Branden Smith not expected to play against Vols; Stripling’s season over
A couple of injury updates:
Georgia expects to be without cornerback-punt returner Branden Smith for Saturday’s game against Tennessee in Sanford Stadium.
Smith suffered a concussion in the first half of the Colorado game, his second in the past three weeks.
“I don’t think he’ll play” this week,” coach Mark Richt said Sunday.
Also, Richt said freshman linebacker T.J. Stripling, who left the Colorado game with a knee injury, will undergo surgery this week to repair a torn patellar tendon.
Richt said Stripling won’t play again this season but should make a full recovery. Stripling has been playing on special teams.
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BOTTOM LINE
October 3rd, 2010
8:03 pm
The Bottom line is Richt stays and Bozo leaves. Richt’s comment,.. that was are most basic running play! No kidding. Colorado knew that, that’s why there was so much pressure. Typical Bozo call.
RxDawg
October 3rd, 2010
8:04 pm
Guys don’t fight, that’s what Urban wants us to do!!!
Hehe, nah in all seriousness we suck. But hey, it can only go up from here right?
GT man
October 3rd, 2010
8:14 pm
I am a GT grad and as much as I have dislike for uga, I am not for injuries. I saw the pain and tears on Stripling’s face and really felt bad for the young man. I really wish him a speedy recovery and hope he graduates and succeeds in life.
CONFEDERATE DAWG
October 3rd, 2010
8:16 pm
WHAT DID TJ STRIP DO ON HIS GT VISIT????
COME ON DAWGS!!! LETS GET IT!!
dan mullen
October 3rd, 2010
8:16 pm
it’s hilarious to see you all implode. uga is the dook of the sec. you are truly a doormat.
Dawg Tard
October 3rd, 2010
8:16 pm
It’s kind of sad to see all the Dawg fans getting so excited this year (just like the year before, the year before that, etc.). How long is it going to take for UGA fans to realize that UGA is simply no longer relevant in the SEC? In the national picture, UGA isn’t even a blip on the radar, and hasn’t been since the preseason #1 ranking two years ago.
Sit back and be grateful for the seven or eight wins you’ll get every year. Coaching genius Mark Richt may take you to 8-4 or even 9-3 occasionally, but Florida will still win the SEC, meaning no BCS bowls and no top 10 final ranking. Most years, UGA will be very lucky to finish in the top 25, and only after a big bowl win over a nobody opponent.
It’s a different world now, and Dawg fans need to adjust their expectations downward to reflect reality.
Unfortunately nothing is going to change until UGA changes its mediocre coaching. That’s where the difference is, and that’s why everyone outside Dawgtard Nation just laughs at Dawg fans getting so excited year after year about what a great recruiting class UGA gets. It doesn’t matter how many blue chip high school players go to UGA, they simply don’t get the coaching they would get at Florida or Alabama, to name two schools whose programs are far ahead of UGA. And that’s not going to change as long as Mark Richt is in Athens.
Get your heads out of the sand and face reality. And mediocrity and irrelevance. And red panties.
Tennessee 31, Georgia 17.
Helsing
October 3rd, 2010
8:19 pm
1 win
4 loses
10 arrests
Millions of red panties
1 Fulmer/Richt Cup
Dogs really Smell
October 3rd, 2010
8:24 pm
Good lord if we really marked it down everytime one of those Homers promised a win I would have stock in Bic ! Georgia You’re 1-4 ! With a few more losses to come”Mark it Down” !
edumacated
October 3rd, 2010
8:25 pm
People who tell people that they aren’t real dog fans are officially retarded. Yes, I’m talking to you Ted Striker and Gainsville Dawg.
Observe & Report
October 3rd, 2010
8:29 pm
Hate to see the injuries, especially in a lost season. But that’s football.
Bryant-Denny Stadium 4th largest on campus
October 3rd, 2010
8:31 pm
Offensive linemen not pleased in second half
Vlachos put the blame squarely on the shoulders of the front.
“In the second half, we did absolutely nothing on offense. I’m glad our defense came to play for 60 minutes because it sure didn’t look like our offense did. Hats off to them for the way they played tonight,” Vlachos said.
“You’re always happy when you beat a team like them, (ranked) in the top 10, 31-6, but I’m not happy with how we played the whole game. We’ve got a lot of room for improvement.”
Helsing
October 3rd, 2010
8:33 pm
I like oriental boys.
Worn and Weary
October 3rd, 2010
8:34 pm
I just want to see the team stay together and try to win one…
ugabean
October 3rd, 2010
8:36 pm
I’ll take any tickets that anyone wants to get rid of this season. Still love my dawgs!
I Believe
October 3rd, 2010
8:36 pm
The Jawja puppy fans are about as big of joke as their joke of a team.
Jim
October 3rd, 2010
8:37 pm
Two things: One, the Dawgs are so undisciplined, everyone knows about the 10 arrests and Richt chooses to look the other way but now some guy (#25 on defense) can get three personal foul flags in the same game and even commit the penal that allowed CU to score the winning TD. I guess Richt never felt it necessary to fix that behavior. Second, AJ is the entire team. Who knew that all this time, Richt was not recruiting any other playmakers. Guys, you don’t face 1-4 under a coach that is in his 10th season without sanctions. Such shame that Richt turned out to be nothing more than a nice guy who would rather be your friend than your coach.
bonairedawg
October 3rd, 2010
8:38 pm
GAINSVILLEDAWG YOU GOT IT RIGHT! A REAL DAWG FAN! LOTS OF US OUT HERE. I DONT HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS LIKE SOME OF THESE “gurus” GO DAWGS!!!!
I Believe
October 3rd, 2010
8:39 pm
The Jawja bull puppies have been bent over and it broken off in their neuterd bodies.
Sick Of Fair Weather Fans
October 3rd, 2010
8:40 pm
I support UGA…I support CMR!
DAWGS forget these fairweather fans….you have my support!
Pitbull
October 3rd, 2010
8:44 pm
Vols won’t only win. They will probaby win big. The are a very well coached team. Unlike Ga, they play a very sound defense! They don’t run around in circles like Ga does on defense. Ga has a real problem on it’s hands as does Richt.
bonairedawg
October 3rd, 2010
8:44 pm
ME TOO!!!!
Just a UGA Fan!
October 3rd, 2010
8:45 pm
kiss recruiting goodby! Who in their right mind would want to play with people who do not pull their weight. I’m talking about coaches and players. We did not play that bad Sat. night, but UGA can find more ways to screw up a ball game than Carter got liver pills. 3 fumbles 3 losses! UGA needs to cash in the bank to get Cromwell, but 1st see if can hold on to a football! Right now UGA #@&*^#@!()($#%&!
Snoop Dawg
October 3rd, 2010
8:45 pm
Snoop Dawg says that Gainesville Dawg andJed Clampet are the problems in the Bulldawg Nation. They think that by apologizing for our sorry coaching staff and Gangsta Thugs’ behavior that this is true blue. Au contraire! Hillary Clinton was a codependent, and so are these fossils.
True Dawgs call a spade a spade and demand excellence on the field. The entire coaching staff is a joke. They have totally ruined our football program. They need to exit stage left asap.
These Apologists talk about what a righteous man Mark Richt is. OK, let’s see. He can read in his Bible that a man must earn his pay. Richt has not earned the 3.5million dollars that Water Girl is counting and accounting for him every day. If he were really what he claims to be–a righteous man with honor– he would acknowledge how he has wrecked our Dawg Nation, he would admit that he is a coaching fraud, an imposter, and he would resign.
Any takers that this slickster will resign? No, we will have to pay him off in order for him to leave our program in shambles while he and the Water Girl head for the border with about 20 million dollars of UGA’s money.
ddawg
October 3rd, 2010
8:46 pm
Let’s just blame it on the mascot. We’re having to play without UGA VIII, you know.
Glenn
October 3rd, 2010
8:48 pm
I will be a little surprised if the Dawgs beat Tenn. They just find a way to lose. What can I say.Boooboo has to go. I hope the one or maybe two games the Dawgs come out and score a few points save his job. CMR I like you a lot but it took me three years of wishing to get a new defensive coach, if you don’t get rid of Bobo the heat is going to be on you. That a fact jack!!!!
ryan
October 3rd, 2010
8:48 pm
Bobo = Earnest T. Bass !
College Football Expert
October 3rd, 2010
8:48 pm
the number of richt haters increases every week. And they’re getting louder. Could it be the thuga alums are wising up and gonna run this bum out of town?
OLDBUT KNOW
October 3rd, 2010
8:50 pm
Better think hard dog fans about replacing CMR. Look at all the coachs Bama went through before they got the right one. Also Tenn. and Tenn still doesn’t know if he’s gonna be sucessful. Why in the world do you people think some great “Vince Lombardi” is gonna drop out of the sky and lead UGA to Glory is beyond me. Face it fans UGA does’nt have the sucessful history of most other programs, and please don’t bring up some past history of how great UGA has been. Nobodys gonna read it.
UGA fan and graduate
October 3rd, 2010
8:52 pm
Dawg Tard,
what is sad is how often you get on UGA blogs and take the time to write extensively about UGA football. Wonder why you hate UGA so badly. Were you denied admission? Are you a Tech geek who was rejected by a UGA girl? Are you an Alabama redneck who feels inferior to Georgians? Just cannot figure out why someone is so obsessed with writing on UGA blogs. Yes we are down now, and have been for a year, but it simply is not true that we have always been irrelevent. And yes, Alabama has great coaching now but they were very down just a few years ago. By the way, I am a graduate of both Alabama and UGA and I’ll take UGA with a loosing team anyday of the week over attending Alabama with a winning team. I don’t know anyone in the state of Georgia who would choose to go to Alabama if they could get into UGA. I have been a UGA fan for over 50 years and have seen enough football to know that no one stays up forever.
I Believe
October 3rd, 2010
8:56 pm
It’s the scout teams fault.
Snoop Dawg
October 3rd, 2010
8:58 pm
Oldbut Know, did you know that UGA has the 7th most lifetime wins of all NCAA teams? There are six programs with more wins than UGA. Yes, Bama is one, but Tenn and Fla are not. We can attract the very best, not just the assistants with UGA mafia ties.
We may or may not find our dream coach immediately, but we are burning daylight sitting here watching the Bulldawg Nation implode. If the next guy doesn’t get results, we’ll fire him too.
The best way to get something done is to begin.
We begin by getting rid of da Preacha Man Markt Wrecked and his entourage of clowns.
Either climb on board or step aside… If you don’t get on board I’ll be sorry, sorry for you….
BDAWG
October 3rd, 2010
9:00 pm
UGA has no chance to win any remaining games unless the defense learns how to stop the other team. All these missed assignments are getting old and if they can’t get the job done, put somebody else into the game. The RBs have got to learn how to hold onto the ball. We need to recruit better RBs, WRs and OL that really want to play. Richt needs to let Grantham do his thing, because the defense should be way better than they are at this point.
I Believe
October 3rd, 2010
9:01 pm
Georgia Tech WON last night I do BELIEVE. The MAN said, good teams don’t lose 2 in a row.
What Was That
October 3rd, 2010
9:05 pm
AJ did what? AJ is gonna do what? AJ will do what?
WOOF,,,WOOF,,,WOOF
LMAO.
ryan
October 3rd, 2010
9:06 pm
I wish UGA can play in the ACC at least would get 2 confrence wins .
Notso Fast
October 3rd, 2010
9:08 pm
I never doubted that the Bulldogs could win the rest of their games but when do they start? It did look like the RB was trying to pitch the ball back to the QB on the fumble. Surely not.
bitter THuga fan
October 3rd, 2010
9:08 pm
life su——x, hand me a switch blade please, i think i can handle the rest yaaaaaww. ps, gon huntin!!!
CDAWG
October 3rd, 2010
9:09 pm
I am sure the 3-4 will be better in a year or so when we get the right personnel, however, it’s not working now. Can we please go back to the 4-3 for the remaining part of this season? We will not beat UT next weekend, No way!
WOOF,,,WOOF
October 3rd, 2010
9:09 pm
What is the U gag record this year? Something like,,,,,1 win & 4 LOSSES.
The UGA downward spiral continues
October 3rd, 2010
9:09 pm
4 in a row. Can they make it 5? Sure looks likely
One win and four losses
October 3rd, 2010
9:10 pm
Couldn’t happen to a more delusional group of stinky trailer trash rednecks.
DawgExcuses
October 3rd, 2010
9:11 pm
Excuses for being 1-4 in no particular order. Fix most of these and we might win a few more games this season?
Overrated Offensive line
Running backs with greasy hands
A freshman QB having to carry the team on his shoulders
Only go to guys on offense AJ Green out for 4 games – when he is in Chris Durham is out?
Inexperienced defensive backfield
New defensive scheme and new defensive coaches
Small defensive line
Lack of discipline – stupid penalties again!
Some bad play calling by coaches
Too many arrests of players and one athletic director
No heart, no toughness and not much hustle by most of the team!
I Believe
October 3rd, 2010
9:11 pm
It must be Dish Networks fault.
Attn high school recruits
October 3rd, 2010
9:13 pm
do you really want to play for a program in big decline and chaos? if so, then you probably will fit right in at ga.
5-6 wins will be a common occurence in the years to come.
kanedawg
October 3rd, 2010
9:15 pm
My heart saids ga will beat ten,but my gut feeling tenn will win 31 to 21.
SC Dog
October 3rd, 2010
9:18 pm
Hang in there dogs. To those of you that want your money back, please quit coming to the games, it will free up the traffic for the rest of us. As to coaching, I am not paid $500K a year to coach defense but how long does it take you to figure out last night that there quarterback was going to run/scramble when it was third and long.
CHUCK UGA
October 3rd, 2010
9:19 pm
Wow, Derek Dooley’s first win will be over Georgia. Guess you could say it is one of the final nails in Mark Richt’s coffin. And no Mark, I’m not one of the “vocal types.” I am a Hartman donor and season ticket holder for the last decade. And if major changes are made to my liking, my donation and season ticket buying is ending. So you go ahead and stay the course doing the same stuff and expecting a different result. Sits well with the rest of the crazies who actually believe Georgia is a major power in college football.
Ghost of Willie
October 3rd, 2010
9:21 pm
Any Dawg fan who thinks CMR must go, is not a loyal Dawg fan. The best way to run away a top shelf class of recruits who will make the program better is to insist the program should be blown apart only to start over.
There is more to it than flipping a switch. Give the new coaches time to build a program and support the team 100%.
We need to contribute in positive ways and be positive about the program if we are interested in building a great team. Good HS players want to be the building blocks of a positive and improving football team. Under the best circumstances It will take a full season to rebuild a strong attacking defense. Willie Martinez is gone, but I would suspect the ghost of his prevent defense still lingers. A new DC can’t reverse that multi-year way of thinking in just 4 games. Type B players cannot instantly become Type A players overnight, if at all.
Blowing it up and starting over is not an option at this time. We have a good coach in CMR and he deserves a chance to get the ship in an upright position, especially since the crew is new and must be given the chance to learn how to work together.
Don’t run away prospective top shelf HS players by being a complainer, even if you were born to do that. If you were born that way, stick a sock in your mouth while the program tries to get back on its feet.
It will take some time to exorcise the Ghost of Willie and reverse that ‘PREVENT’ mentality.
GO DAWGS !!!
bigdsel
October 3rd, 2010
9:22 pm
every school has down years, some more than others. Its just a bad year for UGA. but well be fine in the future, cant win them all. we are just letting our rival teams catch up in the series.(Fla) They been kicking our tails for 17 yrs but were still winning the overall series. they got five years to catch up.
Ken
October 3rd, 2010
9:29 pm
“After further review the ruling on the field is confirmed……..we suck”.