Hot seat, huh? Says Richt: 'I plan on having a hell of a year'

Cobb Dawg

July 25th, 2011
8:48 pm

First!

Cobb Dawg

July 25th, 2011
8:48 pm

Second!

Cobb Dawg

July 25th, 2011
8:49 pm

Third!

T-Dawg

July 25th, 2011
8:51 pm

Let’s play!

Cobb Kat

July 25th, 2011
8:51 pm

Fifth?

rawdawg

July 25th, 2011
8:52 pm

Not first

PMC

July 25th, 2011
8:53 pm

There will be no need to knee jerk if they go 0-2 and there’s a slim chance, very slim that they go 2-0.

If they go 2-0, that should probably be tempered as well.

We have a tendency in this fair city to always look on the horizon, mainly because the present (not winning, failing in the playoffs, failing in general) is so common I guess.

It’s probably why recruiting is popular here, everyone is hoping for better, because the present, sports wise, is always lacking.

boots

July 25th, 2011
8:54 pm

I think you misheard him. Heck of a year. It is funny that the NCAA champs are on our schedule, and we have it chalked up as a win. Just goes to prove, money cannot buy consistent success. Anyway, we have to applaud the senior leadership on this team to keep the players out of the headlines. Headlines in Sept – January are good, but not so good during the summer. Now, bring on the dancing horses…

todd grantham

July 25th, 2011
8:58 pm

Mark, you know very well hell can mean good or hell can mean bad.

“that’s a helluva team!!” or “I’m having a helluva bad time.”

TechLiesCheats

July 25th, 2011
9:00 pm

GATA CMR!

todd grantham

July 25th, 2011
9:00 pm

if Georgia starts out 0-2, that question will begin “Coach, we hate you”

damn gone dawg

July 25th, 2011
9:00 pm

Wasn’t the “dream team” something like the 3rd best class in the SEC? I mean, it was probably a top 5 recruiting class overall but this is a school that already averages finishing in the top 10 over the last decade. How is this supposed to be the panacea?

todd grantham

July 25th, 2011
9:02 pm

Georgia wont be favored in Jacksonville until Grantham chokes for real.

todd grantham

July 25th, 2011
9:04 pm

Georgia is always at or near the top in recruiting. The problematic areas are they recruit thugs, and so often waste the talents of other young men.

Dawginit.

July 25th, 2011
9:05 pm

boots, have you seen what AU brings back. Most people have them picked to come in 5th in the West. I’m not saying UGA is a sure thing but I like our chances.

todd grantham

July 25th, 2011
9:05 pm

I think Cobb Dawg may be a Bradley stalker.

Ricardo Montalban

July 25th, 2011
9:08 pm

(Yawnnnnnnnn) More Bradley drinking the kool aid. Yadda, Yadda, Yadda “Georgie wins the East”, Yadda, Yadda, Yadda “Georgie has RB’s no matter how many quit, fail, puke in a trash can”, Yadda, Yadda, Yadda “Reverend Richt has an Olympic High Dive that even Jesus is envious of!”

In fairness, you came clean last year and provided links to your most boneheaded predictions. I just hope you’re man enough to reproduce the mindless drivel you’ve penned the past six weeks when mentioning the in-state programs.

P-Man

July 25th, 2011
9:09 pm

I’ve said it before- I believe in this team and this coaching staff. I believe they will work and play hard for 4 quarters, and we will be proud of them, win or lose.

@techies

July 25th, 2011
9:11 pm

You know who you are. This could be one nightmare of a year for you. Be afraid; be very afraid.

Lowcountry Bulldawg

July 25th, 2011
9:14 pm

Plenty of good things to feel positive about. Second year under the 3-4 defense, returning the All SEC QB. Sure we have some depth issues but thats the game in College ball. Every team is going to have some question marks. Spurrier today pointed out that fact. Lattimore last season ran behind four returning OL men. This year with only two OL men returning will he have that same type success? So sure UGA was down last year but anything is very possible. Thats the beauty of the SEC. Its always great to be a Georgia Bulldawg!!!!

slydog

July 25th, 2011
9:17 pm

Indeed, there are good vibes, accompanied by the background noise of miscontent. And to the upper crust of southern society who keeps calling these young players “thugs”, i bet your life your closet isn’t all the way clean. How many 18-25 yr olds around the world make immature decisions? It comes with the territory. Most of these “thugs” would turn out different IF these coaches and their institutions actually cared about turning them into young men instead of modern day gladiators.

gtfanfrom1951

July 25th, 2011
9:25 pm

No running game + no offensive line = 0-2 start

Chris

July 25th, 2011
9:26 pm

I’m sorry, but I don’t see where all the excitement should be. Excitement for the upcoming football season…yes. As a fan of Georgia football and football in general, I am excited. Excited about Georgia getting back to the top…..no.

What have we done Mark? Having a great recruiting class means nothing at this point. We have them every year, and every class under performs. And what big changes has Richt made? We will still have the worst damn offensive coordinator in college football calling plays which still baffles me to no end. Does anyone really think changing the strength and conditioning coach was the only change that needed to be made. It was not.

Oh, and while we haven’t had any arrest this summer, we have lost several key, albeit dumb players. We loose our number 1 and 2 runningbacks from last year, we loose Sturdivant to injury, we have two players quit and transfer, and one of our projected starting linebackers status is in limbo because of possible NCAA violations. Do you call that a quiet offseason? I for one, do not.

There is no need to be excited now. If we somehow start of 2-0, then we can get excited. However, at this point, I haven’t seen anything to get excited about. Richt is having his anual we are going to be wonderful speach before we fail. Remember how he guaranteed a victory over Florida last year???

Tekkie

July 25th, 2011
9:27 pm

Cheer! Cheer! Richt’s always happy this time of year. He won’t be there a year from now.

cantondawg

July 25th, 2011
9:28 pm

I really believe that Grantham makes a huge impact this year. The biggest question at the end of the year will be “Can we keep him in Athens” or will he get a head coaching job elsewhere.

Rubik

July 25th, 2011
9:29 pm

Georgia is always at or near the top in recruiting. The problematic areas are they recruit thugs, and so often waste the talents of other young men.

And that’s exactly the problem with CMR. Richt knows up front that half of his recruits will end up in jail for DUI or driving on suspended licenses or assault and battery, or they can’t even pass remedial studies. Richt has brought nothing but disgrace to UGA because of his shady recruiting practices.

Win P.

July 25th, 2011
9:31 pm

Is Richt going to coach this season? I hope.

ATLBadger

July 25th, 2011
9:34 pm

“Dream Team” tattooed on their arms before they even play a down at the collegiate level? CMR should be embarrassed by that. Talk about a sense of entitlement! I doubt the upperclassmen like that either.

Lowcountry Bulldawg

July 25th, 2011
9:35 pm

Well plenty of things to get excited about. Second year in the 3-4 defense. Good talent abound on that side of the ball. Secondary has some really good talent in it. Linebackers are skilled, defensive line now has the athletes required to successfully free the backers to make plays.

Offensively Aaron Murray is back to distribute the ball. Plenty of question marks for sure, but each year teams have to replace players. Sure this year UGA has more than we would like but thats the cards we are dealt with. Excuses cannot be made.

Steve Spurrier noted as much this afternoon in speaking of how Lattimore had it made with four linemen returning lst year. This year only two return. So will they be able to have as much success on the ground? The only way to find out is playing the games. Spurrier will not make excuses, nor should UGA.

This is big boy football and Richt surely has a fire lit in him for the dimple fact he knows how critical this season is. This season UGA has to play like there pants are on fire and attack,attack and attack some more. Nothing is going to be given to them. This is a team that could win 10-11 games, but could win 6-7 games. The first two weeks are critical to positive vibes in Athens.

RedPantsDawg

July 25th, 2011
9:35 pm

All talk. Heard it before. See what happens on the field.

jesus gave it all, mark richt cant give 4 quarters.

July 25th, 2011
9:35 pm

mark richt had a #1 preseason ranking….and how many NFL draft picks and couldn’t win the SEC east.

you people are delusional.

Hook is Set!

July 25th, 2011
9:39 pm

Mark Richt must have some great P.R. people at his disposal. A year after we saw the UGA nation have probably the worst single year of Public Relations hits to this branded Optimisim.

Just think for a moment, an AD caught with a woman half his age,not his wife,with panties between his legs while driving drunk, players collected the uncoveted Fulmer Cup award, players missing court dates, arrest that were off the chain, a player suspended for dealing with a street agent who he sold his jersey to, losing to a pitiful Coloradao team on the road, a first year Defensive coach caught on television giving the choke sign to a kicker, struggling to beat a weak GT team, losing to UCF in a third tier bowl game.

What does Mark Richt and his PR chronies do? They make up this great name “Dream Team” to put together about the 6th or 7th best recruiting class during his tenure at UGA. Not a recruiting coup like we saw with UF or USC a few years back, but the 5 to 8th best recruiting class in the nation. And the UGA fans borrowed from the future, took out mortgages and forfeited their dignity to back CMR in his big year.

Well folks, the schedule is the easiest conference schedule in the league this year and Mark Richt’s easiest since he took over for Donnan. If he does not have “a hellava year” he needs to understand a Dream Team II moniker will not hook anymore UGA fans.

CMR

July 25th, 2011
9:43 pm

Anybody seen my bong?

Hook is Set!

July 25th, 2011
9:45 pm

You UGA fans are so gullible. You can spin it like a liberal democrat trying to save a program that guarantees him votes, but in the end it is still spin.

2nd year with Grantham and his system…..that system was pretty good against UCF, but the offense stayed in Athens and went south for christmas break for warmer destinations.

Crowell is going to make a difference. Lets see, the SEC across the boards signs approximately 49 running backs each year, and about 1.4 make a difference his freshmann year….better hope that one is Crowell.

Spin Spin, faster than an industrial strenth washing machine.

Shultz

July 25th, 2011
9:50 pm

Hey, Bradley, what the hell is wrong with you? Why don’t you go back to Kentucky? They accept mediocrity there.

Hate Atlanta

July 25th, 2011
9:53 pm

Only UGA would claim “Dream Team” when finishing 3rd in the SEC in Recruiting by ESPN.. And they finished middle of the road in every SEC defensive statistical category in 2010… In 2011 No Offensive Line and True Freshman Running back. Can you say Delirious?

ESPN.com 2011 Recruiting
1. Florida State
2. Alabama
3. Auburn
4. USC
5. Texas
6. Georgia

uga2002

July 25th, 2011
9:54 pm

Of course there is optimism! It’s the Dawgs we’re talking about here! Every year, 10 win season at a minimum. Why?

Well excellent coaches of course! Notice all of the BCS National Titles? You may have missed them, after Auburn, Alabama, LSU, Florida and Tennessee. But they’re there I’m sure of it. Kind of like our 7-6 season we had printed on our trophies.

Best recruits, on paper. Lots of arrests. Lots of dirty plays. Lots of personal fouls. Lots of personal fouls after great plays. No defense. Childish coordinators giving choke signs to a teenage kicker who ends up kicking the winning FG. Short quarterback with a great arm. No receivers. Fumbling running backs. No discipline (see fight at the end of the Auburn game). Relying on high school kids to change the tone against players who will start in the NFL next year.

Yeah, add it all up. It’s a winning combination. 0-2 start. 1-6 after that. 5-12 when it’s all said and done and doubt there will be a single change because 6-7 was acceptable wasn’t it? We’ve sunk to the point beating GaTech is a highlight because we frankly didn’t beat a single team with a winning record.

Do I hope for a better year? No. Because it will be a fluke. It’s time to part ways with Richt and start new. This conference is littered with new coaches to their teams winning national titles, I don’t see any old coaches who’ve never won winning.

Time for change. If losing a no name bowl game to UCF wasn’t a wake up call then you’re blind as a bat.

.

July 25th, 2011
9:59 pm

AJC — When are you going to police the site of the ‘Barbara Dooley’ smut that is polluting the site? Obviously, there is a 12 year old on here who has gained access to mom’s computer.

East Repeat

July 25th, 2011
10:01 pm

Was it just Grape or did they serve Cherry kool-aid also? Oh, the vince, barbara, herschel poster, that has no place on here- you should be “moderated”.

Nub

July 25th, 2011
10:02 pm

Win the east ……!

why not

July 25th, 2011
10:05 pm

Go Dawgs! I’m glad to see some Fire in the belly of the big Dawg!

JTH

July 25th, 2011
10:05 pm

Richt is getting me fired up for the season. Sic em Dawgs!

Sopwith Camel

July 25th, 2011
10:06 pm

For my own way of thinking, Chris makes some good points. Year after year after year the UGA fans get excited and hopeful before the start of the season………and then are disappointed. There are as many reasons to be concerned about this upcoming year as there are to be hopeful. Let’s just play some ball and see! Lowcountry is right………this team could win 10-11 games or as easily end up with 6-7 wins. I’m personally predicting they go 8-4.

uga2002

July 25th, 2011
10:08 pm

I’ll put it this way, after our losing performance in the Boise St game ESPN will move the South Carolina game to the 12 o’clock ESPN U game.

uga2002

July 25th, 2011
10:09 pm

I didn’t mean ESPN U. What’s the channel that some games are broadcast on and you hope you get it but you don’t? ESPN 360 or something? ESPN 360 II, no HD. It’ll be 98 degrees on the field. There will be golf games that had a louder crowd.

Greg

July 25th, 2011
10:15 pm

You trolls are something else. First, to the guy who wonders why it’s a big deal that UGA had a top 10 recruiting class again. They had a losing year in conference and lost to a conf USA team in a low level bowl. Yet they had one of the best recruiting classes in the country and one that was only marginally less than the team that won the national title.

And to the other hater who speaks of all the thugs Richt recruits, go back and look at the list of schools who wanted most of the guys who eventually signed with UGA. The vast majority of problems are traffic or alcohol-related…typical college student behavior. Not firing guns off at a party or using credit cards of dead people or dealing drugs or getting multiple DUI’s like some other schools.

LHarding Dawg

July 25th, 2011
10:18 pm

This low life uga2002 needs to bet against Georgia in Vegas. With his knowledge about the Bulldogs he could get rich and perhaps buy a new double wide.

The Georgia real fans need to chill. We are going to be fine.

Cmon man

July 25th, 2011
10:20 pm

Everybody has so many negative things to say about cmr and the football team why didnt you guys say all of this directly to him? I guess its easier to hide behind screen names and ajc blogs!!!

gt4ever

July 25th, 2011
10:28 pm

This is sooooooo funny,,,, Dream team, yeah right…. You UGA fans are delusional. This coach has had a DREAM team every year…. Priceless

Chaz

July 25th, 2011
10:29 pm

LOL South Carolina is going to run around circles around the Dawgs this year..Did you not see the twinkle in Spurrier eye. He knows whats coming…Doesnt matter who is on defense for Georgia. It simply is not going to matter this year. Carolina is stacked again and Lattimore is bigger stronger, and more pissed off. NO such luck on 2-0, but good luck with Boise State. They should be an easy win.

The Diesel

July 25th, 2011
10:32 pm

Chaz,you are some little insignificant puss pocket of a human being.You are useless

cdog

July 25th, 2011
10:36 pm

mark, be careful what say and wish for.a “hell” of a year is just that, something bad.a bad year can mean hell for you so be careful what you say.

Whopper Dawg

July 25th, 2011
10:37 pm

The biggest thing this version of Bulldawgs have going for them is the schedule. The schedule may save Richt.

Dawg4Life

July 25th, 2011
10:38 pm

Chaz,

You will be turning your TV off midway 3rd quarter against the Dawgs, put it in print baby! go cheer your baseball team, the SCe football team will be a bridesmaid this year, oh hell yeah!

Dawg4Life

July 25th, 2011
10:42 pm

LHardingDawg,

I hear where you are coming from, but I cannot chill…… We are gonna make some serious noise and it has got me fired up! All you trolls and haters come on back here after we go 2-0, please.

John

July 25th, 2011
10:43 pm

South Carolina is going to win it.

dawgwalker

July 25th, 2011
10:49 pm

If we don’t go 2-0 the season is a complete failure and disaster…..now having said that, we will win both games easily!!!!

Alabama Jack

July 25th, 2011
10:49 pm

What Richt actually said was “I plan to have (another) year in hell.”

Badly always misquotes coaches (and players and AD’s and fans,etc.)

Dawg4Life

July 25th, 2011
10:50 pm

There gonna win a seat in the stands for the SEC championship this year, after the Dawgs spank that booty!

Wally My Butts

July 25th, 2011
10:51 pm

UGA2002 sounds like Flat Tire on I-95 using a different handle. Full of stats but without a clue. Just another hater.

Dawg4Life

July 25th, 2011
10:55 pm

Samuel is gonna show your boy Lattimore how to dominate the game, mark it down! Then Crowell is gonna take ya’ll totally out of it come the start of the 4th quarter. I cannot wait!!!!

Buddy El (Dawg For Life)

July 25th, 2011
10:57 pm

Greg: I agree totally with your statements. As for uga 2002, he/she/it needs to get a life or a job or both. Nobody in Dawg Nation wants or needs his negative crap. With his fantastic knowledge of “everything football” he will be coaching an NFL team ……..if he chooses or he may be in the George Soros category winning all that money betting on football games. Personally, I see him as a single digit I Q. and unemployed. No serious working person would spend HOURS putting something together that apparently is coming from an outsider posing as a dawg fan/student.

Nasty Nanner

July 25th, 2011
11:03 pm

If the start 0-2 then Richt needs to be fired. He kinda let you know that he didn’t expect to win those first two games saying :

“That’s the thing,” Richt said. “If [0-2] happens, can we withstand all the stuff that will come? But just looking at it on paper, those might be the two best teams we play all year.”

But that’s bullshit (not heavenly). Richt is a FSU Seminole at heart. UGA needs a UGA grad as its coach !

Hook is Set!

July 25th, 2011
11:04 pm

Greg

July 25th, 2011
10:15 pm
You trolls are something else. First, to the guy who wonders why it’s a big deal that UGA had a top 10 recruiting class again. They had a losing year in conference and lost to a conf USA team in a low level bowl. Yet they had one of the best recruiting classes in the country and one that was only marginally less than the team that won the national title.

And to the other hater who speaks of all the thugs Richt recruits, go back and look at the list of schools who wanted most of the guys who eventually signed with UGA. The vast majority of problems are traffic or alcohol-related…typical college student behavior. Not firing guns off at a party or using credit cards of dead people or dealing drugs or getting multiple DUI’s like some other schools.

Typical Spin. Typical Excuses, Typical UGA fan, Typical Richt supporter.

Like I said if UGA does not win the SEC east this year, they will not win it for several more years and Mark Richt needs to be shown the door.

If Boise St and USC beat UGA early the season is over, as MSU and Florida will gain confidence and playing Ole Miss on the road is not an easy task.

Buddy El (Dawg For Life)

July 25th, 2011
11:04 pm

Okay Chaz: We finally get the part about S C is going to run around in circles and your obvious love for Spurrier’s twinkling eye. That twinkle was not for you but for your sisters and mama.

Dawg4Life

July 25th, 2011
11:05 pm

Yo Ajax,

Gonna spank that Bama booty come 10/06/12, wait and see troll…. Unless you luck out and get to Atl this year somehow…..

Hook is Set!

July 25th, 2011
11:05 pm

Buddy El (Dawg For Life)

July 25th, 2011
10:57 pm
Greg: I agree totally with your statements. As for uga 2002, he/she/it needs to get a life or a job or both. Nobody in Dawg Nation wants or needs his negative crap. With his fantastic knowledge of “everything football” he will be coaching an NFL team ……..if he chooses or he may be in the George Soros category winning all that money betting on football games. Personally, I see him as a single digit I Q. and unemployed. No serious working person would spend HOURS putting something together that apparently is coming from an outsider posing as a dawg fan/student.

Otherwords…paraphrasing….we do not like facts, we need everything sugar coated and we can also dream of winning the lottery while we live in this make believe world.

Hook is Set!

July 25th, 2011
11:08 pm

Dawg4Life

July 25th, 2011
11:05 pm
Yo Ajax,

Gonna spank that Bama booty come 10/06/12, wait and see troll…. Unless you luck out and get to Atl this year somehow…..

Unless Bobby Lowder becomes the BOT director at UGA this year and throw his money around that is not going to happen with Bobo and that offensive staff, and if you think Grantham is going to stay one more at UGA you are fooling yourself.

Richt's Sinking Ship

July 25th, 2011
11:08 pm

The Richt ship has taken on a lot of water since losing to the like of Missy State,Colorado,and Central Florida (the 5th best college team out of Florida). Its listing right now with two torpedoes pointed at it (Boise St. & SC). What did you expect Richt to say ? He’s got to act like all is well in public.
i ask all of you UGA fans this. Do you believe Fran Tarkenton or Mark Richt ? Do you believe a former QB great that has nothing to gain or lose or a coach that has his job to lose ?

Hook is Set!

July 25th, 2011
11:10 pm

Greg

July 25th, 2011
10:15 pm
You trolls are something else. First, to the guy who wonders why it’s a big deal that UGA had a top 10 recruiting class again. They had a losing year in conference and lost to a conf USA team in a low level bowl. Yet they had one of the best recruiting classes in the country and one that was only marginally less than the team that won the national title.

And to the other hater who speaks of all the thugs Richt recruits, go back and look at the list of schools who wanted most of the guys who eventually signed with UGA. The vast majority of problems are traffic or alcohol-related…typical college student behavior. Not firing guns off at a party or using credit cards of dead people or dealing drugs or getting multiple DUI’s like some other schools.

Spin Spin, Excuses Excuses…just not accepting the facts is mighty tough. “typical college student behavior”..not if you are serious about playing SEC Football and making your team special.

Dawg4Life

July 25th, 2011
11:14 pm

Hey Hook Set,

Troll all night long dude, but it will not change the inevitable. Dawgs win the SEC East, the SEC title game will be a toss up. Wait and see…………. Now come on and troll a little bit more, your hook remain empty.

Dawg4Life

July 25th, 2011
11:17 pm

Hook,

Troll all night long, you hook will be empty. C’mon back after the Dawgs take the SEC East this year!

Lizzarddawg

July 25th, 2011
11:19 pm

look here,,,,, mark the wannabe ……..i want #1 before i die u ssa….

been betting on ya awhile now…….quit stealing my money……beggar

Big George

July 25th, 2011
11:22 pm

Already trying to rationalize 0-2??? Wow, how the mighty have fallen!

Leadership wins

July 25th, 2011
11:24 pm

Look at the teams Richt has had success with in his years at UGA, all the really good teams had really great leadership inside the locker room….. From 2002- 2006…. He had guys like Stinchcomb, Boss Bailey, Tony Gilbert, Burt Jones, David Green, Pollack, Sean Jones, Thomas Davis, Greg Blue, Bruce Thorton, Max Gean, Shockley…. All guys that lead by example and held all of their teammates up to their standards….. I am not sure UGA has those type of guys right now, we can talk about the coaches all we want, but the leadership has to come within the frame work of the team….. Who are the leaders on this team? who is leading by example? who is holding their teammate accountable? A team, can only be as good as the leadership within it…. I hope someone emerges for this one , because a freshman class is not going to help the 2011 football team.

David Granger

July 25th, 2011
11:30 pm

I bleed black and red, Mark…so I sure hope Coach Richt is right. But I sure wonder…

If Coach Richt can get the program back on track…if he knows how to rekindle the fire (as you write in your column)…then why in hell does it need to be rekindled in the first damn place? If he’s the guy who can get the team to be serious again…to look like they’re ready to play from the opening kickoff, without making stupid penalties. They why hasn’t he done so before now?

I believe that Coach Richt is a decent man, who does two things very well: He’s a clean-cut, nice looking guy who says the right things and represents the university quite well; and he’s a good recruiter. And after that, the positives are just about over. He’s one of the worst game coaches I’ve ever seen, and the team almost never looks like they’re prepared. Our defense has been wretched, and we continuously make the same mistakes over and over. (How many times did we blitz Tim Tebow, only to rush too deep and too wide and have him just tuck the ball and pick up key first downs because all the defensive backs were in deep coverage since we were blitzing?) Our kickoff defense was a little better last season, but the last three seasons prior to that it was awful. And what are players doing dancing and boogeying on the sidelines in the late fourth quarter of a game we’re LOSING?
Coach Richt has just completely let the team discipline get away from him, and once a coach does that it’s almost impossible to get it back.
And just to make it perfect…to put the cherry on top of the ice cream sundae…here he comes popping up with a new uniform again. Bless the beasts and the children…

ToccoaDawg

July 25th, 2011
11:30 pm

when does camp start

Lou

July 25th, 2011
11:45 pm

Good vibes?
1- Lindy’s Magazine has Richt as #1 hotseat in America
2- Scout has Richt winning 6 games in Computer simulation at #36 ranking
3- ESPN panel of 38 experts doesn’t have Georgia in the top 25
4- Richt hasn’t beat a ranked team since 2009
5- Richt’s win totals have gone down from 11 in 07′ to 10 in 08′ to 8 in 09′ to 6 in 10′
6- Richt always recruits well, who couldn’t at Georgia? No one does less with more talent
7- Richt got outcoached by a 3-9 Colorado team, and couldn’t score on a Conference USA team, and has got outcoached by 9 out 11 of his last match ups with ranked teams.

Good vibes?

GT Fan...

July 25th, 2011
11:48 pm

Amazing how many “experts” (mainly columnists, sportscasters, poll voters, etc) put all their eggs in the what-happened-last-season basket.

2011 is a NEW season! Come the start of the season, If any UGA player (or GT player) is thinking about what happened 8 months prior in each’s perspective bowl game then there’s a big problem!

2011 is a NEW season! Why aren’t the Texas Longhorns ranked in the Top 5? I mean, they ARE TEXAS aren’t they?? They “experts” usually have them, at least, in the Top 10. Is it b/c they lost 7 games in 2010? But coming into 2010 they were picked by many to win-it-all … I guess that was b/c they were runner-up in 2009?

2011 is a NEW season! UGA & GT’s 2010 records have nothing to do with what is going to happen, on the field!

2011 is a NEW season! H*LL YES!! UGA & GT have something to be excited about … neither one has 7 Ls…yet.

Looking forward to the NEW season! Go Jackets!!

Jackson

July 25th, 2011
11:51 pm

CMR full of hogwash. Spewed the same garbage last season. Said the team “had a buzz”. Said the team had to “get back into people’s cnsciousness”…

Blah, blah, blah. Read last year’s Bulldog rah rah speech right here to compare:
http://blogs.ajc.com/mark-bradley-blog/2010/07/26/mark-richt-on-uga-in-2010-we-want-our-fans-to-be-proud/

Lou

July 25th, 2011
11:52 pm

I liked Richt’s last year rah rah speech at the Bulldog club better.

http://blogs.ajc.com/mark-bradley-blog/2010/07/26/mark-richt-on-uga-in-2010-we-want-our-fans-to-be-proud/

Bull$h1tDawg

July 25th, 2011
11:56 pm

UGA will be a bigger disappointment this year than they were last year. Weak, weak, weak. Stay optimistic my friends.

Lou

July 26th, 2011
12:09 am

If keeping kids from being arrested won championships, look out BYU, NAVY/AIR FORCE, ARMY…Once again Richt fixing stuff that doesn’t win games……

Dervish

July 26th, 2011
12:11 am

Kellen Moore is 35-2 as a starter, only 2 losses were by less than a td.

Murray is 6-7 as a starter, only wins were against teams with losing records.

Ok, back to your Kool-Aide.

SickandTired

July 26th, 2011
12:18 am

Marky done took to cussing. He drops the F bomb at practice for u hero worshipers. He’s toast after this year with anything less Thames 9 wins. One of those needs to be Florida. The sooner he is gone the better UGA will be.

SABAN > Richt

July 26th, 2011
12:20 am

Nick Saban uses profanity, too, Coach Richt, but at least he backs up those bad words with WINNING FOOTBALL.

Roll Tide!

whatever

July 26th, 2011
12:26 am

UGA SHOULD have a great year – besides the first two games who do they really play that will be competitive this year?? I don’t want to hear any crying about “the schedule” this year – it’s basically a fluff schedule when you consider that your dawgs play a toothless Florida this year and a clawless Auburn – and you have BS in what amounts to a home game, as well as SC at home. And besides the annual cocktail event in J’ville – the farthest the puppies have to travel is Knoxville (against the rodeo clowns of UT); otherwise, be very careful against those ranking teams like New Mexico State and Coastal Carolina. So yes, UGA SHOULD have a very good year.

Bob C

July 26th, 2011
12:27 am

No way UGA loses to USC two years in a row. Is it me or does Garcia seem like he has been on school 6 years or so any way?

Dawg4Life

July 26th, 2011
12:27 am

Cry all you want you stinkin trollers. The Dawgs will shut yer mouths soon enough,,,,,,,,,,,

Dawg4Life

July 26th, 2011
12:31 am

Roll Turd, we will kick that butt come 10/06/12………….

Dawg4Life

July 26th, 2011
12:35 am

And shame on any of you punks that call yourselves Dawg fans trashing the Coach and/or the team. You do not deserve to be a Dawg fan, but you will be here carry’in on about how awesome the Dawgs are later this year. Ya’ll are pathetic…….

dawg150

July 26th, 2011
12:36 am

patience….patience…patience……Richt’s a cool customer…..and a good guy. And good guys finish the job.

SABAN > Richt

July 26th, 2011
12:36 am

Mark Richt will have the Bulldogs Bowl-eligible in 2011…

TOILET BOWL-eligible…

…to match Coach Richt’s new “potty mouth.”

drbasic

July 26th, 2011
12:46 am

I wonder why so many anti dawg vermin are on this blog? Is it a jealousy thing to just rouse dawg fans? Could it be they simply just have a pitiful life? I don’t know, don’t really care; but, I can say without exception, “I support and back the players and coaches 100% win or lose.” I guess it would be easy to hit up a gator, bama, or auburn blog and talk crap, but what purpose would it have, self gratification?

@GT Fan

Well said, good job.

Dawg4Life

July 26th, 2011
12:46 am

Like I said Turd roller, I can’t wait for 10/06/12. Unless you luck out and get to the Dome through some miracle, in which case we will get to spank that butt this year………………

slydog

July 26th, 2011
12:47 am

I wish the best for UGA this season. It is, as GT Fan said, a brand new season. However, in all honesty, no matter how this season turns out, CMR has over stayed his tenure in Athens. He has taken UGA to national prominence but has also made it a laughing stock in recent years. Today’s climate is different. UGA Athletics makes too much money to not be a powerhouse in football. Can we honestly, CMR supporters and Haters, soberly, believe CMR will bring this to fruition? NO. Ever since his tenure began in 2001, almost every team that has played for or won the national title had a new coach and a struggling program. Old folks say not all great coaches can win national titles and dominate all the time. CMR is a great coach, but he cannot take this program any higher than he has done before. A better coach WILL take this job after he is gone. You can thank CMR for that.

BuzzKill

July 26th, 2011
12:48 am

I don’t get it. The dream team wasn’t even the highest ranked class UGA had in the past couple years….

It reminds me of Obama pulling a fast one.

Dawg4Life

July 26th, 2011
12:50 am

Give CMR all the grief you want once the season starts and things are going south, but you are not a true Dawg fan if you are not pulling for him and the team now. Period….

Dawg4Life

July 26th, 2011
12:54 am

You whiners are what I despise most about my beloved Dawg Nation……… Where the hell is your Red and Black pride? oh well, I’m outta here, you punks and trollers, have a most pleasant evening.

GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

drbasic

July 26th, 2011
12:55 am

@slydog

dog, i understand your concern, even though i disagree. What coach do you know that could come in and do a better job over the next 10 years? A change would install a different philosophy to the entire team and program. It would be 6-6 or maybe 7-5 for a couple of years until the new scheme is learned and recruits are brought in from the new coach. Look at the mess Tenn. has had to endure after tossing Fulmer. Look what Nebraska has had to go through after Osborne departed from coaching. Not always does the grass get greener right away. Do you want to suffer through more downs? Sit back and see what the next 2 years are like, you might change your mind.

slydog

July 26th, 2011
12:57 am

@dr basic.. good point, i agree

Uga2002

July 26th, 2011
1:00 am

Geeish, I’m a troll and I actually graduated from UGA.

I’m calling it as I see it. The luster comes off when you get close to the program. CMR is a great guy but Boise and USC fans have the right to be excited about an easy win. We’re no Alabama, Florida, LSU or Auburn. They all have with great coaching or great talent or both, we lack both.

slydog

July 26th, 2011
1:01 am

You kind of have to give CMR two years becuase of Grantham’s contract. It makes good business sense.

RED DOG 77

July 26th, 2011
1:05 am

I can’t believe what I’m reading…….and you folks out there call yourselves football fans?……………Ok, lets start with the Georgia haters from other schools…….GT, Auburn, Florida, Alabama, South Carolina, LSU……etc…….You get a pass……….Now, you Georgia people calling yourself a BULLDOG fan?………To the sincere, faithful, DAWG lover who supports his or her DOGS no matter what………you too, get a pass………..Now, to you fools who seem to know something about college football, a clue……..You don’t!………There is not a person on here who has the slightest idea of what The University of Georgia football program is going to do this year!…….including me, Mark Bradley……..and especially YOU!………College football is a game of cycles, a few years the “big boys” are up and a few years they are down…….always been that way, always will………..I bleed RED and BLACK, I support “my” Georgia BULLDOGS win or lose………..I support coach Mark Richt, and believe him to be the finest young man coaching the college game today………To all of you bandwagon fans……..”Get the hell behind the DOGS, or get the hell down the road”………Yup, I’m pretty angry about now, cause I’ve had a belly full of your “fan crap”………………..I’m a proud BULLDOG………join me, or join some other team, but leave “my” BULLDOGS ALONE !!!!………………….Regards, RED

Columbus

July 26th, 2011
1:06 am

It is good to be a DAWG. Everythign is fine and yes the team was close last year even with ALL the things that went wrong. Could have been 10-2 EASY. No need to panic. Last year WAS a fluke and happens to EVERYBODY sometimes. The future looks bright. The DAWG HAS TURNED! If we go 0-2 the heat will turn up but if everybody uses that to fire them up, the rest of the season may be all wins. It MIGHT BE ALL WINS ANYWAY. This MIGHT BE A SPECIAL SEASON. If we can run the ball and get past Boise. We had SC beat on the road last year without AJ and blew it. We can beat them with our D this year at home. If we can run, we might run the table. And Richt is a great coach who done more in his first 10 than most all coaches in history. Richt is THE man and he WILL get us to a National Championship game in the next 3 years. MAYBE EVEN THIS YEAR IF THE TEAM COMES TOGETHER TO WIN THE SEC.

We WILL be STRONGER physically and mentally. We WILL be FOCUSED. We WILL be MAD. We WILL WIN and SHUTUP all these naysayers and whiners. MARK IT DOWN. Richt will be at UGA until he retires. Like Dooley and Paterno, he will only coach at 1 school, UGA but his record will make Dooley’s look significantly inferior when all is said and done. Richt is THIS generations Paterno. No coach can match their records in their first 10 years. No coach….No not Saban, No not the Bear. Paterno and Richt. Seen Paterno’s record his first 10 years? WOW. Richt’s is as good. Nobody else though. NOBODY. How many National Championships do you think coaches win their first 10 years? Let me tell you….NONE. Richts time is now. UGA’s time is NOW. Remember 1980. Remember the pathetic year before? What happened? We had an AWESOME D and a freshman namned Herschel.

2011 we have a freshman named Isaiah……and a bunch of HUNGRY, STRONGER and FOCUSED DAWGS. If Bobo is up to the task…..this might be another VERY special year. If we can run the ball, we CAN beat ANYBODY. ANYBODY. Isaiah can hit the home run too. You hear me? He can bust one from ANYWHERE ON THE FIELD. Did I mention he CAN CATCH? Sound like a 1980 freshman?

slydog

July 26th, 2011
1:08 am

@uga 2002 I disagree one point. We have great coaching in some areas and we have great talent, as far as athletes and speed, across the board. It’s just not meshing together. I believe BoBo is hamstrung by Richt’s offense and playbook. He even tries to copycat his playcalling style. There are now new ideas introduced into the offense. Furthermore, Richt started managing rather than coaching. A huge era with the hiring of Meyer and Saban in the conference. Willie Martinez was a buddy pick, but no SEC defensive coordinator. He wasn’t mean enough. Grantham may be too hyper..lol. UGA got slapped in to reality threes years. But the slide should have stopped then.

slydog

July 26th, 2011
1:13 am

@ Columbus..lol out of all the cheering you wrote, you hurt it with one statement: “if BoBo is up to the task”

Hook is Set!

July 26th, 2011
1:39 am

Columbus…..

A whole lot of “ifs” in that diatribe…..a whole lot of em….

GT Fan...

July 26th, 2011
2:18 am

Columbus…I’m pretty sure Gene Chizick hasn’t been a HC for 10 years. Who were the Nat Champs last year?

GT Fan...

July 26th, 2011
2:38 am

Columbus…Ever heard of Urban Meyer? He was a HC for just 9 years….won TWO NCs with UF, and coached Utah to 12-0, and BCS Bowl W before coming to UF.

I believe Les Miles was HC for less than 10 years too before winning a NC.

And I know it’s Div I-AA, and I’m going “homer” on you, but Paul Johnson, in his first 5 years as a HC, won 2 NCs and was runner-up for a 3rd at GA Southern.

GT Fan...

July 26th, 2011
2:48 am

A few more “under 10″ NC Head Coaches, Columbus:

Pete Carroll
Steve Spurrier
Phillip Fulmer

captguitarman

July 26th, 2011
2:51 am

Mind over matter, sometimest the key to great seasons and championships. But keep it in the locker room coach. How many years of cheap talk will preface another season like last year’s. If I’m the coach, nobody says nuthin’ — under penalty of watching all of the games from the bleachers this year. Button it down. Talk is cheap. We’re not saying anything. Come to the games and see. All this talk, talk, talk — but as the old saying goes, “that’s why they play the games.” . I had “old-school” coaches in high school and college (think Bobby Knight), who would be giving untried, and untested freshmen (prima donnas for the last two or three years in high school, no doubt) 24 hours to get those “Dream Team” tattoos removed, with laser treatments, or have themselves removed from the team. Wow — Have things changed!! CMR is excited about it. True freshmen will make all the difference this year? — in the SEC? — of all conferences in the nation, the SEC??? Pass me another cup of that special Puppie Nation Kool-Aid. Pull back, shut up, get rid of those stupid tattoos, stop talking about how true freshmen will be your salvation in the toughest league in the land, ditch those stupid new “combat uniforms” and suck it up and as an old coach of mine use to say — “we’ll do our talking on the field.” All of this brings to mind a quote from an HBO series I have been watching. Game of Thrones. It’s a great quote by a member of the Night’s Watch – sworn to protect the realm. ” A man gets what he earns on the Wall (SEC), no more, no less.” I suggest that CMR make a few copies of that and hang it around the locker room . . . and especially his office. “Dream Team tattoos”??? You’ve got to be kidding me. As SC, Bama, Florida, Auburn, LSU, and Boise State might say . . . yeah . . . in their dreams. Time to tighten it up and suck it up and shut up, coach.

Don

July 26th, 2011
3:02 am

Their football coach is honest, but not all of the family members of the man who raises UGA are. Most prominent criminal networkin GA’s history coming to you from Glynn County, GA (including publishers of Bulldawg Illustrated). http://www.scopolamineisland.com

guy

July 26th, 2011
3:18 am

Cmon man is correct.Personally I think playing four quarters of hard nosed football will make all the difference in the world.Life will go on no matter what happens so relax and enjoy the journey.

dawginduluth

July 26th, 2011
4:17 am

Consider the source.

No NC with Richt. Never.

Saban

July 26th, 2011
4:47 am

Imagine Richt is correct. After the two beatdowns by Boise State and South Carolina, the dawgs should lose UGA to a stroke after the Florida game. and win maybe 6 games and a re-match with Central Florida in the booger eaters classic in Fort Walton Beach.

Buzz 2011

July 26th, 2011
5:13 am

The Dawgs will indeed be a ” dream team”! Dreaming they could have won six games this season..

Get Real

July 26th, 2011
5:14 am

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha

Hate...

July 26th, 2011
5:19 am

..you are the problem.

tony

July 26th, 2011
5:21 am

Statistics Under Richt’s Offense:

2001 Offense Ranking>> Rush 50th, Pass 24th, Total 21st
2002 Offense Ranking>> Rush 67th, Pass 39th, Total 49th
2003 Offense Ranking>> Rush 74th, Pass 37th, Total 58th
2004 Offense Ranking>> Rush 57th, Pass 30th, Total 31st
2005 Offense Ranking>> Rush 43rd, Pass 49th, Total 49th
2006 Offense Ranking>> Rush 71st, Pass 79th, Total 90th
2007 Offense Ranking>> Rush 37th, Pass 83rd, Total 74th
2008 Offense Ranking>> Rush 56th, Pass 16th, Total 22nd
2009 Offense Ranking>> Rush 47th, Pass 80th, Total 75th
2010 Offense Ranking>> Rush 73rd, Pass 40th, Total 56th

Statistics Under VG’s Defense:

2001 Defense Ranking>> Rush 15th, Pass 96th, Total 49th
2002 Defense Ranking>> Rush 19th, Pass 31st, Total 15th
2003 Defense Ranking>> Rush 13th, Pass 6th, Total 4th
2004 Defense Ranking>> Rush 15th, Pass 16th, Total 8th

Statistics Under WM’s Defense:

2005 Defense Ranking>> Rush 52nd, Pass 7th, Total 18th
2006 Defense Ranking>> Rush 27th, Pass 5th, Total 8th
2007 Defense Ranking>> Rush 16th, Pass 36th, Total 14th
2008 Defense Ranking>> Rush 27th, Pass 32nd,Total 22nd
2009 Defense Ranking>> Rush 36th, Pass 51st, Total 38th

Statistics Under TG’s Defense:

2010 Defense Ranking>> Rush 56th, Pass 17th, Total 23rd

Was Willie Martinez the culprit? REALLY?

I am Columbus and I smoke crack

July 26th, 2011
6:01 am

whacked, just whacked. I try to resist reading any fool who uses CAPS to try to MAKE their POINTS, but couldn’t resist. Wow. Talk about fringe. can’t decide, grow up? get a clue? Admire the passion and also love the dawgs. But aint’t seein what you see. Do see any easy schedule.

Big G

July 26th, 2011
6:04 am

Woof!……………………………………………………………………..Woof!…………………….Yawn

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atltiger15

July 26th, 2011
6:27 am

5th in the west might be good enough to be 1st in the east…Quote from one prominant sec sports writer….

Sunshine Falcon

July 26th, 2011
6:55 am

Richt has one of the best winning %’s over the last 10 years.
LSU is the only team that has been better in the SEC, over that 10 yr span.
Bama has a great coach in Saban, though and since he came, on the scene, they are the SECs’ best program.
As bad as I hate to you have to give UF credit, but the jury is still out, on their new regime.
The SEC is so tough, but so dominant and I give Richt credit, for his coaching ability.
His biggest problem has been, that he is loyal to a fault aka: WM and letting Bobo be the O coordinator and not just the QB coach.

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July 26th, 2011
7:03 am

[...] Mark Richt plans on having “a helluva year,” reports Mark Bradley of the AJC. [...]

jeff

July 26th, 2011
7:11 am

I remember last year when a certain team lost to Boise State and then chocked the next game and yet on to have a pretty good year (VT). Yes, puppies will lose to the my little ponies and the tweety birds but then can come back for a decent year. Probably will lose to MS State and Florida but should win the rest (yes, even against GT, darn it) so 8-4 is not bad. Get a good bowl and 9-4 is not a bad year. I say not this year but next will be a breakout year for the slobbering puppies.

Mark Richt is Gay

July 26th, 2011
7:17 am

After the meltdown of Richt’s last 5 years, does anybody care anymore? If he won a NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP, it would barely make up for the funk. He should have been gone. Like Al horford this guy Richt is very average but surrounded by a lot of media hype!

FIRE RICHT…!

SameOldTricks

July 26th, 2011
7:34 am

Wasn’t Richt supposed to be studying the game of football this summer? Instead he was off in Honduras while other coaches did their jobs. He needs to be updating that FSU playbook from the 90’s he brought to Athens. You people are suckers.

jerry

July 26th, 2011
7:39 am

Richt said hell? Damn.

JoCo Dawg

July 26th, 2011
7:42 am

That looks just like the Vince Dooley action figure that was stolen from my mother’s garden when I was a child. Did you notice if there were any visible scuff marks or a black marker stripe on it’s left foot? It would make her day if I were able to retrieve it after all these years. GO DAWGS!!!!!

Shawn

July 26th, 2011
7:45 am

Sure he is. He’s going out with a bang like Costanza! Going for it on 4th and 22. Bombs on consecutive plays! It’s going to be a good un for the rikster.

Richt reminds me of Obama

July 26th, 2011
7:57 am

Pulled a 180 on his personality from 3 years ago. Now he tries to act all tough and in charge when we all know the ship is sinking around him. Just as obama has looked like a fool when his crap stimulus and liberal policies blew up in his face, cmr will too when uga starts off 0-2. Obama also had guys jumping ship like rham and gibbs and a couple of others. So has uga and many more will soon. It will be funny to watch his demeanor change like a bipolar brazilian once it’s back to the same old mistake prone football by uga. You know what I mean. It’s 3rd and 5 and every receiver runs 20 yard + routes. Good luck with bozo as second mate and a choker as 3rd.

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July 26th, 2011
8:01 am

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Lee

July 26th, 2011
8:05 am

Georgia loses to Tennessee in Neyland this year.

Only in dreams

July 26th, 2011
8:12 am

Richt is happy even when he loses. He is happy when the team goes 6-7 and considers the season a success.

What If

July 26th, 2011
8:16 am

What else could he say? Surely one would not expect him to make a negative statement about the season. What if he stated that uga will finish the drill, climb the mountain, cowboy up etc, and on and on. Seems to be the same old song and dance.

DawginLex

July 26th, 2011
8:19 am

Let me save you idiots some time.

Just refer to a number morons.

1.) Red Panties
2.) Thugs
3.) Goons
4.) Inmates at Clarke Correctional
5.) we hit and run this state
6.) 12 arrests, 6 wins
7.) Drunken, whoring AD
8.) Trailer Parks
9.) 90% of our fans didn’t go to UGA
10.)Jan Kemp

Save time you idiots and just list numbers.

J

July 26th, 2011
8:20 am

Georgia always has a good recruiting class just like Ole Miss always has a good recruiting class, It still comes down to coacing the kids up, Both leave the kids scratching their heads, I would almost bet UGA starts out 0-3 in the SEC again..

DawginLex

July 26th, 2011
8:21 am

Here are some more for the TROLL VILLAGE

11.) 2-8 versus florida
12.) No National titles since 1980
13.) Richt looks like Helen Hunt
14.) Summer national champs
15.) Kool aid drinkers

Just reference a number and save time

Gator Mike

July 26th, 2011
8:21 am

As a Gator, I want to have the Cocktail Party Game be a key for both teams this year. With Muschamp at UF it will have a bit of flair. Thus, I am pulling for UGA to beat Carolina and roll into JAX with no SEC losses. Our Gator SEC Schedule is a bit tougher, but if the Gators roll into JAX with no more than one SEC loss, the game should be very exciting. I have been around the UF-UGA rivalry for many years, and I remember the dark days for us Gators. It will be good for the SEC for UGA to get back in the mix as long as we beat the DAWGS in JAX.
I will be pulling for UGA to beat Spurrier in Athens.
Go Gators!

Dog Island Gator

July 26th, 2011
8:23 am

In poker they call it ” all in “.

Brad K

July 26th, 2011
8:24 am

Why is no one reporting about the recent arrest in Tennessee? It seems that the AJC can’t wait to get their hands on any police reports out of athens and report/speculate immediately.

Lindsey

July 26th, 2011
8:29 am

Funny last sentence Mark!! I can’t wait to cheer on CMR and the rest of the Bulldogs this year, GO DAWGS!!!

1eyedJack

July 26th, 2011
8:32 am

Is it September yet?

DawginLex

July 26th, 2011
8:34 am

All of you wimps hiding behind your screen name taking shots at Richt would crap your pants if you ever had the chance to stand in front of him man to man and say just one word to him.

Congratulations to all you Fran Tarkentons-THE GUTLESS WONDERS OF THE WORLD

And to the “Saban” character. We all know you are a Tech fan. Another sad testament to the internet and what is allowed.

Later losers

BjohnDawg

July 26th, 2011
8:40 am

JWTWDT-Just Win The Whole Damn Thing!

Go Dawgs!

Douglas

July 26th, 2011
8:42 am

I like Mark Richt as a person but as a coach, I no longer have confidence in his coaching ability. He has a chance to hire a great offensive line coach and we hire someone from a smaller school? Bobo will still continue to throw the ball first instead of running it like he should.

LJ

July 26th, 2011
8:43 am

No sense of gloom & doom? How about this? 7 out of last 8 seasons, 88% of the time, Richt LOSES more games than the season before. Looking at 5-7 or worse. 12% chance Richt goes 7-5 or better. How’s that for gloom & doom? You simply have here the case of a coach who has failed so often in his attempts to improve win totals from season to season, that he has lost sight of how to fix it. Less turnovers & penalties was his last failed attempt to turn around an 8 win season. Richt failed, yet again, and won less games, ended up with 6 wins. Everything Richt tries, fails to turn the season around 7 out of 8 times. Richt’s not good at figuring out what’s wrong, and fixing it.

trupert

July 26th, 2011
8:45 am

The emotions that Mark Richt brings out in people is intersting too say the least.

90% of Ga fan’s believe in him and have faith that he will bring them SEC and National Championships.

90% of his rivals fans believe that if he survives this season he will bring Ga SEC and National Championships so, they try to tear him down at every turn.

This Ga fan’s glad that we have a coach of character who’s a winner and who brings out such fear from rival fan’s that they are more movitated to get rid of him than to have him stay at UGA. Go dawgs, sic em!!!

WDE

July 26th, 2011
8:45 am

@Mark Richt is Gay …looks like you woke up on the wrong side of probation troll.Hey anyone know when practice starts?

WDE

July 26th, 2011
8:48 am

@Douglas think just maybe you could wait and see if that small college guy can coach before we hit the panic button…our old OL coach was all about the hype coming in and hype was all we got.

Joey

July 26th, 2011
8:50 am

“I’d have said, “As grim as Nick Saban with an impacted wisdom tooth.”
******************************************
Classic MB.

Nerds! Nerds! Nerds!

July 26th, 2011
8:53 am

Troll Central!

Tech goes 4- 8
UGA goes 9-3

Mark Richt is the coach this year so I will support him ALL YEAR LONG.

What's Richt's record against other SEC teams?

July 26th, 2011
8:54 am

Sure we are disappointed in the last couple of years, standards at UGA are high. Outside of Florida, how many SEC teams have a winning record against Mark Richt?

From some of your posts, you would think at least half the SEC would qualify.

For those who are ignorant, the answer is ZERO teams with winning records, with the exception of the Gators.

Dawg Gone

July 26th, 2011
8:55 am

@jeff exactly what are you basing your predictions of grandeur on…not your record vs the SEC are you? Bring you Smurf selves to the Dome and let’s light this candle….who in the Hello do you guys think you are Bama, UF ? There is always a chance any well coached team can win on any Saturday but we have heard the Boise hype machine before and if I remember correctly we crushed you into so much purple goo…

WDE

July 26th, 2011
8:57 am

Does anyone know when practice starts? I’m thinking it should be next week??

Joey

July 26th, 2011
8:57 am

“I know what the hell I’m doing.” “I plan on having a hell of a year.”
***********************************************
If Richt keeps this up, his pastor’s gonna wash his mouth out with soap!

But I like it.

Go Dawgs!

Whiskey Breath

July 26th, 2011
8:58 am

While you are chaulking up potential wins, is Florida on that list? The problem for all of us is, Ga will under perform relative to their talent level. I would love to see Richt strut around after a game, bow to the crowd, but it is not going to happen. You would think that easy schedule would get him thru, but they will lose to the lower members of the SEC east. Man he is one cocky dude. I guess you can if you have a fully body tan.

gt4ever

July 26th, 2011
9:01 am

Mark Richt has a Dream Team recruiting class EVERY year….

Notso Fast

July 26th, 2011
9:01 am

The Bulldogs are always numnber 1 in July. It when the season starts that they start to slide. MAYBE this year will be different.

Whiskey Breath

July 26th, 2011
9:02 am

Hey Mark, what would it take for you not to agree with Richt? You use to question authority, I guess there is no job security in doing that.
I want the old Mark back, the new one is a lousy homer!

Joey

July 26th, 2011
9:02 am

But you would say that Richt’s record is both unexplainable and unforgivable, right?

uga2002

July 26th, 2011
9:03 am

WDE practice starts on the 4th I believe.

WDE

July 26th, 2011
9:10 am

@uga2002 thank you Sir!

Rooster

July 26th, 2011
9:10 am

I will have a hell of a year when I see Richt fired.

j

July 26th, 2011
9:11 am

Ha! I think the fans would be happy if he can just get a winning record this year. I am not sure how many teams in the sec are better than Central Florida! My guess is a few though…

WDE

July 26th, 2011
9:12 am

@gt4ever yes and 9 of the last 10 years he has used them to beat that Bug Azz…bitter much little Bug? Now run on outside and enjoy your probation !

D

July 26th, 2011
9:14 am

@Rooster sorry but if we show solid improvement I hope that doesn’t happen for years.

joe

July 26th, 2011
9:14 am

And I plan on hitting the next mega lottery jackpot…LOL.

DawginLex

July 26th, 2011
9:15 am

Some of you people are amazing.

Central florida
Central Florida
Central florida

Wasn’t that last year?
Didn’t the coach say he got outcoached and took responsibility?
Isn’t it obvious by the changes that have been made that Richt saw there were problems?
The definition of insanity is to continue to do the same thing and expect different results.
Richt has addressed several of the things we have all complained about.

Just let the season play out. For those of you pulling for us to lose so we will get a new coach, I truly feel sorry for you.

DawginLex

July 26th, 2011
9:16 am

where are the comments????

Wake up

July 26th, 2011
9:17 am

No Greg, they flunk out of school, sell items on Ebay, recruit kids that steal from current poodle players while on their recruiting trip to Athens and I’m not sure what rock you live under, but plenty of poodles have gottem DUI’s during CMR’s era. Wake up dude.

DawginLex

July 26th, 2011
9:17 am

wake up

I provided you a list. Reference a number

uga2002

July 26th, 2011
9:21 am

@What’s Richt’s record against other SEC teams?

If we want to play this game, what’s Richt’s record against Alabama with Saban? 50%. What does Saban have? A National Championship.

Chizik? 50%. What does Chizik have? Well they spotted us points and then rattled off 7 touchdowns to win 49-31. They had 10 drives, 7 of them were touchdowns. And what does Chizik have now?: A National Championship.

Bobby Petrino? 50%.And his team has a better chance of winning the SEC West than I think Alabama does. Alabama gets a lot of hype for going 9-3, losing 28-27 like they did to Auburn and having a new QB.

Derek Dooley? 100%. We’ve beaten every time. Once. But good enough! ugh.

How about Florida? Let’s look at that again. 2-10. Show me a national championship team that can’t win more than 20% against it’s biggest rival… a rival who doesn’t consider us their biggest btw.

This was a very painful exercise. Thanks @What’s Richt’s record against other SEC teams?

uga2002

July 26th, 2011
9:22 am

@j, don’t forget, it’d be nice to beat a team with a winning record. Haven’t done that since 09.

DawginLex

July 26th, 2011
9:24 am

uga2002

Did you paint your 1973 pinto boise blue?

Tc

July 26th, 2011
9:26 am

Nothing has changed! Every year bulldog fans come out forgetting about how sorry last season was. This is not different. All of the problems that existed last year, exist this year. He says “the first two teams may be the best teams we play all year” he is right, but that is only because we have an easy schedule. Next years schedule will be harder. I am a bulldog fan, but I am sick of the love CMR mentality no matter what. The guy has major weaknesses as a head coach period! We need change and he is incapable of it.

bamaguy

July 26th, 2011
9:29 am

uga2002: In the end it is all about winning championships. Auburn, Alabama and Tennessee all fired adequate coaches to pursue excellent ones (OK, Kiffin deserted Tennessee, but it was the right plan). Living here in Atlanta among UGA fans, this almost cult-like devotion to Richt is hard to understand. And the most amazing part is that he is paid like he is one of the top coaches in the country. I’d be having a helluva year too if I was being paid to not produce. He has worked that “good christian man” routine for millions.

DawginLex

July 26th, 2011
9:31 am

Good Tc, we will take your advice and tell McGarity to fire Richt now, 5 weeks before the season starts and 8 days before practice starts.

Thanks for your input.

Joey

July 26th, 2011
9:35 am

Whew! What I meant to write @ 9:02 was this:

But you would say that Richt’s record vs UF is both unexplainable and unforgivable, right?

Obviously Richt’s overall record is one of the best in the NCAA.

WDE

July 26th, 2011
9:39 am

@bamaguy all about the championships I read that right? How about 4th in the West? Can you say SLIDE??

Tc

July 26th, 2011
9:40 am

dawginLex, the problem is that once everybody starts drinking the kook aid, the next thing you know is we will lose 4 games and most of you will sugar coat it and say he is turning things around and did better than last season. We will be stuck another year and playing a much harder schedule being we can begin to make any real progress. The fans that think he is doing a poor job simply have higher standards than the ones that love him no matter what.

Dawg Trainer

July 26th, 2011
9:45 am

Because I’m a nice guy, I checked out the UT ‘arrest’. Seems as if Mr Johnson had a disagreement with a young lass and was urged to leave the drinking establishment. He did, along with a couple of friends. Walking, not driving. Apparently, the lady didn’t want to leave the situation alone. (ANY married guy can vouch for the previous sentence) Sooooo, she DRIVES up besides him to continue berating him. He slaps the side of the car (not her, the car). This gives one of Knoxville’s finest the opportunity to ‘arrest’ Mr. Johnson for PI and DC. Strangely enough, he only gets a ticket…not an overnight session in the drunk tank. And also strangely enough, this has been the ONLY blemish by actual UT players in the past 5 months.

So, there’s no news here.

Tc

July 26th, 2011
9:45 am

CMC is a master of getting sympathy for under performing. When he is finally fired he should go into politics on the democratic ticket.

Dallas,Tx Dawg

July 26th, 2011
9:46 am

You know, It kills me just how many armchair coaches come here to vent their ignorance. Half these clowns never made it past junior high football, much less high school, but they seem to have all the answers for a Division 1 football team. Why don’t you shut your mouth and stick to what you know the best, fantansy football and xbox 360 college football. I live for the Dawgs, and every year i ride the ups and downs with this team. I stick by them good or bad. We could be Auburn, enjoying a National Championship for the next year before the NCAA comes and snatches it back(See USC). Coach Richt doesn’t cheat, and while some of our players have turned out to be duds and some don’t get it, it could be worse. How short some of your memories are. We could still have Jim Donnan,who never won the SEC, or Ray Goff, who couldn’t make it to a bowl game. Be careful of what you wish for, you just might get it. We could end up with the next Jim Tressel. I’ll take my chances with Mark Richt. So why don’t you get on board with the program, or seriously, go find someone who wants to hear your garbage. GO DAWGS !!!!!!

uga2002

July 26th, 2011
9:47 am

I forgot, 50% against Les Miles. Who also has a National Championship since he got to LSU. Chizik took 2 years after inheriting a mess. MIles took 4 years. Saban was also 4 at LSU and then 3 at Alabama. Meyer won like Chizik in year 2 after inheriting a solid team and then year 4.

Gosh look at this:

BCS National Championships
2011- Auburn, Chizik had 2 years
2010 – Alabama, Saban had 3 years at Bama
2009 – Florida, Meyer at 4 years at UF
2008 – LSU, Miles at 4 years.
2007 – Florida, Meyer at 2 years.
2006 – Texas, Brown at 8 years
2005 – USC, Carroll at 4 years
2004 – LSU, Saban at 4 years
2003 – Ohio State, Tressel at 2 years
2002- Miami, Coker at 1 year
2001- Oklahoma, Stoops at 2 years
2000- FSU, Bowden at 24 years
1999- Tennessee, Fulmer at 4 years

So I guess our hope should be in Bowden? 24 years to win.

But seriously, the average is 5 years if you include Bowden, throw out the two outliers in Bowden and Coker and you’re right at 3 years. Which has been the average since Mack Brown won which is misleading considering UT will never fire him. They’re not fanatics out there in Austin. They don’t have to put up with watching everyone around them win national titles like we do. Just to review, Auburn, Alabama, Florida, LSU, Florida and go back to LSU and UT.

So Richt is starting year 11. Sure there was a good run there of 10 plus wins but even then, we couldn’t break the ceiling and then when they ordained us #1 preseason, like so many here believe every year, we just came apart. Now 4 years of a record worse than the one before and now we’ve got to play Boise who many believe may make the National Title game to face off against Alabama (yawn, ain’t happening) and then South Carolina who is loaded.

Get out your snickers bar, we’re not going anywhere any time soon.

WDE

July 26th, 2011
9:47 am

@Tc who is CMC ? and real progress you do remember the 20 yr SEC championship drought don’t you?

Joey

July 26th, 2011
9:49 am

Nice, bamaguy.

I wouldn’t expect anything less from somebody with “guy” in his name.

But, speaking of cult-like worship, I don’t think UGA has any plans yet for the 10′ brass statue of our coach yet like you “guys”.

And yes, Bama is about championships, oh, and one other thing – NCAA Probation. Yes, with every Championship won since Bear Byrant retired, Bama has either been on, or was getting on NCAA Probation.

Congrats.

uga2002

July 26th, 2011
9:51 am

@bamaguy. I agree but I don’t think it’s about CMR per se. I think people just assume UGA = USC, Alabama, Ohio State, Michigan, Notre Dame, Miami, Texas and OU.It just should happen. We are elite. Always have been. Except, we’re not and have not been. You have to win games to be elite. You have to win championships. < plural.

This is nothing different then you should go support your baseball team when they suck. Why? Why reward them with money? Why reward them with shelter. Be discontent and let the market play out.

DawginLex

July 26th, 2011
9:51 am

i’ve not sugar coated anything. I was mad as he!! last year, especially after the bowl.

But all I’m saying is the man can’t be fired now so we might as well support him and the team. He at least hasn’t turned his nose up and said “nothing is worng”. He has made some changes. He fired his best friend and college roommate and probably lost a friend. He has reassigned a long time coaching co-worker in DVH from S&C to basically being a male secretary.

He also has eliminated the headlines of “UGA players arrested”.

give him a chance is all I’m saying. We could end up like UT.

EDawg71

July 26th, 2011
9:51 am

Will someone PLEASE teach the masses the difference between “loose” and “lose”???

1eyedJack

July 26th, 2011
9:51 am

Maybe that’s what’s wrong with this society. Too many people “simply have higher standards.” Plus the fact that you may never meet those lofty standards and die miserable.

Me? I’m just happy I’m not a GnaT fan.

NewnanDawg

July 26th, 2011
9:52 am

Sounds like Richt’s already making excuses for 0-2….

JB

July 26th, 2011
9:52 am

These kind of stories/blogs will do Richt nor Georgia any good at this point. We are damaged goods. It will have to be proven on the field and the field only. College football is a real in the moment kind of thing, and to the rest of the SEC, we are in a hangover funk. I am personally glad Mark is optimistic.
Sadly, for the world…and most of the fan base, he’ll have to show us. I’m pulling for him.

Tech Engineer

July 26th, 2011
9:53 am

I have been predicting that UGA will win the SEC. Still do!

SEC FAN

July 26th, 2011
9:54 am

Bradley must be hallucinating if thinks there is a remote chance for UGA to win ten remaining games if they lose the first two. The team will fall apart and Richt won’t be able to stop it. There are three more teams they’d best look out for: MS. State(better coached), UT in Knoxville and Auburn. If they lose the first two, 8-4 will be about the best Richt can hope for. Of course McGarity will dream up some flimsy excuse to keep him around. Mediocrity rules at UGA.

Tc

July 26th, 2011
9:54 am

Dallas, you mention Goff and Donnan as if they were horrible coaches. I agree that clearly Goff was not a good coach and Donnan was not the best either, but I challenge you to get their winning percentages while they we here. You will probably find that they were close to CMR,s. They may even be better. And for some reason they were fired and run off in the drop of a hat. Oh but CMR is different! Why because he one something big once, five years ago. Give me a break! Tell me something positive that has happened to our team in terms of winning big in the last three seasons. What? We beat Tech? Wow!

DawginLex

July 26th, 2011
9:55 am

uga2002

Your stats look a little different when you take out the coaches who cheated to get the title

Tressel
Carroll
Chizik
Saban-????

Also, Meyer had Herschel II in Tebow. Florida will never win another one with Tebow. That’s why Meyer got sick and left. He knew it.And don’t spew Utah at me. They played a weak schedule and beat Pitt in a bowl game. Whooppeedeefrickingdoo.

DawginLex

July 26th, 2011
9:56 am

I meant without Tebow

JB

July 26th, 2011
9:56 am

DawginLex………..I agree, but if it was MY 3 mil dollar job on the line, I would put Bobo back to QB coach and I would take over the play calling…….Although some people will jump on this quick and say scoring has not been a problem. True, but not beating a team with a winning record last year was also a problem.

uga2002

July 26th, 2011
9:57 am

Worse part, does everyone realize the dream team is made up of freshman? High schoolers. Teenagers.

And the SEC is filled with NFL players. Many of whom when they go to the NFL will start. That’s not a dream team. A dream team is Cadillac Williams and Ronnie Brown in the backfield. A dream team is the Nebraska team that demolished Florida in the mid 90s. Probably the greatest team in history. A dream team is Cam Newton with Julio and AJ. A dream team is Tebow with Mark Ingram.

A dream team is not made up of teens. Unless, their hot girls and not playing football. Then that’s kind of a dream team. Otherwise, no. This ain’t a dream, this is scary we’ve sunk to this level.

rock steady freddy

July 26th, 2011
9:57 am

Richt is getting READY to ROCK STEADY, just like OL’ FREDDY! AaROOF!

DawginLex

July 26th, 2011
9:58 am

JB

I totally agree. But as I have said, if the defense can get us back to 14 or 15 PPG allowed, Bobo won’t be viewed as a problem anymore though.

bamaguy

July 26th, 2011
9:59 am

All those crystal footballs surrounding the state of Georgia has made some UGA fans touchy (Alabama (2) AU and UA, Florida (3) UF(2) FSU(1), Louisiana, LSU (2), Tennessee, UT (1). You can tell the touchy ones, they go to great lengths to point out issues at other schools while ignoring their own.

DP

July 26th, 2011
9:59 am

I thought Richt had lost it, but giving a name to his recruiting class and unveiling those new Nike combat uniforms are the kind of motivational tactics that lead to championships.

slydog

July 26th, 2011
10:00 am

BREAKING NEWS!!!! Julio Jones and Trent Richardson.

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=145&f=3154&t=7691039

No more troll tides..hahahhahahaha

DawginLex

July 26th, 2011
10:01 am

uga2002

nobody with a brain should expect all of the Dream Teamers to play and shouldn’t expect many of them to make a difference at all in 2011

My guess is Marshall at CB, Swann at safety, Mitchell at WR, Drew at LB and Crowell at Rb will see playing time. Marshall may start.

The point being made about the Dream Team is after the 6-7 season, a lot of folks, including our opponent’s coaches were using the dropoff against us on the recruiting trail yet Richt still pulled off a top class.

uga2002

July 26th, 2011
10:01 am

Tressel didn’t have time to cheat by the time he won. Nothing on Chizik after over a year of review on Newton and that’s with lots of investigators that came up with nothing but they’re hanging out hoping something will come up i.e. “not over till we say it’s over.” But it’s over. Alabama’s issues are not Sabans. Carroll yes.

So no, it looks worse for us. Without Carroll and the two outliers you’re down to 2.7 years.

How about not trying to add anything. And regardless, they won. They went undefeated and won. Sure Carroll’s was vacated but they won it on the field. We’re not winning on the field. And don’t give me because we run a clean program, he have secondary violations all of the time and I’m kind of concerned that something is going to come out of Columbus we don’t like. Boosters are going to start getting desperate and doing stupid stuff. Tressel was a great man of faith too you know, he looked the other way.

JB

July 26th, 2011
10:03 am

I would like to see the Dawgs win a close game against a ranked team where Richt’s coaching obviously made the difference.

DawginLex

July 26th, 2011
10:04 am

I’m just ready for the season to start

uga2002

July 26th, 2011
10:05 am

@sly, what event were they at that also had Saban there as well taking pictures? Dude’s no idiot. Got a feeling it might not amount to anything. Don’t get your hopes up.

Tc

July 26th, 2011
10:05 am

JB, try to think of some past examples, it is very hard to do.

DawginLex

July 26th, 2011
10:05 am

Tressel cheated. And you can make the argument that we should have played for the title

Swami Sez

July 26th, 2011
10:07 am

Buh Bye Mark Richt!

Jimbo Donnan

July 26th, 2011
10:10 am

For years now Mark Richt has hooked UGA fans into a Ponzi scheme. You urchins keep paying him millions is so laughable.

SSIgator

July 26th, 2011
10:11 am

“There’s no sense of gloom and doom.”

Translation:

Man, this is the tastiest batch of Kool-Aid I have ever made. Pour me another glass honey. Go Dawgs!

Tuscaloosa Sporting Goods STore

July 26th, 2011
10:13 am

JUST IN
SPECIAL – Trent Richardson autographed jerseys for sale.
Other memorabilia autographed by Tide players on sale.
Here comes the NCAA to Tuscaloosa sporting goods store.
Saban has gone beserk.

Jimmy D.

July 26th, 2011
10:13 am

You UGA fans have been hooked into a ponzi scheme by paying Richt millions every year. So laughable

MountainDawg

July 26th, 2011
10:14 am

I’m not certain how it’ll play out. The defense has potential to do well, but it’s not a given. The OL & RBs are questionable. However, we’ve got a solid QB, great TE & decent WRs. Right now, I’d say between 7-5 & 9-3.

Tc

July 26th, 2011
10:18 am

Mark my words when we go 7-4 these same kook aid drinkers will be talking about how 7-4 is better than last years 6-7 and that we are making progress and need to give CMR another year. They will then next year will be our year. Keep that Koop aid coming and hand me my crack pipe as well.

slydog

July 26th, 2011
10:18 am

@uga 2002.. probably won’t amount to a major shutdown like what will happen at Ohio St., but it is a major violation. Almost along the same lines as selling a jersey (AJ Green). Just read the NCAA rule at the top.

If Richt has another winning season (no worse than 8-4), at a bare minimum, he will get another year simply because of Grantham’s contract.

techfan

July 26th, 2011
10:19 am

This just makes me wonder what he was planning to do the last three seasons.

Tc

July 26th, 2011
10:20 am

When we go 7-4 you egg heads will be saying it is better than last years 6-7 so we need to keep CMR.

LJ

July 26th, 2011
10:22 am

What’s Richt’s record since 2008 against ranked teams?
2-9

What’s Richt’s record against ranked team in 2010?
0-5

What’s Richt’s record against winning teams in 2010?
0-6

Sorry to interupt the kool aide club.

How much patience will the Bulldog Nation show this season? | UGA: The Junkyard Blawg

July 26th, 2011
10:24 am

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bamaguy

July 26th, 2011
10:27 am

I ask my UGA buddies at work this question and I get a variety of interesting answers. “If I could guarantee that UGA would go 9-2 for the next ten seasons, but those two losses would mean no SEC or National Championships, would you take that deal”?

TOates

July 26th, 2011
10:29 am

uga2002…. I laugh at you. You are a pathetic moron who thinks he knows something. You don’t know ____! I would love for you to put your money where your mouth is, but you hide behind some psuedo-name and know when you had to pay up, you would turn tail and hide. If only you would remove the UGA association in your name, as the type of “fan” you are certainly seems that of an uneducated person, or that of one who needed some assistance to get through school. Are you a special needs person? It is okay if you are, don’t be shy about such. You still are a beautiful person, no matter what others say. Hang in there, and always remember, in the immortal words of Stuart Smalley, “I’m good enough. I’m smart enough. And doggone it, people like me.” Good luck, fool….!!!

WDE

July 26th, 2011
10:31 am

@SSIgator glad to know that the Musky Aid your drinking prevents you from even questioning the state of Gator Nation…MAN that must be 90 proof juice. Questions at QB, OL, new HC with no experience new OC with proven program killing experience and still no questions…? Yep the East is yours at the very least..

Jason

July 26th, 2011
10:31 am

Richt reminds me of Obama. Both are going down in a sinking ship and both are trying to act all tough and it’s easy to see through their facade.

LJ

July 26th, 2011
10:32 am

Mark Richt with all his phony over the top happy talk reminds one of the Michael Scott character on “The Office”. I can easily hear Michael Scott giving the speech Richt gave to the Bulldog club, aka kool aide drinkers.

Richt., the King of Platitudes. aka Mark “Michael Scott” Richt:

“No gloom & doom on this team”
“We were close last year”
“We just had a down year”
“Wait until the team takes the field in those new jerseys with that new digital scoreboard. Everything will be different then”
“I plan on having a hell of a year, are you with me?”

LHarding Dawg

July 26th, 2011
10:33 am

While most of you people are looking back in time. I’m looking forward to the 2011 season. Right now every team in America is undefeated. Talking smack is about the only thing going on right now.

This week we are planning our 35th. trip to the GA-FL game and I can honestly say we have always had a good time, win or lose. Granted we had a better time in the winning years. We are also planning on being at Boise, Auburn, Miss State, and Kentucky games. We normally watch the Tech game in Las Vegas (so I can legally help pay for my trip by betting on the GA/Tech game). But even if Tech won, I can assure you, we would not let that put a damper on the trip.

So, while you guys look back to the past, I’m looking forward to a great season of football, travel, and fun with the Bulldogs.

TOates

July 26th, 2011
10:33 am

Okay, folks, we play a 12 game season, let’s get that straight. And love the 2-10 quote of Richt’s record against Florida when he has only coached 10 years at UGA. This place is chalk full of some smart ones, I see.

Alan

July 26th, 2011
10:33 am

bamaguy
9-2 when there are 12 games plus a bowl each season?

TOates

July 26th, 2011
10:35 am

LJ, who are you again?

The General Feeling

July 26th, 2011
10:39 am

Every optimistic UGA fan should spend some time with a Tennessee fan and compare/contrast the first 10 years of Phil Fulmer and Mark Richt.

Mutt fans, the comparison will scare the crap out of you. And you don’t have a BCS title to hang-on.

The General Feeling

July 26th, 2011
10:43 am

JB @ 10:03 am posted: I would like to see the Dawgs win a close game against a ranked team where Richt’s coaching obviously made the difference.

You’d have to go back to 2001. Is that okay, JB?

slydog

July 26th, 2011
10:43 am

The question remains: Do we want to have a dominant football program or just be good enough to compete? We are not Alabama, Ohio St., or Nebraska. I get that. Neither are we South Carolina, Ole Miss, or Wisconsin, teams who catch lightning in a bottle every now and then. We are somewhere in the middle. In recent years, the program has regressed past even that marker. There is more optimism on The Flats with a triple option offense than in Athens with a pro-style offense, pro-style defense, and twice as many NFL players. CMR can win it all running a (relatively) clean program. There is dirt lying around every program. It’s mostly outsiders who get these institutions caught holding the bag. 10-2, 9-3, and 8-4 is acceptable 5 x times in ten years with this type of talent. However, that record should not include a sub .500 record against your biggest rival, depending on two freshman qb’s, DB’s leaving WR’s wide open down the middle or the sideline, dumb penalties after great plays, dancing on Vanderbilt’s logo, fumbling at the goal line every week, too many simple traffic charges to name, etc. When you have a nice coach, where football is obviously not his passion (no problem there), then character mistakes by players, missed recruiting opportunites, and, bone headed play-calling, undisciplined play is not acceptable. If UF, Alabama, Ohio St., USC, and LSU can win NC with hacks for quarterbacks, then why can’t we? I can’t include Auburn, because Cam Newton was the best in the SEC since Herschel.

Tide Roll

July 26th, 2011
10:46 am

Have you people seen the Offensive Line depth chart from the Rivals preview of the Dawgs? Some kid named Hugh Williams is backing up Cordy Glenn. Ben Reynolds, 6′2″ 265, is your back up center. And Austin Long (missed spring, back injury), and Dallas Lee (missed spring, asthma like condition), are backing up Burnette and Anderson. Only school in America who’s 2nd team offensive line is in worse shape physically than their starters, and they haven’t played a down of college football! How can you scrimmage? One injury to a starter, and your looking at elevating some walkon with no experience, an injured backup with no experience, or a true freshman with no experience. In the toughest defensive conference in America. Something is seriously wrong with your program when in the face of these challenges, the Richt/Bobo braintrust bring in the 9th rated offensive line class in the CONFERENCE (per rivals), Why don’t you Georgia fans address these specifics and demand answers from Richt/Booboo rather than continuously speaking in general terms, like how much you love the Dawgs, and how fired up you are, and how you can’t wait, and all that other crap. This is why your program loses to Colorado and Central Florida. Ya’ll enable it to.

Hook is Set!

July 26th, 2011
10:49 am

Just to show autographed items from everyone is found if you look close enough…the point being made is that if a player DID not sell his autograph or the item, the NCAA has no jurisdiction.

http://redandblack.com/2011/06/30/signs-of-trouble-autograph-sales-violate-ncaa-regulations/

WDE

July 26th, 2011
10:50 am

@LJ got a great idea stick with whoever is your HC and we will keep ours..troll.

DawginLex

July 26th, 2011
10:51 am

DawginLex

July 26th, 2011
8:21 am
Here are some more for the TROLL VILLAGE

11.) 2-8 versus florida
12.) No National titles since 1980
13.) Richt looks like Helen Hunt
14.) Summer national champs
15.) Kool aid drinkers

Just reference a number and save time

*************************************************

SSI

Just list #15 you moron

Field Goal Jesus is the answer

July 26th, 2011
10:53 am

You people forget that Boo Boo is still around. Face it, Richt has now allowed mediocre South Carolina to surpass the UGA football program. Tums anyone?

WDE

July 26th, 2011
10:54 am

@Tide Roll why don’t Bama fans address the 4th place finish in the West not the SEC in the West..

WDE

July 26th, 2011
10:59 am

@Field Goal Jesus is the answer I think USCe will have to beat us more than once to admit they have surpassed anyone..nice try troll…back to the bridge!

Uga2002

July 26th, 2011
11:05 am

@oates?

I graduated from UGA in 02, great job, at Emory for my MBA. You graduated from UGA when?

CMR is 2-10 against UF, you want me to say they won 2 and lost 8, I say they played 10 but only won 2. 2-10. Personal preference. Kind of like I mentioned Auburn scored on 7 drives out of their 10 against us… cough… grantham choked. 7-10. Or should I say 7-3? I’ll stick with 7-10. I’d hate for you to add.

slydog

July 26th, 2011
11:07 am

the fact remains: CMR has done less with more. Bottom line. Here is a nice analogy: John Cooper. Remember him? What did Ohio St. do while he was there? NFL talent and All-Americans all over the place. What about after that? They are not in trouble over some tattoos and sports gear, it was the cover-up. We all know CMR would not have covered that simple matter up (unless it was Aaron Murray or Stafford).

Richt's Island

July 26th, 2011
11:18 am

” Come on little buddy!”

Richt and his merry gang of misfits seem to think that the entire SEC East has collapsed. The folks who think that USC is going to fold up shop, pack their bags, and go on a bender are just looking through rose colored glasses. To think that Garcia is not embarrassed and has much to prove after his public thrashing by the USC adminisration and Spurrier need to think again. The first game USC has is against East Carolina, and EC is not bad, not too good either. Spurrier will do just enough to get by EC, but will focus his efforts on the SEC East and that second game against UGA.

Just to share, here is the 2011 SEC Helmet schedule.

http://www.sectalk.com/boards/sec-football-talk/101874-2011-sec-helmet-schedule.html

joe taxpayer

July 26th, 2011
11:31 am

Chris at 9:26 preach on brother!!!!!!!

WDE

July 26th, 2011
11:42 am

@Tide roll you want to talk about demanding answers….seems Saban and company need to answer a few of these ..stay trollish my friend http://bleacherreport.com/tb/bad2h

Gorilla Biscuit

July 26th, 2011
11:49 am

The Dawgs are gonna pound your guys’ puddin’.

Go for 2

July 26th, 2011
11:50 am

I am not a huge believer in recruitment hype but what a great example of continued Mark Bradley spin. UGa ranks 4th in the SEC in 2011 recruiting and that is a “Dream Team”?

Mark, so please tell us how many of those dream recruits will letter this season? Do you do any fact finding or just channel notes from UGa’s Athletic Dept? Sad, really sad that this type of lame writing passes at the AJC.

I do agree that UGa will not be sunk at 0-2 but that is only because you will cover for them. Everyone, watch for the “tremendous potential” column and “Georgia looking stronger” columns by mid September. Or you will just ignore inconvenient facts, bad games- who’ll foget your failure to address the terrible loss at Colorado last year? Remember Mark? AJ Green actually played in that game (but it didn’t fit your spin on how the schedule and the Green suspension ruined the year).

Mark Richt will continue to be an ineffective Coach and the fans in Columbia, Knoxville, Starkville, Gainesville, Baton Rouge are loving it…keep bringing us those quality wins over UK, Coastal and Vandy Georgia !

GF2

LHarding Dawg

July 26th, 2011
11:51 am

Gamecock QB coach arrested for peeing in public and smelling of booze. I wonder if Garcia was with him. Too sad but funny. Thankfully it’s not a Georgia coach. You trolls and misfits would have a field day.

WDE

July 26th, 2011
12:13 pm

Hey were did Tide roll go?? Come back we demand some answers!

SSIgator

July 26th, 2011
12:27 pm

“Everyone could have said, ‘Georgia’s in the tank”

Uh, don’t look now coach, but they are.

Rip

July 26th, 2011
12:39 pm

“I plan on having a hell of a year”

Uh, didn’t you “plan on” beating Colorado, UCF, Florida, Auburn, SC, Miss St, and Ark????

Didn’t you “plan on” on winning the SEC last year????

Rip

July 26th, 2011
12:44 pm

“No one’s pushing the panic button. We believe in what we’re doing”

Yeah, really? How bout Belin, Searles, and the recruiting high school coordinator coach who all quit on Richt this off-season? King & Ealey quit. Benedict quit. You won 6 games, players didn’t believe. Administration didn’t extend the Head Coach’s contract–they don’t believe.

Pretty sure if no one’s pushing it, the panic button must be broken from over-use.

SSIgator

July 26th, 2011
12:49 pm

“There’s no sense of gloom and doom”

Of course not. When you are dispensing that high octane KoolAid that UGA fans drink everything is rosy.

WDE

July 26th, 2011
12:51 pm

@Rip we get it you hate UGA…well skippy we hate you right back.

Georgia | MrSEC.com

July 26th, 2011
1:00 pm

[...] Richt spoke to a Georgia booster club in the Atlanta area. His message was upbeat and positive. And the fans on hand liked what their coach was saying:“We’re Georgia. We’ve got good players. We stumbled last year, but we [...]

Rip

July 26th, 2011
1:01 pm

Handy List for Richt to use after the losses this season (see sportscliches dot com):

The final score is the only statistic that matters.
They outplayed us in every phase (facet) of the game.
They wanted it more than we did.
We had our chances but we let them slip away.
We came up a little short.
We don’t care about moral victories.
They caught us on an off night.
It just wasn’t meant to be.
Turnovers killed us.
They out-hustled us.
They out-muscled us.
They out-coached us.
We got a wake-up call.
We weren’t mentally prepared.
We came out flat.
We beat ourselves.
We only have to look in the mirror.
They ate our lunch.
They’ve had our number all season.
They own us.
This is a bitter pill to swallow.
It’s going to be a long plane ride home.
I take full responsibility for this loss.
We didn’t get the job done.
Not to take away anything from Denver, but we didn’t play like we’re capable of playing.
My hat’s off to them.
I tip my hat to them.
You’ve got to hand it to them.
Give them all the credit.
The best team won today.
He always has his team ready to play.
We can still hold our heads high.
These guys have nothing to be ashamed of.
They just made the big plays and we didn’t.
They stepped up and made the plays.
We didn’t match their intensity.
We didn’t maintain the intensity for the entire 60 minutes.
We lost our focus.
I don’t want to point fingers.
There were too many defensive lapses.
Our defense was a non-factor.
Our defense didn’t show up today.
We dug ourselves a deep hole.
We shot ourselves in the foot.
The ball just didn’t bounce our way.
We didn’t get the big breaks today.
We’ll just have to put this loss behind us.
I’m really proud of our guys.
It’s been a great ride.

Atlanta87

July 26th, 2011
1:09 pm

Don’t worry Rip WDE said the same thing to me. It hurt at first, but the counseling helped. Now, if I could just get rid of the nightmares, oh the nightmares.

amau2009

July 26th, 2011
1:11 pm

Don’t worry RIP, WDE said the same thing to me. It hurts really bad to know that UGA fans hate us I know, but hopefully I can get over it one day.

No tattoos

July 26th, 2011
1:16 pm

Hey here’s an idea, be different and don’t get ugly a$$ tattoos. And ladies, that tattoo today is not cool later.
“hey grandma, nice tattoo.”

No tattoos

July 26th, 2011
1:18 pm

Don’t get drunk tattoos….”yeehaw let’s get this uglya$$ tattoo while I’m still drunk”…No regrets later, hehehehe

Tre'

July 26th, 2011
1:18 pm

Ya’ll 6 & 7 is hunky dory.

No tattoos

July 26th, 2011
1:19 pm

Thought black people didn’t want to be branded? What’s with the tattoos?

Tre'

July 26th, 2011
1:20 pm

If [0-2] happens….If? Considering the 2-9 record against ranked teams over last couple of seasons, pretty good chance, 82% to be precise, ranked coaches out-coach Richt.

Kevin

July 26th, 2011
1:48 pm

So Mark Richt said this is a dream year for Georgia well if u lose to Boise state n S.C. Gamecocks bad at 0-2 his dream be Nightmare at end too….He better get the malox in hand pack the Ford truck soon…..lol Oh we love ask that but the AJC holds the strings n Georgia Press folks u ask what be said sorta like Press is told to kiss obama feet say how great is….any way if we go 10-2 someway he be still coach…be 6-6 again well not sure what be next…..Oh wait i know excuse’s well he was hurt he broke wind at Practice …he rob a bank failed at atlanta city schools…and this way i type too so be nice okay

Kevin

July 26th, 2011
1:57 pm

Oh Richt has a dream i see do u think Boise state not readin this now..what great idea give Broncos to come to Ga dome n beat The Dream team bad n get Booooed out of Ga dome…my pick 34-20 Boise state n S.C. Gamecocks be very well played till we lose 28-23 n Uh-o Richt how the dream now….auburn will win east vs fla gators in SEC championship also…that me pick fla gators will be back now folks n No i not gator fan just facts too…They my facts i do so shoot me!This will be like Mark Richt on the X-Factor bein judge n all 4 sayin No u awful go home.

dont get it

July 26th, 2011
1:59 pm

I just dont believe a word this man says anymore. Does a “heluva year” mean we beat florida? ya right coach! we couldnt beat the worst UF team in over 15 years! Hire Kirby Smart before someone else does.

dont get it

July 26th, 2011
2:00 pm

well said RIP!

dream team??

July 26th, 2011
2:01 pm

let’s beat central florida before we start tattooing ourselves with “dream team”. once again, sounds like we’re recruiting athletes when we need character

Nerds! Nerds! Nerds!

July 26th, 2011
2:07 pm

Trolls everywhere, I tell ya.

slydog

July 26th, 2011
2:16 pm

@ no tattoos.”i thought black people didn’t want to be branded?” you are ignorant. how many white people are branded? what’s the count? do all blacks have tattoos, gold teeth, and dreds? Answer this for yourself punk. Next, I guess while all those lily white Wall Street bankers continue to spend and steal trillions of dollars on themselves, all black people steal too?

me

July 26th, 2011
2:17 pm

?

I-DOG

July 26th, 2011
2:34 pm

Rubik,

Half of the recruits will end up in trouble for DUI, suspended license, or assault?

That is about as deceptive a statement as one can write.

The number of UGA players that have been arrested for assault is VERY VERY low over the past 5-10 years. Same with DUI, though there have been a couple of DUI’s.

The Sturdivant deal where he touched a pregnant woman’s stomach shouldn’t be lumped in with several UT players alledgedly nearly beating a guy to death in a bar. The Sturdivant thing was a little creepy and not great manners, but I wouldn’t call that an “assault”. Mettinger was dismissed from the team over his Spring Break incident. That is the death penalty from Richt and UGA. Richt can’t assign jail time, so they gave him the maximum penalty they could (kicked off the team).

I remember that Bollinger was pulled over for a suspected DUI, but those charges were dropped. I understand that we have had a couple of other DUI’s and I consider that a serious offense and in each instance they were either suspended and or kicked off the team.

Most of the arrests were moped (yes moped) related or driving with a suspended license. Not exactly menace to society stuff, but still dumb and all too frequent.

Half of the recruits aren’t arrested for assualt or DUI that just isn’t true and there are VERY few players that have gotten kicked off for scholastic reasons over the past 10 years.

Bammer

July 26th, 2011
2:38 pm

Hmmm…4th in the West, fresh off a NC, finishing 10-3 with a Capital One bowl blowout. OR 3rd in the East, haven’t sniffed a NC since Reagan was in office, and a non-TD scoring loss to a CUSA team. I think I’ll take 4th in the West douche.

WDE

July 26th, 2011
2:46 pm

@Bammer for a team that demands championships its a bitter pill to end up 4th in the West I would imagine….and something else we haven’t sniffed since Reagan having to vacate wins for cheating..by the by know where I can buy a new suit or a signed Bama jersey?

mm

July 26th, 2011
2:47 pm

ESPN.com 2011 Recruiting
1. Florida State
2. Alabama
3. Auburn
4. USC
5. Texas
6. Georgia

Those recruting rankings are about as useless as the team rankings during the preseason up to the midpoint of the season.

John

July 26th, 2011
2:49 pm

The dream team is getting the #1 running back you target – Isaiah
The dream team is getting the #1 quarterback you target – Christian LeMay
The dream team is getting the behemoth nose tackle you needed – Jenkins
The dream team is getting two of the top three corners – Mitchell and Swann
The dream team is getting the minister of defense and one of the top 10 in America any position – Ray Drew

RedandBlackDAWG

July 26th, 2011
2:51 pm

I think this applies to a few on here like RIP,

If you don’t know what the term means, “troll” refers to an online personality that uses his/her anonymity to “bait” users or turn valid discussions into full-blown arguments.

Don’t take the bait, UGA supporters.

GO DAWGS

Buck Blew

July 26th, 2011
2:54 pm

I just don’t see it. Dawgs will go 7-5. Losses to Boise St, Cocks, Miss St, Gators and Auburn.

THE DUDE

July 26th, 2011
2:54 pm

I BELIEVE HE IS RIGHT. SO LETS GO RICHT. THEM DAWGS ARE HUNGRY. 10-4.

John

July 26th, 2011
3:07 pm

The Dream Team is getting Andrews one of the top 6 centers in America
The Dream Team is getting Dantzler and Debell for bookend tackles
The Dream Team is getting the Theus brothers- a top snapper and a top tackle
The Dream Team is getting the Long brothers who are Dawg to the Bone
The Dream Team is getting Nick Marshall – an athlete that can play virtually any skill position
The Dream Team is getting another Bailey – Sterling this time
The Dream Team is getting Conley and Scott-Wesley – two burners and HS All-American receivers along with Mitchell if he stays at receiver over corner.
The Dream Team is getting Turene, Wilson, and Herrera at linebacker with two of them from Florida
The Dream Team is getting AJC Super 11 Chris Sanders and Superprep and Army All-American Corey Moore at Safety
The Dream Team is getting Jay Rome who got the ball rolling – the top tightend in America!
The Dream Team is getting anyone who truly wants to be a Dawg and dominate the SEC

3rd best in the SEC? The rest of the SEC wishes that to be the case. This class is toe to toe with Bama’s and maybe better.

Dawg Gone

July 26th, 2011
3:09 pm

@John I like the way you talk ! Go Dogs!

John

July 26th, 2011
3:16 pm

While we didn’t win in 2002 and 2007 we sure did sniff it. Our 2002 team equaled Saban’s 2003 team but did not win the beauty contest that is the NCAA since there is no playoff. Seems like I recall an Ohio team and a team from southern Florida playing for that year’s title. Interesting looking back at those two teams now isn’t it. Go Dawgs!

AltamahaDawg

July 26th, 2011
3:17 pm

Good for coach!. We shall see how it all turns out, but giving the state of affairs the hour after the bowl game, the man could not have handled this any better till now. Text book for turning it around.

dont get it

July 26th, 2011
3:22 pm

@slydog – by assuming all wall street bankers are “lily white” your exposing your own racism. Also the fact that you dont see how racist the term lily white is, shows once again you are the racist. typical of people like you to put your foot in your mouth when trying to discuss race. the truth is your so full of hate you cant think straight.

dont get it

July 26th, 2011
3:27 pm

we need a dream coach! we got a loser! cant believe he’s not smart enought to see a pattern here. how about we put a gag order on stuff like this. lets not talk about how good we are going to be untill its over. thats uga football bunch of paper champions. and our coach encourages it. if you dont think so think back to….black outs, black helmets, endzone celebrations (which led to an a$$ beating of epic proportions the next year) and all of the NC talk of 2008.

slydog

July 26th, 2011
3:28 pm

@John That Dream Team does not include CMR or Coach BOOBOO under developing them, under coaching them, not putting them in positions to succeed. Funny how your list did not include ONE FACT about who will coach this “Dream Team.” Chuck Daly coached the first one. No questions about him or his coaching ability. Most of those guys wanted to go to UGA for UGA. Which is what it should be in the first place. It definately isn’t the coaching. CMR isn’t strong enough to pull these guys in himself. That’s the only reason BOOBOO didn’t get demoted or dismissed. He had his hooks in these guys already. At least he can recruit some. Why isn’t Herschel the RB coach? Why was Cam Newton viewed as a tight end? Even B. Boykin admitted that Cam ran him over in high school. Why is Nick Marshall being played at every skill position but QB? Why? Lack of imagination and lack of putting players in the best position to win championships.

puppykiller

July 26th, 2011
3:28 pm

Gettin’ all pumped up for the annual letdown I see!!!! Hee heee heee heee hee heeee!!

slydog

July 26th, 2011
3:33 pm

@ don’t get it.. i was only responding to an ignorant idiot. excuse me for not writing a term paper on this blog. In physics, I learned every action requires an equal and opposite reaction. So have a nice day sir with statements like”typical of people like you.” Now how does that sound? like the pot calling the kettle black. Got me? My fault, let me name every ethnic group at Wall Street who robbed people just to appease you. This is a sports blog and yet everyday black athletes get blanket treatment being called thugs, criminals, gangsters, illiterate, etc. Where is your voice when that appears? Go see “The Help” to make yourself fell better.

Dawg Gone

July 26th, 2011
3:37 pm

@slydog just who in the heck is your team or are you just a cowardly troll?

John

July 26th, 2011
3:38 pm

Watched Richard Samuel running the ball against South Carolina two years ago. He started the game and played well. Carlton Thomas came in and carried the ball some, but Samuel was impressive. Gained 4 yards or more on almost every carry. Georgia won the game 41 to 37 and Samuel scored the first touchdown and set up the game clinching field goal. Those that are concerned about our running game, fret not! The Samuel Boo Crowell train is going to be rolling!! Watch for big yards to be paved by Glenn, Gates, Jones, Burnette/Lee, and Anderson.

With Aron White, Arthur Lynch, and Jay Rome in the mix at tight end, look for Orson Charles to be spread some with our receivers to get more experience on the field. Murray will have Charles, White/Lynch/Rome, King and Brown/Wooten/Troupe/Bennett to throw to on any given down. (With Malcolm Mitchell being the wild card in the mix.)

Go Dawgs!!

slydog

July 26th, 2011
3:38 pm

@ I don’t get it…I have been deployed three times on behalf of this nation and have been sent on assignment to 30 other countries. It’s almost impossible for me to HATE white people idiot. I would not have survived. I have interacted with almost every race and ethnic group on this planet. Get your facts straight before you hop in other people’s conversation. However, let us come to one agreement: UGA needs a DREAM COACH.

honky talkin'

July 26th, 2011
3:39 pm

I hope Dawg fans enjoy the Boise State loss…you’ll never see the inside of the Dome again.

slydog

July 26th, 2011
3:40 pm

@Dawg Gone… I am a UGA grad, fan, and a non CMR supporter, as far as football goes. Period. I am am sick and tired of him under coaching and under developing this team. Time for both parties to part ways.

Gary

July 26th, 2011
3:40 pm

Wow all the haters are jumping on this one today. I am starting to feel better about the Dawgs already.

the voice

July 26th, 2011
3:45 pm

I feel another preseason NC!!!!

Dawg Gone

July 26th, 2011
3:49 pm

@slydog I don’t agree with you about CMR…I would like to thank you for your service!!

John

July 26th, 2011
3:49 pm

I believe Coach Bobo is a good coach but is still developing with his play calling abilities. I agree that he does need to improve in that one area. Coach Richt obviously has confidence that he will or he would have replaced or demoted him. While our coach some may say is not on Saban’s or Spurrier’s level I beg to differ. He has one of the highest winning percentages ever and has held his own versus both Saban and Spurrier. Yes, his record against Florida needs to improve, but remember, Meyer is no longer there. Let’s wait and see what happens now that Muschamp is at the helm.

Go Dawgs!

RxDawg

July 26th, 2011
3:50 pm

“He acts as if he knows something something others don’t. “I plan on having a hell of a year,” he said.”

Oh yeh! Pass some of that kool aid over here, gugalugalugalug

slydog

July 26th, 2011
3:54 pm

@ Dawg Gone Thanks very much

Snoop Dawg

July 26th, 2011
4:02 pm

That’s the thing,” Richt said. “If [0-2] happens, can we withstand all the stuff that will come? But just looking at it on paper, those might be the two best teams we play all year.”

That’s predictable. Preacha Man’s already got the stratcom to counter the first two losses. But what’s this stuff about can WE withstand all the stuff that will come? Listen, the Bulldog Nation has withstood all the “stuff” that Preacha Man Mark “Marjoe” Richt has been peddling the past few years. We can definitely withstand it, but he hopefully cannot.

I am disappointed that the UGA leadership has not already fired Richt. I have no doubt that this time next year the next head coach will have already recruited a Top 10 class to join the ranks of those great ones before them…

GDAWG65

July 26th, 2011
4:15 pm

I hope CMR is right in his positive attitude. To have that confidence he must have moved Bobo to water boy and taken over the OC job. We desperately need an experienced and winning OC. Bobo must gogo.

Marietta Resident

July 26th, 2011
4:18 pm

Go Dawgs!

this dawg want hunt!!

July 26th, 2011
4:19 pm

He knows something UGA fans don’t know, that is how to keep your job when you make $3 million a year, and you are the 7th best coach in the SEC, and you had a losing season on top of that. This guy reminds me so much of Billy Graham when he is preaching to the desperate souls that will listen and believe any thing he says. The UGA fan base is the same way, They are so desperate for some good news, that they will still believe anything the Reverend tells them. First of all, it doesn’t matter how many blue chip players this clown recruits, because he still has his hand picked O.C.the 7th or 8th best O.C. in the conference. He still has the worst running backs coach, w.r coach, and O.L. coach in the SEC, and the jury is still out of his defensive coordinator and the other defensive coaches. So when things get tight in the 4th qtr. you can always count of BooBoo to make that one boneheaded call that stalls a drive,and results in a field goal(which is a Richt specialty), or a punt. There is no way in hell this coach will suddenly turn everything around after 3 seasons of mediocre coaching, game planning, and game day adjustments. Simply put, UGA fans can drink all of the Kool-aid this clown makes, but at the end of the season that kool-aid finally want taste so good to the most delusional UGA fan. When a program has the 7th best coach in the conference, and the 8th best O.C. in the conference, the future doesn’t look so great, or in this clown’s words,” a helluva year”.

John

July 26th, 2011
4:22 pm

While I understand the desire to remove Richt, be careful what you ask for. He may not be the perfect coach in your mind, but he has put Georgia back on the map after years of Goff and Donnan. Every year that Georgia has had an experienced quarterback in place, we have won a minimum of 10 games. That is 6 out of 6 years. 02,03,04,05,07,08. Years where we have broken in a new qb with virtually no exp: 01,06,09 and 2010: 8,9,8 and 6 wins respectively. I believe it is imperative that Christian LeMay and/or Hutson Mason get valuable experience for when Murray departs more than anything else.

I would love to see Herschel Walker hired as our running backs coach. I wonder if he would do it if asked?

As for Cam Newton, I would have loved to see him wearing the red and black, but auburn only got him for one year and will likely turn in that trophy before too long. I would rather earn the championship the right way, not in a compromising way. I want to see our quarterbacks for three to four years like Green, Shockley, Stafford and Murray. Marshall wants to play defense so he can play basketball too – his decision, not Richt’s.

Go Dawgs!

What

July 26th, 2011
4:28 pm

And I plan on winning the mega millions this year.

All In

July 26th, 2011
4:33 pm

I love how people automatically check Auburn off as a win. Raining National Champions regardless of the losses do to the NFL should never be considered as a write off. I am the first to admit that AU is going to have to play great ball this year in order to contend but please if you have any common sense don’t write them off as an easy W. Until you actually do something with you program and win a relevant game or title you room for personal arrogant gestures is not welcomed here. Say what you want about Cam and how he was the team but if you know anything about football, one player can’t win a game.Michael Dyer 182 touches 1093yds and Michael Lattimore 249 touches 1197yds. Unreal offensive line and great college wide receivers. On top of that we have probably one of the best tight ends in the country. Go ahead and account for 70 catches this year for LUTZ… Should be an interesting season for ole Richy and the dawgs…..

LHarding Dawg

July 26th, 2011
4:33 pm

Coach Bobo’s offense only averaged 30 points a game last year. What the heck to you people want? We had a bad year, get over it, get a life, and look forward to a new and much better 2011 season.

slydog

July 26th, 2011
4:35 pm

@ John I think, or at least believe, if Cam would have came to UGA during his first go’ round, it would have been clean. I don’t believe he took anything to go to UF. He just simply fit what they were trying to do on offense. Notice the alledged statement his father made, “..this time it won’t be for free..” This implies that Cam must have told him about other players at UF who were compensated for signing. For the life of me, I cannot believe he was offered $180,000 for a player who was unproven, made bad grades, and bought a stolen laptop. You’re right about Nick Marshall though.

Low Expectations

July 26th, 2011
4:42 pm

Questions for Mark Bradley: Do you believe UGA will ever participate in a BCS national championship game under Richt? Where would you rank Richt as compared to his SEC peers? National peers? Do you think Richt would have lasted as long (10 years so far) at AL, LSU, Florida or even Auburn without once appearing in a national championship game? Do you feel UGA fans have lower expectations than these schools and are happy as long as GA consistently wins 8-10 games a year while others compete for national championships. Just curious as to your opinions.

LHarding Dawg

July 26th, 2011
4:42 pm

I’m not automatically implying AU is a win. In 2007 Georgia went to Auburn (ranked #5) and beat them 45-20. We did it to them, don’t think they can’t do it to us.

Terry

July 26th, 2011
4:49 pm

by Jay Tate – NCAA closing the Cam Newton loophole?
The NCAA on Tuesday proposed to change its official definition of agent to include “third-party influences, including family members, who market student-athletes’ athletics ability or reputation for personal financial gain.” The NCAA’s proposal doesn’t name Cam Newton or anyone in his family, but it’s clearly devised to close a loophole that allowed Newton to remain eligible at Auburn last season.

Dawg Tired

July 26th, 2011
4:49 pm

Looks as if Stephen Garcia has only been modeling his position coach’s behavior all along. He certainly has learned well.

UGAly

July 26th, 2011
4:53 pm

Begin 2 and 0 or go

slydog

July 26th, 2011
4:53 pm

I think all South Carolina fans have a reason to be worried. Garcia’s drinking buddy has been suspended just before the season….hahahahha

DAwg Prop

July 26th, 2011
4:57 pm

with all this talent and the dream team recruits, richt will start dominating the SEC east. Florida and tenn will suck this year so Ga can finally win the division.

bubba4dawgs

July 26th, 2011
4:59 pm

I love it when the GT Nerds get on here and smart mouth the DAWGS! Hey, get a team! GT4ever…..go play with your slide rule!

craig

July 26th, 2011
5:09 pm

Boise St. lost their last meeting against our Dogs with a superior team that beat Okla. However, I will be surprise to see this happen again. We have a new red-shirted running back. We did it before, I wont to see it, but it wont happen!

You just love my dawgy style

July 26th, 2011
5:22 pm

Of course UGA is gonna have a good year. With that many cupcakes on the schedule, how could they not. Let’s all pretend Miss State is gonna come to Athens and make us earn every bit of that W.
I don’t think so. Any other season expectations would be through the roof. Not a single tough road game on the schedule.
We can lose to South Carolina b/c that’s who we are now. No big deal. Just go to church and jiss your cousin.
If anybody wants to say CMR is awesome for winning nine games this year, they need to have their head examined.

HuttHut

July 26th, 2011
5:26 pm

A great year?

1. Richt will try and not finish 12th in SEC in TO margin against winning tams for the 3rd straight year
2. Richt will try and not finish 10th in SEC RUSHING
3. Richt will try and not finish 10th in scoring against winning teams
4. Richt will try and not finish 12th in SEC in def 3rd down conversions
5. Richt will try and recover more than 1 fumble against winnning teams
6. Richt will try and beat a winning team, unlike last season
7. Richt will try and beat a ranked team, unlike last season
8. Richt will try and not start the season with his best players suspended

HuttHut

July 26th, 2011
5:27 pm

mike Bobo’s offense averaged 15 points a game against ranked teams.

danny

July 26th, 2011
5:54 pm

CMR has been studying football since last season.

hotdawg

July 26th, 2011
5:58 pm

0-2 start I could maybe handle against two higher ranked teams. If those games are blowouts against us and we look lost then the drums will start beating again.

hahahaha

July 26th, 2011
6:07 pm

Nothing like throwing that hell comment out there to fire up the fan base and show your renewed passion for coaching. Wonder if he says it’s hotter than hell down here when he is on his mission trips?

needums

July 26th, 2011
6:21 pm

“Even if we go 0-2, the seasons not sunk” Already the excuses are starting for going 0-2, we don’t need to have that kind of attitude. What’s next? “well we tried as hard as we could” or “the ball just didn’t bounce our way” or how bout my favorite “theres always next year” I’m getting sick of this!!!!!

FL dawg

July 26th, 2011
7:30 pm

Long season. Lotta hype. 10-2 is 10-2, but the dawgs have recruiting concerns in SC. Ilook for the dawgs to play smarter against Boise State and more of a free for all against SS.

RamboDog

July 26th, 2011
7:35 pm

@all in
I love how people automatically check Auburn off as a win. Raining National Champions regardless of the losses do to the NFL should never be considered as a write off. I am the first to admit that AU is going to have to play great ball this year in order to contend but please if you have any common sense don’t write them off as an easy W

UGA is counting it as a W because it will be an easy W…. and as for your comment about winning a championship, we will and it won’t cost us $$$ like you cheaters. You are “one and done”, and the NCAA will be taking you to the woodshed in the future, need to tell your stupid, cocky coach to put a sock in that hole in the middle of his face!! Hahahahahahahahah

the stage is set

July 26th, 2011
7:52 pm

Win the BS game and MR is a hero. Lose and he is a ____!

Test

July 26th, 2011
8:08 pm

test

RamboDog

July 26th, 2011
8:09 pm

Why am I blocked???

RamboDog

July 26th, 2011
8:16 pm

All In
July 26th, 2011
4:33 pm

Auburn is “one and done”, you won’t get a REFUND when the NCAA takes you behind the woodshed and makes your fans cry like babies. Tell your stupid, arrogant coach to put a sock in that hole in the middle of his face or it will be worse in the end.

UGA will put a beatdown on AU with no problem this year. 5th in the West for you guys this year… looks like a rebuilding year, hope ya’ll are saving up some money for your next vacated title run!!! With the current state of the economy, you should be able to get some good deals !!!! Losers

Warhorse

July 26th, 2011
8:56 pm

It always is a dream team and a dream season for UGA during the summer. Unfortunately, by November after the poodles run into that mean Gator, it turns out to be merely a wet dream team.

WormDirt

July 26th, 2011
9:13 pm

South Carolina will have SIX losses this season….. LSU and Arkansas will decide the west when they meet on Friday, November 25th….. and Georgia will stomp Tech the following Saturday and await the winner with every pundit picking Georgia to lose because they spent the entire season mastabating to LSU and Alabama and will only remember Georgia’s overtime loss to Boise State…..

THEN….. Georgia wins the SEC and Richt laughs to himself and prays for the well-being of every hater and their extended family.

Peace be with you.

YOu heard it here first.

Mobile Dawg

July 26th, 2011
9:16 pm

If I make 3 or 4 Million this year, I’m going to have a hell of a year too.

NCAA police

July 26th, 2011
9:42 pm

Who paid for the three dream team tattoos?

whatever

July 26th, 2011
10:15 pm

CMR has the gall to say that he has a renewed sense of passion??? WHAT?? After all – this coach – who should be coaching Div II (or what ever it’s called today) – is making millions a year and he has a renewed sense of passion? Very troubling.

Matt

July 26th, 2011
10:18 pm

Richt needs to “plan on”:

beating a ranked team and a few teams with a winning record and quit faking like he’s a leader. Leaders step up in big games.

Richt’s 0-5 vs. ranked teams in 2010.

100% coach better than Richt.

suwanee dawg

July 26th, 2011
10:23 pm

Interesting posts on this blog and it’s not even August. AJC writers are good at posting articles that generate clicks and page views. Last I checked, nothing matters until September…

truedawg

July 26th, 2011
10:30 pm

What CMR sees is a better work ethic and a better team spirit. He sees stronger players and better prepared to play for 2 OT and not just 4 qtrs. He sees players that don’t want to feel what its like to lose again. This team will surprise some people. I’m not saying they will win the NC or even the SEC but they will be in the conversation. This Defense will be lights out. This team has leadership. Mark Richt has a fire inside of him and the coaching staff is on board and on the same page. There is unity. Now Bulldog nation its up to you. I ask give it 5 games. Give 5 games of full support. Then judge. CMR has earned the chance and this TEAM deserves our support. Rain or shine..I’ll be yellin GO DAWGS on the 20 yard line! GO DAWGS!!

Barack Dawg

July 26th, 2011
11:18 pm

gtfanfrom1951 – Just to let you know – you were on the UGA blog not the GT blog. Did you keep your ring from the cheating 2009 year? Oh you don’t have to worry about the win against UGA…errr sorry the loss you had against UGA. You get to keep that.

tennessee tom

July 27th, 2011
6:58 am

Here we go again,Ga is the preseason champ,new uniforms and tattos want win many games,what ever you all are smoking it must be expensive

RedandBlackDAWG

July 27th, 2011
7:09 am

I want to thank all of the UGA haters that come on to this blog spouting their usual dribble about UGA. Not an original thought amongst any of you. It let’s true UGA fans and myself know that you are indeed worried that UGA just might hand you your butt when they play your teams. I have looked through some of the blogs of your teams and I don’t see nearly the interest by outsiders about your team, so I can only assume that real UGA fans, just don’t give a darn about you or your team. The game is played on the field, not in your minds. Go cheer for your team on your own teams blogs. Beleive me, from what I have seen, with the exception of AL.COM, there are a lot of pretty pitiful, weak, supporters of your own team. AJC may not be perfect, but at least they allow idiots like a lot of you, to come on and make statements usually reserved for kids in the 3rd grade, so you have a way to express yourself.

FLA DAWG

July 27th, 2011
8:08 am

HAPPY HORSE SHYTE,

When Richt has to pretend to be excited you know we’re in trouble.
It’s not in his nature to be outwardly passionate.

Enough of the BS. Let’s see what happens on Sept 3 & 10.

Andy

July 27th, 2011
8:39 am

The sooner UGA fans come to the realization that UGA is a middle of the SEC pack regional program, the better off they will be.

RedandBlackDAWG

July 27th, 2011
8:52 am

I would be more concerned about CMR, if he did not display any emotion at all. Seems like that has been a concern for so many people that dislike CMR. I am glad he is showing passion and if you don’t think that is encouraging to the players, you are missing the point of college football all together. A spirited team that has confidence in their coaches and team, do a heck of a lot better than an uninspired one. These kids believe in CMR and their team mates and they are going to have a good year.
Hold your condemnation of the team and CMR until the season begins. It will not be neccesary once it does. Of course I realize that some of you have to write some choice bit of crap that you find amusing, but trust me, you are in the minority, and true DAWG fans, will have the last laught.

Old Dawg Fan

July 27th, 2011
9:31 am

I am excited about Bulldog football the same as I have been since 1964. Every new season brings possibilities. Even with the “dream recruiting season” it is best to play it down and do the talking on the field. Little changes in staffing and the worst offensive cord in the SEC don’t bode well for UGA even with somewhat of an easy schedule. I hope CMR can pull it all together-if he doesn’t it will be his last year at the helm.

F*cking A

July 27th, 2011
9:41 am

This is like the special olympics, everyone is a winner at the beginning of the season…. yaaaaaaa! Bottom line, half of all NCAA teams will be 0-1. After that confidence is shot, it’s much easier to go 0-2. Playing two teams in the top 25 in the first 2 weeks is a huge task. Dawgs needs to come to reality that a couple of freshman coming into the SEC to play the SEC east champs and a BCS blue smurfs isn’t going to turn our program around… Be prepared to kick your dogs and yell at the kids for the first 2 weeks, we may very well go 0-2… Just saying…

LogicalUS

July 27th, 2011
10:05 am

Hate to break it to the delusional UGA fans, but you DO NOT drastically change the strength and speed of your team vs other SEC and college teams in one summer.

It is a pipe dream.

This isn’t a Rocky movie where the former film projector guy has some hidden formula which the professional strength coaches who have a lifetime of study, research and experience somehow do not know about? It is like asking your front desk receptionist to take over your IT department and thinking that just because she loves the company, the IT guys are magically going to be 75% better. Pipe Dream.

There simply isn’t enough time in the 9 months in the offseason to make measurable difference. A team would be having to work at a 200% rate to make a difference over other SEC teams, even the slackers teams who may only be working at 80%.

It comes down to the players and unfortunately UGA does not have those this year.

SEC rank of UGA players:
DL 7
LB 8
SS 5
CB 6

QB 1 or 2
RB 12
OL 9
WR 12
TE 3

Columbus Dawg

July 27th, 2011
10:08 am

Looks like the mighty Crimson Tide is gonna have to give up it’s crystal ball! Pictures taken in late 2009 of Mark Ingram trying on suits for Heisman appearance. This after several autographs given to pos store owner. Oh, I know, the mighty Crimson Tide compliance office says no benefits. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Article says that said pos store owner took pictures off of Facebook page.HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Looks like Bama will have to go back to the “Got Twelve”? t-shirts now. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jake

July 27th, 2011
10:12 am

WOW, Mark Richt is 2-9 vs. ranked team since 2008.

How is he still employed?

megan

July 27th, 2011
11:18 am

Chris, obviously you never set foot in a UGA classroom, or any university classroom for that matter: definition of loose: adj. ,Not fastened, restrained, or contained… definition of lose: v. , To be unsuccessful in retaining possession of! Go back to school you moron!

Troll Killer

July 27th, 2011
11:20 am

@notsoLogicalUS really we just had 9 Bull Dogs named to the All-SEC squad you blowhole…and if you really don’t think a 18-20 yr old can make a ‘measurable” difference in 9 months, means you’ve never been in a weight room or practice field. Not only are you a blowhole your a long winded one to boot !

Starring William Conrad as Frank Cannon

July 27th, 2011
11:34 am

Mark Richt will be enjoying lunches together at seasons end with an old friend Tommy Bowden. Buh Bye Mark Richt

WDE

July 27th, 2011
11:40 am

@Starring William Conrad as Frank Cannon..you dead now shut up.

FLA DAWG

July 27th, 2011
1:47 pm

Improvement should have been seen last season.
Did The Dawgs looked improved playing in the bowl game v UCF?
I didn’t see it – I mean a loss to UCF!?

We’ll see very quickly in just over a month if they’ve improved since then and how long Richt & Bobo will be in Athens.

travis

July 27th, 2011
1:50 pm

not a georgia fan.go gators.but i can tell you georgia got more than boise state and south carolina..does not mean thy will win both games.but they should.

26/7/365 Dawg

July 27th, 2011
2:32 pm

Enter your comments here

26/7/365 Dawg

July 27th, 2011
2:53 pm

Meanwhile back at the ranch, the idiots that are suppose to be cleaning out the stables are entering genius directives on how to fly a rocket ( and coach a football team) with no forethought or afterthougnts. (wonder how many of them passed up a football scholarship). And they want all to think that they are in the top 10% of their workforce. Wrong again wonder boy, get back to work, you are on the clock, GO DAWGS

(TRUE FAN)

July 27th, 2011
3:26 pm

COME ON! true fans? yall are baling on ur team? pfth. UGA fans are hopefull not a bad quality honestly…. its eather that or your going for a team you have no hope for.. i pick hype and hope. And dont give me the whole CMR is to blame for everything 11 years 2 losing seasons and yall want to fire him? UGA fans need to take up for the team. OR shut up trools get off. + the kids that come to UGA love CMR its the reason we get good recuting classes… CMR needs to finish the 4th thats all 6-7 and the 7 we lost we were in it – the auburn game. so come guys either that or please dont watch the games if you guys are so sure were gonna lose.

(TRUE FAN)

July 27th, 2011
3:27 pm

GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!

(TRUE FAN)

July 27th, 2011
3:29 pm

Forget the wayward fans that complane about two seasons.
UGA FANS back up UGA or shut up please you make us look ridiculous.

wildbill

July 27th, 2011
4:25 pm

If the dawgs lose to Boise State, its bye bye to CMR.

EV Dawgs

July 27th, 2011
4:28 pm

This UGA team is loaded—maybe the best team since the 80s. Look for easy wins over Boise St and SC. Ga’s toughest games will be miss state and auburn—florida will be terrible this year and Ga should blow them out. Ga tech? Get real—dawgs win that game by 30+!. This is the year of the dawg–take it to the bank!

jdawg

July 27th, 2011
5:44 pm

First off, UGA fans and others call this because we got everyone from the state of georgia that we wanted for the first time in a long time without losing a few here and there to other sec schools like florida and alabama.

Second, what is the problem with being optimistic as a coach. You think the team will play well if the coach comes out in press conferences and says yeah we aren’t very good and will probably have the same record. get over it people. we have the talent to do well this season and we have the easiest SEC schedule possible avoiding Bama, LSU, and Arkansas

Jona

July 27th, 2011
5:54 pm

now you know

Are you really that stupid or just drunk?

Mark Richt

July 27th, 2011
6:01 pm

now you know let me know if I can do anything to help you accomplish that task,

Mark Richt

July 27th, 2011
6:02 pm

Jona do pick on now you know, find your own lover, this ones mine.

Jona

July 27th, 2011
6:04 pm

3 some ?

Jona

July 27th, 2011
6:05 pm

FOR YOUR INFORMATION MARK RICHT, I AM NOT AS GAY AS I WAS LAST MONTH!!!

Jona

July 27th, 2011
6:12 pm

Wow. I feel privileged. The first time I’ve (username) has been hijacked by a retard. I really don’t know why I subject myself to reading these posts by all the idiots that pull for other schools but come on here to bash everything Georgia.

Jona

July 27th, 2011
6:21 pm

I’ve gotta go boys. My beautiful wife is ready to go to dinner. I’m sure your moms have your pop tarts in the toaster by now. Get’em while they’re hot.

Russ

July 27th, 2011
6:52 pm

Attention MARK BRADLEY:

Please PERMANENTLY BAN the July 27, 5:51 poster.

Mark Richt doesn’t deserve being cursed out!!

RedandBlackDAWG

July 27th, 2011
8:10 pm

Good job Russ,
guess he thought he didn’t deserve it either. Another moron that can’t be civil on the blogs.

FLA DAWG

July 27th, 2011
10:09 pm

I’ve never cursed Richt & Bobo but I’ve clearly stated my opinion why this staff should have been fired last season.

Backing a losing/no clue coach is not being a (TRUE FAN).
In my opinion it means being a blind fool.

Regrettably it will take yet another losing, embarrassing season before Richt and his buddies are vacated from my beloved Athens.

Unleashed

July 27th, 2011
10:22 pm

Can’t wait for that first game! CMR has made positive staff changes. Coach G has more players to suit his defense. Hopeful that a couple of freshman can have productive seasons. Boise is not going to know what hit them. The Dome is going to be ridiculously noisy- full of UGA fans. GO DAWGS!!

Horse Meat

July 27th, 2011
10:36 pm

I’m with you, Unleashed. Defense is going to be much improved. We have the best QB in the SEC and one of the best in the country. I like the fact that we ran a couple of guys off that thought the strength and conditioning program was too tough (waaaaah!) It’s going time to get mean and nasty Junkyard Dawgs!

Unleashed

July 27th, 2011
10:41 pm

HM, Murray’s heady and tough. Having a solid returning QB is always a plus in our league. Bama, Ark. & Auburn are going to find that out early this season. Hopefully, Crowell will make an impact quickly and not make too may freshman mistakes.

CaneDawg: CMR is HOT property even though he's on a hotseat

July 28th, 2011
1:58 am

I hope CMR is correct in his assumption of having a big year in Athens this season. But if he is wrong and doesn’t have a big year all is not lost for CMR. There is a job opening at UNC and there will be possibly another job opening at Clemson after the season. In the ACC you can win 7 or 8 games at Chapel Hill and the Tar Heels primary football rival is the Duke Blue Devils who won’t give him as much h_ll as UF did. At Clemson the expectations are a little higher but if you win 8 or 9 games, play for 2nd in the Atlantic Division and get to the Music City Bowl or the Chick Fila Peach Bowl you can rest easy. So even if CMR fails at UGA this season there is a possibility he can rebound instantly in the ACC.

CaneDawg: CMR is HOT property even though he's on a hotseat

July 28th, 2011
2:28 am

Whoever said good guys finish last never met CMR. He will be a head coach at either UGA, UNC, or Clemson next season !!! Eleven long years w/o an elusive National Title at UGA is long enough (especially if one goes 2-9 vs. UF). At UNC he will restore the honorable trust, which is long gone with NCAA, and bring righteous order to the ruins of the chaotic, irresponsible, and corrupt reign of Butch”It’s all my fault” Davis. Or at Clemson he can bring back the glorious second coming of the good ole underchieving and overachieving days of Tommy Bowden. CMR is too big to fail and too legit to quit !! Go CMR !! UGA’s lost is the ACC’s gain !!

RedandBlackDAWG

July 28th, 2011
6:58 am

CMR will be on the hoseat once the administration says he is. Until then, his job is safe, and I beleive UGA will have a decent season, even with all that has taken place in the off season. I hope he is in for the long haul at UGA, because he is a person you can respect as a coach as well as a decent human being. He knows how to coach and win, and he will do so this year.

Loyal Dawg

July 28th, 2011
7:51 am

Here are just a few reasons why UGA fans are proud to have CMR and want to keep him:

1. UNC
2. Southern Cal
3. UT
4. GaTech
5. Ohio State

D Rules

July 28th, 2011
7:54 am

Grantham’s 3-4 D will be a monster–the best in the SEC! Ga’s loaded at every key position on D. Look for the Ga D to shut down Boise St.’s finesse offense and sack Garcia at SC 4-5 times the next week!

Horse Meat

July 28th, 2011
7:59 am

Amen brother!

Loyal Dawg

July 28th, 2011
8:09 am

Enter your comments here

Loyal Dawg

July 28th, 2011
8:20 am

Here are a few reasons why UGA fans are proud of CMR and want to keep him:

1. Jim Tressel
2. Butch Davis
3. Ga Tech Athletic Dept.
4. Lane Kiffin
5. Gene Chizik? Les Miles?

Tarheel Dan

July 28th, 2011
10:04 am

Please Mark Richt Come to baby blue land!

RedandBlackDAWG

July 28th, 2011
12:35 pm

If anybody is interested, here is the ncaa’s version of a change in recruiting, nick named, the CAM Plan. Kind of makes you a little ashamed for the SEC in a way. I hope this never comes up again.

http://www.foxsportssouth.com/07/27/11/NCAA-considering-closing-family-loophole/landing.html?blockID=542038&feedID=4354

Ron Smith

July 28th, 2011
1:14 pm

Can every year be a rebuilding year for Georgia? Does “just wait til next year” have to be the hope of improvement? How much longer can UGA survive all the injuries? “Blackouts” are fun but they don’t win games. I don’t think the fans are angry, just frustrated. Don’t get me wrong, I admire and respect Mark Richt and I hope UGA does well this year. Still, it seems to me that if he knows how to change all the things that have hampered the Dawgs, why didn’t he do it last season? The Liberty Bowl was a total train wreck for UGA. Sad state of affairs.

Ron Smith

July 28th, 2011
1:19 pm

The best quarterback in the SEC? the country? He hasn’t beaten a winning team yet

RedandBlackDAWG

July 28th, 2011
3:20 pm

A QB doesn’t make a game of football. He has to have some support. Murray will have a better cast this year, and the wins will come. I would take this young man over a dozen Garcias anyday. He is stepping up into the leadership role this year, and from what I have read, he is insuring that other members of the team get with the program.

pugweezel7

July 30th, 2011
11:16 am

i am a dawg fan…plan and simple….i love the dawgs….i bleed RED&BLACK!!!!!!!!!!! we will be fine this year …..just get this started……..go dawgs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thomas Brown

July 30th, 2011
11:42 pm

Top 19 Boise State
Top 19 South Carolina
# 121 Coastal Carolina
# 54 Ole Miss
# 31 Missy State
# 49 vols
# 100 Vandie
# 21 Florida
# 120 New Mexico State
# 30 Auburn
# 63 Kentucky
# 65 Georgia tek

According to Rivals rankings as of tonight, our beloved Georgia Bulldogs football schedule Mark Richt brags he is going to tear up in 2011 includes 12 regular season games – and not including Boise State and South Carolina since it has not been revealed yet what their ranking will be according to Rivals – and our average opponent every week all regular season long have an average ranking in Rivals tonight of # 65.

# 65 vs 10 teams regular season 2011 for Mark Richt

I presume Mark Richt thinks he can beat 10 teams with an average ranking of # 65.

Mark Richt, sir, that is not tearing it up in 2011 to win 10 games against an average opponent ranked # 65 every week, sir.

Thomas Brown

July 30th, 2011
11:42 pm

Top 19 Boise State
Top 19 South Carolina
# 121 Coastal Carolina
# 54 Ole Miss
# 31 Missy State
# 49 vols
# 100 Vandie
# 21 Florida
# 120 New Mexico State
# 30 Auburn
# 63 Kentucky
# 65 Georgia tek

Thomas Brown

July 30th, 2011
11:43 pm

According to Rivals rankings as of tonight, our beloved Georgia Bulldogs football schedule Mark Richt brags he is going to tear up in 2011 includes 12 regular season games – and not including Boise State and South Carolina since it has not been revealed yet what their ranking will be according to Rivals – and our average opponent every week all regular season long have an average ranking in Rivals tonight of # 65.

D BAG TROLLS!

July 31st, 2011
12:23 pm

Lots of envy on here. We have our mt. Cody/ nick fairly and you know what happened with them. Good luck haters! You team does not want face the JUNKYARD!!!!

Thank you for having the DAWGS on the brain as usual.

D BAG TROLLS!

July 31st, 2011
12:39 pm

Miserable POFS! GATA!

Hey, GT 51

July 31st, 2011
5:09 pm

No bowl wins, no titles, GT NCAA humiliation again and $100,000 cash out the GT window, 1-2 vs lately horrible UGA= CPJ+ he is looking for a new gig. He knows that he cannot accomplish much at GT.
bwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahaha,Bwwwwwwwwahahahahha

Lost fan

August 1st, 2011
10:56 am

Mark will lose his job this year and they will bring in Tressel and then you will see some great coaching. National champs in 2013. Watch and see.

CRM dumb

August 1st, 2011
11:01 am

What is CRM?

The football man

August 1st, 2011
3:11 pm

THE PROGRAM IS TOO IN-BRED STILL. TOO MANY FOLKS (PERSONNEL) HAVE BEEN HANGING AROUND TOO LONG!! TIME FOR NEW BLOOD.

Jim Tressel

August 1st, 2011
4:18 pm

Looks like I will see you next year at UGA.

Dumb CRM

August 1st, 2011
5:41 pm

coach mark richt

Hot seat, huh? Says Richt: ‘I plan on having a hell of a year’

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