NCAA moves to toughen already controversial excessive-celebration penalty

First???

The penalty is already called inconsistently as it is. This just makes it more of an issue.

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How about working on something FOR the People and get a PLAY OFF!

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What if the offensive player is running for a TD, he looks back to see if the defender is gaining on him. And the ref sees this and does not like the ” look in his eye”?

Out comes the flag.
This whole thing is way too subjective, and has already been blown in the past my many refs. Doubt that will change.

This new rule just seems well…..excessive to me.
I am tossing a flag on the NCAA.
Make them do their next conference at the local Motel 6.

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Well justice was served on the ‘Phantom Celebration” when the culprit officials dear ol’ alma mater (GA TEch)was run over by the Dawgs. Take that Marc Curles and Michael Watson and Bobby Gaston and Rogers Redding.
Te fact that all of these are Techmites is an idictment of SEC officiating.

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I think Brian Bosworth was right about the NCAA 25 years ago then he said they wanted to to take the fun out of college football. However, here is a suggestion for eliminating the showboating. When the player crosses the goal line he has to “touch” the ball down. At that point the play is dead and you move on the the conversion. This is what they have been doing in Rugby for over a hundred years and it works. And that is how Americans came up with the word “touchdown”.

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convenient that this comes out AFTER Tebow is done playing football

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What do you expect from a bunch of academic, elitist, busybodies. They always know whats best, according to them. Kind of like the federal government know what’s best for the individual and will make sure that it’s so by force if neccessary.

15 yard penalty – excessive salt intake.

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The call on Green didn’t cause UGA to lose…thats bs.
I like the new rule. Football has no place for celerations to the extreme.

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here is an idea. u run into the endzone with the ball, you toss the ball to an official, if one is not close, you place it on the ground. Run to the sidelines and celebrate with the WHOLE TEAM. Since we are on the subject. no defensive player will celebrate a freaking tackle or a sack, do lineman celebrate the other 50 plays you didn’t make a sack????, no offensive player will celebrate a run, or get up and point first down, thats what the official is for. There is tons of stuff to write about, but, you get the picture.

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Damn, look at all the dawg fans crying over a little rule change. Holy Cow now its Tebow to blame, give me a break. Don’t all of you know the blame for everything is always on BUSH ! Just play ball and stop crying. Go Bama!

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ga gator, that has to be the dumbest thing thing ever written by someone other than Jeff Schultz

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So the officials have already proved that they have no common sense in calling these stupid penalties, so it makes sense to punish the teams even more when a ref blows a call.

Beautiful! After all, we do so look forward to watching the officials in these games.

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Will Dawg fans please shut up about the LSU game? The call was bad but that only made the field 85 yards instead of 100. Those 85 yards your team gave up in three plays. 85 yards in three plays, remember? It wasn’t the refs who laid down and rolled over in those 85 yards, it was your lousy defense! The refs gave LSU fifteen yards! Not the game. Fifteen yards! I’ve heard more conspiracy theories on this than the JFK assassination. The rest of the world has moved on. Give it up, please.

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How come nothing is called on defensive players for the chest thumping, strutting, and head shaking they do after every flippin’ play? You were supposed to have made that play, melonhead, go back to the huddle and get ready for the next play.

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Two words : Penn State. Go back to the bayou.

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Not good – I’ve always liked college football more than the NFL, but having refs completely influence the outcome of games based on their personal opinions and not facts really concerns me. On second thought if you do some research to determine which refs, like which teams you will be able to make some serious money in Vegas.

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Trout Dude – don’t forget the score cards!!!!

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Why affect the outcome of a game? Just fine the coach $10K for the first showboating violation, $25K for second. Get in the coaches’ pocketbooks. Showboating will end once and for all.

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college ball was exciting back in the day of leather helmets…go 4 horsemen.

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I am all for the rule change…Football is NOT a game of “Me” celebration that some players want to call it…Good job, rules comittee. Throw the flag, nullify the play, and put the chumps on the bench where they belong….
Or better yet, back on the curb where they were found in the first place…

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I agree with “.” to some extent. The 15-yard penalty against AJ didn’t lose the LSU game. It was Willie M.’s pathetic Ultra-Prevent-Don’t Let the Receiver get behind you past the hedges Defense that lost the game.
The players should have to hand the ball to the ref after scoring and then get to the sideline and do all of the dancing, etc. they want.
I agree that the subjectivity of the refs is total BS and has screwed up way to many outcomes in recent years.

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Have to keep a check on these teenagers. Let them celebrate uncontrolled and it will turn into a circus.

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I’m against anything that results in more “subjective” calls and particularly with no punishment of referees who abuse their ability to make them.

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Great rule, They’er is no place in college football or high school for this kind of behaver. If you want to act like convicts then go to that place of higher learning.

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Will rule changes affect players that break into car lots to retrieve their cars, shoot AK-47s, use dead girls credit cards and say they have migraine head aches after failing drug tests?

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I agree that taunting is wrong. But what this rule does is give the officials, who don’t make these calls consistently anyway, more room for error and controversy. Pitiful judgement on the part of the rules committee. Ye shall be humble and shal cower at the presence of the all powerful officiating crew. It just simply B f**king S!

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What happens if you dive into the endzone? You started to dive while in live play so the penalty will be taken at the one? placing you on the 16? Seems pretty subjective whether I was diving in because I thought someone was behind me or if I was just acting like an @$$

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I’m in favor of the new tauting rule as stating in a post before. Let’s define the new rule and stick to it. No ad-libbing by the refs. I back the Dawgs 100%, but those of you that claim they do and whine about the LSU game, please stop. That call did not cost us the game. The defensive scheme was our undoing. Please stop making the rest of us look bad. We lost, plain and simple, it’s over!

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Is Obama running the ncaa now?

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Taunting needs to go. If you really want to stop this behavior throw them out of the game and fine the head coach.

Excessive celebration – there has to be limits but don’t throw a flag or cost a game because you thought you saw something.

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I’m tired of players acting like jackasses before or as they score. This isn’t “emotion”, this is, “Look at me!!!”. I never saw Herschel do anything other than toss the ball to an official.

Yes, I am concerned about the subjectivity of the officials in making the call, but if you act like you have scored before, you don’t have to worry about it.

And the rule that was passed regarding Tebow will now prohibit anything to be written on the eyeblack. No more bible verses, “support Mike Vick” or any of the other asinine things that players feel compelled to broadcast. If they want to do a commercial, let them buy ad time just like the beer and car companies.

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Yea, tightening the excessive celebration just a bit. It does not need an overhaul. Heck, I get excited when a drive by Taco mac when I’m in Atlanta. My wife doesn’t throw a flag when I do. Alright, a little carried away. Just need to worry about the excessive taunting.

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Dave In Tampa – that was good!

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This is sad for Doggies. Poor whining doggies.

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BD I guess you miss the point. If the penalty had not been called the LSU would have been passing instead of running. Not enough time to go the distance they needed. This call changed the whole aspect of the game and practically gift wrapped it for LSU. Horrible call, will never forget it. The stinking committee should be working on ways to avoid these type situations rather than creating new opportunities for horrible refs to screw up.

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I am sorry these are a bunch of young men. You are going to throw a yellow flag when a 18 year old is all excited for having a touchdown. All those men need to get out of there 18 floor office and listen to the fans stop ruining the game of college football. Look Nascar decided to listen to the fans NCAA you should do the same.

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What the AJC and U-Gay fans conveniently forget about the AJ Green non-excessive celebration situation was that the soft Dawgs defense forgot how to tackle, thus springing the long touchdown run that won the game for LSU. Poor tackling lost the game, not the penalty. Granted, the poor call by the refs didn’t help matters, but the situation was blown way out of proportion. And for some of you whiny UGA fans, Tebow never taunted anyone (except for maybe the Oklahoma DB in the BCS Championship)… fist pumping does not qualify as taunting… an entire team emptying the bench and celebrating a touchdown on the field, however…

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To all you LSU people…..Have you watched the YouTube video of Scott’s TD run against UGA? There were no less than 3 penalties that should have been called on that play including 2 holding penalties and a block in the back. Watch it then come back and try to run your traps about refs in that game!!

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SUPER DAWG- See my 12:51 comment… you are my case in point.

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Da’Rick will accumulate more pentalty yards the UT will gain!
Will this count for celebrating only? Cause if it counts for complaining, moaning and bitching, then Da’Daddy Mike Nance will be flagged a lot cause Da’Nash isn’t getting play.

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I love to watch these guys show boat and taunt and then get their head knocked off on the next play because they ticked off the other team!

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Glad to hear it. I hate all the shuck and jive boogie nonsense I see in today’s games. The dawgs seem to be worse than most teams in this regard. I hope CMR clamps down on this? Kick the hot doggers off the team if that’s what it takes.

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It’s already a b.s. call. Officials should be able to differentiate between taunting and some boyish exuberance ( mild celebrating ) after a touchdown. There’s certainly room in the game for the latter. The last thing the NCAA wants to do is go down the road that the No Fun League ( professional tackle football league ) took.

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1st home game: Black helmets vs Louisiana
2nd home game: Black pants and jerseys vs Arkansas
3rd home game: Black eyes (not painted)vs Tennessee
4th home game: Black taco night vs Vanderbilt
5th home game: All black for Richt’s final home win vs Idaho State
6th home game: Doesnt matter, its gonna be a L

409 yds rushing last time, dawgtards.
Don’t forget to pick up your free degree with your season tickets.

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I’d like to offer one on the LSU controversy that so many of you
arrogant Fla Gloaters keep bringing up. If the call had not happened,
we could most likely have contained their kick return and LSU would have
started somewhere around their 30 yd line. With approx 40 yds to reach field goal range and 1 min remaining, they likely would not have been running the ball. (Different play calling and maybe different results.) As it was they were very near or inside field goal range and our defense had to gamble which led to Scott’s TD. You can take a slanted view if you like but your bias shows through. Selah
gamble to stop both run or pass.

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Why not review penalties? Are we saying that would undermine the refs?

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Hey Septic Mouth,

I don’t recall 409 yards rushing last time. I think it was the Dawgs that ran up and down that Joke field of yours LAST TIME. Don’t forget to pick up your hot dog and coke with your season tickets…There won’t be much of a line I’m sure!!

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This mean’s you can clearly state “First!” but additional exclamation points or taunting will be flagged.

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Two SEC games outcomes were altered by poor officiating last year. Why as a fan do we want to give more power to officiating crews that blantantly miss it last season?

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way way too subjective of a rule-the puritantical feminist alliance will ruin this game

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Hey phonie Rennie,

The comment about the 30 yard penalty referred to the ‘98 UGA-FU game, MORON. LSU, nor UGA, was penalized 30 yards for the calls at the end of last years UGA-LSWho game.

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I really Rennie. Why didn’t you tell me we wud be cheated by the refs before I signed wit you?

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LOL, I would say that the phone call thing was payback for being bothered all week, kinda like calling timeouts at the end of the game was payback for your lame celebration. Boy Sturdivant can dance though.

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Just a Gator, go away no tresspassing here.

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To this fan, college football has a far worse problem with taunting by defensive backs than with excessive end zone celebrations.

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“LOL, I would say that the phone call thing was payback for being bothered all week, kinda like calling timeouts at the end of the game was payback for your lame celebration. Boy Sturdivant can dance though.”

Oh, it is payback, so that makes it ok. Yeah, that makes sense. So, if the OU defender had ripped Tebow’s head off on the next play after he chomped in his face, you would have been ok with that?

Poor little Timmy getting bothered all week by those mean LSU fans. I bet he cried…….again!

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No, all I remember is we rushed for 409 yards on you guys. Wow, that sounds like a lot every time I say it. 409. Didn’t forget did you? I know you dawgs are not good at math. 4-0-9 yards. Thats a lot. Now hurry up and make my pizza, dawgtard.

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LOL actually if you WATCHED the game the OU defender was running his mouth the whold game and Tebow actually showed he was human and retaliated by Chomping at him. As far as crying, he only cried once in 4 years against the puppies.

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Funny that Oregon’s AD is commenting on this. I guess he knows well about unsportsmanlike players, a-hem, Mr. Blount.

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The only to enforce this rule would be zero tolerance. Other wise the refs.may only see one team doing the taunting.

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LOL, I actually would agree with you about the Christian thing. Like I said he showed he was human. Don’t you think the cell phone thing was kind of funny. I don’t know if you could of heard it on TV or not but the whole LSU student section was chanting before he did it:”FU Tebow…”.

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Bad Idea! It is very difficult to judge such behavior while a live play is going on. Why not issue a warning to the specific player the first time it happens then an automatic ejection on the second action. This would curb most taunting without affecting gameplay like the proposed rule.

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didn’t LSU get the same penalty called on them during that game… just saying

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Just allow one player to score one touchdown per game. Once a player scores they are automatically ejected from the game …. just in case they might do something later. This also will allow more players to play … a real “team” sport.

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Why don’t they just change to european rules futbol?

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ga gator If only I’d tackled Charles Scott they’d be singin my praises; imposter.

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You have got to be kidding me how can you call a flag on someone who will score and take points away this changes the game!!!This is a BS rule if this rule is passed i will never watch college football again.How can you even think of a rule like this?How can you stop a runner who is clearly going to make a touchdown in his tracks?O i get it the refs are tacklers now!What a crock they cant even use good judgement now.I can go to any game ANY dont matter which team it is and can point out either a no-call or a mis-call and ANY FAN could do the same for there team.If anyone supports this then your a MORON and have no business even watching the game of football!!!!!!!!

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good lord! are y’all still whining about the Green call? look, I, 2nd gen Tech/10+ yr season tix holder, will be the 1st to admit it was complete & utter BS but face it – LSU could have started that drive in the parking lot & they still would have scored – get over it! I have (our game against y’all)…

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You’re certainly right that the call on Green was about as bogus as they come, but that was not what lost us the game. I appreciate the fact that the SEC admitted it was an error, and didn’t bluster and try to cover for it like they always used to years ago.
I wish they’d call a LOT of things a lot stricter than they do. After the Green call, for example, they quoted the “unsportsmanlike conduct” rule as being violated when a player either taunts or attempts to call attention to himself. Yet, they ignore it when a defensive back knocks down a pass and waves his arms for incomplete and shouts “NO NO NO”…they ignore it when a defensive lineman sacks the QB and goes stomping down the field pumping his arms up and down…they ignore it when a linebacker makes a good tackle and stands directly over the runner, glaring down at him and not moving or allowing the guy to get up. And all of those things are taunting and calling attention to one’s self…and SHOULD be penalized.
As far as I’m concerned, I wish they’d nullify a touchdown if a player is guilty of unsportsmanlike conduct AFTER he’s scored. Take the points off the board, and bring it back to the line of scrimmage…and mark off fifteen yards with loss of down.
Be consistent, and be strict…and take the damn “punk” out of football. I’m tired of seeing players…including my UGA dawgs….acting like that damn FSU scum.

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FIRST….Get a life !

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If the players would act like sportsmen and not hoodlums and thugs there should be no problems. That there is a need for such rules is a shame to purpose and nature of college athletics.

On the other hand, celebration may not be the thing to penalize. I think of how goals are celebrated in soccer. They are pretty extravagant, but there seems to be something different about them. I’m not sure I can’t put my finger on it. It seems more of a team celebration of a team accomplishment, and less of a chest-thumping taunt. Something seems different, though.

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Obviously the NCAA wants to control the entire game. The refs will start making worse calls and then the teams will be faced with dealing with it. Without any form of recourse.

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Amazing that all these new rules coming out now that the golden child Teblow is gone. No more writing on the eye black, now live ball celebrations. Not that the SEC biased refs would have called anything on UF/Teblow anyway, but Mr. “Phil 4:2″ & “taunt after every 1st down run like it was the final play of the superbowl” leaving now allows the NCAA & SEC to create & enforce rules that keep others from emulating him.

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I fail to see how a penalty that caused a team to kick off from the twenty yard and steal the momentum of the team did not change the outcome of the game. UGA’s defense did suck but LSU’s offense was given a get a jail card and it changed the outcome of that game.

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New rules according to ncaa football rule committee
1.No celebrating in football.
1a. Any player that smiles more than a 20% angle will from now on be penalized 10 yards
1b. If such player is caught laughing they shall be suspended for rest of game, unless they are named Tebow in which see new rule
2. Do whatever you want

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“Anyone can tell the difference between emotion and showboating or taunting” – WonderDawg

Obviously they can’t or there wouldn’t be any controversy now would there?

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Once the ball crosses the goal line the play is over. I suppose calling a dead ball foul a live ball foul makes sense like taking those wins away from Bowden or taking wins away from Alabama or Tech. Sheer stupidity! I have a novel idea, since too much celebrating results in taunting or delay of game, or both, why not call call one or the other, or both? The rule is impossible to enforce fairly since it is a judgement call. The rule is also not needed. Excessive Celebration should be scrapped!

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Fans should sit there quietly and watch the game until instructed to cheer by the cheer leaders of their assigned team. That’s how they did it in the USSR and that’s how they do it in Iran, North Korea and Cuba. This is not about individual accomplishment or joy, this is to honor the University and public education everywhere. Hail Prez. Adams! Hail NCAA!

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It is snowing here in SW Lee Co Ga. The snow is sticking and starting to accumulate. I am about a mile away from the city limits of Albany, as the crow flies. I don’t know how far away that is if the damn crow is walking in the snow.

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I have no problem with the penalty. If it’s showing up or taunting the other team, or delaying the game, there should be a penalty. What I do have a problem with is the definition of the penalty. “bringing attention to yourself” is just too subjective. Obviously that was put in to prevent showboating, but to prevent interacting with the crowd? Isn’t that kind of the idea of spectators in the first place? IF looking to the crowd, or jesturing to the crowd is not part of the game, then we dont need a stadium, just a field and a way to report the score to everybody afterwards. Come to think of it, we wouldn’t really need a governing body or a rules committee either.

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Rich, look what you started in J’ville a few years ago.

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I think there should be a 15 day ban from this website for the dorks that feel the need to state FIRST! at the beginning of the comments section.

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UGA should have kicked the ball out of bounds after that call and at least LSU would have started at the 35. Rather than bi***h at the rules player and coaches have to know and understand them to use them to their advantage.

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“Taunting and prolonged individual acts have no place in our game…” Football is full of “individual acts.” For instance, Knowshon Moreno leaping a would be tackler to gain a few more yards to help his team. The leap was an “individual act.” A.J. Green leaping in the end zone to make a one handed touchdown catch on an uncatchable ball. That, my friends, was an individual act. Reminds me of 1930’s and 1940’s Germany. Can you say SOCIALISM?!!!

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Louie- I hope you are safe, warm, and dry in Snow Jam 2010. Be careful snookums, and don’t catch a cold.

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I was getting tired of that Heisman pose thing anyway.

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sounds like something nascar would do.can not leave well enough alone..stop watching on tv ,hit em where it hurts,then they will stop,just like nascar did

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who is going to protect the ref from the 90k fans who storm the field and “taunt” him, when takes that TD off the board because he wants to play God with the score? That man could die!

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Surely the incompetent and/or corrupt Marc Curles & crew won’t be back next year. But officiating head Redding is the type old lump that thinks if he closes his eyes nobody can see him. We’ll see if Slive exists and has a spine. I suspect they’ll think all is forgiven, do nothing, and we’ll see another SEC season of botched officiating.

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Oh, I start pounding my chest, nodding my head yes (or shaking it no), cross my arms on my chest, and strutting back and forth about 10 yards from my seat. If anyone gets too close to me, I push them away so they won’t block the TV camera’s view. Sound familiar, CFB?

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Football is an emotional game that has emotional outbursts. Anyone who has ever put the pads on knows this. Trust some nerds who never actually played to have a problem with celebrations. Let me ask this. Do you celebrate when your team scores? Why can’t they? Let the kids have some fun. It is a game people. Games are supposed to be fun. If you have a problem with other teams celebrating don’t let them score.

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At what point do you start giving everybody an attaboy trophy for participating…And good conduct stars.

It’s a gridiron, and a tough game, with lots of blood, sweat and tears invested. Let the boys play…and enjoy it for themselves.

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The NCAA is really out of hand. Where do they get their authority? From the universities, right, but we need to have these organizations reign them in ASAP. Football should be fun, and there is a clear line between what AJ did and what Miami and other thugs used to do. Also, it is clearly subjective. Tebow NEVER got penalized, and he was very disrespectful to opponents.

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LET THEM CELEBRATE! It is a game let them have some fun. If you want no celebration you probably never played the game. It is a game where emotion, testosterone and controlled fury help many players. JUST LIMIT THE TIME. Taunting is illegal and a good rule, it causes fights. Give them 20 seconds to high five, hoop and holler. Anything after that would be excessive!!!

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I wish the same rule would be adopted by the “professional” league. The theatrics take away from the game.

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Pep talk: Ok, guys! Go out there and give it all you’ve got! Run hard! Play hard! Score a ton of points! Win the game! Just don’t be happy about it!

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If you want to stop something you make the penalty hard enough to do that. I don’t think you will have repeat offenders on the taunting call because I don’t think a kid will want to face their head coach oncre much less twice after a touchdown is called back.

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To idiot LSU fans: YOU GRIPED ABOUT LOSING TO BAMA DUE TO A BAD CALL AND WE CANT GRIPE ABOUT A CALL PROVEN BY THE SEC TO BE WRONG?

To Tech nerds: 2008 is over, but since you like memory lane….60-39-1. We own you, you should be use to it by now. 30-24, now please go and play some Pokemon and race your gay bikes!

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Wondering why other fans from other schools get on a dawg blog and talk smack….JunkYard Dawgs are back and they know it!!! Cant wait to run em over next season!!

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oes anyone with the NCAA have a triple digit IQ?

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Well, where do I start.

Nothing like snow showers in Atlanta .
North Ave. beautiful this afternoon. Got a glimpse of Bobby Dodd stadium , bleachers covered .

As for ‘excessive celebration, can’t the mass of thugs just score and hand the ball off to a ref and head to the bench.

All this damn showboating and acting like Deion Sanders is sickning.
It’s got to be STOPPED.

CPJ has addressed this situation, and his players seem to understand.

Mutts ALWAYS have a serious problem with this issue.

STILL L M F A O

And jackhammer needs to get in here tonight. See where the boy ( Louie Jr.) surfaced earlier. Whoopie.

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Louie- do your rolls of fat keep you insulated as you shake it near Piedmont Park?

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patrick, trust me because I have asked that same question many times, you will never get a solid answer to that.

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This is great! Let the ncaa and official determine the outcome of games and not the players and coaches. The fans pump billions into these schools and deserve nothing less that to have the officals decide the game. Lets not let the players and coaches determine wo wins the games anymore.

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Hit em,get up and act your age.

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Will the new rule stop all the dawgs players from always getting arrested like Jackson today? Nope. Guess not. What an out of control, undisciplined loser of a football team. Oh, and I see you’re also still whining about one penalty costing you the LSU game last year. What losers. All ya had to do was stop Holliday on the kickoff return and stop Charles Scott on his td run. Why not just stop them???

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NUFF SAID!

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will high stepping into the endzone be called excessive. the days coming when a call like this will cost some team a national championship mark my words. football is headed in the same direction as nascar. they destroyed that sport with excessive rule changes to the point fans have been lost in huge numbers and now they see their mistake and their trying to right the wrong and it maybe to late. i agree to much goes on on both sides of the ball but don’t take away from the game because of a missed call. it would make more sense to fine the coach for some of these classes acts. at least he would have a right to have his say after the film was revued.

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UGA got f….. in the LSU game by that idiot referee. That called should have been nullified on the spot! That idiot was probably fan in disquise.

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the only way to resolve excessive celebration is to toss the offending player out of the remainder of the game…I remember the understated manner in which Hershel Walker just tossed the ball to the official and continued trotting off the field…oh for those days again….

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Yellow Maggots, the difference in law enforcement between the ATL and Athens-CC is about the same as between Somalia and the U.S.. Atlanta’s undermanned/underfunded police force can’t even deal with knife-wielding muggers all around the GT campus. The overstaffed Athens-CC police can go out and search for minor offenses: open container, improper turn, suspended license and the horror-underage drinking by college students. With crime rampant in downtown ATL, who knows what GT players get away with ?

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Richt’s furious with this new rule—how’s he going to order players onto the field for a mass on-field taunting after a 1 yard TD if they take away the score? he will not stand for it!

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Dick Dawson, you are either ignorant of football or pretending to be a UGA fan. Even knowledgeable LSU fans admit the officials bailed them out in that game . LSU was awarded nearly half the field by rule with time and timeouts to operate with. And midfield is where the offense has the upper hand because the whole playbook is available. Having to defend against so many different plays spreads the defense out and makesbig plays possible. So either learn the game ,be honest about your allegiance, or don’t post an assinine message.

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Make college football and the spectators in attendance more civilized. Player celebrations should be limited to firm handshakes. Require patrons to remain seated and cheer their team only by finger-snapping.

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Wow, talk about an undisciplined athletics program…
And talk about a pathetic police department in Athens.
Dude had an outstanding warrant for TWO YEARS, while playing on the dang basketball team????

Oh yeah, I guess even the cops dont watch Georgia basketball!!!

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How about a rule that makes since. Once a touchdown is scored, signaled by the referees hands, start the 40 second clock. The team scoring has has until the 40 second clock expires to complete the conversion attempt. If the attempt is not completed before the 40 second clock expires, there is no penalty, however the conversion attempt is not allowed. This would also speed up the pace of the game.

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The excessive celebration penalty is another example of the NCAA’s fascist policies. Few people respect the NCAA any more so they want people to fear them. Few people outside Myles Brand’s circle of cronies and his family mourned his passing, the man was a tyrant among University presidents that are tyrants and ignore the wishes of their alumni and fan base. I, for one, did not shed a tear at his passing, I though he was as much of an a$$ as he he esteemed Bobby Knight as. The NCAA tries retain the “integrity” of college sports by going on witch hunts after coaches and players and tightening up rules and regulations when many question the NCAA’s own integrity. The LSU excessive celebration penalty against Green was just another embarrassment among a littany of embarrassments with the organization and it officiating. If Mike Belotti is so pure and without sin I’ll hand him a stone or two, otherwise (and more likely) I don’t give an Organ Duck what has he has to say and he should shut his feathery pie hole.

Just thought I’d add that a blogger named “First” with nothing better to do than try to be the first to blog on every thread must be either about 5 years old or significantly developmentally delayed.

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These communist will eventually make it illegale to even play the game at all. I am surprised they have not identified a coach’s gatorade bath as taunting. Heck they may even eventually decide to make a team forfeit a win for excessive celebration after a game has concluded. WHAT THE BLAZES IS WRONG WITH BEING HAPPY YOU SCORED OR WON.

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Heck, let em score and celebrate in the end zone…for 30 seconds.

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tekkie coach says if he gets another gator aid bath he is going to throw a flag of his own!!

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Hit and Run??? GT should start watching Georgia basketball after the beatdown they recieved this year!

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nobody talks about the fact that the guy that threw that flag vs. green also was the one that flagged orson charles in the middle of the field after a big gain earlier in that game. the problem with it is that is totally dependent on the mood of the referee. what is called one week wont be the next. too inconsistent

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For people who want serious, honest discussion about college football, go to bcscollegefootballboard.com – free, moderated and intelligent conversation.

I’ve read the ajc for a long time now and I’m sad.

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Thanks Dale!! I never thought of that . . .

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The Dogs Yelp: At least were not stabbing each other with Samurai Swords!! It must be sad when your team sucks so bad that the only thing you can take pride in is your hate for another team. I don’t hate GT because they are below us. I spend my time and energy representing my team and I am proud to be a Bulldog. I can only wish that you could find pride in your own team.

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I can’t take this Global Warming any more, it’s got
me stranded at home. I think I’ll go checkout the link that
“are you tired?” suggested. bcscollegefootballboard.com

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Showboaters should not be caught standing around the pile or leave their hands sticking out from the pile….and protect your ribs under there.

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On more, no taunting the opposing fans either, ie, throat slash and yes gato chomp either.

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UF Grad, It’s a good thing I graduated from the University of Georgia and not the University of Richt!

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that was gator chomp, sorry guys didnt sleep last night.

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We just hope Richt stays around for 8 more years.

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There wasn’t all this taunting until all you darkies started playing. Now some of the white boys are starting to do it. They should know better.

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Maybe the rumors are true and with Big 12, Pac 10, Big 10, Big East and Mountain West all expanding in the next 2 years we will have 6 super conferences for football (72 teams) and the NCAA will be non existant, we can pass our own rules and have a playoff.

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“When you ever”? Is that ebonics, Busy as a Bee? By the way, I wear a suit and tie to work!

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Of course if we included the ACC it would be 84 teams.

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Yellow Swarm: If that was well [written] Tech could use some freshmen level english classes! I have seen more dreadlocks on the GT sideline that I saw while on vacation in Jamaica!

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Louie- you and your “roommates” snuggling under the blankets down at the Tech dorm?

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Probably a clip on tie and a Relex knock off watch. And no it not ‘ebonics’, its the truth.
Ever taken Calculus ?
Can you spell it?

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Kalkulus

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I thought kalkulus was over-rated. Chemistry and Physics are more fun. That’s where you learn to make bombs.

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Louie putting a plug in for CowTippers, the rainbow steak house at Monroe/Piedmont…..Louie, come on out.

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Your weekend home is your parents house right?

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Buzzy As A Bee

February 13th, 2010
11:06 am

You are losing it, Buzzy.

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excessive celebration come with every goega bo we recruit to tennersea just ask da’trick, cant wait to see the dr show, many penilt’s from the traitor from nooth ga, thugnificient he will dance and prance with every scoree stupid dawgs the show is in knoxville girls mo money lots of smokey’s po to chew on, go vol’s

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Yellow Fuzz!!! M!!! Quit sniffing my panties.

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Poindexter, The Honorable Yellow Fuzz says your panties are on the ground. Pull them up and that hat turned around.

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Louie Sr. : Glad you read it and wept. Samford will be filing out in the middle of the third quarter instead of the fourth. Hope you are there to see it.
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Brotheren means 1. Bretheren would mean many. So you are probably correct.

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Uber taunter Tim Tebow is gone so the NCAA is going to toughen the penalty now. It will never been enforced equitably and will continue to spoil the game for players and fans. Solve another problem NCAA like having a real national champion.

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Louie….I have a suggestion for you. Why don’t you post on the Tech blog about your boy, McCollum? Wouldn’t it make more sense?

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please all uin’s from that stupid frat house at tech try and apply yourself at, lets say learning learning to build something that will not crubble when the earth shakes, try not talking football or that mombo jumbo frat talk, punk’s looser frat face

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Death to America except for Georgia Tech !

GT was perfect for my terrorist training. Me and my Jihad buddy Ehsanul Islam Sadequee fit right in the student body and the clueless nerds never noticed us planning to bomb Dobbins Air Force Base and the Pentagon. If not for those pesky Feds, I wouldn’t be in prison and we could have blown up stuff and then rooted for the Jackets. GT women should wear burqas.

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Thwey are adults, let them celebrate!!! They bust their A$$ so the NCAA can make millions, now you don’t want htem to have fun????

Stop the nanny STATE BS , thx OBAMA!!!

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—- In Pinks Pastels —–
Classic post, hilarious, STILL rolling in the floor. May be nominated as a top post of the day. Good job. How bout it nerds!!

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We put down Louie because we wish we were him, plain and simple.
He comes on these threads and we get off by harassing him.
When we were little kids we would throw rocks at others,roll their yards with toilet paper etc.
Actually, we never grew up. We were told to bark like a dog at a young age and this form of foolishness has carried over to adulthood, unfortunately.
We piss on every tree we pass, crap in our neighbor’s yard, howl at the moon, wear a collar, and run away from dog catchers. We have fleas, scratch and lick our a$$,then want to kiss our masters and don’t understand why they won’t let us.
We say we run this state but most of us are unemployed. The state is going broke, bot we rely on our unemployment checks. That will run out soon.PBR beer is cheap but it still cost money.
If you see us on the street, please buy our pencils or let us clean your windshields.
Thank You,
THE bulldog nation

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CHECK IT OUT HUMPERS…………..
HOT NEWS FROM THE FLATS…………
COACH PAUL JOHNSON ANNOUNCES COACH JOE SPEED HIRED TODAY FROM NAVY .
WOW, WITH A NAME LIKE THAT, TIME FOR GETTIN IT ON !!!!
THINK THIS IS A HOAX, THINK AGAIN……….
GO TO TECH NEWS AND SEE.
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YES SIR, CHRISTMAS ARRIVES IN NOVEMBER THIS YEAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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“He will coach inside linebackers.

Speed has spent the past four seasons at Navy, where he coached (wait,wait, wait…okay here you go) the SECONDARY”

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Yellow Swarm: We will see you in November, and it will be another year of the Jackets getting bullied by their Big Brother from Athens! Aint nothing changed but the year!

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Tech-na-Cal = So smart and observant…..ha ha ha ha!

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Trust me Swarm we don’t need Zach or Aaron because King and Ealey will be carrying the load again! Damn I just saw Caleb King run by my house here in the Highlands, Touch Down!

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Yeah, no doubt a uga grad.
”one of you techies posted it on HEAR, if you could read you would have noticed that!”
Nice, real nice.

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”I heard Joe’s wife gave him the NIKNAME speed!”
Take note doggie grads, only showing you higher education in Athens.

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P.S. don’t correct someone’s typos unless you can put an “r” on your “yours”

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The Yellow Swarm, even educated people are allowed to have a sense of humor. I apoligize if you were offended, I forgot that the majority of GT students are from Islamic Fundamentalist countries. My bad!

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By all means lets not celebrate a score, a good catch, a good run etc. Football is not an emotional sport in the first place so why is there any celebrating in the first place. Maybe it is all the fault of the fans – they yell and get excited when their team does well and sometimes it gets into the players and they express a little excitement too. Here’s an idea: Stop the crowd at the stadiums from yelling and being excited and maybe the players will do the same. After all, winning is not so exciting in the first place so……. Gosh! What idiots.

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OUT, BUT WILL RETURN… SELAH

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I understand German by the way and I am sure that Joe Speed would love to do that for you!

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Joe Speed is in his fourth year coaching the secondary and serving as the head junior varsity coach

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SPEED AND JOHNSON A COUPLE MAYBE LIKE OUR NORTH GEOGA BOYS/GIRLS ROGERS@NASHEY CUTE COUPLES. A SCHOOL THAT PROMOTES TERROEST TRAINING, RECURUTING COUPLES (JUST LIKING US AT TENNERSEA ROGERS AND HIS GIRL NASHEY) AND PROMOTES DESIGNING BUILDING AT FALL AT THE LIST SHAKE. AND THE FRAT BOY’S PEA YELLOER SWARM, BUNCH OF CUMMEY PINK PANTY WEARING SMOKEY BISCUIT EATING ISLAMIC PUNKS

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Well, where do I start.
Took a spin up to beautiful Lake Lanier.
Nothing like snow in north Georgia, especially around the lake.

Just received the news about Joe Speed. Also looking forward to what he brings to the table.
Looks like the mutts are having fun with his hiring, nothing unusual.

jackhammer, what gives?
You were told to report, so get in here.

As always, cudos to Louie Jr.

STILL ……….

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Louie- What were you doing at Lanier? Picking up some trash at the campgrounds while you gazed and marveled at the engineering miracle of Buford Dam?

One day, Louie, one day you too will be engineering for Ga. Power, and ripping off the people in our wonderful state.

All the best!

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When they act a fool, make them take off their helmet,put a camera on them and embarrass the crap out of the whole bunch. Act like you were raised properly. Is that too much to ask.

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The only problem with making the penalty so harsh is the fact that the refs are as inconsistant as humanly possible. So, if a ref makes the call and a TD is nullified only to be determined days later that the call was bad and should not have been called, do they add the TD and the score is adjusted? Is this the biggest issue college football has? Why dont we just go ahead and make it touch football why we are at it? Complete BS

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anybody listening….don’t penalize the team,…throw the offender out of the game…ours or theirs… I don’t care….I prefer the Hershel style of play…score a TD, pitch the ball to the official, trot off the field…if they get thrown out of a game twice in one season, suspend the player for the remainder of the season…if they ain’t getting the message, then up the anty until they do….

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Tim Tebow never once in 4 years, got called for it; that’s what I think about it.

Alabama never gets called for it.

Ohio State never gets called for it.

Southern California never gets called for it.

Texas never gets called for it.

Boise State never gets called for it.

The replay booth needs power over these infrequently unequally applied calls.

And, I find it fascinating after 4 years of gator chomps after plays by Tim Tebow that the NCAA decides to emphasize these calls, now.

I also say that it is a bad rule change which will affect UGA Bulldogs far more than any other school because we don’t coach our kids on offense a thing.

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If they really want to clean up this game they should start by banning theses imbeciles from tattoo parlors, piercing parlors, and take some hedge clippers to some of these smelly, greasy mops dangling foot or two out of their helmets!

Now, just wait, someone will follow my comment with the “I have me’s zuh tattoo, eeoorangs, braids and conrows, and da ladezz thanks I be good looken as hail…and I am pursing an aerospace engineering degree at GA TECH.”

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2006 # 79 Pass Offense # 90 Total Offense # 70 Penalty 16 interceptions 22 fumbles

2007 # 84 Pass Offense # 74 Total Offense # 85 Penalty 10 interceptions 18 fumbles

2008 # 56 Rush Offense # 116 Most Penalties in nation 10 interceptions 19 fumbles

2009 # 80 Pass Offense # 75 Total Offense # 113 Penalty 17 interceptions 23 fumbles

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Well, where do I start.

Reading with interest ( Larry @ 8: 04 AM ).

Almost was ready to agree with him until his true colors appeared ” … and I am pursuing an aerospace engineering degree at GA TECH.”

If you think about it, cmr NEVER allowed the hair below the helmet until about 6 years ago.
Remember greg blue? marcus howard, now picture the great bryan evans.
Look up and down the sidelines.
TWICE the problem in Cow Town than on the Flats.

Where did the policy go??

I’ll tell you, it went the way of having no CONTROL over your program.
The athlete tells the coaches the way it is.

” Yea man, I’ll come be a dog, but I’m gonna let the locks grow”.

Now, this is YOUR IMAGE.

So Larry, I agree with everything you said.

Except for the last line.
Just substitute …. and I am pursuing ( NOT PURSING) a degree in phys. ed. at uga.

And before I forget ……… jackhammer, get tour arse in here today.

Louie Jr. I’m STILL……….. You know the rest,son.

AND CHANGE THE PAGE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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JOE SPEED.JOE SPEED.JOE SPEED.JOE SPEED.JOE SPEED. THE NAME . THE MAN. COMING AT YOUR QUARTERBACK IN NOVEMBER. PLENTY OF SEATS AVAILABLE EARLY IN THE THIRD QUARTER. TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW @ GO JACKETS.COM. JOE SPEED. NUFF SAID.

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Actually, Louie I have to agree with you on this one. Yes, as hard it is for me to admit, I do think all of this junk is just the beginning symptoms of the undisciplined cancer cell trying to spread. But Louie, I do not think GT is immune from this disregard of looking respectable….who is y’alls RB who looks like the Rastafarian priest?

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Joe Speed…….from Navy? Is’nt that another college team making a living of outscoring their opponents, insted of stopping the other team from scoring. Johnson is an obvious idiot.

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As soon as a college kid comes up with a new way to have fun, the NCAA comes up with a way to squash it. Is’nt it a little hypocritical of them to do it AFTER Haysoos Tebow is gone. I’m as open a christian as anyone. But to wait until the most marketable college player ever , leaves , to institute this rule is as blatently hypocritical as you can possibly get. Leave these kids alone.

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Well, I’m all for sellabrating but there needs to be just a couple ways.

If you are on offense and you score, you need to drop your pants, pull it out, and yell “Stop this, mo fo,” to the defense.

If you’re on defense and make a big play, you need to get to pee on all the players on offense.

That’s the right way and the Dawg way.

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Let’s see, don’t hit the QB, take it easy on reciever’s. Cuase we’ll throw a flag whether you hit em in the helmet or not because the hit sounds mean. And don’t use eye black to pump urself up. Hey , it’s NCAA flag football.

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“Georgia senior center Albert Jackson was arrested early Friday on an outstanding warrant stemming from a misdemeanor hit-and-run in an Athens parking lot two years ago.”

Here we go. Arrest #1 for the year. Thugs rule at UGA!

Hmmmm…. could that possibly explain why UGA tops every other team for penalties?

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The refs flagged AJ and it was an conspircy you no, They was paid off by Lsu backers and they stoll the game from us Dawgs and know they triing to maked knew rules to use aginst Dawgs in tha futre and I tale You it is a conspircy.

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While watching the US speed skater win the gold medal last night (by 18-hundreths of a second) over the South Korea guy, I couldn’t help but wonder if that would have qualified as a severe “a$$ kicking” or “beat down” if he had been from uga.

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