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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Gatorbait 17-3
September 22nd, 2010
11:26 am
USC GAMEC0CK
Correct and yes 17-6 was nice. I think the Florida-SC game will be for the EAST. Florida has a ways to go, but the young players are getting better every week.
Smell the Coffee
September 22nd, 2010
11:27 am
Every year, we hear about how wonderful UGA’s recruiting class is. Well, what the hell happens to all those kids when they arrive on the hallowed ground in Athens? A) Get Arrested B) Drunk all the time C) Fail all classes D) Fall victim to crappy coaching E) All of the Above
WDE
September 22nd, 2010
11:27 am
CMR is going to be reinvigorated under McGarity? HAHA fat chance.
Many good words can be used to describe CMR as a person, but you could never say he has that “fire” to win. Not these days, anyways.
Gatorbait 17-3
September 22nd, 2010
11:30 am
Smell the Coffee
D is the answer, even arrested drunks who don’t go to class can be coached to win. Spurrier said it years ago, Georgia gets all the players but we win the games——that my friend is COACHING.
Mobile Dawg
September 22nd, 2010
11:33 am
Gatorbait I have to agree with you. We’ve had our opportunities under CMR and he just hasn’t been able to get it done. My slogan now is “In McGarity we Trust” as far as UGA football is concerned.
Gatorbait 17-3
September 22nd, 2010
11:36 am
“In McGarity we Trust” as far as UGA football is concerned.
That works for me. Ya’ll going to love this man.
WDE
September 22nd, 2010
11:37 am
Sucks for McGarity that he takes the job right when the most tenured coach in the SEC needs firing.
Schmeckdawg
September 22nd, 2010
11:38 am
0-2 in The SEC, this just SUCKS!
Smell the Coffee
September 22nd, 2010
11:40 am
Gatorbait you are right about the answer being D, with a little bit of the others being thrown in too. Richt seems to embrace the “thugs and trouble makers” just like his former boss down at FSU.
Yes, answer D. I can’t for the life of me see any other reason for the program to be floundering like it has.
Stinkin' Dog
September 22nd, 2010
11:46 am
The MSU Bullies will be ready to lay the wood to UG-Athens this coming Saturday.
Gatorbait 17-3
September 22nd, 2010
11:52 am
Richt is leaving quit a resume, he goes from:
F Free
S Shoes
U Univeresity
to
U U
G Got
A Arrested
Mediocre
September 22nd, 2010
11:55 am
Just to prove mediocrity, someone please name one UGA starter besides AJ Green (that’s even debatable) that could start for Bama or Florida. How can you compete if you can’t place one player in the starting lineup on the better teams? You can’t. Wake up UGA, you are now in the lower tier SEC.
Ace
September 22nd, 2010
12:05 pm
Possums – Get killed on the road.
Smell the Coffee
September 22nd, 2010
12:06 pm
Mybe Richt can get a job at Georgia State when Bill Curry retires. At least he will get to coach in the Georgia Dome more often than Saban and Meyer do…LOL
Shreveport Info Needed
September 22nd, 2010
12:12 pm
Can someone pass along the phone number for that motel 6 near the freeway in shreveport? I can’t get it off the website. It books fast and I need to go ahead and reserve for december.
Smell the Coffee
September 22nd, 2010
12:17 pm
Maybe the school should hire Damon Evans’ blonde bimbo (if she isn’t already on the payroll) to ride around with the players so she could tell the cops that nothing is going to happen to them because they are UGA football players. Richt certainly believes that, even if the cops don’t.
DawginLex
September 22nd, 2010
12:17 pm
shreveport,
Are you a Tech fan? ACC is the tie-in for the bowl this year.
Good for you to try and book early. Great planning.
how2fish
September 22nd, 2010
12:20 pm
DawginLex shreveport may or may not be a Bug he is however an idiot..
WDE
September 22nd, 2010
12:21 pm
Yeah Shreveport aligned with the ACC just so they could guarantee to their sponsors a team as off-the-tracks as UGA wouldn’t make it there.
SEC Classic
September 22nd, 2010
12:24 pm
Pick yourselves up of the mat UGA. Stop making excuses for being a mid-conference team. Something has got to change in Athens to stop the downhill slide that has been going on for several years now.
Damnthebutcher
September 22nd, 2010
12:24 pm
Some of you blind stupid idiots are clueless. After the first loss you had GA going 11-1. After the 2nd loss you have them going 10-2. I am sure after the 3rd loss it wil be 9-3 and after the 4th 8-4. Can’t you idiots see this team is not prepared to play? Can’t you see that Mark Richt will never beat Nick Saban and Urban Myer again? Mark Richt is not even as good of a coach as Ron Zook. The GA team is not even an average SEC football team anymore. That is why the games are starting at 12:00 noon. You are not important. You mean nothing in the world of football. You are barley one step above Vanderbilt in the world of football. You may not want to admit it but that is the status of UGA football and I don’t like it and that is that MARK RICHT MUST BE FIRED.
Techster
September 22nd, 2010
12:26 pm
I guess you will have to blame all this on poor old Larry Munson retiring. There is no one for you UGA fans to rally behind any more. A few more appearances in Shreveport and maybe they will name a bridge after you.
The Music Man
September 22nd, 2010
12:31 pm
By the way UGA, why can’t anyone at school of that size come up with an original fight song? Stealing a tune out of the church hymnal is shameless. All of the other “Big Time” schools have an original song. I guess the unoriginal music goes hand in hand with unoriginal and unimaginative play calling.
how2fish
September 22nd, 2010
12:33 pm
WDE considering you guys had the exact record we did last year but lost to us..it should have been you in Shreveport…they just refused to take you..good news is you have SC this week I don’t expect to hear much out of you next week.
Foster Brooks
September 22nd, 2010
12:36 pm
Well, we can still beat Tech and “make” our year. Somehow I had envisioned more of and from my Dawgs. We have become irrelevant to the likes of Bama, the Gators, LSU, and now even Carolina. We have top 10 recruiting classes 4 out of every 5 years, so do not tell me we do not have talent, however, maybe Richt and company need to look at some high character kids that want to learn and will bust their tails to play for UGA, instead of all 4 & 5 “star” guys who wre just here for a jumping off place for the NFL. I am sick of all the arrest and distractions, and am tired of my school being a laughing stock and joke around the country, and believe me due to the summer we just had we are a joke everywhere but in this state. I have always liked Richt, but if all he can come up with is his one game suspension for a minor opponet there will never be real discipline in this program. As much as it hurts to say, maybe some of the things being said are true, and that is why we now have this perception nationwide. Like I said, I am tired of being embarrassed and having to defend my school over and over again, because no one is really doing anything about it. Get some high character kids that really love UGA, and I bet things will start turning around in a hurry. There are good 3 “star” atheletes out there who have good character and would make good and even great players…anyone ever here of Mark Ingram at Alabama? He was a 3 “star” recruit. Wake up coaches and do some real work and evaluaton instead of taking Newbergs sheet and offering every 4 and 5 star guy.
WDE
September 22nd, 2010
12:37 pm
Oh yeah, how2fish. They refused to take us.
No, wait a minute- the Outback Bowl (more prestigous) in Tampa got to pick before Autozone Liberty, and chose us instead of your sorry, decaying program.
You’re an idiot.
Smell the Coffee
September 22nd, 2010
12:41 pm
Well as someone already said, Richt learned from the master when it came to recruiting trouble makers and then not disciplining them. I guess Athens has become the North Annex of the FSU Criminols. A one-game suspension against a “sisters of the poor” opponent. What a joke. Obviously winning (or at least trying to win) is more important than character in the Mark Richt scheme of things.
TN Jeff
September 22nd, 2010
12:44 pm
Yes – still a lot to play for! Work hard guys & 3rd place in the SEC East is still there for you!
dawgfan
September 22nd, 2010
12:53 pm
LOL @ this WDE clown. He must have fallen off the same stupid tree that Tech fans come from. 4 in a row and counting and this clown is flapping his gums about UGA like we’re Troy or something. Beat us and then talk punk. At least you’re not hiding behind a neutral sounding name like scared little sissie Techies do though. Those idiots don’t even have the courage to indentify themselves as Tech fans. It is beyond pathetic.
WDE
September 22nd, 2010
12:59 pm
dawgfan, concerned more with series streaks than SEC divisional prospects. Can’t blame you, since you have none.
GTJeff
September 22nd, 2010
12:59 pm
USC Gamechicken, this is why everyone in the SEC & ACC laughs at you pathetic fans. You win one game against either Georgia or Clemson every 5 or 10 years & all of the sudden your the premier football team in the south.
And don’t knock Georgia’s 1980 season. What was yours? Oh yeah, 1983 “Black Magic” seaon where you lost the Gator bowl. Wow! What a tradition
UGA/GT/Clemson > Vanderbilt > Georgia State > Parkview High >>>> Zaxby U
TexDawg
September 22nd, 2010
1:11 pm
This is off subject, but worth a mention… i now respect boise state because of this (not sure if many of you caught it)…but here is how a coach instills respect, discipline and class in his players (anybody see Richt doing this?):
When star receiver Austin Pettis somersaulted into the end zone following a 58-yard touchdown catch in the first quarter Saturday against Wyoming, his coach wasn’t content with a stern dress-down. He benched him the rest of the way. “There’s a right way to do it and a wrong way,” said Petersen. “… Message sent.”
gdawginkalamazoo
September 22nd, 2010
1:11 pm
For us to be so lousy, can’t win, don’t count for nothing, mediocre,
won’t ever win another game, crappy bowl game bound, coach has no fire, coach can’t win, coach can’t teach D, offense sucks, no big game players, might as well drop football program, not significant anymore…..
IF that’s UGA football then why are all you opponents on here wasting your time with us? It seems like you would be worrying about your own team. Usually people diss other people because they don’t feel good enough about themselves or they are insecure. I think that’s what most of you need to be worrying about, your own problems.
Let us worry about the dawgs, its our team, we like our team, win or lose we back our team, we like our coach, we like the heart that our players play with.
gdawginkalamazoo
September 22nd, 2010
1:14 pm
Texdawg, oh yes, I would bench my first string against WYOMING too!
Cardinal Sin
September 22nd, 2010
1:14 pm
Hey gdawginkalamazoo
We are on here because most of your fans like to trash talk others like GA is an elite program. Therefore, many like myself take great JOY in watching your sad program sink!
Gators win the East again 2010!
Enough Said!
WDE
September 22nd, 2010
1:15 pm
It isn’t that we’re jumping on your grave (actually we are), but I’ve been on this board saying this was gonna happen for 2 years now. This is my hometown paper and I’m talking about the hometown team. You guys are like the kids who like to play until you scrape your knee and tell everyone to go home.
WDE
September 22nd, 2010
1:17 pm
Put up with enough crap from you gas station fans 365, 24/7 that it is absolutely blissful to see the wheels come off and all of you jump off the bandwagon. It isn’t that there are more of us here or that we’re talking more, its just that all of your friends who bought a UGA hat somewhere along the line have stopped supporting your team.
Who can blame them?
Damnthebutcher
September 22nd, 2010
1:21 pm
FIRE MARK RICHT
Lady Dawg
September 22nd, 2010
1:30 pm
gdawginkalamazoo…this gentleman seems to be the only man on here. Well said, sir. The rest of you…..just boys. Once a Dawg…always a Dawg.
DW
September 22nd, 2010
1:37 pm
Question? I don’t remember, but did Richt fire the offensive line and strength and conditioning coaches.
how2fish
September 22nd, 2010
1:43 pm
WDE you get SC this weekend I don’t expect to hear much from you from then on..have a nice life.Oh and we will beat you like rented mules this year…again. And sorry to hear you job at the gas station’s not working out for you all that well.
76-DAWG
September 22nd, 2010
1:45 pm
I disagree that there is less love , it is a shared disappointment,sympathy and depression because of a negative outcome. The players fill worst because they are the ones that are living through it. So their highs and lows will be a lot greater than the fans and students. I think the players know that you don’t “high five” them after they lose. Nobody is very happy or fill like celebrating a lost.
Now for players that get into trouble or get greedy and try and make money after already receiving at free $100,000+ education for me that would be lack of love. You don’t patronize or sympathize with these guys at all. Because of their selfish , stupid actions they have affected the entire team. The student body should show these idiots no love at all but disappointment and disapproval of their actions.
dougdawg
September 22nd, 2010
1:47 pm
face it, dawg people. we are in trouble, big time. maybe only idaho state is a gimmee — if i got that team right. otherwise, we could end up 2-10. heads will roll, we’ll lose the recruiting class, and down to hell we go. as the saying goes, ‘buckle your seat belts, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride.’ – marilyn monroe in ‘all about eve.’
Typical Gator Fan
September 22nd, 2010
1:50 pm
Why is it I run my c0ck holster under a comment board about UGA Sports?
last
September 22nd, 2010
1:51 pm
it is not the fact we are losing but how we lose. everybody go long. what idiotic play calling. Bobo is a dodo & must go.
CrazyDawg
September 22nd, 2010
1:55 pm
http://pricezack.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/will-georgias-woes-continue/
WDE
September 22nd, 2010
1:57 pm
how2fish, just because USC beat you doesn’t mean they’re going to beat everyone.
dawgfan
September 22nd, 2010
2:00 pm
Yes, I am all wise and know all in the game of fussball. If given the chance I could do all the things discussed above to give UGA a NC this year. But know one reads my posts on AJC or listens to me down at the Sonic. I have a Pee Wee football trophy so I know what I’m talkin about!
npgator
September 22nd, 2010
2:02 pm
As a Gator I can honestly say that the Bull Dogs are much better than your typical 0-2 team and will improve greatly when the injured return.
DawginLex
September 22nd, 2010
2:05 pm
WDE,
My best friend is an auburn guy but you are a smartalec tool.
You have lost to UGA 4 years in a row!!!
Go back in the corner and suck your thumb.