Dogs’ 0-2 SEC start means ‘you don’t see as much of the love as you used to’
ATHENS – Georgia players are well aware of how their 0-2 SEC record is being received and reviewed by some fans and fellow students.
“Yeah, it’s different [on campus],” offensive tackle Josh Davis said Tuesday. “You don’t see as much of the love as you used to when you won a couple of games. But that’s to be expected; nobody wants to go to a university where the football team isn’t doing well at the time.
“We have great fans,” Davis said, “and they’re not used to losing like this. We’re not used to losing like this. . . . All we have to do is come out and win games, and everybody will be happy then. . . . I’ve heard things, but you got to take it with a grain of salt. It’s not [the fans'] fault we lost games; it’s our fault we lost games.”
When a reporter prefaced a question with the observation that fans aren’t happy with the team’s start, coach Mark Richt replied: “They’re not? Neither am I. Neither is my mom, I can tell you that.”
As for how the team is dealing mentally with the 0-2 SEC start, Richt said: “Everybody showed up at work, and we worked. That’s all we can ask right now. . . . I’m not really even worried how they feel right now. I’m more worried about how they work. If they are in a good mood and they work hard, or if they are in a bad mood and work hard, I don’t really care right now. As we get closer to the game, we’ll kind of work on the emotional part.”
Wide receiver Tavarres King said the team’s emotional state is fine. “Everyone is still upbeat,” he said. “No one is down. . . . There’s a lot of football left to play and a lot left to be said.”
Said wide receiver Kris Durham: “It’s disappointing, frustrating, whatever adjective you want to throw at it. It is. It’s not what we had pictured. It’s not what we had dreamed. But it is what has happened, and we have to take what’s positive out of it.”
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Tim Teblow
September 22nd, 2010
8:15 am
We remain mediocre and the state of Georgia will continue to go without a championship for a major sport. Is there a team that will give us a championship anytime soon? Maybe the Falcons can get it done. That’s our only hope right now!
DawgFaceBlues
September 22nd, 2010
8:17 am
Let the Big Dawg Eat!
Run the Table and beat Bamie in SECC and then on to the NC!
mcdaviddawg
September 22nd, 2010
8:17 am
TALK OF WORK, THAT’S EXACTLLY THE PROBLEM. THE HEAD COACH NEEDS TO WORK.
Mediocre
September 22nd, 2010
8:19 am
Will the line “We’re getting better each week” still work for dog fans if Miss St wins? It’s a very real possibility. Face mediocrity, you’ve got it.
JELLO JOCKITCH
September 22nd, 2010
8:19 am
After all ORLANDO SENTINEL may be right, at least early in the 2010 season. But still BOBO HAS TO GO. BOBO HAS THE FIRST TO GO. BOBO HAS TO GO.
Doc
September 22nd, 2010
8:19 am
M-State 24 georgia 17. Recruit more players from metro Atlanta.
DawgFaceBlues
September 22nd, 2010
8:20 am
Sing it JB!
Typical Gator Fan
September 22nd, 2010
8:26 am
SatchelBuzz
September 22nd, 2010
7:35 am
Loganville,….really? You are what you are.
THWG!
Do you realize you misspelled THUG?
ToccoaDawg
September 22nd, 2010
8:28 am
True fans pull for the dawgs win, lose or draw. Enough said.
DawgFaceBlues
September 22nd, 2010
8:29 am
Has anyone noticed that the line has moved to a pickem. MS was 2-3 pt favorites earlier in the week.
JELLO JOCKITCH
September 22nd, 2010
8:31 am
MARK RICHT SINCE 2007 HAS ALWAYS SAID “WE ARE STILL MATHEMATICALLY IN IT”. I THINK THAT STATEMENT IS BEING DELUSIONAL, UNLESS THE DAWGS TAKE WINNING ON IT’S OWN HAND AND NOT DEPEND ON OTHER SEC EAST TEAMS TO DEFEAT EACH OTHER.
JB
September 22nd, 2010
8:35 am
Dawgs should win this week and then get AJ back and become a different team…..Would be funny if we end of tied with Carolina and Florida for the East…It would kill Carolina and they seem to be no longer shuffling their feet, mumbling and staring at the ground this year. they lose to 2 tough games in the west and Florida, we will tie them. I think they go to the Dome though…..if someone gives them directions how to get there……LOL
Bill King is a............
September 22nd, 2010
8:35 am
For once, can we just go out and play lights out football from start to finish???? To do that, the coaches have got to quit being so damn conservative and let it all hangout and whip some ass.
@ Toccoa….I am a true Dawgfan sir, and i cant stand the poor effort we’ve been getting from our team. I will always support my team….just dont know if i can support the coaching staff.
Buzzzer
September 22nd, 2010
8:37 am
I’ve never understood how anyone – even an alumnus – could support and take pride in UGA’s football team. When you look at their history for the past forty years, how can anyone ignore Jan Kemp and the “remedial studies” scam, the Jim Harrick fiasco, the DUIs in the athletic office, the DUIs and other arrests of players, the #1 party school tag (i.e., the most drunk students), the suspensions and outright dismissals, the Fulmer Cup, and on and on?
As disgraceful and humiliating as it is, I don’t see many alums and fans demanding an end to this sordid activity. It sets UGA apart as the kind of school most people abhor, and it’s become an embarrassment to the whole state of Georgia.
Will it never end? Apparently not while Mark Richt is at UGA. Richt is perhaps the biggest hypocrite in the United States. But even with all the cheating and lawlessness that he ignores, he still can’t win the SEC.
So you’re paying him to be BCS champions, but he can’t even win his SEC division. So why do you pay him millions of dollars a year?
Just asking.
JB
September 22nd, 2010
8:37 am
Jocklick………………I don’t think Georgia owns the rights to seeing what other teams do for a determination of what or how things will play out. It effects ALL teams.
toga
September 22nd, 2010
8:39 am
Note to Richt – work harder.
CDAWG
September 22nd, 2010
8:39 am
I am reading all the comments on how we will waltz in to Miss. State and put it on them; question, am I the only one that has seen State play? We REALLY better take these guys seriously. I have said it before and will say it again, they really worry me.
Raynard
September 22nd, 2010
8:40 am
MS State 38, UGAg 24.
Pure beatdown.
DawginLex
September 22nd, 2010
8:42 am
Lame chicken,
considering SC has beaten us 3 times in 10 years, i bet those t-shirts are hot items.
Think about the state of your program.
SC celebrates for months after a fluke win over UGA.
UGA considers it underachieving that we lost to SC.
If UGa had won, UGA would have gone on to the next game. No big deal.
We sure wouldn’t have printed t-shirts.
CDAWG
September 22nd, 2010
8:42 am
Buzzzzzer, I noticed that you left out one very important fact; UGA was voted the 2nd best college town in the NATION!!!!!
toga
September 22nd, 2010
8:43 am
When was the last time Miss. St. was a favorite to beat Georgia? More cowbell.
Whatup...
September 22nd, 2010
8:43 am
Miss St could be a problem. Can you say oh and three in the S E C?
CDAWG
September 22nd, 2010
8:43 am
Raynard, no way State puts up 38 points, they don’t have the pasing game that Ark. does.
JB
September 22nd, 2010
8:45 am
Buzzer and Blair one in the same. All Tech “football personnel” are not boardroom material…..A lot of Tech’s ex African American players are working At Air Tran in Baggage handling. I know that for a FACT. What a waste of a “good” Tech Education….That’s a joke……A lot of these guys are “propped” up at Tech….Just like ALL other schools….. Black and White guys. Tech is being very hypocritical when they talk this trash……What “firm” is Reggie Ball with ? LOL…… Listen to these guys interviewed and picture them at a Fortune 500 company…………or Air Tran…LOL
CDAWG
September 22nd, 2010
8:45 am
JB, if that happened they would go to the dome because they beat us.
jtdawg
September 22nd, 2010
8:46 am
Optimistic Dawg-
“If you look at the record UGA usually has a pretty good season when
they lose to South Carolina.”
I love the enthusiasm, but isn’t this statement in itself contradictory? We shouldn’t lose to South Carolina. That loss in itself tarnishes the year. At least it does for me. I want my dawgs to take a step up, not back.
JB
September 22nd, 2010
8:50 am
And how do I know…… My business partner is an Ex Tech Football player……HE got a good Tech education…..thank God…….We do need some brains around here…..LOL………. I ‘m not hating, I’m just calling Buzzer out….It’s BS….And I know it.
Ouch
September 22nd, 2010
8:52 am
Bradley might be slightly nuts – the only easy ones left look like Vandy and Idaho State. Florida is hopeless, Auburn there will make us underdwags, Colorado there will be tough, and the others are toss-ups at best. I’m calling Tech a toss-up because it is at home and if we can’t get up for that game ….
Bottom Dwellers
September 22nd, 2010
8:52 am
About to be 0-3, according to the vegas pros.
USC GAMEC0CK
September 22nd, 2010
8:56 am
beating georgia is a big deal to USC…you betcha.
you keep thinking that a win is nothing special…soon you will be aching for one and then you get a taste of my frustration over the years…then i will be the one ending my posts with….LOL!!
JB
September 22nd, 2010
8:59 am
I really don’t get the “short sightness” of the haters on here. If McGarity fires Richt, The next hire will be the “right” one. This guy has been at Florida working under Foley. Georgia has the 2nd most money of ALL div 1 schools. Georgia has a State loaded year after year with some of the best high school talent in the country……………The next guy might put all this together with a great staff………..and for the haters…………It would curtains…LOL
DawgFaceBlues
September 22nd, 2010
8:59 am
SC could stand to lose 4-5 games by season end with that brutal schedule. Arky atleast 2 games.
JB
September 22nd, 2010
9:00 am
USC…………….one big difference….. We won’t let our program “flounder” for a 100 years….Go look in the mirror.
Ace
September 22nd, 2010
9:00 am
State by 5.
LOL
September 22nd, 2010
9:01 am
One of the funniest things ablut all this is all of the UGAG fans
that paid $10,000 to buy into the season tix poll in 2008.
Thats funny as Hell. Those UGAG fans got hosed!!
Ouch
September 22nd, 2010
9:02 am
Buzzer called us out above, and has some good points. Why do the AJC sportswriters ignore most of this instead of their “boys will be boys” attitude?
Buzzer: “I’ve never understood how anyone – even an alumnus – could support and take pride in UGA’s football team. When you look at their history for the past forty years, how can anyone ignore Jan Kemp and the “remedial studies” scam, the Jim Harrick fiasco, the DUIs in the athletic office, the DUIs and other arrests of players, the #1 party school tag (i.e., the most drunk students), the suspensions and outright dismissals, the Fulmer Cup, and on and on?
As disgraceful and humiliating as it is, I don’t see many alums and fans demanding an end to this sordid activity. It sets UGA apart as the kind of school most people abhor, and it’s become an embarrassment to the whole state of Georgia.
Will it never end? Apparently not while Mark Richt is at UGA. Richt is perhaps the biggest hypocrite in the United States. But even with all the cheating and lawlessness that he ignores, he still can’t win the SEC.
So you’re paying him to be BCS champions, but he can’t even win his SEC division. So why do you pay him millions of dollars a year?”
UGAG is gitting the ncaa death penalty, he he ha ha
September 22nd, 2010
9:02 am
Last in the SEC, he he ha ha, LAST.
Reality Check
September 22nd, 2010
9:03 am
Just as I predicted, UGA’s program has gone into the toilet and all you UGA Ostriches have your heads in the sand. UGA= declining program that will look up to Kentucky and Tennessee this year before it is over. I should revise my 7-5 predicition for UGA, you will be lucky to win 6 games. The only gimme is Idaho, the rest of the games at best will be toss ups. UGA loses at least 4 more games (UF, Kentucky, Auburn, GT) and probably one of the games against Tenn, Vandy and Miss State. GT will need a truck to haul off the souvenier hedges after they put the nail in the CMR coffin.
404
September 22nd, 2010
9:03 am
MissySt lost to very medicore LSU team.
East Dogs win: 33-20
UGAG is gitting the ncaa death penalty, he he ha ha
September 22nd, 2010
9:03 am
PS – Fire Mark’s Rectum…NOW!
JB
September 22nd, 2010
9:05 am
What is the Mascot of Kansas?……………..oh yea, Nancy pants………
UGAG is gitting the ncaa death penalty, he he ha ha
September 22nd, 2010
9:11 am
RoundUp the Hedge…..
USC GAMEC0CK
September 22nd, 2010
9:12 am
I am living in 2010…
if it makes you feel better, go ahead and live in 1980…georgia won a NC that year and bearly beat USC who had the Heisman Trophy winning George Rogers running the football…but anyway, you go ahead and live in your past glory…I am enjoying the 2010 season right now….saturday is a big test for USC…hope the C0CKS whip aubarn for ya.
CONFEDERATE DAWG
September 22nd, 2010
9:14 am
WELCOME TO NEGATIVE AMERICA…. SHAME ON YALL FOR YAPPIN ABOUT ALL THE FAULTS OF OTHERS… I HOPE YOU CAN POINT OUT YOUR OWN INPERFECTIONS THAT WELL… AINT NOTHING YALL DO OR SAY GONNA CHANGE WHAT CMR OR MCGARITY GONNA DO… THEY ARE FRIGGIN JUST KIDS PLAYING A GAME… A GAME WHICH NONE OF US COULD GET OUT THERE AND DO… ALL YALL TURNIN YALLS BACK NEED TO GO LIKE THE GAYTORS… SUPPORT YOUR DAWGS AND LET THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE MAKE THE CALLS…. BIGGER FISH TO FRY IN THIS COUNTRY THAN GEORGIA BULLDAWG PLAY CALLIN…
ONELOVE GA
JBDawg
September 22nd, 2010
9:15 am
There’s been a lot of criticism with regard to the Bobo and Richt’s creativity on offense. “No reverses, not many screens, no trickeration, etc”. However, coaches generally run this type of play to put the ball in a play-maker’s hands. Who is UGA’s play maker? AJ Green. This week is the first week that we’ve known for sure that Green will not play. Is it possible that all of our “creative plays” are designed for AJ? All I’m saying is that the lack of creativity could possibly revolve around the absence of AJ. I think the offense becomes much more unpredictable when he returns to the action. Until then, Let’s get a W in Mississippi!
CrackDaddy
September 22nd, 2010
9:18 am
UGa football is like real estate, it ain’t selling anymore – nobody wants it.
Jim007
September 22nd, 2010
9:21 am
With CMR always looking the other way, it is only a matter of time….
First thing the new AD needs to do is have someone….
1. Get that team Under Control
2. Get Coaches who can coach & are Not Hyprcrites
3. Recruit Quality people and not Thugs/Criminals/Mega Undesireables
Reality Check
September 22nd, 2010
9:23 am
UGA= 2-6 last eight SEC games.HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Maybe conference USA has an opening for the Dawgs.HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Another toilet bowl at best. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Ray Ray Goff
September 22nd, 2010
9:23 am
I will come back to coach UGA if I don’t have to dive off
that dam 10 meter board.
We are 2-6 last 8 SEC games. We are 10-11 last 21 SEC EAST games.
I will make them work harder to get better. No more forced reading
of scripture after arrests, etc.
Call me NOW!!!!!
David
September 22nd, 2010
9:24 am
You guys are funny. Get a clue, there’s a problem, you are not very good. You do know the state of Ga produces some of the best players in the nation? Ga really doesn’t even have to recruit. So therefore, what’s with the excuses?