Richt on changes, Tech rivalry, Powerade bath

Who would have thought at the start of the year Tennessee would finish ahead of UGA in the SEC?
Secondly who would have thought Tennessee would be playing on New Years Day and Uga on New Years Eve? The truth , No one thought that of Tennessee but every realist figured that of Georgia.

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Hey Vol Nation who married his sister. Do you know why English Bulldogs have so many heart conditions? Its because of all the breeds of dogs they have the highest incest rate. Look it up ! Homer.

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We know all about incest in Tennessee….specially me

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I married a Tech man… that’s how come I’m on the dog blog.

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THWG you are an idiot, all you can do is sit and make excuses on this year how about the past 8 put of 9, come on give me a break the ACC Conference is one of the weakest in college football, Tech would not stand a chance playing in the SEC the biggest powerhouse in college football week after week.

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Here’s an idea…. televise a Mike Woodsen and Mark Richt debate

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Damon Evans,

You, sir, are the reason felton and martinez had an extra year. Enough out of you

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To all you tech fans…
(1) This single victory in no way redeems a bad season. However, it was only made as sweet as it was because of your fans and your players. Yall walk all over a TERRIBLE ACC and act like yall are God’s gift to earth. We were tired of hearing about the fluke last year, tired of hearing about how supposedly good you were this year, and that is the only bit of pride we take from this win. We understand how bad our football team has been all year. My question to you, what does that say about your team?
(2) Get your childish excuses out. I know the scoreboard didn’t reflect it because our guys left some points on the field, but yall got DOMINATED. We beat you at your own game, without the best WR in the nation, and you still make excuses. You had two weeks to prepare, at home (not that 40,000+ can be very intimidating), you boast the nations best RB ( held to 33 yards), this is the best team you have had since probably your 1990 season and you still can’t win. And I don’t want to hear any injury excuses, be more physical. Thats the answer, its simple, get tough.
(3) Your offense is talented, but it would never last in the SEC. Speed and discipline is the solution to your offense and it killed yall. Ask Miami.
(4) Everyone keeps wondering why UGA didn’t run the ball like this all season. The answer is simple, that Tech defense was the worst defense we faced all season, outside of Tennessee Tech of course. As a matter of fact, I definitely saw some similarities in those two defenses, I thought I was having deja vu.

*Just a side note: Under Caleb King’s eyes and Washan Ealey’s eyes, they had eye black with a phrase written which read, “I RUN THIS STATE” Don’t forget it Tech. Do some quick math for me…8 out of the last 9. That comes out to 88.8% What do you Techies call that one little W…whats the word, ANOMALY. Thats right.

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I kinda feel like Richt isn’t going to get rid of Martinez if at all possible. Truthfully, I just don’t get the feeling he gets it.

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I agree with Cedric, one of the previous posters. CMR will not make changes unless forced to do, and then may go down with his buddies. Next year will be more of the same- not much change.

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The program is in good hands and Saturday was a good example. Many programs would have not gone into the rivals home stadium and played as well as Georgia did. I really feel we are close to having a TEAM. The last two years, the chemistry has not been there. I saw it Saturday. This coaching staff has taken all kinds of abuse, but they showed how to handle adversity and more importantly they coached the players to handle it. I hope they are all back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Well I have to take my words back as Tennessee will not be playing on New Years day. They are going to play VT in the chicken bowl while Georgia will be going to the Music city Bowl.

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DamntheButcher-I think Coach Richt knows who to keep and who to fire. Thank you Damon Evans for allowing Coach Richt to run him own program. I believe the program will look back to Saturday as a turning point. I believe that maybe we had gotten too complacent. Firing Coordinators are not always the answer, ask Coach Tuberville. We have given up too many points, but I believe it was more than coaching. The chemistry on the last two teams has not been good. The Yankees are a good example of what I mean. They jelled together as a TEAM this year, even thought they were probably alittle more talented in other years. I liked the chemistry I saw Saturday night. The coaches and players showed alot of emotions and I believe Coach Richt’s reaction on the Gatorade bath explained it all. The DAWGS ARE BACK!

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Tech sounds like they have been a world beater for years. Hold on guys, we know you have not been ranked in anything until this year for a long time. They remind me of a Johnny come lately. What should concern them most is the fact that Tech is ranked 37th in recruiting and that is about where they are ranked every year. Tech is going to continue to have a difficult time recruiting against Georgia and other SEC teams in this state plus some ACC teams. Tech made a lot of fun or our 4 and 5 star athletes, but they were the ones that beat you Saturday. Better talent usually wins. Go Dawgs

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Well it looks like Martinez is staying in Athens! Richt all but said it, and I will be the 1st to write his words on his tombstone or resume when he gets fired! I love Richt, he has done wonders for GA, but its plain that his priorities are not with GA! THEY ARE FOR HIS FRIENDS WELFARE! Richt is good, but his heart is for his friends and NOT FOR GA! Basically, Richt is saying, we will get better, but with Willie, NOT SOMEBODY ELSE! You mark my word, Richt will try to sell A NEW SCHEME ON DEFENSE TO THE GA FANS. The problem at GA is the scheme they run. The 4-3 soft zone defense was a hot comotity 15 years ago, BUT NOT IN TODAYS OFFENSIVE SCHEMES! Its plain to see where Richt learned this scheme, He LEARNED IT AT FLORIDA ST! Hell Mickey Andrews is retiring because of it! THE DAMN DEFENSE SHOULD BE CALLED THE PREVENT YOU FROM WINNING SCHEME, because IT DONT WORK ANYMORE! IF GA KEEPS MARTINEZ AROUND, AFTER 30 YEARS I AM THROUGH WITH GA! I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE AND NEITHER CAN ANOTHER UGA DOG! ONE ALREADY DIED FROM IT! MAYBE WE DO NEED A ROBOTIC DOG WITH MARTINEZ AROUND! WE MIGHT RUN OUT OF TOMBS AT THE STADIUM!

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After FL, AL, LSU and Old MS, there are 6 SEC teams with 7-5 records. BUT only three of these are 4-4 in SEC standings (TN, UGA, and MS). If MS goes to the Cotton bowl, then the Outback and Chick-fil-a should be picking from TN and UGA. The SEC works with all the bowls to get the best match ups possible. Logic says that the above should be true. But, you never know.

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Just because some of you idiots graduated from college you think you are a success. That is such a joke. I know more college failures and high school success stories than you could ever imagine. Please check my spelling nerds while I’m cashing my big checks. High school grad.

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I’m with you lamar. Willie stays and I’m gone and so is my money and a lot of it. I don’t need the heartache. If Richt doesn’t care, why should I. I contribute money, not recieve it~! I’m not the only one that feels that way either. Evans will find out next year!

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Listen guys. Next year we can score more points than the defense will give up. At least enough to win maybe 10 games. That will keep you satisfied and the checks coming, suckers!

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Project Dawg, you got it right on! Too bad Rciht can’t read. Those sats. is what makes everyone angry. Richt just doesn’t get it. Or he does get it and just doesn’t care and thinks we are a bunch of stupid asses. Which I guess we are, Evans and Adams included!

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That would be like putting lipstick on a pig to say that the ACC plays football and that one of them is therefore a great coach, when there is not even an ACC team in the Top 10 of the AP Poll and not even an ACC team in the Top 10 of the Coaches’ Poll. Again, this year as every year, you can clean up a pig, put a ribbon on its tail, spray it with perfume, but it’s still just a pig. He says he runs the ball exclusively, doesn’t have a single Tight End on the team, has 238 lbs. Left Tackle who can block for the run, but on the last 4 plays of the game, he yanks him, tells him he is not good enough to play the 4 most important plays of the entire season, and then passes the football with wounded ducks like he is playing an ACC “opponent.” It’s an oxymoron to say there is an ACC Coach of the Year, especially the day after both of the 2 top teams playing for the ACC Conference Chumpionship, lost to also-ran SEC teams to remove all luster from the ACC Chumpionship.

After all, it was not Coach Richt, but Paul Johnson all week prior to the game, who said that he Paul Johnson didn’t think that the UGA game was all that important to him personally. He has a worse Academic Progress Rate APR in football compared to UGA’s, for example; and made coaching decisions that leave you just wondering such as the Overtime Game at Home mind you against Weak Forest, who has a Losing Record by several games on the season, and he has 4th down with the chance to Tie at Home, and instead goes for it on 4th down. You go for the Tie at Home and win on the road, or against a better opponent. Weak Forest ? Very poor coaching decision. His Director of Player Personnel was arrested for leaving the scene of an accident, was found a few blocks away with pot in his car, and was drunk. This was what little Joey Hamilton did with his 1st Paul Johnson Paycheck as Paul Johnson’s Director of Player Personnel. Then, this week he has his wife interviewed and she states that she doesn’t even care about football. The NCAA states that Georgia Tech has played the Number 48 Strength of Schedule this season, Number 48 SoS Official NCAA SoS, and he tries to tell you besides us (who he doesn’t see the significance for and didn’t have Tech therefore ready for the game at all obviously), that he was undefeated against The SEC this year when in fact, he played 2 SEC Teams, the only 2 SEC teams not bowl eligible and Jacksonville State to add on to the nonentity of the ACC Conference Opponents. Whom did he beat ? Virginia Tech ? Virginia Tech is ranked ahead of Paul Johnson in both the AP Poll and the USA Today Coaches’ Poll at Number 11, and who did Virginia Tech beat besides no one except for Miami of Florida who beat no one at all, except for they are great because they beat Georgia Tech as the only ranked team they beat in the stinking ACC Conference of small itty bitty teeny weenie no one cares no one bothers including the wife of the Coach of the Year in the All Cupcake Conference. Last year, after Paul Johnson was named ACC Coach of the Year, he promptly went out this year and recruited the nation’s Number 49 Recruiting Class according to Rivals. Paul Johnson is at Number 31 according to Rivals for next year’s recruiting class. By ACC standards, that’s good ? Every receiver on the team, except 1, quit the team, and Paul Johnson spends all his time teaching Demaryius Thomas how to block instead of how to catch the ball on 4th down wide open with no one around you when the Coach calls 4 consecutive pass plays. For God’s sake, that is your best chance for success against your Arch Rival ? Obviously, not. The fact of the matter is that Georgia Tech’s Passing Offense is the Number 115 of 120 teams in Passing Offense. Those 4 plays cost you the game. Especially the dropped pass by the 1 player on the team remaining who is a receiver. Your Pass Efficiency Defense at Tech is Number 93 in the Nation, and the 1st Coaching Decision Paul Johnson made after hiring little Joey Hamilton with his drugs and DUI as his Director of Player Personnel was to FIRE JON TENUTA and replace him at Tech with Dave Wommack who had the job of linebacker’s coach at S Miss. Excuse me, that coaching decision has been an abject failure too taking Tech from Number 1 in the Nation in Sacks to Number 60 today against ACC “opponents.” Wommack’s Total Defense according to the NCAA too, is Number 52 in the Nation against the Number 48 NCAA Strength of Schedule. Miserable. Tackles for Loss, Wommack is Number 90 in the Nation. While Paul Johnson serves as his Own Offensive Coordinator, to eschew the run on the last 4 plays and throw to a guy who only practices how to block and really only threw to him on 4th down only, the Net Punting at Tech is Number 44 in the Nation against this weak schedule strength of out-of-conference and in-conference “opponents” besides us, and is Number 43 in the Nation on Kick-off Returns against his soft schedule. Rushing Defense, Paul Johnson is Number 47 against this cupcake schedule. Josh Nesbitt in his 3 years at Georgia Tech has thrown for a Grand Total of 123 pass completions of which only 12 are TDs with 11 Interceptions and with everything on the line for the last 4 plays, Paul Johnson says the way to win against what he considers not an important football game he told UGA all week long against a not important opponent Paul Johnson repeated all week long for 2 weeks preparing for UGA, Paul Johnson throws 4 incomplete passes. Oh, yeah, he is freaking great. You can’t make a silk purse from a sow’s ear.

30-24.

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thwg, 30- 24 without the ‘best” receiver in the SEC, possibly the country. Chew on this also King, Ealey, and add in Malcone next year and you got problems. Charles,Wooten,Brown, Rodgers(coming next year) at 6′5 210 and many compare to Andre Johnson(Texans) and a Assassin at free safety in Ogletree and another in Shaun williams, Tech ya’ll in trouble. the hurt will grow=THWG.

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MillerDawg wrote “Big Mike, he is the best in the country. GT’s Demaryius Thomas is good too, but Green is better.”

That is kind of being a homer ain’t it? Thomas might be first receiver selected come next April or one of the top few, so not sure how Green could possibly be better. Green has 5 stars on his head, but hasn’t done enough yet to back them up. He was solid this year, but not great. He might end up being great, but no one else in America, outside of UGA fans and coaches, would take Green over a stronger and more sure-handed Thomas. There was a quote in earlier article by CPJ stating that Thomas might have dropped only two catchable passes all year. Green is not yet in that lofty category of big, strong, fast and sure-handed, but he is above average for such a young player.

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Amazing how so many DawgFans who have COACHES all their life! How many of you danged hypocrites would last 60 seconds on CMR’s playing field?
Quoting the late Lewis Grizzard, “Hey, I am Georgia born, Georgia raised, and by the Grace of God… a DawgFan.” DID any of you watch the Texas A&M play Texas? I was a great game! I saw LOTS of Georgia defensive schemes played out on that field. #3 Texas is danged fortunate to have won that game. Point is, CWM has a solid defensive program going at UGA. I know that a Monday morning quarterback is a lousy excuse as a player. Games have an ebb and flow that’s all it’s own. Sure, I would like to see UGA get better at a game; that’s irrelevant to CWM.. who is coaching some great players, by the way. There are so many variables that happens in ANY game that you cannot plan for, hope for, pray for. A team cannot know just how certain situations pan out: The only thing any coach can do is to coach the basics and hope the players will finish the drill. The Texas A&M and #3 Texas teams showed lots of cohones on both side of the ball. I mention this because Texas, who has a former DAWG coaching one the sidelines. In fact, he is the “coach-in-waiting” whenever Mack Brown steps aside. Think of it this way: There are only so many reasons ANY coach can predict. But, you learned this as a player yourself, did’t you. You DID play in the NFL didn’t you. What? No NFL playing time? But surely you played college football! No? You didn’t even play in highschool? Middle school? Peewee? But the attitude you bring to this blog must mean something, doesn’t it. What? You don’t have a clue about coaching, playing, team spirit? Why in the cat hair do you think your miserable means something to CMR? Be generous, won’t you? IF you never played a down, never ran the ball, never blocked, never tackled, you became an EXPERT at coaching, why won’t some team hire YOU? Surely, some of these teams are missing out by not hiring YOU to coach for them. No? Shaddup!

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