A double whammy: Two touted Georgians spurn the Bulldogs

rawdawg

January 6th, 2011
9:35 am

First

Fish Bisch

January 6th, 2011
9:38 am

go rawdawg! Second!

Fish Bisch

January 6th, 2011
9:40 am

Mark, how come no report on why Matt Ryan stood up Mike and Mike this morning? I got up early just to listen and he was a no show!!!!!

Frank Lane

January 6th, 2011
9:40 am

What do you hope to accomplish by this article Mark? Are you hoping to get someone fired, or are you hoping to help UGA?

Reality Check Dawg

January 6th, 2011
9:41 am

Mark Richt’s ability to keep his job after next season is getting more difficult per day!

KC

January 6th, 2011
9:41 am

Interesting pic, considering how skinny his arms are!

ylojkt

January 6th, 2011
9:42 am

Guess they saw a big red flag from this season. No, wait, those were panties.

joe

January 6th, 2011
9:42 am

That dream team is in a permanent sleep…

todd grantham

January 6th, 2011
9:42 am

Now Mark, really, if you were Dixon would you go to a school where the head coach is going to get fired after another bad season or a school that is a perrineal BCS contender and its heir apparent head coach is already on staff?

And if you’re Bray would you go to the school that’s probably going to win the national championship or the school that gave UCF its first ever bowl victory?

The logic seems clear.

Herschel Talker

January 6th, 2011
9:43 am

MB:

Can you please stop “writing between the lines” and please just come out and say it: Mark Richt needs to be FIRED.

HT

Calibre Lake Dawg

January 6th, 2011
9:43 am

Who gives a crap about rankings…I never have. I just a sense of urgency in the prgram. Play the game like it’s your last..At least coach like it Richt…It just may be???

DawginLex

January 6th, 2011
9:43 am

Bray was always going to auburn.

Dickson was a 50/50 with Bama.

UGA can still get a top 10 class if they get Swann,Rome, Crowell and Drew.

The LB commit to MSU, Johnson just de-committed because Manny Diaz is going to Texas.

I suggested Diaz to UGA when he was at MTSU and everyone laughed. Maybe Richt knew Diaz was a job hopper/fame whore???

Barry Gibb

January 6th, 2011
9:43 am

I guess I’m gonna have to learn to sing the blues…

Mr. Obvious

January 6th, 2011
9:43 am

Young hoodlums with football “talent” are finally catching on that THUG-like behavior will get you arrested at UGA but will get you protected in Tuscaloosa.

Football Ken

January 6th, 2011
9:44 am

Mark,
Starting to look like the 90’s again, with the Jamal Lewis, Cosey Coleman, types all leaving the state. Richt and his staff have gotten fat and lazy. How many times do we continue to hear recruits say “UGA hasn’t offered me” or we read UGA is on a kid too late. I’m tired of seeing Georgia kids “showing out” for out of state teams. I know UGA cant get them all, but it never fails, the ones we miss out on , always seem to turn into stars…..

KC

January 6th, 2011
9:44 am

Georgia is going the same direction Michigan is!! (Nobody wants to go there) Maybe they can join Army & Navy next year – it seems that’s the class they’re in.

Curious George

January 6th, 2011
9:45 am

Mark,

You mentioned last week the folks at Chick-fil-a, organizers of the Chick-fil-a Bowl, don’t like you very much.

Why is that?

ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL

January 6th, 2011
9:45 am

Mark Richt’s downward spiral continues. He hires the wrong assistants and takes too long to replace them. He’s let the team become out of shape for the last 3 years. He’s 2-8 vs Georgia’s biggest rival (why this is acceptable to ANY Bulldog fan I will NEVER understand!) Now UGA can’t even attract the best talent in their own state. Remember all this next year those who still want Richt. Start the campaign for DAN MULLEN NOW!!

DawginLex

January 6th, 2011
9:45 am

Bray was always going to Auburn

D1ckson was a 50/50

UGA class can still be top 10.

Diaz going to Texas cost MSU a recruit today.

Roc

January 6th, 2011
9:46 am

It’s a pretty simple concept huh? Win and you get the guys you want and need, if not they go elsewhere. I have to admit, I was pretty disappointed when Dickson chose the Tide. Guess that coin didn’t come up our way 3 out of 5!

goldwreck

January 6th, 2011
9:48 am

I thought it said a lot about the situation at Georgia when Xzavier Dickson responded to the reporter that he “couldn’t take a chance on a coin flip”.On Tuesday he said it would come down to a coin flip between Alabama and Georgia but that was apparently just to make news.He could have always gone 2 out of 3 if Georgia had come up first and made a bigger mockery of the situation.

Benjamin

January 6th, 2011
9:48 am

When you lose bowl games to Central Florida and go 6-7, you can expect news like this…

matt r

January 6th, 2011
9:48 am

Maybe it is time to stop pinning all hopes and dreams on these 17 year olds who have had a feeling of self-entitlement their entire lives. Last I checked a bunch of dudes that just play football and don’t feed into the hoopla just won the Rose Bowl.

okiedawg

January 6th, 2011
9:48 am

Didn’t these recruits read the articles on CMRs presser? If they come to Georgia, they will play for an OC and an OL coach that were GREAT this year. Bray will miss the opportunity to share in Georgia’s Offensive Greatness and Dickson will not be able to witness the Greatness from the other side of the ball. Kids! What do they know? WE ARE GREAT and WE ARE ENTITLED!

todd grantham

January 6th, 2011
9:49 am

prediction: Georgia’s season:

Boise State-loss
South Carolina-loss
Coastal Carolina-you can call it a win if you want to
Ole Miss-loss
Mississippi State-loss
Tennessee-loss
Vandy-ditto for Coastal Carolina
Florida-you already know
New Mexico State-win
Auburn-loss
Kentucky-win
Georgia Tech-win. check that, loss. Johnson outcoaches Richt every time.

Boogie Man

January 6th, 2011
9:49 am

Please! Anything to be positive about around the Georgia program right now.

Bobo and Searles doing an excellent job!?!?
Dream Team!?!?
UCF!?!?
Assult charges!?!?

Leebern has became our Lowder and Adams is his b$#%h (figurately, Suzanne is literally). Richt is out of touch with reality. Looks bad for the next several years.

secbama

January 6th, 2011
9:50 am

Lowdnes25…talk to me…thought X-man was a UGA ‘Dream Team’ lock? Dickson knows who the REAL Dream Team is…it is located in Tuscaloosa. Clowney & Crowell next.

ROLL TIDE !

todd grantham

January 6th, 2011
9:51 am

I can’t speak for MB, but I’ll say it: Richt needs to be fired!

todd grantham

January 6th, 2011
9:52 am

that really was appalling when Richt said Bobo and Searles have both done a great job. Perhaps he was misquoted.

okiedawg

January 6th, 2011
9:52 am

Enter your comments here

Tom

January 6th, 2011
9:53 am

Just check the rosters of all the other SEC teams. They are littered with Georgia players. And they are usually in the starting lineups. It has come to this, Saban gets who he wants in Georgia and Richt gets the leftovers.

Left Foot

January 6th, 2011
9:53 am

Marc Weizer uses facts. You’re a pot-stirrer. You have no idea whether or not UGA received commitments during the season. None that have been made public, yes. But making that distinction lessens impact. We get it.

todd grantham

January 6th, 2011
9:53 am

unless great job means the worst offensive performance in decades.

bill

January 6th, 2011
9:53 am

Dickson simply put on an Alabama cap, although there were reports he would actually flip a coin to determine his pick.

“I didn’t want to do it,” Dickson said on ESPN. “It was too big of a risk.”

That says it all…too big of a risk to play for your state team…ouch!

Dumbo

January 6th, 2011
9:53 am

Richt…..maybe you should think about another profession

Say What??

January 6th, 2011
9:53 am

I can’t blame them… Alabama I totally understand. It seems that program had a slight stumble this year but is still poised to contend and win the West for years to come. However, Auburn surprises me. From my standpoint, AU is completely one dimensional. Its all Cam, all the time. If he got hurt or had lost his eligibility this year, there is no way Auburn is in the NCG. No one team they played this year could stop HIM. When he leaves for the draft (this year, I bet), the Tigers will be hurting. So I wonder what Bray sees as the upside of AU? Again, as much as I love my Dawgs, I don’t see much that would make a recruit want to come to UGA with the way we have been trending…

Southern Dawg

January 6th, 2011
9:53 am

Lets not worry about 5 star recruits .How many does Stanford and TCU have. Recruit some character and coach’em up!

Mark Fox

January 6th, 2011
9:54 am

Bradley-

Just so you know, for your rampant trolling, I will spare no scalp, take no prisoner against your beloved Wildcats this Saturday. Also, I will once again completely outcoach Billy Donovan (oh wait, that’s easy) and Bruce Pearl (oh wait, he’s suspended).

Then I will fix Georgia football. Also balance the Georgia state budget.

todd grantham

January 6th, 2011
9:54 am

Greg McGarity comes in with no Richt baggage. Hopefully he will spare the Dog Nation much more of this misery.

JTDawg

January 6th, 2011
9:55 am

Roc, you didn’t hear? He was asked why he didn’t flip the coin, and he said, chuckling, “I couldn’t do that, it was too big of a risk.”

It was only a matter of time before all of this losing affected recruiting. It’s no coincidence we have no commitments since the season started.

EW

January 6th, 2011
9:55 am

I think a few humble (read: less highly touted) recruits would be good medicine for UGA. Outside of AJ, our biggest recruits have turned out to be less than stellar…Marlon Brown, Ealey, CALEB KING, etc. Maybe a few kids who feel like they have something to prove and who would be honored to put on that jersey, rather than feel entitled to it…are just what the program needs.

todd grantham

January 6th, 2011
9:55 am

Dixon on the coin toss: heads Bama wins, tails Georgia loses.

Rut Roh

January 6th, 2011
9:56 am

High school studs were leaving the state even when UGA was winning SEC championships. There’s too many of them here. We’ll get the same percentage this year as always. Recruiting’s not the problem…

Chuck

January 6th, 2011
9:56 am

If Isiah Crowell doesn’t sign with UGA, you will know that Mark Richt can’t win the big recruits any more.

Tell the truth

January 6th, 2011
9:57 am

So the piling on continues. And this article is a good one why??? I think we should call you “one note Charlie”!!!

Dink

January 6th, 2011
9:57 am

Rivals currently has Georgia at 23rd in recruiting, behind Tennessee, Mississippi, South Carolina and Arkansas.

It seems the rest of the SEC is passing Georgia as well.

Dawg Fud

January 6th, 2011
9:57 am

McGarity, seriously…what is the hold up?

Nobody wants to get on this sinking ship. Can you blame them?

uuugh...

January 6th, 2011
9:57 am

Why didn’t the UGA coaches send Dickson a coin with heads on both sides with a note that said “Heads its UGA…flip it a thousand times if you need to.”

Nerds! Nerds! Nerds!

January 6th, 2011
9:59 am

AJC SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

todd grantham

January 6th, 2011
9:59 am

Gee, i wonder if a criminal record would disqualify a UGA applicant with a perfect SAT score from admission? Doesn’t disqualify an athlete who can’t spell his own name.

SOUTH GA DAWG FAN

January 6th, 2011
9:59 am

I am afraid its going to be a long two or three years before the dogs are respectable again 1 more year of Richt one year of learning a new system with a new staff heck it might take longer than two or three years.

uuugh...

January 6th, 2011
9:59 am

Agree with EW…Pollack was a 2 star FB recruit. We need more 2 and 3 star guys that want to earn a win rather than a team full of 4 star guys that expect a win to be given to them.

todd grantham

January 6th, 2011
10:00 am

Richt’s career is a mirror of Bobby Bowden’s, only compressed in about a third of the time.

Bobby won big with thugs and gimmicks, but people caught up and he won no more.

Sound familiar?

Dawg Fud

January 6th, 2011
10:01 am

EW does make a point. I don’t recall Pollack or Greene being more than 3 stars.

However, we actually coached people up back then and our D was littered with NFL talent…Bailey, Bell, Davis, Jones, Blue, Thornton, Pollack…etc.

JB

January 6th, 2011
10:01 am

25,000 empty seats at the Liberty Bowl. The team didn’t want to get off the bus…and it showed. A month to prepare for Central Florida and we don’t score a touchdown. The best receiver in College football and you can’t score. Brookwood high could gain 150 yards up the middle on us. The head coach tells us that Bobo and Searles did not do a good job, but a great job. Haven’t got a high school’er to say yes since before the season started. Beat no one with a winning record. The blue chippers running away out of state. Yep, all’s well in Athens.

JTDawg

January 6th, 2011
10:01 am

” Last I checked a bunch of dudes that just play football and don’t feed into the hoopla just won the Rose Bowl.”
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matt r, that’s true, but if Auburn wins the BCS Championship, it will be the first team to do so in about a decade, without at least one top-ranked recruiting class.

Nerds! Nerds! Nerds!

January 6th, 2011
10:01 am

I love how all of the writers on here bash UGA. Do you take pleasure in getting people fired? Do you like bad mouthing our coaches and their recruiting decisions, while it is against the rules to comment on the matter? I would like a paper with a little moral fiber. Good grief.

R.Samuel, W. Ealey, C. King

January 6th, 2011
10:02 am

Note to I. Crowell:

We were all 4-5 Star running backs out of High School and we came to UGA. Look at the success we have had running behind OLs coached by GREAT coaches. Why would you even have to think about that committment to UGA?

Dumbo

January 6th, 2011
10:02 am

UGA…the biggest problem is UGA is stuck with Richt. There aren’t very many good coaches available. I mean heck, we could do like Tech and hire a 1 trick pony act.

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todd grantham

January 6th, 2011
10:04 am

I noted in Richt’s press conference he said that McGarity had relieved him of some of his duties as head coach. Wonder what Richt will think when McGarity relieves him of ALL duties as head coach. heh

Isaiah Crowell

January 6th, 2011
10:04 am

Well at least I looked like the future Heisman winner in the Under Armour game last night. Richt should sleep well knowing that his future is in my hands. LMAO!!!

JB

January 6th, 2011
10:05 am

One more….Got the AD to take over my paper work so I can study football…..GEEZ

Isaiah Crowell

January 6th, 2011
10:05 am

Well at least I played great last night. CMR can rest easy because I was the best playa on the field.

Isaiah Crowell

January 6th, 2011
10:05 am

Wasnt I great last night?

Buzz Me

January 6th, 2011
10:06 am

crimeDAWGS are legends in only their own minds. Kids are finally starting to see it!

The most Interesting Man Alive

January 6th, 2011
10:06 am

Well at least Crowell showed he was the real deal last night.

todd grantham

January 6th, 2011
10:07 am

The Georgia team on the field at the Liberty Bowl looked completely lost on both sides of the ball. If UCF had had a decent offense it would have been a much worse loss. And a month to prepare.

Now Richt and company have 8 months to prepare. Makes one shudder.

JTDawg

January 6th, 2011
10:07 am

So Richt hasn’t studied football in . . .how long?

Boy UGA’s getting its money’s worth with this staff, huh?

McDawg

January 6th, 2011
10:07 am

we need OL and DL -so Dickson would have been nice-we have all kinds of ATH or whatever that position is but the lines win championships

Q. Bray

January 6th, 2011
10:07 am

Wa Eaga, Baby!

Buzz Me

January 6th, 2011
10:07 am

Hey dumbo…if CPJ said he wanted to coach at UGA, they would send a limo for him. Richt is a no trick pony!

JB

January 6th, 2011
10:08 am

Southern Dawg @9:53……………I think “coach’em up” IS the problem.

Dawg with bag over his head

January 6th, 2011
10:08 am

Despite what the dwindling set of blind homers and Buck Belue types think, you can’t put lipstick on a pig and expect everyone to think it’s anything but a pig. Poor coaching and on-field performance over the last 3 seasons coupled with a dreadful and embarrassing showing at the Liberty Bowl has turned the majority of Dawg fans and most potential recruits against the CEO MR regime. Fan reaction to the press conference and the lack of commits from the UA game last night bear this out. Stating that Searels and Bobo did “great jobs” last year shows just how delusional CEO MR has become. Most fans and potential recruits aren’t buying this or any other “lipstick” spin.
CEO MR’s record this coming season is irrelevant. We’ve rapidly gotten to the point where all faith has been lost and a head coaching change is the ONLY real solution that will change player’s and fan’s attitudes . Perception is reality. The SEC is full of recent examples of where change was extremely positive. Shula, Tuberville, Nutt, and Croom were replaced with terrific results in a very short time. Likewise, look at how the Cowboy’s players reacted to the replacement of Wade Phillips. CEO MR’s rearrangement of the Titanic’s deck chairs is just going to keep us in the death spiral of bad performance impacting recruiting which impacts performance which impacts recruiting.

kudzu

January 6th, 2011
10:09 am

I could not enjoy the game last night for having to sit through (watching these 18 year olds) being sold and buying into THE HYPE…most of these kids could not even share a coherent sentence…yet, they are capable of making good, wise, thoughtful, and life-altering decisions about their futures…and we CELEBRATE their decisions, and make so much of them…and applaude them and and cry and on and on…

I love football, but all this idol worship had got to stop…

Dumbo

January 6th, 2011
10:09 am

Buzz Me…..Right butthead, sure they would NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe they are waiting to see what ....

January 6th, 2011
10:09 am

McGarity must have some spoken or unspoken hurdles for Richt to clear in order to keep his job now, not later. The bowl game and game prep and team attitude was one such goal. Failed that test. Murray and his Batman gloves are the ugly memory of that debacle.

Next, is recruiting ……………..if Richt fails that test and ends up scrambling in Feb. to sign some kids that are just local players as fill ins ………….. that too would be another Mark Richt failure. Remember, in 2009 the frosh class was substandard and ranked about 17th.

Maybe the UGA administrators ( Adams and McGarity ) are waiting to see what kind of class UGA ends up with. Knowing now that it too is becoming a giant failure and what that portends for the future ( two years out ) they go ahead and fire him in Feb.

The reasons for canning Richt and his staff now are obvious. A new coach can come in and evaluate the squad ( Batman gloves must go ) and move the program forward NOW by rebuilding bridges in Georgia H Schools and start recruiting hard for 202 and beyond.

The Boise State game would be the target of a new staff and they could scheme in spring camp and the G Day game and come August, be ready and MOTIVATED. The team should be re energized then, as they now feel the pressure mounting on the coaches.

Fire Richt now. These things continue to unravel before they get better and it is looking bad for CMR and his losing staff. They had their shots and failed.

UGA class of 71 & 73

Choke Grantham

January 6th, 2011
10:10 am

Why didn’t Helen Hunt say I did as good of job as Bobo?

Buzz Me

January 6th, 2011
10:11 am

Hey Dumbo…at least you named yourself correctly.

Falcsfan10

January 6th, 2011
10:11 am

Mark, Richt knew that his team needed to beat UCF in the bowl game to strengthen the relationship with potential recruits. Yet once again he plays ultra conservative and loses. The bowl loss resulted in losing Dickson & Bray. I’m sure both those guys said “Man UGA really sucks, they just lost to UCF…”

Dumbo

January 6th, 2011
10:12 am

Buzz Me….wow are’t we funny

Falcsfan10

January 6th, 2011
10:12 am

Richt better be visiting Crowell right now. Crowell is the diamond of all the recruits !

Hey Coach Richt

January 6th, 2011
10:12 am

I did as good of job as Bobo!!

signed Choke Grantham

The Real World

January 6th, 2011
10:13 am

I hope these players play pro ball because there life after football won’t be in Georgia. I hope they enjoy living in Alabama after football. As a business owner, there will be no opportunities for these young men in Griffin or anywhere else in Georgia.

Falcsfan10

January 6th, 2011
10:13 am

“Finish The Drill” McGarity.

Isaiah Crowell

January 6th, 2011
10:13 am

Johnathan did you see me play last night?

spider

January 6th, 2011
10:14 am

GT wasnt seen 1 time last night as a school someone was considering.

Lowcountry Bulldawg

January 6th, 2011
10:15 am

The only way to stop the bleeding in recruiting is to extend CMR contract. The programs are killing UGA in the parents home due to the programs downturn over 3 years and the upswing of other local schools. Hell, the coaches can pringt out the blogs and read the recruits our comments and tell the recruits that once the masses turn it will not be long before CMR is gone. It is all in the angles these recruiters are taking and it is killing CMR and staff.

McGarity had 3 options

1) Extend Richt

2) Fire Richt, and sacrifice 1 recruiting season

3) Keep Richt almost in a lameduck status and if 2011 goes sideways he will have sacrificed 2 recruiting seasons.

No win situation right now for Richt in Athens, its sinking and quickly.

Nick Saban

January 6th, 2011
10:15 am

Hey 5 star recruit, did you know that Richt’s gonna be fired after your freshman year?

JB

January 6th, 2011
10:15 am

Richt= Baghdad Bob ………………” Iraq is safe. There are no bombs dropping here. We are not under attack. The Kingdom is Safe. All is well. Pay no attention to those building blowing up. I do not know who’s bombers those are. All is well in Athe……..err I mean Baghdad………

Falcsfan10

January 6th, 2011
10:15 am

Griffin and LaGrange is Ga Tech territory to start with Real World…

Paul Revere

January 6th, 2011
10:15 am

My Bulldog family, Like many of you I am alumni and sickened by the last two days. Please take a moment to open another window on your computer and copy your coment to both McGarity and Adams. Crap rolls downhill so lets make sure every comment on these blogs fills their inboxes.

gmcgarity@sports.uga.edu

presuga@uga.edu

Jim

January 6th, 2011
10:16 am

You so called UGA fans and couch potato coaches are doing way more harm than good to the UGA program. How many of you have ever developed a game plan for a FBS football team? I know “none” Most of you probably were mediocre high school players at best. Give Coach MR a chance to turn things around. Your continuous negative bashing is disgusting. Either support the program or shut the h–l up.

todd grantham

January 6th, 2011
10:16 am

3) Keep Richt almost in a lameduck status and if 2011 goes sideways he will have sacrificed 2 recruiting seasons.

That’s the worst scenario but unfortunately it’s most likely to happen.

Buzz Me

January 6th, 2011
10:17 am

Dumbo…which is it, can’t type. can’t spell or both?

Falcsfan10

January 6th, 2011
10:17 am

I think McGarity went with option 3 Lowcountry.

todd grantham

January 6th, 2011
10:18 am

Georgia fans may as well take a deep breath and accept that the next 2 to 3 years are going to be humiliating on the football field.

JB

January 6th, 2011
10:18 am

Lowcountry Bulldawg……….On one condition………….He fire his entire staff and McGarity has to approve and sign off on every new assit.

hot carl spackler

January 6th, 2011
10:19 am

Move along, nothing more to see here. Bradley seems to be getting lazy. I guess the game of dueling douchebags between he and Schultz is being extended. Winner must get an autographed photo of Paul Johnson.

RxDawg

January 6th, 2011
10:19 am

Meh, yeh it sucks to see GA players (that UGA wants) go out of state. But this is a spin job to make it sound worse than it is. UGA will have a fantastic recruiting class. These guys were just small pieces of the larger puzzle.

Please tone down the rhetoric

January 6th, 2011
10:19 am

Mark, I understand the pressure on the entire newspaper industry right now. But, the gross mischaracterizations in this article do a grave disservice to the young men and the universities involved, as well as yourself. You imply a cause and effect here with no support whatsoever. Instead of this being a case of two young people accepting offers from the schools where they felt most comfortable, you decided to assume causality and make UGA “wrong” or “lacking.” I don’t get the impression you lack journalistic ability, so sadly that leads me to suspect you chose to spin the story this way to drive reader interest (and fuel the mindless rhetoric) and harvest web page hits. You were in a position to ask each of these guys their thoughts on the current environment at UGA and whether/how that related to their decisions. That would be the obvious first question (journalism 101). Or, was that a question you really didn’t want to know the answer to? You might have learned the truth was less news worthy. Take a look in the mirror, please.

Falcsfan10

January 6th, 2011
10:20 am

Crowell won’t be going up against the best defense possible like he was in the all-star game. Those guys will be on 20 different teams not all on one team. Crowell will be a Heisman rb for some team. My hope is its the Dawgs.

bob didier slept here

January 6th, 2011
10:20 am

This season has reminded me of the Ray Goof era……I have not been this down on UGA football since the 1990’s. How in the heck could this progam take a slide like this:

Oh and Mr Dickson, take your act and go to Tuscaloosa Pal! You never wanted to go to UGA to begin with. In some ways I don’t blame you.

These kids know that the writing is on the wall for CMR…….

Does anyone have Jim Donnan’s phone number?

todd grantham

January 6th, 2011
10:20 am

how can a coach go from being the pilot of a BCS contender to one that can’t beat a junior college team?

did he get more concerned about his shades and tan than the football team?

Ray Goff

January 6th, 2011
10:21 am

did i hear someone call my name?

DIT

January 6th, 2011
10:23 am

Can’t say I’m surprised. They never had UGA a clear #1 choice. As we have found out in the past 4 or 5 star recruits don’t mean squat at UGA. Just need to fin recruits that are dedicated and scrappy.

Kudo’s to CMR for revoking the scholly of that WR always getting in trouble. Still, too little too late, but it’s a step in the right direction.

Falcsfan10

January 6th, 2011
10:24 am

But remember, Bobo & Searels have done a GREAT job. UGA is 6-7 with about as much offense as a boxer with only two fingers and cerebal palsy…

JB

January 6th, 2011
10:24 am

Can’t help but to think about 2012. I wish these Dawgs nothing but good luck in 2011, but some attitudes need to change….players and coach’s. This Kid from Wilcox counyy could be a game changer on offense, but you gotta use him the right way. Blocking for Murray to throw an incomplete pass is not the way.

Falcsfan10

January 6th, 2011
10:25 am

That WR will go to Arkansas or some other SEC team and be like Randy Moss.

Dumbo

January 6th, 2011
10:26 am

Jim….you stuff it….I put my money where my mouth is…UGA donations to both General Fund & AD Fund, along with season tickets…I support my University and figure if things aren’t right I have as much right as anyone to complain and grip. And dear friend, things have been going downhill for quite a while in Athens, starting with Adams & Leebern forcing Dooley out…hiring Panty Man amoung others and now this mess.

Go Dawgs!

January 6th, 2011
10:27 am

This program is a train wreck right now. Richt has NO answers, we are and have been getting recruited out of our socks. Bama, Auburn, FL , Tenn and now even SC are coming into GA and hand picking recruits.

Richt’s press conference was a joke. No substance, no meat, just more of the same ol same ol. “We’ve got to do a better job.”

I guess when you’ve got to do a better job at EVERYTHING then it’s just easier to say a better job period.

So in order for UGA to get the ship back on course CMR & co. have to do a better job at:

1. Recruiting
2. Preparing the team to show up for games
3. Coaching our players and developing them
4. Making adjustments mid-game
5. Motivating the team to play a full 4 qtrs
6. Improving their overall strength and conditioning
7. Making the best use of talent and getting players in the best situation to succeed
8. More creative playcalling
9. More accountability among the coaches-quit blaming the players for “lack of execution”
10. Did I mention recruiting?

Did I miss anything?

Now if we’re sitting here after 10yrs and THOSE are the things that need to be addressed, then one has to ask the question what has been going on with the program? CMR is the steward of the football program and for us to have those issues smacks of a lack of accountability, focus and drive. What are the so-called “admistrative duties” that have had him bogged down?

I think the Dawg Nation deserves some answers and when I say answers I mean SPECIFICS on WHAT has been the problem(s) EXACTLY, WHEN can we expect to see changes, HOW are these changes going to implemented, and WHO EXACTLY will be both RESPONSIBLE AND ACCOUNTABLE for SPECIFIC items.

I’m in a sales position and I can assure you if I go into my boss’ office and said, “Yeah, I know I need to close some business, I gotta make more calls, I gotta do a better job of getting people to say yes.”

And if he then asked me “What are you going to do to get there?” and I replied: “I’m just going to do a better job.” I can’t think of too many organizations mine included that wouldn’t bounce my butt out on the street. I can assure you I wouldn’t be blogging if my business wasn’t squared away.

CMR’s business hasn’t been squared away for quite sometime. Not sure why, not sure if he’s having some internal conflict about whether he wants to coach or preach, but he needs to get off the fence and choose one path or the other.

hot carl spackler

January 6th, 2011
10:27 am

oh, and Bray seems like the second coming of Carlton Thomas…Good athlete, but not the type of back that georgia needs. I really don’t know why they were targeting him in the first place. He has a chance to be special at Auburn.

Dumbo

January 6th, 2011
10:27 am

Excuse the spelling typo, I meant “among” not amoung

papadawg

January 6th, 2011
10:27 am

Maybe the kid from Lagrange liked Auburn because it was closer to home and not a slam on UGA. Was UGA the only other college he was considering.

Curious George

January 6th, 2011
10:27 am

Mark,

Thanks for the info.

Just to be clear: Is your beef (no pun intended) with Chick-fil-a, the Chick-fil-a Bowl or BOTH?

Will you be trying a Spicy Chick-fil-a Biscuit?

Falcsfan10

January 6th, 2011
10:27 am

You deserve that right to grip Dumbo.

Buck Commander

January 6th, 2011
10:28 am

My new goal for this year is to put rawdawg in his place, second that is!!

JB

January 6th, 2011
10:29 am

Dawgs won’t get a top notch proven head coach because of the “situation” ( Ask Tennessee, that AD’s phone battery went dead calling coach’s) And will turn to one of it’s own, one Kirby Smart. Not the most popular choice, but he’ll get it over some no name from New Mexico.

OkieDawg

January 6th, 2011
10:30 am

Jim….You are right. I have not ever prepared an FBS game plan. Also, I don’t make $3,000,000+ a year to prepare one. For that kind of $$$$$, one would think a team could score more than 6 points aganist UCF!

Reverend Richt

January 6th, 2011
10:30 am

What recruits? Weren’t these kids reassured by my press conference?! I pledged to keep my staff in place and start paying attention to football! What more do they want?

The Most Interesting Man Alive

January 6th, 2011
10:31 am

DIT, I agree but he also needs to dump Christian “ME” LeMay. Kid was suspended his entire year and because he is a 5-star recruit, Richt has ignored it.

Falcsfan10

January 6th, 2011
10:32 am

Go Dawgs! you summed it up really well. I’d just maybe add 11)Get new offensive co-ordinatos & rb/line coach 13)Do not settle for field goals inside the 10 yard line 14)Have a stiff curfew for players during the season 15)Show some fire on the sidelines instead of acting like Mr. Cool

LCDawg

January 6th, 2011
10:32 am

We have several TOP tier silent commits i.e. Crowell, Swann & Rome…bank on it.

papadawg

January 6th, 2011
10:32 am

I’m telling you guys that Kirby Smart will be the next head coach at Alabama when Saban finds some greener grass in the near future. That’s how Saban talked him into not going to UGA

Dawglasville

January 6th, 2011
10:33 am

Look at the picture… this is an 18 year old kid that you guys are making into a rock star. How many of these kids fall into the epidemic of not having a father to protect them? They do one thing well, play football. The media has discovered that there is enough idiots out there to buy papers to see if which of these is coming to save their program. So you hype them up. Their high school coaches pimp them. The colleges take them in and don’t give a crap about preparing them for life. Then those who don’t make the NFL it’s good luck, see ya. That is the same for all of us after college but fortunately most of us were better prepared by our families to deal with it. The NFL takes the few, where everybody “GETS PAID” only to have 85% of them to leave bankrupt and broken bodies. No one is looking after the interest of these kids. Not the media, their absent fathers, the high school coaches, the NCAA, the NFL, the old friends and the wheel keeps on rolling. Keep putting up those Glamour Shot photos and keep cashing in.

Falcsfan10

January 6th, 2011
10:33 am

I meant 11)New o-coordinator & 12)New rb & oline coach
Sorry.

Dog Island Gator

January 6th, 2011
10:34 am

Inverted flat spin= uga football

azdawg

January 6th, 2011
10:34 am

If you let your vehicle go to pot the wheels will eventually come off. Thus, the story at GA. It use to run good but the owner(s) got complacent and didn’t take care of it and all of a sudden it runs like crap. What to do? Costs a lot to repair it and seems like no one is coming around to buy it even though you’re telling them all the parts are great. Then, the owners give up but one day a young guy that knows a lot about cars takes the car over and low and behold repairs it puts a fresh coat of paint on it and everyone in the neighborhood suddenly wants a ride and offers to buy it come pouring in.

Moral of the story. There’s always someone else out there that can do a better job maintaining their vehicle and retain that wow factor.

The Most Interesting Man Alive

January 6th, 2011
10:35 am

LCDawg, I guess you did not see Crowell last night, He sucked and quit when he got hit in the mouth. He also did not show up in the semi finals in the playoffs. If you are counting on him the future is bleak.

Rational Fan

January 6th, 2011
10:35 am

Dear AJC,

I know professional journalism died in about 2008; but, why do you have to take a drunken, asparagus-tainted p*** on its grave every weekend? Enough already.

5150 P.O.A.D.

January 6th, 2011
10:36 am

Mark Are you being MEAN to the dawgs again? Be nice today the dawgs are hurting for the Lost Recruits last night. They are realizing that RICHT can’t turn it around. If they don’t get good recruits this year, then with a new coach next year recruiting will suffer too. The Dawgs are feeling all RUSS the Temporary Mascot today.

JB

January 6th, 2011
10:36 am

Interesting if Both the UGA job and Bama job came open next year and Kirby had his pick…..and picked Bama.

Dostoveyskiy

January 6th, 2011
10:37 am

I don’t believe he knows “heads from tails”.

Falcsfan10

January 6th, 2011
10:40 am

Richt was given a pristine Ferrari and traded it in for a Yugo with 4 balled tires,a broken windshield,9 dents,no radio,and a hanging muffler…

Dumbo

January 6th, 2011
10:41 am

JB…if BAMA comes open, you’ll see the same old crap, we gotta hire a Alabama Man….remember Mikie Shula or does the name Dubose bring back a neck spasm or 2

Dream Team?

January 6th, 2011
10:43 am

more nonsense from athens.

Falcsfan10

January 6th, 2011
10:43 am

10th tier Liberty Bowl…

Concrete Pete

January 6th, 2011
10:43 am

If Quan Bray is one of the best 25 players in the country, there must be only 25 players in the country. Marl my words, he will not make a contribution at Auburn or wherever he goes. Any kid that dips out on his high school team before his senior season (Callaway, transfered to POWERHOUSE Troup, LOL) and then allows his ex team to drill his new, larger team in the first game of the year? Doesnt sound like a star to me

UGA VIII

January 6th, 2011
10:44 am

I am officially announcing that I’m transferring to MSU.

5150 P.O.A.D.

January 6th, 2011
10:44 am

Mark
If the ACC will step up the Chick-fil-A can be as GREAT as the Jan 1st games the next day. Chick-fil-A is the 1st best bowl after Jan.1 games because it always sells out, it is PRIME TIME viewing, and in a great city to celebrate the New Year. They just need to add Peach pies to the menue and the name of the Bowl game again.

William Buckley

January 6th, 2011
10:44 am

Why would anyone come to Georgia ?

1. Total Lack of Dicipline

2. Has a THUGA Reputation

3. No one knows how long they will keep Richt !.

4. An education sure doesn’t seem important under Richt

Dawgs NEED to step up TODAY and Fire CMR to start getting things back on track !!!

WinderDogg

January 6th, 2011
10:44 am

I would hate to think that the off season preparation begins by losing “Dream” recruits…The off season is just as important as the season. We just failed during the season…if we fail again in the off, what more does it take…success is not going to just happen.

CMR has to work for it and at 4 mil a year sounds like he is enjoying the “high life’…..time to take our beer back!

Wasshun Easterly

January 6th, 2011
10:45 am

Wadup homes ? I try 2 b scrate wiff u homes heah rach nows. Rix needs 2 goes rach nows. Tidday.

Dawglasville

January 6th, 2011
10:47 am

UGA VIII That is pretty damn funny. Apparently $180,000 is too much. The Seilers need to ask for less.

5150 P.O.A.D.

January 6th, 2011
10:48 am

BBB aka Uga VIII Miss St don’t want your unly, fat, inbred, unhealthy butt. They would rather have RUSS. Russ is a gamer. Russ plays hard when he is in the game. Russ gives his all all the time. Big Bad Bruce Ain’t.

DDPO

January 6th, 2011
10:48 am

WHAMMY!!!!!!!

Tail tucked betwix legs

January 6th, 2011
10:49 am

“Young hoodlums with football “talent” are finally catching on that THUG-like behavior will get you arrested at UGA but will get you protected in Tuscaloosa”

WHY do these kids have to be young hoodlums??? The FACT of the matter is your beloved bulldogs SUCK, and kids “are finally catching on that” they’ll be better off elsewhere.

William Buckley

January 6th, 2011
10:49 am

Shocker !!!

Who in thier right mind would go to UGA under Richt.

As a SEC Bottom Tier Coach, with a .500 record over the last several years, it is simply NOT a Very desireable place today !

schmeckdawg

January 6th, 2011
10:50 am

Richt’s comments yesterday were hilarious. Bobo=QB coach and OC. Searles=Running game coordinator and OL coach. Both are doing terrific jobs but we couldn’t run or pass OR EVEN SCORE A FREAKING TOUCHDOWN against Central Florida. No wonder “The Dream Team,” is turning into the Nightmare Team! Also, I am sick and tired of hearing Richt say the same thing year after year. “This isn’t where Georgia football needs to be, I’m re-energized, I really am excited about next year” etc. He had better be excited because if he doesn’t win 10 games and one of those being Florida, he is gone! Finally, one more opinion, Leeburn, Youclan & Adams ALL SUCK BIG TIME!!!!!!!

WinderDogg

January 6th, 2011
10:50 am

UGAVIII that was funny….think about how much that dang war bird makes…and wins

collegeballfan

January 6th, 2011
10:50 am

How can you tell if a great high school player will be a great college player?

By the number of Stars given out by the recruiting “gurus”?

By looking at hours of film of high school players and hours of interviews with high school players?

By flipping a coin?

By asking the high school coaches that have proven to be correct over the years?

All of the above?

None of the above?

zenith

January 6th, 2011
10:50 am

Looks like dawgs are left to just, Dream and Wonder. lmao

Shock

January 6th, 2011
10:51 am

“and the murmur concerns the future of its head coach. Which grows more tenuous by the moment.”

Pfft. Your imagination is wondrous.

Your Boss

January 6th, 2011
10:51 am

Hey You, Back away from the computer and get back to work!

Dumbo

January 6th, 2011
10:52 am

William Buckley….you are dead and for a yale you can’t spell

Dumbo

January 6th, 2011
10:52 am

sorry meant “Yalie”

JB

January 6th, 2011
10:52 am

I think at the End of the day Mark is just not a very good coach or manager.Before people scream, What about his record ? Donnan left him went a lot of NFL type players and Van Gorder was a lucky hire ( Now DC in the NFL and doing Well). His game day Management after 10 years is still weak, and the staff is below average by SEC standards. Coach Garner has loaded us up the last 3 years with a lot of misses, and I don’t know how scientific that business is. There are a lot of bust on all teams. I think he is tired, peaked and has become numb to the job, and Christian or not, having 10 mil in the bank can do that to you.

schmeckdawg

January 6th, 2011
10:53 am

UGA VIII you are the smartest one out of the bunch. You got the runs before the game and didn’t have to watch it. All of us other DAWGS got sick during and after the game!

Damn Good DAWG!

FarmerJoe

January 6th, 2011
10:54 am

KC,

You slam Army and Navy? UGA would be so lucky to produce QUALITY athletes such as the academies…in fact, that may be where these coaches need to take an offseason trip. Learn to teach the discipline and toughness of West Point, instead of endzone dances…

schmeckdawg

January 6th, 2011
10:54 am

@ JB 10:52

Nice call!

Yellow Fuzz

January 6th, 2011
10:55 am

Nerds! Nerds! Nerds!
January 6th, 2011
9:59 am
AJC SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TRUTH HURTS DON’T IT LITTLE MAN?

JB

January 6th, 2011
10:56 am

FarmerJoe……you are correct.This UGA team would not beat Air Force.

Marvin Mangrum

January 6th, 2011
10:58 am

Im sorry but this is not worth talking about. Look you write and I do enjoy, but the first thing you need is players, players, huge, fast, mean players. You do not need, regardless of who their daddy is, players that are 5′6′ or 5′7′. What the heck is a midget going to do at a football game? And I love reading you, I really enjoy reading all you guys but look here, you go to the games, you cant see the ants on the sidelines? You get 60 players and 17 are ants? Let me ask, now that they are 6-7 does it matter that their dads played earlier? I do not think CMR is the answer, but this legacy thing needs to stop and it is something that I see is wrong, and I just wonder why you cant report it. Because it is a serious problem and regardless of who dad was the kid should have to make the team. And, I hope, theres no way 17 freaking 5′7′ monsters make this team?

The Most Interesting Man Alive

January 6th, 2011
10:58 am

With all the self haters on here today, the rest of us humper haters can just sit back and read and LOAO.

Dumbo

January 6th, 2011
10:58 am

FarmerJoe…know this, all students at any Military Academy are subject to the UCMJ and it is alot rougher than the civilian legal system…that kinda changes the way a kid thinks at those schools to begin with and 6 weeks of Beast barracks gets rid of the weak at West Point

musta forgot

January 6th, 2011
10:58 am

not sure why everyone is complaining about recruits???

even when we (UGA) get the so called big names they dont play up to their potential.

spurrier quipped a while back “georgia gets all these players then nothing happens”, or something to that affect.

Lets not worry about the kids, stay focused on the coaching.

Summit Dawg

January 6th, 2011
11:01 am

I am a 72 year old Life Long Dawg fan……If I had a grandson who was a star recruit, I would discourage him from going to UGA unless that coaching staff was gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

who cares?

January 6th, 2011
11:02 am

Who cares about these guys? Really? All of you are sitting around wringing your hands over young punks that will be lucky to see their junior year in school. Is it really that important? Worry about your job, family or retirement.

Dumbo

January 6th, 2011
11:04 am

musta forgot…..Steve Superior said that about 18 yrs ago…can’t you think of anything new & original

GSU Eagle 91

January 6th, 2011
11:04 am

EW…You are right on….
UGA continues to recruit thugs, and I, for one, am sick of seeing it…C’mon, CMR…Find some players with character ( there are many in our state) and coach them up! Give the Dawg fans a reason to be proud of ther team.
Just because an athlete is a football “talent” does not give him the right to be at UGA….

UGA83

January 6th, 2011
11:04 am

Mark Richt must go as soon as possible. No, you couldn’t at least point to recruiting. Fact is Georgia is a talent laden state and a lot of the kids want to go to UGA so Richt diddn’t exhbiit any great ability in keeping a lot of them over the years. However, he has been seriously underperforming relative to the talent (the clearest sign of bad coaching). Now it’s gotten so bad he can’t even keep the great in-state talent. Meanwhile, he stays loyal to Mike BooBoo while florida gets Charlie Weiss? Advantage Florida. We are behind alabama, florida, lsu, Miss state, arkansas, s carolina, auburn and soon tenneessee. what’s next? Vandy’s whipping boys?

GSU Eagle 91

January 6th, 2011
11:04 am

ther should be their….
Sorry!!

N.GA.DAWG

January 6th, 2011
11:06 am

If I ever run into Mark, I’m gonna punch you in the face!

JB

January 6th, 2011
11:07 am

You almost thought at the presser the other Day you heard in Rich’s voice, Well, they won’t fire me and write me a check for 6.5 mil to go away, so I talked him to taking over my paper work so i can have time to study this game and get my head back in it. I’m taking 1200Mg of nodose a day and nothing seems to help. Ok, I’m coming back, and we’ll see what happens. With no paper work and stronger coffee, I’ll Get to work on Boise soon. By the way, give it up for Bobo and Searles, they did a great job this year,

Curious

January 6th, 2011
11:08 am

Do any of you recruiting experts know why DeVaris Daniels, 4 star 6′ 3″ WR, who played last night in the UnderArmour game and son of former UGA and current NFL player, Philip Daniels, was ignored by the GREAT offensive minds at UGA? He committed to Notre Dame because UGA would not offer. Why?

BirdDog

January 6th, 2011
11:08 am

Wow, more disappointing news for us UGA fans! UGA cannot get the top players in their own state and they don’t even recruit some of the good players that actually want to be Dawgs! Sad, very sad. I agree with Belue that they need to hire a FT recruiting coordinator and left Garner focus solely on the D line. With all of the $ that UGA has, this is unacceptable and ridiculous!

McDawg

January 6th, 2011
11:10 am

we can flip the Dickson kid -i think some bloggers should conduct a disinformation campaign agianst AL similiar to what AL fans have been doing to AU regarding the FBI investigation/criminal enterprise being run out of the AU Athletics department

BirdDog

January 6th, 2011
11:11 am

Just more bad news, ugh! They don’t even recruit many of the players in this state that actually WANT to be Dawgs. Pathetic and sad, very sad.

DamntheButcher

January 6th, 2011
11:12 am

This is what gets me…. GA just finished another awful season and Mark Richt says there are no coaching changes that need to be made. So I guess all the coaches did a great job coaching and it is the players fault or maybe just the calibur of player UGA has. Well who is getting these players? Greg McGarity needs to fire Mark Richt today. Why waste another year. There is no way that UGA will win 9 games or more next year. But with that said I guess 7-6 is an improvement.

Quack

January 6th, 2011
11:12 am

GO DUCKS!!!

still@the bar

January 6th, 2011
11:12 am

UGA is looking at hiring Dog the Bounty Hunter as UGA new recruiting coordinator. He is a good CHRISTIAN too. Just ask him or watch his show. What he brings new to the table is the tough Love Richt don’t have and DOG can hunt down the dawg players
and make sure they are doing what is expected.

gcs

January 6th, 2011
11:14 am

I hate to break it to UGA fans but most people who follow recruiting respect the rankings of Rivals the most, followed by Scout and ESPN bringing up the rear.

.

Curious

January 6th, 2011
11:16 am

Do any of you recruiting experts know the story on DeVaris Daniels? He played in the Under Armour game last night. He is a 4 star 6′ 3″ WR who signed with Notre Dame. His Dad, Philip Daniels, played for UGA and is a current NFL player. The GREAT offensive coaches at UGA ignored him. Why?

Dawgpound

January 6th, 2011
11:19 am

Can’t say I blame the kid for going to Bama. I’m sure Saban got on the phone and said “Richt is a nice man but that program is undisciplined and does not turn it’s recruits into NFL material”. At Bama we do that, now don’t make a foolish mistake by flipping a coin”. And I bet Mark never called the young man. Now, on the notion of all these 5 star recruits, they really haven’t panned out to be much but self entitled misdemeanor cases. Go get a bunch of Terry Hoage type players that are just dying for a shot and coach them up.

Alphare

January 6th, 2011
11:20 am

Yes, if UGA players play every game like Richt’s last game, you may have a 7-5 instead of 5-7 result.

Mike A.

January 6th, 2011
11:20 am

Speculate all you want. Nobody in Athens jumps through the hoop unless I tell them to. Now, why won’t Bobby Petrino answer his phone?

Dawgpound

January 6th, 2011
11:22 am

Now, as for the kid going to Auburn, I personally wouldn’t touch a school that is looking at the possible sanctions coming that way. Plus, if Can and Fairley leave, they are going to go back to being a 7 win team. Better than UGA but just saying.

S

January 6th, 2011
11:23 am

Enter your comments here

Sam Robards, Dawg Fan

January 6th, 2011
11:23 am

I can’t say that I’m surprised about Dickson. He didn’t seem to have UGA 100% during his whole recruitment. I didn’t pay attention to Bray that much.

I’ve got a feeling that Crowley will come to UGA. I don’t have any evidence or proof. Just a gut feeling. I mean, why sit on the bench at Bama when you can start at UGA? But I guess we’ll see.

As for recruiting in general, I don’t get too caught up in stars and such. as people mentioned, Pollack and Greene (David) were no more than three stars, and Knowshon was only a three-star, if I recall correctly. So I think you should go out and get kids that really wanna play for UGA (like Stafford, who really wanted to play for Richt). If you get one or two of these ego-inflated kids, I guess that’s ok, too. But don’t rely on them to carry the team.

Though I do have a question for Mr. Bradley, if these young men “spruned” the Dawgs, then why were the Dawgs even in their final two? Spurning them would mean UGA didn’t make it to their final ten choices. So a more accurate headline would be, “Two Touted Georgians don’t choose UGA, spurn Tech.”

These blogs by Bradley and Shultz are getting really pathetic, though Shultz is actually a little more level-headed about things right now (surprisingly). We get it, Bradley. You want Richt to get fired so recruiting will suffer for several years in order to Tech to actually beat UGA more than once a decade. It’s getting old.

As for Richt, I love what he’s done for the program and think he deserves next year to try and fix things. If he does, fantastic. If not, then I think we can split ways in a reasonable manner. I think he’d retire before he lets UGA suffer three or more sub-par seasons, and no, 2008 was not a sub-par season.

If UGA does release Richt after next year (or he retires), the only person I think that could come in and be immediately effective would be Chris Peterson of Boise State. Other than that, who are you gonna get? And don’t give me Kirby Smart. The man hasn’t proved he can coach anything. That’s Saban’s defense in Tuscaloosa. And don’t give me the “unknown coach” schtick, either. That’s a cop-out non-answer.

I think it’s kind of a moot point since I think the Dawgs are gonna come back hard next year. But we’ll see. Go Dawgs!

Dr. Phil

January 6th, 2011
11:28 am

Rodney Garner has always been a shady character since he was the paymaster for Pat Dye and Bobby Lowder at Auburn.. Garner has an ability to communicate with and recruit thugs. He has never been a good coach. If heads ever start to roll, Adams should start with Garner’s.

joe

January 6th, 2011
11:29 am

UGA83–you hit the nail on the head, but you’re already behind TN

Fire CMR.com

January 6th, 2011
11:30 am

Better do it before it’s too late!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jasont13

January 6th, 2011
11:31 am

Funny Mark how you fail to mention Auburn gave Quan Bray’s uncle a job plus Xavier Dickson’s father always wanted to go to Alabama and he was the crucial part of his sons recruting. Living through your sons shoes.

Law & Order - Athens

January 6th, 2011
11:32 am

In the criminal justice system, football related offenses are considered especially heinous. In Athens Georgia the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Dawgs Unit. These are their stories.

Tail tucked betwix legs

January 6th, 2011
11:32 am

“that really was appalling when Richt said Bobo and Searles have both done a great job. Perhaps he was misquoted.”

Perhaps he smokes crack in his leisure time?

Mark Richt won with Donnan players and BVG.

January 6th, 2011
11:32 am

This ship is sinking ever so deeper.

GT Fan

January 6th, 2011
11:33 am

Mark, Almost everything you said also applies to Paul Hewitt and GT’s Basketball program. Would like to see more pressure put on Paul Hewitt to stop stealing the money and move on. (fired)

I also pull for UGA when not playing GT. I can understand the fans anger because I too am disappointed in Richt and Bobo.
I also hope Coach Johnson gets a passing game and special teams coach. God bless both schools.

GimmickRicht

January 6th, 2011
11:33 am

If nothing else works, er uh, if you can’t dazzle em with your brilliance, baffle em with your…. Richt says now I’ve tried black outs, I’ve tried changing helmets, I’ve tried rushing the field at Florida, now, I’ve got it, how about “dream team”. Earth to Richt, you do’t have it. Go to Amway or Fuller Brushes with you inane gimmicks. Did you think since adults aren’t buying your bull, that maybe 18 year olds would. Srike three Richt, you’re out, literally and soon to be figuratively.

Hey Richt, Your get worse by the year subpar seasons, coupled with this recruiting class, which is probably gonna be loaded with non physical, finesse, anemic, underperforming, troblemakers is not looking like you deserve to be around by next year’s end. But Georgia seems to have boundless tolerance with its loser coaches versus the Michigans of college football so you figure for $2.8 mil a year this is Shangri-La.

Mmm hmmm

January 6th, 2011
11:33 am

It’s telling that the kids don’t want to join Georgia and quite understandable. On the good side for Georgia, they have never been known to do anything with all their top ranked recruits anyway. So, I don’t see how this is really a negative for them. Especially when it comes with recruits whose names are spelled phonetically. Maybe Richt will finally have to wake up and be forced to coach up the kids he gets. I am astounded he is even still there in the first place with all the $ Georgia brings in. As usual with Georgia football it’s “Better luck next year!”. So glad I’m not a Bulldog fan.

Go Gators!

Tail tucked betwix legs

January 6th, 2011
11:34 am

I said it on Schultz’s blog I’ll say it again: WHY would any solid recruit committ to Ga when the SEC West is wiping the floor with the comp, SC returning its starters, Muschamp to Fl, and TN rebuilding???

Anyone care to answer?? Anyone?? Bueler??

Field Goal Jesus.

January 6th, 2011
11:35 am

Yeah Baby…. Central Florida !

jasont13

January 6th, 2011
11:35 am

Curious your a moron. Kids can not sign until February 2nd, therefore all he has done is committed to Notre Dame. UGA did look at the kid and asked for game film and for DeVaris to come to one of their camps. Guess what he didn’t want to come to their camp and they did not recieve game film that was requested. So what the heck are they supposed to do? Your probably the one who would have flipped saying Richt offers a kid from Illinois a scholarship and doesn’t offer a kid in Georgia. MORON!!

Tail tucked betwix legs

January 6th, 2011
11:36 am

“We’re a powerhouse, we’ll *for certain* be undefeated next yr, etc” and other delusional rants from dawg fans are not acceptable answers by the way…

Field Goal Jesus.

January 6th, 2011
11:37 am

Double whammy for pamby mamby ! You jack wagons !

team player

January 6th, 2011
11:39 am

Flipping a coin to see where you will attend school shows just how immature and unprepared this child is when it comes to making a life decision. Mentally he is not far removed from sitting in a baby chair and having his mother spoon feed him. Not that it matters at all…but I had heard this child say he would flip the coin 5 times and take the best out of 3 to determine his pick….I would have beat him to the punch and sent him a text saying that we flipped a coin and decided that there was

ATL is TigerTown

January 6th, 2011
11:41 am

I’ve been to Tuscalooza more times than I care to remember. It’s a dump. Dickson will probably regret his decision.

ATL is TigerTown

January 6th, 2011
11:43 am

Jason, when you say “your”, but you mean “you’re”, that means YOU’RE a moron, moron.

Curious

January 6th, 2011
11:43 am

jasont13….Please correct your grammar. Twice you used “your” incorrectly. It should be you’re.

Boo

January 6th, 2011
11:43 am

Looks like he posed for Halloween.

Buzz Belle

January 6th, 2011
11:44 am

As a Tech fan I shouldn’t be talking but as I recall, UGA always bragged about their “all-Star” recruits. Do you think your coach is good enough to coach up a middle of the road player and make him great? It appears the next few years will depend on this! Personally, I hope you keep Richt for a long, long time.

Andy In Blairsville

January 6th, 2011
11:45 am

UGA is a bottom-middle tier regional SEC program with a HC who has one foot out the door. Why would any recruit go there?

dawg2

January 6th, 2011
11:45 am

Hell..Tenn has more upside than we do. The Dooley kid has really got the fans and team fired up. Man the players have busted their butt for him…uga players have not busted their butt for Richt, thats for sure. Richt needs to go!!!
If you were a 5 star are any star…why would you pick UGA over Ala, Aub, FSU, MSU, UF, Tenn and CFU for that matter. Hell they wish to win in a win program and winning Coach. We have lost the edge. One more year..for what more of the same.

80 Dawg

January 6th, 2011
11:47 am

When did Dickson ,who cant even speak , and the Bray guy become Ga. season????? these would have been ok pick ups but they are the little fish.. If we dont pick up Crowell Rome, and drew the we have something to worry about.
Bradley you a true idiot if you really think Dickson and Bray are the best in Ga. and the DAWGS are finished next year because we did pick them up. How do you keep your job???????? I do believe these two players went where they went because they know who is going to Ga. ,Rome Drew Crowelly.

Quan Bray

January 6th, 2011
11:49 am

Of course I’m going to Auburn- they pay the most and if you haven’t heard the most recent news, the can fix grades too.

nauti-dawg

January 6th, 2011
11:49 am

By making out that UGA losing a couple of recruiting hopefuls is a program death nail your reporting has resorted to “tabloid journalism” level. Sensationalism to get blog response from a pitiful mix of out of work die hard fans and haters – this is what AJC has come to…no longer a valid newspaper, just AP rehashes and a weak online site that 24 hours behind the news cycle that demands instant response.

If the economy was better I would suggest you get a real job, but considering your skill set & the alternatives – I reckon you’d better milk this gig for all you can.

Andy In Blairsville

January 6th, 2011
11:52 am

UGA Football is the same disaster as University of Michigan Football. Minus the 11 National Championships of course.

O-me

January 6th, 2011
11:53 am

Damn I hate smart a@@ English teachers.
Curious must have never made a mistake..right jason13!

still@the bar

January 6th, 2011
11:54 am

I hear every team not on Crowells list just tried to recruit the Tropicana turf. That Tropicana Turf was tackling Crowell as good as any player on the other team. I want me some Crowell. He is the next Hershel for sure.

ylojkt

January 6th, 2011
11:54 am

Everyone please stop, Mark Richt is a great coach and he’ll have the best recruiting class in the nation and will win 12 games next year. He also has a great tan and sells the hell out of those Ford …………… BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Sorry, I tried to keep it in, but I just couldn’t. Seriously, please stop, my sides are aching from laughing so hard.

Trade

January 6th, 2011
11:55 am

I think the SEC should kick out UGA and bring in FSU. UGA will continue to be irrelevant.

Carlton

January 6th, 2011
11:56 am

I don’t think many recruits will be calling Richt while he’s in his Ford this season..

Andy In Blairsville

January 6th, 2011
11:56 am

Not a bad idea Trade. Or the SEC teams should at least pay UGA to play them as their cupcake games.

Pago Pago Dawg

January 6th, 2011
11:57 am

4th and inches….and we kick a field goal. Game over…season over.

Ted M

January 6th, 2011
11:57 am

Look at the bright side the Dawgs are 11-2 and they play KY at home Saturday.

Dawgpound

January 6th, 2011
11:57 am

YOu can call UGA a mid tier team or whatever else but the fact of the matter is it is a premier school in a top notch recruiting state. Sure, they are down right now but ask any program if they fear UGA vs. Ole Miss, Miss State, Kentucky or any other mid tier team, getting a good coach and gettin it together then they would tell you UGA is the school that could and should be a perenial top ten team. Bandwagoners jump off the bandwagon now and haters keep on hating becuase just like in the early 80’s and early 00’s you are going to eat your own words.

O-me

January 6th, 2011
11:58 am

Keep my Ford F-150 out of it..I can’t help who drives one…. they are great trucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nauti-dawg

January 6th, 2011
12:00 pm

@Marvin Mangrum – good call out. + I have to agree on other recruiting call outs – there is plenty of good talent NOT being recruited & many that ARE that shouldn’t be.

Coaching up is another problem altogether but the recruiting one is huge.

BTW let’s not recruit anyone else that missed their entire senior year with injuries (i.e. King)

saban

January 6th, 2011
12:00 pm

So many recruits so few places to put them.

Imagine red-shirting all of them here in local high schools for a few years might work.

I might sell a few to Auburn.

Keep Richt.

O-me

January 6th, 2011
12:00 pm

Carlton..they call his wife..go dawg!

browndog

January 6th, 2011
12:00 pm

Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Arkansas,MSU, Florida, South Carolina and Tennessee are now all ahead of UGA. Never thought I would see the day that UGA would be looked at regarding football the same way as Ole Miss, Kentucky and Vandy. I am still an ardent supporter of UGA, but the immediate future does not look too bright.

Jeff in Calhoun

January 6th, 2011
12:01 pm

Mark,

The problem for Mark Richt is he has lost his edge. Ever since Brian Vangorder left it has been down since. The next head coach at UGA should be a defensive specialist like Saban and Chizik. This reminds me of the Fulmer collaspe at Tennessee. It is sad for me to write this. I like Mark Richt and wish him and his family the best but, the time has come for him and UGA to move on separately.

O-me

January 6th, 2011
12:05 pm

Wait till next year!!!!!!!
No wait till 2012!!!!!!!!!!

Carlton

January 6th, 2011
12:05 pm

O-me-that one was good.

Matter of fact, Richt’s so delusional he probably missed that too-I mean, she does work on the sideline as the “watergirl” HAHA!

Curious

January 6th, 2011
12:05 pm

O-me, His name is not jason13, it is jasont13. I’m a reading comprehension teacher.

Andy In Blairsville

January 6th, 2011
12:06 pm

What makes UGA a premier national level school?

Because it’s simply in the SEC? FAIL

Because it won the SEC back in 2005? FAIL

Because Richt used to recruit well? FAIL

Because its a profitable program? FAIL

Because the last time it won on a national level was 1980? FAIL

GTBob

January 6th, 2011
12:06 pm

They lost two recruits and pulled a previous offer they made to another. UGA is going backwards in their recruiting.

O-me

January 6th, 2011
12:07 pm

ok..just shoot us both. Will that make up happy?

Nick Saban

January 6th, 2011
12:08 pm

I paid the coin’s father so he’d land on Bama’s side- but guess what, it isn’t against NCAA rules!

Oconeedawg

January 6th, 2011
12:08 pm

Mark what is this article about, trying to get Coach Richt fired or more of you negative “stuff” about UGA? Yes, the Dawgs lost out on the recuits that announced their decision last nite. But remember the big one are still undecided Cromwell, Rome, Drew, Swann. The Dawgs need Cromwell and Rome and it would be a plus if they got Drew and Swann.
Mark now I know why the organizers of the Chick-fil-a bowl don’t like you!!!!!
The coin toss dude is heading to BAMA that is where “thugs” go because they are protected but at UGA they would be arrested, jailed, and sent home!!!! Good thing Mr. coin toss is headed there.

O-me

January 6th, 2011
12:10 pm

O-me did I make a mistake? up=you happy.hahaha

Dan Mullen

January 6th, 2011
12:10 pm

I just lost my DC coordinator to Texas. Maybe MSU really is a stepping stone job. Hey Greg McGarity, let’s talk!

Lowcountry Bulldawg

January 6th, 2011
12:13 pm

After having watched the ESPN 30 for 30 show, Pony Excess, it makes me wonder if the SEC is the 21st century version of the Southwestern Conference.

UGA76

January 6th, 2011
12:14 pm

It’s time for Mark to go.

Winners

January 6th, 2011
12:14 pm

I am Dawg, but we are in a drought. These kids want to play for winners. They want to most exposure for their talents. At the moment, we have no momentum. I hope we can land isaiah crowell. That will be a plus at least!

Thanks,

http://www.the404list.com

War Jacket

January 6th, 2011
12:15 pm

The problem is larger than Richt. Georgia has had maybe five good years since 1980, and most of those were under Richt.

And this record just doesn’t make sense:

- Top five high school football talent in the US.
- Practically unlimited resources spent on its football program.
- Located in a great college town and fun place to go to school.
- One of the best football stadiums anywhere to play a game in.
- Rabid, loyal fan base.

Georgia has been the most underachieving program in the nation sense 1980.

Why?

back atcha

January 6th, 2011
12:17 pm

Is there nothing else happening in sports in Atlanta for ya’ll to write about? How many of you ( arvill had his say last night) are going to pound this story about one kid who was never coming to UGA because he wants to play in a spread offense and another kid who was under intense parental pressure to go to Alabama and who said he was going to flip a coin to make his decision. Mark, you know that a commitment by a lot of high school seniors is as fleeting as the wind. Why don’t you wait until signing day and then attack, if there is any attack to be made.

I hope you are better than this article portrays you to be.

Fleischman in Chi Towns Bed

January 6th, 2011
12:17 pm

Did Saint Richt forget to pray before the game yesterday?

Or was he stuck in a tanning bed?

Or at the local HRS clinic?

BHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA sucks to be a bullpuppy fan. LOSERS

Dawglasville

January 6th, 2011
12:18 pm

I think it is pretty safe to assume that the vast majority of the Richt bashers will never be as successful as Richt has been both in his professional or personal life. If you were, you wouldn’t be living your lives through the Meyers, Sabans, Chiznics of the world.

To the ugly Techies blogging, Richt has done one thing very, very well in his tenure at UGA. You know what that is, so shut it.

Tallcarl

January 6th, 2011
12:19 pm

I’m with EW, he nailed it. I do not want a guy on my team just because of a coin toss. He has no inner conviction and will most likely flunk out. You can’t worry about those people. Get the good athletes to come here that have fire in their bellies. There is a very good d-back playing now for the Falcons that went to S.Carolina because he was not thought good enough to be recruited by Ga. Remember the brothers that came in this year, one was not recruited by d-1 schools but is already playing at fullback. David Pollack was not a high recruit, I could go on all day but you get my point. Coach up the ones that want to wear the Ga. jersey with pride. I do believe something is wrong with the offencive line that needs attention and I knew this last year with the line we had then. By the third game of this year I was broken hearted and ready to fire Stacy Searels who should have been demoted last year.I am sure there is a good former pro offence line coach out there who would love some stability at a place that pays good like Georgia.

Buck Belue wears a toupee

January 6th, 2011
12:19 pm

HAPPY 31 year anniversary to the bulldog nation on our last chumpionship.
Lets hope for another great 31 years!

Dave

January 6th, 2011
12:20 pm

Mark-

ESPN has Georgia at #8 in recrutiing so far, that’s without a lot of big names coming down the pike. Pretty good, considering coming off a 6-7 season.

http://insider.espn.go.com/college-football/recruiting/classrankings?&action=login&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fcollege-football%2frecruiting%2fclassrankings

wreckmaniac

January 6th, 2011
12:21 pm

Just the kind of reaction one would expect. Dawg fans go beserk when they see their beloved 5 stars go elsewhere. The 5 stars you have haven’t accomplished anything for years. So what difference does it make ? And why didn’t Andy Dalton ( TCU) and Andrew Luck ( Stanford) come to UGA ? How did the dawgs miss those guys ?

Tater Tom

January 6th, 2011
12:21 pm

If Mark Richt were playing a game of HORSE he would have R and the guy he is playing just nailed a half court shot with his eyes closed.

Crumpy's dogs are a pain in the a$$ dudes

January 6th, 2011
12:21 pm

Our coach is a nice guy unlike Saban and Cheezdik. I rather have a nice christian coach instead of a good team.

GO DAWGS NEXT YEAR IS OUR YEAR!

Todd Grantham is a fat larva

January 6th, 2011
12:22 pm

He fits right in with the rest of the drunken, delusional loser fleabag nation.
YEA C’MON

Perspective

January 6th, 2011
12:25 pm

The only good news here is that Georgia is but a decision to stop accepting mediocrity from being one of the two elite schools in the SEC. It’s a bigger state than Alabama, it’s a better school than Auburn or Alabama, the state of Georgia has over three times the economic power of Alabama and there are far and away more division I talent in Georgia than in Alabama. 95% of those kids will want to go to Georgia if you give them a reason to. You have to be a pretty colossel screw up as a coach to be this bad. Why would they go to Georgia right now? The current managament is terrible and the fanbase is ill and disgusted with the whole process. It’s not suprising that these kids wouldn’t go to UGA. It has little to do with Auburn or Alabama. Get a top flight coach and it doesn’t matter what FL, AL, AU, TN, or LSU does.

All the rest of this stuff is just mouthbreathing.

wreckmaniac

January 6th, 2011
12:25 pm

UGA better get on the stick. Kirby Smart just signed an extension at $850 per year and the Miss State defensive coach is going to Texas to replace Muschamp. You guys better pay Grantham more !

In the know

January 6th, 2011
12:25 pm

Mark Richt is meeting with current Pitt AD Steve Pederson today in Atlanta. Steve Pederson is interviewing two candidates in the Peach City today.

Big time?? Not

January 6th, 2011
12:25 pm

I wonder how Paul Johnson aka Mark Bradleys “GENIUS” would do?

Four tickets, four hot dogs, four cokes

O-me

January 6th, 2011
12:27 pm

Curious….Sorry about that. I wish I had a good English and Reading Teacher when I was in school.(50’s &60’s)
We need more great Teacher. Bless you! One day they may pay teacher what they are worth and deserve. Sorry for being ugly!

JB

January 6th, 2011
12:29 pm

Things are never as good or bad as they seem. Bama is not a good as people want you to believe, I think they got beat 3 times this year….and Florida lost 5 games I believe. The Bowl game left most on this board in shock, coming off our season. There is no doubt the program is in decline, coaching suspect and talent also. My fear, And everyone else, is that there is not the talent, depth or coaching talent to fix this NEXT YEAR. Therefore, The clock has run out and for fear of a pure revolt worse than now, They ( Adams/McGarity) will have no choice put to remove him, and I think so even if he wins 8 games with losses to Boise,SC,AU and probably MSU. I think 9 wins buys him another year.

still@the bar

January 6th, 2011
12:29 pm

Big time
I think in the last 3 years CPJ has done better than Richt for sure. You think what you need to get you through the day BIG TIME.

Thanks Andy

January 6th, 2011
12:32 pm

The only term over used more than ‘Epic Fail’ is ‘Fail’…way to fall in-line with the rest of the idiots.

Your point is as dull as your attempt at humor. Kudos.

The fact is there are only 8 or 9 better jobs out there…in the 4th best state for recruiting football players. We pay well and the fanbase is supportive, so long as there is a good product on the field.

What we need is a bunch of kids that want to work hard and get better. Our secondary coach came from Conneticut and coached a couple players into the NFL draft. I think Grantham can do the same. That is what VanGorder brought to the table.

We need a ‘Rudy’ type kid or two. Our whole team is made up of ‘Jamie O’hara’s’ to keep the ‘Rudy’ analogy going. (And Yes Andy…the dumbed down ‘Rudy’ analogy was in deference to you.)

Good day.

hmmmm

January 6th, 2011
12:37 pm

Well, UGA used to get the big names and GT sometimes did. I believe CPJ has done more with less then Richt who has done less with more. Does anyone disagree with that point?

So is it safe to say GT may be more appealing to in-state talent now?

300dawg

January 6th, 2011
12:39 pm

did you really think Bray would choose the same scholl as Isaiah Crowell? Who wants to compete with the number one back in the country?

No class should be jusged until after signing day – you know better.

KV

January 6th, 2011
12:40 pm

This article is ridiculous, and to emphasize another blogger’s post…what is the point?

Okay, so these two athletes chose not to sign with UGA….and? They also chose not to sign with GT, but I do not see that making the headline.

SGD

January 6th, 2011
12:41 pm

Another negative article by Bradley. What a surprise.

Recruits Needed, No Stars Required

January 6th, 2011
12:43 pm

News reports say UGA has offered 2 star (and 0 star) WR Sanford Seay. He want bail on us. He doesn’t have another legitimate offer. Hope he is better than the recruiting services think. But, I’m sure our GREAT offensive coaches can recognize talent and what it takes to get back to respectability. If the reports are true, I wish Seay great success.

Bud From Tucker

January 6th, 2011
12:43 pm

Last time I checked Georgia and Georgia Tech both finished with 6-7 records. Georgia was coming off a rough 8-5 year, while Georgia Tech went 8-3, won the ACC championship and played in the Orange Bowl. Why is it that Mark Richt now is such a horrible coach and Paul “The Greatest Coach Who Ever Lived” Johnson has no coaching peers? The answer is Mark Bradley, Furman “Mr. Georgia Tech” and other moronic writers continue to praise a guy who has never consistently won above the Division I-AA or service academy levels. Bradley should really stick to college basketball. Being from Kentucky, that’s the only sporting topic he knows even the slightest about.

As a UGA graduate, I am in utter dispair about the state of the football program. The sliding records are bad enough. Throw in the Florida State off the field antics, and it’s not a good time to be a Bulldog.

Georgia would be much better off signing the high character players of the past such as Pollack, Greene, D.J. Shockley. Shockley was highly rated and turned out to be a shining star on and off the field. Pollack and Greene were barely on the radar screen as far as national recruits but proved to be among the 10 greatest Bulldogs ever on the field and never caused problems off it.

Bradley do me a favor. Please just once write about how Paul Johnson has dropped the Georgia Tech program down a notch in only three years. At least Chan Gailey never had a losing season.

Mark Richt is a class act as a person and always friendly and upbeat. Signing the wrong type kid and loyalty to underachieving assistants are two major flaws that he needs to work on.

Paul Johnson is a sour individual who has a problem with anybody who correctly doubts his flawed offense and increasingly obvious lack of coaching ability.

Bottom line is Richt may not be a great coach according to Bradley but he is 9-1 against Georgia Tech and 2-1 (should be 3-0 if not for blowing the 2008 game) against the great Johnson. Tech will never consistently beat Georiga – they haven’t done it since the 50s – as long as Johnson is coach. Hopefully they’ll keep him there for a long time to come. What else would Bradley have to write about if he ever left?

george

January 6th, 2011
12:44 pm

Maybe UGA doesn’t need “stars” They have often underperformed. The “Junkyard Dogs” didn’t begin as top recruits. We need to get back to a junkyard dawg mentality!

Being a writer is a vacation!

January 6th, 2011
12:47 pm

Mark – interesting blog today. It does send a clear signal when top recruits move out of state.

I did see Bray play in person this year against Carrollton. He was not spectacular at all against a team that is not sending a single defensive player to a top tier Division I recruit. I had the same impression of Richard Samuals a couple of years ago and wasn’t surprised that he was not a top running back. He was an excellent, excellent linebacker so I hope he excels there next year.

On a positive note, folks won’t be able to claim that Georgia gets the top recruits and doesn’t coach them up anymore which has been a knock on CMR for years!

DawginOH

January 6th, 2011
12:48 pm

Well said, Tallcarl! It’d be nice to have a talented player like Dickson on D, but Georgia needs to focus on bringing in players who can commit without having to flip a coin. How ridiculous… Good luck to him at Bama, I guess.

Ted M

January 6th, 2011
12:49 pm

I just read Tim Tuckers piece on Richt’s news conference. It sounded as if Richt had simple taken winning for granted it at UGA.

Navigator

January 6th, 2011
12:51 pm

I’m sad that a bunch of star gazed kids hold the career of a fine coach like Mark Richt in their hands. I guess that’s the game that coaches must play.

Ted M

January 6th, 2011
12:53 pm

simply

Dawgsdawg

January 6th, 2011
12:53 pm

Mark, Why the negative headline , these kids had multiple offers from other schools, including Georgia Tech.

Va'jayjay Jackson

January 6th, 2011
12:53 pm

Was anyone really impressed with Quan Bray? I know I wasn’t. Does anyone think Xzavier Dickson is headed for anything other than a red shirt next year? I know I don’t.

The Dawgs have two silent commits right now that are going to make the BulldogNation very happy. One is an absolute coup de gras and exactly what we need.

Alert the media… the sky is not falling… yet.

Worst of Luck Traitors

January 6th, 2011
12:53 pm

351 days to a new coach
and counting

dogcrap

January 6th, 2011
12:56 pm

Screw ugag!! They haven’t sank low enough for me yet.

Worst of Luck Traitors

January 6th, 2011
12:58 pm

No kidding dogcrap, since you spend your time on your knees behing the 7-11 dumpster on North Avenue

Dawglasville

January 6th, 2011
1:02 pm

Dawgsdawg You know the answer to the question. A mediocre Tech team is not news and the Tech fan base is no where near as crazy. Yesterday the AJC had breaking news about a school bus hit by a tractor trailer. If you read the story you found out that there was only 6 kids on the bus and only a couple of them had minor injuries. That was “Breaking News!!!!!!!”. Selling papers on a slow sports day. That is it.

Andy In Blairsville

January 6th, 2011
1:04 pm

It seems like just yesterday Bradley wrote that the Dawgs had a cupcake schedule for 2010 and would win 10 games.

Lindsey

January 6th, 2011
1:06 pm

Wasn’t Caleb King a highly recruted player coming out of high school..look how that has worked out for us. All that matters are the results on the field, GO DAWGS!!

gabugman

January 6th, 2011
1:06 pm

The simple fact of the matter is this:

Regardless of past recruiting wins or current failures, Mark Richt and staff can not get the job done. I could give a ratz azz if UGA is ranked 1 in the nation in recruiting! He has always and will continue (till he’s put out to pasture) to do so little with so much.

End of story!

The Ghost of Wally Butts

January 6th, 2011
1:08 pm

Aw, who cares how the recruits “rank”?

What’s really important is whether or not we can count on them to break laws, sell jerseys, treat women like objects, and drive while intoxicated.

We need to defend our coveted FULMER CUP championship.

CTBULLDAWG

January 6th, 2011
1:10 pm

We are wasting time giving Richt another year to prove he is useless. The Preacher is lazy,non-emotional and a total non-motavator. He should be ashamed to cash his paychecks. There will be NO DREAM TEAM. It will be another NIGHTMARE.

Buck N. Kincaid

January 6th, 2011
1:11 pm

ONE MORE TIME – and please pay attention….

People, we are contractually obligated to run those non-stop 90 second commercials about ice hockey and basketball because we are the voice of ice hockey and basketball.

If you don’t like the fact that we are not allowed to devote more time to football during football season, then change the dial.

Barking Dawg

January 6th, 2011
1:12 pm

Every UGA fan should cancel their AJC. With a sports department like this one the it sure doesn’t help the local schools.

CTBULLDAWG

January 6th, 2011
1:12 pm

It will be Richt’s Nightmare Team, not Dream Team

12 CRIMINAL CHARGES 7--er--6 wins 6 --NO--7 LOSSES

January 6th, 2011
1:13 pm

zZZZZZzzZZZZZZZZZ……zzzZZZzzzzzz……

Spurrier

January 6th, 2011
1:13 pm

It tickles me to death to know that I have driven the final nail in Richt’s coffin. After next years ass whipping, that will be all she wrote. UGA cannot compete with superior intellect and athleticism that is present on every other team in the SEC outside of Vandy and Ole Miss. UGA is a has been, and will never recover. When the nerds start beating you, then it will really be rock bottom. Just concede UGA, or the beatings will intensify. I am warning you. I talk, you listen.

Thuga

January 6th, 2011
1:15 pm

These kids want to leave the educational cess pool that GA is. Alabama kids rank well ahead of GA kids SAT scores. Google it. How many pts is 3 pt shot worth? Stupid GA kids!

WDE

January 6th, 2011
1:20 pm

The mighty ship UGA TITANIC is dipping beneath the waves as Richt leads the band, reassuring the pup faithful that all is well, the ship is intact, and the water isn’t “that” cold. Too much and too funny!!! Can you blame these recruits for hoping on the life boats now?

Dawglasville

January 6th, 2011
1:20 pm

Thuga There are a lot of students leaving Georgia because they can’t get into UGA. A lot end up going to Alabama. Google that.

James Adams

January 6th, 2011
1:21 pm

I am a HUGE Georgia fan. I understand that people get worked up needlessly over recruiting around these parts. I am just curious why we aren’t having anymore Hawks Columns from Mark or Jeff. I think last night’s win warrants one. Ever since Jason Collins has been a starter they have been tearing it up. Oh wait, Al Horford is a real center in Mark’s eyes, and doesn’t want to write about how him playing the 4 has made him better. Oops.

Dawglasville

January 6th, 2011
1:24 pm

WDE Lose to UGA and your bowl game again next year then read the love letters Johnson is getting. I think your SS Minow is taking on water too.

UGA 92

January 6th, 2011
1:24 pm

“Bud from Tucker” very well said.

WDE

January 6th, 2011
1:24 pm

hopping vs hoping

Gbal

January 6th, 2011
1:26 pm

Bradley –

Someone has to be giving you kickbacks to continuiously keep the flow of negative UGA press flowing out of the AJC. I call for an investigation. Is it AU? Bama? …. is it CAM pay? Gotta be something being passed to you to continuously be this bad.

Suicidal Dawg

January 6th, 2011
1:28 pm

I have had it with this losing. I have faith in Speaker Richt, but I am basing whether or not I am going to kill myself on next season. Please help me Dawgs, I am at my wits end, and the prozac is not helping. Win for me Speaker Richt

WDE

January 6th, 2011
1:29 pm

@Dawglasville,

I don’t know what you’re referring to. We’re in the BCS National Championship Game; you might want to check it out – it’s played every year and the winner is determined as the National Champion. I realize that UGA hasn’t had a sniff at a BCS Championship – EVER – so you might not be familiar with it. War Damn Eagle! (WDE, get it now?)

He Hate Gator

January 6th, 2011
1:30 pm

“You’ve got to get a boost from your recruiting class, your freshman class,” Richt said. “I’ve never been on a championship team that didn’t have guys step up and make a difference.”

Hope the rumours are true that Richt will step down if doesn’t sign any of those top remaining in-state recruits…

dubya

January 6th, 2011
1:32 pm

heckuva job brownie….errrrrrr, i mean bobo.

Thuga

January 6th, 2011
1:32 pm

How many halves in a basketball game? These uga tests are so tough!

Pope UGA XXIII

January 6th, 2011
1:33 pm

We already have a 175 lb running back that can barely get beyond
the line of scrimmage, and there’s a lot of talk about the Griffin player
not having much of a chance to be Rhodes scholar. You can’t really
blame these youngsters for going elsewhere, particularly with the AJC’s
journalistic “support” given regularly. On the assumption that they read
these editorials, it’s hard to blame them.
You will know in 5 years how these recruits worked out. For proof,
go to Scout.com, then work backwards and see how many 4 & 5 star
recruits failed to pan out at all of the schools, not just UGA. Take a
look at several schools such as TCU and Boise State who get few, if
any of these top tier athletes, but are coached up & become a strong
cohesive unit by an excellent coaching staff. The only team effort I
consistently saw in Athens in 2010 was the sideline version of NCAA’s
“Dancing with the Stars”.
Let’s worry about the UGA coaching staff doing their job and improve
the team next year beyond this beyond sub-par performance of 2010.

ronald

January 6th, 2011
1:35 pm

Mark- In the midst of your Richt-bashing, I wonder if Xzavier or Quan realize that Richt has winning records against both Bama and Auburn? Richt is 3-1 against Bama, but most people don’t realize that. And before this season’s loss to Auburn, Richt had won 4 straight against Auburn.

Even if these 17 year olds chose to leave the state, the fans (me included) understand what the numbers say and what the “trends” really are. 1 loss to Auburn does not make a trend. 4 wins out of the last five….thats a trend.

Richard Dawson

January 6th, 2011
1:35 pm

FIRE MARK RICHT.

Travis McGee

January 6th, 2011
1:37 pm

I have a theory that explains the last two seasons and Richt’s incoherent presser: Richt had a small stoke in 2008 and is having trouble tracking, focusing and exercising good judgement.

That, my friends, in the only feasible explanation for his downward spiral and bizaar presser.

Shock

January 6th, 2011
1:39 pm

If Bama had fired the Bear after he won 28 games over four years, then the Tide would not have won 44 over the next four. Relax and let the man fix it.

TURBO

January 6th, 2011
1:40 pm

I would blame failure of the recruiting class on Nick Fairley. The only reason…. bradley hasn’t called out Fairley out in a while…. wanted him to feel warm and fuzzy all over again.

WDE

January 6th, 2011
1:40 pm

@ronald,

The “trend” that you’re referring to has to include the present otherwise it wouldn’t be a trend, correct? And the “present” is much more pertinent to a recruit than what happened 2 or 3 or more years ago. Why? Because the recruits will not be joining the team from two years ago, they will be joining this year’s team minus the graduations and early NFL draftees.

UGA is not having difficulties in recruiting THIS year because of what happened in 1980 with the Dawgs or what happened 5 years ago. Even a casual football fan can see the obvious trend at UGA in wins/losses and it is a significantly downward trend.

Shock

January 6th, 2011
1:40 pm

No Richt is not Paul Bryant, but he’s proven he’s better than Hall of Famer Dooley.

We Lost

January 6th, 2011
1:47 pm

We might as well fold up the damn tent. We no longer are SEC caliber, and we are even getting drummed by lowly UCF. We suck at basketball, baseball, and now football. My choice would be to sit out the next 2 SEC schedules until we can find the right man to lead this team. Shut it down for 2 years, add more seats, and luxury boxes, and watch the dollars and recruits roll in. If need be, maybe even step up our pay for play scam. We have one fellow dawgs, we are just not as fiscally reponsible as the the hated tigers. We should sit out 2 seasons, save money, and step up our cheating. That is the only way out of this mess.

Ga is for losers

January 6th, 2011
1:47 pm

You guys said to say are total losers. No recruit is going to go to uga whne the coach is on the HOT SEAT. its worse off to keep him than to fire him! idiots!

FSU part Two

January 6th, 2011
1:49 pm

look you guys are fsu part 2 plain and simple…Look at fsu once they got rid of bowden…mark richt is DONE! fire him and move on…my high school coach is better!!!

He Hate Gator

January 6th, 2011
1:52 pm

Richt defenders can only live in the past.. What about the now ?

“If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.”
- Winston Churchill

Andy In Blairsville

January 6th, 2011
1:52 pm

Isn’t UGA good at volleyball or something like that?

Wheresyourlaptop

January 6th, 2011
1:53 pm

Please leave the state Mark Bradley. All you do is bash the state of Georgia whether it be the Dawgs or the Bumblebees. Why would anyone want to go to an in state school when they read the biggest paper in Georgia and constantly see articles bashing them? Your a tool who hides behind a keyboard and printer ink.

dawgfacedboy

January 6th, 2011
1:53 pm

Going 6-7 and losing to UCF has less to do with it than the direction the program is and has been heading. Texas didn’t even qualify for a bowl and they still have the number 1 class and the pick of whoever they want in the state. If this could be considered a “rebuilding year” and nothing more then it wouldn’t have affected recruiting.

Fact is we have only been relevant 1 season in the last 6. Not surprised at all by this. Won’t be any better till things change.

JB

January 6th, 2011
1:53 pm

I didn’t know that it was Ntl signing day and everything was done? C’mon, Bradley. Really???

If it’s Feb and this is the result, fine but in early Jan???

HBTD!!!

buck strickland

January 6th, 2011
1:54 pm

Mark, you’re not helping. As usual you’re part of the problem.

Can Richt

January 6th, 2011
1:55 pm

4-8 next season for Richt. I will be pulling against UGA until they can him. I am a big UGA fan but until Richt and his yes men are gone, I have no other choice but to pull against UGA. I am amazed that there are still fans that think Richt will turn it around. 4 out of 5 years of dissapointments. Yes 2006 is a black mark on Mr. Richt because he lost to Vanderbilt. You never lose to Vandy as a UGA head coach.

You know its a sad state of the program when Mississippi State and South Carolina are ahead of you.

Do fans and administration like Richt because he is a nice Southern God Fearing Gentleman? Becuase that is not a reason to keep someone.

nauti-dawg

January 6th, 2011
1:58 pm

I was in Dallas this fall – the newspaper there seriously covers high school football better than the AJC covers college. It must not be owned by Cox. Bradley couldn’t get a job covering El Paso High School with them.

Buckeye

January 6th, 2011
1:59 pm

If I had a dollar for everytime someone wrote in some combination “Richt” “fire” or “has to go” on this blog I’d send to the tatoo parlor to make him hole and send the rest to Pastor Newton’s church.

Mike

January 6th, 2011
1:59 pm

Give it a rest, Mark. This is not a 2009-2010 development here.

1) UGA has not managed to lock down the absolute top talents in this state since 2004. They usually dominate the top 15, but not the top 5. Tray Blackmon, James Davis, Eric Berry, Cam Newton, Jonathan Dwyer, Morgan Burnett, Omar Hunter, Greg Reid, Jarvis Jones, Da’Rick Rogers, Markeith Ambles…all top impact players from the state that have gone elsewhere since 2005.

2) Recruiting rankings are greatly affected by how many players you recruit. The Dawgs only have 15 commits right now. Most teams ahead of them have 19-25. Last year, UGA signed a smaller class as well (19). Every team ahead of them signed at least 20. Auburn? 32. In fact, UGA was top 10 last year until Rogers switched to UT who was sitting just outside the top 10. That basically switched UT and UGA. UT got Rogers because they also offered his 1 star QB buddy which neither Lane Kiffin or UGA were willing to do.

Buckeye

January 6th, 2011
1:59 pm

whole

Andy In Blairsville

January 6th, 2011
2:02 pm

Stop bitching at Bradley for being down on the puppies!

Have you forgotten all the pre-season newspaper articles in 04, 05, 06 and probably 07 when he said THIS was going to be the year the puppies FINALLY won a NC?

Did you forget back in August 2010, Bradley wrote another article stating the puppies have a cupcake schedule and should win 10 or 11 games?

All Bradley doing is stating the obvious now and that is 2010 was a pathetic excuse for a losing season, Richt has one foot out the door, UCF embarrassed UGA and quality recruits would rather go out of state than play at UGA.

Atlanta Jacket

January 6th, 2011
2:02 pm

UGA gets top recruits every year – some make it, some don’t, but the few who do actually “make” it seem to do more in the pros than in Athens. Auburn is one player away from turning back to 5-6 and Alabama will dominate as long as Saban is there. Sometime kids just want to get the heck out of dodge.

zeeeeeeee Nachos aka the "Living Legend"

January 6th, 2011
2:03 pm

JB – Bama is not a good as people want you to believe

WTF??? Did you see the Crapitol One Bowl? They beat the living hell out of a one loss Big 11 team.

They lost 3 games correct, how many did the leg-humpers win last year??

OWNERSHIP – good bye

A pattern at UGA w/ Richt

January 6th, 2011
2:03 pm

Generally, over his era, Richt signs some real good to great offense players. We know who they are now and who they were and what they did or did not accomplish.

My issue with Richt for several years now is that UGA does not go after big, tough, bad attitude linemen for both sides of the ball. Once in a blue moon he will get a so called 4 or 5 star O linemen like Sturdivant. Boling, coming in was unranked but he did develop mainly, because Boling has a competitive heart and he is fairly tough. Note the play on words? Boling has made AA honors as a frosh and later on. He, unlike 80% of the UGA linemen will be missed by the alums. Tyson?? Jones, Lott? Anderson, Gathers? They as a group are simply awful and are too weak to play in this league. Here lies the problem for UGA. THIS area is why we are losing games to go 6-7. Awful.

The D side of the line of scrimmage is awful and this is R Garner’s responsibility. UGA is physically weak and not very deep, on the D line. TG is very concerned about this.

The line of scrimmage in HS or Pee Wee ball or in the SEC is where it matters. UGA could win their share of games, 80-%- 85%-95% of the time going forward, had we developed our lines of scrimmage with beefy, bad a–ed linemen. These two areas are huge failures.

For this reaosn alone, heads at UGA should roll. This is not that tough to discern gang.

Too little and too late for me. Change must take place right now. Problem is that UGA cannot afford to let them go. Too much $$ to do that so we sit for another ugly, dismal year. UGA will be about the same or due to a horrible 2011 team attitude ………………worse.

UGA class of 71 & 73

dawg gone

January 6th, 2011
2:03 pm

Wow!.. “Richt & the Bear”..thats like night & day difference.

Wait till 2012!…Richt will fire himself.

GT fan

January 6th, 2011
2:06 pm

Mark you need to un-load on Paul Hewitt.

Alabama | MrSEC.com

January 6th, 2011
2:07 pm

[...] post this story on the Recruiting Page, but since Mark Richt is in such hot water, we thought the decision by two Georgia blue-chippers to not sign with UGA merited homepage coverage.2. Richt will make tweaks to his program inwardly, not publicly.3. The [...]

Crumpy likes to hug college co-eds

January 6th, 2011
2:07 pm

Maybe Saint Richt should hire Cecil Newton to help him recruit this year.

Andy In Blairsville

January 6th, 2011
2:07 pm

I was close?

kgb

January 6th, 2011
2:10 pm

Lets take a look at recruiting rankings comparing the teams in the NC game and a couple of other well known under achievers. One might easily conclude that recruiting rankings don’t mean squat.

2007 2008 2009 2010
GA 9 7 6 15
Aub 4 20 19 4
Oreg 11 19 32 13
ND 8 2 21 14

O-me

January 6th, 2011
2:10 pm

Crumpy, Mark was against Cam and his father for two are more weeks.(go back and read his post)..you need to keep up. Mark is #1.

Crumpy like Vortex cheeseburgers

January 6th, 2011
2:11 pm

I just got crumped

jerry royster

January 6th, 2011
2:11 pm

whoever said it earlier. when you win, highly rated players will choose that school over an underperforming team the majority of the time. it’s not a criticism of uga and current players, but that’s the facts. and that press conference with coach richt was bizarre and did not inspire confidence. i mean, i was speechless. if i were highly touted player that wants to win and be a contender each year, i’m not choosing georgia or other middle tier teams. kirby should be around for a little while next year considering the pay raise.

Quan Smith and Brandon Bray are one in the same

January 6th, 2011
2:12 pm

Bray and Smith ( UGA’s # 1 ) are the same type of player. Both fast and both small.

Smith is a very average D back ( one pic vs UCF ) and that was it for 2010. Maybe he had one more 2010 pic. So what?

What would UGA do with a Quan Bray? We do not know yet how to develop his predecessor in Brandon Smith. They are identical kids.

Losing the Drew kid, Rome and Crowell and that Valdosta kid Mitchell who caught a long TD pass would be disastrous. Wait and see how it goes.

Go Dogs.

Stir the pot....

January 6th, 2011
2:13 pm

Dont look to deep in to this Mark…..This is 2 recruits one of which claims to have flipped a coin and the other obviously sees Crowell coming to UGA.

dawgman

January 6th, 2011
2:15 pm

(((((((((((((((((((WE DID NOT WANT THEM ANYWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!))))))))))))))))))))))))))

Chi Town

January 6th, 2011
2:17 pm

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, yeah. Im getting laid this semester in T-town.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh, yeah!

Mike

January 6th, 2011
2:17 pm

Bruce Miller

Delbert D.

January 6th, 2011
2:18 pm

Time for some comic relief. Check out the Mack Brown photo in the AJC’s “Highest paid college coaches” slide show.

UOA1992

January 6th, 2011
2:19 pm

Well, your column is no help. The AJC really likes to create trouble for UGA and CMR. My only regret is that by reading and posting a comment, I am helping to keep the AJC in business by providing another hit on their website, which contributes to advertising dollars.

JTDawg

January 6th, 2011
2:20 pm

Past 2 seasons, 14-12.

Mediocre results on the field = mediocre recruiting.

Don’t believe it?

Watch MSU’s recruiting this season vs ours.

According to Scout.com, they 1 spot behind in overall rankings, but have 13 three-star commitments vs our six.

Mullen went to the Swamp and beat UF, now he’s reaping the benefits.

Richt lost to Colorado, UCF, and 10 other teams in ‘09 and ‘10, and now he’s reaping what he’s sown.

LA-DAWG

January 6th, 2011
2:20 pm

For God’s sake…..Mark, can’t you and Jeff find something else to write about other than Georgia. After all, there are other schools. AND, recruiting, you have got to be kidding me. GET A GRIP. Go Jackets.

the CMR koolaide is running dry

January 6th, 2011
2:21 pm

the koolaide is spilling…the koolaide is spilling….someone catch it before it is all gone!!!!!

Ray Goff

January 6th, 2011
2:24 pm

Grantham,…….. you choked on Dickson.

jsmooth

January 6th, 2011
2:30 pm

Mark:

How did these guys get out of high school? They can barely put one word in front of the other. Preferential treatment for athletes has got to stop! It now starts in elementary school, then onto middle school and then to high school. What kind of statements are the school systems sending to these “players.” Play sports and pass while others slave with making good enough grades in hopes of maybe, maybe, making it into a college or university? I would like to see the GPA’s or ACT/SAT scores for Dickson, Bray and others. Makes me sad for the futures of these kids.

ronald

January 6th, 2011
2:31 pm

WDE said “UGA is not having difficulties in recruiting THIS year because of what happened in 1980 with the Dawgs or what happened 5 years ago”

WDE- My post said nothing about 1980. I pointed out that UGA has won 4 out of the last 5 against Auburn, which IS clearly a trend when examining the life of this rivalry. 4 wins for Richt out of the last 5 against Auburn is from 2006 – 2010. I don’t know why you’re bringing up 1980. But for you to act like Auburn winning 1 game since ‘06 is somehow a trend, that is simply ridiculous. Richt has always owned Auburn, whether you like it or not.

UGA? R U Kidding

January 6th, 2011
2:33 pm

Wow, does this mean (for the first time in the last 30 years) them dawgs won’t have a top 5 class?…No way!

Dogs Smell

January 6th, 2011
2:33 pm

Bottom line- Why would they chose Uga over many other SEC schools ? MSU is showing a brighter future than Ga. Tennessee has had 3 coaches in 3 years and are bound for a very good 2011. Bama , goes without saying.

UGA? R U Kidding

January 6th, 2011
2:34 pm

As a general rule, you look at where Georgia’s recruiting class is ranked, and then subtract about 15 notches to see where they will actually finish in the polls at season’s end.

Dawglasville

January 6th, 2011
2:35 pm

WDE Wow, I’m sorry. I tend to confuse you trolls. One year. One year and now you guys are so high and mighty. I always pull for the conference but there will be a lot more peace and quiet on these blogs if Auburn loses. Why are you on this blog? Did you not get into Georgia and now you have an axe to grind or are you mad because you have to live in my state because outside of 7 football games and 2 races a year there is nothing going on in the state of Alabama?

Gay Dawg

January 6th, 2011
2:35 pm

Both Bray and Dickson had bad teeth. We don’t need that in our program!

LarryE

January 6th, 2011
2:36 pm

Mark Richt seems to be a very nice guy that has lost control of his football team in every way. I don’t want to sound racist, but I have not seen another white player on defense since Pollock, a guy that stayed out of trouble and gave 110% every play. Just saying I have seen some really good high school white defensive players. A good mix might help.

MattMD

January 6th, 2011
2:36 pm

Well, you can’t blame Georgia for not trying as far as gimmicks go. First they had the blackouts then the black helmets versus UF in 2009. This year they tried the “Dream Team” gimmick. I’m sure nothing fires up recruiting than an early-90’s era slogan.

What’s next, is Georgia going to paint the grass red? Perhaps black?

Brown would be a more fitting color. This program is a complete and utter joke.

Crumpy like Vortex cheeseburgers

January 6th, 2011
2:42 pm

Hey Chi – can I come over this weekend dudes? Invite some college chicks to come play flip-cup.
I’m frisky

Walker, Texas Ranger

January 6th, 2011
2:42 pm

When did Tracey Morgan play at Griffin

Rad Penties II

January 6th, 2011
2:45 pm

Richt needs to promise each recruit a copy of Damon Evans’ little black book and a dozen pair of red panties, the frilly ones with lace like the UGA players wear.

Walker, Texas Ranger

January 6th, 2011
2:46 pm

Mark, it is OK to write about Georgia, that is what everybody is talking about. The only other Atlanta story is the Falcons until we get a pro basketball team.

Dawghater

January 6th, 2011
2:47 pm

Run recruits run! All they have to do is read the UGA fans comments on the blogs! Who would want to go to UGA after reading all the hatred and rants about CMR. Keep up the good work puppy dawg fans!

Sonny Dawg

January 6th, 2011
2:50 pm

I don’t want to sound racist, but I have not seen another white player on defense since Pollock, a guy that stayed out of trouble and gave 110% every play.

We’d all like to hear Mark Richt’s answer to that question.

ARdawg

January 6th, 2011
2:52 pm

It is, what it is. It is, NOT hot

ARdawg

January 6th, 2011
2:53 pm

If it wasn’t for those red panties, Richt would be fired by now

Woody Woodward

January 6th, 2011
2:53 pm

Mark Richt can’t even win a coin toss half the time.

19DAWGFANS59

January 6th, 2011
2:55 pm

Who cares … If they don’t want to BULLDOGS … we don’t NEED or WANT them anyway … One of them FLIPPED A COIN ! INTELLIGENT DECISION MAKING THERE !!! GOODBYE and GOOD RIDDANCE !!!

Rich

January 6th, 2011
2:56 pm

They got more money playing elsewhere

S GA AU FAN

January 6th, 2011
2:56 pm

UGA fans you need to keep CMR and support your team. He is a good guy and will right the ship. However, if you do fire him…..please don’t send him to us!

Poleesemenses

January 6th, 2011
2:58 pm

Thats ok. Two less potential criminals away from Athens. Try recruiting more white guys again. Reliable. Less self centered ego. Less likely to have to be bonded. And it worked for a hundred or so years.

ranger bulldog

January 6th, 2011
2:58 pm

Mark
Any talk or rumers,or consideration of a buy out for the good of every one ?

Your Breath Smells like Fish Fry Tacos

January 6th, 2011
2:58 pm

Looks like he is girlish..he should have gone to tech.

Poleesemenses

January 6th, 2011
3:00 pm

She is not my wife. These panties aren’t mine. I am the Athletic Director at Georgia. Maybe he should have reversed the statements.

JInx Master

January 6th, 2011
3:01 pm

Here goes the GURU of GA sports once again! Every young man in GA should feel lucky to even be offered a free education. Mark Richt has landed several 5 *s recrfuits before, but did not get it done. Why didn’t you write about those that did commit to UGA & their potential! Heck if we all would play the right numbers in the lottery we all would be millionares, Bradley you need a “Haterade Shower” like right now.

JB

January 6th, 2011
3:04 pm

Let’s wait to grade this class after signing day. The numbers game may help us, by that I mean Bama,AU and Fla sign their allotment and some of these guys default to us. Yes, That’s weak, but that’s the way things are at UGA as of now. I looked at Christian Lemay’s youtube again. Don’t sell this guy short being able to help us next year. He looks pretty good.

Starring Kam Fong as Chin Ho

January 6th, 2011
3:10 pm

OMG it’s the end of the world. Two, count ‘em TWO recruits from Ga chose out of state schools. I thought we had until Dec 21, 2012. I guess not.

JInx Master

January 6th, 2011
3:11 pm

Your reporting is excellent, you now have people making racist’s comments about these young men. How bout’ you start with the whole UGA program, instead of how they were not chosen during an All-Star highschool football game. This not an racist issue, this is an underachieving program issue! Bradley you remind me of the guys in the nosebleed seats, complaining about the action & can’t see JACK!

ncdawg

January 6th, 2011
3:12 pm

Bear Bryant’s answer when asked how he had all that success “I surround myself with great assistant coaches”

ARdawg

January 6th, 2011
3:13 pm

Look at the parade of 5 star’s with their chest bowed out over the last 5-10 years. Look how their college careers were and where they are now. Most don’t even have a degree much less contribute to the hot team dejouir that they signed with. In essence, those future pizza delivery boys that signed with AU and Bama last night still have to prove it on the field

Delbert D.

January 6th, 2011
3:13 pm

Reported 14 minutes ago:

“STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck says he will stay in school for another year instead of entering the NFL draft.”

Pulled from the NYTimes web site.

Get Real!

January 6th, 2011
3:15 pm

Every year Notre Dame gets a top 10 recruiting class and they still are mediocre at best. When the Miami Hurricanes were the top college team for 20 years, playing for 8 National Championships and winning five, They rarely had the top recruits. Mark Richt is a good coach, a good man and deserves our support. Look aroung and you will see thatbeing on top is cyclical. Georgia will rise to the top again.
Oh yeah, Georgia actually outplayed Florida but lost the game. FYi, they both went to Bowl Games with identical records. Get lucky and get a Herschel Walker or a Tim Tebow and you will be a winner.
Stick with Richt!!!

College Football Fan

January 6th, 2011
3:15 pm

Mark are you trying to be sensational? This article is overblown, and unduly negative. So two kids picked schools other than UGA. The same can be said about Alabama and Auburn for the 15 or so kids that have picked UGA. I just wonder what your agenda is, as I can’t believe this continued slanted journalism drives readership. Maybe I am wrong. Paper sales are down; so perhaps this is what passes for journalism these days.

I only hope that you be held to the same standard that you have asked Mark Richt be held to this coming season. If you fail to win whatever award is annually handed out for excellence in sports journalism that you be shown the door by the editors of the AJC. After all, that is what you have suggested for Mark Richt.

And no, I am not a graduate of UGA (Tulane University here). Just would appreciate either informative sports journalism or at least something even vaguely attempting to be even handed.

Va'jayjay Jackson

January 6th, 2011
3:17 pm

I have to laugh at these posts… 60% of them are coming from Tech posers.

(((42-34))) LMAO!!!
(((9-1)))
(((5 INAR-B @ Booby Dodd)))

Let the domination continue on!

Delbert D.

January 6th, 2011
3:18 pm

AJC, feel free to pick up the AP report on Andrew Luck (I usually beat them to the punch.)

Wolfman

January 6th, 2011
3:23 pm

“We run (recruits out of) this state!!!!”

Auburn Tiger/War Eagles

January 6th, 2011
3:28 pm

Face it Georgia, you don’t stand a chance recruiting against us. Not only can we afford two nicknames, but we can also afford Cam Newton. Plus, we can fix grades for a bowl game right in front of the NCAA and get away with it. Given all this, do you really think you can outbid us on any player we want? Btw, we are paying Cecil Newton’s way down in Arizona too- and you should see the ho’s he’s partying with. I mean crazy hot b*tches!

dawgfacedboy

January 6th, 2011
3:29 pm

KGB- over the past 6 years OU, Texas, Fla, Bama (since Saban has been there) UGA, FSU, LSU, Notre Dame, Miami, USC and Ohio St. have averaged a top 11 class. Out of those 11 schools only 3 have failed to finish the year with a top 10 ranking (if you aren’t in the top 10 aren’t relevant in the national picture). That would be FSU, Miami, and Notre Dame. UGA has 1. The rest of the above named schools have multiple top 10 finishes in that time frame.

What that tells me is that we waste a heckuva lot of talent each year. Hell we are top 3 or 4 as far as players in the NFL. WTF? The talent is there.

BRUCE BROWN

January 6th, 2011
3:30 pm

It appears Florida is putting together a dream team coaching staff….

Winder

January 6th, 2011
3:31 pm

CMR is a good man and I honestly think we would likely do worse if we replaced him. I do hope he is recruiting on character this year. We really don’t need nearly 20% of the team arrested this year. Another violent assualt charge reminded all of us that.

This ship is going to turn for the positive this year. Keep the faith Dawg nation!

cyberdawg

January 6th, 2011
3:33 pm

Not landing some top recruits isn’t necessarily bad. Consider that UGA has had a top ten class for years but that talent sometimes never appears on the field. The problem is that some of these top recruits are already near the top of their game and just don’t get that much better in college. UGA has had many of them in recent years. The dawgs need more underrated players that will continue to develop for 4 more years. Maybe having a less than average class is a good thing in the long run.

THE CATHOLIC HAMMER

January 6th, 2011
3:35 pm

I suppose choosing the plantation on which you’ll serve is “progress”.

Winder

January 6th, 2011
3:35 pm

And I think we may be able to recruit on character that way too cyberdawg. Interesting point.

older1

January 6th, 2011
3:37 pm

a team of no names who work hard and or motivated to win will outshine a few stars every time. remember this is a TEAM sport.

TopDawg

January 6th, 2011
3:40 pm

Why would they come to Athens??? Everyone seems to know Richt is done except a few money men, EXTREME Christian fans that care more about his talking of God rather than wins and losses, and possibly the Georgia AD (or is he keeping him politically??? to assuage the money folk?). The recruits certainly know it but some like Rome will come to UGA out of blind loyalty to their beloved program (thanks to them! but to be honest they also hinder the program from making true progress…an out of the top 20 class would hasten Richt’s removal.

BRUCE BROWN

January 6th, 2011
3:42 pm

Oregon’s in the Championship and I don’t see very many ‘any’ 5 star recruits out there. Just maybe it’s the coaching ‘you think’. I’m not too sure what Georgia’s doing, they’re just sitting around expecting a championship team to fall into their lap well it doesn’t happen like that and I believe the coach has got a little too comfortable and someone better light a fire under that program or the Dawgs are going to be a program that just gets another small bowl every year while the big teams clean their clock.

still@the bar

January 6th, 2011
3:44 pm

Delbert D
Can you believe LUCK left about 55+ million dollars on the table? WOW the kid really like college, his education, and his team I guess.

Mark will not write much on Paul Hewitt because all the TECH fans know he has to go and wanted it done 2 years ago. Writing about Mark Richt is fun because 1/2 the Dawgs want to keep him and 1/2 want to fire him, while people that HATE the mutts love poking the JAILHOUSE DAWGS for entertainment.

still@the bar

January 6th, 2011
3:46 pm

Catholic Hammer
It is better than wondering which preist will be your molester.

SID

January 6th, 2011
3:48 pm

Good riddance, both look like THugas anyway!!!!!

San Francisco Dawg

January 6th, 2011
3:48 pm

Did anyone really expect either of these kids to commit to Georgia…No…bad article, Georgia was not counting on those two…we are counting on Crowell, Rome and Drew….

THE CATHOLIC HAMMER

January 6th, 2011
3:50 pm

What I like about those attacks is that they say more about the person attacking than it does the Church founded by God Himself.

Anyway, the model for college football “professionalization” can be found South of the Border (no, not in South Carolina), but here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_Universidad_Nacional

Janet

January 6th, 2011
3:54 pm

I am so sick of you MB. Can you please move on and get off your high horse of ripping UGA?! I was hoping 2011 you might change. I am moving on to someone else for any real sports news. Guess you never see a glass half full – only half empty. Negativity will kill you, ya know?

Delbert D.

January 6th, 2011
3:54 pm

still@the bar – Plus, he made the decision before any official word on Harbaugh. Luck is a smart guy (Architectural Design major) who is thinking beyond the NFL. The potential lockout may have been a factor. Or, he might have wanted to make the Carolina Panthers miserable (heh-heh.)

BigHittas

January 6th, 2011
3:59 pm

simple lessons:
GEOGRAPHY – Lagrange, closer to Auburn or Athens?
WINNING/EXPOSURE – Which team is playing for the national championship?
Which of the following teams in the SEC besides Auburn could play for it next year? Alabama or GA? lol…..

Producer

January 6th, 2011
3:59 pm

This should not surprise anybody. Actually, I’d be surprised if any top notch prospect comes to UGA. It’s a second-rate program. No inspiration, no guts. Until we get a bad-a$$ed coach who instills the fear of God into his players we will always be a failure.

Janet

January 6th, 2011
3:59 pm

BTW, I completely agree with you, College Football Fan! MB is the one who needs to go, not CMR.

JInx Master

January 6th, 2011
4:05 pm

If you wnat to call Richt a master recruiter, thats on you. Truth of the matter is most of the GA athletes grow up wanting to play in state & to be seen in all the homes where they grew up. Reality sets in sometimes & some realize they just won’t fit in at UGA, for whatever reason. If you are making a life changing decision be honest to yourself first & foremost. There is no turning back afterwards, do you think some of these guys not choosing UGA isn’t worried about Richt’s future this next season & what changes that may follow???

ColumnDawg

January 6th, 2011
4:07 pm

Florida is starting with a fresh coach. Tennessee is in rebuilding mode. Now is the time to replace Richt and get some new ideas and leadership for our Dawgs! Not sure why we are showing so much loyalty to a coach that has had the game pass him by. Lets stop losing our in state recruits and get someone in her to reignite the program!

Get off my lawn

January 6th, 2011
4:07 pm

Ray Drew would be the big fish that got away. Christian LeMay has been trying to get him to come on over to UGA but the guy has still not decided. Drew is into the ministry so Richt needs to go after this top ranked DE like a used car salesman. Or something like that….

SID

January 6th, 2011
4:09 pm

Let’s move on to Basketball!!! It’s become UGAs top draw!!!!

Frank

January 6th, 2011
4:11 pm

Dream team. LOL

big root

January 6th, 2011
4:15 pm

A man does the right thing Coach Richt get that scary ass yellow streak off your back and start coaching be aggressive and fast on offense speed the game up

Nick Saban

January 6th, 2011
4:15 pm

I guess CMR just needs to “study” more!

coachgb

January 6th, 2011
4:15 pm

Just saw where Luck is staying at Stanford. I think that in a nutshell tells it all. You guys are all hyped about what 5 star guy is going here and what 4 star guy is going there. UGA has been getting as many 4 star and 5 star guys as anyone but look where they are now. Its all about character not how many stars you have attached to your name by some recruiting geeks somewhere. Luck wants to earn his degree before moving on to the NFL. AJ and Houston and some of the others have been counting the days until the draft for some time now. Don’t tell me AJ didn’t know he couldn’t sell his jersey, he didn’t care. Richt and his staff have been listening to the recruiting boys too much instead of hunting for real players. How many 4 or 5 star guys have been letdowns in recent years. Everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon and blame the coaching staff for not coaching them up but the real blame on the coaching staff is for not finding real football players not just real athletes, there is a big and important difference. Just check out TCU or Stanford. Tell me that undersized, slow linebacker that swatted down the 4th down pass would have even been considered for a scholarship at UGA! He is a football player, not an athelete. The best football player in recent years at UGA was Rennie Curran. How did he slip in over there?

Gary

January 6th, 2011
4:18 pm

ANy half decent player has a chance to start and that should be what we offer. Enjoy the bench at Bama or be in the game in Athens. Auburn may get its national title this year, but they cannot kid anyone into thinking they will win more than 8 games next year with all the players they are going to loose. The kid amy have a good chance at starting for Auburn as well. Richt needs to be fishing the JC’s for big guys who can start now on defense.

JInx Master

January 6th, 2011
4:19 pm

Wake all GA fans, this includes UGA & GT. Stop living a fairy tale fans,there is no way any school will ever be able to keep all this hot bed of talent in state. Hello Murray is from FLA, they needed any capable QB this year at FLA. If you recruit to your needs you will succeed, Harbaugh has not been complaining in Palo Alto CA. Just get off your @ss & shake the bushes, if they are not from GA, recuit the next athlete that satisfies your scheme, period.

Gary

January 6th, 2011
4:22 pm

I am not so sure Georgia is where we need to recruit. We have had better luck in Texas and New Jersey and Florida for actual tallent. Maybe Georgia High School ball is not up to snuff becuase the players we get in state a not living up to their rankings or reputation.

Double Zero Eight

January 6th, 2011
4:22 pm

@ Crumpy’s 2.27 post
Cecil will refuse to help CMR as he wanted
to make Cam him a tight end.

Double Zero Eight

January 6th, 2011
4:28 pm

error in my prior post ( “him” should be deleted from last line).

Bama Fan

January 6th, 2011
4:36 pm

go 2 Bama and git goode edukation. u wrok at Quicktrip.

JInx Master

January 6th, 2011
4:42 pm

Richt needs to go! The next coach will be able to get good players & will go after other out of state guys in the south

Tell the truth

January 6th, 2011
4:45 pm

Another wasted column pal. Still preaching to the choir are ya?? Good lord.

Delbert D.

January 6th, 2011
4:46 pm

Hah! Scooped the AJC again, on the Andrew Luck decision. Beat them by 1 hr and 12 minutes this time.

mark twain

January 6th, 2011
4:48 pm

IT IS OBVIOUS TIMES HAVE PASSED GEORGIA BYE BYE. THEY CANNOT WIN IN FOOTBALL OR WOMENS BASKETBALL, WHY? BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO STUDY FOR AT LEAST TWO YEARS. DO YOU THINK THE ATHLETES ACTUALLY STUDY AT ALA, AUB. LSU OR FLA. its all about the money. WHAT WE NEED ARE MORE TERRY HOAGES WHO NO ONE WANTED. SO G.A.T.A.

inthecellar

January 6th, 2011
4:56 pm

Well Richt needs to find him another 5 foot nothing running back to help him stay in the cellar. I hope there is a lot of talent already in UGA football because recruiting is staying lean. I do like the idea of putting some muscle on the players. Maybe that will tire them enought not to become jersey salesperson.

iTiSi

January 6th, 2011
4:57 pm

Let’s look at the bright side of things. Kentucky and Vanderbilt appreciate GA very much. They were beginning to feel lonely down there at the bottom. Now they have some company.

Einsteindawg

January 6th, 2011
4:58 pm

Recruiting rankings are for nerds and losers. Sign players according to our needs and players that want to be a Dawg! Need proof…look at all the four and five star failures, and look at TCU and Oregon.

Snoop Dawg

January 6th, 2011
4:58 pm

Yo Dawgs!
Did you see the news today where the NFL 1st round draft choice QB Andrew Luck from Stanford elected to stay for his senior year? Have you wondered why that doesn’t happen at the UGA? Well, the answer is Mark Richt’s absolute derelection of duty in the leadership and culture department. This buffoon by not actively encouraging these players to stay and get their degrees, just shruggs his shoulders. If the players aren’t asked, they surely won’t stay. The culture doesn’t put any worth on finishing out your college years and getting the degree. As a result, each recruiting class has to replace the best players in addition to normal senior attrition.
This is just another data point on the graph of why RICHT NEEDS TO GET FIRED YESTERDAY, NOT TOMORROW. Our players and our fan base and alumni deserve a coach with passion, brains, and active leadership ability. Richt has none of these traits. His only asset is his alleged righteousness, but evidently this hasn’t rubbed off on his players because Richt gets the NCAA Blue Ribbon among ALL Division 1 universities with his 12 player arrests this year (2:1 ratio of arrests to wins).
WAKE UP DAWGNATION! OFF WITH HIS HEAD

Timbo

January 6th, 2011
4:58 pm

It doesn’t matter what the recruiting rating services say, the eyeball test will tell any fan that UGA needs a ton of offensive and defensive lineman, and a big-time runningback. They really need to try to go the juco route and shore up both sides of the line of scrimmage. If not, than expect another down year next year. They are getting beat up front physically.

Einsteindawg

January 6th, 2011
5:02 pm

Snoop…are you saying that because CMR settles for mediocrity, the loyal fans, boosters, and paying alumni should sttle for mediocrity, too?

Tdawg money

January 6th, 2011
5:03 pm

Attention All Who Will Listen…….

At least one of the Dream Team recruit defectors will do an about face and ultimately sign with Georgia. One is reportedly second-guessing his announcement already, according to a close friend. Don’t jump off any tall buildings Dawg Fans, things will get better.

Savannah Dawg

January 6th, 2011
5:07 pm

Mark-

You finally found something that you know less about than coaching and that would be recruiting rankings. If you took the time to do any research, you would know that UGA still has a good chance of finishing in the top 5 if they land Rome, Crowell, Swann, Mitchell, Pagan among others. They are in the final two for each of these guys. So what if they haven’t had a commitment in months. The most highly rated players typically wait longer to commit, but don’t let facts get in your way when you’re on your anti-Richt roll. I used to think Schultz was the biggest douche at the AJC, but you are the leader in the clubhouse by a mile.

UGA Dawg 97

January 6th, 2011
5:07 pm

Why would he pick UGA with a scholarship offer from Bama? Richt will be gone by his 2nd year and he’d never play for a championship. At Bama he has a chance to win big and play for Saban. Richt needs to be fired NOW!!!

Reality Bites

January 6th, 2011
5:14 pm

Seems like the love affair with R. Gardner is souring. He is the problem. Recruiting nothing but thugs and future DUI cases. Think this assistant has run his course. Smart money pays former RC @ Tech to come to Athens….one Giff Smith. As a Tech fan he IS definitely missed!

Cam the Scam

January 6th, 2011
5:20 pm

And where did Boise St, TCU, and Stanford “rank” in recruiting the past 5 years……yeah, recruiting wankers need to lighten up…

Snoop Dawg

January 6th, 2011
5:21 pm

Einsteindawg, you obviously are not related to Albert…

UGA - Stop Losing, You are making us all look bad

January 6th, 2011
5:22 pm

After looking at the photo on the top of this page, it does not look like UGA is at a huge loss by not bagging this kid, unless he is hiding 30 lbs somewhere. As for Bray – if you heard his interview when he picked AU last night, it would be embarrassing to have him – if he could get in. At AU, this will not be a problem.

Now losing Crowell would be a blow – that kid is good. Real Good.

Einsteindawg

January 6th, 2011
5:23 pm

Snoop…would that be Fat or Prince?

Delbert D.

January 6th, 2011
5:23 pm

@Snoop Dawg – That is extreme. Better retract that last statement.

Snoop Dawg

January 6th, 2011
5:25 pm

That would be Einstein, Einsteindawg…

falcon

January 6th, 2011
5:25 pm

Bray lives in LaGrange and was an Auburn lock for some time now. Dickson prefers to play the traditional 4-3 defense where he lines up in a 3 point stance. He has no desire to play in a 3-4 as a stand up outside linebacker. Not making excuses for CMR, just presenting some facts to Bradley’s hit piece. Has there ever been a year when we got every player in the state of GA that we wanted? Not to my knowledge.

Snoop Dawg

January 6th, 2011
5:26 pm

Delbert, the Snoop Dawg IS extreme. He demands excellence and victory. Get with the program…

Delbert D.

January 6th, 2011
5:27 pm

Giff Smith won’t be in Buffalo much longer. The Gailey effect. Smith would be a good RC, but the HS coaches would probably wonder about his change of allegiance.

dawg for life

January 6th, 2011
5:28 pm

mark has to go i could deal wit losing bad for one year but wen u cant get the players in your own state,the ball has been dropped there wont be a dream team just a sorry team

JInx Master

January 6th, 2011
5:28 pm

I wish Andrew Luck all the best , but he’s gonna need a lot of luck to have a much better season next year. I’m not bashing a young man for doing the right thing, but injuries are a part of this game. God forbid someone accidentally rolls over on this young man’s leg. 55 million guaranteed is enough to make any man or woman leave Harvard or M.I.T. very early!

Delbert D.

January 6th, 2011
5:29 pm

Snoop Dawg – Talk about lack of execution then, rather than an actual execution. Nobody deserves that.

Einsteindawg

January 6th, 2011
5:29 pm

Good night all…I’m heading to the bar. Happy New Year everyone!

Einsteindawg

January 6th, 2011
5:32 pm

Happy New year all! I’m heading for the bar.

Delbert D.

January 6th, 2011
5:32 pm

Speaking of the Buffalo Bills, their QB Ryan Fitzpatrick is a Harvard Grad. Highest Wonderlic score ever. Unfortunately, Chan Gailey is just Chan Gailey;definitely not a Harvard grad.

JInx Master

January 6th, 2011
5:35 pm

” A man with character, builds character in men” Richt could not even get this done, I know everyone is talking about thugs & criminals, but Richt is like a midget playing Center in basketball, he will never get a chance to prove anything.

Delbert D.

January 6th, 2011
5:42 pm

Trust can’t be a one-way proposition.

Tell the truth

January 6th, 2011
5:44 pm

Atta boy Mark- keep on fanning the flames for so many of these woefully uneducated idiots who blog on here. Sometimes you can start fires with words my friend. Terrible fires. Read some of the comments on here.

Dawgs Get New Commit!!

January 6th, 2011
5:45 pm

This just in. WR Sanford Seay has just committed to Georgia. It was a highly contested war between Georgia and Georgia State but the Dawgs pulled it out.

Snoop Dawg

January 6th, 2011
5:46 pm

Delbert, Preacha Man deserves everything he is receiving time 100. Actually, times 30 million as that is how much money he has fleeced from the USA while tearing our program down to Pop Warner level.

You seem to be mighty judgmental. Did Mr Obama deputize you as the local PC cop:?

On the Andrew Luck issue, look: There are a lot more important things in life than money, even for inner city disadvantaged kids who got a chance for college through athleticism. The college life, playing for the Red and Black in Athens, getting a college degree…. I agree with Mastercard–these things are priceless. I doubt if being some Pimp in a Black SUV with big earrings hanging out with Ray Lewis in the bars really helps any of these kids toward self actualization in life. The UGA takes insurance out on players in case they are injured. The NFL will be there after they graduate, and when their short NFL lifespan is over and they get their knee and hip replacements and start studdering from Parkinson’s , what they will rely on is that diploma and pride from their college days on the UGA football team. Problem is, Mark Richt is ruining this pride because he is derelect across the range of his responsibilities. The AD, the Prez, and all the Defenders are also derelect and are coenablers to UGA’s woes…

still@the bar

January 6th, 2011
5:48 pm

Curry now that is a man of class that never has to tell everybody about it. Unlike Richt.

Snoop Dawg

January 6th, 2011
5:49 pm

Tell the Truth: If you want to see an idiot, try a mirror…

JInx Master

January 6th, 2011
5:52 pm

Snoop Dawg I know for a fact you are not black. Idiodicy is like cancer, it just eats away at people.

David Granger

January 6th, 2011
5:57 pm

If anybody actually thinks Dickson chose Alabama based on a coin flip, you deserve to be that damn stupid.

Tell the truth

January 6th, 2011
5:57 pm

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Snoop Dawg

January 6th, 2011
5:59 pm

Idiocy has nothing to do with cancer, knucklehead. Your lame and bigoted comment tells us everything we need to know about you.

Spurrier

January 6th, 2011
6:01 pm

Yeah, Sanford Seay, that dude is scrubby as hell. He will be a failure under Rev. Richt’s tutelage. He might as well put on his paper hat now, cause he will not be taking his talents to the next level.

Lakedawg

January 6th, 2011
6:11 pm

Way to go Bradley! Another opportunity to try to turn something negative about the Dawgs. Just remember that soon as the reductions are made at AJC, Greyhound goes straight to ole KY. Good riddance and maybe take Schultz with you.

SavDawg

January 6th, 2011
6:12 pm

This is just the beginning. Wait until the verbal commitments leave for other schools. Bye Bye coach Goody Two Shoes ! If Rodney Garner is supposed to be such a GREAT recruiter, how do we lose guys like this ?? Hell, maybe he should go, too. Matter of fact, how about just cleaning house and start over. To CMR : Searls is the run cordinator ??? Last in the SEC and he STILL has a job ? THat’s what is wrong with you. you see cancer and do NOTHING !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tell the truth

January 6th, 2011
6:22 pm

Snoop Dawg You show us your ignorance every time you write on this blog pal.

Paddy

January 6th, 2011
6:34 pm

Until we coach up what we have on the roster, you can’t expect big time recruits to come to UGA. They see players dying on the vine in our system. 2011 is the most important year in UGA football in the last 30 years!! Turn it around Mark R, turn it around!

Danny G

January 6th, 2011
6:39 pm

The past has proven that these so called blue chip kids from Ga. are not really that good anyway. It is not the hype that makes the player good, it is how he responds to college coaching that brings him to the forefront. That is where UGA has been struggling.

Peter

January 6th, 2011
6:44 pm

Well if they are not criminals, then they probably don’t fit in !

Delbert D.

January 6th, 2011
7:03 pm

Snoop Dawg – Coaching is not a capital offense. Well, maybe Louis XVI’s fencing coach in 1793 or thereabouts in France. I’ll have to look that one up.

PHIL

January 6th, 2011
7:04 pm

Thanks again Mark! Does the AJC really pay you more to write continued negative spin on the UGA football program? You’re not helping Tech much, either. Seems to me the most prominent newspaper, fish wrapper as it is, might actually be FOR the University’s in the state. Such is today’s society. All about me and money. You and Shultz and Bill King would make a great re-make of the three stooges.

PHIL

January 6th, 2011
7:12 pm

@snoop you’re smokin that stuff your name sake does don’t you? This attached video is for you and all those like you. It’s a UFO over Stone Mountain. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3GbAq9mNI4

Why is this pertinent you may ask? Because you and those like you wouldn’t know a football from a flying saucer.

Carnac the Magnificent

January 6th, 2011
7:17 pm

The Answer: a fart, a tart, and Smart

The Question: Name something that smells, What is Paris Hilton, and the last name of the 2012 UGA Football Coach.

Snoop Dawg

January 6th, 2011
7:17 pm

Phil, sounds like you’re from the mother ship… You must be a hopey feely Democrat with your condescending arrogance. I’ve forgotten more than your mental hard drive can hold, and that includes just about everything from UGA to USA.

Ray Goff

January 6th, 2011
7:22 pm

Breaking news: Mark Bradley finally figures out that top talent doesn’t go to UGA. DUH.

Dawgaholic30286

January 6th, 2011
7:50 pm

Another good hatchett job Mark….You sir suffer from a very disturbing case of Schadenfreude and it is beginning to affect your journalistic skills….

Buckhead

January 6th, 2011
7:52 pm

Stay in State and Secure your future in the REAL WORLD! Less than 1% of NCAA Football players make it in the NFL each year- Play for UGA or Tech and have a career for life( with opportunities outside of football), go out of state and play – Knowing that one day you will move back home- Yea Dont Call me – Call that Out of State Alum- Oh yea thats right he’s not hiring-

dawg80

January 6th, 2011
8:01 pm

Who cares about recruiting? We’ve had a top 10 class the last 10 years and it never made any difference. Our OL prior to the season was ranked #1 by Collegefootballnews.com who also ranked UGA #3 preseason – talk about a train wreck. You people make it sound like we don’t have talent. We do, just can’t do anything with it. I don’t blame these kids for going somewhere where they will be coached up and have success. I watched last night, Crowell couldn’t carry Lattimore’s jock. If he’s the future of our program, it’s a waste of time.

UGA89

January 6th, 2011
8:03 pm

Thanks Mark.
Can we just refer to this article as exhibit A
as to why you do not wait and give CMR another year?

Another year of this just adds an additional 2-3 years on the recovery side.

dawg80

January 6th, 2011
8:05 pm

Good article MB. Spurrier was right when he asked about UGA “where were all those recruits today” after yet another butt kicking by the gators. You people act as if we don’t have the players. Are you kidding me? We’ve had top 10 recruiting classes the last 10 years! Collegefootballnews.com ranked our OL #1 and team #3 preseason. We have at least 3 NFLer’s on the OL – what happened? If I had a son who was a 4-5 star player, I wouldn’t send him to UGA to get coached down. I’d rather see him go to AL, or AU, or FL where he”ll improve and get ready for the next level. Sorry to say, recruiting has little to do with our problems. And I watched Crowell last night and he couldn’t carry Lattimores Jstrap. If we’re hanging our future on this kid, then Vandy has nothing to worry about.

bardawg

January 6th, 2011
8:10 pm

If we’ve got silent commits , they need to make it known pretty quickly . The whole thing is coming unraveled . We’re losing ground on a daily basis , and gang , it don’t look good for the home team . I’d venture to say CMR better do some serious impressing with these kids real quick , or whole thing we know as Georgia football will be down the crapper for years to come . Hope that Greg McGarrity does’nt let us die on the vine as it seems we’re destined to do keeping on our present course.

Who Cares

January 6th, 2011
8:12 pm

Most of you on here have never seen these two guys play – you do not know if they are good or not -you base your opinion of a 5 star ranking system – as said earlier most of these over rated kids do not pan out – they think they will be stars as soon as they get to college and they can handle the fact that they are just another person trying to make the team and every one is as good or better than they are – too many of you knock on your team weather it be GA or GA Tech or any other team based on this years performance – I am sure right not these guys choose AU or AL based on the fact they think winning a NC is everything and they think AU or AL will win it all next year – many of them forget that no team stays on top forever – I also like how all the AU fans get on here and run their mouth about how great AU is – I do beleive this is the 1st year out of the last 5 that AU has beat GA and when your one man team is gone it will be back to normal for AU – and too many of you get your panties wet over what schools these kids choose – there are many good team out their that have never had a top so called 20 recruiting class – also if you notice a recruit can be a 1 star and then rivals will rank them higher b/c power house schools start recruiting them – so can anyone tell me how many 5 star o-line men that XD went up against?

Hire Charlie Strong

January 6th, 2011
8:24 pm

Charlie Strong interviewed for a slew of jobs before he ever got to Louisville, and always in the same role as the token minority candidate who trekked to a job, interviewed well, and was then passed over for the job in favor of the guy the school wanted from the jump. It clearly wore on Strong personally, especially as assistants he worked with and entered the profession with got their first and sometimes second shots at head coaching jobs. (Meyer and Dan Mullen were both on the same staff with Strong at Notre Dame under Bob Davie, and Meyer was on his third job and Mullen on his first before Strong got hired as a head coach.)

jerry

January 6th, 2011
8:34 pm

Rivals.com top 100 commitments:

Ala. #’s 6-12-17-79-100
Aub.-30-66-83
LSU-2-23-27-32
Fla.-22-34-49
UGA-85-94

Ala., Fla., LSU, and Aub. have at least three commitments higher than any UGA commitment of the Rival Top 100. Is that a problem, Rodney?

Memphis Mike

January 6th, 2011
8:35 pm

Ummm, how can you say anyone on a 6-7 team has done a great job? Can we all collectively chant, “out of touch?”

hind tit

January 6th, 2011
8:43 pm

Dickson used that rare nickel Saban got from Barney Fife.

Tony Geinzer

January 6th, 2011
8:53 pm

Mark, please, I beg Georgia to can Richt before Kentucky runs Wild and Free on the SEC!

Yellow Fuzz

January 6th, 2011
9:02 pm

Nerds! Nerds! Nerds!
January 6th, 2011
10:01 am
I love how all of the writers on here bash UGA. Do you take pleasure in getting people fired? Do you like bad mouthing our coaches and their recruiting decisions, while it is against the rules to comment on the matter? I would like a paper with a little moral fiber. Good grief.

I LOVE HOW THE MOUTHY OBNOXIOUS DOG FANS LIKE THIS GUY WILL ATTACK EVEN THE PRESS BECAUSE THEY AND THEIR TEAM ARE NO LONGER KING OF THE HILL. SOMEBODY NEEDS TO KEEP SPOON FEEDING THIS AH THAT HUMBLE PIE. HE STILL HAS AN ATTITUDE!

680 Belue

January 6th, 2011
9:12 pm

We are going to sign a stud D-lineman this year. As a freshman he will put the defense back on track. I am sure we got more studs in the pipeline to win on the line of scrimmage. CMR will go 8-5 and keep his job with that performance just you wait and see. All of yauRicht haters just give the man a chance he gave us an SEC ring 5 years ago.

J-Man

January 6th, 2011
9:20 pm

CMR needs to spend a little less time in the tanning bed and a little more time in the faces of his heartless players and how come UGA never recruits in Atlanta……………. If we had Butch Davis NOTHING would leave the state of Georgia. And we would get some of those south Florida kids also…………..But we have a Politically correct AD and fan base to have the Ballz to do the best move because there not who they want……(black)…….and I am a white guy saying this, but the truth has gotta be told.

Fan of the Game

January 6th, 2011
9:30 pm

Just go after kids like #49 from Central Florida. If a kid has to flip a coin let him go. Kind of like the half time of the Under Armour game, what an embarrassment for all of sports. College Football better thank kids like the Luck kid and others that are saving the game from being totally ruined by the Thugs out there. The NCAA is to blame.

Calhoundawg

January 6th, 2011
9:31 pm

Yeah, MB, you dealt a “BJ” when you “wrote” this article. Dickson’s an academic failure waiting to happen. Can I get a job at the AJC? I can do a helluva lot better than this crap. Why don’t you try to get a real job? Seriously … I mean … seriously … no really, seriously ….

Tell the truth

January 6th, 2011
9:33 pm

You can direct a lot of the blame at ESPN!!!!!

ER

January 6th, 2011
9:33 pm

With Ingram declaring for the draft, crowell is a lock for bama. And with uga losing green boykin and houston to the draft, and durham gone from graduating, next year will be fugly.

first tier program

January 6th, 2011
9:37 pm

You guys are just made because the state schools in Ga. have bad football terams that the home kids are fleeing. Really CMR is staying and these kids know that 2011 will be a wasted year for UGA and then 3 or 4 years of rebuilding.CMR is history and they and there parnets,high school coaches and family know it.

harold

January 6th, 2011
9:38 pm

GEORGIA IS AN AVERAGE TEAM WITH AN AVERAGE COACH AND STAFF. IF YOU WANT THE LOWDOWN ON A TEAM——LOOK AT THE RECORD.

680 Belue

January 6th, 2011
9:39 pm

If you fired CMR who is out there better????????????? So, stop being negative 8 games next year and we will be on track.

still@the bar

January 6th, 2011
9:40 pm

Calhoundawg
SO Dickson would be an Academic All American if he went to UGA. Then Tech people would be giving you crap and you would defend the kid. GIVE IT UP sour grapes don’t look good on you.

Jay

January 6th, 2011
9:46 pm

Uh kirby smart is better idiot

tide is in

January 6th, 2011
9:48 pm

Why are UGA fans letting Mark Richt hang around? The in state talent is going elsewhere. These kids are not caught up with the Richt persona. However thank you very much for all the Georgia blue chippers your loss is our gain. RTR

still@the bar

January 6th, 2011
9:48 pm

Miami of Ohio is in a bowl game and they have already fired their coach. UGA is draging their feet.

It is all Staffords fault. Fatt Matt should have stayed for his Sr. year. Fatt Matt probably would still have been #1 because Bradford went #1 and only played like 4 or 5 games his Sr. year. UGA would have been Killer last year and RICHT would not have been on the hot seat after this year if the COX season never happened.

Fan of the Game

January 6th, 2011
9:49 pm

It is official that Wataboy is going to announce Friday where he is going. There are some problems though. He has a tattoo of a Gator, he cashed a Hurricaine relief check, he is part Seminole, and his mother asked for money from a neighboring state university to help get him out of the bayou. The NCAA is going to overlook all of this because he was a Katrina victim.

tide is in

January 6th, 2011
9:53 pm

UGA fans the rest of college football world is laughing at you. No stones to make the hard choice and let CMR go. If Allbarn or bama hard your record against our rivals the last 2 seasons our coachs would and did get fired. You are not and never will be a national power.

War Eagle

January 6th, 2011
9:58 pm

When I read Mark Richt would played Cam Newton as a tight end, I can understand the 15 loses in 35 games with top 10 top recruiting classes.
I wish dawgs the best except Auburb, but it seem he has lost his Mojo??

Fan of the Game

January 6th, 2011
9:59 pm

Hey Tide is in – I am glad you are worried about us Dawg fans. We appreciate your concerns. We will be fine. I am just wondering how much your secondary was paid off in the Auburn game?

Fan of the Game

January 6th, 2011
10:01 pm

War Eagle – His daddy wanted $300,000 to play QB and we could only guarantee him a TE’s pay. Worry about Oregon!

tide is in

January 6th, 2011
10:04 pm

Mud slinging is all you dog fans have left is’t it. Lets face facts next year will be wasted then you have 3 or 4 years to repair the damage. Just taking local college football. Under CMR the Ga. progam is sliding downhill. Truth hurts don’t it. RTR

joe taxpayer

January 6th, 2011
10:05 pm

CMR please resign. PLEASE

Billyboy

January 6th, 2011
10:06 pm

Come on Mark, you are as bad as politicians in spinning why they voted to increase your taxes. Both of these boys for several years had Alabama and Auburn as their #1 choice. Check your sources better and give a true picture. You act like this decision was changed recently because of the bad year for the Dawgs.

According to your research, you are going to go to the Macon Gazaette . . . probably a good move for you.

Fan of the Game

January 6th, 2011
10:06 pm

tide is in – I am sorry Coach Richt didn’t give your boy a scholarship.

Fan of the Game

January 6th, 2011
10:07 pm

Tide is in – you just wanted him to be able to flip a coin.

joe taxpayer

January 6th, 2011
10:08 pm

Well he is not a choir boy. 5 years before UGA is a player again in the SEC East.

joe taxpayer

January 6th, 2011
10:10 pm

Your AD is a stoneless wuss.

Fan of the Game

January 6th, 2011
10:11 pm

joe taxpayer – I checked the records, you ain’t paid taxes since 1990.

Fan of the Game

January 6th, 2011
10:11 pm

Joe taxpayer – you ain’t no choir boy!

Fan of the Game

January 6th, 2011
10:12 pm

This funnier than the half time of the Under Armour game. What a joke!

bitter CHILDREN OF THE CORN

January 6th, 2011
10:23 pm

Serously yaaaaw, Bray family were eating corn on the cob on T.V., thank god he chose auburn he will fit write in with those blac–red necks at auburn!!!.

howl dumb pick a school that is sure to pick up 5 years of probation, how dumb can one be. hahahahahahahah

his dad did have a key ring danggling from his belt with new truck keys, dang allburn rouge booster.

dickerson is the real deal, all of georgia looses, this guy is a class act, no red neck in him and class family!!!!!

maybe ill support ala—- f—k no, you su—-x dickerson

Terrell

January 6th, 2011
10:48 pm

No way Quan finished the 8th grade.

Still wondering

January 6th, 2011
10:55 pm

Talk about what is NOT HOT AND IS A DULL NERD — Jeff Schultz and Mark Bradley, plus the rest of the AJC sports writers.
Honestly, how can you always write negative comment about UGA? Why don’t you concentrate on GA TECH and Georgia State University that are in your city of Atlanta? No one likes you, and they only read you to see if there is any important sports news, but it’s always negative UGA.
You guys are all sick — let’s see if I can remember the psychological term…..sociopaths, maybe??? I know you are something weird and abnormal, for certain.

still@the bar

January 6th, 2011
10:56 pm

Terrell
Then he will be one of the First Engineers to Graduate from UGA for sure. You know if he picked UGA you would be all up his butt loving on him and how he would never have issues at UGA. More sour grapes.

FLA DAWG

January 6th, 2011
10:59 pm

I don’t know what the he!! it takes for McGarity to understand the picture here. He could really make a name for himself if he stood up like a man and made the tough decision to unload Richt and his losing coaching crew.

Recruiting results are the bottomline. Those top recruits who bail have had advice from multiple sources. They know The Dawgs will stink on ice next season. And for Dawg Nation that means TWO MORE YEARS before we begin to rebuild.

SICKENING,

FLA DAWG
Class of ,79

Deputy Dawg

January 6th, 2011
11:40 pm

The sun is setting on UGA!

Since the recruits aren’t coming let’s blow this up now. The next few years will clearly suck.

Brian

January 7th, 2011
12:10 am

Seriously, how many different ways can you say the same thing? UGA is going down hill in your opinion, they’re irrelevant (your obsession not withstanding), Mark Richt is a hopeless loser who probably isn’t even fit to coach Parkview or Brookwood. WE ALL GET IT. The horse has rigor mortis, cease the beatings…please…

georgiagirl

January 7th, 2011
12:24 am

All these Auburn and Bama fans forgot that their teams where down to 2 and 3 years ago and look now WOW. But before that you could not find their fans. Georgia will be fine.

Hairy Dawg

January 7th, 2011
12:39 am

We goning make the kids that leave state pay on field for choosing looser programs over Dawgs.

Jonkdawg

January 7th, 2011
2:09 am

Who cares if the kids wanna pick Bamar and Auburnt

BoWeevil

January 7th, 2011
3:38 am

Here are the Top 10 Football Recruits in the state of Georgia :

Scout.com Top 10 state of Georgia :

TE 1 Jay Rome (Valdosta HS) Valdosta, GA 6-6/240/4.68

RB 2 Isaiah Crowell (Carver HS) Columbus, GA 6-0/210/4.43

CB 5 Malcolm Mitchell (Valdosta HS) Valdosta, GA 6-1/190/4.40

CB 6 Damian Swann (Grady HS) Atlanta, GA 6-0/175/4.50

DT 7 Gabe Wright (Carver HS) Columbus, GA 6-4/300/4.98

MLB 7 Shannon Brown (Cook County HS) Adel, GA 6-2/237

DE 8 Ray Drew (Thomas County Central HS) Thomasville, GA 6-5/248/4.74

MLB 9 James Vaughters (Tucker HS) Tucker, GA 6-2/232/4.55

DE 10 Xzavier Dickson (Griffin HS) Griffin, GA 6-4/248/4.90

We have zero -0- of them.

NONE.

BoWeevil

January 7th, 2011
3:39 am

#1 Alabama 22 2 15 5 3.86 2,482
#2 Texas 23 1 16 6 3.78 2,410
#3 Florida State 22 2 9 11 3.59 2,074
#4 USC 23 2 7 9 3.09 1,822
#5 Oklahoma 17 2 8 7 3.71 1,805
#6 Ohio State 20 0 9 11 3.45 1,787
#7 Oregon 20 0 10 10 3.50 1,703
#8 Clemson 23 1 7 12 3.26 1,687
#9 LSU 19 1 7 10 3.42 1,669
#10 North Carolina 21 0 8 12 3.33 1,577
#11 Stanford 22 0 8 12 3.27 1,450
#12 Texas Tech 21 0 6 15 3.29 1,445
#13 Nebraska 16 0 10 5 3.56 1,414
#14 Mississippi 24 0 5 19 3.21 1,370
#15 Florida 16 0 8 7 3.44 1,366
#16 California 15 0 9 6 3.60 1,342
#17 Notre Dame 19 0 6 12 3.26 1,336
#18 Auburn 16 0 7 9 3.44 1,326
#19 Georgia 16 0 8 7 3.44 1,261

This is the “DREAM TEAM”

legionaire

January 7th, 2011
6:05 am

No bluechipper wants to go thru rebuilding at the SEC level. They are searching for teams that will showcase their skills, more primetime tv, more wins and championships. To be a #1 draft pick is to hit the lottery. These kids see blood in the water at UGA and choose to not go there.

BoWeevil

January 7th, 2011
6:19 am

Mark Richt vs SEC

LOSS Auburn
LOSS Florida
Win Kentucky
Win Vanderbilt
Win Tennessee
LOSS Missy State
LOSS Arkansas
LOSS South Carolina
LOSS Kentucky
Win Auburn
LOSS Florida
Win Vanderbilt
LOSS Tennessee

Out of the last 13 SEC games, Mark Richt has Won 5.

legionaire is correct. They don’t want to come play here.

The Hedge

January 7th, 2011
6:58 am

This is not NEWS! Dickson was always going to Alabama since his Junior year – anyone that follows recruiting knows this – the coin flip was just a ploy for attention – Bray was commited to AU – UGA gets its share…

Thundering Flea

January 7th, 2011
7:11 am

Years ago at my office we had a manager who was incompetent and was constantly making mistakes with everything he touched. I finally went to the big boss and laid it out and said the guy needs to be fired. The reaction from this wimp of a boss was “But he is a hard worker. He stays late every day and is always the last one to leave”. My response back was “Yeh, and the later he stays and the more he works on, the more things he screws up”.

Somehow I feel the same way now about McGarity’s avoidance of taking the real steps that are needed to fix the problems at UGA. Richt cannot fix the problems because he is the problem. The longer he is left in the job, the worse things will get.

A great head coach has to be able to see reality and see where their program ranks. Richt can’t seem to do that. A head coach has to be able to objectively evaluate talent of the coaches on his staff. Richt doesn’t seem to be able to do that. A head coach must be able to evaulate talent of high school kids and recruit the right ones. Richt doesn’t seem to be able to do that. A head coach needs to be able to coach up and improve the skills of the players he does recruit. Richt and his coaching staff don’t seem to be able to do that. A head coach needs to have passion for his team and be able to fire up his players. Richt doesn’t seem to know how to do that as he seems totally emotionless. A head coach needs to be able to assure that the scheme of offensive and defensive plays called in the game aren’t stale and predictable. Richt can’t seem to do that. A head coach has to have the ability to assess and see what steps need to be done and not take corrective measures only after all of the fans (who figured it out a long time before him) demanded it so loudly that he felt like he had to so something. On and on and on………..

ugahedges@aol.com

January 7th, 2011
7:14 am

i remember when jabrai davis betrayed uga to go to tennessee thinking it was better,the dawgs ended up wining the sec, tennessee ended up in smaller bowls.cam will leave auburn and they will fall back to a 6 or 7 win team and uga will be back ,so betray your state and see the dawgs walk on you! go dawgs!!!!!!!!!!!!

ValdostaGuy

January 7th, 2011
8:14 am

Georgia about to crash and burn. They will not be getting the best players in the state this year. Sad.

Crumpy's dogs need to be put down

January 7th, 2011
8:32 am

georgiagirl – Georgia will be fine ????? They have been irrelevant for 30+ years.

Go back to the kitchen and cook your man something… sweetie.

Bucky

January 7th, 2011
8:40 am

This is not a big story. It simply means that two high school players chose to not go to Athens and play on a team of undisciplined goons and jerks for coaches who are clueless idiots.

Vance Duuley

January 7th, 2011
8:44 am

It’s kind of sad to see all the Dawg fans getting so excited this year (just like the year before, the year before that, etc.). How long is it going to take for UGA fans to realize that UGA is simply no longer relevant in the SEC? In the national picture, UGA isn’t even a blip on the radar, and hasn’t been since the preseason #1 ranking three years ago.

Sit back and be grateful for the six or seven wins you’ll get every year. Coaching genius Mark Richt may take you to 8-4 or even 9-3 occasionally, but Florida or another team will still win the SEC, meaning no BCS bowls and no top 10 final ranking. Most years, UGA will be very lucky to finish in the top 25, and only after a big bowl win over a nobody opponent.

It’s a different world now, and Dawg fans need to adjust their expectations downward to reflect reality.

Unfortunately nothing is going to change until UGA changes its mediocre coaching. That’s where the difference is, and that’s why everyone outside Dawgtard Nation just laughs at Dawg fans getting so excited year after year about what a great recruiting class UGA gets. It doesn’t matter how many blue chip high school players go to UGA, they simply don’t get the coaching they would get at Florida or Alabama, to name two schools whose programs are far ahead of UGA. And that’s not going to change as long as Mark Richt is in Athens.

Get your heads out of the sand and face reality. And mediocrity and irrelevance.

Ok, we get it Bradley and Shultz!

January 7th, 2011
9:12 am

Ok, we get it Bradley and Shultz. You guys don’t like Richt and want to see him get fired even though neither of you have the guts to call for it. Are you going to write an article every time a UGA target signs with someone else? The piling on is beginning to have a very juvenile feel to it. BOTH of you guys wrote articles at the end of the season talking about how Mark Richt should be allowed to have another year and now we have an almost daily barrage of articles from you guys saying he can’t do it. If that was your opinion then you should have written it then. Your petty vendetta against Richt is starting to look real pathetic.

Crumpy's dogs need to be put down

January 7th, 2011
9:39 am

Just a reminder.. Coach Richt is a christian. They can’t fire him or they will go to hell.

TruthSeeker

January 7th, 2011
9:40 am

I agree with the above poster @ 9:12 AM. How many times can you write the same article? It’s been clear since the Colorado game in early October that 2011 is going to be a make-or-break year for Mark Richt. Why we need these daily manifestos on Mark Richt’s job security is beyond me. I think everyone’s figured it out by now that his situation is tenuous, so let’s just wait and see what happens next year.

crossdawg

January 7th, 2011
9:45 am

I’m sure MR will find a couple of thugs somewhere that other teams don’t want.

Autiger83

January 7th, 2011
9:45 am

ugahedges, I’d stop with the “state betrayal” nonsense. UGA can only sign so many players, and keep in mind kids choose schools based on THEIR needs and wants, not yours or anybody else in this state. Georgia is a fine school. My daughter goes there and is in the redcoat band! But its not the right fit for everybody.

Win some lose some. Deal with it.

Bradley nemesis

January 7th, 2011
9:57 am

Mark Bradley – when the Dawgs win the SEC East next year, you owe a big apology to Mark Richt. Don’t know what he did to set you off so badly, but your treatment of him has been unacceptable. If his coaching was 1/2 as bad as your sports writing, then maybe he should go. But clearly, he has a long way to go to be at the depths of your incompetency. Go away.

Mark Richt

January 7th, 2011
9:59 am

Hey Bradley – Did I piss in your Cheerios or something?

Fire Bradley!

January 7th, 2011
10:00 am

Here’s a better idea. Let’s all pull to get Mark Bradley fired!

He has his nose so far up Bobby Cox’s butt that he’s lost in there.

He has so much hatred for Mark Richt that he clearly can’t write anything unbiased.

FIRE BRADLEY!!!! HE STINKS!

Let's Not Panic

January 7th, 2011
10:34 am

Looks to me like we’re doing pretty well…

ESPN Top 10 Recruiting

School ESPNU 150 Commits
1. Texas 8 23
2. Alabama 6 20
3. FSU 11 22
4. Florida 5 15
5. Oklahoma 6 18
6. Ohio State 5 19
7. LSU 4 19
8. Georgia 5 16
9. Clemson 5 23
10. USC 5 22

Hugh Howard

January 7th, 2011
10:42 am

You seem to enjoy UGA having problems. I don’t suppose these recruits spurned GA Tech also. GA will pull out of this and with Richt at the helm.

Mike Bobo 17 INT

January 7th, 2011
10:55 am

These top recruits bolting for the border speaks volumes about how tanked the UGA program is, and has been for 30 years. Everyone in Athens gets excited about recruiting, but then they land the talent, they have no idea what to do with it.

All you hear from Athens is about recruiting and next year, year after year, after year…..

4 ncs are better than 1

January 7th, 2011
2:30 pm

And for all of you idiot dawg fans out there who thought you lost that recruit to a coin flip, get a clue. He was just playing with ya. You lost him because you SUCK!!!

4 ncs are better than 1

January 7th, 2011
2:47 pm

What do you call a coach, and I use that term very loosely, that kicks a field goal when it’s 4th and inches on your opponent’s one yard line on the first drive of the game??? And the opponent is Central Florida??? SPINELESS!

Headley Lamar

January 7th, 2011
4:17 pm

4 ncs are better than 1

Actually UGA has won 5 National Championships to Techs 4. That is if we counted them the same way,

5 (1927,1942,1946,1968,1980)\

And its hard to compete with Auburn and Alabama when there payroll is so much higher.

FBI has a say in it all too

January 7th, 2011
4:54 pm

FBi is continuing to build massive files on Scam and his pastor daddy. Once they build the CRIMINAL CASE ( not NCAA’s jursidiction) they will announce it. Heads will roll at AU and then, the NCAA comes back in to interpet their Bureau’s criminal findings. Dog race tracks, thugs and college football players do not mix. For clarification see Pete Rose.

AU will be put on double secret triple probation and will not have a football team until 2015.

Roll Tide

Dawg Tired

January 7th, 2011
4:58 pm

Never trust a coin flip.

Dawg Tired

January 7th, 2011
5:00 pm

Just got to start paying more.

Hairy Dawg

January 7th, 2011
7:06 pm

We gots to make players pay for unloyal to state of GA and Dawgs. We run state and that means players that go else should not getting support unless stinkys that losing for Bama and Auburn. Thus players that stinkys go others teams and Dawgs get good players that play with SEC speed. Cromwell is real deal and coming to Dawgs unlike Dickenson and Bray that weren’t good enough SEC talents to be part of Dawg nation dominants.

JDAWG

January 7th, 2011
7:30 pm

http://isportsweb.com/2011/01/06/georgia-bulldogs-recruiting-update/

UGA Recruiter

January 7th, 2011
9:36 pm

All right you bunch of know-it-all-smarty-pantses, you try recruiting if you think it’s so easy. We’ve done pretty good here at UGA.

My only real regret is not landing Cam Newton. That boy would have made one helluva fine tight end…

Big Ugly

January 8th, 2011
8:24 am

Let’s see in 2009 UGA beat Texas A&M in a crappy bowl. A year later UGA looses a worse bowl to a pee-wee team while A&M regroups and makes the Cotton Bowl. The difference, COACHING!
Now our weak a$$ coaching staff is getting blown away in the recruiting battle.
AD is set on keeping Richt for 2011 season. Maybe after we get stomped by BSU Richt will be shown the door. At least we will have the rest of the 2011 season to search for a great coach.

emmysmom

January 8th, 2011
9:38 am

Kill the messenger.

Hairy Dawg

January 8th, 2011
10:14 am

Coach Richt don’t need to see the door. Adams is problem from choking recruits with pointy header rules that Bammer, Awful Burn, Gaytors, excetera don’t have. Coach Richt is Christian and shouldnt be disrespected when he lead us to dominants but Adams stopping him. Once Coach Richt is let recruiting like rest of league then we get the talent stockpile from Hargrabes for winning. With talents we take over SEC and win BCS by unloading whooping can on all coming againts us. We should be table running for couple years if Adams opens recruiting. Then Coach Richt Christain attract SEC talent players that wants expose themselves to NFL with moms that demand teaching kids to walk in Lords path.

Hairy Dawg

January 8th, 2011
10:15 am

Hargraves

Georgia DAWG in K Town

January 8th, 2011
10:43 am

It really is sad when you go from the top to being a team that the SEC needs to pad the others football schedule by our inability to score and defend. Heck we can not even manage to keep our players out of jail its becoming more than a shake of the head and hoping for a better season. A field goal on the one yard line shows a man not willing to take a chance.

stendek

January 8th, 2011
12:51 pm

I must respond to misguided apologists. Losses are part of sports. They happen. I have been sports enthusiast/reporter for half a century. Please bear with me. Mark Richt can no longer motivate players. This has never been more evident than over the last two seasons. The true downward spiral began prior to Oklahoma State disaster. Opponent disrespected Bulldogs by stating victory by outrageous margin. Any decent head coach would have been able to motivate team out of its head. Unmotivated Bulldogs of MR embarrassed themselves in Oklahoma. That embarrassment has stretched over the last two seasons at least. Know when Bulldogs actually played like Bulldogs all of us know and love? Think about it. Against Hawaii. Seems like centuries ago. If MR wants to be another Billy Graham I wish him nothing but the best. I want a Bear Bryant at Bulldog football helm not an evangelist. Bulldogs now win close against untalented teams but get blown out by upper echelon squads. Okay for a technical school or junior college but not for a proud institution like the one in Athens. There is no optimism in Bulldog Nation any more. Fans, whether they admit it or not, do not EXPECT the Bulldogs to win. I certainly do not. Tennessee Tech. Probably. Vandy. Maybe. Any upper tier SEC team. Forget it. This should be unacceptable to those in charge in Athens. It is not. That is what frustrates me more than anything else. Stick with the status quo. For more defeats like ones to Colorado and (insert team here). Truly sad. STENDEK

NOBODYYOUKNOW

January 8th, 2011
1:59 pm

No big dog fan here, but I really feel bad for CMR. If he pulls a winning season next year out of all this negative BS he’s a genius and you people will love him again. He always talks positive and has a good attitude. I hope a PRAY he can do it.

$cam_Newton

January 8th, 2011
2:44 pm

Auburn pays well

Alum Fran Tarkenton on 680 The Fan: UGA 'is in big trouble' | Mark Bradley

January 11th, 2011
5:43 pm

[...] last week’s announcements that two top in-state prospects plan to sign with Alabama and Auburn, Tarkenton said: ” We’re going to lose the elite players this year. We haven’t in [...]

junkyarddawg

January 12th, 2011
11:03 am

When we started the season with 4 losses and everyone started calling for CMR’s head I said that the 2 that needed to go were S & C Coach Van and Recruiting Coordinator Garner. We’ll the 1st one has come true, now if CMR will pull the trigger on Garner he can turn this thing around. Garner is the one responsible for identifying and gaining commitments from football players. What he has been bringing in is a strong recruiting class for the Athens Clarke Adult Detention Center. Enough!

CMR hit the recruiting trail and go find men of character who want to be Bulldogs, not just “players” who are looking for the best route to the NFL. We don’t need players who are going to toss a coin to decide who they will play for; chances are they’ll be flipping a coin about whether to stay or go pro, whether to go to class or not, whether to commit the crime or not, or whether or not to give 100% everytime they strap on the headgear!

The other coach that MUST go is OL/ Running Game Coord Stacey Searles. He did less with more talent that any coach in the SEC. Preseason the OL was considered a strength, what they looked like against UCF was a mediocre HS line.

And while you still have the pen in your hand, signing Dowtin’s dismissal add Caleb to that list and free the team of that cancer.

A double whammy: Two touted Georgians spurn the Bulldogs

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