Heat Check: Grantham needs to sit; Johnson needs to chill

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Do you actually have enough info to warrant a suspension? I mean, just cuz Franklin said he and his squad were innocent bystanders don’t make it so. Granted, I would have preferred Grantham not have reacted that way, but you nor I have any idea what might have transpired. I trust Richt’s judgment over yours on this one, Mr. Bradley.

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Grantham is, and has been, an embarrassment. Vanderbilt had 3 points TOTAL in two weeks prior to the Georgia game…and avg’d 40 yards on the ground. They did a little better than that against his “awesome” defense. No other schools complain about Vanderbilt (it’s Vanderbilt! for pete’s sake) and then he shows his rear like that. Not the kind of coach that should represent one of the best schools in the country.

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I doubt if UGA suspends GRANTHAM. Maybe the SEC does it.

Classless program with a bunch of players who TRASH TALK all game long.

CROWELL is the worse trash talker and he is just wet behind the ears freshman.

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So Mark, would you also advocate Vandy suspending coach Franklin for a game as well, since he appears to have instigated the confrontation by going after a Georgia player, and was as equally animated as Grantham?

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Can we please move on from this whole Grantham thing. So two grown men yelled and cussed at each other…stop the presses!! Both men lost their head for a second, but nothing happened. No punches thrown, just two men acting like boys for a second GET OVER IT!!!!!!

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anger is the enemy of instruction

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CPJ’s style is definitely antithesis to Richt’s “just keep on lovin’ ‘em” approach. It’s pretty clear which one leads to a more disciplined style of football. The players may not “love” CPJ but I’m pretty sure they respect him.

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Why should Grantham be suspended when the NFL decides to not do anything regarding two head coaches who acted in the same manner on national television? Lighten up, he should be verbally reprimanded and that’s all.

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Bullies tend to get into altercations when they know it won’t really turn into a fight. Anyone who has been around football knows the difference between intensity and standing up for your players on the one hand, vs stupidity borne of frustration at poor performance on the other. High school players watch UGA players and attempt to emulate them. That creates a responsibility to do things the right way. We don’t, anymore, and you see more of this crap in HS football. And I am really tired of people saying that Coach Russell would do something like this. I played for Coach Russell, and Grantham and Coach Russell don’t occupy the same universe. If you committed two stupid personal fouls that cost your team, you would be off of the field. You wouldn’t have to worry about the opposing coach

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The CMR era is slowly coming to an end my friends. This staff has embarrassed Adams I think for the last time and there are far too many examples to list over the past 6 or 7 years. With that said I think Adams will give the ok to go after Chris Peterson full throttle at season’s end. There is just too much water under the bridge for CMR to stay and I have heard rumors he wants to win the SEC East and leave on his own anyways. If CMR will retire immediately after SECCG, Peterson may be able to hold a decent recruiting class. We need to sign at least 2 RB’s in this class or we are in major trouble.

The big rumor I heard yesterday is Nick Saban to Texas at season’s end. Texas is going to offer him a ridiculous contract somewhere around $100,000,000 for 10 years. They are the only program who can afford it other than UGA and a few others so it makes sense.

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It’s apparent, Mark, you know much more about what actually transpired on the field after the Vanderbilt game than the rest of us. It would help to understand your position regarding Coach Grantham, if you’d be so kind as to give us all the background information which you possess so we could all come to the same judgement as you.

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Heat Check: on Mark Bradley= COLD. Find something else to harp on besides the coaching conflict. We’ve heard about it! move on! Gosh, that blew! I’m not a Tech, but they have only lost one game.

Mark Bradley this sucked!

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“Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.” Something to consider for those who decide to go against Grantham. GATA coach!!!!!!!!!

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This is a non-story. We already KNEW Grantham was an as sclown.

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Wow. Have no issue with your stance on Grantham, MB, but VERY surprised you’re giving the Vandy coach a pass on this one.

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What PJ should be doing is apologizing for his defensive coordinator and the pity poor performance of his defense.Virginia made Tech’s defense look like a Division 2 caliber team. You fire a coach after 2 years and this is what you have to show for it. The sooner PJ understands that championship teams win with defense and special teams the better off he will be. The Al Groh experiment has failed.

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AND THE DAWGS DIDNT STOMP ON THE STUPID VANDY LOGO! THAT IS WHERE THE TEAM HAPPENED TO BE WHEN THE CLOCK HIT :00 AFTER A TOUGH GAME. THIS IS PURE SENSATIONALISM.
SHOULDNT YOU GO WORK FOR TMZ OR NATIONAL ENQUIRER OR SOMETHING?

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This sort of thing……Coaches threatening players…….Does not happen in Nebraska.

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uva’s center was acc O lineman of the week, had 9 pancakes-want to bet it was #96? when your NT can’t stop 1 OL in the 3-4, now that is something to point out-yet grohss refused to comment…….

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Mark…..you’re talking about a fan base who still supports Mark Richt for some unknown reason. They can’t handle coaches with passion and emotion.

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This scuffling just proves that Georgia is on the level of Vandy down in the lower echelon of the SEC. Meanwhile Bama just keeps getting all the players worth getting in Atlanta. Keep it up! RTR.

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Suspend him for arguing? Absolutely ridiculous! Way too much is being made of this. UGA had some personal fouls, Vandy chopped blocked all over the place. Franklin came after UGA players. Grantham took offense. It happens. Get over it and play football. Jeez.

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Garbage, MB.

It’s all about the ‘hits” UGA fans and we will provide them . . .

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Vandy coach looking for Richt he says. BULL. EVERY game the coach’s meet at the 50 yard line at mid field. The Vandy coach WAS NOWHERE NEAR THAT. HE was going after SOMEONE. Does anyone with a brain think Grantham would just go to him and go off on him. NO. This is all crap.

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When did we become “The U” of Georgia. Late hits, stomping on logos, trash talking after every play. Go back to the films. Did the 1980 team (Belue, Walker, Woerner) ever do this? No. They did, however, win the Nat’l Championship.

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Total BS, MB.

It’s all about the “hits” UGA fans, and of course of ignoring this BS, we will provide the “hits” . . .

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This situation epitomizes the typical redneck UGA fan. You make several, convoluted attempts to mitigate Grantham’s actions. It does not matter what was said to him, what set him off, or that he did not actually become physical. What matters is his behavior. It was repugnant and an embarrassment to the UGA program. If you truly love your team and program, you would be quick to condemn Grantham’s actions and then move on.

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Mark – You MAY be right about the appropriateness of sitting CTG for a game. On the other hand, you MAY be wrong. Simply need more facts. He clearly needs to be severely reprimanded. Regardless of what did or did not actually happen, hisr eaction was off the chart as far as acceptable adult behavior is concerned.

The mitigating factor here being just what did Coach Franklin do to set CTG off like this. Franklin is a fiery guy himself. I feel comfortable concluding he said something he should not have said. Still, CTG’s response was inappropriate. Does it deserve a suspension? Tougher question. Would like to know exactly why he reacted the way he did.

The more disturbing part of this whole fiasco to me is the allegation Franklin made to CMR to the effect that our players were “rubbing their faces in it” after the game. If that is in fact true, as a former coach, I would teach the guys a little humility during this off-week. Suffice it to say that they would not be “rubbing anybody’s face in anything while they remained on my team. There’s simply no place for such bush league behavior by the players. It indicates serious character problems on this team. Of course, Crowell being held out for the first quarter is also indicative of a character problem, not to mention his past taunting episode and spiking the ball in disgust when stopped for a loss or no gain. Just uncalled for. As my generation says. :Idl jerk a knot in ‘em.” They would be humbled after this off-week’s activities. Otherwise, CMR is very close to losing control of this team, if that has not already happened.

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Heat Index: Hot Hot Hot for Mark Bradley- He will be blasted by the dawg fans for having the audacity to tell them the truth.

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Total crap, MB.

UGA fans, it’s all about the “hits,” and as usual, instead of ignoring this smarmy crap, we will bring the “hits” . . .

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Shawn Williams may have been acting like a “dumb—” but that still doesn’t give Franklin the right to personally berate him. There are proper channels for that to occur. If you were the parent of a player that incurred a personal foul during a game, you would rightly discipline him yourself when you got home. However, if a parent on the other team came after your boy face to face, you better believe that you should stand up for him.

Grantham is getting a raw deal here. Not because he didn’t overreact, which he did but because Coach Franklin is not also be held accountable for his actions. The full story is not being widely disseminated and the impression left is that Grantham is some unstable lunatic who just randomly explodes. Why hasn’t Franklin been taken to task in the media for his role in the matter?

Not interested in giving Grantham a pass. Only want the mitigating circumstances clarified.

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You can’t spell THUG without UGa.

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I’m PO’ed because Mark heard what the Vandy coach said, and replied, ” I figured that’s what happened”. I want Mark Richt Fired !

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Both Bradley and Schultz have blogs today about the little Grantham Tantrum … AJC getting some serious online visitation today … and you and I and everyone else are just little fishes on a hook.

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Bradley’s comments on Johnson just a feeble attempt to be fair and balanced for a change. Pack him off to FOX News.

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Get a life people…….

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I agree totally with Gbal. We are patiently waitng for a comment Mark.

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@ Beenie,

Wow you’re a moron.

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Hey Bamaguy, don’t you have a tree to poison somewhere?

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The notion that Johnson assumes no responsibility for losses but takes all the credit for wins is a myth. Every coach talks about execution. Plus, he has said repeatedly that he made errors.

Lastly, I was unaware that being a player’s friend is part of his job description. Getting the best out a player is, though.

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Grantham. Strike two.

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Gbal, Jeff Shmultz wouldn’t answer me yesterday, either. It’s called yellow journalism. Evidently, nobody at the AJC has the guts to step out from behind their cozy little desks and write anobjective article explaining why Coach Franklin had such a hard time finding Mark Richt after the game. It appears this situation between the coaches mirrors that of the game; it’s always the guy who retaliates that gets flagged. Also, thanks to a link posted by fan on another AJC story about this same incident (everybody is milking it), it seems that Franklin has a history of wearing his emotions on his sleeve. Bradley, if CTG deserves a suspension(which he doesn’t), so does Crybaby Franklin. Pure and simple.

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How about turn the heat up on who is running the Special Teams. Good grief, Next week will be a pow wow for Florida.

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Can’t spell weenie without beeni wells

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I am more concerned about the conditions of the stadium. Trees limbs covered both sides of one scoreboard and the crossbar on goldpost covered info on the scoreboard on other end, not to mention the place smelled like a sewage plant with a malfunction. If Vandy is receiving a portion of the money received by other SEC Teams from bowl games they need to upgrade there facility.

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Suspending TG seems a bit much. This is the second time he’s been unable or unwilling to control his temper, though. I think putting him double secret probation would suffice. Plus, it’s the Florida game. They are paid a lot of money to win games like this one. If they lose to the Gators this year, they won’t have to worry about suspending him because he won’t be there anymore.

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If the SEC suspends or fines Grantham they better get Franklin too. My stance, CTG is a damn good Dawg. The video clearly shows Franklin pointing to and assuming shouting to one of our players. CTG stands up for his players and he is the bad guy. Could he have handled it differently? Sure. Did he probably earn some serious respect from the UGA players. Heck yes!!! From a former player this is exactly the kind of guy you will play your heart out for. CMR nor McGarity can suspend the guy, if they do they will lose respect and effort from players.

As for CMR and McGarity’s response. Piss poor!!!!! It’s really sad they don’t stand up for their guy and coach Richt apologizes.

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Bradley works for the AJC. That’s not a big plus in his column. Even with that, he’s entitled to his opinion. But that’s all it is, his opinion. It doesn’t make him right. With the influence of political correctness rampant at the AJC, he’s got a pretty good chance of being wrong most of the time. As he is in this case.

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I don’t know why the media is overreacting on this thing with Grantham. Was he out of line? Yes. Did he need a good talking to by Richt and the AD? Yes. Does he need to be suspended? Absolutely not. It was an argument between to grown men. There so no pushing or shoving. Get over it.

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No Gbal because Franklin wasn’t the one acting like an idiot. Like I said people expect grown men to act a certain way especially when they are representing your university. I don’t know what Franklin said and I assume you don’t either, but it appeared he was handling it a civil way while your coach was acting like a…. well you know. He represents your school you know.

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Gee – the AJC is chastizing teh Georgia DC for getting upset after the opposition’s HEAD COACH crosses a line and berates a player not on his team.

And the Florida kicker admitted to blowing a kiss at the UGA sideline before Grantham reacted, but of course, the only paper not to publish that detail? Our own AJC.

Am I surprised – sadly, no.

This is the same fishwrap that writes of Tech’s 6-0 run as the glorious demonstration of the genius of Chesty Johnson and the mighty, indomitable Jackets, then turns around on the UGA 5-game win streak and pauses only to dismiss it based on the teams that they beat to do it.

Classic AJC – good to see Furman Bisher still holds so much sway, people love consistency.

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I’d be curious to know if the Grantham-Franklin incident would be viewed differently simply if the camera had caught Franklin’s face as he pointed his finger at Shawn Williams and said whatever he said to one of OUR PLAYERS, while the same camera would’ve only caught the back of Grantham’s head as he “defended one of his players”. Any way you spin this, Grantham was wrong to react the way he did. However, Franklin is just as guilty in my estimation. As a parent and coach in any sport and any league you learn very early not to comment in the direction of the other teams’ players. Coaches and officials are one thing, but if you holler at someone else’s baby (in this case Grantham’s safety, SW) you’re going to get that reaction almost every time.

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Schultz: “And I don’t buy the whole I’m-just-standing-up-for-my-players line: You can stand up for your players without baying at the moon.”

What does this mean ?

If one guy get suspended then the other coach should too.
Vandy’s coach was the coach that started this. He was the instigator and instigated with the wrong man.

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Grantham bad example for aftergame tirade against another coach…

Nick Saban loses it during a press conference after getting asked a few questions about expansion, and not playing UT every year. Saban gets paid 5 million a year to be what many call the CEO of Alabama. Where is the outrage? Man cusses to reporters, loses his cool at a PRESS CONFERENCE!

Nick Saban at 5 million a year should be able to control himself much better. Talk about setting examples? He cant handle his on emotion during a Press Conference, but lets send CTG hiking because after a hard fought victory he had a few choice words for a opposing coach?

Lets talk about the example in how not to conduct yourself during a Press Conference when you get paid 5 MILLION Dollars! That shows a lack of discipline itself. Where is the blog about that?

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Mark, your not looking at the whole story. Vandy is just as much at fault as UGA is. End of story. Move on and talk about GT choking against Virginia.

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I think the bigger problem with this altercations is the national attention. UGA has a reputation as a team with little or no dicipline. Penalties are better now, but they have been very bad the last few years. Off the field problems are better now, but they have been very bad the past few years. When a coach acts like this, whatever the reason, it just amplifies that reputation.

Fans can justify off the field problems, on the field penalties, trash talking like thugs, and coaches blowing up. What you don’t see is that nationally UGA is on par with Miami of the 80s without the wins.

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@ tomB
In a civil way huh? What a…………..

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MB you can’t be serious? There is nothing wrong for a man being a man. When a man feels his family being attacked he will like wise attack. CTG felt one of his players ( a kid entrusted to him by his parents ) was being attacked and went on the offesive.

The problem here is CMR and the rest of you apologist are trying to take the man out of manhood. You pantie wasted, candy, powder butts, metros are letting your female side dominate your thinking and actions. It’s crystal clear on this site to see who are the guys that ran home and hid behind Moma’s skirt ( now your wives or gf’s ) when those time come to be a man, stand like a man, and act like a man.

You guys need your mancards revoked! Are there any more butts left for Richt to kiss??

You apologist really tick me off!!!!

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Grantham is on Damn Good Dawg.

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Chuck, the kicker blew a kiss AFTER Grantham’s choke gesture. And he’s the kid, Grantham is the adult. Grantham must go. He embarrasses the school and cheapens my degrees from there.

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That’s a tremendous point JB. The head coaches ALWAYS know how to find each other after a game for the traditional handshake. If Franklin wasn’t there, it’s because he had reasons to go somewhere else. That “couldn’t fine Coach Richt” stuff is pure garbage.

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Richt’s inability to have his coaches’ and players’ backs has caused me to lose a massive amount of respect for him. Praise in public, punish in private. Always.

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Bradley you are way off line on this…its clear you’ve never played sports other than tag football. Franklin is just as guilty as you say Grantham is..he instigated it by calling out Williams and using a profanity laced stream directed at him. Is that what a good head football coach does? He then lied about it afterward. Granted Grantham could have handled it differently but come on your coping out by letting Franklin off the hook here. Two wrongs don’t make a right…they both should could have handled it better. Since you you seem to follow the game closely how come you NEVER have meantioned how the VANDY team cut blocked the Georgia D-LINE the entire game and constantly hit after the play had been blown dead. I guess this was due to the great coaching job Coach Franklin provided. Please go report on another team in the SEC…we don’t need your one-sided reporting so you can anger the Georgia faithful and get more hits on your blog…(you must get paid by the number of hits you receive) You are quickly losing the respect of many readers by your biased reporting….if anyone needs to grow up its you.

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I bet mark Bradley wishes he did putthis article out!

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I’m with you JB. It made me sick to watch that apology – before he even spoke with his DC, or the UGA players who witnessed everything.

How would you like to be in a foxhole with Richt?

I’d take todd Grantham anyday.

Put me on the side with the “fire Mark richt” crowd.

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IN ATL

Yea he is a problem, a problem for other teams offenses. Including the nerds offense.

I have no problem with him. He is exactly what we need.

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Mark — Have you taken the time to find out what was said to Grantham prior to his going off? You are just blindly buying into Franklin’s passive-aggressive B.S. because he is the coach of poor old Vandy. If you knew what was said to Grantham’s face (something that is physically impossible to do to one’s self), heard by those w/in 2 feet of the conversation, you would not be barfing this crap about his needing to be suspended. Get a grip.

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Some of you make it sound like this is only an argument “between two grown men.” Well, one of the grown men(sic) is the representative of a taxpayer funded state university and he has obligations regarding how he conducts himself-not like some hillbilly trailer trash. Richt said it best, “but we are grown men and have to act as such.”

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IL Jacket, what are you talking about? Please explain exactly how I made Franklin’s point. That strikes me as more than a little absurd.

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Yep SC’s O drilled UGA D for all of 17 points and let’s take Boise as well. When you start on your side of the 50 for the whole game you are going to score points when you have an All American QB.

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SOME JOURNALIST YOU ARE YOU MISSED IT BRADLEY THE TRUE BONEHEAD OF THEM ALL…SHOULD HAVE INCLUDED SPURRIER AND “I DON’T GIVE A $HIT”SABAN IN THIS CATEGORY WITH UGA, BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, THE SEC IS SO INNOCENT

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Tom B –
Chip Towers reported yesterday on 680 that Franklin was cussing a UGA player after the game. Chip said that he could not repeat the exact words on the radio… gave some shorthand _______in’ this and that…So know, I dont know exactly what Franklin said to the player but I do know it was profanity and I do know that he should have taken it up with CMR after the game or with the SEC in his game report and if he had,… none of this incident would have come about.

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You have no facts of what happened or was said on that field in Nashville…just a one shot, one viewpoint video. Grantham a bully?? How so? Do a better job of explaining this with FACTS. What I saw was a head coach on an opposing team go after verbally one of our kids, guys etc…..and our coach..a man having a little face to face…man to man talk with the real calculated bully..Mr. Franklin and I use the term Mr. Rather loosely. You have to protect and take up your guys that are giving it their all..blood sweat and tears daily in practice, and on the field. I bet if Grantham was on the field calling out the other teams players we would see a different slant. See Mark…you said it…bully…that is from the Fla game and it has stuck. You are o longer objective non CTG at this point. I am going easier on you than your bud Schlitz….I believe you are a more respected journalist. Franklin is not a smart man though he thinks he is….he said everything I do is calculated…meaning I undermine and I am shady like a politician. I would do the same as Grantham from what I have seen to this point and will defend CTG valiantly.

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All of these comments about, “Look at the video!” Well, look at the video. As they are crossing the field, all seems well. Grantham looks like he is heading to Franklin to shake his hand until the coach and the officer with him start pointing at… something. At that point everything crumbles. My point is – no one other than the people in the middle of the mess has any idea what was said by whom. What bothers me is the immediate assumption that it must have been Grantham/Georgia’s fault. Grantham never should have given the choke sign but that doesn’t mean he was on his way across the field ready to fight Franklin. Why hasn’t there been any attention given to the fact that Vandy’s blocking bordered on dirty play? (and I am of the opinion – even when the Falcons ran a cut blocking offense – that it IS dirty. Cut blocking should go the way of the chop block). My point is, since none of us – and, Mark, you have no idea either – has any idea of what was said by whom and when, let’s let this go. So, if CMR finds something that tells him Grantham was at fault and was, indeed, the instigator then by all means suspend him. But given the circumstances of this incident, I don’t need the SEC of anyone else other than our own guys to handle this

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The SID, that is hilarious-you mean the University’s paid hack. That is a good one SSI, you have real connections.

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More hack “reporting” by the AJC. Let’s do what we can in order to throw the home state school under the bus to create sensatinalism instead of reporting the facts because well, facts, they’re just too dull.

It seems everyone knows that Franklin started this whole thing except Bradley. No wonder I canceled my paper subscription. I’ve just about had it with online version as well. Too many good papers to get ethical reporting than to put up with this.

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No way we suspend Grantham. It was justified and I for one like the man’s fire.

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Mr. Bradley, my a$$…I ain’t ever again gonna have enough respect for you to call you Mister…that assumes that I ever did.

You draw your conclusion – try, convict and sentence – before all the evidence is presented. In particular that which would tend to exculpate Georgia, or at least mitigate some of our reactions…sorta like Mark Richt did in his ‘conversation’ with this Frankllin, aka Lane Kiffin incarnate, guy while they were both still on the field and before CMR had had a chance to talk with anybody on ‘our’ side. I’ve supported Coach Richt throughout and will still, but his reaction should have been more circumspect – apologize that the incident took place, OK, but make it clear that you intend to ‘get to the bottom’ of the damn thing and find out who said what to whom and why…then we’ll see.

As for Franklin saying, ‘when I said something to Coach Grantham about it’…from what I saw on the replay, the jawbonin’ started while they were still ten, or more, yards apart – so just how did he ’say’ anything to Grantham? Undoubtedly, he hollered at him, right after he hollered at Shawn Williams, which is what got Grantham pi$$ed off in the first place. Point being Bradley, when it comes to the University of Georgia, we know where you’re coming from – you haven’t given us the benefit of the doubt in forever, and, frankly, I don’t care if you ever will.

The truth will, hopefully, out on this mess before any ‘action’ is taken, and when it does, Vandy’s role in ‘baiting’ Georgia’s players will be out there for all to see. Wonder how will you handle it then? Probably find yet another fault with Georgia.

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If you knuckle-draggers would stop and think for a moment (or however long that takes you), the issue is not Grantham getting into a verbal fracas with the Vandy coach, it’s the fact that it was picked up nationally during a slow news weekend in sports and the sportsmedia gurus needed something to twist. Now UGA is in the spotlight, once again, for less-than-stellar newsmaking. Does it make the program any less? No. Does it make the headlines for a few days? Yes. The perceived “Oh s**t….recruits could have seen that!” aspect, while pointless, will also be touted for a few days.

Relax and let it blow over. UGA will do some PR stunts…..people will apologize…..the world continues to turn…..and Mark Richt can continue to barely beat lower-tier teams.

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@ TomB
See someone said something to you (that was me) that you did not like and you got upset and responded back to them ( me) in a harsh way! ………… Proves my point!

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A quote from a Vandy OT about the game….. Run with this point of view AJC…. This is from the Nashville paper.

And Mark, I know you are going to give me your answer right after your lunch break.

FROM NASHVILLE PAPER _

Vanderbilt offensive tackle Wesley Johnson said there was lots of “extra-curricular stuff” going on but stopped shy of calling Georgia a dirty team.

“No, they weren’t dirty,” Johnson said. “Speaking from my point of view, I haven’t seen anything so far that would lead to (Georgia being dirty). I know they played hard. They kind of played their defense the same way we play our offense.”

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Grantham should be warned (by McGarity, not Richt) that he will be suspended the next time it happens. That’s sufficient for getting animated at an opposing coach when they were having an argument.

Players should be reprimanded by Richt for taunting. Off field punishments will be sufficient.

Players may be suspended for throwing punches. All depends on reviews of what actually happened. That will be the worst part. We may have to face Florida without Kwame. (But if you’re retaliating to a chop block by throwing a punch, yeah, the punch to another guy’s helmet looks worse on TV, but the chop block is far more dangerous.)

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1. Grantham needs to grow up. 2. Franklin needs to grow up. When the game was over each coach should have taken responsibility for their own team. 3. Some of you guys are jumping hard on the Grantham thing because you know that you are going to have play his defense soon and you are finally getting concerned. Grantham’s defense is pretty fast and they hit pretty hard. The kind of defense that might be real hard to run against if you can’t throw the ball. Some of you might be venting because you are getting a little anxious. Worry about your own coach with his “delicate genius” psyche.

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Mr. Bradley do you have some type of crush on Paul Johnson that makes you think he is super coach. If you gave UGA Tech’s schedule to this point they would be undefeated. Wake up!

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It’s Div I fooooootbaaaalll people, if you don’t like it go play intramurals brother.

Franklin has to be the biggest wuss out there. Good God people, suspend Grantham for a game for yelling at somebody? If he punched him then yes take him out, but yelling?

This PC crap is getting old. It’s football. You people calling for a suspension are probably the same ones who think we should read Islamic terrorist the Miranda warning when we bust them. From the time I stepped on a football field in pee wee I heard language that would make a sailor blush.

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Where is the outrage to fire Saban after he said sh!$ during his press ocnference with the media? He makes 5 MILLION a year to represent Alabama and he cant keep it together during a simple press conference.

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Todd Grantham is the only fire I see on the Georgia sideline. I think if all of the coaches had some of his emotion UGA could finish off teams when they have them on the ropes. UGA coaches just do not instill the killer instinct that makes good football teams great. That is why we always close on a weak note and leave everyone holding their breath until the very last snap.

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I don’t know what is going to happen and really don’t care. But enough of the DRAMA QUEEN Mr. Bradley. Embarass the program? Really?

This was a shouting match and nothing else. Was there a fight? Were punches thrown? Do players talk smack before and after a game?

I certainly believe in sportsmanship but you people on this blog are out of touch with reality. You want your world to be happy and full of pixie dust.

I am glad UGA has a coach with some fire inside him. This team needs to play with some fire. Don’t condem the spirit, teach them how to use it.

AND STOP ACTING LIKE DAMN DRAMA QUEENS ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!

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When will the AJC get some sports journalists that are worth a crap? All that they employ are clueless. If Grantham was wrong for defending his player, did the Warren County high school coach deserve the beating that those bangers from Hancock did to him? Does the Warren County coach need to be suspended? I think not. You are an idiot.

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[...] Billy Donovan says learning how to win will be key for his young team.4.  This writer believes Georgia should sit defensive coordinator Todd Grantham for the Florida game.5.  The Bulldogs haven’t been perfect, but they’re in good shape in the SEC East.6.  [...]

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I agree with Dawg48 and DallasDawg… can we focus on football!

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Is all of that Grantham’s fault, Mark? Surely, the great Franklin did absolutely nothing wrong and is blameless in this manner. Why don’t you and Jeff let this story die its own death and move on as the NFL has done with the Lions-49ers deal? I assume you can find more newsworthy things to write about. You and Shultz need a one-game suspension from the AJC from covering UGA games for some of the crazy stuff both of you write. How do you really know ALL that happened by BOTH teams the whole game?

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Every so often you can tell that Bradley never strapped it up and played any type of organized football. His rant about Grantham is garbage. As a former player I know that a coach that would stand up for us players means the world. We need a coach with fire to balance the even keel attitudes of Richt and Bobo. Bradley get a life. Grantham should get a raise for what he did! Watch the tape closely, you will see Franklin say something to Williams which led to Grantham blowing up. He may have gone a lil too far but, A HEAD COACH GOING AFTER A PLAYER IS FAR WORSE THAN A DC BLOWING UP ON ANOTHER COACH. Remember what the Okie State coach said a couple of years ago.. You come after me, I’m a grown man. It’s true. If Franklin wanted to handle the situation like a man of class he should have kept his mouth shut and said something to to Coach Richt. Mark, you missed the ball on this one.

Red and Black til Death

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If Grantham should be suspended, then so should Franklin, because without one, there wouldn’t have been the other. Why is he escaping heat in all of this? Where is HIS apology? I think going after a college kid is way worse than the retaliation that occured. If that “choke” sign hadn’t happened, this would be a different story.

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Yawn.

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Again, not that what Grantham did was right(still scratching my head as to why we are still talking about this) but what about the SEC take a look at James Franklin for yelling at an opposing player!!! At least Grantham took it up with someone his own age! Why is Franklin off the hook for cursing at a kid?????

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Everybody seems to want to cry about Franklin. Maybe he does deserve some of the blame, but that is for Vanderbilt and the Nashville newspapers to worry about. Why would you expect the local newspapers here to worry about him? You should worry about your own and the harm Grantham is doing to your image.

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Bradley – You are okay with Muschamp cursuing out the officials down at Auburn while also captured on national television? Why not suspend him too? You and I both know its only a matter of time before he gets an SEC reprimand. Call him out now as well if you will.

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Sit Grantham? No way. Run up the score on Vandy next year? Yes. Franklin is more responsible for starting the whole thing, and it is nothing worse than what happens between Sabin, Miles, and most other coaches. We are just spoiled with a gentleman like Richt.

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Lowcountry: You know the answer to your own question. Saban gets by with what he does because he is a winner on the field. A consistent winner. Put two crystal footballs on your resume’ at two different schools and you can get by with anything.

UGA need to let this Grantham incident go. It is taking focus away from preparing for Florida. No NCAA rules were broken and no one was arrested. Focus on Florida. Move on.

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Grantham did it on purpose so that no UGA fans complain about dawgs giving up 27 points to the mighty Vandy.

It obviously works. Do you see any UGA fans complaining about the UGA defense against Vandy? Instead, most are defending Grantham as a good coach.

Spurrier got on a reporter when he fired Garcia about something happened long ago. It worked too.

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GTBob, speaking of worrying about your own……..

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GTBob Good. I know that you guys will have it figured out. I’m sure that we are going to be hearing about how we almost lost to Vandy from December on since there won’t be a whole lot else to crow about.

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Nick

October 18th, 2011
11:27 am

very true

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what?

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Just like the Monday Night boys say……..C’MON MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your desire for hits has made you look terrible MB. Please…..get with it and write something you actually believe, not something that will get you mouse clicks….

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It is HILARIOUS how many GT trolls are posting on here with name like “Vince Doodly” and “Saint Richt” calling for Grantham to be fired. In two years he’s taken a team that had fallen to the mid defensive ranks and made them a top 10 national defense. He’s good and you Buzz-ards are well aware of it. Passion is never a bad thing when your team has been playing uninspired football for 3+ years. Let him work these kids up for Florida and Tech. I can’t wait for all of the North Avenue tears to flood Grant Field in November when their weak Division II offense is exposed. Tech dropped a game to one of the bottom-feeders in the ACC and they think they’re a championship caliber team. What a joke.

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Bamaguy,

Exactly- focus on Florida but we has a bunch of panzy writers and fans. If this where back even as early as the 90′S nothing would come of this, but in this 24/7 sports info cycle if you fart wrong it makes news. You couple that with this whole lets give everyone a participation trophy and a soft fanbase it looks like makes this story even more pathetic. Move on folks this is ridiculous to allow the AJC to continue to write stories about such a non-story.

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TomB, sadly they represent a majority of the fan base, especially those that did not attend the University. There is a small bastion of us that can’t stand this kind of behavior and want it gone immediately.

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Dumbest article ever

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Grantham farted in public, new blog coming in 20 minutes to discuss the ramifications of such a “ghastly” act.

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Another newsflash for Mark Bradley: Your new hero James Franklin won’t be winning any games against UGA. Take that to the bank, “expert.”

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Mark, I think you should be suspended for reporting on this, then re-serving it to us again as leftovers and finally for turning it into hash.

Franklin was wrong, Grantham was wrong, and CMR was a wussie for apologizing. And you and your partner Jeff Pelosi…er…I mean Jeff Schultz are burning Grantham at the stake before the Inquisition is complete.

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Richt has already conceded that Franklin’s version of the story is correct and he apologized for that reason. The undisciplined UGA players were taunting Vanderbilt after the game and franklin got ticked off and said something to williams which started the whole thing. To me this is just another strike against Richt for letting the inmates run the asslyum. Mcgarity is taking notes and watching this program closely and this incident is not going to bode well for Richt especially if this team stumbles down the stretch.

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Dean you are a moron.

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Grantham has a lot to learn and he’s probably never going to get it. Showing intensity and fire is only a good thing when it’s done in the right way. Don’t show your stupidity by attacking the Vandy coach on national t.v. And anyone comparing Grantham to Erk simply doesn’t know Erk or their football. Erk was a winner, the greatest of all time, and a master motivator with energy and fire to burn. And he would have never pulled a dumb stunt like that. CTG couldn’t carry Erk’s jockstrap.

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This just in:::: watch bradley choke on tube steak as he criticizes amateur players and coaches.

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“He’s proving he’s a good defensive coordinator. (The Bulldogs rank eighth nationally in total defense.)”

If UGA play a few more teams as good as Vandy’s offense in the season, I am sure dawg’s 8th ranking will drop like a rock.

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The old WWF would have kicked that looney-toons Grantham right out of the league. We might have been more about entertainment than sports, but we had our standards.

Sheesh People! Get a grip!

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Add TomB and Dean to Dawg10….You “guys” go to Starbucks and have one your little fluff drinks with “Whipped” cream and leave the duties of manhood to those that actually have a pair.

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Lowcountry Bulldawg, your moniker is apt description of the typical UGA fans who never went to school there. There is a big difference between the likes of you and Dean. One of you has a little class.

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did CPJ call one of the players a bonehead or just used the term bonehead? There is a huge difference Bradley, who is trying to make something out of nothing.

So typical to accuse CPJ isn’t it? SEC is crumbling with coaches acting crazier, that is where you need to stick your nose in

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@layinlow…Yeah, and Richt was wrong. He didn’t know and should have said as much. Shame on him for swallowing that load from Franklin who has proven himself to be a shady douchebag.

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Oh, so since it’s Vanderbilt, they get a free pass for everything? Also Mr. Bradley, since you’re an expert at watching one angle of a video and handing out suspensions, how long does CJF have to sit for his role in this? What’s that? You see this as a one-sided incident, and Georgia is completely at fault? I’m SHOCKED.

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Thank you Chris Welton for setting the record straight! I’ll support our dawgs win or lose but some dawg fans need to look up the definition of fanatic in which the term “fan” comes from… its not an endearing term.

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Isn’t there a penalty for taunting? Shouldn’t the refs be the one to throw the flag? Franklin was just mad ’cause he threw everything but the kitchen sink at Georgia and he still lost. What? We lost? Again? I’ll blame it on Georgia’s players and deflect attention away from my coaching.

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TomB = Tech douche. That’s their pathetic broken-record “argument.”

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Mark you are a D.A.. The vandy coach is a liar that anyone can see in the vedio. Have any of you wimps that want CTG to be “sat down” ever talked trash with a fan of another team, I thought so. I know these blogs are for the hits but some times you want to say enough but I know you can’t fix STUPID!!! As always GO DOGS & GATA

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Mark, funniest thing I’ve ever seen. Sit a coach for a game for confronting the head coach of another team for mouthing off at one of your players in front of you. How quickly would you jump on someone if they started barking at your kid? I understand your goal is to help sell the ajc, but try to do it without being quite so obvious next time. Try harder. Heat Index: too hot.

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If Grantham is a bully than good, in case you never noticed a good defense is a good bully!

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The whining dog fans sound just like Auburn fans last year when the Cam Newton story broke.

“Cam and Cecil Newton are both fine, upstanding gentlemen – and you can’t prove anything!”

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You continue to be ridiculous MB. Calling for a suspension!? You’ve lost your mind.

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Please…this is a SHOUTING match for crying out loud. If Franklin was a ref and he made a bad call, people would be applauding CTG for ripping into him like that. Franklin tried to call out one of the players AFTER the game when it was a moot point anyway. He deserved to get his a$$ chewed for not walking honorably to his locker room in disgrace. Maybe it wasn’t the most prudent thing for Grantham to do by retaliating, maybe he should have taken the high road. Richt’s been doing that for years and we’ve become a mediocre SEC team because of his lack of killer instinct and terminal guidance. Todd is the ying to Richt’s yang. Someone has to balance his weakness out.

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Maybe the AJC should suspend M. Bradley for a game or two since he doesn’t seem to report facts – just his lame *ss opinion. No one questions that Grantham’s was inappropriate. But the events that precipitated Grantham’s behavior remain in doubt. But certainly Franklin shares much – if not most – of the blame for instigating the situation. If he bad a beef with Georgia player “rubbing their nose in it” he should have taken it up with Coach Richt – not an assistant. And he sure as hell should not be talking to, yelling at, or pointing at, players from the opposing team. Here’s a prediction: this want be the last situation of this type that Franklin will be involved in.

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If you attended UGA, have a degree, give money to the school, attend alumni functions, own season tickets to football and basketball and hire UGA students – feel free to disagree with me about whether Coach Grantham is a good representative of the University. I say he is NOT, but you are free to differ. I love all TRUE Bulldogs. If you’re Joe Redneck who has never set foot on campus or taken one class – you have no business representing and embarrassing our school like this. Though you are hilarious.

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Mark Bradley blew whatever credibility high order with this stupid allegation that Grantham is a bully.

He’s a football coach, stupid. He’s something that Richt and Bobo are not.

Richt and Bobo are wimps, and that’s a big reason our football program is in the state it is in.

Now we know that Mark Bradley is nothing more than the AJC PC Kommisar. He’s stirring the pot just to sell papers to idiots.

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Right H-Town Dog, you keep telling yourself that. Nevermind the fact that UGA recruiting classes have been in the top 10-15 for how many years now? Compare that to Vanderbilt’s why don’t you? You tell me who UGA has beat this year that’s any good. Lets start there big shot.

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34-3?

Grantham’s D gave up 27 points to mighty Vandy’s O, how many points are you prepared to give to FL?

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Woh it’s todd. Kick his ass todd.
Beavis: yeah yeah. kick that vandy coaches ass.

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GT Bob – Do you really think Bradley and Shultz are worried about whats happening to UGA’a immage???

Worried about it, no. But they will report on it as its their job to. Saturday night on national TV, the defensive coordinator of UGA was seen acting crazy and had to be separated from the other coach by police and players. It has been mentioned in the national media as well as on TV. Sorry, but that is something the local sports writers are going to talk about.

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Grantham’s D gave up 27 points to mighty Vandy’s O, how many points are you prepared to give to FL?

Not many. They couldn’t even score on Auburn.

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Mushmouth in florida Wears the refs out every game. you cant show the stuff hes says on TV.
And the SEC and Florida do what?? Thats right show the young men if you cuss the loud and enough you get your way.

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Hey Dawgs, let’s punish Mark Bradley for his below the belt trash by not blogging on his site for the rest of this season…

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Snoop,

As lazy as he showed himself to be to write this article he would enjoy the vacation because if it where not for UGA fans on the AJC Sports page they may even have to shut the online service down.

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Lowcountry spelled segue. Wow. Truth hurts right, Lowcountry… you don’t want to talk about how Vanderbilt gave the mighty bulldogs such a fight.

Ernest T. Bass… you finished in the top 10-15 for how many years now? You’ve been trying to fire your coach now for the past three years.

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Seems to me that we are long past being able to save sportsmanship ( the very cynical among you can just substitute self-control for sportsmanship.” Time was when, for the most part, players just came out and took care of business. There was little if any showboating, hotdogging, overt taunting and the like. When outstanding play was celebrated on field it was genuine. It was not the contrived “everybody look at me” act that it has become. This was even true (and some of you might want to sit down for this) in professional sports. What is even more galling is that if you check out a highlight reel you’ll find that some of the best displays of self-glorification occur in games that the team ultimately loses.
Mark Bradley dismisses the stomping of the opposing teams logo as being “one thing” It is one thing that should be left to enthusiastic if somewhat childish fans in the student section.

I lament the passing of sportsmanship. It would be well to consider the wisdom of Joe DiMaggio’s famous (perhaps apocryphal) remark to a rookie. After watching the kid hotdog his way around the bases for his first major league homer Joe D. turned to him and said, “Kid. Act like you have done this before.

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funny, the way the players were acting was like they had just beaten the university of alabama for the sec championship for a right to play for a national championship not poor little ole vandy. yup, that is how far uga football had fallen and where it is now. what is missed is the brand of uga has fallen and continues to fall with these classless scenes that have overwhelmed the program once proud, festering up thoughts of continued fall ins with the law, ad’s caught dui with red thongs in their laps and a coach on the hot seat.

yup, that is what is lost on the bulldog nation as they continue to squaulor and rile around like stuck pigs rather than really look deeply at their program and what others see in it. maybe they are blind hogs instead of stuck pigs. today it is about the brand and that is what is at stake here for the present ad and adams to ponder. losing and winning poorly is not what they are interested in, all uga followers seem to overlook as well and what mark bradley is pointing to. it is a message all better get in line with, is my guess, if they want a job, no matter how hard and long the blind hogs wail.

guys, dont you realize your comeuppance is against vandy? all this for a 5 point win against vandy? heh heh

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Het UGAmutt, Tech ran for almost 500 yards last year against your great SEC defense with its 2nd string QB. If the SEC were really that great you would think your bulldogs would blow Tech out at home. Just give me a break about how great the SEC is.

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GA_DAWG10, I don’t think anybody outside of Nashville or Georgia cares about this. Two grown men having an argument at the end of a heated football game. These are big boys have your say and move on. Look at Muschamp every weekend. You put a mike on him and record his sideline lanuage, he sure isn’t reciting scripture. It is Div I football people get emotional sometimes, people express those emotions, foul language is used, so what, use the Kleenex to dry your eyes and get off the field. Franklin is in no way innocent in this entire manner. Smart arses have a way of provoking people. He is a grade A smart asrse. I don’t know what the big deal is. More important things to deal with in life that a shouting match with Vandy. I am more embarrassed by our offenses ability to run 10 yards against Vandy’s defenseto kill the clock than anything else that happened Sat.
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James Franklin. A household name, huh? Maybe in some households now. But, frankly, I didn’t even know who Vanderbilt’s head football coach was until shortly after the game ended Saturday night. What a wuss they have. But Vanderbilt deserves a wuss. Go Commies.

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VIRGINIA?!?!? AHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…TECH LOSERS. Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

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Paul Johnson curses like a sailor during the games. He does it at the officials and at his players as they come off the field.

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Doc – that might be the accurate post yet. We’re all worked up, on both sides of the issue, over beating Vanderbilt by 5 (and getting kind of lucky to get the W). I wonder how Alabama would feel about a 5 point win over Vandy? Exactly.

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Grantham aside, CMR should immediately fire whomever is in charge of our special teams…period. We have become the SEC sucker for fake punts because we’re so consumed with Boykin or Smith running one back (they normally faircatch). Also, who is coaching our return men to run into the middle rather than use their speed to get around the end like we did last year? Number 36 should have been benched after his second personal foul…we are the league’s most undisciplined. I’ve been a Dwag fan for over half a century, but it’s past time to change this culture we’ve developed in Athens. Just my opinion.

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this is so overblown and so overheat indexed…

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VIRGINIA!?!?! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA…TECH LOSERS!
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Dean-

“Alumni only please”…

I think you forgot to put Wormer at the end of your name.

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A coach does not say anything to the opposing team’s players. He should address all that with the coaches. The Vandy coach crossed that line and boom the situation was set off.

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Oh, and your rag just censored my post because I call you and your colleagues out MB.

Ridiculous witch hunt.

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What Coach Grantham did was commendable. I think that we should place a statue of Coach Grantham outside of our stadium with spittle spraying forth profusely from his gaping maw as he gives the traditional “choke” sign to passersby.

We could even hire some Tech nerds to come over and wire up a motion detector and sound system so the statue could bark like a rabid dog whenever anyone approaches it.

How cool would that be?

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I think most of us are just tired of the Bubba’s getting all the talk about UGA. Our mission is academics first and foremost. We shouldn’t be a football factory and the athletic side of things should further enhance our academic mission. Go root for another team. Bama seems to be fine with it being a Bubba program as well as do most other southern schools.

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WOW Mark, you must need to get as many page hits, and comments as Jeff yesterday, go write for a Knoxville paper.

Dawg48, agree James Franklin is Lane Kiffin Jr.

This is minor news story, never picked up nationally, and outside of AJC is a non story….

Get to work…Falcons coverage blows from AJC.

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Mark Bradley, your calling for a suspension of CTG is ridiculous! Franklin has shown that he’s a jerk and he instigated this whole incident in the first place. Also, CMR’s on the field comments, apologizing to Franklin and not backing up or at the very least, waiting to comment after he knew all the facts from both sides is totally spineless. Over the last few years, I’ve tried to give CMR the benefit of doubt, but he needs to leave on his own accord or be fired at the end of this season.

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Ok, it seems the “he started it” defense is in play. Sounds like 8 year olds. What about Grantham telling his players to go to the locker room? (and he go with them) That would have defused the situation. Just deal with it like men, when did trash talking and celebrating after every tackle become college football? (other than Miami, years ago)

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By the way, I’ve yet to see one single article railing against Tony Franklin for him starting the fracas…

We should consider sitting players for their classless act, but chastizing a coach for defending them against another coach is preposterous.

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But gdawginkalamazoo, the SEC has such great teams and great defenses. There’s no way a high school offense could gain 500 yards is there? Not against a great SEC defense?

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So tell me Mark….what about the Vandy coach….afraid to call him out….ahhhh that’s right- we cant do that…it would be discrimination…….this idiot watches his players chop block…….smack talk…and then he gets in one of our players faces….GIVE ME A BREAK……why dont you write about all that……NO GRANTHAM DOES NOT NEED TO SIT….FOR WHAT?????? TAKING UP FOR HIS PLAYERS???????????? The moron that is the head coach at Vandy needs to take some of the blame……but we cant have that….no sir…..BS!

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Ha! Is that all you’ve got Lowcountry?

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Mark, it would help out a lot time wise if you would insert intermittently among the readers comments your comment on the comments…what you have to say pretty much tells me what the others had to say and I don’t have to read so much….junk. I’ll just look for the blue screens of death…:)

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I am so tired of Marc Richt, the Bulldogs, and Michael Adams (president of UGA-Athens) . The UGA Bulldogs have turned into classless losers. Most penalties in major college football. Recruiting thugs to play football. 3rd down and 64 yards to go. Stupid college president begats stupid football coach who begats stupid football players.
I would rather lose with class than lose without class. I would rather win with dignity than win with a sour taste in our mouths. Fire Adams, Richt, and the rest of the coaching staff. Start over.

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(An aside here: I’d also be careful about angering this Vandy coach. James Franklin is going to beat some big names very soon

way to go mark…praise the next coming of a vandy coach…….wooooohooooo…all on board with the vandy coach…..you are a sorry excuse for a sports writer…..

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All you need to know about TomB

He mentioned Franklin as a replacement to Richt if he where fired. Hello, that only gives me the victory here bud. Done arguing with a troll and a uninformed one at that. Enjoy the day and remember to pick up your knuckles, they are dragging.

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“Het UGAmutt, Tech ran for almost 500 yards last year against your great SEC defense with its 2nd string QB.”

And lost.

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Grantham isn’t going to get fired, that’s pretty extreme. The guy does look like a punk, though. Two outbursts in one year looks like a trend to me.

Let’s put this BS of Georgia having a “top 10″ defense to rest: Georgia has beaten teams who are collectively 1-13. It’s statistical anomaly.

Johnson needs to recruit some NT’s but the Tech defense weren’t the ones who lost that game last Saturday.

Muschamp is a clown. I’m surprised UF hired him, Florida is not a starter job.

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“Het UGAmutt, Tech ran for almost 500 yards last year against your great SEC defense with its 2nd string QB.”

And they still lost.

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We’re still talking about this?

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Mark Bradley,

If I walked uo to your daughter after a school play and jumped her tail because she giggled at my son during his solo performance, I guess you’d stand there and let me scream at her??

Then you say something to me about it I guess should get you banned from her next performance then, huh? Or better yet, what you and your colleagues purport, we should just ban you from school grounds, altogher, since that’s what it seems your agenda driven azz is intimating.

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Will the SEC suspend Will Muschamp for his gutter language toward referees? I don’t think so. Enough said.

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I never said anything about Franklin, Lowcountry. That was your fellow alumni Dean, genius.

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No you idiots, acting like a punk is not a part of football. If it were, then the UGA AA and CMR wouldn’t be having to apologize for that douche of a coordinator.

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Really?
October 18th, 2011
12:42 pm

A coach does not say anything to the opposing team’s players. He should address all that with the coaches. The Vandy coach crossed that line and boom the situation was set off.

The video I saw showed the Vandy coach talking to Grantham, not in the face of the UGA player.

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Mark, it is quite obvious that the Vandy coach started the !@#%$, and yes Grantham should have stayed above it all, but this stink is on Franklin. I know you root for the little guys, being a Kentucky grad, but this will all go back to Franklin because he instigated the rhubarb.

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The Vanderbilt coach was in no player’s face. He was pointing at him…Williams was long gone by then. We need to recruit better men, not just football players.

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Mark – We all know you’re completely biased against Tech, but it would be nice if you would attempt to write anything positive about the team. Yes, they royally stunk this week, but there are redeeming qualities for the team.

CPJ isn’t a saint, but the team can’t seem to execute…don’t blame him for not kissing their boo-boos. You make a 6-1 start sound like a losing season.

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Black Mountain NC Bulldog
October 18th, 2011
11:56 am

I love Granthams passion! Vandy chopped blocked all night, and they deserved to get an earful.

GATA!!!!!!!!!!& Junk Yard Dawgs are back!!!!!!!!

Do you know what a chop block is. If Vandy had been “chop blocking” it would have been called. Cut blocking is not against the rules.

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MEMO to Coach Franklin: Don’t start nuthin’, won’t be nuthin’.

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Whatta, get out of here and look elsewhere beacause on TiVo you can actually see the two to three seconds BEFORE CTG got to him Frankin was popinting and yelling at player.

or maybe he was yelling at the police officer instead…

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GA Dawg 10…….you are a loser dude…I was AT THE GAME! why dont you lose the DAWG and become a vandy fan moron…….

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Terry,

Careful. Post the truth and your posts will start to “disappear” when you submit them…..

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GA_DAWG10,
Let me see if I have this right by your thinking. See, while you were going to college when you could, guys my age , were going to war when we of college age. Some of us did get our education at different colleges, due to our continued military career, so future generationss would have an opportunity to go to college. Now, since I am not an alumni and didn’t attend UGA, I can not voice my opinion, am a redneck fan, and don’t have a right to say anything about UGA. Only you elite UGA grads. do?
People like you make me wonder why in the heck I made the military a career sometimes, considering the freedom people like you enjoy, because of the sacrifices others made.
I would say, I and others like me have more of a right than you do.

GO DAWGS and GATA

P..S. Don’t you wish you had the pwer to ban me, since I am not a UGA Grad?

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jtdawgfan,

I saw him pointing at a player that was 6-8 feet away from him. I don’t believe that 8′ away is in your face.

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Good comments SCJack….totally agree..

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gdawginkalamazoo, I’m with you on that, at the end of the year, it’s all about the Win’s.

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You’re right…coach richt and mcgarity threw Grantham under the bus……if he were smart, he would leave…..unbeleiveable that CMR would not stand up for his coach…this idiot and sorry piece of sewage that calls himself the vandy coach started the whole thing…I am disgusted with Mcgarity and CMR……fans like GA Dawg 10 are in the same class as the vandy coach…..LOSERS

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SCJack – You missed the worst coach, Trooper Taylor of Auburn. High fiving after late hits, dressed like a thug, and waving his stupid towel.

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Next thing you know Grantham will gouge Muschamps eyes out in Jackdonville.

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MEMO to Coach Richt: Turning the other cheek does not work and never worked, especially on the gridiron. Grow a pair!

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As far as CPJ, Bradley why don’t you buy him a bra at the big woman store!

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Typical no class Georgia behavior. This is why the good HS kids go to Bama, Coach Saban would never put up with this kind of behavior. Get your act together Dawgs.

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MEMO to Coach Grantham: You just earned the undying respect of 85 guys in your locker room. In the future try and control yourself a little better. You should have requested Franklin meet you in the McDonald’s parking lot in Ringgold.

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RedandBlackDawg

October 18th, 2011
1:03 pm

Amen brother, preach it!!

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All I’ve got to say ’bout that.

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roll tide……this from a fan base that poisons trees of a rival……..and you talk about class??????? what a moron!

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IF……………Richt apologized to the Vandy coach BEFORE he got the facts, then I’m more than done with him. I would of said, ” Coach, Let me get all the facts and I’ll call you in the morning, Good game, talk to you later”.

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Again………..Roll Tide on here………………King of NCAA cheat’n, tree killing, Lap dance coach hiring fools.

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I usually enjoy reading your column, but this was too much. When Coach Franklin is calling out your players, you defend them. When Franklin tells Grantham “F” you, that’s over the top.. Sure , Grantham was wrong but how about a little jounalistic integrity, Mark. Report both sides of the issue.

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“I read that Coach Saban cussed out a bunch of reporters…” Too funny. We all know GA fans can’t read.

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One more thing, why is the assistant coach at UGA being singled out, when the head coach at VANDY, the sophistication venue of the South, not being singled out. Who should be more accountable, an opposing head coach whom singles out an opposing player, or an assistant coach who singles out the other coach. Let’s remember this is a Vandy coach, trying to build a program, who had just stomped by Alabama, and really had some frustrations. I do not believe that Franklin is in the clear here, after all his coaches had to hold him back. Yeah, McGarity and Richt threw Grantham under the bus, but it may have been a mandate from the SEC. I for one don’t think the behavior of either was acceptable, and that is where it should end. Whatever the others want to do about it, they need to do it to it to both coaches. Furthermore, I think both these coaches should be recruited by Vince McMahon for a stint in wrestling.

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You’re overreacting, Mark. Grantham actions, while unfortunate, do not rise to the level of suspension. I’ve seen worse confrontations between baseball managers and basketball coaches. Sit down an recover from the vapors, OK.

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Maybe a suspenson is warranted for Mark Bradley!

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No way UGA gets rid of Mark Richt if he wins the east. I love it. UGA is stiuck with him.

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Go back and get your law degree and then you can make reccomendations on what should to coaches and athletes. and maybe even represent Franklin on issues you seem to know so much about. You 2 peeny sports writers know very little about the game or the pressure coaches are under. I do after spending forty years trying to motivate kids and win ball games to keep my job.
Either get on the wagon or get off. Guess you would want coach Grantham to sit out the Florida game because you knoe he is a dam goog coach ,and it might hurt Georgia chanve of winning the game. Go on down to Jacksonville and see if you can motivate your team .

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Richt and Cooper are the same guy…can’t beat the school’s biggest rival, wins around 8 games every year, team never reaches it’s potential…guess Georgia should keep Richt after all…Ohio State never was relevent after Cooper left (there was the tatoo incident!)…but there also was the raising of the crystal football incident too…Cooper couldn’t get it done and neither will Richt…hate to break the news to you mouth-breather jawga fans, but CMR has peaked and it’s all down hill from here…

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ROLL TIDE…..Loser

October 18th, 2011
1:19 pm
Roll Tide……tell me how classy it is to poison trees of a rival because your team cant hold a 24-0 lead

Seems your little dawgies couldn’t hold a 21-7 lead with AUB.

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Bamaguy is hoping Roll TIde is an imposter. I have opinions, but try to never talk down about an opposing school. Truth is, things have happened at all our schools we are not exactly proud of. But you hope you get past it and keep on supporting your school.

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Tim Tucker was right to close comments on his blog. He saved the University of Georgia from further embarrassment by not allowing this hillbilly fan-base to rub salt in the wound.

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if mcgarity orders grantham suspended, wait until the kentucky game. Ga can beat them by 40 by just showing up.

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I love how someone can compare how well a team does one week and state that as fact on how they will play in a couple weeks…teams grow and correct mistakes…

If AU didn’t correct their mistakes they would not have beat USCe or FL..

Plus game is in neutral site..kinda..

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Cooper couldn’t beat Michigan, Richt can’t beat Florida…both won/win 8 games a year…the fans comfortable with mediocrity loved/love them both…couldn’t find anyone better to replace them…

Bama fire Shula for Saban
AUburn fired Tubberville for Chizik
LSU fired DiNardo for Saban
OSU fired Cooper for Tressel
Texas removed Mackovic for Brown
USC fired Hackett for Carroll
Florida fired Zook for Meyer…

and won National Championships soon afterward…

and, Penn State keeps Paterno around as long as he wants, like CMR will be in Athens, minus the National Championships…

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TomB, didn’t say anything about the SEC being all that great. How did that LOSS work out for you?
What counts it that you guys have won what 1 game this decade? If you are a tech fan trying to run smack on us beat us first. I can’t run smack on a Florida fan so I don’t and for good reason. That’s just the way it works.

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DJDawg

October 18th, 2011
1:31 pm

@Oh, the Humanity

You are on this blog so you must be very interested in what this hillbilly fan-base has to say!!!

What can I say? Everyone wants to look at a trainwreck.

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Firing Tubberville was the best thing AU has ever done…he had great success at AU but he did not think of BAMA/Saban as a threat and was getting recruits taken out from under him from bama…

I was saddened by the move…love the guy..he had swagger and was great AU man…

but, the SEC passed him by and was time for a change…does that sound familiar UGA fans..

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“You know, Georgia won the game fair and square but they didn’t really show that much class about it,” Stephenson linebacker Darreon Herring told the AJC. “To be honest, I think Mark Richt should’ve handled the situation a little better than he did. The whole game, the Georgia DBs were talking trash, pointing fingers and taunting the Vanderbilt sidelines. I just feel like Georgia didn’t have that much discipline.”

“Yes, Vanderbilt was right to step up after all of that. They disrespected our head coach with all the taunting toward the sidelines and dancing on the Vanderbilt star in the middle of the field. Georgia should’ve just shook hands after the game and left it like that.”

Tucker linebacker Jacob Sealand said, “I respected the way Vanderbilt played, even with Georgia having several personal fouls. Vandy didn’t react to any of them. They didn’t get any personal fouls. Coach Franklin said he is going to coach with class and if we’re going to win, we’re going to win with class. I think that’s something that everybody can respect.”

Sealand said he felt like running on the field in support of his future college coach. “Honestly, it got my heart pumping, and I know with a lot of the recruits around me, it got their hearts pumping, too. It gave me a lot of pride about Vanderbilt and made me realize how much I love that school already without being up there yet. Coach Franklin has won his players over, and has already won me over, too.”

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TomB, no the point is you still LOST. The other point is that neither Tech nor Vandy recruit UGA calibre players. Which might be a good thing.

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I feel like every UGA fan is taking crazy pills…”keep up the great work coach Grantham”…”he is showing passion”…yeah you guys know this is same coach you wanted fired last year right?…this is same coach you wanted fired after week 2 right? The only reason they are #8 in defense is b/c they have played teams with a record the university of west GA would laugh at…lets be real guys..

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GDawg 10 I have three degrees from UGA and I do disagree with you.

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I feel like alot of UGA fans are taking crazy pills..You do know Coach Grantham was the same coach you guys wanted fired last year right? You know this was same coach you wanted fired after week 2 right? Only reason they are #8 in defense is b/c they have played teams with a record the university of west ga would laugh at…lets be real guys..

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Here is a picture of a Georgia staffer in a Vanderbilt players face. Would one of you fact laden Dawg fans please post the one of Coach Franklin.
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20111018/SPORTS0602/310180020/Vandy-coach-stands-behind-post-game-actions?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Sports

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Mark, there is one big factor that is here that you just did not talk about. Head Coaches do not, and I mean under any circumstance, do not talk to an assistant after a game to complain. Whatever Grantham said was Franklin’s fault. Franklin crossed a line that instigated the whole thing. Common sense and common courtesy, no matter how angry a coach gets,says that you do not search out an assistant and complain. There is no way he should sit. Have a conversation with him and ask him not to speak again to a head coach after a game and warn him about this, sure. But he didn’t ask for this. Nice to see all that fire coming from a Vanderbilt coach but he needs to understand the boundaries, and he crossed one.

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My view of the video…

Franklin yelling at #36 and walking towards him. #36 was walking away.

Franklin and Grantham happen to cross paths and TG hears the words being yelled at #36. (Franklin did not attempt to find CMR as he has stated. He didnt have time, he met up with TG) Grantham supports him player and blasts Franklin for his comments. TG did not go seek out confrontation. He just happend to be in the path of Franklin and overheard the comments. .. and he addressed them.

The vandy admin has it together and with the support ot the VU media. They have covered up brilliantly and made light of Franklins involvement and responsibility for the incident. All supportive of one another. Franklin … i have no regret for my actions and I am sure that Coach Richt is going to take care of the situation.

In the mean time Richt has let it out that he supported Franklins comment and version of the story and that “This is what I thought happened and I am sorry”. … Before looking at tape and hearing other views. Mcgarity seems to not be in support of TG and the AJC reporters have written no less than 5 pieces on the subject, all with the “throw TG under the bus” attitude…. and this is no fault of Franklin’s.

I call BS on this. The AJC has blown this out of porportion as they normally do dumpon UGA in the interest of Blog hits. Another case of the ACJ being UGA’s worst enemy.

Me thinks this issue is going to have a big effect on the emotional attitude of the team. Richt not being supportive…. I think we have a firey coach it TG which is what we UGA fans have been saying for years that we did not have in CMR. He is making a big salary, but I dont blame him if he hit the road after this year for another job in the pros where men dont get their feeling hurt so easy.

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ttt

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@An SEC Fan

Idiot. it expains it at the bottom of the picture!!!!! I will say it slow……………………… he was seperating two players! Not in anybodys face!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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@snoop dawg
I can say we finally found something to agree on and it’s mark Bradley being a dumb………….

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So the USC quarterback coach is suspended for a week (out of season, I believe) for public intoxication and peeing in the street and the UGA coach should sit for a game? Both reflect badly on their schools but so does the UF coach with his rantings on the sideline. Next topic.

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mark,
you are way wrong. you, bill king, and schultz have been working at the ajc too long. you have absorbed the pc at all cost attitude the permeates that place.
you comment on an emotional and physical game. when people who are actually involved don’t act like the tea cup club, you become offended and demand punitive action.
turn about fair play. how about the publisher suspend you guys when you offend us? sound ridiculous? look in the mirror.

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I am a Gator fan and from my view, both coaches should have kept their mouths shut. The Vandy guy probably did start things, but Vandy is small time. UGA is the bigger and better program and should act like it. Come on, now we have high school football teams attacking each other after games. The grown-ups need to get control of things. That said, I think this inspires the UGA defense even more for the FLA game, and Dawgs roll at the WLOCP.

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@JPG

I wish I could agree with you,but at this point I really dont know!

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Wow Mark just when i thought the AJC couldnt get any dumber you throw up this article. You are a pathetic little igrl if you think CTG should be suspended. That is the DUMBEST thing I have heard regarding this situation. CTG is going to be at UGA for a long long long time. If he isnt then we have made a huge mistake. He brings the fire this team needs. Richt cools them down and keeps them in check when needed.

And to all those Idiots calling for CTG to be fired. Youre just as idiotic as Mrs. Bradley here. Grow a pair and realize that football is a brutal sport. If you cant handle it then find a different sport to watch, maybe rythmic ribbon dancing is more up your ally.

As for you Mrs. Bradley. Do us all a favor and go right up the traffic report or something bc that is all you are good for. You know nothing of football that much is clear.

At this point i dont know who is dumber, you or Shultzie. either way your both retards and shouldnt be allowed to have an opinion anymore.

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My point is that a picture exists of a GA staff person “in the face” of a Vanderbilt player regardless of the circumstances. Where is the one of Franklin? These fans seem so ready to believe unsupported ideas and claims without proof. Just because somebody said it doesn’t make it

DJ Dawg: Your spelling, punctuation, lack of sentence structure and name calling in lieu of proper dialogue says more about you than I ever could.

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@ True Dawg Fan:

Uhhh, we are were discussing your azz-clown DC.

Even CMR thinks TG is an embarassment.

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T3, keep it simple. UVA won because they scored more points than GT.

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T3

October 18th, 2011
2:02 pm
@ True Dawg Fan:

Uhhh, we are were discussing your azz-clown DC.

Even CMR thinks TG is an embarassment.

Richt is just pleasing the media and the SEC. He couldnt care less about it. If you believe otherwise u need a catscan

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I don’t beleive this…Toccabird… You never saw the movie Animal House with John Belushi? It’s the best line in the movie……

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Does anyone think this incident would have happened if Vandy had actually won the game? I think not, nor do I think Franklin would have anywhere near the trouble “finding” Richt after the game. The truth is that Franklin is obviously a poor loser and, as a head coach, all he could do to vent his frustration (at losing) was to take it out on our players. If anyone really, truly wants to get to the bottom of this, they’ll start at the top. It’s just that simple.

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Richt ought to apologize to the State of Georgia for collecting 10.5 MILLION dollars over the last 3 years for poor results!

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The hotsy totsy ex-NFL DC just got gashed for 200 yards on the ground—by Vanderbuilt. The utter temerity of a football nobody doing that to the ever proud, $650,000 a year Todd Grantham. But of course, that had nothing to do with it, he was just looking out for his players.

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OK then Bradley, surely you will now be able to SPECIFICALLY identify
which plays on which downs in which quarter Washngton checked-out of CPJ’s called plays.

Surely you’ll be so knowledgable about those details to factor that in to your criticism of CPJ.

Right?

Bradley, dont be an AW by trying to compare CPJ to Grantham.

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As a dawg fan, I’m not proud the incident happened but give me a break. Grantham shouldn’t be suspended. If Vandy’s coach hadn’t chosen to dress down the Dawgs player, nothing would have happened. Why is he being given preferential treatment ??

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OK, so now Bradley’s blog listing CPJ in the title…is a UGA blog?

Well I guess thats right.

I mean, Bradley…IS…Mike Slive’s mouthpiece.

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whats the big deal it was all men out there and no punches- I would be upset if an opposing coach fussed at my boys!

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Hey WTF…that may be true- but WE DIDNT POISON THEIR TREES BECAUSE OF IT….MORON!

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JB

October 18th, 2011
1:48 pm

Did we back down when the Germans bombed pearl Harbor ??? Hell no we didn’t…Go CTG.

Haha, someone didn’t graduate from 4th grade.

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CMR “apologized” to Franklin to defuse the situation. He obviously knows an age-old adage: It never hurts to say you’re sorry, even when you don’t mean it.

Two football coaches lost their cool for a few moments and would no doubt handle it differently if given the chance to do it over. If you’ve ever played football, you know this is no big deal-there is a lot of yelling in football. End of story for the combatants. Not here of course.

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joey1

October 18th, 2011
2:10 pm
true dawg fan ,, dont start talking trash uga has beat nobody either your combined 3sec team wins are a combine 1-10 in conference play. after 1st 2 games of year…lets fire our coach and rebuild now, you beat vanderbuilt,tenn,costal carolina,ole miss and miss state you are going to win your division.please what a joke of uga fans.. seriously you have floridae,auburn and us gt left….

ahhahahaha, who is here beating their chests about records????? Tech fans not us. We know who we have played and how we have played.

We will beat GT like we always do. Your not due for a win for like 6 years.

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Atlanta87, did you not see Anima House either? I thought everybody knew that line.

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kinda like you cheapend the ajc’s brand?

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Franklin did nothing wrong.

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James Franklin is a whinny wuss. He just cant handle the lack of success he has brought to Vandy. He is a hypocrite at best. He said there is not a rule that requires coaches to meet on the 50 yard line at mid field at the end of a game. He is right about that. BUT IT IS TRADITION! Welcome to the SEC!!!!!!!!!

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In hindsight, I’m lucky that I didn’t get fired. I appreciate the support, but the fact remains that I was in the wrong. I’ve manned-up and admitted that. It’s time for you guys to do the same.

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123 true dawg fan, are you serious me uga hasnt beat anybody either, you can only face who is on your schedule..and uga beat nobody ole miss, miss st, costal carolina,tenn,and vanderbuilt with a combined sec record of 2-10.. please dont even run your mouth the only 2 decent teams you played you got manhandled… not all but most uga fans are a joke of a fan base… please dont even talk trash about gt til the weekened we play

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true dawg fan, are you serious me uga hasnt beat anybody either, you can only face who is on your schedule..and uga beat nobody ole miss, miss st, costal carolina,tenn,and vanderbuilt with a combined sec record of 2-10.. please dont even run your mouth the only 2 decent teams you played you got manhandled… not all but most uga fans are a joke of a fan base… please dont even talk trash about gt til the weekened we play

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“MB, still waiting for an AJC writer to pen an article about Franklin’s irresponsible behavior as Vanderbilt’s head coach. Not gonna get one, are we?”

CalhounDawg, don’t hold your breath. Until someone comes up with a video coming from the other side of the field showing Franklin mouthing cuss words the other way, nobody will attack scholarly little Vandy in the press.

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true dawg fan please dont even run your mouth the only 2 decent teams you played you got manhandled… not all but most uga fans are a joke of a fan base… please dont even talk trash about gt til the weekened we play

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B’dawg …………….I don’t think he thought he was going to win the NC at Vandy.

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Post@2:14……….and you know that how?

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Hey Bradley, how ’bout expressing your esteemed opinion on James Franklin and then stand by that?

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He cant he is hiding underneath a rock praying this article goes away! hahahaha

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We are now a passive program. Richt has apologized and Dr. Adams has academic envy of Vandy and will call that President and Make some comment like, You know what I’m dealing with down here and Grantham will be suspended…..It’s just all crap.

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Antique Roadshow
October 18th, 2011
2:19 pm

“This was news on Sunday…it is Tuesday now. Let it rest.”

No way! This is the first thing that the UGA football program has done to make the news all year.

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one thing for certain…if the blog name includes the words “columbus” or “calhoun”, the post will probably be of little or no value…both communities are outposts for idiots, seems to me…

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Mark,

you don’t have to defend your blog. Most dawg fans regard people with thuggish behaviors as hero.

You don’t have to respond to any of those fans.

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True Dawg Fan = Todd Grantham

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