Florida in Jax: Big for UGA, it’s even bigger for Mark Richt

Mark – are you trying once again to campaign to have Richt fired?

Oh, and FIRST!

• Link
• Report this comment

Transcript from this week’s UGA-UF Game-planning meeting with CMR, CMB and CTG:

CMR: Sorry I’m late. This whole singing-to-recruits thing is getting out of hand. I just finished singing “Call Me Maybe” to A. Kamara and “Forget You” to D. Henry. I’ve got 16 more requests today alone! Let me ask; do you guys see me as more of a Casey Kasem or a Cousin Brucey? Personally, I love the long-distance dedication….

CMB: Excuse me coach, can we talk about the WLOCP? What’s in the sack anyway?

CMR: Oh that…well, it’s my special “WLOCP Bag O Tricks”. It’s got stuff like end-zone choreography and Halloween-themed uniform gimmicks. I was thinking that this year we could go with the Invisible Man theme because the pollsters clearly don’t appreciate how good we are. What do you think?

CMB: I’ve got 2 names for you: Worley & Henderson!

CMR: Awesome! Who the heck are they?

CMB: 2 dynamic freshmen running backs who, many, many years ago, ran roughshod on then #1 UF, spoiling the Gators’ season.

CMR: Jackpot!! Are they available this weekend?

CMB: No, well, uh, I was drawing a parallel between them and Gurley/Marshall…

CMR: Gotta tell ya’ CMB, I don’t know what you’re talking about half the time, but I love That Thing You Do (CMR stands with air-microphone, begins singing, pointing at CMB) “You…Doing That Thing You Do….”

CTG: Excuse me! Can we talk defense now?

CMR: Oh, of course big fella, sorry bout that! I didn’t see you sitting there behind the Independence Bowl trophy. Fire away…

CTG: I’ve decided that this week, we’re going to just play our base defense, but with a wrinkle! Here’s the really big part…you ready??…I’m going to direct choking gestures at Jeff Driskel the entire game! He will become so un-nerved he will eventually wet himself!

CMR: Fantastic idea! I love Psy-ops, mind-games type stuff! I’ll add that to my “WLOCP Bag O Tricks”! (CMR grabs air-mic again, points at CTG, begins singing AC/DC’s Whole Lotta Rosie) “Let me tell you a story, ‘bout a DC I know, comes to coaching, he steals the show, he ain’t exactly pretty, ain’t exactly small. 35-7! You can’t say we’ve won ‘em all”……..

CTG: We done here??

CMR: Yes, sorry, got carried away. Gotta get to my weekly press briefing anyway. Instead of the usual boring Q&A, I’m going to sing, “Walking on Sunshine”! I’m thinking a little Katrina and the Waves will soothe those fourth-estate savages! See ya’ in Jax fellas!

• Link
• Report this comment

[...] Further reading: Why Florida in Jax is a big game for Georgia — and an even bigger one for Georgia’s coac…. [...]

• Link
• Report this comment

I really like coach Richt, but I’m beginning to wonder if 10-2 in the regular season and a Capitol One/Outback bowl loss to an inferior team is our ceiling under him. That’s certainly nothing to sneeze at, and I don’t see any coach available at the moment that would be guaranteed to do better, but it just seems like we always slightly (and sometimes vastly) underachieve these days given the consistently excellent recruiting.

• Link
• Report this comment

It takes a lot of testosterone to fire a coach who averages almost 10 wins a year and runs a clean program, but if we want to compete for championships we must win games like this as you have stated, Mark. Winning 10 games a year and losing the biggest games is not what a championship program does. Hopefully we win this week because if we don’t, I think McGarrity just may have enough testosterone to pull the trigger. And by the way, I like Richt but I am no longer convinced he and his staff can get supremely talented kids really to play when it matters most. Ugh, hate admitting that.

• Link
• Report this comment

I don’t get the defense.

• Link
• Report this comment

Win in J-ville and it returns to the potential of a special season. Lose and the wheels will fall off. Bottom line, do the players want it bad enough because the last time I checked CMR doesn’t take the snaps and CTG doesn’t rush the opposing QB. It’s up to the players.

• Link
• Report this comment

Ditto KBP.” I like Richt but I am no longer convinced he and his staff can get supremely talented kids really to play when it matters most.”

• Link
• Report this comment

It would be a mistake to let Richt go, just because you can’t beat the Gators is no reason to fire a coach who will probably go 10-2 for the second straight year. Keep Richt dogs, it ain’t that bad, there is always that CapitalOne bowl for you to look forward to.

• Link
• Report this comment

Havent beaten a top 20 team in 4 yrs

Boy UGA football has been heading in the right direction for years now

• Link
• Report this comment

Keep him in Athens, dawgs…it’ll make it alot easier for us to rebuild…

• Link
• Report this comment

We have too many (more that one is too many) players on the D worried about draft status and not about the importance of showing up every Sat and giving it all they have. I still don’t think UF is all that. They have 2 big wins (LSU and USCjr) both at home and one good road win (Texas A&M). They have struggled against some lesser opponents (Bowling Green and Vandy) I believe which team wins the turnover battle wins this game.
I am concerned though with how little “fire in the belly” our kids seem to have. At SC and at UK they looked like they didn’t give a rats butt.

• Link
• Report this comment

Nate, forget the Vandy/BG comparison..LSU/SC/Tamu are three teams that Georgia couldn’t beat this coming weekend on a neutral field…much less Florida.

• Link
• Report this comment

I do like CMR as a coach but also sometimes a coach can run his course with a program. I feel that CMR has had the tools to bring home a National Championship but hasnt delivered. He has had a top 10 recruiting class every year since he has been at UGA. We cant continue to blame Bobo or Grantham for the team because the Head Dawg always takes the blame. I see poor angles on defense, unfinished blocks on offense, and undisciplined players on both sides of the ball. You can only blame that on the attitude that the head coach brings to a program.

• Link
• Report this comment

I don’t recall ever being this un-excited (Yeah, I know un-excited is not word.) for a GA/FL game. Hopefully, the dawgs will surprise us with a win.

• Link
• Report this comment

Mr. Whiskey, wait until next years defense, with new starters and a much tougher schedule. Gonna be sweet!

• Link
• Report this comment

But it was very funny that once Mr. Bad Dawg. You are more enjoyable these days than Pulpwood.

• Link
• Report this comment

We should have hired Muschamp when we had the chance.

I hope we don’t lose out on Kirby Smart.

Both are UGA alumni and have coached in premiere college programs. We need swift, effective leadership from the AD.

Let Richt go.

• Link
• Report this comment

30th!!

Looking forward to the game on Saturday in Jax. If Florida can continue to play dominating defense and special teams it’s not even going to be close. Go Gators!

• Link
• Report this comment

I am at a crossroads… I love UGA; I was born and raised in Athens. I graduated in 1999 and got my Masters in 2000. I have loved the Dawgs my entire life & I want good things to happen for Richt & this program! The only problem is that I do not believe in him any longer (I wanted him to be hired when Donnan was fired). I think, and have thought since he was hired, that Grantham is a complete idiot; I have nothing nice to say about him… This staff just makes me so angry. I get physically sick when I think about the results they have delivered to us & the amount of money they make. Yet here we are at 6-1 and if my some miracle or miracles we win on Saturday we can make a run at a National Title (I have no faith that happens, but it could)… Yet, if we lose we will most likely go 10-2 with no hope in sight of making staff changes that need to be made; we need a fresh voice! So, I am left to root hard for us to run the table or root hard for us to lose to Auburn/Ole Miss/ or Tech & our bowl game so we finally have the nerve to do what we should have done 3 years ago… Can you see what a miserable situation it is to be a UGA fan? I do not think we can beat Florida, but I also do not think we can lose any other game on our schedule (except the bowl game)… 10-3 won’t get Richt fired even though it should.

• Link
• Report this comment

Well, if we lose it will just mean that THREE Florida coaches came in and surpassed Coach Richt in the series.

• Link
• Report this comment

I am sick of hearing from UGA fans that Richt is a good christian man and that getting rid of him would be going back to the Goff and Donnan years. I don’t care if the coach is Christan, Muslim, Athiest, Satanist just win the big games! Every season under Richt this team loses the big games that it should win. The last two seasons have been the softest schedules ever, I don’t care if they win games against the easy teams, they should win those games. It is the tough games that the Richt teams never seem to be able to compete against anymore. As Spurrier said before, I don’t know what happens to these 5 start recruits that go to UGA, they never seem to develop!

• Link
• Report this comment

Spurrier said 12 years is long enough to be coach of a team. I agree.

• Link
• Report this comment

Winder dawg

Dont worry a loss Saturday will send our program back 5 yrs easily if nothing is done about it

Remember we lose 9 on the D this year

Murray will be a senior next year so the following year Mason will be a one year QB with a rebuilding Defense

The next 2 years will bring us another inexperienced qb that this staff cant even manage and experience one

Thats the reality of Saturdays game

• Link
• Report this comment

Come on DAWGS it is time to go to Jacksonville all the negative talk is not helping anything. You have the whole off season to bitch about things. Real fans will be with this team 100% this weekend.

• Link
• Report this comment

My nightmare: Georgia beats Florida…………………..but loses to Auburn.

………………..

• Link
• Report this comment

In football, UGA stands for University of the Generally Average or Underachievers in Games, Always.

• Link
• Report this comment

I don’t think there’s anything better out there.
Unless Kirby accepts a demotion as our DC to become Ga’s HC, Richt’s as good as its gonna get.
Don’t give me any of that Chris Peterson non-sense.
Lavell Edwards >>>>> Chris Peterson, by a mile!! No body in the SEC was banging Lavell’s door down.
Willie Taggart??? I’d stick with Krusty the clown!

• Link
• Report this comment

I never thought I would say this, but so far i have no real issues this year with Bobo’s play calling…but how in the !@#$!@#$ could Grantham have monster size seniors who are supposed to be one of the top defenses in the country and play like this? SC was bad enough, but Kentucky just lined up and ran it down our throats in the first half….tightened up in the 2nd half coach? why the hell weren’t they ready to play in the first half?

• Link
• Report this comment

If Richt loses to Florida I predict he steps down to keep from being fired. It’s Smart or Petrino in my eyes. Either would be upgrades and would do no worse than Richt. They would however be inheriting a mess. First priority would be to get back to 85 scholarships. We are on self imposed probation due to lack of player evaluation over the years.

• Link
• Report this comment

So let’s look at this from a long term perspective. No matter what happens, he ain’t going anywhere after this season. However, show up like we did in the past two games and get stomped and the watch begins. The good news is that we can’t hide behind a weak schedule next year so it will become very apparent if he still has it or not. However, the spotlight needs to be on our defensive coaching staff. Richt is an offensive mind and that seems to be performing as it should. Maybe Grantham wasn’t the saviour we thought he was.

• Link
• Report this comment

Not fair to the kids when you are favored to compete for the NC and you lose game 1 or 2 and you are already out of the NC race.
——–
Wwwwwwwwhat!!!!
With that logic, Shula was in the hunt for 2 National Titles!!

• Link
• Report this comment

As much as I was looking forward to this game; two rooms at the Hyatt on the river, tickets and a weekend planned in Jacksonville I decided the hell with it after the South Carolina game. I just can’t stomach anymore half *** playing with the talent we have. I’m taking the wife and going further south and watching it by the pool on TV. You are right Mark; loose this one and 10 wins means jack and CMR has got to go!

Florida looks good but not great. For gods sake can we play upto our ability? Boo looked liked he ran with something to prove. Our defensive front; well they look terrible. Why do we have to spot someone 14 to 21 before we make adjustments. These are professional coaches; isn’t that what film study to suppose to do. I never see Bama having to make major adjustments. I’m venting; hopefully I’m suprised Saturday but that is what I will be if we win!

• Link
• Report this comment

Mark – do you think maybe Richt can’t coach them up, OR are they recruiting players that aren’t team type players who don’t take coaching.

• Link
• Report this comment

The only think Richt hasnt done is win a national title. They are only a year removed from a 6-7 season. The program had collapsed, and its just supposed to all the sudden dominate today’s SEC? 2012 SEC is a much tougher place than in 2002. The East was wide open for Richt. He handled Tennessee, South Carolina was a 6 win ballclub, and UF was in down years with Zook. He still lost twice to LSU in 2003 and Auburn in 2004, so its not like he was dominating national title contenders then either.

• Link
• Report this comment

Big Crimson – Let’s say you are on a team that is preseason number one and picked to play for the NC. You stumble out of the blocks or have a key injury and lose 2 or your first three games. I don’t believe you are playing for the NC. I am saying it makes for a long season because many of these spoiled fans get pissed off because you are not going to the NC and they give up. Thank God the players and Coaches don’t give up. But to many fans that is there only hope. Sure I like Champions and I want to be one but I am realistic also.

• Link
• Report this comment

How did the Dawg nation ever get this way…….bunch of whiners…..I say we go down have some fun, pull for the Dawgs and see how it goes. I have been watching them before Dooley showed up so this negative stuff is not new. Dump Dooley stickers were everywhere in 1979 and then he learned how to coach again when some special guys were on the field. No program is strong every year. Check out all programs. Remember when Alabama had fallen so far changed coaches every few years and keep on losing. Now they are hot again and everybody thinks it has always been that way…..well no. How about pulling for your program and let people that know more than you make the coaching decisions. Go Dawgs!!

• Link
• Report this comment

Hold up Fellas,
Trust me someone in the SEC will get Petrino this year. He is a great coach and could win a NC at Georgia. I like Smart due to the fact he has been with Saban for years, is a great recruiter especially in Georgia and brings alot of energy to the program. Again he would do no worse than Richt.

• Link
• Report this comment

In my heart of hearts, I dont think McGarity is gonna put up with this horse#$%^ much longer….he got useta the way it outa be at UF, and if we underachieve this year, I think changes are coming…

• Link
• Report this comment

Don’t fire Richt…..Fire McGarity….He’s the one who makes us play these brutal schedules….Man, we’re never going to win a National Championship if we have to play top ten teams….Besides, Richt has a very nice singing voice…..

• Link
• Report this comment

The only thing missing from this season is we don’t have Richt on tape saying ” I’ve waited my whole life for a team like this”….LOL…. That said, with THIS talent and THIS schedule , then WHEN???

• Link
• Report this comment

Smitty, I hear you are Ok with an average program. Is that correct?

• Link
• Report this comment

You only have to look at the hire of Will Friend of UAB, a friend of Bobo’s, to coach the OL……..The Athletic dept has over 60 mil in the bank, it’s one of out most dire area’s of help, and we go to one step above a Temp Agency to hire a coach. Very low expectations.

• Link
• Report this comment

I think it would be a mistake to get rid of Richt. I think the issue has been recruiting from 2007-2009. We had a lot of high profile recruits do nothing or wash out of the program. You look at all the freshman last year and this year that have immediately made stand out contributions, and its clear they are doing a far better job recruiting and coaching them up. In just one year of Grantham, Justin Houston turned into the beast everyone thought he would be. The momentum is back in the program.

• Link
• Report this comment

I know my opinion does not count, but if the “dawgs” lose to Florida, Richt should go.

• Link
• Report this comment

We’re doomed!!

• Link
• Report this comment

The only reason Georgia is 6-1 is because they havent played anyone worth playing all year. Can’t wait til Florida shuts all these UGA fans up on Saturday…smh

• Link
• Report this comment

Ok, if not Will Friend….I would of found the school with the best running game in the country and studied the Line play and offered their 300,000 coach 600,000 to come to Athens……But in fairness, Richt was about to get fired.

• Link
• Report this comment

Bradley is delusional if he thinks Richt isn’t toast if we get blown out Saturday….

The performance this season is absolutely unacceptable to anyone with any true pride in our program.

Fire bobo and Grantham too if we’re blasted Saturday!!

• Link
• Report this comment

After gettin tore up by the Gamehens it means after Bama,LSU,Miss.State,Florida,USC well your the sixth best team in the SEC and just like the last 33 years maybe next year!RTR number 15 your next!

• Link
• Report this comment

If we are going to get rid of Richt, please go out and hire a coach winning at another program with less talent. Please don’t go out and get an assistant like Smart to appease the fan base. You need to make a big splash, especially if you want to keep recruits. Spurrier to Carolina or Saban to Alabama should be the blueprint. Even Meyer to Fl. is a good example because he had shown he could win at a smaller school with nowhere near the talent he would have at Fl. Tenn getting rid of Fulmer to make a splashy hire is a perfect example of what not to do. They have been set back for years. Plus if it happens this year (which I don’t think it will), we might be in competition with Auburn and Tenn in the hiring dept.

• Link
• Report this comment

Needless to say, as a UGA alum, I was very disappointed with UGA’s performance against Kentucky on Saturday night…70-something yards rushing against UK. That’s disgustingly embarrassing!

However, one moment summed up to me the Mark Richt situation and why UGA will never compete at the most elite level of college football. At the end of the first half, the freshman place kicker, who had already missed a PAT, shanked a chip shot field goal that banged off the upright and through to give Georgia a slim two-point lead at the half over the worst team in the SEC. The camera caught CMR laughing as he left the field. I, as a UGA fan, saw absolutely funny about any part of the Dogs performance in the first half. I can’t imagine Nick Saban laughing in that situation. There would have been steam coming out of his ears as he sprinted to the locker room to raise he$$ with players and coaches.

There’s the difference…no fire, no passion! The players take on the personality of their coach…no sense of urgency.

Unfortunately, we are stuck in this rut. McGarity is not about to fire a coach who wins 9-10 games each year. UGA with CMR will always win at least that many because of scheduling and the fact that they will out-talent the lower level teams in the SEC. You might as well be satisfied Bulldog Nation because Richt’s job is safe until he decides to leave on his own. The game against the hated Gators this weekend will, in no way, have any effect on CMR’s employment status. Resignation is a pretty bitter taste to swallow.

Wow!…wish we had Will Muschamp. Watch his passion on the sidelines on Saturday.

• Link
• Report this comment

I’m personally tired of whining UGA fans that think Nick Saban and Urban Meyer can be found around every corner. No one else is beating these teams, so you can stop lining up head coaches from other conferences. Mullen has yet to beat a single good SEC team. So much for him being a prodigy. Smart? Lets see him do something out from under Saban’s shadow. Muschamp looks good now as long as Brent Pease stays as OC. Driskel was a mess until they lured him in from Boise St. If they fire Richt, I hope Ray Goff Jr takes the job and Tech wears out UGA for 10 years straight.

• Link
• Report this comment

I’m afraid our problems won’t be cured until the roster changes some. Some of these guys are more concerned with the name on the back of the jersey instead of the ‘G’ on the helmet. Unfortunately they are the players with the most talent. It becomes a double-edged sword: Give yourself a chance to win by playing the best talent you have or try to teach a lesson by playing the guys with the most desire.

Before you automatically say you would play the guys with the desire be careful. Ray Goff did that one year and we lost a homecoming game to Vanderbilt. He was right (there were discipline issues with some selfish starters) but it cost us in the won-loss department.

I suspect Richt and McGarity have already discussed this. Some NFL caliber talent will exit in the offseason with well wishes but no tears of sadness.

• Link
• Report this comment

Saban will coach Georgia State next year…

• Link
• Report this comment

Maybe all of our “future stars of the NFL” on defense are playing not to get hurt as opposed to playing to hurt somebody. IMO the former is a lot more dangerous to your health.

• Link
• Report this comment

You blind homers are the reason we can’t win a big game with your love of mediocrity and support for this pathetic display we see week after week….

Revoke ticket priviledges for these boneheads!!

• Link
• Report this comment

I’ve heard the Texas rumor also with the allure of winning a NC at a third school, a record that will never be broken IMO, and with Saban, it’s all about about him…You know, like his ONE voice of the program policy.

• Link
• Report this comment

Petrino is wanting to come to Ga. State so he can come back home (the Dome). I just hope some of those Falcon players don’t get a hold of him.

• Link
• Report this comment

I’ll drink to that!!!! Cocktail Party Baby….. Go DAWGS

• Link
• Report this comment

Some are already drunk, i see….

• Link
• Report this comment

Dooley’s Dawgs

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs Coaches# AP°
Georgia Bulldogs (Southeastern Conference) (1964–1988)
1964 Georgia 7–3–1 3–2 5th W Sun
1965 Georgia 6–4 2–3 8th 15
1966 Georgia 10–1 5–0 T–1st W Cotton 4 4
1967 Georgia 7–4 3–2 5th L Liberty 18
1968 Georgia 8–1–2 5–0–1 1st L Sugar 4 8
1969 Georgia 5–5–1 2–3–1 6th L Sun
1970 Georgia 5–5 3–3 T–5th
1971 Georgia 11–1 5–1 T–2nd W Gator 8 7
1972 Georgia 7–4 4–3 5th
1973 Georgia 7–4–1 3–4 T–5th W Peach
1974 Georgia 6–6 4–2 T–2nd L Tangerine
1975 Georgia 9–3 5–1 T–2nd L Cotton 19 19
1976 Georgia 10–2 5–1 1st L Sugar 10 10
1977 Georgia 5–6 2–4 T–6th
1978 Georgia 9–2–1 5–0–1 2nd L Bluebonnet 15 16
1979 Georgia 6–5 5–1 2nd
1980 Georgia 12–0 6–0 1st W Sugar 1 1
1981 Georgia 10–2 6–0 T–1st L Sugar 5 6
1982 Georgia 11–1 6–0 1st L Sugar 4 4
1983 Georgia 10–1–1 5–1 2nd W Cotton 4 4
1984 Georgia 7–4–1 4–2 T–3rd T Florida Citrus
1985 Georgia 7–3–2 3–2–1 5th T Sun
1986 Georgia 8–4 4–2 T–2nd L Hall of Fame
1987 Georgia 9–3 4–2 T–4th W Liberty 14 13
1988 Georgia 9–3 5–2 3rd W Gator 15 15
Georgia: 201–77–10 104–42–4
Total: 201–77–10

• Link
• Report this comment

If it gets ugly Saturday, it’s just one more validation that it’s the staff. No way we should get blown out with the talent of our starters.

• Link
• Report this comment

Single, unfortunately you’re right too. I think the world of the guy but Mark Richt appears unable to get the attention of guys like this and, as a fan, I want the most talent on the field. Other coaches deal with selfish players and find a way to win. It is not impossible.

• Link
• Report this comment

drunken dawg

October 22nd, 2012
2:43 pm

Gonna Get wasted and have a party in JAX.. Go Dawgs!!!!
**********
Moron.

• Link
• Report this comment

All of you wanting to get rid of Richt – I can only hope that you do because Tennessee would try to hire him in a heartbeat.

• Link
• Report this comment

yep, started getting nervous when I saw CBS promoting the game all weekend. Usually laying an egg time for us when the lights go up on a big stage.

• Link
• Report this comment

What’s the over/under on Murray throwing a pick 6 at the most inopportune time?

• Link
• Report this comment

Ho, Hum;

Another great 12-2 season and another bowl game in Shreveport.

Ho, Hum.

• Link
• Report this comment

Paul the Vol…….You’ve been bad to long to really mean that. Sleepy eyes would do less up there because of the no talent in Tenn high schools. Richt wins 9, 10 games with talent, not coaching. Boy, if we had both!!!!!!

• Link
• Report this comment

A few things going into this game to give the Dawgs their best chance at winning. First, Bobo doesn’t need to worry about establishing the running game. Run when you think you can break one but other than that — spread the field and throw, throw, throw! Let’s do this Texas Tech style. UGA seems to move the ball best when they open things wide open. Put some new sets in. Use a lot of trick plays. On the defensive side of the ball — scheme a lot and blitz a lot. Put your fastest linebacker on Driskell and tell him to key on him the whole game and hit him every play. Special teams — practice for a change.

• Link
• Report this comment

I GUARANTEE I CAN COACH UP RICHT’S CURRENT TALENT AND OPEN A CAN OF WHOOP A** ON FLORIDA AND SOUTH CAROLINA !

I’LL LIGHT A FIRE !

• Link
• Report this comment

OLD COACH IS A GREAT GUY FOR SURE BUT HE WILL NEVER TAKE US TO A TITLE.GREAT GUYS ARE NOT GREAT LEADERS.HE LACKS EMOTION ON AND OF THE FIELD.HE HAS WAY TO MANY EXCUSES.HE NEEDS TO GET PISSED ONE TIME AND LEAD THE DOGS THROUGH THE GAME.MAKE THEM LISTEN AND PLAY FOR THE WIN.LAST YEAR THE BOWL GAME MADE ME SICK.3 OVERTIMES TO WIN AND NO SCORE.

• Link
• Report this comment

The fact that they had two weeks to prepare for the worst team in the SEC and looked that bad from start to finish sums up what’s going to happen Saturday. TWO WEEKS!
The defense in particular looked like they hadn’t played a snap all year starting with the first play of the game, nor had even prepared one lick, It baffles me to no end.

• Link
• Report this comment

Q: Ive read the AJC and Columbia papers this weekend and have wondered …. Why had the been no piece criticizing CSS for not being able to “win the big ones” for two years in a row and calling for his head at SC. He lost two last year at LSU and ARKY and the two this year LSU and FLA that wouod have put him in the SECCG had he come away with one win either year but he could not come thru either year. Why arent the writers calling for his head?.

• Link
• Report this comment

RNB ……average teams don’t average 10 wins a year for 10 years….ask Tennessee, Auburn, ole Miss, Arkansas, Vandy, South Carolina, Mississippi State and the list goes on and on and on. The Dawgs are not average!!!!

• Link
• Report this comment

I mean loose to FLA by 28???

• Link
• Report this comment

Gators play tough. They have obvious weaknesses but play relentless, physical football which overcomes a lot of shortcomings. The Dawgs have as much talent as ever but what weaknesses they have (and all teams have them) seem to get exposed and become glaring problems.

The Dawgs can absolutely win this game but similarly they can easily lose by 4 touchdowns. I’ll say that we are definetly due for a signature win and if it all comes together Saturday, it could be a beautiful thing for the program and for CMR.

• Link
• Report this comment

gbal,

South Carolina did not play LSU in 2011. They actually lost their other SEC game to Auburn! LMAO! The same Auburn team UGA smoked 45-3.

The reason SC fans aren’t calling for CSS’s head is because SC is playing the best football in their history right now. It’s never been better for this sustained period of relevance. Spurrier has them respected year-to-year now as an SEC contender. Most didn’t think SC would ever be this successful.

• Link
• Report this comment

Dawg Gone

October 22nd, 2012
2:57 pm

I heard this morning Petrino was spotted in an Atlanta hotel this morning. Wonder who was interviewing him.
*******
The GBI?

• Link
• Report this comment

Petrino or Smart? Yall better jump on board if you want to win a NC.
Rumor is Richt is steping down after this year no matter what. He cites just being tired and wants to foucs on family.

• Link
• Report this comment

I’m sorry, UGA beat Auburn 45-7 in 2011.

• Link
• Report this comment

Mark you stated the obvious. Most programs would give their first born to be 6-1. However, we expect more and maybe we got too involved in the hype. I think we have multiple problems on this team. First warning sign was when players were supportive of the ones that were suspended. They should have been mad as hell at them for letting the team down. Richt is hugging Rambo after the 4th game. We do not know what goes on behind the scenes but it seems like discipline of these players should set an example and the fellow players would let them know about it. Second thing I see is a lack of leadership on defense by the players. I do not see that Junkyard Dawg enthusiam. This past Saturday I did not see much emotion till the 4th quarter and that was from Shawn Williams. Senior leadership should be set by example and the team rallies behind it. I do not see this at all. The offense scores 29 points and that should win against any team. Malcom Mitchell was the only offensive player showing that enthusiam as well. Third, our defense is terrible.
Grantham should know what is going on. Players over pursue and do not stay in their lanes. Blown assignments, poor alignment. How many times you see players confused on where they should be lined up? Fourth, special teams are horrible. We can not boom a punt. Barber punts consistantly 35-40 yards every punt. We need him to boom a few. No matter who is on punt return does not know when to catch the ball, let it go or when to call a fair catch. Every extra point is and adventure. Kickoffs have been the only decent part of special teams. Fifth, Mark needs to show some fire. He needs to kick some of these players and coaches ass. He needs to be in their face and let them know there is only one way and that is his way. Get on the bus or get the hell off. Mark looked like a man without a purpose Saturday night. He looked like he was going thru the motions and lost. Perhaps he has lost his drive? Don’t get me wrong. I am a 100 percent Dawg. It is my school and I have passion for it that has consumed a lot of my life. I hate to lose but what I hate the most is seeing half effort. Maybe these players are not good as they are susposed to be or perhaps they are not coached properly. Maybe a combination of both? All I know it is time to step up and man up. They want to play grown up football, well this week is their chance to show the world what they got. If not, then as much as I like Mark, it will be time for a change at the end of the season. I see passion from our coaches as Grantham and Bobo, Richt needs to show some as well and maybe this team will benefit from it.
See you in Jacksonville.
Go Dawgs!!!!

• Link
• Report this comment

@DarthDawg – I think Bobo has discouraged Murray from using his legs. He definitely can run for first downs and be more mobile. They dont even roll him out much. Its not like running doesnt translate to the pros. A guy by the name of Aaron Rodgers seems to be having quite a nice career.

• Link
• Report this comment

Richt is going to wait until Feb 7th to step down.

• Link
• Report this comment

I’m not convinced Florida is all that good anyway … LSU played their worst game of the season against them in the Swamp and in their other home game against a “good opponent”, USC was without their Heisman Trophy candidate. Needless to say, their offense is toothless without Lattimore. … Wasn’t it just six weeks ago that Florida fans wanted to fire Muschump. Everybody needs to relax … Bradley included.

• Link
• Report this comment

IF, and that is a big IF, the dogs can out score the gators then we will win the game this Saturday!

• Link
• Report this comment

Murray gets sacked 5-6 times Saturday, and will lose say 2 fumbles in the process. His MO for 3 years

• Link
• Report this comment

Sorry Mike S, I still don’t call what’s going on in Athens, momentum.

So you are fine with beating the teams we have an overwhelming talent advantage over, and losing to teams, mostly badly, who are our equals, talent-wise?

I’m not.

• Link
• Report this comment

Murray fumbles a lot when blitzed because he has the hands of a 4th grader size wise. True

• Link
• Report this comment

http://www.gamecocksonline.com

Check out this CSS presser and comapre to CMR after the past two games…

Expect accountability

• Link
• Report this comment

Maybe if I become illiterate, the filters won’t be stringent.

• Link
• Report this comment

Like it or not….Florida 38 UGA 19

• Link
• Report this comment

Who was that dog fan on here the other day demolishing the English language??
Apparently that’s what it takes to get a post thru.

• Link
• Report this comment

UGA will get beat by 28 points! I’m a UGA fan, but I also know that we are just not a good team. WE have awesome talent on both sides of the ball, but as a team goods we are not good! CMR does not coach up his players! That is why we can not win the big games! Also our D is not good at all! UGA always comes out flat! We never look like we are hungry and play with emotions or come out fired up! I blame the coaching staff for that!

• Link
• Report this comment

Enter your comments here

• Link
• Report this comment

The dogs will pull the upset like last year and beat fl—take it to the bank! fl is overrated and their offense is terrible. Murray can light it up against their secondary. Dogs 31 fla 19!

• Link
• Report this comment

Reading all these comments is pretty entertaining but also very sad. I am a Bulldog fan(I graduated from UGA in ‘89) and I want the team to win. However, I don’t let the way that these kids (remember, they are just kids) perform on a football field effect my mood or my outlook on life. Some of you really need to examine what your priorities are if you get physically sick over the outcome of a college football game – you need some serious help if it effects you that much. After a win or a loss by UGA, does your day-to-day life really change that much? Would a National Championship really improve your life as a person not directly involved with the team (player or coach)? Mark Richt is a man of character who is not perfect by any means, but I would much rather have him as my coach than a Nick Saban, who will lie to your face – I don’t care how many titles are won or lost. There are more important things in life than to be totally consumed by college football.

• Link
• Report this comment

Ga loses badly to the only team worth a $hit so far on their schedule and Fla beats all three of the ranked teams they have played this year and They are overrated?

• Link
• Report this comment

Stop going to YDC to pick your players. Stop trying to save the world and recruit players who actually meet the standards to be there or at least have character.

• Link
• Report this comment

How many many of my fellow Dawgs on here actually thought that we would be more worried about our defense going into this game than the offense? Crap, not me. Not sure what has happened. I got suckered in I guess. I really thought thought Grantham was a very good DC. I was wrong like many of you. I just don’t get how this defense is not playing like a top 10 defense with the players they have. Over half of them will be in the NFL the next year or 2.
I’m stumped. Grantham had a nice big can of snake oil.

• Link
• Report this comment

If Georgia wins the game, they are right where they would have hoped to be at the beginning of the year, in control of their path to the SEC Championship game. I can’t remember a Georgia/Florida game meaning so much for both programs in recent memory. The winner is certainly in the National Championship hunt.

BTW, I would take Georgia plus the 6 all day. I love my Gators, but we have lived a charmed life this season. Luck has a way of dissapating like a fart in the wind when you least expect it.

Go Gators!

• Link
• Report this comment

Not since 2007 has Coach Richt given UGA fans a reason to believe that a championship was at hand? That’s a bit of a stretch, Mark. I know that the final score last year left a bad taste in everyone’s mouths, but Georgia played for the SEC Championship last season. At halftime, Georgia fans were pretty optimistic that we had a chance to win the thing, too.

• Link
• Report this comment

*ever hired

• Link
• Report this comment

Before you scream Fire Richt, please tell me who is going to match his record; 106 wins in 11 seasons. Every time I ask this, people say some mid-level coach or Kirby Smart (who sits over Saban’s defense, nnot his own). I think Richt’s tenure hasn’t been perfect but it has been so long that we forget all the promise Jim Donnan came with….

• Link
• Report this comment

It’s all about the trends. We don’t win big games anymore. In big games and close games Bobo seems to just flat out disappear. Grantham has not been able to build on last years momentum. Don’t forget we kept LSU to 12 yards in one half of the SECCG game last year. We have players that can play. We come out flat or play down to competition more times than any other big time program. I think a bigger problem for our program as a whole is our national perception now. Big IF’S here but IF we beat Florida and IF we beat an undefeated ALA in the SECCG, I bet there would be a pretty good chance that we would still not get a shot at the NC game based on our national perception. Another one loss team would be voted in ahead of us, because we have lost a lot of respect over the last couple of years based on our performances in bigger games.

• Link
• Report this comment

Hey Bad Dawg,

I am a die-hard Dawg fan but I acutally enjoyed your post and thought it was pretty darn funny. You have to laugh at yourself once in a while and I thought your simulated dialogue between our coaches was hilarious.

• Link
• Report this comment

good lord he is 6-1…he wins…leave him alone or i will eat your brains…

• Link
• Report this comment

fb,
We still cannot win a big game. If I was a coach and beat only the patsies, then lost to anybody worth a grain of salt……I might be somewhat concerned. Records are nothing when the competition is not there…..and when it is, win a tough game (or a big one) AT LEAST OCCASIONALLY!

• Link
• Report this comment

“Bunny schedule.” Excellent description. The mighty SEC consists of three football teams.

• Link
• Report this comment

Does Win WIth drive his Built Ford Tough to the games?

• Link
• Report this comment

I’m tired of hearing about 1981, Herschel and all the great Dooley teams.

I live in the present and want my Dawgs fighting for a National Championship

• Link
• Report this comment

Way, Way, Way past time for Richt and his clown cronies/assistants to go. I don’t care if we do win this coming game. We won’t, but just say we do. There has been no coaching up of recruits, they’re playing like they don’t care, and I don’t blame them. Murray is a junior and possibly back next year, but who succeeds him? And why isn’t that guy given any playing time? And the defense just sux and that’s with some supposed studs, whom we lose next year. Who replaces them? This program is a disaster from top to bottom. Time to make some hard changes.

• Link
• Report this comment

The problem isn’t beating Florida this weekend. I think the Dawgs win an ugly game since Florida’s offense isn’t good at all (UGA’s defense will make them look better than they really are just like against SC).

The problem is after UGA wins out, they stand to get embarrassed in the GA Dome again unless they get their act together.

Before the SC game I honestly felt that UGA was the only team on this side of the country that could threaten Bama simply because of the balanced offense. I don’t care about the Kentucky performance, I’m still stuck on one night in Columbia. UGA has a track record of not always playing 4 quarters in a big game. Yeah, Florida is a big game but they are fool’s gold. I think this game looks a lot like last year’s where Florida’s offense was also pretty bad but looked great against UGA for a good portion of the game.

• Link
• Report this comment

games like Kentucky happen all the time. Teams get caught looking ahead and almost lose to teams they should easily beat. I am concerned though that all we are “looking ahead” to is another loss to a top 10 team just like the last few years.

• Link
• Report this comment

Braves fans live in the 1990s & Dawg fans live in the 1980s

• Link
• Report this comment

And, oh, BTW, I earned the right to criticize this team. Just because I criticize doesn’t mean I don’t bleed Black and Red and chew my nails over these games. I just find it laughable that other coaches can take lesser talents and have them WANT TO WIN and we can’t get ours to GIVE A DAMN. Buy a clue, it goes back to one man.

• Link
• Report this comment

Gators got that RAMMER JAMMER, eeeeh aaaaah!! Go Gators!! Dawgs are Gatorbait!!

• Link
• Report this comment

Mark Richt is a much better football coach than Mark Bradley is a sports writer.

I know, I know. That is not saying much.

But Mark is sick of negative sports writers and you know what, so are the fans.

Time for you to go Bradley. Go work for the Lexington newspaper and be a homer for your alma mater.

PS CMR has won 112 games in 11 & 1/2 years in Athens and beat Florida more than both his predecessors combined. We are fortunate to have him. Look at what we had before. Look at what Tennessee and Auburn have now.

• Link
• Report this comment

Here’s the record of our opponents to date read it and still tell me I’m crazy for being concerned about the state of our program. I’m sorry we’ve built a resume the past two years on fool’s gold wins take a look:

Result – team – (their record)

W – Buffalo (1-6)
W-Missouri (3-4)
W- Florida Atl (1-6)
W- Vandy (3-4)
W- Tenn (3-4)
L- SC (6-2)
W – Kentucky (1-7)
? – Florida (7-0)
?- Ole Miss (4-3)
?- Auburn (1-6)
? Ga So (6-1) * Subdivision
? Ga Tech (3-4)

So take out UF and SC – two toughest games on the schedule, and Ga So – subdivision team, the combined record to date of the rest of the FOOL’S GOLD SCHEDULE IS: 20-44!!!

TWO VERY FAIR QUESTIONS TO ASK:

1. Does M.Richt deserve to keep his job if he loses both of the only games he needed to win on the schedule?

2. Can we call 10-2 in the regular season a success with THAT schedule?

• Link
• Report this comment

That’s the difference, Buckeye, glad you brought it up.

See, we kick our troublemakers off the team. The Free Tatts U lies to the NCAA about theirs. Over and over. Year after year.

Just waiting for the NCAA to go back and vacate the ‘02 title, which The Free Tatts U won while playing an ineligilbe player.

Remember one Maurice Clarett?

• Link
• Report this comment

Bad Dawg – gotta love it! You stay up nights rehearsing that gig?

• Link
• Report this comment

2010 Georgia 6-7 3-5 T-3rd (East) L Liberty Bowl – Did that really happen? UCF? 2 years later and still funny heck!! Go Gators!

• Link
• Report this comment

King Gator, welcome back!

Haven’t seen you for a year or so.

You should come visit in good years and bad . . .

• Link
• Report this comment

Just got out of rehab, they wouldn’t give me access to the internet. But thanks for the welcome back! Go Gators!

• Link
• Report this comment

Yo Joe, at least we atone for our mistakes in judgements. We cleaned house while dogs just sit, whine and drool.

• Link
• Report this comment

Gotta go Joe. Mom says I have to practice for my piano lesson.

• Link
• Report this comment

@TW

October 22nd, 2012
3:19 pm

You shouldn’t smear winning coaches simply because your coach is a loser.

• Link
• Report this comment

Dawgs? Motivated? Win a game against a ranked opponent? Yeah,right!
Realistic fans are embarrased by this “well, we won 10 in a row last year” and “we will be 10-2 at the end of the season”. ESPN’s difficulty of schedule has us at number 114! That means only 6 D-1 teams have easier schedules… and we are 6-1 so far! Will AU get its first conference win against UGA? Not too unlikely.

• Link
• Report this comment

Flat Tire. . . The salaries of the coaching staff is not the problem. I think most fans would feel the same way if the salaries were less than half of what they are. Very few people would turn down an increase in salary. Enjoy reading your posts’ but don’t see the relevance of talking salaries.

Somehow Richt has got to get these kids to SHOW UP FOR 4 QUARTERS IN THE BIGGEST GAMES. Even Belichick loses SOME big games, but at least the Patriots show up.

Go Dawgs and if we don’t win, at least DON’T EMBARRASS US!

• Link
• Report this comment

CONSIDERING THE QUALITY OF COACHING AT UGA THIS GAME FOR ALL PRACTICAL
PUPOSES WILL BE OVER IN TEN MINUTES. DAWGS HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO CHANCE

• Link
• Report this comment

I have diagnosed what is wrong with UGA fans. They suffer from the extreme fat-hunger known as “bunny rabbit-schedule” starvation.

Without an occasional meal of Gator meat, Gamecock stew, Bama beef or Tiger tenderlions, bunny rabbit schedule eaters, who exist only on a “Bunny Rabbit football Schedule” diet will develop diarrhea (of the mouth) in about a week after a loss to another top 10 team, with headache, lassitude, and a vague discomfort. If there are enough bunny rabbits on the schedule, the people eat till their stomachs are distended; but no matter how much they eat they feel unsatisfied.

This perfectly describes the current state of the bulldog nation, I believe.

• Link
• Report this comment

Sportstalk in Greenville SC was laughing at UGA today and the ranking. And if you people honestly haven’t beaten anyone ranked in the top ten except one since 2008 then I am inclined to agree. Why in the world are you people ranked 10th in BCS? What a joke.

• Link
• Report this comment

Richt’s already had two top 3 finishes at UGA, and with a .740 win % (better than Saban or Spurrier), Richt has no pressure on him and absolutely NOTHING TO PROVE.

HE DOESN’T GET PAID $2.8 MILLION FOR NOTHING, WE AIN’T DUMB.

• Link
• Report this comment

No, it means nothing. Dawgs continue to produce less with more. What good does Top 5 classes do when you can’t get beyond an occassional trip to Atlanta? Dawgs are most hyped team in America. Last and ONLY national champtionship was 32 years ago. Dawg fans must be so envious of LSU, Alabama, Florida and even Carolina. Heck, Auburn even has 2 national champtionships so I’ll count them in the mix. Dawgs are mid tier SEC and they can’t stand it! Woof, Woof.

• Link
• Report this comment

Dang Mark, you sure know how to get the haters out. Keep up the great work!

• Link
• Report this comment

“And now, the latest headlines!”
1. “A man attempting to walk aroud the world today drowned!”
2. “The results are in: Hillary’s thighs ARE bigger than Michael Turner’s!”
3. “The ‘Dawgs get torn up again up front….line crumbles in second half of Florida game!”

• Link
• Report this comment

CMR is a great leader. UGA 24 UF 10.

• Link
• Report this comment

dAWGS HAD 5 BAD PLAYS AGAINST sc, LOOKED PRETTY SHARP THE OTHER 59 MINUTES.

DAWGS LOOKED BAD AGAINST KENTUCKY? HOW DID FLORIDA LOOK AGAINST VANDERBILT, AND HOW DID SOUTH CAROLINA LOOK AGAINST FLORIDA?

• Link
• Report this comment

Patrick = Sammy = Dizzy = Fred

Man, give it up.

Richt can’t carry Saban’s jockstrap.

• Link
• Report this comment

I don’t care how many losing teams Ala has beaten, the question is when will we start beating teams with WINNING RECORDS

• Link
• Report this comment

Richt has a 3-1 record against Alabama, and a 1-0 record against Muschamp.

• Link
• Report this comment

If you compare Richt’s 1st 11 seasons to Saban’s

Saban had 3 top 10 finishes

richt had 6.

Who’s better after their 1st 11 seasons?

Richt’s 2x better than Saban was after 11 seasons.

• Link
• Report this comment

Saban went 7-6 in his 12th seasons as a head coach.

Richt’s 6-1 so far. Looking at at least 10-2.

• Link
• Report this comment

Fred,

You have probably made the dumbest comment I have seen on a message board. “Richt had a .670 win % against top 25 teams in his first 5 years at UGA, higher than Saban’s first 5 years at Bama.

We’ll see how Saban does in his 12th year at Bama, in 2018.”

Nick Saban has already won two National Championships and is in line for his third. I’m still trying to figure the logic behind your post, but National Championships trump the percentages you’re throwing out there, because to win the big one you eventually beat the best and are in place to even win the title. Two titles in five years is something I will take over the statistic you threw out hoss.

• Link
• Report this comment

This is why you don’t fire Mark Richt. Remember how Tennessee fired Phillip Fulmer after one bad year. Auburn thought it was time to get rid of Tommy Tuberville. Now the programs are in a lot worse shape than they were with the two coaches. Firing Mark Richt doesn’t mean who you bring in will be any better. I would rather go to the national championship than the outback bowl too. But at the same time, I would rather go to the outback bowl than no bowl at all.

• Link
• Report this comment

only my opinion , but to me it seems like the dawgs played with more passion etc ……. first 4 games , rambo / ogletree were missing but wow this team seemed alot more exciting , the dawgs get back these two hot guys and nothing happens , the dawgs seem like a firecracker that all of a sudden got very damp around the wick ! hold on folks , now kentucky has played a few sec schools pretty tight so give them some credit , they are down and out and looking to prove something , the dawgs are loosing ground cause everyone is down after the south carolina game – hard to believe but there is alot of power in the mental state when you have a ton of folks supporting you , cheering for you and the frenzy is there ——- the spark is missing ————- ALWAYS REMEMBER – THE MORE NEGATIVE THE TALK IS THE WORSE THEY PLAY – HAPPENS EVERYWHERE ———- GET POSITIVE , LETS GOOOOO DAWGS !!

• Link
• Report this comment

FIRE MARK RICHT.

• Link
• Report this comment

Richt might win 2 titles by his 18th season too.

Richt’s obnly in his 12th season as Head Coach

How many top 10 finishes did Saban have after 11 seasons?

3.

How many does Richt have after 11 seasons?

6.

6 = 2x more than 3.

• Link
• Report this comment

If UGA hasn’t beaten anyone

why are they ranked #10 in the BCS?

• Link
• Report this comment

Everytime Goldberg shows up the home team loses! Goldberg was on the big screen in Turner Field for the Wild Card Game!

• Link
• Report this comment

CMR should take his team over to the cement pond to display some of his awe- inspiring dives.

Go Dougs!

• Link
• Report this comment

Fred, you’re the reason so many people hate Georgia fans. The delusion and BS you throw out there is so far from reality that it damages an entire fan base. Everyone with any college football sense knows Nick Saban is the best coach in college football, and I would put my life on it that Georgia would take him in a second if they got the opportunity. The guy is a proven winner and has his best years ahead of him in Tuscaloosa where he is conducted a well oiled machine. Keep having to defend your fairy tale thoughts and I’ll continue to watch Nick Saban win Championships and watch Mark Richt settle for mediocrity. In golf terms, Saban will win your argument 4 and 3. Look it up if you don’t know what that means.

• Link
• Report this comment

If UGA’s so bad

And Florida’s so great

why is Florida favored

by just 3 points?

• Link
• Report this comment

The Dawgs are incapable of beating UF this year. It is an impossibility. Not because we don’t have the talent but precisely because of Richt, Bobo and Grantham.

Amazing that our talented guys will lose BECAUSE of their coaches.

We could’ve had Muschamp a couple of years ago as HC.

• Link
• Report this comment

You Georgia fans are never happy. You complain about when Georgia loses and when they win who cares if it by a touchdown you are still not happy. Cool your heels!!! It is just a game and get off Head Coach back. He is doing a good job.

• Link
• Report this comment

Sorry UGA fans your team cannot win every game while the play in the SEC. Move to the ACC and try your luck.

• Link
• Report this comment

Just BEAT the gators baby!

• Link
• Report this comment

UGA 24 UF 10.

• Link
• Report this comment

It’s no so much about wins and loses as it is about potential.

• Link
• Report this comment

CBS just optioned to get the UGA-Ole Miss game.

Seems people figuring out this might be the year for UGA.

• Link
• Report this comment

Nick Saban at setup postiions? Are you crazy? He took over an awful Mich. State team that had not finished with a winning record since 1990. He then took over a a crappy LSU team who had been terrible and low tier in the West, and won a Nat’l Champ in 4 years. He then took over a Bama team that had been in shambles for a decade. You, sir, are a moron, if you would take Richt’s years over Saban’s. 3 NC’s vs. O???? Come on…

• Link
• Report this comment

Richt’s career win % is better than Saban or Spurrier.

• Link
• Report this comment

Bama wasn’t a set up position?

• Link
• Report this comment

Richt’s 1 of 7 coaches

IN NCAA HISTORY

TO win 100 games

in first 10 seasons

• Link
• Report this comment

all those coaches you keep talking about have one stat that CMR does not have, a team that was ranked #1 at the end of the year. some even have 2.

• Link
• Report this comment

LSU is 11th all-time in wins. The reason most teams hire a new HC is because the previous one retired, moved on to something bigger and better, or couldn’t get the job done. Guess why LSU needed to hire Saban? Same goes for Bama. Bama is one of the best programs ever when they aren’t hindered by probation and that’s not meant to be a jab, just the truth.

Saban did not invent success at LSU or Bama.

• Link
• Report this comment

or 3

• Link
• Report this comment

Georgia Fans: Your team is not relevant in the Natl Title chase. Question is whether you want to accept being 3-5th best SEC Team. Remember: Georgia continues its streak (despite great fan base, resources, recruitiing reach) as not being in the Natl title hunt after October since the Dooley years…think about that for a minute.

• Link
• Report this comment

PREDICTION – - – We will lose a close one to Fla…We’ll play better than we did in Columbia but still lose by 7 or less…..Then, we’ll win the rest of our games and get in the Chick-Fil-A Bowl or some such and lose to N C State or some such and be spun the rhetorical crap about 10 – 3 being a good season and our coaching staff will be returning for another season of the same – - O well!!!!

• Link
• Report this comment

But now comes Florida, and this game will do more than define the Bulldogs’ season — it will shape the remainder of Mark Richt’s tenure at Georgia.
________________________

As true as true can be.

• Link
• Report this comment

It’s amazing how much the season so far, the coach, the quotes, etc. of the DAWGS parallels that of the Braves. Almost daily I see something out of their situation that reminds me of the Braves. What is really ironic though is that none of the writers would never even think about calling for Fredi G’s head, but won’t hesitate to “lower the boom” on one Mr. Richt at every opportunity. Wonder if UGA was in Atlanta that would make a difference, or if at least one of them was a “Hog-Rider Buddy” with MR? As for the DAWGS and the BRAVES, it’s SOSDS (same old story, different sport).

• Link
• Report this comment

that UGA photo on the front page of sports is hilarious!!!
from left to right
Mickey Mouse, Pluto, and Dumbo

• Link
• Report this comment

GTBob,

You mean like the 2011 UGA team?

• Link
• Report this comment

DarthDawg we could of had Newton but our wonderful coaching staff told him he wasn’t good enough to be a QB but he would make a great tightend. lol

• Link
• Report this comment

So Cal,

If we woudl have ponied up about $200k we could have had him!

• Link
• Report this comment

We could of had him before FL got him.

• Link
• Report this comment

DarthDawg

October 22nd, 2012
5:03 pm
Has UGA had a player like Vince Young, Jamarcus Russell, Tim Tebow, Trent Richardson, or Cam Newton since Herschel? We’ve had several guys on the next tier down but not superstar quality offensive players who can take over game after game.

Only a few teams have won a MNC with just solid overall team play. Most champions have featured a Heisman caliber player (i.e. someone finishing in the Top 5 in voting if not out right winning it). UGA features too many future NFL talents and not enough great college players these days. We need guys who peak in college, not the NFL!

————————————————————————————-

Darth,

Does the Coach and Staff have the responsibility to get the players to “PEAK” at the right level while in College? I think that is a direct correlation in what happens the first day a new signee reports to summer workouts, spring practice, and fall camp.

• Link
• Report this comment

Here’s a Win Win situation for Georgia fans. Georgia goes 10-2 this year which allows Richt to go out on a positive note. He retires to missionary work with no pay out from UGA. Georgia hires Kirby Smart and McGarity gives him the option of retaining or replacing all coaches. K. Smart keeps Grantham & Bobo for one year but they are on notice to perform or else. He keeps them in order to allow for a smoothe transition and to keep as many recruits as possible. Richt does missionary work for a year or two and then looks for a mid size college to coach or A.D. at. Everybody lives happy ever after. No I haven’t been smoking anything, but’s it’s a great daydream.

• Link
• Report this comment

SoCal Dawg,

I hear ya man. Richt seems more focused on developing pro-style QBs these days. Since we’re not going to build a stout OL maybe we need to return to dual-threat QBs. Murray was one but they told him to stop running!

• Link
• Report this comment

Under The Bleachers
October 22nd, 2012
5:14 pm

Darth,

Does the Coach and Staff have the responsibility to get the players to “PEAK” at the right level while in College? I think that is a direct correlation in what happens the first day a new signee reports to summer workouts, spring practice, and fall camp.

__________________________________________________

No, not for the type of player I’m talking about. I don’t think Mack Brown and staff had much to do with what made Vince Young special in college. Same goes for Urban Meyer with Tebow or Chizik (and Meyer) with Newton. Those guys were just special and would have been special for any coach.

• Link
• Report this comment

Bill King this morning called UGA’s team a team that pillow fights with an Energy Vampire as its coach

• Link
• Report this comment

DarthDawg

October 22nd, 2012
5:23 pm
Under The Bleachers
October 22nd, 2012
5:14 pm

Darth,

Does the Coach and Staff have the responsibility to get the players to “PEAK” at the right level while in College? I think that is a direct correlation in what happens the first day a new signee reports to summer workouts, spring practice, and fall camp.

__________________________________________________

No, not for the type of player I’m talking about. I don’t think Mack Brown and staff had much to do with what made Vince Young special in college. Same goes for Urban Meyer with Tebow or Chizik (and Meyer) with Newton. Those guys were just special and would have been special for any coach.

————————————————————————————————-

Yeah, I agree with that, but those players a 1 in a 1000. Finding that player takes a great deal of luck and some really hard work early in the players High School career.

• Link
• Report this comment

No offensive line, special teams with clueless player back to receive punts, kick offs to the 15 yard line and AVERAGE returns of 15-25 yards on top of the short kick, pats that are always an adventure, pitiful tackling, no pressure on qb, db’s who are looking and pointing at each other after long gain or td, so predictable play calling my wife has it figured out and she hates football, and a coach who seems to think everything is either funny or says “its o.k. boys” its just a game. As much as I love the Dawgs, I can’t stand to watch any more of this non sense. Saturday’s beat down will happen whether I watch or not so I think I’ll just wait and read about it Sunday.

• Link
• Report this comment

Murray has more passing yds and touchdowns than Florida and South Carolina QB’s combined. That is a little impressive wouldn’t you say?

• Link
• Report this comment

Everybody is bashing Dawgs about schedule but has anyone looked at the Bama and Mississippi State Rough road….LOL

• Link
• Report this comment

This isn’t fantasy football – you don’t get any points just for throwing for a bunch of yards. FL beat LSU 14-6 and USCe 44-11. Whether they score a bunch off of turnovers, special teams and defense, or just stuff you in a defensive battle, who cares? The one with the most points on the board at the end wins.

• Link
• Report this comment

Fred
October 22nd, 2012
4:42 pm
If UGA’s so bad
And Florida’s so great
why is Florida favored
by just 3 points?

Because Florida and Georgia are both very talented teams…..but…according to most Georgia fans posting on here…..the #10 BCS team is not as well coached as the #2 BCS team.

• Link
• Report this comment

Whiners get to stay under the porch

• Link
• Report this comment

Do you think Tennessee fans would like to have Georgia fan problems this season??

• Link
• Report this comment

Some of you kool-aide drinkers ask “who can we get that will do better than Richt?” How ’bout Charley Strong? Or how much coaching talent does it take to have wins agaist all the bottom feeders, and lose to top 25 teams…with superior talent? Unfortunately, we have become the Braves of NCAA football…time to change the culture. Past time!

• Link
• Report this comment

Florida total offense first half against south Carolina 29 yards. How lucky can you get.

• Link
• Report this comment

@ Fred

Flash back to the year 2008… UGA is undefeated and I believe ranked #1 in the country going into the 5th game of the season against Saban led Alabama. UGA is loaded with NFL talent including the top 12 picks of the NFL draft. Saturday night in Athens and one of the most electric atmospheres I can remember. Richt has called for a blackout to try and motivate his team and the fans…

Well I think you know the rest of the story… Heres the real kicker Fred, similar situations happened in 2007 at UT, 2011 in the SEC champioship game, WVU sugar bowl, etc, etc.. When have you ever seen a Saban coached team not be competitive in big games..

Take another drag on the doobie and lets hear you spin this one

• Link
• Report this comment

Fred, what happened in 2008 when Saban came to town for our blackout?

• Link
• Report this comment

JC…So true…on all points

• Link
• Report this comment

Oy. I knew not to read this article but I did anyway. There’s no purpose to articles like this except to complain, though I guess that’s a sports writer’s job any time of year.

What do you want Georgia to do? Fire Richt? I’m sorry, but that’d be a HUUUUGE mistake. Look at Tennessee since they got rid of Fulmer. That’s what awaits UGA if they run Richt out right now.

Besides, if the idiots on these boards got their wish and got Richt fired this year, you do realize that there are around 4 other teams in the conference that’ll ALSO be looking for new head coaches? How dumb a move would that be?

Also, who would we get to replace him? Seriously, the only person that I think could do as well as Richt is Chris Peterson at Boise. Even then, I think that might be a stretch. And no, I don’t want Kirby Smart back: he burned his bridge when he didn’t grab the DC job a couple years back (not that I wanted him THEN, either).

Also, what makes me sick is that everyone’s given this game to Florida, and if the fans (and local sports writers) have given up on the team, why should they even try?

Also, Mark, what the devil are you trying to intimate here:

“Florida is another such game, though technically Georgia beat the Gators last season.”

“Technically” isn’t needed here, and it’s clear that you put that term there to try and diminish that win, which we NEEDED to get to the SECCG. WE FLAT-OUT BEAT FLORIDA LAST YEAR. No qualifiers necessary.

Go Dawgs!

• Link
• Report this comment

I am sick of making Fulmer at Tenn as a reason to keep Richt. Please. We are not Tenn. This state is loaded with D1 talent EVERY year. We need a new face of the program. The body languish alone during the game is reason for me. Anybody watch Sprurrier during our game with them….AND THEY WERE WINNING.

• Link
• Report this comment

a long time ago. way before i was born—did they wear leather helmets back then with no facemask?

• Link
• Report this comment

please get Kirby Smart before someone else does

• Link
• Report this comment

You can add up all the short comings of our program the last five years, and there are many, and all you end up with is Richt is a great guy. And sadly, that’s good enough for a lot of Georgia fans. And that’s sad. He was hired, hopefully, to win Championships. And we had a 5 point lead against the worst Kentucky team in years with the game still in doubt with 4 minutes to go. If not THIS team with THIS schedule, then WHEN? And a coachless Arkansas team with a divided locker room ran them out of the Stadium, just say’n

• Link
• Report this comment

I think there is a long standing issue with strenght and conditioning on the line. Both sides of the ball. Even marginal teams seem to man handle our linemen; and we get beat in the trenches every game. Moreover, it was refreshing to see the Dawgs finally use the tight end some at KY, but there’s been woefully little of it this year…and although we used to break defenses backs by passing to the fullback roaming free in the middle, it just never gets called now. Serious lack of imagination with this group. Hope they can reach down and find some heart, or else we get massively butt-whipped Saturday.

• Link
• Report this comment

Oh, and an issue with me correctly spelling “strength”. Sorry.

• Link
• Report this comment

Bradley,

Yes, you are. You did the same thing with Hugh Durham when we lost to Vandy at home. Oh yeah. Richt needs to win or go.

Thx,

PL

• Link
• Report this comment

@Bad Dawg

You have too much time on your hands and listen to too much pop music.Do somthing productive with your life.

• Link
• Report this comment

I do not understand why people want to compare the head coach of their school to Saban. Saban is the exception to the rule. He outworks others in every facet of the game and enjoys doing it. Football seems to be his life and his family knows how important it is to him.

A more realistic comparison in college football would be, say Bob Stoops, Urban Meyer( well maybe), Chip Kelly, Brian Kelly, Les Miles, they are coaches. Saban is a CEO and a Coach.

• Link
• Report this comment

The “noisier precints” of his constituency are “young and dumb”. You like numbers too Bradley? It took Lord Saban 11 YEARS to win a NC. This is Richts 12th year.
If it took almighty Saban that many years why should you expect the same or more from other coaches particulary Richt? Dooley cant hold Richts jock. It took Dooley 18 years to win one and if not for Herschel we know that wouldnt have never happened nor did it happen the next 2 years with him….

Bottomline is…UGA IS due to win a big game and when you bring up stats that include 2009 & 2010, they are without merit. EVERY team has down years. If I were Richt I would have interrupted you also. People get TIRED of negativity. Richt knows that UGA HAS lost several games against highly ranked opponents and UGA was favored to lose them all. UGA is favored to lose this one too. SUPPOSED to lose. Was SUPPOSED to lose against SC. It is time to beat the odds and win one we arent supposed to. But to keep getting all over Richt just because you have the popwer to do so does not mean you should, that it is justified or that it is even warranted. FAct IS, is that if nto for Richt, UGA might be Auburn or Tenn. UGA has been along with LSU the most consistent team in the SEC since Richt has got there. Consistency UGA has not EVER had and certaninly not since Dooley retired and Dooley wasnt all that. He is a legent because of ONE season. Richt is MORE than ONE season. He is MORE then ONE NC. Saban took 11 years. Richt WILL have his and more than one. It took his mentor what 19 years to win one? BUT he won one. Took Bear Bryant 18 years to win one…BUT he DID. Richt WILL. But if ANY of us hoped for that this year with the young OL we have, we were reaching. Add to that a defense that is UNDERACHIEVING and you get close games and a loss walking into a HUGE buzzsaw in SC. Although UGA could have easily scored more against Kentucky but had a few big play misses that were open. RIcht doesnt have NOTHING to do with defense. He is an offensive coach. The offense is not bad even with the young inexperienced injured OL with guys playing out of position. You know what? Its not LIKE Richt has had ALL the pieces in place in ANY year and should have won big and didnt. EVEN when Stafford and Moreno rreturned and they were given the gift of being ranked #1, there were HUGE holes left from players that were no longer on the team….the year PRIOR UGA WAS the best team in the nation but didnt get the shot Bama got last year to win it. Richt is NOT the problem. CIRCUMSTANCES have been 90% of the issue. UGA had Cox at QB one year and a freshman the next and hadnt had any running backs since Moreno and no OL either….WAIT until UGA has the team to win big BEFORE wanting the coaches head and BLAMING him for not winning big. For not winning games that he is supposed to lose according to the experts. Its LOSING too many games you are FAVORED to win that is a problem and THAT is NOT a problem at UGA and therefore the foundation is very good and actually better than EVER at UGA. IS there another step to take? Yes. Are UGA content to win 10 games? No. We want it all and should. BUT there has to be some reasonable and intelligent thinking and perspective. And negativity instead of support for a team that is just one step away from the big dance is almost shameful. You GOT to see the light at the end of the tunnel. UGA’s defense is not playing as good as they could be. The OL is young and dumb and not as strong and experienced as severl teams defenses. NEITHER of those issues are a result of incompetent head coaching, NEITHER of them. What COULD be done THIS weekend is a game plan to help the OL against Fl defense. QUICK passes. Screens. Dump offs. Roll outs. A good mixture to get the backs some room. NOT coming out trying to air it out to open up room for the backs…because a sack, an interception, 3 and outs will demoralize you and hype them and give them momentum right away. So I do put some responsibility on Richt to help Bobo do a GREAT job in the play calling this week, IN the game planning. I want to see quick hitters over the middle by Murray. Move the ball slowly but steadily. Mix in the run. Be up tempo early. Quick hitters so the OL dont have to hold the defense long. That will get the defense thinking pass and open up some room without putting Murray in danger of losing yards, being sacked or fumbling AND it doesnt let the defense get confidence early. Its a war and MORAL is vital, especially in a game where you are the underdog. Got to KEEP control away from the opponent.

This is a winnable game for UGA. it is time for UGA to win a game they were supposed to lose. This game be more about the defensive players and if they have the heart to play as they should be. They were supposed to be the strength of the team and have not been. They should use this as motivation. They have given up far too many points. The team FEEDS off of a strong defense. it creates momentum and sadly to say, UGA defense hasnt created too much momentum or excitment this year. It IS TIME for them to redeem themselves and SHUT DOWN THE FLORIDA RUNNING GAME AND MAKE THEM THROW THE BALL ALL DAY. THEY WILL COMPLETE SOME BUT WE WILL PICK A FEW TOO! BUT STOP THE RUN AND STOP IT HARD AND HIT THAT QB HARD WHEN HE TAKES OFF….IF THE DEFENSE PLAYS LIKE THEY CAN AND SHOULD AND UGA HAS A GOOD PLAN TO COUNTER FLORIDAS DEFENSE….UGA WILL WIN EASILY. IF NOT, UGA WILL LOSE. DO ONE OF THOSE 2 THINGS AND ITS ANYONES GAME….I HOPE THEY DO BOTH AND UGA WHIPS THEM. ITS NOT IN GAINSVILLE WHICH WILL HELP. ITS TIME FOR AN UPSET! ITS TIME……

• Link
• Report this comment

Under the Bleachers.. I think there are a few comparable established coaches to Saban out there.. Probably a few more coordinators comparable but havent been give a shot yet..My point is UGA’s program is on par with Alabama’s with respect to facilities, $,Alumni support, top recruits, etc.. As Jeff Dantzler says on the radio all the time” the pieces are in place” at UGA. I realize we might not find the right coach the first time but does that mean we dont atleast try?

• Link
• Report this comment

JB -

October 22nd, 2012 – 6:12 pm

“At what point Saturday does Mark start staring at the sky with that emotionless look on his face?”
_______________

Right after he orders the players to storm the field again, but he better pay attention because this time it won’t be the players that storm the field – it will be the UGA fans and they will be coming after the UGA coaching staff.

• Link
• Report this comment

I personally think we get too many 5 star players who exert no energy in college, they are saving their bodies for the pros. Where other coaches like spurrier would throw their 5 star ass under the bus for not performing, CMR accepts half ass performances. Has anyone not noticed how the team performed better the first 4 games, and the qualityof play dropped when the stars got off suspension?

• Link
• Report this comment

To Columbus – you state: “The OL is young and dumb and not as strong and experienced as severl teams defenses.” – Wow – just another dawg fan making excuses for his team – which is a false statement at best. Have you seen the starting OL for UGA?? Most of them are Juniors, with a couple of Soph, and 1 Freshman – and you call that “young” and “inexperienced”. I don’t hear you or anyone else making excuses for Gurley and Mitchell – both who are Freshman.

• Link
• Report this comment

Richt will be gone one day. Unfortunately, it will be later than sooner. That’s the problem.

• Link
• Report this comment

He was the difference it appears.

• Link
• Report this comment

Florida is way overrated. All is needed is for the Dawgs to expose them. And then the Dawgs will be overrated, as usual.

• Link
• Report this comment

Paul is a Johnson
October 22nd, 2012
3:26 pm

Big IF’S here but IF we beat Florida and IF we beat an undefeated ALA in the SECCG, I bet there would be a pretty good chance that we would still not get a shot at the NC game based on our national perception. Another one loss team would be voted in ahead of us, because we have lost a lot of respect over the last couple of years based on our performances in bigger games.
_____________________

Big IFs indeed. But IF they come true–and assuming we win the rest of our games (another big IF)–I’m not buying your contention that we’d be snubbed. IF the Dawgs beat No. 1 AND No. 2 late in the season (and win out the season), they WILL be in the national championship picture at year’s end.

Of course, I’ve got a better shot at winning Mega Millions.

• Link
• Report this comment

Joey
October 22nd, 2012
3:47 pm

That’s the difference, Buckeye, glad you brought it up.
See, we kick our troublemakers off the team. The Free Tatts U lies to the NCAA about theirs. Over and over. Year after year.
Just waiting for the NCAA to go back and vacate the ‘02 title, which The Free Tatts U won while playing an ineligilbe player.
Remember one Maurice Clarett?
_______________________

Hard to believe Buckeye shows his face (and azz) on here at all–considering the performance of his team over the years vs the SEC. Hell, the Big 10 makes the ACC look like a football powerhouse, and that’s saying something. Hey, Buckeye, care to tell the bloggers Ohio State’s record against the Noles?

• Link
• Report this comment

Several things: Ok..it’s amazing how some of you idiots criticize the players we recruit and blame it on them….if they are so terrible, why is Bama, USC, UF, etc. recruiting them? 2nd: for those of you who get pissed off at us for criticizing the coaches, get a life. They get paid a lot more money than most of us to coach these guys. Yet when they do not perform, do you see their salaries getting decreased? No. Finally, some of us UGA grads do not expect perfection but what do do expect is for the AD at UGA to hire the best staff to make UGA competitive in ALL sports at ALL levels. When Athletes at UGA step on the field, we expect them to give their best. If giving their best means sometimes they lose, that is Ok. So can you really tell me after watching the UGA football play 7-8 games that they as well as their coaches are giving their best? The answer is clear…unless you are just a fool.

• Link
• Report this comment

Saturday is Richt’s last shot at redemption. Its truly nut cuttin’ time. Put up or shut up. I hope he doesn’t hide from that, because if he does UGA will lose big and his days will be numbered.

• Link
• Report this comment

Columbus

Ever wonder why UGA is SUPPOSED to lose all of the big games? Hint: Because CMR is the coach.

• Link
• Report this comment

The key here is that Georgia is going 10-2 with a soft schedule. What is going to happened next year with a vastly improved schedule?? I think most of you already know the answer to that. Next year will look more like 8-4 or 7-5.

• Link
• Report this comment

LakeDawg ,
You exactly right…If Richt does not beat Florida Saturday, I am completely done with him.

• Link
• Report this comment

Columbus

October 22nd, 2012
7:19 pm

I expect UGA to be 1-3 to start the 2013, you were saying something about Auburn

• Link
• Report this comment

CMR will probably have 10 wins this year, but as of right now, DAWGS are 6-1, the 6 teams we have beat this year have a combined 12-31 record, that doesn’t look very good to me! Something’s wrong! DAWGS have the talent to win big, but CMR and his coaching staff cannot win the big game anymore! CMR has lost the mojo that he had, when he first came to UGA!!!!!! What is Greg McGarrity going to do?

• Link
• Report this comment

Fred
October 22nd, 2012
4:47 pm

FSU had 1 top 5 finish before richt joined their staff.
They had 14 top 5 finishes in a row while Richt was on staff from 1987-2000.
Richt left in 2000
FSU has never had a top 5 finish since Richt left.
________________________

Then maybe Richt should only be UGA’s OC. That’s what he was at FSU.

• Link
• Report this comment

Does anyone track Georgia players once they go to the NFL? I think you will be surprised at thier success! strange……

• Link
• Report this comment

Losers make excuses

Winners make corrections and do not repeat previous mistakes.

• Link
• Report this comment

Please name the teams in the top 25 that UGA would beat on a neutral field?

There are some but the list will surprise you.

• Link
• Report this comment

Sloppy @8:43 — We might end up with a 8 –4 season this year !

• Link
• Report this comment

I’m a Georgia fan since 1965, season ticket holder. I’m always amazed at some of our fans. This is college football not life and death. We’ve got a pretty good season going. Got waxed and were not ready to play South Carolina two weeks ago just as SC wasn’t ready to play Fla last week. It happens when you play a game with 18 – 21 yr old young men. If we get hammered in Jacksonville , I’ll still be a Fan of the Team and Coach Richt. Bradley, your opinion doesn’t matter to me at all……………….just saying!

• Link
• Report this comment

least*

• Link
• Report this comment

Ole Miss and Auburn are not gimmies. Lot’s more talent than Kentucky. Lot’s more.

• Link
• Report this comment

George Stein….. We are 6-1 and highly ranked and all pi$$ed. Can you believe it.

• Link
• Report this comment

Vegas does not care about either team. Only the money.

• Link
• Report this comment

George Stein
October 22nd, 2012
7:55 pm

The sky isn’t falling, Dawg fans. Y’all have a good team, but y’all gotta that defense fixed. I wish I knew what the difference between last year and this year was.

It’s easy: We have a coach who does not care about winning or losing, as long as the guys had fun and learned some valuable lessons out on the field.

• Link
• Report this comment

Georgia loses to Fla. and Ole Miss.

• Link
• Report this comment

First world problems, JB. It could be worse; you could be us!

C’mon, slydog. You don’t work 100 hours a week and not care. Richt cares, but he also has enough confidence to know that the sun will rise in the east if he doesn’t win. I admire that about him.

• Link
• Report this comment

I agree with Jethro Bodeen.

• Link
• Report this comment

2012 defense at UGA is a little better than 2011.

Scoring, 2012 is giving up 1.9 more points a game than 2011 but

holding teams to top 15 best in nation in second half and 4th quarter scoring.

None of the other stats matte ron defense except for;
scoring (1.9 more points than 2011)
2nd half scoring (8 points a game, better than 20110
4th quarter 4 pints a game (better than 2011)

• Link
• Report this comment

Dawggie
October 22nd, 2012
5:54 pm

When your defense sets you up with a short field for three of your possessions in a half, and you convert each time, you won’t have a ton of offensive yards that half. In the third half, I think UF had 135 yards against Carolina. In the fourth quarter, it was garbage time. Not saying that FL tore it up on offense, but stats can be deceiving.
_______________________

“In the third half, I think . . . .”

I don’t think you were thinking at all if you think there were three halves in any game.

• Link
• Report this comment

Sam Robards, Dawg Fan
October 22nd, 2012
6:01 pm

Also, Mark, what the devil are you trying to intimate here:

“Florida is another such game, though technically Georgia beat the Gators last season.”

“Technically” isn’t needed here, and it’s clear that you put that term there to try and diminish that win, which we NEEDED to get to the SECCG. WE FLAT-OUT BEAT FLORIDA LAST YEAR. No qualifiers necessary.
__________________

Wondered if anyone else would notice that not-so-subtle dig.

• Link
• Report this comment

I hope some UGA players and coaches read these comments.It would piss me off big time.Maybe it would light a fire under the team and cause a “let’s show the world who we are-UGA football” Oh well only day dreaming or is it time to go to bed before the debate.

• Link
• Report this comment

JB
October 22nd, 2012
6:12 pm

At what point Saturday does Mark start staring at the sky with that emotionless look on his face.???
______________________

During pregame warmups.

• Link
• Report this comment

I so glad the the dawgs look really bad… takes the heat off me…. Gettin ready for the debate!

• Link
• Report this comment

Fools Gold…go back to the rock you crawled out from under….

• Link
• Report this comment

and the dawgs are gonna drop another one to the Gators!

• Link
• Report this comment

Mr Bradley… I think you under estimate Mr McGarity. 10 wins and 2 losses of huge consequence will doom Coach Richt. This week is do or die for his staff and I hope someone tells them so. Lose to UF and you are gone. Why? Because the program has hit a juncture where it can not progress without the big win. Our recruiting will suffer because every rival will elude to the fact that they beat us every year. This program has a cap on it now and that, if you will remember, is what Mark Richt was brought in to do.. blow the cap off this program. The program cannot afford to lose Saturday. Period. Excellence is not about the number of wins. It is about the quality of wins. UGA can win 9-10 games and not break a sweat. Mr.McGarity has to be eying those losses to quality opponents and figuring up what toll those losses takes on the program…the whole athletic program that is under his authority. He gave Coach Richt a pass last year because there was measurable progress. This year will be a failure if we don’t return to the GA Dome. I am quite sure he has already set that as the bar and justifiably so.
If there had been a rash of injuries that had diminished the potential of this team then perhaps he could overlook it. But we have talent and it is noticeably under performing. There is no excuse this time. The dead weight was jettisoned. The team returned a ton of starters on defense. There can be NO excuse at all for continuing to lose to quality programs.
The long and the short of it is simply… beat UF or it is time for a regime change.

• Link
• Report this comment

When the Gators hit us, in the mouth, and they will. We must hit them back even harder, or the score will be like the SC score and another opportunity lost.

• Link
• Report this comment

Amen. Perfect assessment!

———

Alpharetta Dave
October 22nd, 2012
3:38 pm

Reasons why UGA isn’t able to beat an elite program and will never be able to do so unless these deficiencies are eliminated:
1. We never seem to play with passion, i.e., we don’t want it bad enough. Oh, I’m sure that we want to win in our heads but not in our hearts.
2. We always sell the players on our past glory and legacy and we just seem to think that we are entitled to greatness. Well, we can’t cash that check anymore.
3. Special teams excellence is not emphasized and it shows in our performance.
4. Our strength and endurance, especially in the OL and DL, does not match up with an Alabama, L.S.U., S.C. or Florida. It probably wouldn’t against Miss. St. and it almost didn’t against Tennessee and Kentucky.

The bottom line is, even with great coaches, players and fans, we live too much in the past and we don’t truly and completely commit to what must be done to built an outstanding program and team. Fix these 4 things and win championships.

LinkReport this comment

• Link
• Report this comment

I think the “blow outs” in prime time of our Dawgs have affected all of us. Losing a nail biter 35-28 in a slug fest, We can take……..The blow outs beginning with the blackout….and then on top of that really unfocused poor performances against much lessor foes is tough to watch. This team hardly ever has a complete game. Vandy this year was.

• Link
• Report this comment

Hard to fire a coach who’s 20-4 regular season for two years. Him hanging it up is the only hope of a new era…….And there’s ALWAYS that gamble. With the talent in this state, I doubt we would see 1-6 like Auburn this year. OUCH. Hope Van Gorder is renting

• Link
• Report this comment

Florida won’t be playing to keep the heat off the team or it’s HC. UGA does have a shot but they better be better than they were at USCe. To date, that has been UGA’s only real test and they failed. According to the talley sheet this one is bigger for Georgia that that one.

• Link
• Report this comment

Whether it’s playing for your HC or some uniform gimmick, why do Georgia players need motivation for a game like this (or the blackout against Bama)?

• Link
• Report this comment

JB
October 22nd, 2012
9:58 pm

Hard to fire a coach who’s 20-4 regular season for two years. Him hanging it up is the only hope of a new era…….And there’s ALWAYS that gamble. With the talent in this state, I doubt we would see 1-6 like Auburn this year. OUCH. Hope Van Gorder is renting
________________

20-4?

Darn. Must be another one of those typos Dawggie and cloudodust are so fond of.

• Link
• Report this comment

Yep, I’d noticed that one, too. But seriously, do you take dictation? I hope you’re putting those skills to good use!

• Link
• Report this comment

20-4 and losses in the non-BCS bowls is for Arkansas. Is that what we want for Georgia? Stop looking at macro numbers and concentrate on the micro. One cannot continue to justify top 10 and sometimes top 5 recruiting classes and getting blown out by almost every ranked opponent you face. Mind you, not losing, but being blown out. If you asked Muschamp would he trade his top 25 players for Georgia’s, do you think he would flat out say no? I’m sure Muschamp could use Murray, Gurley, Jarvis Jones, Ogletree, King, M. Mitchell, Harvey-Clemons, Jordan Jenkins, and Theus. BTW, Florda offered every last one of those names I mentioned, and so did Alabama. ALL OF THEM. It is simply underachievement. The 20-4 “possible” record is simply a by product of recruiting and we all know it’s not coaching.

• Link
• Report this comment

JUST WIN BABY !!!!!!!!!!!

• Link
• Report this comment

77 yards?

• Link
• Report this comment

Drum Roll . . .

Next up for the UGA crowd – We own the series. Yea!

• Link
• Report this comment

ALWAYS SUPPORT THE DAWGS – Time for the DAWGS to have the ball bounce their way.
Florida got every break imaginable against the Game Crocks and still struggled on offense despite the score. Time for the breaks to go UGA’s way.

• Link
• Report this comment

relax—Ga was just flat and overconfident against UK, expecting an easy win. Against uf, the Dog D will be on fire! Fla’s offense isn’t that good and murray can hit some big throws against the fla D. Georgia can get the upset and win the sec east!

• Link
• Report this comment

Yes, everyone is tired of not winning when it counts. But Mark Richt is good for Georgia and should remain at UGA for a long time. Just take a look at TN and Aub, etc. Do we really want that? And the ones who are winning just haven’t got smacked on hand yet like USC, Ohio State, SMU, etc. Saban is a good coach, but you think he’s really that good? If he was so good, he would have made it in the NFL. It usually comes to light eventually why the ones who are dominating were able to do so at the college level. Coaches like Mark Richt are from a bygone era where winning was important, but character and pride in your University were more important than a National Championship. Yes, Georgia fans would like to win a National Championship again and I am sure we will again. However, UGA is unlike any other University in the SEC. With its rich history and Athens, GA being the best college town in America, Who could ask for more? I’ll admit I have been blaming and been down on Richt too, but just like the old Milwaukie beer commercial used to say sitting around the campfire “It doesn’t get any better than this”. So stop focusing on every win or loss and have some pride by supporting your team and university. Get off your rear ends this weekend and cheer the bulldogs on to a victory. This is what the dawgs need the most at this time and that is support from their fan base. Mark Richt is good for Georgia and yes he is also going to win a National Championship. Go Dawgs!

• Link
• Report this comment

CMR will be at UGA as long as he likes regardless of what happens against UF.

• Link
• Report this comment

Did you see what UF did to SC1?

They’re gonna beat us by 28 points.

What will our record vs ranked teams over the past three years be then Mr. Richt?

And we could’ve had Muschamp as HC a couple of years ago.

• Link
• Report this comment

There is something seriously wrong with the program in Athens. Best talent in the country, most money in the country and the best facilities and fan base and we struggle against Kentucky. Our scout team has more talent than Kentucky. They play with no focus, no emotion, no edge, no passion, no nothing. The fact that CMR was laughing going to the locker room at half time tells you something. If you were on a Saban team that played like Ga. did you would be looking for a place to hide during halftime. Saban would not be laughing. It’s been this way since mid nineties and it’s not going to change. If you take your money to Jacksonville this weekend your a fool.

• Link
• Report this comment

Grantham is a wind bag. He makes the loudest noise as do all empty barrels. Do the math. Talent, talent, talent on defense. Slow linebackers who can’t get to the edge. gut runs up the middle. If the talent is there on the field, we must not have any talent on the sidelines–meaning Grantham.

• Link
• Report this comment

[...] This Florida game big for Georgia, bigger for Richt, argues AJC’s Mark Bradley. [...]

• Link
• Report this comment

GT, you’ve got that right, there is no “I” in TEAM.

• Link
• Report this comment

Bottom Line: Coaching! From top to bottom. Ga. has the talent but likes the the coaching that young men need. I am sad to say that it will stay this way as long as we have the current staff. And it is not going to change. What school fires a coaching staff that wins 10 games a year? Even if they are only beating teams with losing records. MR is a very nice guy. But he does not have the fire to compete in the SEC. Nice guys finish last.

Yes, the biggest problem is the Swiss Cheese Defense. But, MR is to nice a guy to fire the whole defense coaching staff. It needs to be done.

I will watch the game Saturday for a while but when Fla. get up by 3 touchdowns I may have to turn it off. I hate to say it but here`s the score: Fla. 44 Ga. 9

GO DAWGS!!!

• Link
• Report this comment

Ummm, Richt was 1-2 vs. Zook. Enough said.

• Link
• Report this comment