What Greg McGarity has to say …

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aww man…just missed it

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I was disconcerted to hear Richt on the locker room show say that he didn’t know the extent of Kris Durham’s injury, nor did he know if Durham returned to the game. I am not a football coach, but what is he thinking about on the sideline? If he is not calling plays, shouldn’t he be managing strategy based on what is happening with the game flow and what he sees with the players he has on hand? He just sounded so disconnected from the process. Again, I am only watching the game, but I am thinking about who’s available, what we are capable of with our personnel based on what seems to work, basic strategy, and I am just a fan. Does he only decide whether to go for two, accept a penalty, or go for it on fourth down? That is the basis for my concern and I think a lot of other Bulldog fans.

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How about a 10 year deal with LA Lafayette. And then there is always Cedar Shoals or Clarke Central we can schedule. . .

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Time to go smoke the Buffs in Boulder this weekend!!! Go DAWGS!

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That’s too bad about the Oregon game. I was looking foward to that. I wish there were no patsies on the schedule and that every week was a possible loss for everyone. But I realize under the current system it’s in our best intrest to schedule nobodies outside of our SEC slate…. (you see what I did there? )

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Joe @ 9:21

Cancelling the series with Oregon was met with reciprocity by the Oregon AD as well.

Go DAWGS!!!!!!!!

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Whatever happens….

Go Dawgs!

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He is following the florida model. Play patsies early on and then get into conference play. I bet we won’t be opening with SC the 2nd game of the season down the road. I bet it will be the 3rd game of the year after 2 creampuffs.

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McGarity wants to play 7 home games a year. With the GT and UF games being home games in the same year (with UF being played in Jax) that means 0 OOC road games ever again. No major schools will schedule UGA in Athens without a return fixture. Looks like the Florida model with a bunch of directional schools coming in Athens to me.
I guess UGA isn’t going to be accepting any invitations to the Chik-Fil-A kick off.

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I don’t know if it was UGA or Oregon who initiated the talks but the games have been cancelled. What happens when one team wants to cancel the games????? They have to pay to cancel the games so the fact that there wasn’t a payout from either side tells me that it was a mutual decision that was beneficial to both sides. If it was only UGA who wanted to cancel the games then WE WOULD HAVE PAID. So it isn’t a UGA only decision. That said I wish they would have played the games.

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Well, I guess we can pretend like we are 4-0, Obama can pretend like the economy is on track, and I can pretend like I am a millionaire rock star. Wow, this pretending thing is fun, what is going on in reality??

Good grief, fire Bobo and take over the play calling again, it worked in 02 and 05. we have two games with 6 points??

Bobo is a complete moron, was in college and he is now today. Stafford and Moreno hid his lack of skill.

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RxDawg – I agree with you. Under the current system – where the only thing that counts for a strong team is who you have lost to, rather than beaten – scheduling patsies is the right thing to do if you want to play for a championship. Yet another argument for a playoff.

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THE FOLLOWING MUST GO>>the OD BOBO and Strength Coach who ever he is(old school) and finally the Running Back Coach(no improvement with the backs and they fall after contact and trip over there own feet). And yes we risk a chance of losing Lee May if certain coaches are let go but why BLOW TRADITION for ONE…GO DAWGS…GIVE EARLY NOTICE PLEASE DON’T WAIT .SHOW RESPECT TO INCOMING DAWGS AND THERE FAMILIES.

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From what I have read here, it seems many people think it’s fine for the Floridas of the country to do this, but not UGA. I agree with McGarity on his scheduling philosophy. The strength of schedule component was eliminated years ago. Do what’s best for your team. Make it as easy as possible especially since we play in the toughest conference.

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I HAVE A SUGGESTION FOR COACH MARK RICHT. A.J. GREEN DID NOT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT YOU OR THE TEAM WHEN HE SOLD THAT SHIRT TO A FELON. THIS SEASON IS
LOST. DON’T PLAY HIM. LET HIM MOVE ON “TO THE NEXT LEVEL”. AND LET THE TEAM MOVE ON AND TRY TO RECONSTRUCT A PROGRAM THAT IS CLOSE TO BEING LOST FOR A VERY LONG TIME.

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Everyone needs to chill on the Oregon situation. It was actually the new PAC-10 schedule that will begin next season that made the Oregon AD call us to cancel the series. Oregon thought the new series with UGA would be too tough and McGarity agreed.

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The SEC is a hard enough conference (obviously) to not throw other BCS teams on top of it until they can handle it. As it has been DULY noted, the Dawgs are 2-7 in the SEC over the last 9 games. Let’s get that in order and then worry about beating the other big boys. I like what he is doing. The Dawgs are not an elite team right now, and they haven’t been in years. This is all coming from a die-hard, dyed in the wool, win or lose Dawgs fan and supporter. I am also a realist.

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I agree with the AD 100%! I like the National Brand move, but you win some dang games and the National Brand will take care of itself.

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Has anyone noticed that it is what Florida does? You don’t see Florida scheduling Oregon, Colorado, and Oklahoma State but they are always in the hunt. I think what Evans was doing was hunting for media recognition. Win your games and you will get that. The SEC is a powerful enough conference that you dont’ have to play those other teams. Why handcuff yourself playing those guys and have to get through an SEC schedule.

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We should demand excellence,but we don’t stomp on people when they don’t perform up to our expectations or even their expectations. Is Bobo the right guy? Is CMR the right guy? Who knows, but we don’t need to kick them up and down for performance right now. We sure don’t need to do it in public. CMR is getting paid a lot of money to run a buisness. That is right, that is what it is. He doesn’t know the intricacies of every play at every moment. He sure doesn’t know who is in there at any time on any play. We should be mad. The players should be the ones really mad. Why not put all of this negative energy into pulling this team through, and figuring out what to do at the end of the year with the staff, not worrying about it right now. That is why they play 4 quarters, that is why they play 12 games. Floggings will continue until moral improves.

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If he schedules the cupcakes (just like FLA) and we get to Atlanta (just like FLA), not a one of you will be complaining.

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Whopper Dawg, You are correct.

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Whats sad is a Bama fan coming on a UGA blog.

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I was looking forward to matching wits with the Oregon duck but I understand McGarity’s “ducking” the game considering the way Georgia is playing right now. Rumor around here is that UGA is looking to schedule a game with a barber college. I hope that works out because I am interested to see what kind of mascot they will have. Coach is getting a bald spot and it is really showing up on television. Hair in a can, anybody?

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Russ must be another closet Tech fan. Go worry about your losing team before you come on here talking about us.

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Not sure I agree with UGA AD about schedules. In 2000, Bama scheduled Central Florida and lost.
In 1999, Bama scheduled La Tech and lost. In 2007, Bama scheduled LA-Monroe and lost. Rather lose to someone good than beat, barely beat, or lose to someone not. In 1978, Bama’s non- conference schedule included Southern Cal, Nebraska, Washington, and Missouri, plus seven SEC games, and the Sugar Bowl against Penn State. In 1978, Bama won the national title. Auburn’s non-conference schedule in 2004 is widely blamed for the fact that it could not get past # 3 BCS.
No team will win the national title without winning almost every game, but you sure won’t win it by playing 4 patsies, even if you win big. I long for the decade where Bama and Penn State played every year (1981-1990) and wish Bama would play even more higher caliber opponents than it has recently (FSU in 2007, Clemson in 2008, VaTech in 2009, Penn State in 2010 (plus Oklahoma in 2002 and 2003 and UCLA in 2000 and 2001 – all four these were losses but still better than losing to LA Monroe!!)

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It’s time to wake up and smell the coffee, y’all who are still in denial. This baby is the Titanic and it’s goin’ down, down, down. Honor demands that the captain go down with it.

Some of the remarks on these boards are just incredible. I see some people saying a new HC should be hired and Richt should become OC…yeah, that’ll happen…why is the guy gonna take a demotion when his contract has a fat buyout and he has a decade of SEC HC experience to leverage into another job if he wants? Sheesh. You guys kill me.

And then there are those who say the ‘Dawgs can’t shuck Mark to hire a Smart or Muschamp or someone who has only been an assistant or coordinator…um, excuuuuuuse me, but how much HC experience did Richt have when he was brought on?? Yeah, that’s what I thought.

Coaching changes can be hazardous, but standing pat in a poor situation is often worse. Act now and the future may still be salvaged. Wait and it could be five seasons plus before the ‘Dawgs are a factor in the SEC or BCS again.

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Folks screaming for CMR to take over the play calling from Bozo don’t remember why Bozo got the job to start with. Quite simply put, CMR play calling makes Bozo look like a genius.

Schools schedule patsies early in the year so Head Coaches can look tough of crime. It is easy to suspend Willie for 4 games when you have easy opponents for those 4 weeks.

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UT actually payed a 750K penalty to UNC for the cancellation. UGA/Oregon was mutual. No funds exchanged hands. That’s a BIG difference, some may disagree.

I’m on the fence about it, but as long as GT stays competitive, our schedule is plenty strong enough. I would like to see us keep Clemson and a few others on a somewhat regular rotation. Travel across 2 time zones is probably out of the question in the future.

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I’m not on here posing as a dog.

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Hope is not a strategy.

Our Offensive strategy is calling the exact same plays for 10 years and checking into the exact other plays based on a particular defense. All of the defenses in the SEC have figured out not only what play is initially called but what play we will check into as well. SEC Defenses solved the riddle 5 years ago. Yet there have been no changes in our Offensive strategy.

It turns out that we had a few stud recruits that were so good that they could overcome the fact that the defense knew what we were going to do. Well they are long gone…and the one difference maker we do have sold his jersey. Without those type of players our offensive strategy is exposed as outdated and ineffective.

I also notice that there is no change at all in this strategy based on the unique talents of certain individual players. Anyone remember Tyson Browning? We wasted that kid’s talent by trying to fit a square peg in a round hole…just as they are with Carlton Thomas today. Great coaches adjust their strategy so that their players will be most successful. Our strategy seems to stay the exact same regardless of the players and their different skill sets. (Possible exception here is the “Wild Dawg” which was really really innovative 4 or 5 years ago.)

They are always hoping that they happened to get the right guys for their unchangeable system. This system worked at FSU when the number of schollys allowed them to stockpile talent. We can’t do that. We do not have enough great atheletes anymore to overcome our antiquated Offensive Strategy.

2 options…either start getting those atheletes (good luck with Meyer and Saban poaching the very best every year) or change the offensing strategy.

Hoping ain’t getting it done.

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Dateline – Athens, Ga: An anonymous source is reporting that University of Georgia offensive coordinator Mike Bobo is set to step down this week to accept a post as “Assistant Fry Chef” with a local Hardee’s restaurant. Sources at the restaurant confirmed the story and admitted that Bobo has been secretly training for the position for 2 1/2 years. A coworker who wished to remain anonymous said “he’s ruined a s–tload of potatoes” and “this dude may put us out of business”.

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Bull crap! Bobo is the worst gameplanner and playcaller in the NCAA. My high school coach (Charlton County High) would have this same UGA team 4-0 right now.

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If Bobo is the answer, how stupid was the question?

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I like our new AD for the job. You can’t put a price on loyaly. But, everyone seems to be ignoring HOW Georgia got here and WHEN it started? This guy thinks it was with Alabama in ‘08. http://chuckoliver.net/?p=7063 I’m pretty sure it all started against Oklahoma state. But hey, I’m a homer.

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McGarrity will turn this program around and quickly. He will not threaten anyone; that is not Jeremy Foley’s style and he was McGarrity’s mentor for 17 years. Coaches not performing at Championship levels will be fired. Ask UF’s womens former basketball coach, Baseball coach and Ron Zook.

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Seven home games is good for the team, students, and Athens economy. We could have 7 home games and schedule interesting out of conference schools if we didn’t have to go to Jacksonville every year. That is something I want McGarity to change. Of all people, he should understand why this is an advantage for FL . We need to do a home and home with FL. Jacksonville is the arm pit of Flrodia. The FL and GA students can get plenty to drink in Athens and Gainesville.

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Look folks, the only people that are clamoring for these BCS, intersectional games are the jerks at ESPN. The sportsmedia types are trying to ‘drum up’ games that they think will have a larger, perhaps even national, audience. What do they care about our school’s situation…that we want as many home games as we can get in order to make as much money as we can…that traveling across the country for the amusement of the Herbstriet (sp) and that bunch doesn’t get us a damn thing, and just costs us money…and that playing in the SEC is tough enough without adding other ‘ranked’ opponents to the list that will only hurt our chances at what Mr. McGarity refers to as a ‘championship’ season. I mean if the idea of scheduling these high-profile intersectional games was Damon Evans’ idea then wouldn’t you, at least, question it’s advisability and his judgment?

As for our other ‘friends’ here. If you’ve ever heard of the word ’schdenfreude’, and even if you haven’t, it would appear that there are plenty of you guys – and it doesn’t seem to matter if you’re Tech, Florida, Tennessee, whomever – you’re having a field day with us about now. OK, that’s fine it only makes us more inclined to ridicule you when your losing. The concept for those that don’t know and don’t care to look it up, is the idea of getting ‘off’ on others misfortune…and you’re really taking advantage of that now. There are those that claim that people with ‘lower self-esteem’ are the most likely to engage in ’schdenfreude’…so go ahead, if it makes you feel better about yourself just ‘do it’. We’ll have our chance down the road and then we’ll feel better when we know that there’s somebody worse off than we are…isn’t human nature a wonderful thing?

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kerryb

September 28th, 2010
10:47 am
I’m not on here posing as a dog.

You should try it. A dog would have an excuse for misspellings.

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Richt could be in more trouble than his supporters think. I don’t think the new AD is going to put up with the bullcrap performance of Richt, the team, and the coaches. He’s (AD) used to being associated with those that are fully committed to taking the steps necessary to improve the situation. Richt is not one of those types. He’d better learn quickly or he’s toast.

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Sad Dawg…I have noticed that some of the the brightest spots in the last 4 games have been when the play call was garbage (or somebody screwed up) and Murray just took it upon himself to make a good play. You can’t prepare a defense for something that has never happened the same way before. Maybe Charlie Ward just had an uncanny ability to choose the right time to make a play…and he made plays so often that Richt didn’t try and coach that out of him.

It looked to me that Murray was scared to make a play on his own in Columbia. Richt and Bobo are trying to coach it out of him. It is a shame really. They need to just let this kid play…

Or they should quit recruiting Mobile QBs if they aren’t going to take advantage of that mobility! Shockley, Gray, Murray…all Richt Recruits. It is baffling.

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I have no doubt Richt and company can analyze film, and they use software for tracking the dawgs tendencies. All BCS schools do, to avoid becoming predictable. That makes me question a lot of the ‘expert’ advice on this site.

THe other point about being predictable is that a dominant team’s play calling is not difficult. Look at Alabama. Late in the game the play is almost always a run by the tailback. Almost everyone knows it, and they simply over power people. Once the run is working, all other plays become easier with play action. UGA can’t get the run working so nothing else is easy.

These is a lot of frustration right now but I for one expected a rough time with a new defensive scheme. Georgia rarely has recruited huge defensive tackles, so what was the plan for manning the nose this year? We have three players in this position, one (Tyson) playing out of position, another (Anderson) that played offense until this off season, and a true freshman (Gaethers). With a 3-4 you can bet the nose and inside backers need to play large or the team is in trouble.

My only complaint with Richt is his comment about blindly calling plays. I would expect the HC to know the strategy that was worked out during the week, and the adjustments made during the game.

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I don’t know why everyone is up in arms over the OU/UGA series being cancelled. The SEC schedule is tough enough. Tech really isn’t that tough of an opponent. They’ve won three games against Georgia in 20 years, which I think is par with Vandy and Kentucky. So Georgia shedules three cupcakes, GT, Vandy, UK – there is six wins. Then they 4-2 the rest between USCe, UF, UT, AU, SECe x2. That’s 10-2 most years with swings of 8-4 and 11-1. McGarity gets it.

Georgia fans whine like no one else.

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I think McGarity is approaching this predicament the right way. What this program doesn’t need now is more upheaval, and if he spent his time trying to please everyone or explain the Dept’s behavior, then he’s not doing his job. He’s been hired to keep the program profitable and make it something all UGA supporters can be proud of. That’s a whole lot more than just wins and losses. No doubt things need to be set straight. Let’s give him and CMR the chance to do that. McGarity deserves the opportunity; CMR’s earned the chance.

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Until we get a playoff system I don’t think anyone should blame us for scheduling patsies. Now that I think about it, the only true patsy we could schedule would be either team for the red and black game. Sorry for the frustration. Go out there and do your best Dawgs.

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Great so now we are going to play the Louisiana Lafayette’s of the world while Alabama is playing in the Georgia Dome on national television and continue to take whatever recruits out of the state that they want. I will tell you what the problem is with UGA. We don’t have anyone who has any balls!!!

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And Mark…Why on earth didn’t we scour the JUCO market looking for our own Terrance Cody? The coaches had to know we were small up front!

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Bobo shows no ability to call plays based on game situations or on personnel changes.

He should be calling plays for flag football.

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“Rain in?” Football isn’t the only thing suffering at my alma mater….

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Hey ELVIS………………..take a look at non-conference schedules for Alamaba, Florida, Ohio State, LSU………….keep going……………..Shut the hell up and make intelligent comments. Go back to dreaming of Elvis.

You idiots who want to complain need to stop. You don’t know what you are talking about and it’s obvious. Do the reasearch before you open your mouth!!

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I am disappointed in losing the Oregon Game. Think about it…5 years is enough time for them to go through 50 iterations of uniforms. By 2015 their unies might look like the members of GWAR…and frankly, that would be awesome.

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Fire Bobo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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If he is looking to win matchups, they are going to be playing 5A high school ball. Even then its a tossup!

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just admit you didnt want get embarrassed by the DUCKS , thuga U !!!

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@ producewiz – Fla plays FSU every year and has played both the Seminoles and Canes OOC in the same season 3 times since 2002 (happening again in 2013). During the 1990’s, UF had to play a Top 5 FSU team the week before each trip to Atlanta. Not exactly the softest OOC schedule.

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Bobo thinks the solution to a pass rush (like Ark) is to go play-action, which slows the QG even more from getting back to pass. Dammit, get in the ‘gun and throw a screen to either side, or roll out the pocket (if you must pass from the pocket) to slow down the pass rush.

It took Bobo until the 4th quarter to roll the pocket, and it resulted in Murray planting his feet and making a 46 yard strike. Naturally, he didn’t try it again.

Just because Bobo and Richt played QB in college doesn’t mean they are the best to design plays, or make adjustments vs a clever DC. They should be coaching QBs on drops, footwork, reading defenses and leaving the offense to a new whiz from the NFL.

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Dirty Dog:

Two words: Anger Management

It was the UGA athletic department and UGA blogs bragging about the OOC schedule last year, so the comment that only ESPN is interested in these matchups is simply not true. The other comments here validate the interest. Take a deep breath.

uuugh:

The AD did not say he was trying to win a BCS championship. He said he was trying to get UGA to Atlanta. Yes, the road to a BCS championship for an SEC team must go through Atlanta. But, the OOC schedule does not help or hurt UGA get to Atlanta.

Want an example how his philosophy might hurt UGA? How about Auburn a few years ago (2004?), who canceled a neutral site game in Atlanta against GT in order to schedule that extra home game against a weak team. Then, when there were three undefeated teams to chose from for the BCS title game, who got left out? Auburn, directly as a result of their decision to weaken their schedule with that extra home game.

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“The SEC is still two tiers with 2 or 3 good teams and a bunch of 7-5 teams. UGA is at the bottom of the lower tier.”
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Thanks for that brilliant analysis, Ace. So I guess that would put UGA in first or second in the ACC?

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WOW. Just when things couldn’t get any worse the dawgs start chickening out of games against big time nonconference opponents. So a team like Bama plays teams this century like OU, UCLA, Penn State, VT, Clemson, and Michigan which is looking better in 2012 and what does the Georgia ad do? He chickens out of big time exposure games against big time noncon teams. Are you kidding me?

This is why Georgia was a decent regional team for 50 years and never a nationally elite name like Alabama or UT. Its because those teams played huge noncon games over the years against huge name teams while UGA refused to leave the friendly confines of the immediate southeast for 58 years in the regular season. Freaking cowards! So back to being an ok regional team and leave the national spotlight games to the big boys like Bama.

Savannah dawg,

Put down the crack pipe. Ohio State in recent years played home and homes with USC when it was a power and Texas with Vince Young. Tennessee has been scheduling tough noncon games for years and so have the bammers. LSU played VT in 07 which finished 5th in the country that year. MSU played a 2 game series with Oregon not to long ago. Looks like the real bulldogs in this conference aint scared of the Ducks.

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CaptainDave, how exactly would scheduling a what, 6-6 or 7-5 Ga Tech in ‘04 have helped Auburn’s case for anything?

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Dropping Oregon and picking up Samford (no I didnt spell it wrong)…gotta love it!!!!!!!!

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I AM A SEASON TICKET HOLDER, PULLING THE PLUG ON OREGON IS A SLAP IN THE FACE TO THE FANS. SCREW RICHT AND McGARITY, I WILL BE RIPPING MY IDAHO STATE TICKETS IN HALF AND MAILING THEM BACK. THEY WILL NOT BE USED.

HELL, COLORADO, OK STATE AND AZ STATE SUCKED WHEN WE PLAYED THEM ANYWAY…WHAT IS THIS “WE ARE NOT GOING TO PLAY GAMES LIKE COLORADO” CRAP…WE SHOULD BEAT THEM!…AND I AM GOING!…$$$

ALABAMA PLAYS CLEMSON, VA TECH, MICHIGAN AND NOW TWO MORE GAMES IN OUR BACKYARD. I NOW PICTURE McGARITY AS THE KID IN THE SCHOOLYARD LOOKING TO PICKOFF THE BULLY WITH A SLINGSHOT FROM 50 YARDS OUT INSTEAD OF HITTING THE WEIGHT ROOM AND PROCEEDING TO ACTUAL BEAT UP THE BULLY.

UGH.

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Burdell, it worked for Florida.

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The answer for the games no one wants to see , is for the SEC to play more SEC games. As the schools want more and more money, the expectation that playing Southeast Weatern Iowa is getting really old. I get 8 season tickets but that may change completely next year is Richt is still coach. The way things are going we may even lose to some of the these high schools. The coaches want to count these wins in their won loss record but these wins just don’t count. We are 0 and 3 right now and it’s going to get a lot worse. Richt appears totally uninterested. Five plus years of not coaching and I don’t think he remembers how. He can’t coach and can’t manage, what does he do?

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Ford Commercials…

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UGA cancelling the Oregon series. Put that tail between you leg and run. Guess the UT/Oregon game scared Athens off! Woof, Woof, Wimper, Wimper!

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this guy is soft. taking the path of least resistance. the oregon series would be tremendous

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Dawghater – that is hilarious! Ealey has single-handedly ruined the season so far – and if Richt had been consistently strict (rhyme intended) perhaps UGA is 3-0.

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Right on NC Dawg, we play it the toughest conference why would you want to schedule anything else. The last 4 NC have been from the SEC, get a life people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Greg, if you want to do everything to help us win championships, you will terminate this one-sided affair in Jacksonville ASAP and make the games home-and-home.

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Buford recruits better than Rich Rod that is why…

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On the uniforms………………….Oregon and UGA could have switched up every quarter on the uniforms.

UGA could wear there combination of the red and black hats with RED, WHITE, or BLACK jerseys, and have gray, black, red, or white pants to do a black out or a red out.

And of course Oregon has 100 uniforms due to they are close to NIKE. You could have GLAMOUR magazine along wiith NEXT TOP MODEL there to look on.

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The last 4 titles were won by those same two teams UF ALA. That does not make the conference tough just those two teams with the rest riding their D@&**

seriously

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The lack of basic knowledge about UGA and scheduling is funny to me. Many of UGA’s rivals have 8 home games EVERY YEAR, and McGarity wants 7, and some are freaking out.

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The AD has it right. The answer is to just play weaker teams not to get all worked up about our poor play. Why don’t we just transfer to another conference where the going is easier like the Ivy League? Or the way we’re going we could play prison teams like SingSing or Levinworth or the prison guards like in The Longest Yard. While we’re at it we could change our mascot to the poodle and bring in some pink uniforms.

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O1Hawk- are you kidding me? Alabama played Penn State this year exactly because they were afraid to play them a few years ago and BEGGED Penn State to push back the series. Talk about being cowards!

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I hear the Red Panty Petunias are available for a game next year. Can we schedule, can we?

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db- not sure if you’re confused or brilliant since you managed to take shot at both Evans- who promoted a national schedule- and McGarity who wants a soft, Gator-like provincial schedule.

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As a UGA fan since ‘74, I have supported the team through good times and lean times equally. However, I find the new scheduling philosophy disappointing. Why can’t we be better than UF, is our envy so overpowering that they have regulated us to such cowardice? I find it humiliating that we have admitted that the program is not capable, or will ever be able, to handle the adversities of OOC’s. This general philosophy that permeates the entire Athletic Department is the primary reason UGA will never be National Power. To be truly Great, One must be truly tested. All the home games against all the La-Laffayettes will ever erase that since of inferiority.

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Dale – I agree…but also remember when beating Auburn, Florida, and Tech made our season. Now we celebrate vandy, kentucky….It is easy to see how far we have fallen based on the excitement of who we beat…which this year has been no one.

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Tim Jennings on MNF for the Bears…could not cover himself in bed at UGA….but playing in NFL

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Tide Roll- get back on your meds young man.

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what about the other 9 arrest? It acutally took you 10 arrest to say you had enough? TEN? And then only because you are o-3 in the SEC. If you were 3-0, doubt if you would have had enough. Yeah, get the FL athletic director to schedule pitiful div 3 Charleston Southern on the schedule. Could that be anymore shameful? Is that what 5 stars are for? Does it take 5 stars to beat these people? I guess at UGA it does

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if you do schedule a game with Charleston Southern, make sure it is at their stadium, which by the way looks like a junior h.s. stadium. High school kids would not even play there.

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do you think with McGarity’s new scheduling philosophy, that there might be a chance to get out of the Jacksonville debacle each year? Either by going back to the campuses or by rotating game between Jacksonville and Atlanta.

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hobnailbooty…..there is no payout with the cancelled Oregon series. It was reciprical.

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I’m more concerned if other teams start scheduling us as their patsy….could that actually happen? Hope not.
Been following the dogs since the late 60’s and one thing I know that all of you seasoned guys remember, we didn’t win them all under Dooley, but the games we played in, the opponent knew they were in a DAWG fight from start to finish.
Even if we lost, we could walk off the field with our heads high. Remember those days???
We have to get back to that way of thinking and playing…we have to be the dreaded team on anyone’s schedule.

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You people worry about the wrong things, take one game at a time and everything else will work out.
And for goodness sake beat Colorado and don’t embarrass the SEC.

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What a numb-skull statement. “We’re going to act like we’re 4-0.”

Thank gawd I’m not a Georgia fan so I don’t have to hear that sort of garbage on a regular basis.

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The ACC has nothing to do with UGA’s sorry showing, funny how childish some of you fans of a losing program can be.

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thwg

Boise plays a tougher schedule than UGA?

OK now you’re just retarded. Did you ride the small bus to school?

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Turning over all the coaches except the main one simply postpones the inevitable similar to Auburn and Tenn situations…fix it ALL at end of the season…

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UGA is the cupcake this year, here your chance to spoil somebody’s homecoming.

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IT IS TIME TO FIRE MARK RICHT!

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Ace did you happen to catch the Bug game Saturday…talk about a losing program…NC State is a decent program..but Kansas… Florida Dawg I remember the Dooley Days…and if you think we had any reason to hang our heads after the ARK game..we were watching different games..at SC we didn’t play well ran into a very good running back and lost but we didn’t quit..last week I really can’t say that we should of beat Miss St but we didn’t deserve too.I like the new AD’s approach to this turmoil so far fair and measured with more of a “lets take a good look and decide what needs doing” rather than a “off with their heads” mentality.

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One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting
different results. A pattern of decline seems to be apparent to many. Most
fans don’t want to hear that we will “keep working” to get better. Why?
Because most of us do not doubt the work already done by the coaches and
players. They have worked hard, but, so far, it has not worked. Maybe
something in the way things are done needs to be changed. I am sure that
there are many good ideas out there, but here are mine:

My Prescription for the dawgs:

Practice:
All through spring and fall camps and every week of the season,
there are too many “limited” contact days ( Shorts and Shells or less ). More
full contact to get ready to really play football. Eliminate THUD ( whatever that
acronym stands for ) and tackle to the ground. When I was in high school, we
were in full pads nearly every day and always had full contact work. Seems to
me we need this based on our tackling. And full speed, full contact work can’t
be bad for the blockers either. Blocking sleds don’t try to dodge you and no
matter how hard they are to push forward, they don’t really push back against
you. No more 1’s vs. 2’s only. Must have some 1’s vs. 1’s, and substitute as in
a game. I know this may result in more injuries, but the players we have playing
won’t be as “soft” as they appear to be now. The old saying is that you play the
way you practice, so practice needs to be tougher than a game.

Conditioning:
I have said this before: I think that there is too much emphasis on
strength and too little on conditioning. When I was in high school, everyone on
the team had to be able to run a six minute mile, and it wasn’t just at the
beginning of fall practice. We might have to “qualify” at any time during the
season, especially after a loss. We appear to be weak in terms of
cardio-vascular conditioning. I am not totally sure why this is. We don’t see
much film of S&C work, so I may be wrong about this part, but it seems to me
that we could use more endurance, even with a slight loss in the strength
department. The question that comes to mind: When we see players “taking a
play off”, is it because of endurance problems? ( see above about practice:
the game should be easier than the work in practice and in conditioning )

Defensive scheme:
I can live with CTG’s 3-4, even without a mammoth nose tackle.
Whoever is playing nose must beat his man by either pushing him back, or by
getting around him. When that happens, someone else will have to “help the
center” and that will clog the middle and keep the “helper” off the linebackers. I
like that CTG is teaching the “philosophy” of the scheme, so that there is
understanding of what the defense is trying to do by the players. But, I am
also a proponent of KISS, and maybe the defensive playbook is too
complicated. Haven’t seen it, so I don’t know. I do know that in college
football, there will always be a greater number of new players than what a pro
team will usually face, so KISS is still somewhat appropriate even after the 1st
year of a new defensive system.

Offensive scheme:
I don’t care who “calls” the plays, so long as they are called with
some thinking behind them. There are some simple things that seem to work in
the game of football. If the “box” is stacked at the line and is tight, find a way to
go outside. Quick screens are the nearly universal response to a defense that
is blitzing heavily. When the defensive line is penetrating, you don’t call a play
that starts on the right side of the backfield and is designed to go wide left. In
short yardage, if you need to pass, you should try to run routes that create a
short zone where there are more recievers than defenders. “Blind” play calling,
whether for runs or for passes, is not acceptable after the initial series of plays.
Something must be done to keep the defense guessing, instead of apparently
being sure about the play that is coming next. I could even let AM call the plays
on the field.

Trust me, I AM a Doctor! Specifically a Veterinarian, so I know how to fix dogs.

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Just wondering, what would you had rather had last year, a win against U.L.L. or a loss to Oklahoma State. It great if you win these big games, but a killer for the season if you lose, in the end it is about campionships (not that we know what that’s like in Athens).

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Whats sad is you “kerryb”, this blog needs a hellava lot more Bama, Florida and a yea, Ga Tech. If we don’t have a good football team at least walking around our campus IS exciting. The drive by’s, the armed robberies, the hookers, what a life. YOU need to get out more.

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University of Excuses

Yeah, because FSU has been a real powerhouse in this decade!! Florida out of conference scheduling is a joke. Need I remind you that your program DROPPED Miami in the early 90’s at the height of their dynasty. And the SEC in the 90’s was NO WHERE near as tough as it is now. I’ll give the Gators credit for their recent run, and as a program they are light years ahead of UGA. But I don’t see them scheduling any Oklahoma State’s or Pac-10 teams on their schedule. Its not so much the out of conference scheduling that is killer as it is the TRAVEL! This isn’t the pros: these kids aren’t used to traveling from coast to coast, then having to turn around and play a tough conference opponent the next week. Hell that’s even tough for Pro players! Yet the UGA fanbase thinks that will give them more credibilty with the BCS? I say pattern yourself after the winning program in you division. Florida pays their conference schedule and then finishes with their ACC “rival”, at the end of the year. UGA should do the same thing.

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Agreed 2004…with all of it. I don’t care if we schedule UL-L 3-4 times a season. Playing a decent team every other weekend at most is the way USC and Ohio State made it to so many BCS games! Not going to say that UF didn’t earn their NC trophies–they did–but they never did it undefeated like is usually required from other conferences–did they?

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The first thing I want McGarity to address concerning the football schedule is why are we playing Florida in Florida every year. Don’t get me wrong, UGA still has to win the game. But why is UGA letting Jacksonville have that revenue instead of Athens every other year?
A number of years ago I had tickets for the game and when I called to make reservations the room that cost $50 the week before was going for over $200 a night the week of the game and then going back down the week after. Even back then I could easy afford $200 per night but my self respect and integrity could not support being screwed that bad, so I gave the tickets away. I will never see a game in Jacksonville. I hope some day I will get a chance to see one in Athens and Gainesville.

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if we ever do get a new coach please hire a proven one at the college level or higher. PLEASE DO NOT HIRE AN OFFENSIVE OR DEFENSIVE CORD>

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when Richt was hired at Georgia Bobby Bowden said he was too nice to be head coach. He was just kidding or was he.

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We would be undefeated..every year! Ray Goff would still be coach cause we would always be ACC “Champs”..just like last year.

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MS Bully thanks for that…I couldn’t agree with you more.

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recruit some players that care and we will start getting behind them. Richt needs to sit the team down and make them watch the Falcons replay tonight. show them how to tackle play with intensity and maybe Mike Smith can rub off on Richt. did anyone listen to call in show last night. His voice put me to sleep. Please get some emotion.

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College Football is going to explode. Too much money involved. Georgia is the first to go. High School Football will be next. The end of the game is near. Sandlot Football will be whats left.

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Michael Vick knows what to do with a dog that refuses to fight.

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I think if we had given Ray Goff “one more year because he earned it or was a good man”, he would have won national championships…

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we are going back to cupcake U for out of conference…..That just S@X

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For all the critics who do not want to go the scheduling direction that McGarity wants need only to look at the other SEC schools and how they schedule. Bama, Florida, LSU all use this model. Since 2006 those schools account for five national championships. What do you want? Do you want one of the toughest schedule in the nation? That’s what you have. The result? Or, do you want SEC championships and NC’s. The answer is obvious, stupid.

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Sounds like we got ourselves an AD finally!

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sorry disagree with you eddie dick, but you can’t argue with florida’s success . . . a couple of “pre-season” games and an off week before the GA/FL game almost every year has worked out well for them.

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The people trashing McGarity are the biggest FOOLS on the planet, unless you are happy with downward spiral Richt has this team on. McGarity will lay the law down with Richt-man up or we will someone who will.

Georgia is not in as bad a shape as the Gators were with the Zooker, great recruiter, poor coach.
McGarity had a part in that firing and the hiring of Meyer.

Just an observation about why the dawgs aren’t beating the Gators with any consistency, Richt is just flat-out out coached. Meyer didn’t win 3 National Coach of the Year awards for nothing, Richt just doesn’t match up with Meyer or Saban and that’s not going to change.

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Boca Baby–it was Dooley who had UGA back out of their part of the commitment to traveling out to Pasadena and Provo in the 80’s.

Before UGA played Arizona St the last time the school traveled west of the Mississippi river was against U of Houston in the mid-60’s.

The team hasn’t gone north of Lexington since a game vs Michigan in ‘65.

Just when the program was steping-up and making strides in strengthening the schedule McGarity is ready to bring back the cupcakes again.

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He must be bringing the Florida scheduling mentatlity with him to UGA. Can someone please tell me (aside from Miami & Florida State) where has UF traveled to play a FCS game outside of the SEC??

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Great! So now I get to pay for ANOTHER sh*tty home game. Thanks! I was missing my thierd Idaho State game. I’ll be happy to shell out another $120 for another directional state team to come to town.

The hits just keep on coming.

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Moron!

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roll tide could be telling the TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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TXDawg (The Real TXDawg)

If I were you, I would worry about losing to Miss State and forget what Florida has scheduled——-they are doing very well without your help. Yes, McGarity brought the Florida mentality with him along with TWO NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RINGS, what do you have?

PS we will call you when we need you————–just don’t hold your breath

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McGarity is righting the ship? To where, Cupcake City? Embarrassing!! And what about punishing Ben Jones? I don’t want the young man affiliated with our school with the crap he pulled on Saturday night to the DL from Miss St!!!

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All the morons on this post who are all upset about not playing top teams early in the season are either bone head tech fans or just plain dumb, those games don’t help you at all, you still have to win the SEC title game to even have a chance at the National Champ.

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Timmy Dog

I agree about Ben Jones, but I heard it was Boling, regardless you are for sportmanship and I congratulate you. We need more of that in college sports. I’m all for teams lining up and shaking hands after the game like almost all other NCAA sports.

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Funny, I just don’t feel 4-0. Magarity, is that some holdover FL philosophy?

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Bunch a thugs

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It would be more interesting to hear how Mark Richt plans to turn things around. So far, all we have heard is “looking within”. I don’t know what that means. But, he could buy himself some credit if he would just open up some about real changes that are going to be made.

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Honest to God some of the UGA fans posting here have to be the dumbest people on the planet. How does it make sense to play teams clear across the country and come back the next week and play SEC opponents? Besides, the decision with Oregon was mutual and McGarity made it clear that if Oregon had wanted to keep the series UGA would have honored the commitment. Under the previous model of ranking it might have earned you some respect, but under the current model it does nothing to help and has the greater potential to hurt. And the moron who says UGA should kick AJ off the team is the biggest idiot of all. He has paid the penalty and it’s time to move on. You didn’t see Ala kicking their player off the team did you? Now is the time to get behind the team and show support not try to trash the team unmercifully. There will be plenty of time to discuss later but we have the head coach now that we will have for the rest of the season. It’s OK to criticize, but goodness sakes do it with intelligence and respect. I am actually embarrassed to admit that some of you are UGA fans and hope to goodness you are just fans and not UGA graduates.

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UGA fan and Graduate – playing a team across the country is feasible with appropriate scheduling. Playing outside of your region has a positive effect on pollsters as well. Most pollsters don’t know most teams outside of their region and vote based on scores. If they actually have the opportunity to see teams play, they develop a different level of respect (good or bad). This has been going on since the start of football. There were great team in the south (including UGA) in the early years of football but because most of your national papers only covered the team in the north and midwest, they garnered better rankings. Check the history, this is factual. Notre Dame in it’s great days played teams all over the map and never complained about how it affected them from one week to the next. so don’t give me that crap about how stupid it is to schedule west coast teams.

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I don’t think we should be so concerned about the future schedule when we are having a real problem with the current one. It is all about winning games.

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Anyone not complaining about another home game that isn’t good to watch is clearly not a donating and paying season ticket holder.

I’m loyal to a fault, but come on! I don’t want to pay for a 7th home game if it’s going to be a crap game. I’ve got three tickets and adding another $120 to my season ticket bill for basically nothing isn’t something I appreciate.

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laughable schedules make us look big and strong….look what playing Laf LAU did for us…..everybody called us A+ , the dark horse. we were so awesome in that game… lets do that 12 times a year and call our selfs National Champs !

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How about a little support instead of all the BS..It does no good but makes School look bad.

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Would have been interesting had Aaron Murray been caught for the DUI and not a redshirt kid not playing

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Auburn hasn’t won crap? Really? A couple of undefeated seasons and looks like things are pretty good on the Plains in 2010. Go get em Dawgs.

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I agree with Mike S. Give up the playcalling Bobo!

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Get Raye…the OC that the 49’s axed.

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Oh great – sounds like UGA is going back to powder puff schedules – to where they only play 2 or 3 real competitors a year. Sounds to me that there will not be anymore OSU, CUs, Arz, Oregons’ etc. IF UGA and the rest of the SEC like to talk about the dominance over other conferences – why cut-out regular season games with them??
Quoting from the above blog “McGarity’s basic philosophy is that Georgia should have seven home games per season and should schedule in a way that maximizes the chances of winning championships. “Granted, it may not be the big matchups that everybody loves to play, but I can assure you this: You have to do what is the best scenario for you to get to Atlanta [to play for the SEC championship],” McGarity said. “

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To – UGA fan and graduate – As the previous poster just stated – who made you the blog English police? When did these blogs become an English dissertation? Maybe you should take a look at your on posts before criticizing others. There are numerous punctuation errors and your sentence structure really sucks. Hmm – you just might be a UGA grad.

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Wow, sounds like I hit a nerve. Some posters really missed the main point of my comment, which is to stop being so negative. Some in our fan base are really showing very poor taste and are making the situation much worse than it is. I have been a UGA fan for over 50 years and have seen a lot of ups and downs and believe me the world is not coming to an end. I want UGA to have a winning season as much as the next guy, but the stupid comments that some “so called fans” are making are hurting us rather than helping. It’s fine to criticize because it is a frustrating situation, but please do it in a respectful way. I’m sure many recruits are watching the reaction of UGA’s fans and questioning whether they should commit to a school that has such fair weather fans.

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jon gruden!!jon gruden!!

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matt dawg

September 28th, 2010
9:48 am
THE FOLLOWING MUST GO>>the OD BOBO and Strength Coach who ever he is(old school) and finally the Running Back Coach(no improvement with the backs and they fall after contact and trip over there own feet). And yes we risk a chance of losing Lee May if certain coaches are let go but why BLOW TRADITION for ONE…GO DAWGS…GIVE EARLY NOTICE PLEASE DON’T WAIT .SHOW RESPECT TO INCOMING DAWGS AND THERE FAMILIES.

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This, but with better spelling

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