Read all about it: Complete coverage of UGA’s loss to Mississippi State
A Sunday morning roundup of the AJC’s coverage of Georgia’s loss to Mississippi State:
My game story, which notes the Bulldogs are on their first three-game losing streak in 20 years:
STARKVILLE, Miss. — Bad turned to worse — much worse — for Georgia’s football team here Saturday night.
The Bulldogs lost their third consecutive game in an already ugly season, failing to score a touchdown until it was too late to matter and falling to Mississippi State 24-12.
The loss was Georgia’s first in Starkville since 1951 and first anywhere to Mississippi State since 1974, and it gave the Bulldogs (1-3, 0-3 SEC) their first three-game losing streak since 1990 and first 0-3 SEC record since 1993.
Jeff Schultz’s column, which notes the Dogs are 2-7 in their past nine SEC games:
… The Bulldogs are 0-3 in the SEC. They stand alone in the conference in that regard. Behind Mississippi State, behind Vanderbilt, behind the schools you used to joke about. They are no longer the team that can beat everybody except Alabama and Florida. They are the team that can lose to every team well below Alabama and Florida.
… This is about more than one assistant coach or one suspended player. Once again, Richt did not have his team ready to play. The Dogs should have played desperate. They didn’t. They certainly didn’t play smart or play well.
Paul Jones’ sidebar on Washaun Ealey’s latest goal-line debacle, which kept the Bulldogs from scoring a first-quarter touchdown:
STARKVILLE, Miss. — This time, Washaun Ealey’s fumble into the opponent’s end zone came in the first quarter. It was the second time that situation arose for Georgia’s sophomore tailback, and as in the South Carolina game, it was a critical play.
My notebook, which covers the return of a number of players from injury, the continued absence of A.J. Green, the cowbells and this nugget:
Georgia has more former players currently serving as captains of NFL teams than any other school.
That’s according to a report by the Dallas Morning News, which counted the colleges of the 124 players who were elected full-season captains by votes of their teammates on 26 NFL teams.
. . . “We have a great coach, a great leader at Georgia [in Mark Richt],” Matthew Stafford, a Detroit Lions captain, told the Dallas paper. “It probably rubs off on us.”
Transcript of Mark Richt’s post-game news conference, including this comment:
“But we’ve also got to look within, starting with me, as to the things that have kept us from having the success that we want. That’s what we’re going to do.”
And a photo gallery from the game, including this shot:
Mississippi State's Arceto Clark catches fourth-quarter TD pass in front of Georgia's Branden Smith (AP photo)
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Thomas
September 26th, 2010
2:42 am
Great Coach! End of conversation!
Thomas
September 26th, 2010
2:45 am
Da got to beat dem gators! COUNTS………..U gotta live on da border 2 understand!
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Gregory
September 26th, 2010
6:11 am
A Change is Gonna Come
Gary
September 26th, 2010
6:20 am
one of the worst performances for the dawgs in a very long time. Ealey needs to be benched.All he had to do was reach out and put his hand on the ball in the endzone. The offensive line may have a wealth of experience but they ain’t very good!! Only bright spots, Murray and Durham. Bench the rest.
goober t weichshiner
September 26th, 2010
6:26 am
As a two-time graduate of UGA, I find myself pulling for Auburn each week. They are playing with passion. Also, I bought an orange Florida knit shirt at Publix yesterday. For real. Are you hearing me, Mike Adams? Where is the passion…the passion exhibited by Coach Erk Russell? This calm demeanor crap is driving me crazy.
dawgman
September 26th, 2010
6:51 am
At least we won’t have to worry about who is selling their bowl game jersey. There won’t BE a bowl game jersey.
at least we're a family
September 26th, 2010
7:11 am
rich’ts quote during his press conference sums it up….’at least we are a tight family.’
uh huh.
we are the waltons of college football when we need to be the supranos.
thanks, coach.
Artoris
September 26th, 2010
7:21 am
It’s bad karma. Ever since the Dawgs rushed on the field after the TD against UF in 2007 it’s been downhill. A small lack of discipline goes a long way.
mike
September 26th, 2010
7:45 am
discipline? there is no such word in richts vocabulary, or any of the coaching staff. i wouldnt give you a dollar for any of their jersies!
Jordan
September 26th, 2010
7:51 am
Had anyone else noticed that almost every game this year that someone had noted that Bobo has made “strange” or “conservative” play calls? Just saying, I think it’s time for someone else to call the plays.
Dawg in Kentucky
September 26th, 2010
8:03 am
Coach Richt stays. Keeps revamping the staff. Starting this week,
Coach Bobo becomes QB Coach. Coach Richt assumes OC role. The 3-4,
is it too complicated or do we not have the right personnel as some suggest?
jb
September 26th, 2010
8:03 am
This team plays with no emotion, uninspired, no discipline, and a look of not wanting to be there. Coach Richt has lost this team. But then again he looks like he does not want to be here. It is time to go bring Will Muschamp home
BoWeevil
September 26th, 2010
8:10 am
How do you cover that UGA is # 21 in wins since 2005 and # 22 if you add in Alabama less their 21 vacated wins
lewis
September 26th, 2010
8:27 am
WE ALL LOVE GEORGIA FOOTBALL,TO SIT HOME AND WATCH US PLAY THE WAY WE PLAYED LAST NITE IS HARD.SOME CHANGES HAVE TO BE MADE.I BOUGHT A 50 INCH HD FLAT SCREEN TV ,IT FELT LIKE I WAS ON THE FIELD WATCHING THE GAME.I TURNED IT OFF.
Dawg Days
September 26th, 2010
8:28 am
WOW – so hard to watch…thanks Murray and Durham…everybody else needs to look in the mirror…INCLUDING COACHES!!
chilidawg
September 26th, 2010
8:33 am
Something’s gotta give. In the earlier games, Murray played well enough for us to win but was failed by the rest of the offense. It is clear that they don’t believe in him. Either they need to come together as a team or we need to start playing Mason. I would prefer that they get with the program because I do believe that Murray could be a star in the SEC. I still think that LeMay pulls a Da’Rick on us even though he must be smiling along with his dad while watching UGA.
roughrider
September 26th, 2010
8:41 am
I watched a poorly coached team play MSU last night.
chilidawg
September 26th, 2010
8:46 am
Anybody got another UGA sneaks in the back door of the SECCG this week? C’mon let’s hear it!
BoWeevil
September 26th, 2010
8:53 am
I predict that Coach Richt QUITS.
UGAG is gitting the ncaa death penalty, he he ha ha
September 26th, 2010
8:53 am
LAST IN THE SEC!! HE HE HA HA
UGAG is gitting the ncaa death penalty, he he ha ha
September 26th, 2010
8:54 am
Mark’s Rectum to convert to Islam!
Lilburn Dawg
September 26th, 2010
8:55 am
JB…..I have said for the last 3 years that when I watch Richt, he gives out signals that he really doesn’t want to be here. He is not a true Dawg fan in his bones. He will always have a connection to the state of Florida and I believe that he sincerely wants to go back there. I think he took the UGA job to be able to say he had some head coaching experience and always intended to go back……to FSU or Miami. He coaches as if he is homesick and just wants the time to pass quickly so he can get on back to Florida. This team has his personality and demeanor. Richt doesn’t have a firey bone in his body. He is incapable of firing up a team. The coaching of this team shows ineptitude all around. It’s sad.
JoeT
September 26th, 2010
8:57 am
I have praised and defended Coach Richt for years. As much as I respect the man, it is time for some new blood. When you have top 5 recruiting classes every year, and can’t turn the corner on winning a National Championship, then somebody else needs a shot. Muschamp anyone!?
yarddawg
September 26th, 2010
8:58 am
Has anybody ever caught their breath, and said,”Maybe the puppies just suck!”
Michael
September 26th, 2010
9:04 am
Last place Dawgs slathered, again. Life is good!
bog dawg
September 26th, 2010
9:14 am
Great loss in Starkville last night! As much as i love GT, I really enjoy seeing the Dawgs lose more than Tech winning. The Ga and Tech game this year will mean nothing-just two losers trying to give the game away. But will say that Nesbit at GT deserves better. He is a grown MAN> Will some loser Dawg fan now tell us that the Dawgs are still in the hunt. They may not win a game this year in conference. Green should be given his walking papers. As much as i enjoy seeing the rednecks lose,Ga could have won all three games if he had been on the field. Now four games into the season, the season is OVER. Suck it up and get over it. Does anybody have any Tech and Georgia tickets for sale. Get ready for another ass whipping in JAX this year. This is soooo great. this makes up for every nuance in my life this year.
CrackDaddy
September 26th, 2010
9:22 am
UGa rode Joe Cox outta town on a rail. (Murray makes Cox look like an All-American.). I guess they’ll just lynch Murray, since UGa doesn’t have any rails left. How will CMR get outta town?
Satin Sabin
September 26th, 2010
9:36 am
Can you hear it..The fat lady is singing. No coaching,cannot tackle,no defense,no blocking equals many losses!
Sad Dawg Fan
September 26th, 2010
9:37 am
For the first time in 15 years, I walked away from watching the Dawgs before the game was over. This is sickening, Murray is a star in the making. Durham is a good receiver. Every loss this year I have witnessed Ealey involved in a play either fumbling away the momentum (TDs), or missing a critical block (Arkansas game). We may not lose another game with the return of Green, but so far, this is sickening,
mark twain
September 26th, 2010
9:50 am
MY RIVERBOAT JUST DOCKED IN ATHENS, TALK ABOUT ARRESTS, THEY SHOULD ARREST THE WHOLE TEAM EXCEPT MURRAY AND DURHAM FOR IMPERSONATING FOOTBALL PLAYERS, THIS IS A TOTAL DISGRACE. WELL AT LEAST tech STILL SUCKS TOO. WHERES MY MINT JULIP. TELL ALL THE tech FANS GEORGE OLEARY WANTS TO RETURN TO THE FABULOUS flats.
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techbuzzer
September 26th, 2010
9:51 am
Ga. State looked better than those party dawgs yesterday. Now that is a statement.
smyrnadog
September 26th, 2010
9:52 am
At least Richt has a pulse…. the way he threw that clipboard down when Mississippi’s punt hit one of our players was breath taking.
kaput
September 26th, 2010
9:54 am
Too funny! What happened to all of those posters that, before the season started, were swearing that this Georgia teams would win the East and challenge for a berth in the national title game?
You know who you are. And we tried to warn you. Maybe next season you’ll use a little more common sense and stop being being such a dumb fan.
ga gator
September 26th, 2010
9:55 am
bog dawg Great loss in Starkville last night! As much as i love GT, I really enjoy seeing the Dawgs lose more than Tech winning
That is simply because your team is a third rate program. You lose to UGA last year in your pathetic little stadium and then you want to come in and talk trash? You lose to freaking KANSAS?
And Nesbit is a grown man? How do you know have you seen him shower?
beanuga
September 26th, 2010
9:58 am
Help
Dawgtards ruin this state
September 26th, 2010
10:01 am
All the arrests, none of the victories!
Brown Sugar
September 26th, 2010
10:13 am
Wow another Thug arrested for UGA! Can you believe it ?????
WonderDawg
September 26th, 2010
10:16 am
Unbelievable!
Not the arrests, but all of the Techies on here crowing, when PJ and Co got shellacked yesterday.
ga gator
September 26th, 2010
10:26 am
WonderDawg; good post but that is all they have to hang their hat on. Shut them up in November in Athens PLEASE!!
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Dawgtards ruin this state
September 26th, 2010
10:40 am
thUGA is bottom tier SEC equal with UK and Vandy – You won’t even make Shreveport this year. LOSERS!
Texasdawg
September 26th, 2010
10:47 am
There is a saying that if you keep doing the same thing you will get the same result. Georgia’s offensive scheme worked great for FSU ok for a while for Georgia. Coach Richt needs to change with the times and spread the offense across the field. I want Georgia to hire Mike Leach as the OC.
Satin Sabin
September 26th, 2010
10:55 am
4-3 or 3-4 defense only equals seven, if you do not know how to coach.
General Sherman
September 26th, 2010
11:00 am
It is amazing how good all the players from the State of Georgia look in all of the other teams uniforms.Why does all of the good ones go out of state? We do have top ten classes every year,but Richt and staff cannot coach them like Spurrier,Saban, and others!
Wright 4 Sure
September 26th, 2010
11:24 am
A team that cannot be controlled off the field, can’t be controlled on the field. A one game suspension for criminal conduct is an example of weak ladership. A.J. Green would never have sold his jeresy if he had known he would be punished by the coaches and the university. It took the NCAA to do the right thing.
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traverdog
September 26th, 2010
11:47 am
Richt is an excellent coach and a fine man. Get off his back. Don’t forget he loses player’s early who go to the NFL. That hurts the current team. The staff does need to quit signing criminal type players. A coach can’t spend time rebuilding the character of a player who has had 18 yrs. of rearing in the wrong way. He can only try and many of the athletes coming in are self-centered and are not the most receptive to learning new things. By the way, MSU is on the up swing with coach Mullen in his 2nd year. MSU lost to Auburn and LSU, two top 20 teams so they are NO slouch. They are getting better each week.
bgdawg
September 26th, 2010
11:53 am
i might have to revoke the dawg on the end of my name and turn it to falcon… that was horrible in all of our losses we have been out-coached not out-skilled. The D is not the main problem its the offense. i replayed the whole game and i saw murray make plays on third and long with his legs, why don’t they let him run all the time? they got this kid playing with shackles!! and if the run doesn’t work the first 20 times just shut it down then!! make them stop blitzing by hurting them with the pass!!! omg i believe anyone can outcoach bobo
RxDawg
September 26th, 2010
11:53 am
Wow….Baker arrested for DUI. We are truly cursed. The gods of football have spoken and they smite thee UGA.
….I bet a peed off Richt kicks his but off the team. And he probably should. Baker, you are a MORON.
Daw Tired
September 26th, 2010
12:04 pm
I can live with losing games IF our players are men of character. But losing games AND having thugs and (let’s be honest with ourselves), not very bright kids as players should not be acceptable to CMR, McGarrity, Adams or Bulldog supporters. CMR is a nice guy who just doesn’t get it. Must be his FSU upbringing that trained him to get 5-star athletes who aren’t very bright and can’t learn new systems and, by the way, can’t stay out of trouble. I would rather have a team of classy, smart players and be 0-4 than to have this current roster and be 1-3 with 10 arrests.
mcdaris324
September 26th, 2010
12:47 pm
Kick his butt off the team I’m tired of this Crap
bigdon
September 26th, 2010
12:51 pm
Hey.,..what do you expect. He’s JAFN. Just another f….. …….
Burger Boy
September 26th, 2010
1:13 pm
This is embarasking to loose to MSU. I flip burgers all week at Macdonalds to make mooney to by tikets to UGA fotball games. No moore. I will stay home at the trailer and waatch theem play on TV.
wild one
September 26th, 2010
1:24 pm
Hey, get off Coach Richt. He is a great man and a great coach. besides, we need that five star running back from Carver High on Saturday’s playing for us. Mr. Crowell will be awsome in the Crimson Tide system. oh yea, are there any other great players in Ga that want to play for a national title, come on over. At Alabama we don’t play football, we live it!
Dawg Times
September 26th, 2010
1:25 pm
Dateline – Athens, Ga: A shocking announcement from the University of Georgia, it was revealed today that head football coach Mark Richt will step down to accept the head golf coaching position at Jed Strunk College. Coach Richt commented that he feels the new position “will better match my personality”. He also added best wishes to his yet to be announced successor saying “he couldn’t do worse than me” and “frankly I sucked”.
Baldemar Huerta
September 26th, 2010
2:06 pm
End of Coach! Great conversation!
Hymie
September 26th, 2010
2:09 pm
I thought college was for educating and polishing young minds, not providing bread and circuses for the unwashed masses (that’s hoi polloi to you).
Steve Spurrier
September 26th, 2010
2:32 pm
Your players are getting arrested so as to not be associated with UGA.
It over guys.
Big Dog 98
September 26th, 2010
2:35 pm
UGA is still #1 in Class.
Mark Richt makes me proud to be a Dawg Fan! CMR is total class…unlike Alabama, South Carolina or Arkansas.
war eagle
September 26th, 2010
2:37 pm
I just watched your game. No passion. No leadership on the team from the seniors to the coaches. Having your 10th arrest last night made breakfast taste even worse this morning for Richt. It’s only going to get worse this year. The only team that looked worse then you guys yesterday had to be TN so that should make you feel good.
Kevin
September 26th, 2010
2:51 pm
I have supported CMR since he has been there. He has lost the team. I thought the DC move last
year was the answer. Not so much. I never thought I would say this, but CMR may have to go. He cant keep his players out of trouble, cant get those that are not suspended ready to play, UGA does not lose to Miss State. UGA has one of the weakiest schedules in a while, perfect for a year
you are somewhat rebuilding. You cant tell me the atheletes are not there, they are, the coaching staff just cant get it out of them. I predict that Bobo will either be demoted to QB coach, or fired this week.
Regarding the starters. Murrey, Durham would keep there jobs, bench the rest on both sides of the ball. I just cant believe how the annoucers talk about how good our O-line is, the are terrible. Just watch them, every play whether pass or run, they stand straight up on the snap. If I see this why cant the coaches, that is why the coaching staff needs a change.
I think you will see Richt make the OC move this week, hoping he can win out (doubtful) to get 8 wins and a bowl. If he does the above he will be around next year. If not the new AD will remove Richt and the end of the season, he will not be fired, the AD will allow him to resign and make it look like it was his decision.
GOP Cannon
September 26th, 2010
3:01 pm
This is starting to look more and more like a 5-7 season…. if we can loose to Mississippi State, then we can loose to anyone in the SEC. If we continue to play the way that we played this weekend we WILL NOT BEAT Florida, Auburn, or Tech and I feel like Kentucky, Vandy, and Tennessee are going to be tough toss-ups.
BOBOGOTTAGO
September 26th, 2010
3:03 pm
Mark Richt…I have been an avid supporter until the last year or so…ever since you stopped calling the plays and handed the reins to BOBO we have been mediocre at best. I’m ready for some passion and for some wins. You have shown us zero emotion…zero passion and I think you have lost love for the game. It’s time to go…and take bobo with you. I can’t even watch the games anymore…because we look like amateurs…it’s not even good games that we’re losing. It’s penalties, fumbles, and emotionless faces…time to go do something else…RETIRE.
KN
September 26th, 2010
3:06 pm
Maybe it’s me………I thought UGA had an abundance of penalties last night, while Miss St had few. I have heard no one else comment on this. Penalties are usually caused by PLAYERS not COACHES. QB is green and really needs experience. The OL and Defense lacks old fashioned DETERMINATION. Appears to me that there may be deeper issues at hand.
KN
September 26th, 2010
3:08 pm
Also, when Richt was a winning coach, he was the golden boy. How soon you forget.
SEC1
September 26th, 2010
3:35 pm
We might not be the worst team in the SEC, but we are definitely the worst in the SEC in under-utilizing and under-coaching our players.
We definitely do the least with the most.
I still love my Dawgs, but we are simply terrible.
Enough said…
P.S. Bobo should have been gone last year… Come on, is the SEC really the place to “cut your teeth” as an OC?
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EricADawgFan
September 26th, 2010
3:43 pm
I am a TRUE Dawg Fan. Win or lose, I would still support the Dawgs. But I must say that Coach Richt had better get a lot more assertive with his players, and coaching staff. He has to get very tough on the Coaches, and the players as well. As mush as I am a rivalry with Steve Spurrier, (being anywhere and playing against the Dawgs) I have to admit that Coach Steve Spurrier makes champions out of his players. He also has absolutely no tact when it comes to his players, and his coaching staff. If there is something wrong with either of them, he will definitely make it known to them, and to the public. Last night, against Auburn, he took out Garcia (Quarterback) and benched him. In Garcia’s replacement, he put in a freshman quarterback without any hesitation. You see, Coach Steve Spurrier, says what he means, and he mean what he says. Being quiet and passive with your players and coaching staff and not holding each and everyone them accountable for their actions and performance, in unacceptable and it will get you in the hot seat to be fired. Coach Richt appears as if he does not have control of his players, and the entire team. Coach Mark Richt had better wake up and get total control of his players and coaching staff. If the players are not performing up to his potential, Coach Mark Richt have a duty, and a responsibility as a Head Football Coach to bench that player. if your Offensive Coordinator are not performing to your standards, and the team is not responding well to the play calling, then you need to take over the play calling and terminate the Offensive Coordinator. The time is now Coach Mark Richt to take control of your Team before your team and coaching staff take control of you. Food For Thought.
goober t weichshiner
September 26th, 2010
3:48 pm
UGA needs the passion of a Bremen High Blue Devil football team or a Flamengo futebol team in Brazil. Just google “Oh Meu Mengo,” and you will see passion. Those futebol fans would never put up with a lack of passion. I love the passion of Bremen and Mengo teams! Show some passion, Mark! I remember the days when Preston Haliburton and Ashley Robinson starred for the Blue Devils! They showed passion!
Vince Lombardi
September 26th, 2010
5:13 pm
test
Snoop Dawg
September 26th, 2010
5:14 pm
Ten Reasons Why Richt Must Go and Quickly to follow…
Snoop Dawg
September 26th, 2010
5:14 pm
Ten Reasons to Fire Marked Wrecked.
1. He has no passion for the game, or for his team. Players are energized by the passion of their coach. Richt has none. A buddha on the sidelines would have more passion.
Snoop Dawg
September 26th, 2010
5:15 pm
2. Richt instills no discipline. We lead the SEC in player arrests and penalties. This is a function of the coach. Did you notice Waushaun Ealey break dancing on the field against Ark last week while waiting during a TV timeout for a crucial third down conversion? No we did not convert. Who is responsible: Ealey or the coach?
Mobile Dawg
September 26th, 2010
5:15 pm
The symptoms for the disease we have today were being planted years in advance. The body can overcome sickness and still perform until it becomes overwhelming, often terminal. At the least some very bad medicine is in order.
Snoop Dawg
September 26th, 2010
5:19 pm
4. Richt cannot recruit. Our recruiting has consistently slipped, and our recruits cannot actually perform. Evidently, Richt is no judge of talent anymore. Let the stats speak for themselves. You could build an all-SEC team from Georgia high school stars now performing for other teams, not UGA.
Mobile Dawg
September 26th, 2010
5:19 pm
If we start breaking it down to simple terms, does anyone remember what the Florida Gators were doing the morning after the UGA victory in 2007? It also became the theme of their season in 2008. I believe it was push ups for every yard the defense gave up in that 07 game. Every practice. How could that not leave a lasting impression?
Mobile Dawg
September 26th, 2010
5:21 pm
Snoop, you missed #3.
I have to disagree with you on recruiting. I know people say Rivals and Scout aren’t always right, but they are all we have to really judge by other than results. We’ve been top 10 every year I remember.
Snoop Dawg
September 26th, 2010
5:23 pm
Mobile Dawg, I believe the Friends of Richt are censoring me.
Snoop Dawg
September 26th, 2010
5:25 pm
5. Richt cannot build a coaching staff. Richt hand picked his staff. They are ineffective at best, and clowns by most objective standards.
Snoop Dawg
September 26th, 2010
5:25 pm
6. Richt is not good value. We are paying him and the water girl over three million a year. For what?
Snoop Dawg
September 26th, 2010
5:26 pm
7. Richt has no backbone. He cannot get rid of his friends that he hires on the staff who cannot perform, nor can he punish or enforce those players who violate team rules. The players obviously do not respect his rules or his power to punish or discipline.
.
Snoop Dawg
September 26th, 2010
5:27 pm
8. Richt is not really a beacon of character. A man with honor or character would step down if he could not get the job done and earn his pay. Richt will not step down for the good of the University; rather, we will have to fire him and pay him millions to leave. It will, however, be a bargain because
Snoop Dawg
September 26th, 2010
5:28 pm
9. The UGA fan base is no longer motivated or proud enough of the Dawgs to continue buying fan apparel to bring millions each year into Athens’ coffers. In order to restore this valuable source of revenue, we must win and Richt must go.
Snoop Dawg
September 26th, 2010
5:28 pm
10. Richt may be a nice man. Someone once said that nice guys finish last. Richt is indeed last in the SEC and patsies are now routinely performing smackdowns of our team and our proud tradiition. If the current generation of Bulldogs want to protect UGA’s 7th best record in the NCAA or improve on it, they will stop calling people like me Haters and put pressure on the AD to fire Richt and get a real ball coach to Athens.
Snoop Dawg
September 26th, 2010
5:31 pm
3. Richt is not really a coach but an imposter. He’s nothing more than a figurehead. The gig is up.
Mobile Dawg
September 26th, 2010
5:53 pm
Snoop Dawg, most all good points.
Truth is nothing most of us say here holds any weight. If we knew the real deal we would probably know Richt was pressured into having to fire WM, probably due to fear of losing revenue, or an actual drop off in revenue through supporters and team apparel as you pointed out.
Maybe I’m a bandwagon fan and didn’t realize it. I’m finding myself with no passion at all in general for the games. I didn’t get upset with the loss last night. I honestly expected it. The most surprising thing of all was CMR being so out of character that he actually spoke the words that maybe “he’s part of the problem”. That’s one of the things I most wanted to hear, a public acknowledgement that maybe he needs to change or improve what he does.
Mack Brown is a class guy, inherited a great program at Texas and has continued to keep the program at a high level. First thing out of his mouth after their loss was that “I did a poor job coaching”. It’s taken CMR 5 years to admit that. That’s what gets me passionate at this point, his ineptitude, and lack of responsibility.
wild one
September 26th, 2010
6:20 pm
Big Dog 98, If Ga is such a class act why do they lead the league in arrest? Oh yea, what about the whole team charging the field to celebrate a touchdown against Fl. You call that class??? I call it poor sportsmanship, a complete lack of discipline and a childish approach to teaching the young men how to become real men and winners.
Cullowheedawg
September 26th, 2010
6:45 pm
As many said, discipline, where is it. We kick off a potential red shirt freshman for drinking under age, but we are all anxiously waiting for a star that was only punished by the NCAA for breaking a rule that he knew was wrong just for $1,000. Somehow that seems a lot worse than the freshman’s misbehavior, which is something done by most of the freshman. I am not condoning it but then I also don’t condone AJ’s. I do think he should sit out the rest of the year as recognition of how his actions have harmed the team and the school. Let them the ones who have followed the rules, play the game. He can come back next year if he wants to be a DAWG.
TheTaxJacket
September 26th, 2010
6:45 pm
****** 2 – 7 last 9 SEC games ******
(((( 45 – 42 ))))
observor
September 26th, 2010
7:01 pm
Fire the incompetent boob. He is completely finished, and his team has stopped buying what he’s selling and completely checked out.
BDAWG
September 26th, 2010
7:09 pm
Lemay will not be a Dawg. Bobo and Richt will probably be gone after this horrible season and when that happens most recruits don’t understand that a better coach will be brought in to right the ship. Bobo should have never been given the playcalling duties and for those that want Richt to stay, look at the emotionless team and also Grantham’s demeanor since the SC game. I guess Richt didn’t want him to yell or curse at the players anymore. The program is too timid and it shows on the football field. Murray and Durham have played well but the rest of the team needs to be benched. We need to do a better job of recruiting RB and a meaner type of football player. Sad to keep singing the same song every week, but whether people want to face the fact or not, we need a new regime. It took Bobby Bowden a long time for FSU to start looking bad, but after ten years the UGA program seems to have lost its desire to compete for CMR and I do feel like it is all his fault because he is the captain of this Titanic.
BDAWG
September 26th, 2010
7:14 pm
Cullowheedawg you’re an idiot. One player does not make a team and his return won’t change anything due to the incompetent coach that is calling the plays and running the offense. Again, this is Richt’s mess due to his lack of leadership. 3-4 is not hard to learn. Just need the proper personnel and a dictator type HC to manage the program better. St. Richt needs to do more coaching and less preaching on the football field.
Snoop Dawg
September 26th, 2010
8:07 pm
If Richt wants to be a preacher, then he needs to build a church.
The Georgia Bulldog team needs a coach.
Mark Richt is not a coach.
Lineman003
September 26th, 2010
8:11 pm
I’m not givng up on Richt yet. I can remeber when Ga. fans were happy with a 8 and 4 season under Dooley. I think we might be a little spoiled. Mark is a good coach and will get it straightened out. I would start with taking the play calling back from BoBo. Which I have to admit I’m not used to this either. Come on coach you can do it.
ga. chick
September 26th, 2010
8:17 pm
I believe Mark Richt is not the problem. Bobo is. You have to be stupid to not see the plays, run 1st down, run 2nd down, throw 3rd. Duh!!!!!!! Even us girls can figure that out. Richt doesn’t want to be a preacher-he wants to set a good example. He lives what he preaches-do you Snoop Dawg.????? You think a devil worshiper would be a better coach?????
Dawg_Mike
September 26th, 2010
8:34 pm
Bobo is PART of the overall problem.
Take a look at the creative play calling by MSU last night- misdirection, bubble screens, quick slants, etc… this is some heady stuff for sure, so maybe it is all over Bobo’s head.
After all, the SEC is NO PLACE to cut your teeth as an OC.
Dawg_Mike
September 26th, 2010
8:36 pm
Another part of the overall program, and in my humble opinion is this:
The players are not motivated / geeked up / jacked up / whatever you want to call it. They are not inspired, they are not well prepared.
Dawg_Mike
September 26th, 2010
8:39 pm
Lifeless uninspired Defensive play.
I thought the D would echo the coach and be fiery…they did in the first game against La La but since then they are playing like little girly men.
Dawg_Mike
September 26th, 2010
8:41 pm
Special Teams play is nothing special- even Butler is not performing as well as he did last year.
How’s come?
Punt “coverage”…..standing at attention until the opposing punter kicks..no pressure at all.
How’s come?
Dawg_Mike
September 26th, 2010
8:42 pm
There are 3 players on this team with heart :
Murray
Durham
Gray
Dawg_Mike
September 26th, 2010
8:43 pm
D Backs:
I thought going into this season that the tandem of Hamilton and Rambo would bring us back to the Greg Blue days but all they have done so far is give me the blues.
Dawg_Mike
September 26th, 2010
8:45 pm
Offensive philosophy-
Get the ball into the playmaker’s hands….
Did anyone see Branden Smith on offense last night ? you know….without AJ we needed a playmaker or two…..
Dawg_Mike
September 26th, 2010
8:47 pm
Ok… I need to stop. I am killing me.
Please don’t misunderstand me. I love my Dawgs and only criticize because I want to see improvement and so far it aint happening.
DOO DOO LEE
September 26th, 2010
8:53 pm
you dog poops last season laughed at the GT win over Ms St and like every win they earned you would run your mouth how the opponent wasn’t any good although before the game you would run your mouth how GT was going to get beat. So if I find this comical losing at Ms St then I have a right, what goes around comes around
TheTaxJacket
September 26th, 2010
9:24 pm
(((( Fire Richt, battlefield promotion for BOBO ))))
Glory, glory to the Jackets, their truth is marching on!!!
GT76
September 26th, 2010
9:40 pm
Boys will be boys. You have to control them, teach them, coach them. Again, its not the players it the coaches. coach Richt is burned out or has some hiddeen personal problem (divorce?). He has lost control. The best for UGA is to fire now, bring in new blood and build for the future. It looks to me like a new coach brought in now would do no worse the Richt is doing. I’m a Tech fan but I feel your pain and want to play a strong UGA team in Nov. The state needs a strong Georgia and a strong Georgia Tech.
cmac
September 26th, 2010
9:47 pm
This program has arrived at it’s lowest point in the modern era. When you consider all of the alleged talent & the high dollar coaches, one has to wonder how the fans have been suckered into believing the hype!
Remember two weeks ago when UGA lost to S. Carolina? it was because they had the GREATEST freshman running back in the HISTORY of college football ….. WELL, this past Saturday against Auburn, the Greatest freshman running back in the history of college football rushed for 33 yards on 14 carries!!
And then against Arkansas, UGA lost to the BEST quarterback in the country …. WELL, this past weekend, in Fayetteville, before his home crowd, the BEST quarterback in the country blew a 20 – 7 lead with two terrible interceptions!!
Then against the vaunted offense & much feared defense of Mississippi State, UGA gave up 24 points & couldn’t score a touchdown until 1 minute to go in the game! PATHETIC!
This team & organization has pulled the wool over all of our eyes. While the other SEC schools are out getting good players & making them better, UGA is more worried about who is gonna be arrested or suspended! You have a coaching staff that is one of the highest paid in the country & they are producing results that are at the bottom of their league!
People whine & cry that “if we only had AJ Greene, we would be so much better”! YEAH RIGHT!! While he could probably run block, tackle, pass cover & devise better offensive schemes, non of these are included in the roll of wide receiver. Besides, it was his own idiotic actions that got him suspended!
So you fans keep drinking the koolaid & believing that it’s gonna get better! HA HA HA! It’s not.
If it looks like a duck & quacks like a duck & swims like a duck … IT’S A DUCK! This is team(?) that has been over-valued as high schoolers & poorly coached as players by an overpaid coaching staff.
I have attended 121 straight games (home & away). I have never missed a game in the Mark Richt era. I am a DAWG to the core. But, Colorado will be my last road trip with the current regime. I have had alot of great times & suffered through some low times as well. However, through it all, I always had the belief that UGA had a leader to keep the competitive & bring them back. I no longer feel that way.
The problem with this team starts at the top. Richt has had 10 years to have a system in place, recruit the right players, get the right assistants & get this program where it needs to be. Hell, he has $3 million reasons!! But he is not getting it done.
Anyway, you diehards keep on drinking that koolaid they are passing out!! While your at it, get a fresh sheet of paper out to keep tallying up those arrests!
BIG DAWG
September 26th, 2010
11:08 pm
I believe CMR should have let Bobo go with the other coaches last year and should have gotten a real OC but this makes you think maybe He doesnt want to get a good OC , thinks maybe it might make Him look bad as an OC but He should remember he is the Head coach and should have the best coaches He can get, winning games is what He is being paid high money for is a friend that cant perform as coaching worth losing His on job,others head coaches changes coaches all the time ” DISAPPOINTED BIG DAWG”
Flo-Ri-Duh!
September 26th, 2010
11:43 pm
I think that Mark Richt kicking Demetre Baker off the team after one offense was wrong. I know that he is frustrated with the poor showing at Miss State and he fed up with the DUI’’s, etc. but Baker was kicked off the team for doing far less than some of the players that only got suspended for two games..It is a difficult situation but this was his first offense and he is a freshman. Suspend him for 3 games the first time and kick him off the team the second time. We all deserve a second chance.
Flo-Ri-Duh!
September 26th, 2010
11:50 pm
cmac and you other closet Nerds and Reptiles need to take your hate some where else. You are all hypocrites. I doubt if any of you ever played a single down of football in your pathetic little lives. UGA lost a very close game to Arkansas – and #1 ranked Bama was lucky to escape Arkansas with a win on a couple of questionable calls by the refs. Arkansas dominated Bama for 3 1/2 quarters. Losing after such a great effort to Arkansas took a lot out of Georgia and they played hard the 1st half against Miss State but couldn’t get in the end zone. We are loyal to the Dawgs and Richt and we KNOW that UGA will rebound from this.
Flo-Ri-Duh!
September 26th, 2010
11:52 pm
GT76 – Tech is worse than UGA and it will prove out when they play.
bugsquacher
September 27th, 2010
1:38 am
i heard Mike Leach is available
Disssappionted Dawg Fan
September 27th, 2010
8:26 am
Georgia Bulldogs are SOOO bad,they would probably get beaten by the Georgia State Panthers. Kentucky and Vanderbilt, could beat them, with one hand tied behind their back. The only bowl, the Georgia Bulldogs,will be going to is the TOILET BOWL, THEY STINK.
Snoop Dawg
September 27th, 2010
8:44 am
ga. chick, I’m calling you out. It’s none of your business what I do or do not do. I am not the head coach of a fabled program in last place in the SEC drawing three million dollars a year.
You are factually incorrect. Mark Richt does not practice what he preaches. He is a slickster of the first order. He cannot coach, manage, discipline, motivate, or lead his players or coaching staff to the performance standards expected of the Bulldog Nation. UGA is the 7th best football program in NCAA history. It is disappointing that so many Dawg fans seem to be intoxicated by da Preacha Man’s sweet elixir of Koolaid. If the fan base does not demand results, you need to stay intoxicated because the Dawgs will lose until we hire a real ball coach. How many SEC teams would trade their coach for Markt Richt? Answer: None of them…
Snoop Dawg
September 27th, 2010
8:46 am
Richt needs to dismiss every player who was arrested off the team. We can recruit responsible players next year with more scholarships. This includes AJ Green. We don’t need convicts to lose…
Ray Ray Goff
September 27th, 2010
9:03 am
“Whe Green comes back we probably won’t lose another game”.
And you ran me out of town because I lost a couple of non SEC
games?
Is Green going to play defense now? What an idiot.
Our only hope is to work harder to get better. Call me
gdawginkalamazoo
September 27th, 2010
9:16 am
Holy cow! There is just no defending any of that crap from Saturday night.
I did not get to see the game. How ever just looking at the stats it appears that we had the passing game going on fairly early. What happened to that? Did we turn it over to the run?
Bring on Idaho State. I think.
Gatormeat
September 27th, 2010
9:29 am
When your football team is going to finish a season with more arrests than wins, you may need to take a look at what your doing. See you guys in Jacksonville, it’s going to be a very long day for you
Tom
September 27th, 2010
10:13 am
Why is Bobo even a coach? Does Richt have to bring him just b/c he played at Georgia? Lame!!!
Richt better get his stuff together. This is just pathetic.
nmdawg
September 27th, 2010
10:48 am
I weigh in like cmac…I have always, until now, given Coach Richt a “pass” becasue I believe he is a fine man with a good value system. I would be happy to have my son play for such a man. However, my son is not the same quality individual that many of the current Dawgs are. The current dawgs are recruited, it seems, mostly based on talent. Talent without character in many instances. The most recent arrest (assuming there has not been one today) is an example. Richt is also trying to make an example of the player. I am willing to bet that they have already discovered that the kid is not as he seemed from a football perspective, so they can throw him out and try to make a statement. A real statement would be to send AJ packing…however far $1000 will take him. Compliance officvers make it very clear what you can and can not do, and in his case the “agent” designation has nothing to do with the suspension or transgression. Richt looks disinterested, as do his players. Football is an emotional, violent game. Once on the field, it is very difficult to raise the level of excitment or emotion. The Dawgs are consistantly not prepared for the games they play.
Time for a new “Head Dawg” I an sorry to say. I wish Coach Richt and his family the very best, but believe we would be better off chasing the rest of the SEC with a different type of leader.
peachtype
September 27th, 2010
11:16 am
I will not get off Coach Richt’s back! He should have better control of his players. He’s the coach, he needs to bring some discipline to his team. They run amok and he seems to care less. If he is homesick for Florida, as has been stated by some here, then he needs to get back to Florida. What was he doing here anyway, if he loves Florida so much? He has done a great job in the past, but was it just luck and good players? Who knows? I say it is time for a change in the coaching staff for UGA. I hate the way things are looking now. I used to proud to be a Bulldog fan, but not any longer. ROLL TIDE!!!!
RamBone
September 27th, 2010
11:30 am
Washaun Ealey’s fumble – Shouldn’t that play have been called dead when his helmet came off?
Bigdawg87
September 27th, 2010
11:42 am
Tired of not blowing out the teams we should smash! Our team looks lazy and slow except for Murray, Durham, and Gray. Wake up coaches and rest of team and play with some heart, hustle and toughness! Watch Boise state and that is how they get it done!
DawginLex
September 27th, 2010
12:00 pm
We are looking at 4-4 or 5-3 heading to Jacksonville.
I thought we had a shot to hang with the gators and maybe pull one out hoping that the defense would get better by the end of the year.
now I say, just keep it respectable.
We can win the next one.
then go to auburn and watch Newton break the streak.
Then watch Tech run it down our throats while Murray plays Eric Zeier and tries to score enough to offset the defense.
Murray=Zeier
We have to stop recruiting morons like Ealey. We have to start doing what happened to Baker to all the players, regardless of year, playing status, ability etc.
Bobo must be fired.
Richt has to go back to calling plays and take this team over.
If he is not willing to do that, then he should leave too.
I’m hoping he is willing.
bruh bruh
September 27th, 2010
1:16 pm
We have no disclepline its quite redictulous.
BulldogDaddy53
September 27th, 2010
1:22 pm
Where have the MEN that wore the silver britches gone? This bunch of boys has not earned the right to wear the colors.
LHardingDawg
September 27th, 2010
3:58 pm
Gatormeat needs to sweep around his own doorsteps before talking about the Dogs.