. What about a 6-6 record, where does one record they were close games? An asterisk? They could have been 6 blowouts and they would still be 6 losses and we’d still be headed for some God-forsaken bowl playing a week before Christmas.

The problem here is Mark Richt, he simply cannot coach within the surroundings of UGA. He could and did at one time but, apparently, that time has passed him by. He has everything he needs to be successful but, he fails to “Finish the Drill”.

If he goes now, we have 2 maybe 3 rebuilding years where nothing is guaranteed might turn into 5,6,7. If he stays we one at least one more guaranteed year of failures and mediocrity and then the aforementioned rebuilding process.

If he stays and turns the situation around I’ll be behind him 100%. This is the culture of “what have you done for me lately” and Richt has done nothing. He should go to Miami and let them be pleased to pay his 3 Mil a year salary. He might actually be successful there where he can’t at UGA

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OK now Mark is a D-1 coach. Please go back to Louisville, KY and write again as the Home and Garden idiot. Yea,bet y’all did not know that. You are such a buffune.

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oakisland:
TELL US YOUR SCHEME, BIG BOY!!! YOU DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT FOOTBALL AND LESS ABOUT SCHEMES….ALL YOU KNOW IS WHAT MOST STUPID GEORGIA FANS KNOW IS WHEN THEY SCORE, THEY MUST HAVE CALLED THE RIGHT PLAY….SOME GEORGIA FANS WHO KNOW A LITTLE FOOTBALL REALIZE THAT UNTIL WE GET ANOTHER BIG TIME RUNNING BACK, THE OFFENSE WILL HAVE A HARD TIME RUNNING THE BALL….YOU ARE SO TYPICAL OF THE GEORGIA FANS WHO HERE SOMETHING, DON’T HAVE THE WISDOM TO DETERMINE IF IT IS TRUE, AND JUST START REPEATING IT…..THEY STARTED TODAY ON THE STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING COACH…..THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING COACH IS DOING, AND THAT THIS YEAR’S GROUP IS AS STRONG AS ANY WE EVER HAD AT GEORGIA ON BENCH, POWER CLEANS, AND SQUATS….MORE GUYS POWER CLEANING OVER 300 POUNDS THAN EVER BEFORE….BUT BECAUSE SOME IDIOT SAID SOMETHING DEROGATORY ABOUT THE S&C PROGRAM, ANOTHER 20 CHIME IN WHO DON’T KNOW JACKSCHITT ABOUT STENGTH AND CONDITIONING…..SUCH IS THE STUPID FAN BASE THAT A COACH AT UGA HAS TO PUT UP WITH…..

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I have friends who are Tennessee, Florida, & Auburn supporters and everyone of them tell me Georgia needs to keep Mark Richt, not because of his great coaching ability but knowing that a Georgia team with Mark Richt as Head Coach is not a threat to their respective programs. What does this say about what the right thing to do for Georgia is? It’s very obvious! Georgia’s Football program has lost not only national but regional respect- There are times difficult decisions have to be made and now is the time for UGA!

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75-76-DAWG:
BOBO HAS FORGOTTEN MORE FOOTBALL THAN YOU, MY FRIEND, WILL EVER KNOW….ALL THIS ADJUSTING IS JUST A BUNCH OF BULLCRAP….95% OF WHAT THESE GUYS SEE ON GAME DAY, THEY HAVE SEEN IN THE VIDEOS ALL WEEK….ITS NOT LIKE EVERYONE GOES AND PUTS AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT DEFENSE AND OFFENSE IN EVERY WEEK….I HAVE SEEN WHAT COACH JOHNSON DID, CALLED FOR THE DEFENSE TO LET THEM SCORE, 15 TIMES IN HIGH SCHOOL GAMES…..JOHNSON THE GENIUS PROBABLY GOT THAT FROM A HIGH SCHOOL COACH…..HE NEEDS TO WORK ON HIS 2 MINUTE OFFENSE IF HE WANTS TO COME BACK AND TIE A GAME….THAT 2 MINUTE DRILL THAT JOHNSON AND TECH PUT UP WAS JUNIOR HIGH TO THE CORE…..WHY WASTE TIME HOPING FOR A TOUCHDOWN AND 2 POINT CONVERSION WITH A 2 MINUTE DRILL LIKE THAT…..ITS ALL ABOUT PERSONNEL, MY FRIEND….OUR RECRUITING HAS BEEN OFF FOR THE PAST 4-5 YEARS….WILLIE AND DEFENSIVE GUYS BEFORE RECRUITED SOME THAT CANNOT PLAY….WE HAVE RECRUITED SOME RUNNING BACKS THAT CAN’T SUCCEED BIG TIME IN D-1—-AUBURN HAS THE RIGHT IDEA…GO GET A CAMERON NEWTON….WHERE WOULD THEY BE WITHOUT HIM…ITS ALL ABOUT PERSONNEL, WE GOT TO DO A BETTER JOB RECRUITING….

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For the record, I do not care of Richt is Georgia coach next year or not. Nothing I have to say matters in the grand scheme of things but, just the FACT that I do not care should say something.

With Richt for another year, we are at least 3-4 years from some progress. With a new coach at best 2-3 years. We’ve seen what Richt can do. If you are happy with it, scream from the hilltops to keep him. If you’re not, suffer like me and the other fools calling for his job

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MARK BRADLEY:
GO TELL TECH WHAT THEY MUST DO TO FIX THINGS…..9 OUT OF 10 YET WE ALWAYS ARE WANTING TO FIX GEORGIA…TELL US ABOUT THE TECH RECRUITING EFFORTS, AND WHAT GREAT RECEIVERS ARE TELLING COACH JOHNSON WHEN THEY WATCH FILM AND ONLY STALK BLOCK………DESPITE TURNOVERS AND NOT BEING ABLE TO CONVERT ON 4TH AND 6 INCHES, WE STILL WIN…..SO WE STILL RUN THIS STATE……

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See my choke sign worked this time!

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UGA ‘92

The death of print media related to a mediocre football squad? This is the type of thinking that I was referring to, narrow minded POVs. What the hell does the media have to do with this team. Close minded people
don’t seem to realize the unfettered love for jawja over GT with people like Bill King. That fairy won’t allow my opinions for MONTHS! He’s a homer.He obviously has an issue with GAMECOCKS/DAWG H8Rs. Is that as
the lunatics call “FAIR and BALANCED”? This is an ATL paper with more than enough ink and manpower devoted to covering the BUTTLICKERS for YEARS!

This “fool” calls for his job just as ANY ADULT who is not cutting the mustard to be FIRED!

As far as Garner, his recruiting will be missed if they run him off. What will jawja miss if they run off Richt or Slingblade Bobo? Perhaps, two guys the ole boys in GA love to see at the golfcourse or the racetrack or the church.

Coaching isn’t acceptable here, rubbing elbows with the good ole boys is!

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I read the headline thinking, Good an actualy look at what can specifically be addressed to improve at various positions. Then it’s just more of the same subjective cliche’ banality. Edgier, and Stronger. Yea, that’s the ticket.

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THE OFFENSE IS NOT THE PROBLEM AT UGA!

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Hire Randy Shannon as a defensive coach!!

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HotDawg, you are right about the playaction. However after Green came back, Bobo started using the playaction on pass plays to set up the run. What I mean to say is that they would fake the handoff on a pass play then come back a few plays later and run the same formation but actually hand the ball off. It was the first time I can remember seeing the playaction set up the run and it has been a strategy the last 4-5 games. I think it has showed good playcalling and adaptability. I shouldn’t say that too loud because killing Bobo and Richt are the Vouge thing to do amongst GA fans.

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First-Richt has to find his inner Woody Hayes. Stop the off field issues before they happen.
Second-The new defense was a disaster. It’s all about the coaching. That’s a must fix Georgia State will have a better program.
Third-Learn to finish the fight.Finish the drill motto is all well and good but is about 60 minutes of football. It’s about the final play, the final push, and the last stand. They were never out of it in most of their losses. They were a much better team, but the way they played Tech just showed they don’t know how to finish the fight. Richt has to take repsonibility. Maybe get mad a litte, yell at the defensive coaches, make a show. Take away their headsets. Just do something.

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Bo

Thanks for the insight, that makes me feel a little better. For the life of me I couldn’t figure out why we play actioned so much especially with a young qb. Thanks!

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Get a good DC for about $500,000 and use the other $250,000 to buy a player like Cam Newton (for more than one year).

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The Dawgs problems can be fixed with 3 positions:

1. We need a space eating big time 3-4 Nose – either a Mount Cody type OR a strong high motor guy like Fairley. Geathers back from injury next season can serve as backup and Tripp and Tyson can be moved to DE where they are more of natural fits for the 3-4. Toby Jackson fits this mold if we can get him to re-commit out of juco

2. We need a homerun RB that teams will fear. Isaiah Crowell could definitely be the answer, but we’ve got to get him on campus. Jackson and Crowell will be Richt and co.’s biggest recruiting battles and are must wins. Crowell can have the same impact that Lattimore had for SC this year.

3. If AJ leaves (which is likely) we need to hit a homerun with 1-2 WRs this class. And we need top guys that can come in and play right away. No offense to King, Troupe, and Brown, but they’ve had chances to step up and simply haven’t. All have shown glimpses of potential, and can definitely be role players, but they NEED a couple of young hungry high profile WRs to come in and push them. I wouldn’t be afraid to go the juco route here as well.

Obviously if we could get J.Houston to come back for his senior season that would be huge as well, if not I’d look for a juco replacement.

The word this offseason SHOULD be JUCO. We are too close and don’t have time to wait on recruits to grow up for the 3-4. Saban did it with great success at Bama, we just need a few stop gaps until Granthum can get his recruits in.

This without a doubt will be Richt’s most important offseason recruiting wise to date.

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How about win a few NC’s?

This team as always been a mediocrity team in the SEC. Yeah, every blue-moon it will win the conference, but it has on had a chance to play for a NC ONCE in thirty years. Therefore, it is an average if anything program.

Enough Said!

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You can only fix something if it’s repairable. What many of you Richt defenders are proposing is just treating a symptom. To really solve the problem, you have to fix the root cause; that’s why UGA needs to clean house. There’s just too much wrong…attitude, blind loyalty, recruiting, coaching, game-planning, conditioning, and incompetence.

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Didn’t ending your posts with “enough said” go out around the same time
the Dawgs last won a National Title?

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I have a question about the strength program as compared to other schools. Do other schools encourage the use of HGH and other performance enhancing substances that are not banned (or is HGH banned by NCAA?)? If other schools do, does UGA? Just curious if this could be making a difference.

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Mobile Dawg

November 29th, 2010
4:41 pm
What do we have to do to send CMR to Miami? I’ll even help move him down…We need Harbaugh, Mullin or Peterson.

You mean MULLEN or PATTERSON?
You lose credibilty when you can’t even spell the names of the coaches you’d like to see as replacements!

Careful what you wish for you might just get it only to regret asking for it in the first place.

We have some of the BIGGEST fair weather fans I’ve ever seen.

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ARdawg…you are correct. It also takes a coach that knows what he’s doing, too. For $750,000, we could have done a lot better and not try to fit round pegs in square holes.

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Have you noticed that CMR’s loudest critics, that so frequently call for him to be fired, have never coached or played a game of football? Some might say, “well, I played in high school…” and your point is?

Leave him alone. If you were capable of doing the job better, someone would give you the opportunity.

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In response to the caption under the picture, I think anytime you beat a rival is reason to celebrate, GO DAWGS!!

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DEFENSE is the ISSUE we will not win the SEC until we return to solid hard nose slap yo momma if needed defense. If you score 28-30 points it should be a win, the last 3-4 years we have had to sweat to the end and even lose games in which we scored 30 points, what a joke. Gratham is not the answer the defense did not improve all year, I am sick of the system is new and he does not have his players excuse, after 12 games they should have made some type of improvement but FAILED to do so…

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Where has Kwame Geathers been? He’s a big body. Is he just not very good or been hurt? Tyson played every snap the other night. He had to be exhausted after 90+ snaps.

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You can’t fix stupid…

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AR,
It did and you’re right. I wondered how many runs up the middle before we adjusted and took away that play. We are still underusing our young talent on defense…too much “Willie”. We’re not playing our best players.

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Good thing it was a 3 man front because the LB’s and DB’s were making tackles all night…If they’d gotten past a 6 man front they’d have scored like Wisconsin

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How to fix UGA?

Simple really.

Nuke it.

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Ya’ll go ahead and take your best shot, but I think Richt will resign and take the Miami job. And it will happen by Friday. I think our new coach will be Jim Harbaugh and he’ll clean house. He’ll also make Murray a “world class” QB, too.

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At this point, I’d say the jury is still out on Grantham but, he looks guilty. The stats show a better defense but that doesn’t mean much when the win/loss shows something else. Getting beat on the big play every game is really no consolidation

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I think Richt is around for “at least” another year. FTR, against my better judgment. I say get ready for another 6/7 win season and continue these same conversations next year

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Just for the record, I was giving the choke sign to Aaron Murray in Jax. That little snot nosed frat boy almost cost us another one against Tech if not for my D.

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Well Mark,

step 1. Responsibility of……….Mark Richt
step 2. Responsibility of……….Mark Richt
step 3. Responsibility of……….Mark Richt

I do not believe he will make the changes necessary to turn this team around.
Next season will be another waste and we will have to wait for yet another year.

What a waste.

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about UGA,
THey brought in this Grantham to shore up the defense…there is no difference from last year!!! This defense has given up 30 or more points all year, you can’t win like that. The offense is doing just fine. They consistently scored in the thirty’s and forty’s..nothing wrong with that.Georgia can’t stop anybody throwing or running. It appears this scheme of defense has a lot of holes in it…and that is coaching. For 750k a year you would think you would get better results than this!

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ARdawg

November 29th, 2010
5:25 pm
Go look at Bama’s stats the first year Saban introduced the 3-4.

His defense gave up an average of 22pts the first year and they had ugly back to back losses to Miss St and LA-Monroe

2nd year they averaged 14pts per game

3rd year they averaged just under 12pts per game.

Granthum this year averaged 23pts per game.

Let’s see what happens in year two before we’re ready to fire another DC.

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GO DAWGS

I’m not calling for a firing. Grantham however, is just part of the bigger problem. If it takes 3 years to implement a working 3-4 defense. I can say with a degree of certainty, Grantham doesn’t have that long.

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A good offense and a mediocre defense doesn’t elevate Richt’s position anytime in the next year. Mediocre anything can not be in that equation if Richt is to keep his job. It will take a “Good” offense, defense and Special teams. Otherwise we’re looking at another 6/7 win season and I do not expect that will be enough to keep Richt after 2011

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Nice piece, Mark. We Dogs have spoken these truths for about 4 or 5 years now. The WVA game in the Atlanta Sugar Bowl gave UGA fans the real future. We were that night slow, lethargic and elsewhere emotionally. The game being in Atlanta, I am sure, had some negativity on the UGA squad, whereas WVA was happy to go anywhere, in those days.

SEC now is a very different breed of animal. Physicality is still the name of the game. Mark Richt however, still plays ACC ball, left over from the 90s, in which Bowdon’s faster, more athletic FSU teams could usually win big vs a Bowling Green or a North Texas State or a Tulane, Louisville, or the weak, weak ACC teams like NC State, Maryland, NC or Wake or such as that. THey back then, except for one or two kids per suad, simply did not have the huge number of athletes, like Ron Simmons, Deon Sanders or the 2 Heisman QB kids. FSU was full of that ……….. easy to do in Florida too.

Nowadays …………. you must be physical and play fast ……………. like AU. The game changes and the SEC was not 100% up to speed when Richt first appeared but the great programs that they all are, caught up and PASSED UGA. We look like a rusty 1968 Cutlass 442 with wheeels up on blocks. Yeah, in our day, we had no rust. Now? We are a rust bucket.

We all knew this. Richt is stubborn and his staff all know of what we speak .Richt will not fire Van Halanger and come 11/29/11 Richt will be fired. It is his choice. He should have begun the coaching modification 3 or 5 years ago. Now? He needs to fire about 4 or 5 of his position c oaches, starting with Bobo and Searels and McClendon and Van Halanger.

Go Dogs. BY 2013 and 2014 UGA will be back ……….IF we get a new coach in 2011. We just have to wait. Problem for me is that I am getting too old to wait another 30 years.

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No discipline, No leadership, same ole UGA football….. Next year will be another 6 and 6 year….
Welcome to mediocre football at its finest…. College football in Georgia smells really bad…

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CMR has already said there won’t be any coaching changes, so I say he has to go. It’s obvious to everyone (and I mean everyone) but him that Van Halanger is way past his expiration date. Refusing to make any changes is going to land us right back in the “hope we beat Tech to get to a bowl game” mode. Another year will only drive the point home for a FOURTH time.

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“A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.”

Fire the coach who has the best winning percentage in school history?

Ok, I’ll play.

If you do the dirty deed, then who’s up for the public gutting he’ll receive next year when he undoubtably flounders with a talented team trying to absorb yet a new system?

If you replace CMR because you say he can’t win a National Championship then you must replace him with someone who HAS. Fair enough? Otherwise it’s just speculation.

Let’s see. Assuming Auburn wins this year, Gene Cheesestick? He might just be available, though possibly tainted, and what has he won previous to “lucking” into his Herschel? I think the SEC frowns on stealing head coaches from member institutions, even if they are on probation.

Oregon Coach Chip Kelly? If he wins he’ll be on top of the world. He will dominate recruiting in the NW and NCAL and control the PAC10 at least until USC gets off probation and dummys up and dumps the Boy Wonder. Why subject yourself to crucifixion on the cross of the UGA fanbase? You probably couldn’t pay him enough. Besides, he has all those wonderful uniform combinations to play with. How many combinations can you get from Red and Black?

Nick Saban? He likes a challenge, but come on, can we buyout CMR and Grantham and pay Lucifer a gazillion dollars?

Urban Meyer? Get real. A nervous breakdown about to happen.

Les Miles? Their fanbase would probably swap him head up.

Mack Brown? Only if Texas did a stupid thing and fired him.

WHO? WHO? WHOOOOOOOOOOOO?

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It’s cocktail hour so I’m out of here, but what in the past three seasons have you seen that makes you think things will get better? Peace!

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CMR needs to be himself. He is a nice guy, and he is not going to succeed by all of the sudden turning in to Saban, Meyer, Vince Dooley or any other coach. The players need to focus on winning and not be satisfied with anything else. I don’t see where a S&C coach can make much difference in the first place – don’t players know how to lift weights and train? It is that much of a science? If so, can’t VH figure this out??? I don’t know what is wrong, but I think CMR and our new AD do, and they just need to buckle down and get after it. We did improve this year, although the record did not show it. That was due largely to two stupid fumbles that cost us a couple of games and the defensive lapse against the Razorbacks at the end of the game. I am optimistic about 2011, and it should be the make or break year. I love CMR and want him to stay for 20 more years, but he is on the hot seat, and we need to win at least 9 or 10 games next year.

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Go “pluck” Tommy Tuberville from Texas Tech.
I like Mark Richt, but he has wasted more talent.
What have we really gotten out of A.J.’s time here at UGA?

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What in the past three seasons have you seen that makes you think we’ll get better?

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All season 1eyedJack? And was Cox the best we had?

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@ 1eyedJack: I completely agree with you. We could do much worse, and the odds are that we would. Look at the troubles Tennessee had, and it is no guarantee we will do any better with anyone else. Look at Meyer – can anyone deny this guy is a great coach? But look at the fall-off Florida has had. Folks, it just happens. It is not fun, and it is not something to be happy with, but the key is to stay sane during the process and get back ASAP. UGA will, and UGA will be back soon, and I believe it will be with CMR at the head. Bet on it.

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boots,

And by ASAP you mean 4-5 seasons I presume? The handwritting is on the wall. We don’t need to keep on proving the same thing.

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You can feed your mule oats just like you feed your horse.
You can make your mule do the same work as your horse.
You cannot make your mule your horse.

Van Halanger only has what he has to work with. He don’t get to choose his personnel. Did he forget how to coach weight lifting?

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Boys, give me the head coaching job and the talent in-state and I’ll show you how it’s done. Look what I’ve accomplished at a California school that can’t even fill a 50,000 seat stadium. Shoot, I can even hire competent coaches. Richt has been stealing your money!

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2nd down and 10: MIke Bobo calls a ’straight dive” play. Over and over and over.

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If CUM does not retire again, and if he goes 7-5 or 6-6 in 2011 ……………………they will crucify him just like they did to Zook and that chubby guy that has been a long, long time co ordinator under Joe PA ever since. They did it to Pell and another guy that I don’t recall prior to S Spurrier.

Florida has had twice the number of head coaches as UGA has since Dooley stepped down as HC.

Go Dogs.

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CUM loses 5 again in 2011, you are correct, they’ll go nuts down there. Tebowless=5 L’s. I don’t know if CUM can win at that level again. Tebow made that funky offense work. rotating everyone but the band at QB will not work. Welcome to our world Gators.We’ll all up to Spurrier.

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It is sad and hilarious at once to see all the so called f-ans of the UGA who have zero lives other than the pride they get out of a game played by 18-20 year olds. It’s also sad and hilarious to see them talk about what SHOULD and SHOULD not be done with a college athletic program when most have barely graduated high school. I bet 75-76 Dawg was yelling for Vince to be fired the year UVA beat us 35-0 for homecoming in front of Prince Charles. That was the year before Herschel and after that everything was good again for years.

If I were a recruit and I read what the fans say in this fish wrapper about the team and its coaches UGA would be the last place on my list to attend.

Texas still loves their coaches and they aren’t even going to a bowl. There are people on this blog who think we should hire Muschamp. His defense is WAY worse than ours. What would you be saying to him if you were all Texas fans? Morons. UGA has a patent on turning them into fans.

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Jim Harbaugh would we also be able to play in the Pac 10? that would cure what ails us immediately. Your team is an unranked 6*6 SEC team all day any day

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Van Halanger didn’t forget how to coach weight lifting. Long ago the rest of the SEC figured out a better way. We’re still stuck in the FSU 90’s with our coaches, offense, conditioning, and lack of off-field discipline.

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I’ve dumped on Mark Bradley before but he’s right this time. Strength and Conditioning is obviously second rate. CMR needs to get tough. Not sure he ever will ?

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Remember our brain trust are the ones that thought S’Cam would work best as a tight end. That about says it all.

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Right on Mark!! You forgot one thing though. We are losing too many in-state recruits to our neighbors. Maybe it’s time for Rodney Garner to go!!

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At least 4 losses next year

You can count on it

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Fire Van Halanger! Just about every problem on this team comes back to him. You want an O line that is dominant, get em stronger and tougher. You want to know why we have top 10 classes that don’t pan out? They get here and just fade away because we don’t develop them like the rest of the league. I watch HS players go to other schools and turn into beast . Look at our wideouts . They look just like they did when they graduated HS. Its the same across the board. Buford has a better strength program than UGA. . Van Halanger has them 9 mths out of the year! The other coaches are having to spend half their time doing his job! Ask them. We can’t go full speed for a whole game. We’re not able. When you are soft 365 days out of the year, it shows up on Saturday. MaGarity better “help” CMR push Van Halanger out the door or show CMR the door.

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Jim Harbaugh you would have to show me that Stanford could beat UK. I don’t think Stanford could keep UGA under 30 and I don’t think you could keep Tech under 400 yards. Maybe they implode but not because you could stop them.

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FATBOY what has Buford done this year?

Wasn’t Van Halanger the coach when we won the SEC titles? Did he decide to get softer over that period of time? If you morons would just listen to what you say, you’d see how illogical it is. But then again, the definition of irrational is someone with out the ability to reason. Go figure.

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We need much better line play on both sides of the ball. Remember 2008? We had the best “skill position” players in the nation and kept getting hammered by other schools because those other schools controlled (dominated) the line on both sides of the ball. We need better strength and conditioning too.

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Every year it’s the same old thing with you people.
“Fire this guy”, “Fire that guy”. Sometimes it’s right
but thank god the people who actually have meaningful
opinions don’t give these blogs any consideration.
Everyone forget how auburn was shopping a for a coach
only to have TT go 13-0? There have been a lot of
people on here debasing others integrity. The university
thankfully has displayed integrity where Mark Richt is
concerned.

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Georgia is too nice for big time football no killer instinct. Just want to win by 1 point. No heart when the other team fights back.

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Sleeper Service

Its real simple if there is no improvement next i.e 9 wins including a win over FL then he has failed for the money he is paid

I like Richt but GA has become a joke, with good ball players. If Richt does not want to make changes to his staff and he feels that it is best thats fine.

Im for giving him another year but another season like the last 2 and you lose to FL again then a few things should happen

He should resign
Be fired
Stop having fans pay donation money for tickets and parking or
Or he should take a %50 pay cut

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Old Gold Forever

Are you serious

You call out UGA fans and you cannot even fill a high school stadium which was also talked about by the ESPN anouncers

You fight, come on with that crap

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But we have free hotdogs and cokes and I love the extra leg room when I have 30-40 rows open in front of me.

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In the beginning of the year, we had no leadership. Murray grew into that….The offense got better but the defense did not seem to improve that much. I do not know if the DC is the right answer but I believe coaching the basics seems to be a problem. Remember a few weeks ago we lost some fumble opportunities because we tried to pick the ball up and run instead of falling on it? We did the same thing this week.

MB is right, defensively we do not seem tough.

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Less people in the seats leaves more room for me and the guys to play dungeons and dragons and talk about one day scoring with chicks (or a tranny – we’re not picky)

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UGA needs a first-rate coach, not someone who’s in the bush league.

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@MontyP 6:29 – “It is clear that Georgia has 2 or 3 really talented players on defense but the rest are just average.”

Georgia defense losses from the depth chart.

Starters
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DE Dobbs – 4 stars
LB Gamble – 3 stars
LB Houston* – 4 stars
LB Dent – 4 stars

Backups
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DE Wood – 4 stars
DE Tripp – 4 stars
LB Hebron – 5 stars
CB Cuff – 4 stars

Shouldn’t the defense have been a *lot* better?

*Assumes that Houston declares for the NFL draft

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“better a muslin in the white house”

Oh, no! A Linen is sure to be next!

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Whatever happened to those were saying that “when DJ Shockley took over the offense Richt was going to be able to finally open up this offense.”? Wasn’t his offense supposed to be more fast paced and airing it out? I know its a long way back to go but I’ve wondered about this all season long…

As far as identity, I like the Patriots’ approach – they attack whatever the defense is weak against. If its tough against the run they pass (with runs queued to keep the defense honest), against teams tough against the pass they run. Too many times this season we’ve seen a “committment” to the run or the pass when it wasn’t as necessary as they seemed to think it was.

Just saying…

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B.S. We have TALENT Bradley. If you knew football and you don’t, you would be able to consider the football defenses for example of the past and know it’s NOT HERE and NOT COMING. On Offense, we have only 2 pieces this year QB and TE and we designed no plays to take advantage of a guy who will play TE in the NFL a long time. We have 1 more piece AJ Green and we lost 3 games without him, 3 games with him and the reason is the TALENT on this offense has been DECLINING STEADILY. On Special teams, we play walk-ons. We gave away half a dozen scholarships to walk-ons who NEVER play. The 2009 class is not on the roster this season, the 2010 class is worst of CMR Era and the 2011 is more of the same. We’re not going to be good for a long time and only then when we do recruit. You left out Todd Grantham after a whole year and 2 weeks to prepare looked worse in Game 12 than in Game 1, Mike Bobo sucks, Rodney Garner has lost it, Dave Van Halanger is no good, the kick-off returns are # 77 worst in the nation, we can’t make 3rd downs, we won Fulmer NC most arrested / suspended and less anyone think it is just 1 year, we are # 2 in Fulmer Cup standings after 2005 through today. Our Offense is NCAA Rank # 50 Total Offense; we beat NO ONE. We lost to 2 nobodies. We have not beat a Top 10 Final AP Poll team since 2006 # 9 Auburn and we LOST 4 games that year and 20 games the last 5 years – 4 games LOST per season average over the last 5 years. CMR has not proved that he can HIRE 1 single coach for his coaching staff. The recruits do not want to come here. Try asking the recruits Mark Bradley. Remember Herschel Walker told you Mark we have NO RECRUITS, LOSE TOO MANY GAMES, and has NO DISCIPLINE.

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CPJ doesn’t look like a genius. He looks more like a dude that ate too many prunes.

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Delber D

With us losing those starters on D and you include Duram and Green

Why would anyone think we will do great next year come to reality people

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Ouch boog, are you Dave Van Hallanger???

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Arkansas will LIGHT UP

Stanford’s Defense who has played NO BODY

Neither has Oregon played 1 good team

Official NCAA SOS through November 28, 2010 :

# 104 Nevada
# 102 Georgia tek
# 70 Virginia Tech
# 69 TCU
# 66 Wisconsin
# 63 Stanford
# 54 Ohio State
# 51 Nebraska
# 77 Oregon

http://web1.ncaa.org/mfb/2010/Internet/toughest%20schedule/fbs_9games_cumm.pdf

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Flat Tire – Yes, and that was cut and pasted from the list of offense and defense that I posted last week. Here is the offense:

Starters
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FB Chapas – 3 stars
WR Durham – 3 stars
WR Green* – 5 stars
OL Boling – 3 stars

Backups
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FB Munzenmaier 3 stars
OL C. Davis – 3 stars
OL J. Davis – 3 stars

I think Boling was clearly the best O-lineman, but there will be some returnees in 2011.

*Possible early departure to NFL

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it’s time for a regime change.

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Bradley makes some very good points, but personally, I think our secondary play has been poor for at least 2 years. Too many blown coverages for big plays and TD’s. Zone coverage is very loose, safeties are usually late breaking to the ball, etc. Cornerbacks (and safeties) are frequently poor at tackling – particularly in open field. They seem to always go for the “big hit” instead of the sure tackle.
I am not convinced that we have the best D-coordinator that we can find, but he deserves another season to recruit the right players and to teach the system.
Mark Richt has earned another year as well, but in my view, the Dogs need to improve in every phase of the game, as well as conduct off the field. We are not a very smart team and we commit far too many stupid penalties. I felt the young QB, Murray was a real bright spot for the Dogs and he will get better each season – though he will miss Greem who certainly will go to the NFL.
BW

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Stanford has played NO BODY??? And Oregon hasn’t played 1 good team???
BoWeevill / buLLdog – Stanford is 11-1 with their only defeat being to Oregon (11-0).
What is your definition of a good team? It’s obviously not a team that is unbeaten and rated at the top of the computer polls.

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I keep hearing why get rid of Richt after one bad year, where have ya’ll been the last 4 years, it is not one bad year. I’ve been hearing give one more year since 2008, how many one more years does he get. If not for Vandy we would be at the bottom of the SECnow. Maybe we will make it after “one more year” to the very bottom. I know if I performed on my job like Richt has I wouldn’t have gotten one more year 4 times.

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Mark Bradley does not know about football…I see it every time I read his column…I am waiting, Mark, for something more substantial from you…trying to critique the Dawgs is not your best shot at good writing..

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BoWeevil – The PAC-10 and SEC get only 2 spots in the BCS games. Unless Auburn stubs their toe against S.C., Auburn will play Oregon in the *big game*, and Stanford will play Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl (or possibly the Orange Bowl vs. the ACC; I hope not)

Those games should settle a few things.

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I’ve said for years, when Richt wins big, it’s scoring margin (see 2002 & 2007), when Richt has a subpar year, it’s scoring margin.

It’s the only stat that really matters.

Bama +17, Aub +12, SC +13, Ark +12, Georgia +7

It predicts wins and losses well.

Bobo has to average 36 points, and Grantham has to average 20 points.

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Aaron Murray was great this year

# 50 NCAA Rank Total Offense he was the leader for

LOST 6 games

Each other qb all 6 losses out-performed Aaron Murray head-to-head

Beat no good team, not 1

# 8 team in SEC standings he led

# 8 team in SEC in Total Offense he led

Only 2 SEC teams settled for more field goals than Aaron Murray

Sacked 22 times in 12 games Aaron Murray

# 8 team in SEC in 1st Downs Aaron Murray’s Offense

# 12 team in SEC is causing defense penalty Aaron Murray

# 7 team in SEC 3rd down conversions, ie vs tek 2-7 Murray

# 9 team in SEC 4th down conversions Aaron Murray

# 9 worst team in SEC in red zone settling for field goals

http://sec.xosdigitallabs.com/Portals/3/SEC%20Website/football/confldrs.htm

It is Aaron Murray, not Mike Bobo, who has the last say about what play is called

Aaron Murray LOST 6 games, 6-6 as Starting QB or is there some other measure now for what you bragged about David Greene ?

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I thought Chuck Dowdell had retired. I’m sick of him. Why isn’t he in his rocking chair instead of pitching everything that comes in his face — no integrity whatsoever.

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Anyone who thinks Mark Bradley knows about rising above mediocrity hasn’t read his columns through the years. Mark Bradley (and his columns) aren’t even mediocre. Unless he can put down or belittle, he has nothing. Now think about this. Mark Bradley has never coached anything so why is he even giving advice. Mark Bradley why don’t you write articles about something you actually know about like…like…like…what do you actually know about because it dang sure ain’t coaching or sports management. Do us a favor and move? Oh yeah, I forgot, you are tenured at AJC and no other newspaper would tolerate your less than mediocre columns.

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49 – 31 !

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# 63 Strength of Schedule Stanford

# 77 Strength of Schedule Oregon

http://web1.ncaa.org/mfb/2010/Internet/toughest%20schedule/fbs_9games_cumm.pdf

When the BCS is the measure for what is a good team, or where the team WAS RANKED when they played them early in the year ranked # 1 only to end up NOT RANKED in the Top 25 Final AP Poll, please wake me up so I can then finally know something about SOS.

Oregon and Stanford beat NO ONE

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Washaun Ealey is going to get all the carries 2011 ?

How the hell is that going to happen with FAVORITE Caleb Darnell King ?

Coach Richt has coddled Caleb Darnell King since he was ranked the # 1 overall football player in the state of Georgia in 2006.

Since 2006, Caleb King has done NOTHING

He comes back next year so you’ll can brag about TANDEM RBs returning 2011

…Unless YOU can talk Caleb Darnell King into DECLARING for the NFL draft early

(I can always hope.)

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6ood point I-95. On the subject of running the 3-4, it’s more about having players who are smart enough to play the positions. It requires a bit more thought and that is a recruiting issue that TG will have to deal with. There are smart kids out here we just have to convince them to play their ball here.

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“Docter” ?? Lou Holtz may can get away with that(he actually has won some games). How many teams have you coached and how many games have you won? We’re tired of hearing about how Tech and Johnson are so undermanned. Tech has 85 scholarships just like every other D-1 program. This is his 3rd year so unless they are redshirt seniors they are Johnson recruits . That song just doesn’t work.

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Texas AM hired the defensive cooranditor from the Air Force Academy.. There players had no trouble with the 3-4. There defense actually improved. We have had spring practice. summer camp, and 11 games before that showing against Tech. Saban was coming off of probation his first year. That had more to do with his poor showing than the supposedly hard to learn 3-4. Plus Tech is run offense 98% of the time. Yet we depended on them to make a mistake to win the game. CTG is not the answer then Willie was.

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If Richt’s confident in his #2 QB, whether that’s Mason or Lemay, he could cut loose Murray to run the football. If Richt has the guts to do that, Georgia could be fearsome. That’s a big change though, and Richt doesn’t usually change that much. If Richt does this, it could be a game changing move. Can you imagine if you added 100 yards rushing from Murray to Murray’s passing prowess? It’s very hard to match up with a QB can run–SEC defenses just arn’t designed to do that, look at Tebow, Newton, etc.

From the WR, you have some productive guys in 2011, King will play AJ’s role, Charles and White will be big at TE, I’d look for Logan Gray or Marlon Brown to take Durham’s spot. You also have Wooten who might return to his 2009 form.

Logan Gray could be the X Factor, Wildcat, Slot, punt return/ kick return, etc.

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Just thought I’d share a quote from a great coach with a down year, out there in Texas:

“I think it goes back on (the) coaches. It’s not talent,” Brown said. “People have said it’s talent. It’s not.”

Gee. Taking responsibility. What an interesting concept.

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Hire Kevin Steele at Clemson and Fire that clueless clown Grantham. Demote Boo Boo Bozo the clown to QB coach. Hire a new OC and a Fire Von Van Halanger. Fire Rodney Garner and Fire Chuckie Doodle the clown too. Give Richt one year to show big improvement and if not send him packing for missionary work.

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While we are at it ….Fire ISP Radio network too. Mark Fox is already starting to look like a bust hire too.

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It does not matter if Bobo’s team has averaged over 30 points a game. He screws up on his playcalling at crucial times. UGA will be running the ball well and then all of a sudden, he throws the ball 3 times and out. When you run the ball first, you wear down the defense. Passing doesn’t wear down the defense. As Tuberville said after they beat uga: Richt has got to learn that to win an SEC championship, you have to run the ball first. Richt will be at UGA one more year..and then he will be gone.

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Most of us played high school football and have watched (in person and on tv) a LOT of football games. Most of the comments have merit and are well intentioned. What irks me are people like ‘boog’ who disses bloggers like he knows everything and everybody else is stupid. People are not stupid, so the bloggers like boog who ‘dis’ people for their comments may very well be the lowest on the IQ ladder. Take that boog, whoever you are.

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Dear Phil unless you have done something one can not comment on the said subject. So, I have never served in the army can not comment on the war on terror, not a chef can not comment on food at a restaurant, never been in politics can not comment on that either. My point that you missed was the 3-4. That Texas AM had no trouble implementing it. Maybe if you could stop name calling and checking my grammar we could discuss football. I don’t believe you can since other than name calling and spelling you have made no other point. BTW what is her or that. Do you not have spell check. Somebody needs to tell sport talk shows blogger,hosts,etc. etc if they have never played the game to find other line of work.

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You can analyze the sad state of affairs until the Dawgs come home, but the bottom line is that Mark Richt has lost whatever touch he may have had and needs to go. His first years were built on Donnan’s recruits. His record each of the past in general was worse than the year before. The UGA needs to get rid of da Preacha Man and his entire staff. Let’s pull out the bucks, hire a proven head coach (no not an OC or DC with UGA ties), and pay for him to hire a world class staff. Any fool could win championships with all the talent in this state.

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Joe Taxpayer

A&M did do a good job installing the 3-4 but they may have had better personnel to run that type of Defense whereas UGA would have been better off installing it last year when we had those 3 huge D linemen here. I think Grantham is doing a good job and we will be better next year

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@joetaxpayer that is exactly what I am saying. You have no idea what you are talking about. Just spout it off like it’s a fact.

@ KaliDogg while that might be all sweet and nice for him to say publicly, he knows it’s not so and he knows he will never ever be fired from UT. Do you really believe that that Defensive genius Muschamp, whos’ defense just sucks, just forgot how to coach when less than a year ago they were playing for the national championship? Really? It’s coaching at Texas? Really?

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EAT AND TWEET That’s what I thought the problem was all along, it’s gotta be the ice cream that’s missing all those tackles and fumbling the ball. Gotta be it.

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@ Douglas, it doesn’t matter how many points you score?? Really? It doesn’t matter that we just set an all time record for points scored by a UGA team. Really? It doesn’t mean the OC is doing a good job? An all time record with a pitiful OL. Really?

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Again Phil thats not the point Douglas is making. His point is Bobo gets away from what is working.

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joetaxpayer what is YOUR point? While it is pathetic, the UGA defense “improved” on the number of points scored against it while also limiting almost everyone we played to less than their average points per game. And that include the fact that our QB gave Florida most of their points.

My point, is that you, along with the legion of slobbering idiots that have never been associated with a football program, most never having even been on campus at the University of Georgia feel free to go beyond criticizing those that administer the program at UGA when you have no real knowledge or experience to criticize from. You wouldn’t know a football from a flying saucer. Now do you get my point?

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Phil has CMR pj’s.

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Talent is the missing element at UGA….compare NFL draftees from 2001-2005 to 2006-2010…..yes, part of coaching is developing talent, but I do not see the kind of talent the earlier teams had…..”stars” from Rivals and Scout do not mean a whole lot.

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UGA is not the only team in the south in need of a new strength & conditioning program. The Braves have basically been without one for years and it really has showed the past few seasons. Look at a picture of JJ from 2 seasons ago when he pitched lights out and compare it to current picture. The current bloated nature of his physique is equal to his bloated ERA. I don’t know what the answer is at Georgia if Richt is not going to fire his buddy. I do know that Urban Meyer makes strength & conditioning several orders of magnitude higher priority than what we see at UGA. You can’t beat em’ in the 4th quarter if you can’t at least match their strength & conditioning. It is insane that we even have to discuss this. Strength & conditioning are fundamentals just like blocking and tackling.

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Roger, Roger

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Very well said! I have total faith in Coach Richt, he is a young coach who has showed us he can change. The best coaches have always surrounded themselves with people who know more than them in certain areas. Your best coach is the position coaches. The head coach manages!! Brian Van Gorder leaving UGA has killed our defense. We have not played with that much swagger since. It cost us a National Championship in Stafford’s last year!!! Along with weakness upfront! If you don’t block you will never win! We have been whipped upfront! Championships start on the o-line and d-line. We will always have skill players and always have! This is a fact to my beloved Dawgnation!

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FUUURRRSST! Ouch ! I think I pinched my sack. My bad.

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