Live from Columbia: Georgia aims to bag the Big Chicken
I'm guessing this Gamecock fancies his team's chances, too. Other Gamecocks do. (AP photo)
Columbia, S.C. – Big game here. Maybe you’ve heard.
Listening to the pregame show on the radio riding in — and here let me note that it took Team AJC nearly 2 1/2 hours to negotiate the final five miles — was to hear a heaping helping of Gamecock bravado. Every interview (including one with the famous South Carolinian Darius “Hootie” Rucker) went thusly: Interviewee paid tribute to Georgia’s talent, then opined that there was no way the home side could lose.
I think the home side can lose. I picked South Carolina to win this game several months ago. (I also picked Georgia to finish 11-1 and still win the SEC East and the SEC title.) But Georgia has been the better team to date, and I say this largely because, as a Kentucky graduate, I’m leery of any team that trails the Wildcats by 10 points after two quarters.
Beyond that, I’ve got nothing that you don’t already know. Whoever wins will be in Position A to claim the East — yes, I realize Florida is again looming — and I’m fairly confident someone will win here. I invite you to join me as we ride along tonight, and I can only hope the game itself moves faster than the inbound traffic. And, as ever, I thank you in advance.
By Mark Bradley
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Spartacus
October 6th, 2012
11:14 pm
Hey, at least Richt can make funny commercials with the “Gameday” crew on TV!!!
st simons Dawg
October 6th, 2012
11:14 pm
Can anyone say MAN HANDLED?
Out coached, out played, out classed on offense, defense
special teams etc/ At least our extra point din’t hit a goal post
Spartacus
October 6th, 2012
11:14 pm
AFDawg….are you watching the OR-Wash score??
He’s trying his best Mark Richt impersonation……you can have him
AFDawg
October 6th, 2012
11:15 pm
Spartacus, I hope you’re right but LSU has been looking dreadful the last three games. Maybe their linebackers will get some good hits on Shaw as much as he likes to run. I couldn’t believe our linebackers bit on the fakes so bad and we didn’t get any good open field shots on Shaw. If Shaw takes soem good hits against LSU, then USC is done — they’re lost without Shaw. Everybody cheating up to make sure Shaw didn’t run is what opened up both their other runners and passing game. I can’t believe Coach Grantham didn’t figure that out before the game — spy on Shaw and pound him.
Can you believe this?
October 6th, 2012
11:15 pm
Let’s see if McGarrity deals with Richt the way he dealt with the Gymnastics coach and the Golf coach. Richt is a good guy, a solid man, I just don’t believe he’s the guy to get us to the elite level of the SEC or the FBS.Look were Carolina was when Spurrier took over and now they are clearly past us
and are a top tier program.Richt has been here longer and we have digressed.Even last year ten win
run was mostly against oppenents that didn’t have a winning record,we have not defeated a top ten program in years.We need a change.
At least we're not 2-4
October 6th, 2012
11:16 pm
I take that as a no to my questions Spartacus……you admit you are a sissy and a fairy……good to see St. Simons out of his parents’ basement……even after the Jackets lose.
st simons Dawg
October 6th, 2012
11:16 pm
what a waste of top 5 recruiting classes
murray for heisman
October 6th, 2012
11:16 pm
at least we aren’t 2-4?
this just in, SC scores again
Spartacus
October 6th, 2012
11:16 pm
@dawg fan….Chris Petersen of Boise is a Scientologist……I don’t think the good ‘ol boy “blue bloods” including that clown Pres Adams would allow that…
overrated
October 6th, 2012
11:17 pm
same story every year. well….1980 wasn’t that long ago was it?
AFDawg
October 6th, 2012
11:18 pm
He doesn’t have much talent to work with out there. Give him the talent and he’ll know how to coach them to be champions. If not him, at least someone like him — there aren’t many out there to choose from these days. Who do you like? Maybe Boise State’s coach?
mt airy dawg
October 6th, 2012
11:18 pm
wish i could see Mason at QB.Murray is not a big game player. 3 years starters can not play that bad. Gotta admit he looked scared.CMR’s loyalty has got to cost him at some point.
USMC
October 6th, 2012
11:18 pm
The Georgia Bulldawgs football team’s playing personality is that of their Head coach and it’s obvious.
CMR is a good man, but he is not getting the job done NOR will he.
Any of you rich boosters have a private plane we can go pick BOBBY PETRINO up in???
Spartacus
October 6th, 2012
11:18 pm
@2-4:
“sissy and a fairy”???……Who talks like that???
Are you trying to do you best Gronkowski imitation?…..me Gronker….Gronker hungry….Gronker want ball…..throw Gronker the ball…..Gronker mad when he don’t get ball
Erk Russell's Dog
October 6th, 2012
11:20 pm
CMR ,I hear that Fayetteville is beautiful in the fall of the year.
Spartacus
October 6th, 2012
11:20 pm
Not No to Petrino…..but HELL NO!!!!! With all the good looking coeds at UGA, he wouldn’t last past spring camp!!!
dawg fan
October 6th, 2012
11:21 pm
Wow! I did not know that about him. Besides that I just want a coach to come in and compete for national championships!!!! Directed toward Spartacus.
Offer him lots of money
October 6th, 2012
11:21 pm
Jon Gruden for Georgia head coach!!!
USMC
October 6th, 2012
11:21 pm
The SAD fact is that most of Georgia’s Defensive players and skilled positions will play in the NFL.
mike
October 6th, 2012
11:21 pm
It’s a little different than playing Buffalo, Vandy, Mizz, Tn and Fla Atlantic, huh?
At least we're not 2-4
October 6th, 2012
11:22 pm
Hey Murray – how does it feel to be 2-4? UGA got beat down but at least we still have a shot at a conference title…..GT sucks….the OL got dominated and that should not happen…..there is enough talent in this state that we should not lose to a small, insignificant state like the Palmetto State…..GT sucks bad though….good luck against BC….oh yeah – they lost to Army so you might have a shot.
Spartacus
October 6th, 2012
11:24 pm
Agree AFDawg, Mett and the LSU offense look horrid. However, Barkevious Mingo, Bennie Logan, and Sam Montgomery of the D-line are absolute beasts. Those guys actually walk the walk unlike Granthams boys. They will punish Shaw and Lattimore
USMC
October 6th, 2012
11:24 pm
We should have known this was going to happen after the Lackluster wins against Buffalo and Fl Atl.
Great teams “put away” those lower tiered teams.
moo-face
October 6th, 2012
11:26 pm
@ can you believ this. You are exactly right. I can’t believe anyone in the world would be fooled by last years record. If you were fooled by it then it should have been cleared up for you quite nicely when LSU didn’t even pay attention to us in the 1st half and then just destroyed us! People can scream all they want about an SEC win is an SEC win. The fact is the conference was abnormally weak last year and we didn’t play anyone who was any good by SEC standards except the one’s we lost to.l Time for change.
Mike T.
October 6th, 2012
11:26 pm
Man this stings. Wow.
dawg fan
October 6th, 2012
11:27 pm
I don’t care if snooki became the head coach just as long as we are realistically competitive for a national title each year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Erk Russell's Dog
October 6th, 2012
11:28 pm
Georgia will be lucky to stay in the top 20 after this stinker on ESPN. Their talking heads will bury the dogs and the sad fact is the dogs deserve to be buried.For the Dog fans it never changes the team and coaching staff fold like a cheap tent the first time they are truly tested by a top level opponent.
Spartacus
October 6th, 2012
11:28 pm
yeah I could care less if he were Scientologist, a Druid, atheist, communist, Obama-lover……just so long he’s not an absolute idiot (like Petrino). But Adams and the circle jerk of Pre-Civil War era of the board of regents worry about things like that….
Mike T.
October 6th, 2012
11:28 pm
Hey, I vote for Jon Gruden.He knows offense.
mike
October 6th, 2012
11:30 pm
UGA wins, you love Richt. UGA loses and you hate Richt. Make up your minds.
Spartacus
October 6th, 2012
11:31 pm
NO WAY Gruden comes….he makes millions already, already won a super bowl….and it would be beneath him to go to some poor inner city kids house to beg and recruit
Erk Russell's Dog
October 6th, 2012
11:31 pm
Gruden will stay in the NFL ,he will likely be the next head coach of the Dallas Cowboys.
dawg fan
October 6th, 2012
11:32 pm
I agree john gruden would be good. I mean he did win a super bowel. That’s gotta count for something!!!
Spartacus
October 6th, 2012
11:32 pm
@MIke….you got it all wrong….I always love my alma mater, UGA.
However, I always hate Richt’s ability to coach….I don’t hate him personally, seems like a good guy to play checkers with
dawg fan
October 6th, 2012
11:35 pm
Does anybody have a theory as to why uga can’t keep the high ranked instate talent????
bardawg
October 6th, 2012
11:35 pm
The last time I saw a Georgia team show up to play another team with so little heart was against Tennessee in Knoxville in 2007. Except we were much more deflated at this debacle than any other game in recent memory. I’m at tremendous loss for words, I don’t know who this pathetic little high school team who showed up to play South Carolina was. They damn sure were’nt the Georgia Bulldogs! I don’t know who to point the doo-doo gun at for this embarassment , but I’m quite sure there are lots of deserving targets that are wearing the oval G. You boys really let me down tonight, and , as I hate to quote Kirk Herbstreit , I think you’re probably setting the tone for future games this year. Just who the hell are you guys? please give my Dawgs back their uniforms and let them show up for the the rest of the season!
we steal ruin this state
October 6th, 2012
11:35 pm
#3 FSU goes down, #4 LSU goes down, #5 THUGA goes down. What a day.
#6 SCAR gotta go to #3 tomorrow
Mike T.
October 6th, 2012
11:35 pm
Sooner or later, hopefully sooner, Georgia is going to have to pull the plug, like Bama did with Shula, and FL did with Zook,yeah it could be painful for a while,but ask any Bammer if changing Shula for Saban was worth it.
dawg fan
October 6th, 2012
11:36 pm
Well at least Florida state is probably gonna lose. That makes me feel better.
Spartacus
October 6th, 2012
11:36 pm
@Mike T……precisely
Erk Russell's Dog
October 6th, 2012
11:37 pm
I don’t hate CMR and if you are satisfied with the Dogs being a middle of the pack SEC team then by all means keep him. Do you really think the Dogs will beat Florida this year? They will finish 10 -2 and play a New Years Day bowl against another also ran from the Big 10 or ACC.
USMC
October 6th, 2012
11:38 pm
I know Mark Richt is going NOWHERE soon, but watch the SEC team that hires Bobby Petrino for next year’s season. They will pass Georgia by.
dawg fan
October 6th, 2012
11:39 pm
To Eric Russell….. yeah and get our assets kicked just like we did last year to michigan ST!!!!!
Papa Smurf
October 6th, 2012
11:39 pm
First, the Braves go down, then the Dawgs, so Falcons complete my crappy week-end!
Mike T.
October 6th, 2012
11:39 pm
NO WAY Gruden comes….
There has been alot of coaches lured out of the broadcast world.Call him up pay him what he wants.
If you want to be the elite you have to pay for the elite.
dawg fan
October 6th, 2012
11:39 pm
Or the year before that to central Florida for God’s sake!!!!!!!
Erk Russell's Dog
October 6th, 2012
11:40 pm
I think Bobby Petrino will be coaching in the Lingerie league ,no n SEC team will touch him.
Spartacus
October 6th, 2012
11:41 pm
@USMC…not so sure about that. The stink around Petrino is still pretty strong. I say he’ll get hired by a mid-major team, then comes to SEC in 2-3 years
USMC
October 6th, 2012
11:42 pm
Folks, this is a long running pattern for Mark Richt. I wish he would shake it up a bit and play Hutson Mason. By the way, our offensive line is HORRIBLE!
wooooo
October 6th, 2012
11:42 pm
dawgfan…”super bowel”
haaahaaa