Unless it beats the Gators, UGA will be a 10-2 underachiever
"Wait just a doggone minute! Isn't that the signal for the infield fly?" (AJC photo by Bob Andres)
At the absolute worst, Georgia figures to finish its regular season 10-2. Just last year, a 10-2 regular season yielded an SEC East title and bought Mark Richt a contract extension and was taken as a sign that Georgia football was on the ascent. To go 10-2 again, assuming this 10-2 includes a loss to Florida and the absence of another division title, would be taken as an abject reversal.
Here’s where the Bulldogs’ bunny schedule serves as both boon and burden. Georgia still must play Kentucky, Ole Miss, Auburn and Georgia Tech; the aggregate record of those teams is 7-16. The Bulldogs also will face Georgia Southern, which plays at a lesser level. If Georgia beats those five but loses to Florida, it will be described, oddly but accurately, as a 10-2 underachiever.
When the Bulldogs were going 8-5 in 2009 and 6-7 the next season, the question became: Would they ever win big again? They’ve since gone 15-5, which would seem to offer an answer, but in light of the drubbing administered by South Carolina we note there can be a difference between Winning Big and Winning Big Games. Georgia has come to occupy the space between.
Its last victory over a Top 10 team came when it defeated No. 7 Georgia Tech on Nov. 28, 2009. The Bulldogs last beat an SEC team ranked in the Top 10 on Oct. 27, 2007 (No. 9 Florida in the Gator Stomp game). Their last victory over anybody in the top five came against No. 5 Auburn on Nov. 11, 2006. Since Oct. 30, 2008, Georgia is 4-13 against ranked opposition, and three of those times the Bulldogs were the higher-ranked team.
Coming off their 2011 turnaround, these Bulldogs figured to have much working for them: A fourth-year junior at quarterback, nine defensive starters who are either seniors or juniors and, above all, the softest of schedules. But when you play so few games against opponents of comparable worth and you lose them all, that schedule turns against you. It makes you seem a team that is, as Lou Holtz once said, living a lie.
It would one be one thing if the Bulldogs were capable of no more, if the only thing enabling them to be ranked at all was the canny maximization of modest resources. But you cannot recruit at such an exalted level and then claim personnel bankruptcy. There aren’t 10 more talented teams in the land. So why, when it comes time to step up in class, does Georgia invariably flunk?
We cannot help but look to the coach. It’s his program. He hired these high-salaried assistants, recruited these star-spangled players. And isn’t as if Richt has never won a Big Game: From 2002 through Jan. 1, 2008, Georgia was 22-10 against ranked opponents. It is 6-14 since. It has become the classic bully: It terrorizes the small fry but turns tail when the big boys show up.
After winning the East last year, the Bulldogs faced No. 1 LSU and lost 42-10. After rising to No. 5 in the land this season, they played South Carolina in Columbia and lost 35-7. That’s a 60-point spread in prove-it games, and the latter loss was truly alarming. Georgia wasn’t ready to handle a team like LSU last season, but 1o months later it was even less prepared for what the Gamecocks unleashed. Isn’t experience supposed to be a teaching tool?
Maybe it can still be one. This year isn’t over. If Georgia can beat Florida, there’s a chance the Bulldogs can again win the East. South Carolina would have to lose twice, but its next two games are against LSU and Florida on the road. Even so, the sight of the Gators again on the rise is surely disquieting: Of the four times Georgia has won the SEC East, three came in Year 1 after a Florida coaching change, and the fourth was in Ron Zook’s final season. This is Year 2 for Will Muschamp, and Florida just climbed to No. 4 in the Associated Press poll.
Having lost three in a row to South Carolina, Georgia has already fallen behind the Gamecocks in both standings and hierarchy. If Florida jumps back ahead of the Bulldogs, the Richt renaissance will have been the briefest of moments. His program will be in danger of falling into the hole from which he once rescued it: That time in the ’90s when Florida and Tennessee owned the division and Georgia, under Ray Goff and Jim Donnan, was relegated to third place.
This looked to be the season Richt and his Bulldogs consolidated their hold on the division, and they might yet. But anything less than an East title would rekindle all those questions about Richt. There’s no way Georgia would move to fire a coach who wins 10 games two years running; there’s also no way the second 10-2 would feel half as good as the first.
At some point Georgia has to answer the question, “Yeah, but who did you beat?” And that answer cannot continue to be, “Well, there was that Tech game back in ‘09 …”
By Mark Bradley
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Tech Engineer
October 8th, 2012
2:52 pm
UGA is stilll in the thick of the SEC race. One game proves little. Richt is a very good coach- better than the one we have.
Joe Cox
October 8th, 2012
2:53 pm
i bought into the hype. thought that last week we going to win or might have lost in a close one…not so much. i love the Dawgs but Muschamp will watch the tapes and replicate what USC did to us with enough success that Florida will beat us too. And that is…Defense first- Attack our weak O-Line: win the trenches, stuff the run and keep those hands up to deflect low trajectory Murray balls. Secondly, on offense- 85% Run it down our throats for the tough yards, tire out our D-Line; 15% throwing over the top to expose our weak defensive backfield (please coaches tell rambo stop going for the pick all we do is get burned)
David
October 8th, 2012
2:55 pm
It is not so much the won-loss record or even the rankings of the teams that beat Georgia that is so important; it is the fact that Georgia consistently and routinely gets embarrassed in big games: Tennessee in 2007; Alabama and Florida in 2008; Florida and Kentucky 2009 (not counting Oklahoma State, LSU or Tennessee losses); South Carolina, Miss. State, Arkansas and Colorado and then Central Florida in 2010; Boise State (totally unprepared) and the second half of LSU SEC Championship Game (when it really mattered) in 2011 and now this farce of a performance in Columbia. Arguably the biggest game since Alabama in 2008 (anyone see a trend here?) and what happens, Georgia embarrasses itself, its fans and the State in front of a nationally televised audience yet again. These teams span many years and many different and talented players. The only constant is Mark Richt and his assortment of coaches none of whom are being courted by any other programs of note. UGA has become a football fiction. The teams have taken on the persona of the head football coach, soft and meek; turn the other cheek…USC bitch slapped UGA in the face all night without any measurable response. The coach who’s job it is to make sure his team is prepared for such a game find’s solace in the notion that “we got whipped together…” Isn’t that an inspiration to us all?
captguitarman
October 8th, 2012
2:55 pm
What will you call them if one or two of the Little Sisters remaining in the schedule beats them? Wouldn’t Auburn just love to boost its season with a win like that? It looked like the Puppies didn’t show up at all on Saturday, but many claim that is wrong – they did show up – but as Lattimore pointed out, South Carolina punched them hard in the mouth at the bell, and they weren’t expecting to be punched like that. And that set them reeling for the rest of the game. rest of the game. The SC defense is beyond awesome, and if they play like that the rest of the year, we might see an SEC champ and BCS contender from the East this year. And Florida is obviously back after whupping LSU, and after watching them do that, it is hard to see how the Puppies could beat them. And Bama just sits quietly, goes about its business, and waits.
Bill Arp
October 8th, 2012
2:57 pm
This season is going just like I thought it would. I still say A Murray is 0-10 against good teams, that tells me something.
Erk's gone andso is our defense
October 8th, 2012
2:57 pm
Tired of the talk, win and win the BIG games or shut up and get out of the way, CMR time is running out.
collegeballfan
October 8th, 2012
2:58 pm
If beating Georgia Tech is the high point for Georgia in a season, well then Georgia is a “used to be”.
Since 1960 Georgia Tech has a record of 328 – 268 – 10, that is 25 games over .500 over a 52 year period. If beating this team is your measuring stick, your aspirations are really low.
JB
October 8th, 2012
2:58 pm
This is where we are with Richt and the program in another light. There are 24 girls in your school. 20 are fat and ugly. Four are good looking. You ask them all out. All 20 ugly ones accept. The four good looking ones turn you down. Richt could be 20-4 in his last two regular seasons and not have 80% of the the alum and fan base wanting him back. We are Clemson with Ken Hatfield. Beating all the wussies every year and clobbered by the 2-3 good teams on your schedule that mean something. Who on here will feel good now with a 35-10 win over Kentucky? 12 years. Look hard at the last 4. Look at Sprurrier in half ( 12 years) that time…with half the talent. Wonder what our problem could be.
Weyman C. Wannamaker Jr. (A Great American)
October 8th, 2012
2:59 pm
“At the absolute worst, Georgia figures to finish its regular season 10-2.”
Others of us figure them to finish worse.
Sick and Tired
October 8th, 2012
2:59 pm
You Richt/Bobo supporters are ridiculous! “It’s just one loss!” No, it’s the pathetic record of 2-14 against ranked teams. I can accept loosing when the team shows up and just gets beaten by a better team. But consistently getting blown out and embarrassed every year on a national scale is not acceptable any longer. Did you not hear the guys on ESPN talk about our coaching staff? Even they were saying how embarrassed they would be if they were a UGA fan. Bobo is absolutely clueless what to do when his game plan falls apart. He instantly falls back to his conservative, vanilla plays that everyone can see a mile away. Even my wife who knows nothing about football asked “why does he keep running the ball up the middle? It hasn’t worked one time the entire game. Why is the quarterback holding the ball so long?” Where was the screen pass? Where were the slants? Absolutely clueless. We will never win big games with these coaches. You people seem to be ok beating cupcake teams and being embarrassed year after year. I’ve been a supporting the Dawgs for 40 years and I have never been embarrassed like I was Saturday night. Seeing that stupid grin on Spurrier’s face was bad enough but then to see Richt smiling and acting like the loss was not big deal was nauseating! “Golly gee, we just got whipped.” WHAT A JOKE!!
Fire Mark Richt
October 8th, 2012
3:00 pm
Just Fire me and get me out of here. I am pathetic. I am a seller dweller in the SEC if not for the Vandys and Kentuckys of the world. Steve Spurries Owns me and always has.
Robin Hood
October 8th, 2012
3:01 pm
If Coach Richt goes don’t complain about 7-5 or 6-6 seasons
PMC
October 8th, 2012
3:01 pm
It just depends on what the standard is and how willing Mcgarity is to wait 2 more years for them to rebuild a wretched offensive line situation in to something that it should look like to compete in the SEC.
10-2 for the sake of 10-2 is freaking meaningless. Yay, you can beat Vanderbilt and Missouri. You want a cookie?
Beat someone with equal talent, or go coach in the ACC.
dogfan
October 8th, 2012
3:01 pm
captguitarman you are so correct! Alabama measures their success with one yardstick BCS championships. You never hear any of their staff say “We can still win the SEC west Championship” . We need that attitude and hire new coaches with a “Second place is not good enough” attitude. Every quote that comes from CMR spells it is OK to lose and be a team of losers.
mark
October 8th, 2012
3:02 pm
It comes down to this do you want to love your coach or love what your coach dose for your program. Ritch is a great man, a christian man who lives his faith and loves his family, but he is not a national championship caliber coach. I want to love what my coach dose for my program and if he is an insufferable ass so be it, as long as he plays by the rules and gets results. Only Texas and Florida have more pure raw talent than in this state yet we can not win a big game ever? Coach go be the great christian that you are, devote yourself to a life doing the lords work which is more important than coaching a football game. Due the right thing and resign at the end of the year, I know your heart is not in it, so be free of the burden.
ATLien
October 8th, 2012
3:03 pm
UGA hasn’t won a big game of consequence for years despite having some of the most elite talent in the country. It took Muschamp 1 year for Florida to get a marquee win and if fans don’t think they’re about to pass UGA in the coming years please slap yourselves. UGA will be relegated to being the third best team in the east. No national titles come from that position. Time to change direction
Fire Mark Richt
October 8th, 2012
3:04 pm
I am the Mike Shula of UGA football. I am a nice guy just like Mike Shula was at Alabama. I can win 9 or 10 games a year just like Mike Shula did at Alabama. Should you GA fans be happy or should you fire me and go for championships just like Alabama did?
dbc
October 8th, 2012
3:04 pm
CMR’s philosophy of having a finesse offense will never work against power football. I’d like to know how a top 5 ranked D can return all the pieces intact — AND BE WORSE, than the year before. The answer from every direction is COACHING. UGA will not beat Florida. And dare I say it, the only way to put Richt on the hot seat again is to lose to a crappy Tech team.
JB
October 8th, 2012
3:05 pm
Can see the NY Times headline now….” Univ. of Georgia fires coach after winning 80% of his games last two years”……………..That be the problem folks……It’s who we are losing to.
Dawglasville
October 8th, 2012
3:07 pm
Haven’t looked at the paper or listened to sports talk since Saturday night. At some point I declared that we should sell our souls and go after Petrino if that is going to be what it takes to stay a top 5 team. I was delerious. I had to apologize to my 7 year old for using language I chide him for using. I’m numb.
I believe the SEC has two elite teams and they will play in the championship game. That is Bama and USC. I think Bama will win and USC will win the Sugar Bowl. Hopefully we will win the Capital One Bowl.
Congrats to USC. Your fan base has been loyal for years. It looks like you will have your deserved time in the spotlight as long as Spurrier is there.
I don’t know think we can win it all with my guy. His biggest weakness is he can’t recruit offensive linemen and it is getting us killed. If he loses to Florida I don’t think he will keep his job. At the end of the day, he a great man, a good coach, who has represented us well. He took us to a higher level. I don’t know what will happen but I think the Florida game needs to carry that much weight.
dbc
October 8th, 2012
3:08 pm
I also can’t get the picture out of my mind of Richt shaking hands with Spurrier. CMR looks happier than the Old Ball Coach! Oh and even though the special teams “get a bad rap,” they still blow and pretty much sealed the nail in the coffin. But CMR still thinks everything is fine…
Gerald
October 8th, 2012
3:09 pm
The folks who keep asking where the magic of the Richt early years went are deluding themselves. There was no magic. Look at UGA’s actual record.
8–4 … first year no complaints
13-1 … ok fine great year
11–3 … lost to the only really good team they played that year twice (LSU).
10–2 …. again played only one really good team, Auburn, and got blown out
10–3 … beat no one of substance save LSU w/o their starting QB, lost to WVU
9–4 … new QB so no prob there
11–2 … beat no one any good
10–3 … ditto, got humiliated by both Alabama and Florida
8–5
6–7
10–4
That is it. Those legendary victories early in Richt’s career were over 3, 4 and 5 loss Clemson, Auburn and Tennessee teams. At no point in Richt’s entire tenure in Athens have they beaten a legitimate top 5 team that was contending for a national title. Further, victories against teams that are in the top 10 are rare, and usually had mitigating circumstances, like LSU losing JaMarcus Russell in the 1st quarter of the SEC title game. Now I am not talking about teams that were top 5 or top 10 when UGA played them, but final rankings. Richt has zero wins against heavyweights for his career. No victories against Florida, Alabama, LSU or even Auburn and South Carolina when those teams are actually good. No victories against top OOC foes (Hawai’i and 9-5 FSU playing their WR at QB doesn’t count). Richt played Tennessee and even Georgia Tech after their 90s heydays. Would Richt have beaten George O’Leary coached Georgia Tech teams with Joe Hamilton and George Godsey at QB instead of the Gailey Reggie Ball teams, and “I can’t recruit” Paul Johnson? Probably not.
Richt came to UGA from FSU and Miami. As a player and assistant coach, he got to beat up on independent, Big East and ACC schedules, and really only had 1 tough game a year, and often didn’t even win those. I hate to play the “SEC is the best conference ever!” card, but Richt’s background didn’t prepare him for the rigors of the SEC. And Richt hasn’t done squat to adapt. He doesn’t recruit the big DTs, LBs or RBs that you need to succeed in the SEC. Guys that Donnan recruited who went on to play up front for 10 years in the NFL … Richt doesn’t get those types of players, because he still wants to play FSU/Miami speed ball. That works against teams that are no better than NC State and Pitt that Miami and FSU used to beat up on all those years, but it doesn’t work against SEC that are on another level in the trenches. And Richt refuses to adapt, refuses to change. Good teams have already adjusted to Grantham’s NFL style 3-4 defense thing, because Saban has been running a 3-4, and doing it better with superior athletes, for years, first at LSU and now at Alabama. Richt should have stuck with a 4-3, and just recruited better athletes for it like Florida and SOUTH CAROLINA have, and LSU has since switching from a 3-4 to a 4-3 when Saban left.
UGA fans need to quit deluding themselves into thinking that Richt ever did beat top teams. He hasn’t. That’s why no one can name the best victory that Richt has ever had at UGA … there haven’t been any big time ones. (No, Hawai’i doesn’t count.)
JB
October 8th, 2012
3:10 pm
OK, he comes back next year ( and he will)….We lose 10 on D. The offense should be real good. We go 8-4. Then what……Richt say’s we are rebuilding…..You know we lost a lot of good players yadda yadda………..Hum……Bama has 9 new starters this year and they are #1……..
Stats Tell The Story
October 8th, 2012
3:11 pm
Since Richt’s first season in 2001, UGA has won 27 and lost 29 versus ranked opponents. Based on the offensive and defensive coordinators, here’s how it shakes out :
Neil Calloway/Brian Van Gorder – 11 wins, 9 losses
Neil Calloway/Willie Martinez – 7 wins, 5 losses
Mike Bobo/Willie Martinez – 9 wins, 6 losses
Mike Bobo/Todd Grantham – 0 wins, 9 losses
It should be noted that the losses during the Calloway/Van Gorder years were primarily attributable to Calloway. Our offense averaged 11 points per game in those 9 losses and failed to score 20 points in any of those games.
Here is the year by year summary:
2001 8-4
vs ranked teams 1-3
Lost to #21 SC 9-14
Won at #5 UT 26-24
Lost vs #6 UF 10-24
Lost vs #24 Auburn 17-24
Also lost to unranked Boston College in bowl game
2002 – 13-1
vs ranked teams 5-1
Won at #22 Bama 27-25
Won vs #10 Tennessee 18-13
Lost vs #22 Florida 13-20
Won at #24 Auburn 24-21
Won vs #22 Arkansas 30-3
Won vs #16 FSU 26-13
2003 11-3
Vs ranked teams 3-3
Won vs #25 SC 31-7
Lost at #11 LSU 10-17
Won vs #13 UT 41-14
Lost vs #23 UF 13-16
Lost vs #3 LSU 13-34
Won vs #12 Purdue 34-27(OT)
2004 10-2
Vs ranked teams
Won vs LSU 45-16
Lost vs #17 UT 14-19
Lost at #3 Auburn 6-24
Won vs #16 Wisconsin 24-21
2005 10-3
Vs ranked teams 4-3
Won vs Boise State 48-13
Win at #7 UT 27-14
Lost vs #18 UF 10-14
Lost vs #18 Auburn 30-31
Won at #24 GT 14-7
Win vs #3 LSU 34-14
Lost vs #11 West Virginia 35-38
2006 9-4
Vs ranked teams 3-2
Lost vs #14 UT 33-51
Lost vs #8 UF 14-21
Won at #5 Auburn 37-15
Won vs #15 GT 15-12
Won vs #14 VA Tech 31-24
2007 11-2
Vs ranked teams 5-0(lost to unranked SC and UT teams)
Won at #16 Bama 26-23(OT)
Won vs #9 UF 42-30
Won vs #19 Auburn 45-20
Won vs #25 UK 24-13
Won vs #10 Hawaii 41-10
2008 10-3
Vs ranked teams 3-3
Lost vs #10 Bama 41-30
Won vs #23 Vandy 24-14
Won at #11 LSU 52-38
Lost vs #8 UF 10-49
Lost vs #22 GT 42-45
Won vs #12 Michigan State 24-12
2009 8-5
Vs ranked teams 1-3
Lost at #9 OK State 10-24
Lost vs #4 LSU 13-20
Lost vs #1 UF 17-41
Won at #7 GT 30-24
Also lost to unranked UT and UK
2010 6-7
Vs ranked teams 0-4
Lost at #24 SC 6-17
Lost vs #12 Arkansas 24-31
Lost at #2 Auburn 31-49
Lost vs #25 UCF 6-10
Also lost to unranked Miss State, Colorado and Florida
2011 10-4
Vs ranked teams 0-4
Lost vs #5 Boise State 21-35
Lost vs #12 SC 42-45
Lost vs #1 LSU 42-10
Lost vs #12 Michigan State 30-33(OT)
All losses at home or at neutral sites
2012 5-1
Vs ranked teams 0-1
Lost at South Carolina 35-7
Just like last season, UGA will only play 2 ranked opponents during the regular season. UF is the only ranked team we have left this
Kevin
October 8th, 2012
3:12 pm
Mark, Do you have any idea why UGA has gone from World Beaters to Under Achievers under Richt? I’m a UGA grad and a Mark Richt fan, but I don’t understand how this has happened.
Bobo is Not the Problem
October 8th, 2012
3:12 pm
They will alsao lose one of the three games among Auburn, Miss, or GT, and go 9-3, best case.
This is the 5th season in a row UGA will finish worse than it started in the polls. Definition of underachiever.
FIRE MARK RICHT
Dawglasville
October 8th, 2012
3:14 pm
Than Man – UGA has won 12 or so SEC titles, only three were won with Walker. We are not Bama, by any stretch. And at best we are only a top 20 program this year. Historically, we have done OK.
LakeDawg
October 8th, 2012
3:15 pm
Uga has not even been competitive with the top teams since 2007, much less winning against them. The games have mostly been blowouts, to wit, 2008: 41-30 Bama loss, 49-10 UF loss; 2009: 24-10 OSU loss, 45-19 UT loss, 41-17 UF loss (did beat an overrated GT team and played LSU tough, but LOST); 2010: 49-31 AU loss (played USCe and Ark. tough but LOST both of them); 2011: 35-21 BSU loss, 42-10 LSU loss; 2012: 35-7 USCe loss.
This is a 5 year trend and it could be argued that UGA’s last significant win against top competition was 2005 against LSU in the SEC CG 7 years ago. This trend has occurred against a backdrop of UGA sending more players to the NFL than any other SEC school since 2001. This trend has occurred at a university that consistently is a top 5 most profitable athletic association in the nation and in a state that is widely considered to be the 4th best state in the nation for recruiting behind Florida, Texas, and California.
This year UGA has 9 returning defensive starters, all of which are considered sure fire NFL draft picks; a 3 year starter at QB, who is considered one of the best in the nation; a plethora of 4/5 star skill players; and yet, they lose to USCe 35-7.
It is as plain as the nose on my face. This is what we will get with CMR—nothing more. Don’t expect him to finally “get it” or for things to improve. A 7 year record of futility against top competition is a valid and reliable sample. UGA IS a second tier team withTOP TIER resources. Period.
Realist
October 8th, 2012
3:16 pm
Uga isn’t underachieving to those of us who aren’t homers. They didn’t seem better than a 10-2 team, not when you knew they were replacing parts of their o-line, their running backs were brand new, Murray had never beaten a “good” team, question marks at receiver, etc. The only surprise is how bad the defense has played the last two games. But Uga was overrated from the word go…they lost last year to all the good teams they played, so why would you think it would magically change?
SP
October 8th, 2012
3:16 pm
Let’s look at how UGA gets back to Atlanta.
1) SC loses soundly to Florida or LSU and drops below 10 in the rankings
2) UGA beats Florida and moves up to 9 or better in the rankings and Florida falls out of the top 10
So, then you have 3, 11 win teams.
Whichever 2 teams are the highest in the coaches poll would win the tiebreaker, and UGA gets back to Atlanta.
So everything should be focused right now on UGA beating Florida. Which will be tough, because Florida is just like South Carolina, great dline, mobile Qb, and great running back. So if UGA got beat 35-7 to South Carolina, how in the world will UGA beat carbon copy Florida a mere 3 weeks later with the same personel and coaches? Not like the oline of UGA will be more experienced, or Qb will suddenly become poised in big games, or defense will all of the sudden shut down a top 10 team.
Dum-Bass
October 8th, 2012
3:17 pm
A better caption for the photo would be, “OK, he’s at 7 now, I will get up when he gets to 9 !”
Energy Vampire
October 8th, 2012
3:17 pm
Been saying this for 2 years now, but noooo. You can’t blame UGA fans for getting their hopes and being delusional, the SEC makes their crappy schedule.
Strange Murphy
October 8th, 2012
3:18 pm
CMR is good at beating the Vanderbilt’s of the world. Little else, least not in a long time.
Billy Ryckman
October 8th, 2012
3:18 pm
Haters, haters, haters. Richt will show you haters. He wins out. SC loses next 2. Richt wins SEC and plays for NC and wins it this year. No problem you bunch of hating haters. Probably most of you, sitting behind your keyboard could not coach a 3 year old girls football team to a win over an 1 year old girls team. Pathetic bunch of pseudo fans. Richt will be here long after your silly ignorant analysis is forgotten.
Jeff Head
October 8th, 2012
3:21 pm
Coaching was the problem Sat night. Our offensive game plan was woeful. That falls on Bobo, and ultimately on Richt. Anyone watching last years S.C. game saw Clowney and Taylor run right by our tackles. They did the same, especially against Gates, this year. I cannot imagine what caused our coaches to think we could handle Clowney 1 on 1. We threw 900 flanker screens, which they were ready for. No real adjustments on O the entire night and the mauling continued. Spurrier did exactly what you would expect- pound the rock and take a few well designed deep throws hoping our safeties would be caught off guard. They were. Cliff Harris, NFL all-pro safety, says playing safety is fairly simple- you must be as deep as their deepest receiver. Rambo and Williams both got beat by a receiver running right past them. We had no effective plan to deal with Shaw and his running and SC only passed about ten times but they were effective because of mental errors by safeties. No free pass for our D and Grantham but when the offense is totally unable to do anything it is going to be a long night for the D. I have said before we will never win big with Bobo. It may be time to say we will never win big with Richt and Bobo. Regardless of the statements made by Richt we looked flat and slow the entire night. And I know we are not slow. And I know Danielson was not blowing smoke TN week when he said we have athletes to match Bama and LSU. If it ain’t the athletes, there is not much left to blame other than coaching. And it was abysmal Sat night in Columbia.
RM
October 8th, 2012
3:21 pm
The bulldogs drink use by date has expired.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 8th, 2012
3:21 pm
I just want to know where is
Brainiac
Lobosolo
Truth?
Altamaha Dawg
and
Columbus
Does anyone know if they have returned from the Jedi Kool-aid temple?
Bulldog Born & Bred
October 8th, 2012
3:23 pm
We have already lost out on Muschamp now watch somebody hire Kirby Smart please MGarity make amove now!!!
MrGreggo
October 8th, 2012
3:24 pm
Well let’s start with one of the weakest schedules in the nation. Overrated. Big Games should equal Big Wins, not at UGA and not with Mark Richt. Now you know why Bobby Bowden was the head coach and Mark Richt was not. CMR dreams big, but never makes the grade. Phil Fulmer could do better at UGA….
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 8th, 2012
3:24 pm
Billy Ryckman
Did you graduate from the University of Kool-aid
Seriously what has Richt done
His few Championships have come only due to backing into them cause of other teams in the East losing out
Ted Striker
October 8th, 2012
3:24 pm
Richt runs a clean program (compare his discipline to other schools), doesn’t embarrass my alma mater with his behavior, and isn’t on the hot seat.
And the sky isn’t falling.
PMC
October 8th, 2012
3:25 pm
Stats don’t tell the story. The bad luck combined with bad decisions made on coaching hires at the time eroded the level of talent Georgia had on the line of scrimmage. It takes time to fix that issue.
Judging by last Saturday, it’s going to take a lot more time to get players that are ready for that game.
Sam doughty
October 8th, 2012
3:26 pm
I am not ashamed of the Atlanta fans. If I had been there I would have thrown something too.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 8th, 2012
3:26 pm
How about Mcgarity leave along with Adams
I mean come on you give a coaching staff a 3 year contract extension that has done nothing to deserve it
Doesnt say much about Mcgarity as an AD
RTR22
October 8th, 2012
3:26 pm
Said it before and will say it again. Jawja fb, the greatest under achievers in college fb.
GB's Hamburgers
October 8th, 2012
3:27 pm
So you pay a coach big, the program starts falling apart and he announces he is rededicating himself to football. Where’s the moral compass? Why was he taking the money when he was phoning it in? He has definitely improved in those commercials selling Ford trucks. So at least he’s dedicated himself to that. Players come and go so they are not to blame for a decade long trend. The “constant” is the coaching. The moral thing is to do right by Georgia and resign.
Big Crimson 75
October 8th, 2012
3:27 pm
Beat Fla & UGA is right back where they were a Season ago, the SEC CG.
SC will lose 2 Games in Conference this Year.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
October 8th, 2012
3:27 pm
PMC
So we are supposed to give this coaching staff how many more years to embarrass this program?
ICMIII
October 8th, 2012
3:29 pm
@Billy Ryckman
If it is going to take us ten years to recover from firing Richt, then time’s a wasting. Next year seens a good year to start.
Jefferson Davis Hogg
October 8th, 2012
3:29 pm
CMR and the Dawgs could very well win out but is that really good enough when the cieling in this state is out of this world? In state tallent, facilities, money and fanbase? I truly believe we have dropped a few notches as far as preparation and are a product of our schedule which isn’t the strongest either. CMR’s winning percentage looks great but look who he’s beating and losing against in recent years. This university deserves more than to be the 32 yr sleeping giant that we have become. I personally would like to see Kirby Smart given a chance. Maybe he would bring a little SABAN attitude with him instead of the unemmotional look that we get from CMR. UGA has as much potential as anyone in the country considering the tallent coming from this state. Geez, 9 potential NFL players on defense alone aand what are we doing with the tallent?