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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Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
4:33 pm
going backwards. These things happen when you play a real D.
Diggitydawg
December 1st, 2012
4:33 pm
Play action to obvious here
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:33 pm
Third and 10 after catch by Conley
phil
December 1st, 2012
4:33 pm
Fire someone!!
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:33 pm
First down. Malcolm Mitchell.
phil
December 1st, 2012
4:33 pm
Sweetness…..
Roy
December 1st, 2012
4:33 pm
O-line blocking pretty well on that play! Keep it up!
dean
December 1st, 2012
4:34 pm
Not “bad Murray” today
Duck Soup
December 1st, 2012
4:34 pm
War Damn Dawg! BEAT BAMA!
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
4:34 pm
Mitchell was held by jersey and no call.
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:34 pm
It’s third and nine. Would be a 46 yard FG
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
4:34 pm
You cannot run the ball on us. Aint gonna happen. Passing by itself aint gonna get it done.
phil
December 1st, 2012
4:34 pm
Conley…..
Booooooo!
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
4:34 pm
Nice pass
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:35 pm
Longer field goal now. Sack
Sam
December 1st, 2012
4:35 pm
Out of fg range. Can’t take a sack there
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
4:35 pm
Down goes Frazier
phil
December 1st, 2012
4:35 pm
Sigh…..
Murray chokes again.
Roy
December 1st, 2012
4:35 pm
Bobo needs to develop plays where Murray can get the ball out of his hands quickly.
john r smith HTTR !
December 1st, 2012
4:35 pm
Dogs offensive line blows….
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:35 pm
Fifty-yarder by Marshall Morgan is no good.
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
4:35 pm
We do have the bad murray today.
He had a full three seconds to throw while in the pocket.
Sam
December 1st, 2012
4:36 pm
This kicker sucjs
phil
December 1st, 2012
4:36 pm
Of course he missed.
He’s awful!!!
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
4:36 pm
This game is over. UGA cannot run the football, we can run the football, and we are getting good pressure so far. You guys are
T
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Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:36 pm
Missed chance. But you knew that already.
Roy
December 1st, 2012
4:36 pm
Kicker blows, O-line blows, it’s gonna be up to the defense to get us some points. We need a pick 6. Defense is doing everything they can.
playmeortrademe
December 1st, 2012
4:36 pm
another terrible possession. D is going to have to score points, it seems.
Al Bundy
December 1st, 2012
4:37 pm
Excellent kick… I hope he kicks like that all afternoon.
00mpa L00mpa dawg
December 1st, 2012
4:37 pm
Murray is a stinking dwarf!
Roll tide!
December 1st, 2012
4:37 pm
how you like that Joe?
80sDawg
December 1st, 2012
4:37 pm
Hope this doesn’t come down to FG’s
Sam
December 1st, 2012
4:37 pm
Is Morgan worse than Walsh last year
Roy
December 1st, 2012
4:37 pm
Tide Rising= Tech fan. Ignore him. Better yet, Bradley ban him.
rivercard
December 1st, 2012
4:37 pm
Guantanamo for Saban if he passes on anything other than third and long on this possession.
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:37 pm
Georgia actually handled the blitz okay on the third down. But the secondary rusher got Aaron Murray.
Sam
December 1st, 2012
4:37 pm
Too many missed opportunities
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
4:38 pm
penalties
discipline
bad routes
bad protection
fine dogs
Strat Cat Dawg
December 1st, 2012
4:38 pm
Keep your emotions in check, Dawgs, both D’s are tough but Georgia’s has been tougher so far
Tide Rising
December 1st, 2012
4:38 pm
We run the ball and we stop the run. Its how we roll. Its going to be a loooooong day given the fact that we can easily run on UGA. We just gotta quit this passing crap and keep pounding them relentlessly.
Russa
December 1st, 2012
4:38 pm
yeah, that’s exactly what they need to be doing … leaving points on the field against Alabama
Jimmy
December 1st, 2012
4:38 pm
Murray needs to loosen up.
Playbook needs to open up.
We are not winning the line.
00mpa L00mpa dawg
December 1st, 2012
4:38 pm
Dallas lee stinks
kingdaddy
December 1st, 2012
4:38 pm
Why are Techies so obnoxious? No wonder nobody likes Tech…
phil
December 1st, 2012
4:38 pm
All on our D….
Mutray going pro….lol
Mark Bradley
December 1st, 2012
4:38 pm
Only one missed opportunity so far, Sam.
DawgnSeattle
December 1st, 2012
4:39 pm
Well, the O is not too fast out of the gates so far…well, we are playing ALA…
Buckeye
December 1st, 2012
4:39 pm
Did Murray just get a facial or what?
Orange12
December 1st, 2012
4:39 pm
Murray hasn’t turned the ball over. UGA still has a chance.
Sam
December 1st, 2012
4:39 pm
What a juke