3 points about Georgia’s 28-point loss at South Carolina
Connor Shaw ran. He also passed. Not coincidentally, his team won. (AP photo by Brett Flashnick)
1. Aaron Murray didn’t exactly grab his star-making moment by the throat. Delivering a tipped interception on Georgia’s third snap was the worst possible start for the quarterback who still hasn’t presided over a victory against a team of substance. (Florida 2011 doesn’t count.) Murray had maybe his worst night as a Bulldog, completing 11 of 31 passes for 109 yards. In his defense, his line couldn’t block South Carolina’s defensive front. As offensive coordinator Mike Bobo said: “When a guy’s getting hit, he has a tendency not to trust his protection.”
2. The “Gurshall” groundswell got, er, grounded. Freshmen tailbacks Todd Gurley and Keith Marshall combined for 76 yards on 15 carries — this after each had 100-yard games against Tennessee. Again, the Gamecocks’ defensive line overpowered Georgia up front, often pushing blockers backwards into the guys for whom they were supposed to be blocking. “We couldn’t handle their ends,” Bobo said, and then this: “I thought we would be able to run the ball a little bit better.”
3. The Georgia defense didn’t trip the light fantastic, either. South Carolina gained 392 yards while throwing only 10 passes. (Six were completed, for a staggering 162 yards.) That’s what happens, said Bulldogs defensive coordinator Todd Grantham, when the running game works and you can throw off play-action at your leisure. The Gamecocks rushed for 230 yards — 109 by Marcus Lattimore, who had his third consecutive big game against Georgia, and 78 more by Shaw. “For us to get where we want to go, we’ve got to improve,” said Grantham, telling no lies.
By Mark Bradley
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Nathan Lane
October 7th, 2012
4:54 pm
The Dawgs are soooo gay.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 7th, 2012
4:54 pm
Im really glad we signed this coaching staff to a 3 year contract extension
I mean I just love losing to ranked teams with NFL players on the field
Maxwell the free-range chihuahua
October 7th, 2012
5:01 pm
For some reason the Mark Richt ESPN commercials are not as well received around my neighborhood. Wonder if Herbie told him he was a poor coach during the commercial shoot. I’m guessing no.
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October 7th, 2012
5:02 pm
THERE NI**as were better than our Ni**as that was for sure. BlueGums thats all thats in sports these days.
Rightfielder
October 7th, 2012
5:04 pm
Sorry UGA fans, the 2 best coaches in the modern era are Steve Superrior and Urban Myer
Mr. Red and Black
October 7th, 2012
5:05 pm
This is all a tempest in a teacup. The only salient fact is that UGA sucks and that CMR should have been dismissed yesterday, but the UGA fans don’t demand it. He would probably make a fairly good high school coach. Retiring UGA President Mikey Adams is a clueless, ineffectual leader, so the deadwood starts right at the top of the tree. McGarrity was the wrong hire for A.D. as he doesn’t have a nut sack. What about the defensive coordinator? Offensive coordinator? It’s elementary management principles people and we are sorely lacking in this regard. Can you even imagine Nick Sabin putting the kind of clueless product on the field that UGA did last night? At this moment we are a national laughing stock, but the Georgia fan base doesn’t have the will to rise up and demand change. See at the frigid Music City Bowl.
Buford T. Pusser
October 7th, 2012
5:05 pm
UGA Insider
October 4th, 2012
1:20 pm
UGA 42
USCE 20
This one is easy to pick. I have the same confidence as I had vs Vandy. UGA is due to beat a top 10 team…. and beat them handily. I predict UGA and UF will be undefeated when we meet in Jax. You heard it here first, UGA will wax USCe and UF will upset LSU by a fieldgoal.
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UGA Insider,
Please come out and defend your idiotic prediction. However, if you are working the double shift at the sanitation plant we will all understand.
You must be a Vegas Insider! You did get half of your predictions correct. Just curious, where is your misplaced confidence now?
Luigi Guseppi
October 7th, 2012
5:11 pm
I am new to US and sport you call fotball but we would call rugby with costumes. Why did the gorgia buudogs have a midget playing the Qb position last night? Thanks in advance for your knowledge.
AlanFalcon
October 7th, 2012
5:12 pm
If you recruit quality players (I mean players of substance) then they will put forth a quality team performance and not an individual performance, its a shame because M. Ricth is a quality guy but can’t distinguish the difference when it comes to recruiting, face it , Georgia is a lost cause.
AlanFalcon
October 7th, 2012
5:18 pm
Just a thought, What IN The World Is Athens And The Bull Dog Nation going to do when the Gators beat the hell out of them like Carolina did ????????????
sportzfan
October 7th, 2012
5:19 pm
@Fan……”How does the talent at Georgia get dominated by South Carolina? Are you kidding me? South Carolina?” Well, did you watch the game? Simply put South Carolina had better talent, better prepared, and better coached. Just because you dawg fans keep telling each other on these blogs how great your players are doesn’t mean they are superior. Carolina players out played Georgia players in every aspect of the game. Also noticed a post here where someone said Bobo shoulod have called plays to neutralize the Carolina blitz……really, they didn’t blitz, that was the push from the defensive line…..they only blitz about two or three times a game.
Freehawk
October 7th, 2012
5:20 pm
USC has last season’s Georgia 5A defensive lineman of the year redshirting. Sorry dawgs.
Eternal Optimist
October 7th, 2012
5:23 pm
We will whip Florida,however SC will whip Florida,LSU,and Tennesse and we will not back into the SEC title game this year. SC will beat Bama as the east has surpassed the west. LSU has no offense period. Dawgs will win national title next year I can feel it!
Here we go
October 7th, 2012
5:29 pm
I just got up out bed.Did we win last night?Is Richt our coach? Did Bobo do a good job calling plays?How did Murray do and is he still high on the list for the Heisman?Did our defense stop the Evil Genius? Why is everybody on this Blog so negative?All I can say ” WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR” or the next year or the next year or maybe the next year!
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 7th, 2012
5:30 pm
SC had better talent
LOL
Nope
SC was better coached and prepared thats all
Winning is such a difficult concept for UGA to grasp
October 7th, 2012
5:31 pm
Two ways to build winning teams:
1. Hire 1st rate coaches and recruit players with talent and character (example: Alabama, Florida, South Carolina).
2. Hire 3rd rate phony coaches and recruit low class trash, then schedule a lot of crap teams (example: Georgia).
Method #1 works. Method #2 gets you a decent W-L record, but no championships.
Mr. Patel
October 7th, 2012
5:31 pm
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BaseballBuff
October 7th, 2012
5:35 pm
After years of supporting CMR, I am now with those wanting to dump him. Mike Bobo is a mediocre offensive coordinator on his best day. Todd Grantham appears to be a blowhard, a total windbag.
Buford T. Pusser
October 7th, 2012
5:37 pm
Eternal Optimist
October 7th, 2012
5:23 pm
We will whip Florida,however SC will whip Florida,LSU,and Tennesse and we will not back into the SEC title game this year. SC will beat Bama as the east has surpassed the west. LSU has no offense period. Dawgs will win national title next year I can feel it!
________________________________________________________________
Optimist,
Where can I get some of what you are smoking?
Babalu Skies
October 7th, 2012
5:37 pm
Just a thought, What IN The World Is Athens And The Bull Dog Nation going to do when the Gators beat the hell out of them like Carolina did ????????????
They’ll cry like babies. Again.
Randy
October 7th, 2012
5:39 pm
Bottom line is Mark Richt does NOT have the drive or passion to win that other SEC coaches do…Mark should have been fired 3 or 4 years ago!
There is NO excuse for the way this team was NOT prepared for the biggest game of the year!
I have and always will be a UGA fan but I will never be a blind loyalist to an inferior coach good guy or not!
When was that National Championship?
October 7th, 2012
5:40 pm
1980, 32 years and counting. The great Georgia football tradition continues..LOL!!!
JTC
October 7th, 2012
5:40 pm
In my 40 years of following UGA football these are the facts.
1. Every one of our major rivals have won a national championship since us (UT, GT, AU, UF).
2. We have loads of money and great facilities and support.
3. Wait till next year is getting old after 32 years…..
4. Schools with no history have passed our program like USC because of COACHING
5. Leadership starts at the top…that was not a “tough game”…it was a national embarrassment.
Dawg Nation Down
October 7th, 2012
5:42 pm
“All Dog fans be sure to book early for your December bowl game and get the 10% repeat customer discount. A joyous evening to you all.”
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That’s a good deal for dwag fans. They’ll also appreciate that the bowling alley next door is now open 24/7 and has the cheap beer that dwags swill so much of.
wreckmaniac
October 7th, 2012
5:46 pm
Someone else mentioned this earlier. UGA’s players are selected by Scout and Rivals and not by the UGA coaching staff. They apparently don’t know how to evaluate high school talent.
wreckmaniac
October 7th, 2012
5:47 pm
If Tech, as bad as they are, is intimidated by UGA this year, the team not be allowed to play. Just mail it in. Even Al Groh should be able to stop the UGA offense.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 7th, 2012
5:48 pm
Guess what fellow UGA fans?????
We lose 9 on defense after this season
Whats the point?
Simple
This coaching staff wont have the opportunity they had this year with the easy schedule and talent on the field
8-4 is looking like a great season for next year and the year after that and the year after that
Pathetic_Simply_Pathetic
October 7th, 2012
5:48 pm
Talk about self Inflicted pain, if anyone thinks CRM is going anywhere they’re living in fantasy land. Why should this latest CF matter any more then the others?
Pause for ten seconds and consider what it would take to fire CRM.
yes, good answer. It’s political and all about the money, period.
Until the big buck alum’s and other donors start making serious threats nothing changes but a little drum beating from the AD and maybe the Emperor himself. You say the student body? Pleeeeeze. Like the man said, “money talks and BS walks”!
I hate it as much as you do but it is what it is…
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 7th, 2012
5:49 pm
8-4 is the best we are going to do next few seasons
Mick
October 7th, 2012
5:51 pm
Its a darn good thing for them Dawgs to have that easy schedule. Its just the type of schedule that will keep Richt and his boys around for a few more years. Richt just can’t gitter done.
Bob
October 7th, 2012
5:52 pm
Three points about UGAs 28 point loss: 1. Richt will continue to reinvent himself by doing absolutely nothing but be an average (but over-paid) coach. 2. Murray is all stats, but not a winner. 3. Why is Bobo still employed at a major college?
Gay dawg
October 7th, 2012
5:54 pm
USC sPewed points all over our D. The running backs for USC rammed us hard and clowney all but made Murray wear a ball gag.
wreckmaniac
October 7th, 2012
5:54 pm
What we have here is a AAA fan base supporting a B level program coached by a C level staff at a B level school.
What is impressive about UGA is its fans. What they cheer for isn’t.
Tampa Gator
October 7th, 2012
5:56 pm
No doubt about it…….Georgia “fans” on these blogs can turn on their team faster than “BravesfaninWis” goes negative on the Braves……and hardly anyone goes faster to the negative than him as his 5000 multiple personalities.
Smarticus
October 7th, 2012
5:56 pm
Rumor has it that USC is going to fire Lane Kiffin and wants to hire Mark Richt and his entire staff.
How much money should we send them to seal the deal?
Kiss the ring
October 7th, 2012
5:56 pm
The funniest thing about 32 years ago was UGA played no one that year. Oppents record averaged at 4-7. Even Norte dame at the end had a lose And a tie against an abysmal Tech team. UGA is lame
Beat down behind the barn
October 7th, 2012
5:57 pm
Continue to dream Poodle fans.. next year is going to be your year….not!!! LOL!!
Vince
October 7th, 2012
5:58 pm
How many times must this be said——-You win in the SEC by 1–Having a strong running game 2—Having a good defense that tackles well 3—Having good special teams play (this includes kicking) Very simple, very easy—–Just ask the great coaches!!!!
UGA better than Bama
October 7th, 2012
6:02 pm
Those three points are bogus. Murray is a better quarterback than people want to believe. Gurshall just didn’t have any opportunities to run. And finally, the defense was tired but they really didn’t give up that much.
Carolina proud
October 7th, 2012
6:08 pm
Satan Smells
It’s understandable to be upset your favortie team lost but give credit where credit is do. You are not the only one on this board but your inferior comment stood out to me. “Lost to inferior talent?” C’mon, UGA lost to a better team. Call it what you want out coached, lack of focus, etc. Your UGA Dawgs got whooped by the best team they will face all season. That’s the truth!
THE Dixie Redcoat Band
October 7th, 2012
6:14 pm
A watermellon and pool break did not get UGA beat. The Carolina coaches did a better job.
Have to agree with everybody, a very quiet coach=very quiet sideline=very quiet team.
Check coaches at big time schools, they’re running up and down sidelines at every play.
LakeDawg
October 7th, 2012
6:16 pm
Good Gawd! The Dawgs shore do suck. Just Dayam!
unbiased committee
October 7th, 2012
6:19 pm
Will Grantham get another pay increase
for his “skewed” coaching?
LakeDawg
October 7th, 2012
6:20 pm
The thing that Richt has never grasped and never will…You win in the SEC with fundamental football. I don’t care how many 5 star skill players you have, if you can’t block, tackle, and not make mistakes you will LOSE. Simple, but obviously beyond him.
ABAC-North
October 7th, 2012
6:21 pm
The doggie nation has every right to be angry. With one of the top payrolls in the entire NCAA, these thugs should be winning big games. No way those Gamecock players are making the kind of money the ABAC boosters are paying theirs!
ABAC-North
October 7th, 2012
6:23 pm
Test
voodoo
October 7th, 2012
6:25 pm
South Carolina will lose to LSU and Florida.
ABAC-North
October 7th, 2012
6:26 pm
The doggie nation has every right to be upset. With one of the highest payrolls in the NCAA, those thugs should be winning big games. No way those Gamecock players are making the kind of money the doggie boosters are putting out for their players!
LakeDawg
October 7th, 2012
6:27 pm
I also believe USCe will lose to LSU and UF. USCe is a pretty good team, but not any better than we thought before last nights game. UGA is just that bad.
ABAC-North
October 7th, 2012
6:29 pm
Fellowboosters, we need to cut off the flow of money to this bunch of thugs. they lay down in big games. No more cars either!