A.J.’s tweet, Spurrier’s dig, Caleb’s absence, and more
(Please click here for the game story on Georgia’s loss to South Carolina.)
COLUMBIA – The suspended A.J. Green shared his feelings about Saturday’s loss via Twitter.
“I’m sick,” he tweeted.
“But we will bounce back,” he added. “[W]hen I get back someone will have a price to pay. [T]rust me!!!!!”
In Green’s absence, seven Georgia players caught passes against South Carolina, led by Kris Durham’s three for 76 yards, including a long of 55.
“You can’t replace A.J.,” Durham said. “I tried to step up. We all tried to step up our game. But you can’t replace that. He’s one of the best players in college football.”
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South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier appreciated some postgame words from Mark Richt.
“I shook hands with the opposing coach, and he said, ‘Coach, you have a heck of a team,’” Spurrier said. “I don’t think anyone has ever told us that before [at South Carolina].”
In his postgame news conference, Spurrier took just a little dig at Georgia’s new defensive coordinator, Todd Grantham, a long-time NFL assistant.
“When you have a back like Marcus [Lattimore] and the linemen opened cracks, I’m sure that Georgia defensive coordinator [became frustrated],” Spurrier said. “That little inside zone play, the NFL doesn’t run that play. That’s a new scheme, I guess.
“I’m sure they knew we’d run it, but they certainly didn’t stop it much.”
Lattimore’s 37 carries were the most against Georgia since Auburn’s Kenny Irons had the same number for 179 yards in 2005.
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Tailback Caleb King, who got only one carry in the second half of the season opener because of a twisted ankle, got none Saturday.
“He was hobbling most of the week in practice,” Richt said.
Offensive coordinator Mike Bobo conceded that King’s absence “hurt us a little bit” but said he thought Washaun Ealey “was fresh and ran hard” throughout.
Ealey, making his season debut after being suspended from the opener, had 75 yards on 19 carries. But he fumbled near the goal line in the third quarter as Georgia seemed poised to score a touchdown. South Carolina’s Stephon Gilmore recovered the fumble at the Gamecocks’ 1-yard line and returned it 13 yards to the 14.
“I saw the end zone and was focused on trying to get in there,” Ealey said. “I wasn’t focused on the ball, and that’s what cost us.”
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Outside linebacker Justin Houston had three sacks, the most by a UGA player since Marcus Howard’s three against Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl following the 2007 season.
Houston also had a career-high 10 tackles and a forced fumble.
But the fine individual numbers were ruined by the score, he said. “We lost, so I feel like I lost.”
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- Fullback Shaun Chapas left the game in the first half with a sprained ankle and did not return. Richt said he wasn’t aware of any other injuries in the game.
- Georgia’s six points were its fewest in a game against South Carolina since 1904, when the Bulldogs lost in Columbia 2-0.
- The last time Georgia did not score a touchdown in a game? A 16-12 loss to South Carolina in Athens in 2007.
- Saturday’s loss was Georgia’s first in Columbia under Richt after four victories.
- The Ogletree twins, freshmen Alec and Zander, became the first brothers to play for Georgia in the same game since 1999 (Dustin and Miles Luckie). Both of the Ogletrees played on special teams.
- Linebacker Akeem Dent wore No. 31, rather than his regular No. 51. A different UGA player is wearing No. 31 each game this season in honor of safety Quintin Banks, who was forced to forgo his senior season because of recurring knee injuries.
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424 comments Add your comment
Meh
September 13th, 2010
10:05 am
Hey Spurrier,
You know what else they obviously don’t run in the NFL?
The Fun & Gun.
3-4D?
September 13th, 2010
10:38 am
I thought grantham was supposed to be big time with that new 3-4 NFL type D. What happened? UgA’s D looked like my old high school team trying to tackle Parkview RBs in the playoffs when we got smoked.
ChasDawg
September 13th, 2010
10:53 am
The negativity on this board after only 2 games is “off the charts”. Let’s give the team & coaches a few more games before we call for the abolition of football at UGA…
Jborodawg
September 13th, 2010
11:49 am
OK “fans”, remember three weeks ago…new, untested QB and new D…hard pressed to win a lot of games with that combo. Vegas had SC by three.
CMR and Bobo have limited the playbook for Murray. CMR said Sunday that perhaps now it’s time to let Murray use the whole book, or at least a LOT more of it.
Sure it was disappointing that we couldn’t run nor stop the run…two things you have GOT to do in the SEC. Let’s see what happens against the Rbacks.
Gooooo Dawgs!!!!
dawgfacedboy
September 13th, 2010
11:54 am
If King was injured then is Ealey the only back we have on campus????? They obviously don’t think too highly of Thomas are anyone else to carry the ball. Did Brandon Smith carry the ball at all?? Am I missing something.
Could the UGA offense be anymore vanilla?? No reverse, double reverse, wild cat (I think Ealey ran 1 for about 5 yards). Nope standard runs and passes. Hell we hardly even use our fullbacks and they are some big ol’ boys!!!
I’ll have two scoops of vanilla please!!!!
Blackberry Cobbler
September 13th, 2010
12:11 pm
AJ needs to get off Tweet and just shut the hell up.
The punk knowingly violated NCAA rules and even more stupid than that, apparantley didn’t care and thought he would get away with it.
UGA is not a 1-man team. I wouldn’t care if we lost every game– AJ and the rest of these immature punks can sit the bench the rest of the season.
'94 UGA Grad
September 13th, 2010
12:22 pm
Congratulations c0ck-O-mite,
You guys deserved to win and I think the biggest difference in the game was coaching. I’d give the USC coaches an A- and the UGA coaches a D.
HanDAWG
September 13th, 2010
12:26 pm
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'94 UGA Grad
September 13th, 2010
12:28 pm
Hey Blackberry Cobbler,
I totally agree about AJ. I thought he was a true team player but his selfishness is starting to show. I’ve lost a great deal of respect for AJ.
DDPO
September 13th, 2010
12:40 pm
So there’s a price to pay?
Is the going rate still $1000?
dawg149
September 13th, 2010
12:47 pm
Well, we’ve been here before….no run blocking = no run game = more passes = no control of game = defense spends too much time on field = sorry tackling = LOSS. Where was physicality of off line and defense? Bottom line = we got our butts handed to us on a silver platter on both sides of ball!! How in the hell are you not mentally prepared to play one of the most important games of the season?…….
Ryan
September 13th, 2010
2:35 pm
I could see this season ending like 2007. The schedule isn’t too tought, and the best team in the SEC is in the West just like in 2007. In 07 I thought Georgia and LSU were the two best teams. This year I think Alabama is definately number one and I think I would rather Georgia win out, but not win the SEC East so they don’t have to face the Tide.
hoochbear
September 13th, 2010
2:37 pm
if it werent for fumble UGA might have won. I’m still shaking my head that even tho Lattimore racked up the yards, the margin was not that great.
given that, Greene and UGA have been royally screwed.even this Yellow Jacket feels for you Dawgs
looks like the NCAA loves to jerk off the low hanging fruit, then put it on ice. like giving out parking tickets and changing the fine, while murders go on down the street.
give you a hint: get a good offensive game back and Bama won’t be the only ones the turkey buzzards will have to worry about! Good Luck. hoochbear
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schmeckdawg
September 13th, 2010
3:14 pm
Tony @ 6:06 am on September 12
Did you sleep through grammar class?
SandlotSkot
September 13th, 2010
4:30 pm
Did A.J. Green tweet “someone will have a price to pay”? Yeah Dawg Nation.
EricADawgFan
September 13th, 2010
5:29 pm
Well I just hope that Grantham does not allow Steve Spurrier to prove himself right. The defense has a lot of ground work to make up. They didn’t look very well at all.
TK Dawg
September 13th, 2010
7:45 pm
We lost 3 good DT’s to graduation.This D’s got to have a big MONSTER in the middle.Open up the offense for Murray.Coach up the O-Line (1 teaspoon of gun powder per lineman)and let’s go roast some Petrino Pigs !!! G A T A
Reality
September 13th, 2010
9:47 pm
Richt is no match for Spurrier..or Saban…or Miles…or Meyer…
T Grantham
September 13th, 2010
9:48 pm
Don’t forget I was fired by the Cleveland Browns. That’s right, the Cleveland Browns.
RED DOG 77
September 13th, 2010
11:24 pm
I just can’t believe all the sniveling, crybaby, fair-weather Georgia fans………..Yup, fellas, you seem to have it all figured out. For once in a bluemoon South Carolina has a back that [ watch as the season progresses] not a Bulldog can stop, a red-shirt freshman understandably on a short chain at QB……….And we get beat, fair and square…………you scream………the freaking “sky is falling”…………..You folks, are not my idea of The University of Georgia……………But then again, you probubly didn’t go to school there, now did ya ?…………..While you guys are slobbering all over yourself, and probubly wetting your red and black pajama bottoms, I’ll watch the remaining 11 games with optomism, and pull for “my” GEORGIA BULLDOGS………and the greatest head coach in the country, coach Mark Richt………………Now go blow your dadgum noses !………RED
gaborn
September 13th, 2010
11:45 pm
Man, BDawg, if you are a man, how can you with any dignity say revamp the offense now…seriously??? While i agree we need a change it does not begin with CMR(COACH MARK RICHT). Yes Aaron as we have seen after JUST 2(TWO) games is a talented QB. But we have to hold the players to completing the plays not the coaches and i’ve seen the coach, coach these guys up! WE have on hell of a coach in Richt and while we have not won a NC…wtf…he gave us 2 SEC championships, something we didn’t have for 20 years. Putting together a quality NC team takes time and talent…and short or the BCS robbing us of our opportunity I know we are well on our way
AS concerning AJ GREEN…girls…. and guys that are girls….back off. He made a mistake just like the rest of us have made in our live….What??? just because he is a star athlete we should ostracize him? You f-ing hypocrites…I wish you could be hung out to dry for your past mistakes!!!! GO DAWGS! and Much Success to AJ GREEN in the NFL making mega dollars your naysayers wish your weren’t!!!!!!!!!!
lakesidegator
September 14th, 2010
10:31 am
We’ll swap our OC for your OC, okay?
Signed,
Gator Nation
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Lobosolo
September 15th, 2010
5:25 am
Green might be stupid, but he had to know what he did was punishable to the detriment of the TEAM… Jackass don’t give a rip about his team… Go on to the NFL, prickman… What an egotistical a-hole… ought to be kicked off the team, but Richt doesn’t have the balls for that, either..