Bulldogs get a bit of revenge against Gators (UPDATED)
After being dominated by Florida in various sports for most of this school year, Georgia has gotten a bit of revenge against the Gators lately by twice knocking them out of postseason events.
Georgia’s men’s tennis team eliminated Florida from the NCAA Championships a couple of weeks ago in Athens, and Georgia’s softball team eliminated the Gators from the Women’s College World Series on Saturday night in Oklahoma City.
Both victories were upsets. In tennis, Florida was seeded No. 6 and Georgia No. 11. In softball, Florida entered the postseason ranked No.5 and Georgia No. 9.
Georgia’s 3-2 victory Saturday was the Bulldogs’ first win against Florida in softball since April 15, 2006. The teams had not met previously this season; their regular-season meetings were rained out.
Georgia’s Alisa Goler hit a two-run home run in the first inning and Brianna Hesson drove in the winning run with a single in the fifth. Sophomore pitcher Erin Arevalo got credit for the win, striking out six Gators -– including the final five batters –- in 2 2/3 innings of relief.
The victory put Georgia in the Women’s College World Series’ Final Four for the second consecutive year. UPDATE: Georgia lost to UCLA 5-2 Sunday afternoon, ending the Bulldogs’ WCWS run. Georgia finished the season with a 50-13 record. UCLA will play Arizona in the WCWS Championship Series.
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BuLLdawg
June 7th, 2010
3:37 am
I have read that UGA is on an Up-Swing.
Then, I read the same people saying that we will lose 3 more SEC games this up-coming season. Your expectations are too low.
Is it unrealistic to want to be better than 10-3 after 10 years of recruiting, meaning that for the 1st 5 years we were good and that for the last 5 years, we haven’t even been to The SEC Championship Game ?
29-6 Florida vs SEC the last 4 years
23-11 Alabama vs SEC the last 4 years
21-12 LSU vs SEC the last 4 years
20-12 Georgia vs SEC the last 4 years
I would dearly love to hope that the program is on an up-swing.
Is it ?
The Stuff of Legend says 10-3 with loss to Auburn who hasn’t been all that great and probably won’t be all that great this season – not named in the Top 25 for this up-coming season, loss to Florida who is supposed to be offering everyone in The SEC East our best chances at beating them this season, and a loss to South Carolina who hasn’t been all that great and probably won’t be all that great this season – not named in the Top 25 for this up-coming season.
We have a soft easy schedule. We play 1 team ranked in the Top 25 all season. In the last 4 years in this division of this conference, we have beat 1 Top 25 Final AP Poll team, which was 2007 beating a 4-loss Florida. Of the 6 games these last 4 years in The SEC East who ended up ranked teams in the Top 25 Final AP Poll, we beat 1 a 4-loss team.
We have continued to have losses to teams who are not that great. Teams who do not end up at the end of the season ranked teams, but they beat us. This number now stands at 8 such losses in the first 9 years of this program.
We struggled in recruiting in this state on offense 2010.
Every single article you read, says that Coach Richt feels that his offensive coaching staff has issues and needs help / replacing.
Everywhere you turn, there is discussion of just how this program is not on an up-turn, and the Coach on the hot seat. I wish he was not. I like Coach Richt as our Football Head Coach. He is stubborn, however, and does have significant issues in discipline, graduation rates, and his coaching staff had to be replaced – all except for the Offense, who many believe was what needed to be replaced most after Willie Martinez.
We have this season 11 returning starters on offense, the 2 best kickers in America returning on any team in the nation, and a defense which obviously is high on talent and with a top coaching staff. We have an easy schedule, however, and according to The Stuff of Legend we are going to go 10-3 which means with 3 SEC losses, no SEC Championship Game appearance for the 5th year in a row this up-coming season.
After this season, we lose 15 seniors and there are those who say as many as 6 juniors who are NFL draft eligible, might also leave. These are all the starters across the board on the entire football team are maybe gone at the end of this season. How good are we going to be in 2011 without 20 of the starting players ?
Are these unrealistic expectations for The Georgia Bulldogs’ Football Program that we could have spent the same monies on an Offensive Coaching Staff as we just did on the Defensive and Special Teams’ Coaching Staffs ?
Is it unrealistic to hope that with 11 returning players on Offense this season, that we should do far better than 3 more SEC losses in 2010 with this soft schedule of 1 ranked team on the entire schedule, and they – Florida – offer the rest of this division of this conference all of our best hopes to beat them finally.
I think with all due respect that you are being unrealistic to state in public that we are on an up-swing. We certainly have not been the last 4 years in The SEC – can’t we hope to be better than 4th in our own conference ? Against SEC East opponents, we are 3rd worst in our own division of our own conference over the last 4 years.
19-1 vs SEC East Opponents last 4 years Florida
14-6 vs SEC East Opponents last 4 years Tennessee
10-1- vs SEC East Opponents last 4 years Georgia
We certainly at 10-3 are not improving upon that this season, either. And, after this season, we lose nearly every starting football player on both sides of the football. How good are we going to be in 2011 without them ?
It is very easy to go look at the 15 seniors and everyone knows AJ Green is gone after this season, Houston is gone, Boykin is clearly gone, Jones is looking good for a high draft pick at this time, with a good season this year, there might be more Juniors looking at where they might be in the NFL Draft Picks.
We gut the team after this year and we are supposed to consider this another rebuilding year ?
We were 8-5 last year. I thought that was our rebuilding year ? How many rebuilding years do we need 3 ? We are supposed to think 3 more SEC losses this year is just fine ? When do we address the Offensive Coaching Staff, if not after the last 4 years in a row of 21 fumbles a year, 4 years in a row of # 96 in Penalties, poor Strength and Conditioning Numbers for the Offensive Players, and 4 years in a row 14 interceptions a year.
After we do that again this 2010 season ?
After we graduate them all after 2010 and with the similar numbers WE obviously will put up in 2011 losing all the starters we have returning this 2010 season ?
Up-swing ? What up-swing ?
Dawg Days
June 7th, 2010
4:17 am
If we’re not a threat, why do we get so many gator and bug fans on this site? Ain’t y’all got one somewhere else?
Football Guy
June 7th, 2010
6:24 am
Tim Tucker need to get a life.
UF Grad
June 7th, 2010
6:49 am
Congratulations on the wins, UF’s softball team was pretty good, so that is an impressive win. My hat is off to the student athletes on both UGA teams, nice reward for hard work, now keep up the SEC representation with “finishing the drill” (if you will allow the expression here).
lakesidegator
June 7th, 2010
6:52 am
Dawg Days — Got here through Bleacher Report. And since this was the only article, had no choice. But y’all are only getting what you deserve, so man-up and stop whining about Gator Trolls.
Notso Fast
June 7th, 2010
6:58 am
Didn’t the SEC give an award out for the team that had the most victories in all sports? I believe the Dogs finished 2nd and the Gators 1st.
Spike
June 7th, 2010
7:27 am
The Gators have a right to rag on us, and we deserve it after the last twenty seasons of crapping on our selves every time we play them. You Tech dorks, on the other hand, have no room to get on here and run your pie holes. And what makes you bozos look even more retarded is when you either pose as Gator fans or hide behind the Gator skirts to rag us. Eight out of nine. UGA-30. ACC Chamos-24.
Spike
June 7th, 2010
7:33 am
And congrats to the Lady Dogs!!
UF TB
June 7th, 2010
8:18 am
Oh timmy you only wish your beloved uga was getting revenge. 18/21 timmy. I know it hurts.
Watch out for the hot sun timmy. Wouldn’t want your pale freckled skin to get burned! Bwahaha
Yep
June 7th, 2010
8:20 am
I would say a “bit” is bit of an “overstatement” to say the least.
Chad
June 7th, 2010
8:22 am
Womens softball. Are you kidding me? This is what you loser ajc guys have to pump your uga teams with? Pathetic.
dan
June 7th, 2010
8:28 am
If the Dawgs get blown out by Florida this season, then Richt needs to go! Period! End of discussion! I’m sick of this crap!
jesse james
June 7th, 2010
8:35 am
Chad,
Everyone of those girls would whip your ass! You are pathetic!
Crumpy frisky dudes
June 7th, 2010
8:41 am
If it’s not FOOTBALL, no one cares !!!!!!!!!!!
Papadawg
June 7th, 2010
8:53 am
I’dike to see any of you so called football jocks hit a 65 MPH softball from 40 ft. Go back to your church softball games. Way to go Lady DAWGS
Long Gator
June 7th, 2010
9:05 am
Who gives a sh$$ about anything but Football ?
Crumpy frisky dudes
June 7th, 2010
9:28 am
you fleabags are pathetic.. actually celebrating women’s softball.
Really Rival Fans????
June 7th, 2010
9:49 am
You idiots make me proud to be a Georgia Bulldawg!!! Keep it coming, really shows how much you care about us. In sports everything comes in cycles, you time is about to be over.
bruce mac
June 7th, 2010
10:48 am
Hea Gator Rules, apparently you and all the other Gayturd morons care since you and they come on here and ramble on and on about it. Also, it isn’t 3 out of 21 idiot, it is 3 out of 20. The Gayturds are so stupid, they don’t even have the good sence to keep their mouth shut, they come on here and remove all doubt.
harold
June 7th, 2010
10:55 am
RICHT MUST WIN THE SEC TITLE AFTER A 5 YEAR DROUGHT OR IT IS TIME FOR RICHT TO GO!4-4 LAST YEAR—INDEPENDENCE BOWL–20-12 SEC LAST 4 YEARS?
Pago Pago Dawg
June 7th, 2010
11:22 am
On the coaches hot seat….Diamond Dawgs/Gym DAWGS and if the softball team can’t get it together next year….and of course football.
Crumpy frisky dudes
June 7th, 2010
11:51 am
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
DawginLex
June 7th, 2010
3:05 pm
bulldawg,
Why don’t you look at Richt’s record from 2001-2004 with a real DC?
That is where we are headed now. Willie and his crapola are gone. We wasted our opportunity in 2007 and 2008 with the offense we had but with Willie running the show on defense, it didn’t work. Van Gorder would have won those games we lost in 2007.
Grantham actually teaches defense.
Reality Gator
June 7th, 2010
3:34 pm
Gators blow out GA again, winning the SEC east easily—take it to the bank. Fl’s offense is loaded with speed and size and Brantley’s the best QB in the SEC!!! Ga’s little QB murray will not even be able to see over Fl’s huge D-line. Gators roll again in Jax!!!!
Dumb UF ALUM
June 7th, 2010
3:42 pm
GO GATOR GO gATOR Gradilations
Tired Dog
June 11th, 2010
11:48 am
Congrats to Georgia’s softball and tennis team but let’s get real for a moment. Year after year after year we do down to Jacksonville for the game and it’s always a great time right up until game time and then it’s the same old story – another old-fashioned a$$-whipping by the Florida Gators. I love my Dawgs, but in the past two decades it has become a joke. We either need new players or a new coach but this has got to change!!