Live from the Dome: Favored Bama meets hungry Dogs!
That famous jokester Nick Saban leaves Mark Richt in stitches Friday. (AJC photo by Brant Sanderlin)
At the SEC Coaches’ Luncheon at the Hyatt on Friday, emcee Dave Neal asked Nick Saban if it was easier to keep a team motivated as a favorite, or if being an underdog was preferable. Whereupon Mark Richt said, “What does he know about being an underdog?”
Saban’s Crimson Tide is favored today by eight points over Richt’s Bulldogs, but an awful lot of folks — this correspondent included — are picking Georgia. Still, this matchup couldn’t have caught Saban unaware.
“Last summer I was at the lake (Burton, where every big-name college football coach has a summer house) and I was fooling around in the yard, and two guys rode up on JetSkis,” Saban told Richt at the luncheon. “One of them was your quarterback Aaron Murray and the other was your center (David Andrews). And they said, ‘We’ll see you in the SEC championship game.’ ”
And here both teams are, Alabama ranked No. 2 to Georgia’s No. 2, Alabama favored but not nearly a lock, Georgia trying to seize its biggest football moment in three decades. But you knew all that already. So enough of me talking.
I’ll be here until someone is the 2012 SEC champ, and I’d appreciate it if you’d join the fun and frolic. And I thank you, as ever, in advance.
By Mark Bradley
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Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
7:53 pm
Lynch to the 7 with 0:15
Roll tide!
December 1st, 2012
7:53 pm
UGA will win…
The Grim Reaper
December 1st, 2012
7:53 pm
Grim Reaper now looking hard at Saban
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
7:53 pm
Should have dropped the ball.
Over.
Russa
December 1st, 2012
7:53 pm
stupid to not spike that, holy crap!!!!
STUPID STUPID STUPID!!!!
sheepdawg
December 1st, 2012
7:53 pm
glory glory to thug u. again. looks like we need to pay another coach $10 million a year and recruit tougher thugs
falconsrus
December 1st, 2012
7:53 pm
Damn good un
Bama14
December 1st, 2012
7:53 pm
Whew!!!
Since Vince
December 1st, 2012
7:53 pm
FIRE RICHTNOW
True_Crimson
December 1st, 2012
7:54 pm
Roll Tide, Mark Richt!
RTR!!!
Scrappy
December 1st, 2012
7:54 pm
Screw you Kirby Smart
Raiderbeater
December 1st, 2012
7:54 pm
ENDZONE FOOL!
dawginduluth
December 1st, 2012
7:54 pm
Well, I was hoping the dawgs would make me eat my words. But I am afraid to say, again:
No NC with Richt. Never.
Murray goes 1 for 11 against top 10 teams.
Richt’s teams have always had trouble playing all four quarters. Conditioning remains an issue.
playmeortrademe
December 1st, 2012
7:54 pm
CLOCK THE BALLLP WHAT THE YIPDF H”IWHWDH
“IWSK
me
December 1st, 2012
7:54 pm
Proud to be a Dawg.
Sam
December 1st, 2012
7:54 pm
Worst time management. Murray is an idiot
rivercard
December 1st, 2012
7:54 pm
Should have spiked ball
B'dawg
December 1st, 2012
7:54 pm
MURRAY BLEW IT WHY DIDNT THEY SPIKE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ric Flair
December 1st, 2012
7:54 pm
Fitting end. Wooooo!
MTSeats
December 1st, 2012
7:54 pm
Well coached!
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
7:54 pm
All hail to the Crimson Tide. We reign supreme. Again.
Todd grantham
December 1st, 2012
7:54 pm
Why did we not spike the ball?
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
7:54 pm
It is a natural thing to catch the ball….but the kid should not have caught that one. Wow.
nodefense
December 1st, 2012
7:54 pm
Why didn’t he throw the ball away
DawgnSeattle
December 1st, 2012
7:54 pm
How stupid was that…my gosh, why didn’t you clock the ball!!!!
Roll tide!
December 1st, 2012
7:54 pm
GREAT GAME UGA>>YOU ARE STILL CHAMPIONS IN MY BOOK. You have a great team and Coach.
oldfart
December 1st, 2012
7:54 pm
Who the hell told him NOT to ground it? Oh well, damn good game.
Chris
December 1st, 2012
7:54 pm
Dawgs = losers again! Have fun at the Capital One Bowl while the TIde roll through the Irish!
Tampa Gator
December 1st, 2012
7:55 pm
Not sure why Georgia did not pound the ball into the ground and regroup. Strange.
CHOKE! THE OFFICAL DRINK OF THE BULLDAWGS!
December 1st, 2012
7:55 pm
HAHA !
Russa
December 1st, 2012
7:55 pm
how in the %*^*@#&* do you not spike that ball?? Oh yeah!!! that $*%*$* deer is the QB!!! Can’t think for himself unless it’s called in from the sidelines
B'dawg
December 1st, 2012
7:55 pm
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Buckhead Bulldog
December 1st, 2012
7:55 pm
Wow! What a game…sucks for us, but great for UA.
Bama14
December 1st, 2012
7:55 pm
Tech fans, you’re welcome!!!
Since Vince
December 1st, 2012
7:55 pm
MARK RICHT IS A JOKE!!!!!
FalconUGAFan
December 1st, 2012
7:55 pm
Big mistake…but GG Bama.
dawginduluth
December 1st, 2012
7:55 pm
Richt never could manage the clock.
Todd grantham
December 1st, 2012
7:55 pm
Richt still not a championship coach.
dbc
December 1st, 2012
7:55 pm
This UGA loss isn’t on the coaches. At this point in the season, the players have to back up their mouths with their play. 5 seconds to go with no time outs and you catch a ball short of the end zone! Please go pro Murray…
Ric Flair
December 1st, 2012
7:55 pm
Fire someone!!!!!! Fire Aaron Murray!!!! Fire uga!!!!! Fire nick saban!!!! Woooooooooooooo!!!!!!
80sDawg
December 1st, 2012
7:55 pm
Can’t be mad. They never quit. Damn good game. Damn Good DAWGS!!! SEC will represent well against ND
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
7:55 pm
Hold your heads high dawg fans. You played a great game.
The Grim Reaper
December 1st, 2012
7:55 pm
Four yards away, four yards of dirt to cover your, why Johnny Ringo, looks like Gawga stepped in your grave!
Brandon
December 1st, 2012
7:55 pm
ATLANTA SPORTS TEAMS ARE CURSED
Overrated
December 1st, 2012
7:55 pm
Murray should have put that out of bounds. Should have clocked the ball.
nodefense
December 1st, 2012
7:55 pm
Murray has to be the dumbest QB I seen
B'dawg
December 1st, 2012
7:55 pm
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
True_Crimson
December 1st, 2012
7:55 pm
Georgia played a very good game. I can’t say anything bad about Georgia.
GTJohn
December 1st, 2012
7:55 pm
Great game UGA, tough loss. You could beat ND too.
Sam
December 1st, 2012
7:55 pm
Why didn’t they spike that ball and call a play for the end zone. Idiot richt