Off-field behavior exemplary for Bulldogs . . . so far
Georgia has a clock in its weight room counting down the hours and minutes until its football season opener at Oklahoma State on Sept. 5. It should have another one that started counting up from the end of spring practice.
Traditionally that is about the time when football players start getting into trouble. You may recall that the Bulldogs had a ton of trouble last year. By the end of football season there had been 11 arrests involving players (not all the charges stuck, by the way). The majority of those arrests took place between this point and the start of preseason camp in August, when players typically have more free time and a less structured schedule.
That’s why quarterback Joe Cox got up before the team after this past weekend’s G-Day Game to urge his teammates to be extremely diligent about staying out of the police blotter.
“We’ve had problems, as well as a lot of teams across the country have had problems starting at this point, with guys getting in trouble,” Cox told the Athens Banner-Herald. “We don’t want to make it where we tell guys, ‘Hey, stay in your room, lock your door, don’t have any fun.’ But at the same time, you need to be careful and need to know the difference between right and wrong. Find ways to have fun doing the right thing, staying out of trouble. I think we’ve done a great job of that so far. We haven’t had anybody do anything stupid.”
For those keeping count — and the guys that run the website everydayshouldbesaturday.com do with the annual “Fulmer Cup” bad behavior tally — Georgia has not had a player arrested in 2009 (fans advised to knock on wood here). At this point last year the Bulldogs had four arrests. That number rose sharply over the summer.
“Am I going to sit here and say that these guys are never going to make a mistake again?” Richt told reporters. “That’s very unrealistic. But I think at least we’ve had a very good start and guys, as a whole, want to do the right thing. But, shoot, who knows what tomorrow brings, right?”
Some pointed to all those arrests last year as a sign of the team’s lack of internal discipline, which was further exposed during a 10-3 season that was expected to be much more successful. Do you believe there is a direct correlation between player behavior and on-field success? Does the Bulldogs’ off-field performance thus far bode well for 2009?
In the meantime, here are some links that may interest you:
Here’s the story I referenced from Athens’ Mark Weiszer about Georgia’s focus on off-field behavior this offseason. . . .
There are some reports out there that quarterback Matthew Stafford was blabbing to teammates during the G-Day this past weekend that it was a “done deal” that he’d be the No. 1 draft pick of the Detroit Lions. Personally I don’t believe Matthew said that. He’s way too sharp for that. But I do believe a deal could actually be done. . . . And speaking of Stafford, apparently he’s going to be a guest of Jimmy Fallon on the show “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” Thursday night. . . .
Here’s a nice little diddy from Macon’s David Hale on the emergence of Georgia’s Justin Houston at defensive end. . . .
Not only is Alabama following Georgia’s lead by having its spring game broadcasted by ESPN, the Crimson Tide has also added an alumni flag-football game to the undercard.
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TIde rising
April 14th, 2009
11:50 am
Geoffdawg,
My responses were directed to the 2 morons who started all this nonsense by making blanket, unequivocally vague generalizations about Alabama. If 90% of the bloggers here found my statements objectionable then surely out of fairness and open mindedness they would find the vague generalizations of the 2 morons bashing Alabama to be equally offensive. Otherwise, would that not make them ignorant jerks also? Or that they hold the same biases and are just as ignorant as the 2 bloggers I was responding to. I would hate to think that all these other bloggers in their ignorance would think its okay for these 2 bloggers to make blanket generalizations about Alabama but that its not okay for me to respond in kind. Doesn’t seem right now does it? I considered my response to be proportionate but if you disagree that’s fine. We will just respectfully agree to disagree.
Bama fan
April 14th, 2009
11:52 am
Huh?
Blackout!
Brandon
April 14th, 2009
11:56 am
Mark Richt is the most strict coach in the SEC.
DawgBite
April 14th, 2009
11:56 am
techie
April 14th, 2009
8:09 am
Stafford way too SHARP? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Want to compare him and his Wonderlicht score to Michael “I can’t put 2 sentences together” Johnson and his single digit Wonderlicht score?
Sanford Drive
April 14th, 2009
11:56 am
I understand it’s supposed to be a reflection of culture. However, you can insert any southern state into ‘Deliverance’ and the cultural statement would remain unchanged. Besides, the movie is more about a Southern experience as opposed to a Georgia experience. Do you not get THAT? More importantly, while it does highlight a certain cultural aspect of Southern life, it’s a film that displays a series of SPECIFIC events that in no way reflect the culture of the GENERAL South. And don’t get me started on the Auburn/astronaut thing. If I had a dollar for everytime I heard that….
Tide rising
April 14th, 2009
12:10 pm
Sanford Drive,
Thank you for making my point for me. My whole real point is that there really isn’t much of a hill a beans worth of difference between any state in the rural south so I don’t really get all the Bama bashing that I see on this board about the trailers, lack of teeth,etc. Also, I worked in outside sales and have driven throughout rural Georgia and rural Alabama to service hospitals. I can personally attest to the fact that Alabama aint got nothing on Georgia when it comes to trailers.But that’s besides the point.
Sure, Atlanta is certainly more cosmopolitan than say podunk, Alabama. But everything is relative and people in New York for example certainly don’t think of ATL as cosmopolitan. And I don’t see a hill of beans worth of difference between say neighborhoods in Mountain Brook, a wealthy suburb of Birmingham, and Alpharetta, Ga. Anyone who says different is either ignorant of the facts or is just being dishonest.
Same thing with rural Alabama or rural Georgia. I see just as few or just as many teeth in either place. If you think the rural people are any different in either state you are either ignorant and haven’t been in the countryside of both states or you’re just plain lying.
As I stated I get no pleasure in bashing Georgia. My response is soley intended to the ignoramuses who insist on also making blanket, ignorant generalizations about Alabama.
Dean
April 14th, 2009
12:12 pm
Tide Rising-I’m pretty sure that any Southerner (including Bama fans) would tell you to go back up north if you find it so revolting in any of our Souther states. Atlanta was a great city before your northern brethren came in and ruined it with your congestion and obnoxious behavior. The south was much better off without you. Go root for Rutgers.
Oledawg
April 14th, 2009
12:14 pm
Tide rising- You put the “G” prefix back into damnyankee.
Old Dawg
April 14th, 2009
12:15 pm
Chip:
As usual, great post. One thing that caught my attention during G-Day was the inability of Caleb King to switch hands, from left to right, when he’s running to the right side of the field. That’s a basic technique to avoid fumbles. I know that may appear to be a “picky” issue, but defenders are coached to knock the ball loose when that happens.
Keep up the great work!
Tide rising
April 14th, 2009
12:22 pm
Dean,
I don’t know how or why you infer that I find Georgia “revolting”. I never said that. I was merely making the point that Atlanta is a great city and that one of the things that made it a great city was the influx of transplants from all over. I guess we will just have to respectfully disagree on that point.
Also, my response is simply a response to the ignoramuses who start making vague, ignorant generalizations about Alabama when they start using words like inbred, etc. That’s all.
m
April 14th, 2009
12:23 pm
Do you know how to tell if an alabammmer fan is married? There are tobacco spit stains down BOTH doors of the pickup truck.
Chip Towers
April 14th, 2009
12:37 pm
Richard: This subject wasn’t on my radar; it was on the team’s radar. . . .
Tide Rising: What I meant was the Tide had decided to add an alumni flag-football game like Georgia. . . I realize Alabama invented the spring game, and the game of football itself! Take it easy with the derogatory stereotypes and unsavory generalizations or you’ll have to find another place to blog. . . .
We Had a Great Gameplan but . . . : I think your count is off. I wrote about 16 or 18 stories on The Masters. And this wasn’t an “article” about Stafford. But there is about to be a bunch from everybody everywhere so you might want to get used to it. . . .
Kenny Powers: Bye-bye.
MiltonDawg
April 14th, 2009
12:48 pm
I think after last year’s debacle with the arrests and injuries, our players (hopefully) are taking a whole new approach. Kudos to Cox for saying something. Richt needs to stay on top of these guys. As far as the Fulmer Cup, i’m gonna say it’s going to be a school from FL (Miami, UF, FSU, etc).
Tide rising
April 14th, 2009
12:53 pm
Hey Chip,
Duly noted. I’ll take it easy. But in the interest of fairness you could probably say the same thing to about 10 other fans in regards to derogatory stereotypes and generalizations. It seems like you singled me out although I was responding to people making comments about Alabama. In any event I will keep it classy from here forward. I just wish you would make the same point to several of the other posters.
But you are wrong about Alabama inventing football. We only invented southern football. We didn’t invent spring football scrimmages either. But we certainly started some kind of arms race in regards to spring scrimmages and what it means to recruiting, etc.
Harry
April 14th, 2009
12:58 pm
georgia fans making fun of alabama fans by making red neck jokes? hahahaha yea, UGA fans are about as bright as UGA basketballs future
Dean
April 14th, 2009
1:14 pm
You could go to any state and find significant poverty and problems that poverty produces. Yes, Alabama is very similar to Georgia. Every state makes fun of it’s neighbors just as every city makes fun of people that live a few miles to the north, south or what have you. I’m convince college athletics have probably prevented major escalations amongst the states. Anybody hear remember when Six Flags had Buford Buzzard and most of his jokes were Alabama jokes? It’s all in good natured fun. No reason to take it to the next level.
Ole Dawg
April 14th, 2009
2:15 pm
Hey Tide Rising…You are way off base in stating that Alabama had a deal with ESPN to televise their Spring game before Georgia did.The Georgia deal was done with ESPN right after the 08’season ended
….Alabama wasn’t even approached by ESPN until February 09′ and only because another team backed out.(I know because my brother works for ESPN) So go pat yourself on the back while you look in the mirror and keep telling yourself that you and the Tide are the greatest! Try being humble for a change and quit acting like the Florida fans who think they invented college football…half their team couldn’t even make their grades at other SEC schools…don’t let “Urban Cryer” BS you… most of his team couldn’t even stay in school if they attended another SEC school….just look at the Wonderlic score of Harvin…..how did he even stay in school as long as he did with out inside help? Sad!
A native Georgian
April 14th, 2009
2:17 pm
Lots of hostility here as usual. I find it kind of ironic how people from the north always knock Georgia, but they choose to live here. Ife we are so backwards and stupid then why in the hell do you live here? For the record I have all my teeth, did not marry my sister or cousin and I am proud to say I am graduate of UGA. I have found there are “inbred” or “rednecks” no matter where you go. As many up north as there are here in “these parts”. Sanford Drive and Geoff Dawg you both have made some very valid points.
Go Dawgs
Oledawg
April 14th, 2009
2:18 pm
The Tide rising jerk has inserted a state slur into a football blog. The “let me learn you a few things from a northern perspective” statement pretty much takes care of anything else you may have typed. Alt and I have replied to your same crud before.
Your statement of Birmingham as the medical center of the nation in orthopedic surgery is correct, followed closely by UCLA. Emory U. is the cardiac treatment mecca for the nation. Nice braggin’ rights for Southerners, but Emory doesn’t play Div I football and UAB’s coach is the former Dawgs’s O coach. Are statements twisted enough with unconnected facts to suit you yet?
You give Gd yankee a bad name. Your brand of ignorance is not unusual, but it gives the state of New York a bad name as well. For those who might not have visited, would you be surprised to know that NY is a great natural state? With plenty of country people who love country music? Even in NYC? While on a business trip there some years ago, my two companions and I decided to eat in Greenich Village because there were great international cuisine choices in the varied restaurants. After paella in a Spanish restaurant we exited to the distant sound of fiddlin’ music. We followed the sound to “The Lone Star Bar” which was about the size of Gilley’s in Texas. Out of approx. 300 people we were the only ones not dressed in jeans,cowboy boots and Stetsons. We were seated next to the band at a table they brought for us. Great time with great fiddlin’ music. I heard a familiar Southern accent from the band leader and during break asked where he and the band were from. “Georgia”, he answered, but the rest of the band(5) members were from upstate NY including the best fiddler I’ve ever heard. My point is that your “diatribe”(as Alt put it) would leave us not only bereft of proud Georgia history, but also NY history and culture that is similar. Upstate NY has some of the finest fishing and hunting in the US. While we are proud of Georgia’s natural features like springs galore with wonderful pure water, NY has the best water channeled from upstate to NYC that is the envy of most large cities of the world. I have met many people in and from NY who are as gracious as those from my beloved Georgia. And you ain’t one of them. Denigrating any state only exhibits your ignorance of that state. And you received your food and living standard from such a state? Another example: Years ago, the National Science Foundation decided to dispence unused funds to setup Biology Centers of Excellence in the US based upon which schools demonstrated the greatest diversity in Biology accomplishments for industry and academia. They selected and funded 10M each to Stanford(Ca), Columbia(NY) and The University of Georgia. The Father of Ecology, Dr. Eugene Odum, wrote the first definitive textbook and taught Ecology at UGA and to the Ga Legislature before Ecology was a national watchword. His textbook was the basic textbook used nationwide for years. Californians know him by name, but you haven’t found these far reaching or cutting edge facts about the state and the people in your stay in Atlanta. We don’t get very many people who owe their livelyhood to a state and area as well as the people of the state who are like you. Anywhere. Are you aware of the Peabody Awards given for the best journalism in the world? Presented each year by the UGA School of Journalism. Many more examples, but I’ve bored you with irrefutable facts of your vast ignorance of this state. Georgia is also known as the Empire State of the South. Sound familiar?
May I suggest that you keep your brand of ignorance in Alabama and not export it to an AJC football blog? I have Alabama friends who don’t go for you spiel either. If you are there now, I’d keep my mouth shut– or start reading.
Chip- Didn’t mean to leave you out, but haven’t heard from you much lately. Then you reappear with plagiarized material. Giving credit to the original article in the Athens Banner Herald doesn’t excuse it. I’ve truly looked for your articles because they generally elicit good blog responses, but this rehashed info is not what was expected. Don’t worry, I disapoint my friends from time to time as well.
Cox imploring the team to watch any antisocial steps is of no value when they are not monitored by their teammates when they return to their hometown for the summer. Their friends have a builtin culture that is dissimilar to the culture if they stay in Athens with their teammates. Unless you ask their friends to bear the responsibility to keep the Bulldawg out of harm’s way(the media) the plea for behavior modification will fall on deaf ears. The only thing you can do is remind them when they return for the fall and let everyone buy into a “minder” Buddy system. You shouldn’t expect them to change except when they return to Athens. I could not have gone to college and played football at the same time. I could not measure up to what is expected of these people now. We can keep our fingers crossed or if a Dawg is home for the summer in your town you might let him know that the world is watching.
A native Georgian
April 14th, 2009
2:19 pm
Sorry for the typos, got ahead of myself. As for the attendance, do not forget it was Easter weekend. I am sure more would have been there on a different Saturday.
Sanford Drive
April 14th, 2009
2:48 pm
Agree with Ole Dawg. I could live without the valuable “lessons” from Dr. KnowNothing. Anyway, I don’t think Cox’s little speech will do much good either, but at least he’s saying something about it. That’s better than ignoring the issue. Maybe if it even helps one guy re-think his actions, that’s a positive thing.
MoDawg
April 14th, 2009
3:09 pm
Good job, Chip! Thanks for governing the blog with an iron fist!
Now, if you could just do something with the pesky gnats who like to come to UGA blogs and sling “hash”….
Oledawg, I could us a nap after reading that…all good stuff, though! I’m proud of my state (Georgia) as well!!
Jeff
April 14th, 2009
3:21 pm
Why would you not beleive Stafford would say that to his teammates??? This is the guy that spent his entire 3 years at UGA trying to impress the NFL- hence no SEC East, let along SEC Title. Had Stafford cared just a little about TEAM instead of ME…he would have more to show for his time at UGA with the talent we had on field. The QB is the leader and sets the stage for the team- funny that he and Knowshon leave with not even the SEC East. Nuff said. I’d take a QB like Joe Cox anyday- maybe not exact skill Stafford had but heart and desire that Stafford was definately missing. Have a feeling when this season is said and done we will be saying…why didnt we play him earlier!!!!
Jeff
April 14th, 2009
3:24 pm
Who was the ONLY SEC team that never won a conference Championship till 91???????????????? Thay would be FLORIDA. Gaytors still havent realized that football did not start in 91.
Hunk Erdown
April 14th, 2009
3:38 pm
Chip- Good job on the Masters coverage.
There is certainly some correlation between on and off field discipline issues. I would truly like to see UGA, as a team, dedicate themselves to the idea that to be champions it takes a total commitment. That includes some sacrifice to stay away from things that fog up judgement and clarity of their goals.
Jeff
April 14th, 2009
3:40 pm
No Andre Smith and a new QB will be a lot for Alabama to replace; 9-3 next year. I did a little digging into schedules and was less than impressed with what I saw from other SEC schools out of conference next year:
Alabama- Va Tech (neutral site), FIU, N.Texas, and UT-C all at home
Auburn- La Tech, WVU, Ball St, and Furman all at home
LSU- La Tech, Tulane, UL Layfayette all at home and Washington away
Florida- Charleston Southern, Troy, FIU, and FSU all at home (snooze)
SC- @NCSU, Clemson, Fla Atl, and So.Car.St at home.
UT- West.Ky, UCLA, Ohio U, and Memphis all at home
UGA- @ Ok St, ASU, Tn Tech, and @GT
UGA easily has the toughest of any SEC school. I don’t see where UF gets off with their weak out of conference schedule. Maybe thats why they are fresh and uninjured year after year at the end. UGA is the only SEC school with 3 out of conference games with BCS schools.
UF’s out of conference schedule for 2010 and 2011:
2010- Miami OH, South Fla, App. St, and FSU
2011- Fla Atl, UAB, Furman, and FSU
As for the off the field stuff…Athens is a fun little town with an abundance of police officers. Summertime the town is vacant except for athletes and a few students. Everything that our guys do is magnified because their are more eyes watching fewer people. I am not excusing drunk driving or underage drinking, but its the truth. I had numerous friends receive tickets for behavior over the summer that they would have never been caught with during the fall or spring.
AltamahaDawg
April 14th, 2009
3:40 pm
Wining the division is entirely a function of who wins the most games. Seems like Stafford was getting some really really bad advice if his strategy to impress the NFL did not include winning as many games as possible.
AltamahaDawg
April 14th, 2009
3:49 pm
Charleston Southern? Is that really a college, and they actually have enough of a budget to field a football team? Seriously? That had to be like 3 wealthy vascular surgeons that got together and decided, “lets do this thing”.
Preston
April 14th, 2009
3:50 pm
Dean, thanks for triggering the memories of the Buford Buzzard days of Six Flags. I was very young then and I can remember that very well. My dad would keep us kids bored to death for a while listening to him rather than riding rides, but good times nonetheless.And your right about people taking it too serious about the GA/AL jokes. It’s a way of life down here and meant to be taken in jest.
Hunk Erdown
April 14th, 2009
4:09 pm
Buford the Buzzard?
I guess I am way old, when I was a kid it was Officer Don and Orville the Dragon. Anybody else remember them? That was before I-20 was a road, so I guess not.
Chip Towers
April 14th, 2009
4:25 pm
Ole Dawg: Congratulations. You just passed BuLLdawg for longest post of the year! . . . But as far as your reference to “plagiarism,” that’s not something I appreciate or take lightly. I didn’t plagiarize anything. This is a blog for discussion of UGA topics. I was in Augusta all last week covering the Masters (I know, I know, but somebody had to do it). Meanwhile, Tim Tucker was in Athens covering the Dogs’ practices and G-Day game. He heard all the comments aforementioned in the blog post and, in fact, we discussed the subject. Meanwhile, I was off Monday and came back to work on Tuesday morning. Three days after spring practice was over I deemed off-field behavior to be the most pertinent Georgia sports topic. I could have brought up Georgia baseball or gymnastics but, if I had, there’d be a thread of about 15 or 20 comments right now. . . . so that’s probably more than needed to be said about this but I’m a little on edge today and I don’t feel like being accused of what is, in my profession, the worst possible offense, in my opinion. But thanks to all of you for hanging out and having a thoughtful discussion, you especially Ole Dawg.
shane#1
April 14th, 2009
4:48 pm
There is some relationship between on field snd off field disciplin problems, but not as much as some think. OU was the most penalized team in football last year, and I heard that they had a pretty good season. Also I remember a few Miami{Fla} teams that had problems on and off the field but still managed to win a couple of MNCs. I do think the behavior of some players got out of hand and created a distraction last year for UGA. It would be hard to worry about up-coming legal issues and keep one’s mind on football. Bear Bryant was once bemoaning his players lack of aggressiveness during a meeting with his assistants. An assistant coach spoke out saying,”Coach, you aren’t being fair, we have some good boys”. “That’s the damn problem” said Bear, “too many good boys. Ya’ll go find me four or five mean old boys that I have to bail out of jail on Friday morning so they can play football on Saturday.” It takes a mean streak to play football and play it well. A little attitude doens’t hurt either.
frank
April 14th, 2009
5:16 pm
is anyone else concerned about UGA’s running backs. The only thing that definately got answered this spring is that caleb king sucks and will not be able to give us any sort of running consistancy. We all should hope and pray that Richard Samuel improves and is ready to start as soon as fall comes around. He may be young but he is going to have to grow up fast and produce because caleb really hasn’t. C. Thomas was impressive in the spring game but he is WAY undersized. We can’t line up a 5′7″ 165 lb running back every down in the SEC. Hopefully he will be a good change of pace from Samuel or whoever ends up starting (hopefully not Caleb King). Any thoughts?
shane#1
April 14th, 2009
5:30 pm
Frank, Coaches often have to wait untill a kid “gets it”. They describe it as like a light bulb flicking on. If you have ever coached or trained a young person you will know what they mean. Let’s just hope the light shines fort Caleb this fall. I am looking for big things from Samuel. They kid was raw, as well he should be, having just turned 18. Richt wants Thomas to be like Warrick Dunn, who he coached at FSU. A back that is 5′6″ and runs behind his pads is very difficult for defenders. You can’t see him untill he makes his cut because of those big old linemen and he very rarely gives you much of a target. It is hard to get a good lick on one of those short quick guys.
MiltonDawg
April 14th, 2009
5:46 pm
Don’t forget to add Jackson, Daniels, Munz and possibly Ealey. Somebody out of those RBs will step up. My $$ on Samuel w/ King running short gains and goaline carries.
Hunk Erdown
April 14th, 2009
6:02 pm
I’m sorry Shane but that’s not a fair assesment of Bear Bryant’s philosophy nor what he taught over the span of his career. He may have had a few times over several years of coaching that he felt he needed a few guys with a terrorist attitude, but he was renowned for his belief in dedication, pride, and sacrifice. I can assure you that you would not want to be the player that Bear had to go bail out of jail.
Have there been teams in today’s atmosphere of “elite” athletes that have done well in spite of off the field behaviour? Sure, but to even condone it, much less act like maybe we need some beer drinkers and hell raisers to be winners is at best far-fetched and at worst stupid.
Shane, I respect you as one of the more thoughtful and interesting bloggers on here, but I’ll just have to disagree on that last post.
PHIL
April 14th, 2009
6:03 pm
Poor decision makers all around. Made poor decisions on and off the field. Like the decisions that the defensive PLAYERS made in the game with the bugs not to tackle and be where they were told to be.
As far as the G day game where did this D Tackle come from? he was really good. If Caleb isn’t what he was supposed to be, it’ll be a long season. Samuel is a linebacker trying to be a running back and Carlton is too small for everyday SEC wear and tear.
And most importantly to “Tide Rising” : Lewis Grizzard, a great American, once said “Delta is ready when you are.” That statement has never applied to anyone as well as it does to you. On another unrelated note, I absolutely HATE the fact that people move to our wonderful state because theirs’ suck and then tell us how we should do things or how wonderful it is where they are from. Makes me wonder why they are FROM there. The one thing that can get me fighting, like fist fighting, mad.
Hunk Erdown
April 14th, 2009
6:07 pm
As far as being succesful despite penalties, I think UGA’s body of work last year speaks for itself. Penalties and field position may have cost us at least one game if not two last year, imo.
dawgbone
April 14th, 2009
6:44 pm
old dog i believe you were worried about odell getting arrested, son he only got ticketed and not arrested while at ga, get your facts straight, if all players stay in one dorm say w/basketball players, a coach lives in the dorm and your probs would be minimal but some idiots say they dont get special treatment opposed to other students and have to live spread out on campus, thers the answer to why ther=y get into trouble
AltamahaDawg
April 14th, 2009
6:48 pm
I don’t know if there is any correlation between off-season trouble and on field results. I do know that there is a direct correlation between off-seasons trouble and our being tired of hearing about it. There is also a direct correlation between our being tired of hearing about it, and the idiots that love to talk about nothing but. So I say, less trouble for no other reason than just less trouble.
And I don’t think there is any risk that less trouble will somehow be bad for the team.
Hunk Erdown
April 14th, 2009
7:08 pm
Amen Alt.
Reporters seem to be salivating over the police blotters just hoping there is something there. What ticks me off is the times when unlawful mo-ped riding, etc. becomes the “news of the day”.
Maybe I put too much emphasis on the whole dedication/sacrifice thing so in the spirit of not making mtns out of mole hills, I’ll be glad to step back.
Columbus Dawg
April 14th, 2009
7:14 pm
Thomas is going to be a weapon in a big way, and I believe Ealey will bring something with him also. The way it looks, WM has found one DE, now needs a couple of the wounded to step up. I think Bobo knows what he’s got coming in Marlon Brown, and Bobo is putting pressure on T. King to tighten it on up. I think he makes some nice plays for us. This season seems more like 2002 than any season since, and that can’t be all bad. Even Sanders Commings looked a little like Minter out there. GATA!!!
Dawg Tired
April 14th, 2009
7:17 pm
Apparently M does not understand what a “butt kicking” is. 45 -42 is actually called a close game by people who understand football. Now 38-3. well… that’s a “butt kicking.” I think the problem is that Tech fans don’t understand math.
AltamahaDawg
April 14th, 2009
7:24 pm
Well now, just to clarify, i wasnt calling the media reports of such the “idiots”. I do think it gets an awful lot of coverage that is out of scale for news events, buy WE are probably to blame for that. And that certainly gives the idiots plenty of fodder.
BTW, I don’t think that you are over stating the subjective end of it. While I don’t think its unpardonable for young men to make the occational blunder, it says a LOT about them when they avoid it.
The Big Bug
April 14th, 2009
7:28 pm
Hunk, You sure had some personal fouls at critical times last year no one can deny. But think about it. The 3 losses were solid. Tech v. Ga was the best game of the year by both teams. Probably the best football game of the year, period. But I don’t think penalties affected the final season record at all for Ga.
Hunk Erdown
April 14th, 2009
7:30 pm
No, I got your meaning. The reporters wouldn’t be salivating over the blotters if there wasn’t a lot of interest. Even though a significant amount of that interest is fodder for the haters so they can fire off all those thuga zingers.
Hunk Erdown
April 14th, 2009
7:38 pm
Who knows Bug? We never will… But I would like to see the Bama and Tech games replayed without the penalties/field position issues.
That may have been tech’s best game of the year, certainly the one that they wanted the most, but uga’s best? I don’t think so.
The Big Bug
April 14th, 2009
7:57 pm
Hunk, Which game did Ga play better than the Tech game? I don’t think you really want to see the Bama game again, do you? UF?
Like Bear said a few years back when their only loss was to Tech,”We’d like to play Tech again but you only get to play ‘em once”
Hunk Erdown
April 14th, 2009
8:05 pm
Right off the cuff I guess I’d say LSU. I certainly would’nt pick a game that we lost in an upset as our best game on a matter of principle.
As far as replaying games its a non-issue, but hell yeah I wish we could replay our losses.
AltamahaDawg
April 14th, 2009
8:14 pm
or one play.