Practice report: Dogs 19th, Crowell wows and uniform debate
UGA and Nike showed off the Bulldogs' Pro Combat uniform that the team will wear for its opening game against Boise State. (Brant Sanderlin/bsanderlin@ajc.com)
ATHENS – Online fan reaction to Georgia’s new Nike Pro Combat uniforms, publicly unveiled on Saturday, was generally negative. This came as no surprise to Bulldogs coach Mark Richt.
“I think there are a lot of people that just don’t want to get away from [tradition] and I don’t blame them,” Richt said. “That’s the reason we’re sticking it out there two weeks in advance, so everybody can get over it.”
The new design features a silver helmet with a wide red stripe down the middle, red jersey, red pants, llong black socks, all in the Nike “Pro Combat” style. UGA and Boise State both agreed to wear the specially-designed uniforms for one game only when they play in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game on Sept. 3 in the Georgia Dome.
Georgia has a 2-2 record under Richt when it has changed its uniforms. The Bulldogs famously beat Auburn 45-20 in their first-ever “blackout” in 2007. They also rolled Hawaii 41-20 in black jerseys and pants in the 2008 Sugar Bowl.
But the last two times it hasn’t gone well. Georgia lost to Alabama 41-30 – after trailing 31-0 at halftime – in 2008. Wearing black helmets and black pants in 2009, the Bulldogs fell to Florida 41-17.
“We’re due,” Richt said. “I doubt we’ll do any surprise uniforms anymore. At least everybody’s got time to digest it this time. If everybody just thinks about what’s most important and that’s playing the game, I think we’ll all be fine.”
Richt said it’s not about motivation or breaking with tradition.
“When the players saw it, they liked it and that’s the big thing,” he said. “And it’s a special game. It’s not what we would call a traditional uniform but it’s not a traditional game either. That’s kind of why we did it.”
Meanwhile, the players love them.
“I think they’re awesome,” junior wide receiver Tavarres King said. “We’ve still got to play so it’s not a magic potion or anything. But I love what Nike has done for us. We’re blessed to have those uniforms. I’m excited about them.”
Said linebacker Christian Robinson: “I do like tradition, but I think one game out of the year you can do something new. It’s not like we’re changing our whole style for the whole season. It’s one game. If it’s upsetting somebody that bad, I’m sorry.”
Dogs 19th in AP poll
The Associated Press Top 25 was released Saturday and Georgia was ranked 19th. The Bulldogs were ranked No. 22 in the coaches’ poll released earlier this month.
“That’s good,” Richt said. “It’s nice to be ranked.”
Said senior defensive end DeAngelo Tyson: “That’s pretty good. We can’t go anywhere but up starting at 19. We just don’t want to go down.”
Boise State, Georgia’s opening opponent, was ranked No. 5.
“Good. I’m very excited,” Georgia’s King said of the Broncos. “They should be 5, if not even higher.”
Crowell wows team at practice
Tailback Isaiah Crowell apparently is completely recovered from the groin injury that sidelined him for six days. In his second practice back, Crowell wowed his coaches and teammates in the scrimmage portion of Saturday morning’s practice.
“Isaiah went live today and he made some plays,” Richt said. “He had a couple of great runs and a great catch and run after the catch for a touchdown.”
Said King: “Isaiah Crowell came in and was just making plays all over. I was excited about that.”
It was the first time Crowell has gone full speed since injuring the groin on Aug. 12.
“He went a little yesterday and that was enough for him, I think, to realize he could go,” Richt said. “We had a great competitive day and he wanted to be a part of it. So I think his adrenalin took over and he competed and he competed well. It was great to see.”
Injury report
Crowell’s backfield mate Richard Samuel was not about to return. Richt said the junior will be out at least until “early next week” with a strained quadricep muscle.
Nose guard John Jenkins sat out after being sidelined with a mild hamstring pull on Friday. Fellow nose guard Kwame Geathers returned from an undisclosed injury that kept him out on Friday. Also, freshman wide receiver Malcolm Mitchell was out Saturday due to a pulled leg muscle. Freshman outside linebacker Ray Drew will be out at least another week with a separated shoulder suffered in a scooter accident.
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797 comments Add your comment
Athens Dawg
August 20th, 2011
1:33 pm
Good to hear these thing. I think it’s going to be a special season. Mark Richt was basically telling people that didn’t like it to “get over it” because we’re wearing them regardless whether you like them or not. I love his attitude. I love the team’s attitude. Let’s get it done on 9/3
Jonesborodawg
August 20th, 2011
1:35 pm
The uniforms are not good. Let’s hope the season will be so good we forget about them.
Brooksdawg
August 20th, 2011
1:37 pm
Let the BIG DAWG eat!! If any of you who dont like the DAWGS uniforms for the game want to sell your tickets, let me know….Boise #5…can’t wait to knock them off that perch!!! GATA
D A DoubleU G
August 20th, 2011
1:37 pm
The uniforms have grown on me every time I have looked at them.
Sure the red pants would be better silver.
But the players are hyped, and from what I have read about this team ever since Jan 1st, they MORE THAN DESERVE to wear what they want.
Cannot wait to see them in action!
GO DAWGS!!!
441North
August 20th, 2011
1:40 pm
I’m down with it for just one game.
Southernboisb
August 20th, 2011
1:41 pm
Mark Richt should have had input on this design. This looks NOTHING like UGA red. & why isn’t the helmet red & pants silver? They would be easier accepted then.
badada
August 20th, 2011
1:42 pm
everyone is hating on the helmets but i personally like them. I wish the pants were silver though. I would like to see a blackout version of the uniform
Brooksdawg
August 20th, 2011
1:42 pm
Maybe I am “reading” too much in the players with injuries or working second team but….is Richt playing mind games with Boise—to keep them off guard about WHO is playing when and where?
bob
August 20th, 2011
1:43 pm
AWESOME!!!
dawgfan
August 20th, 2011
1:43 pm
Gimmick uniforms for a gimmick game. It makes sense.
Athens Dawg
August 20th, 2011
1:43 pm
Geathers will be player of the game on defense. Watch and see.
For Real Dawg? FOR REAL DAWG!
August 20th, 2011
1:43 pm
D A Double U G, The uni’s are growing on me too, but have you seen the video for them on georgiadogs its amazing!
You Ain't-Know Gaily Whacker
August 20th, 2011
1:44 pm
Enter your comments here
They like pitiful.
Athens Dawg
August 20th, 2011
1:45 pm
I think these injuries are not really “injuries”. I think someone’s lying here. Of course Richt isn’t going to say so and so is healthy and will play game 1. He’s going to mix it up a bit so that it’ll be a surprise. Samuel is probably resting. Wait until he stolls out there on the field (6′2, 240 lbs) in that uniform. Boise is going to think it’s a bull. But guess what Boise? You gotta stop him.
Big time?? Not
August 20th, 2011
1:45 pm
Lookl like security guards at a hip hop concert. Horrible.
Big time?? Not
August 20th, 2011
1:46 pm
Oh. Four tickets, four hot dogs, four cokes………tech still sux.
Randall "Pink" Floyd
August 20th, 2011
1:49 pm
Bottom line: players love them. Get on board. Hating on the unis isn’t going to do one single positive thing for the team.
Mr.Fan
August 20th, 2011
1:50 pm
Some of you guys are complaining that CMR should have asked for fan input…!?
First of all, he runs the team. NOT the fans.
Secondly NIKE designed the unifroms not RICHT!
Brooksdawg
August 20th, 2011
1:51 pm
Figgins and Samuel–running down hill—early and often…get ‘em tired.. draw in the safety and BOOM hit King deep…Orson over the middle..PICK YOUR POISON…Keep that offense off the field!! GATA
savannadawg
August 20th, 2011
1:51 pm
I like the uniforms. they look intimidating, I hope we play that way. Actually I would like to see the uni’s jacked up alittle more. Other than the helmet, I think they are on the conservative side. No stripes on the pants??? And I’d like the red alittle briter.
CHDawg
August 20th, 2011
1:52 pm
We need to lighten up a little Dawg fans. It is football, and it is supposed to be fun. The unis will be fun, and taking it back between the hedges in three weeks against SC will make the traditional red and black seem that much better. I think when they roar into the Dome together, you will be excited. Didn’t the old bullpup teams have silver helmets back in the days of freshmen games? I can’t remember.
Old School
August 20th, 2011
1:53 pm
Uni’s don’t matter, lets feast on some taters to start the season
Pete
August 20th, 2011
1:53 pm
It doesn’t matter what Mark tries to do to keep Boise guessing with whose playing.
Boise is a National Power and Georgia is a mediocre SEC team in the East, and that ain’t saying much.
BSU 55-0 Boise jumps to #2-3 in polls after the beat down on the pups.
Big Albany Dawg
August 20th, 2011
1:53 pm
“I think there are a lot of people that just don’t want to get away from [tradition] and I don’t blame them,” Richt said. —-I chalk that up as “I don’t like them either”
Old School
August 20th, 2011
1:55 pm
Boise won’t be playing a Big 12 or ACC school this time around. Remember what happened last time the Broncos went down to Georgia?
Old School
August 20th, 2011
1:55 pm
When will the NCAA come out with the penalties for Boise State?
savannadawg
August 20th, 2011
1:58 pm
If you’d of read the nike report before you blogged you would know that players, coaches and a few others had input to the design of the unis.
BlazerDawg
August 20th, 2011
1:58 pm
CMR better bring it this year after that “get over it” comment. Anything less than winning the SEC and he should be fired. And this is coming from a guy who’s supported him from day one up untill….I read that 2nd paragraph.
savannadawg
August 20th, 2011
2:00 pm
@Pete. GO PLAY ON YOUR OWN BLOG!!! JERK OFF.
Pete is on drugs
August 20th, 2011
2:00 pm
Enter your comments here
bubba4dawgs
August 20th, 2011
2:00 pm
Uniforms does not a team make! Just so the team does not get caught up in the difference and forgets who they are. Coach Richt wants them to get over it without a shock on game day. Boise might be used to crazy stuff like blue turf. Glad to see Crowell showing his stuff. Hope he doesn’t strain anything before game time. We need good health thru the SC game. Gotta get big John going to help KG…..he’s gotta rest sometime! GO DAWGS!!!!!!
2Dawgs
August 20th, 2011
2:00 pm
I don’t care what colors they wear, as long as they win!!
suwaneedawg
August 20th, 2011
2:01 pm
I am 50 years old and I am with the players on this one. Nice change. BlazerDawg, take a damn pill and chill! If you don’t support him then feel free to jump on the Tide or Gator bandwagon.
Roaddawg80
August 20th, 2011
2:02 pm
Chip
Don’t speak for fans as in general. Just because a few couple of old farts don’t like them. Everyone I talk to at our tailgate which is about 20 people like the change in uniforms. You want to talk about tradition well the silver pants are not are tradition. Look at Walker in red pants running over Bates.
Oregon has like 200 combinations. I hate the silver britches on away games with the white jerseys. People make a big deal out of it if you lose but like it when you win. Just play the game and look good is all I say.
Russ Casper
August 20th, 2011
2:06 pm
Go check out the video, if it doesn’t get you going nothing will!!
Get on board, these players bust their butts for, as many of you say “OUR” school, if it were “OUR” school you would support “OUR” players!
Go join the Jacket or Gator nation if “WE” suck so bad!!!!
J Clay
August 20th, 2011
2:06 pm
At least they’re not the Grambling helmets from Halloween a few years back
UGA Alumnus
August 20th, 2011
2:09 pm
I’ll suspend judgement on the uniforms until I see the whole team wearing them on the field on the 3rd. Of course we love our traditional uniforms, and we don’t want to lose them. But I’m okay with this uniform change. It gets the rest of the nation more interested in the game, and it excites new recruits who are excited about being on the cutting edge of college sports. I’m completely fine with that.
Milan Big Dog
August 20th, 2011
2:11 pm
What about a total red out in the Dome for this game with everybody decked out like the players? Can you imagine the distraction it would be for the Boise players to see the stands full of screaming Dog fans dressed in red from side to side when the game starts. This would be like a Georgia version of their blue field. It is time for all of the fans to show your support for the team and stop worrying about last year. This is a new year and a different team so all of you true Bulldog fans unite and give this group of players and coaches the support they deserve for all the hard work that they have been putting into making this a special season.
Brooksdawg
August 20th, 2011
2:12 pm
Pete—Really? Georgia will not score? Boise will put 55 on an SEC defense?? Use your brain not your ego…#5 Boise will leave the Dome falling to earth like your EGO! GATA
Dawg Gawn
August 20th, 2011
2:15 pm
Nobody wears the same style of clothes they wore thirty years ago, so why should the players have to wear uniforms from a by-gone era. Football is supposed to be fun, so lets have some fun with it. Bottom line: The player makes the uniform, the uniform doesn’t make the player.
Tampa Dawg
August 20th, 2011
2:15 pm
Get on board and “SPREAD THE RED”. All true DAWG FANS show up in the dome wearing RED. Check the UGA blogs.
ringleader
August 20th, 2011
2:18 pm
Well for your information, McGarity was given three uniform options to make his comments on, and he single handed made the final approval. The silver helment was chosen because of the hate for the black one used in the Florida game. Red
was not an option. I don’t mind the red pants, but there is too much red.
pdawg
August 20th, 2011
2:21 pm
I HEREBY DECLARE A REDOUT FOR THIS GAME…..GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!
Tuckdawg
August 20th, 2011
2:21 pm
Blazerdawg = jackass if what CMR said about a uniform can make you turn on him go be a tech fan
lawdawg
August 20th, 2011
2:22 pm
The Dawgs will come out holding their hands so the gloves make the G. I guarantee it. Coolest part of the uniform.
G
August 20th, 2011
2:22 pm
As a fan I think they are sharp. Everyone loved the black jerseys when we destroyed Auburn.
AltamahaDawg
August 20th, 2011
2:24 pm
Hey, don’t attribute the negative uni comment to “old farts”. Old farts take it for what it is. The ones I have seen have come from the same young, what have you done for me lately, hate everything about eveything, crowd. The same crowd taht always complain that we don’t have enough cutting edge offence or training, gets a wooody for every next new hot young coach to win a few games, but NOW if it aint tradition unis in this oddity of a ballgame, that’s just another thinbg Richt has screwed up.
Red-N-Black
August 20th, 2011
2:27 pm
The new uni’s aren’t that bad, the helmet is really cool! Younger players like a little change!
Let the "BIG" Dawg eat!!
August 20th, 2011
2:29 pm
Enough of this b.s. about uniforms. Could care less what they wear, i’m more concerned about Richt and his coaching staff. At this point, all of his talk, and all of BoBo’s comments mean nothing to me. Either produce or get the hell out of town. Richt has been given alot of rope for some reason, but i personally think he will hang himself with the rope that McGarity has given him. Results on the field is all that matters now, and it’s time to put up or shut up. Hope he put’s up, but i don’t see it in this guy anymore. And i don’t see another VanGorder in this Grantham to bail Richt and Bobo out. Hope i’m wrong, but time will tell on this one.And could we please stop getting quotes from Robinson, this guy is like Rambo, neither one of them have made a play that matters in the past 2 seasons, and those 2 are the only players we ever hear from on defense. If those are the best leaders we have on defense, then Richt’s fate will be sealed soon enough.
D-MAN
August 20th, 2011
2:29 pm
What should you expect out of Nike,get over it!2 weeks away and it will
be time to smack Boise in the mouth!
Red-N-Black
August 20th, 2011
2:30 pm
Said linebacker Christian Robinson: “I do like tradition, but I think one game out of the year you can do something new. It’s not like we’re changing our whole style for the whole season. It’s one game. If it’s upsetting somebody that bad, I’m sorry.”
EXACTLY.
Prozac Dawg
August 20th, 2011
2:31 pm
If Mr Robinson and the rest of the team like the unis then I will get over it and support them. I didn’t take Richt’s comments negatively. I think he meant ‘to get used to’ them. I just want to be 2-0 Sept 11, 2011.
@Brooksdawg,
Dawg gone right. That’s the stuff that’s important. If I can see some of that right down Boise’s throat and a few sacks I will hang a picture of the unis over my bed.
I’m getting hungry, maybe a steak and an Idaho Potato. Bring em on.
Dooley for Prez
August 20th, 2011
2:32 pm
Well we went out and lost to a pathetic Colorado team and that was a break from tradition. We were #1 in the land and got whipped by a mediocre Alabama team at home wearing non-traditional uniform. We tried to break the Florida curse with untraditional uniforms and likely got the worst whipping in UGA history. We elected the first African-American President non-traditional for sure and how’s that turning out? Stick with what we (the ones paying the bills) want! Tradition is UGA! We are not inner city Los Angeles hip hopping along to non-traditional music, clothing, tv, etc. If you want those atmospheres go to Oregon or USC. WE ARE UGA where tradition rules so stick with it Richt or go to the prgressive schools to coach. We’d take a new Russell or Dooley anyday over such decisions. Wins and tradition over the change to mediocrity and horrendous looks.
AltamahaDawg
August 20th, 2011
2:33 pm
What the big deal about “so they can get over it”? he JUST said” I don’t blame them”…. prior to that. Did you read “not my choice”, into that second paragraph Mr Richt Supporter Till I Don’t Like his Quote?
“get over it” is hardly some slap in the face, in the context it was used.
Try this: I lost a pet, it took some time to get over it. I had a cold, I had to get over it. Nike is forcing me to watch my team wearing some uniforms straight out of AnimeCon ‘11. I will get over it.
pdawg
August 20th, 2011
2:36 pm
“Let the BIG Dawg eat”….man, chill out!!! Are u really a Georgia fan? I really wonder….anyways your post is just too negetive…attack the coach all you want but please leave the kids out okay. They dont deserve that. Thank you.
isproab
August 20th, 2011
2:36 pm
They should care less about what the fans think. Its a one or two time deal. I love changing it up every so often vs looking virtually the same for 30+ years.
mvdawg
August 20th, 2011
2:36 pm
I prefer old school and what I mean by that is hard noise, smash mouth football. the new uniforms are ok take it or leave it but my hope is this team heart and soul are ready for war. go dawgs
Prozac Dawg
August 20th, 2011
2:37 pm
@Altamaha,
Well put and I agree
anthony
August 20th, 2011
2:39 pm
For one game they are great. Good for recruiting on a national platform. GO DAWGS!
My Dad can whoop your dad
August 20th, 2011
2:40 pm
These UNI’s are killer. I would like them for the UF game too……………
Scarlet Knight in GA
August 20th, 2011
2:46 pm
You do realize our RED on RED was voted as one of the worst college football uni’s of all time right?
safetydawg
August 20th, 2011
2:48 pm
You folks are just plain and simple superstitious. UGA lost more games last year wearing their traditional uniform. Do not forget the 6-7 record on traditional uniforms. So what do you say. They therefore better off at 2-2 wearing modified uniform. It has nothing to do with uniforms, it has something to do fi the coaches and players are into the games.
Scarlet Knight in GA
August 20th, 2011
2:49 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOGMPPdO370
Dirty Dawg
August 20th, 2011
2:49 pm
I don’t know just what poll the AJC, or Chip, or whoever, is citing that the majority were ‘generally negative’…well I think you, Chip, are generally negative as well and could use a little ‘positive’ motivation, and if Jim Minter were still calling the shots I suspect he’d provide it. The point is these young men are fired up about this season and the challenge facing them with the game with Boise State followed by South Carolina, and if these unis provide a little something else to fuel the flame then so be it.
Seem to recall that nobody really hollered that much when Vince put us in white pants when he came to town then a few years later went to the silver-britches when they had a fabric that actually looked silver instead of gray, and when he also adopted that funny-shaped ‘G’ – OK, so we ‘borrowed’ it from Green Bay and only did that because they were kickin’ butt at the time…and while it may have looked a little odd that Saturday night in Knoxville in ‘80 when we trotted out in white tops and red bottoms – bet Bill Bates was thinking just how funny those pants looked as they buried his orange-clad self in the Shields-Watkins field turf.
As Coach Richt says, ‘get over it people’, we’ve got more important issues to worry about – like wondering how far up we’ll jump when the #5-rated BSers go down like a rodeo clown…oops, I’m gettin’ ahead of myself…but these uniforms look as good as any I’ve seen from Nike. I mean can you imagine how LSU will look in all purple?
mdawg
August 20th, 2011
2:52 pm
uniforms are awesome…… its time we kick he traditional silver britches out anyway…… and i know you guys say its all about the game but if oregon changing uniforms every game gets them more and better recruits. it can do the same for UGA………
do you guys remember walker wearing red pants against tennessee when he played? it worked then and can work now
Dirty Dawg
August 20th, 2011
2:53 pm
Oh yeah, and one other thing, just be thankful it ain’t orange or blue, now those do look like Halloween costumes.
ryan
August 20th, 2011
2:57 pm
Can we stop talking about uniforms .
safetydawg
August 20th, 2011
2:58 pm
People are just too fickle. When GA was winning with the Black Jersey’s, every body was for it. After the Alabama loss they puke on the idea. The uniforms were not the ones that tackled or intercepted the footballs in that game. The uniforms also has nothing to do with play calling or coaching..
Ummm...
August 20th, 2011
2:59 pm
I think we all know why the players like the unis and most of the fans don’t. Elephant in the room?
rushabh
August 20th, 2011
3:03 pm
These uniforms are dope!!!!!
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Prozac Dawg
August 20th, 2011
3:03 pm
@ Ummm,
I just took my meds. Why do the players and not the fans like them? I do not see the elephant
DAWG GONE IT
August 20th, 2011
3:04 pm
Is President Dr. Michael F. Adams behind this TRAVESTY?
JDawg1785
August 20th, 2011
3:04 pm
Good to hear Isaiah’s back at 100%. Wishing the same for Richard. GO DAWGS!
Demon Damon
August 20th, 2011
3:05 pm
No I did this before I left. You know how I love red!!!!!!
THWGT
August 20th, 2011
3:06 pm
I’m happy our players like the new uniforms. Best of luck to them. We all know logos and uniforms don’t play each other; rather, athletes will be competing. While now, or at least for the kick off classic, we may look like a WAC, PAC or Big East team, we better play like an SEC team or we’re going to get creamed… which I’m sure will provide the douche in columbia material needed for the next week’s pressers. Just beat Boise State.
trupert
August 20th, 2011
3:06 pm
The longer the game goes on the better those Pro Combat Unis will look.
After Boykin returns the opening kickoff back for 100yds they will start to grow on us.
After Ga’s defense stuffs the BSU offense for the first of many three and outs they will start looking good.
By the end of the first quarter when Ga’s is up by 21 and the Junk Yard Defense has established complete dominance over the BSU offense they will be looking real good. Go dawgs!!!
safetydawg
August 20th, 2011
3:07 pm
Let us compute winning percentage of the Black Jerseys = 66%. For the Black helmet = 0%. For the traditional uniform of the 2010 season = 46%. For change in uniforms in Richt’s = 50%. It really has nothing to do with uniforms, it is all in the mind.
Prozac Dawg
August 20th, 2011
3:08 pm
Well doesn’t BS get some of these unis too? What do theirs look like. Probably have mashed potatoes on back of the trousers
Terry
August 20th, 2011
3:12 pm
Chip, why no voting poll, you say fans don’t like them, well how did you come by your stats? I hope you didn’t go by just those tans at the viewing.
Terry
August 20th, 2011
3:13 pm
And the fans of other teams shouldn’t count, because they hate everything UGA.
Will
August 20th, 2011
3:15 pm
I am ashamed and embarassed. I never thought I would see the day that UGA, a program steeped in as much tradition as any in football, would stoop this level.
Remember when Jim Donnan SLIGHTLY messed wtih the helmet by adding a stripe?
USC, Auburn, Alabama, Penn State………schools with respect for tradition and apparently none looking for gimmicks to remain popular.
playmeortrademe
August 20th, 2011
3:17 pm
Again, if UGA wins, everybody’s happy and no one cares about the unis. Personally, I think they look like a stop sign ate a fire hydrant and a hubcap and barfed it up. Anyway, its great that the players liek em but the people who matter are the donors, who will be mad if we lose and we look like crap in those uniforms.
Aside, all of college football should give Nike the middle finger wave goodbye because Phil Knight/Nike is taking that college merchandising money and trying to build Oregon into the nations dominant football program.
Tampa Dawg
August 20th, 2011
3:19 pm
The Uniforms look much better on our school website!
Hairy Dawg
August 20th, 2011
3:19 pm
“I think there are a lot of people that just don’t want to get away from [tradition] and I don’t blame them,” Richt said. “That’s the reason we’re sticking it out there two weeks in advance, so everybody can get over it.”
Some people are sticks in the mud about change, but let’s face it, the main reason people don’t like these unis is that they are damned ugly.
voice of reason
August 20th, 2011
3:25 pm
Here is the main point that all of you wanna be, has been or never was cry babies need to consider is that the players love them and that is who will be wearing them! Also, I guarantee you that the 16,17 and 18 year old recruits watching the game are going to love them too which is also huge! What you traditional stuck in the past people need to realize is that whatever is best for the UGA is what we need to embrace. If wearing different unis gets recruits excited then I am all for it. Also, I am sure that way back when Dooley changed the pants to silver from white I am sure that there were a bunch of old people belly aching over that too! I also believe that the helmets used to be silver also. So, if all of you “traditionalists” would focus some of this outrage into actual noise at the UGA games then maybe our stadium could be as loud as others!
marie
August 20th, 2011
3:28 pm
Get over it. It’s one game!! Cool uni’s- GO DAWGS!
PMC
August 20th, 2011
3:28 pm
The collar cut to me seems comfortable, I’m sure the materials are excellent. Ultimately it really doesn’t matter what they wear.
I do find it a bit interesting that a scholarship makes one a free mannequin for Nike clothing.
Would love to see some big high school athletes refuse the scholarship offer, pay their own way in school and see if they can challenge the system by selling their own likeness. It would be fun to see the NCAA’s feathers ruffled in that manner. If there’s no scholarship I don’t see why the school could sell the players likeness without paying them for it.
Dirty Dawg
August 20th, 2011
3:28 pm
Hey ‘UMMMM’…not only do I see that elephant (an apt mascot/metaphor by the way) you’re talking about, I can smell a race-baiter from twenty paces. Why don’t you come on out and say it? Are you afraid that if most of the better athletes, that also happen to be black, knew that a substantial percentage of ‘fans’ (note I didn’t say graduates, although that too might be debatable) of SEC schools were racially biased, said schools would have a hard time recruiting said athletes and would no longer be able to call themselves ‘the best conference in college football’? Is that what you meant?
Tech Fan
August 20th, 2011
3:29 pm
Looks like child ate a plate full of french fries and ketchup and puked on them. LOL.
One of the ugliest uniforms I have ever seen. UGA…the East Coast Oregon of uniform changes.
I sense a wardrobe malfunction…
DawgVoiceofReason
August 20th, 2011
3:29 pm
Of course, as a longtime fan of the Dawgs, I prefer the traditional uniforms. But for one game, in what is a unique situation, and with the players loving them, I can live with them for a game. All I want is a “W” and I will be ecstatic!
Everyone needs to do your griping, if you don’t like them, and then Get Over It and Get Behind the Dawgs in the Georgia Dome (you can’t say “Georgia Dome” without referring to “Georgia”)!
Let’s make this our home field on Sept. 3rd.
Halsey
August 20th, 2011
3:30 pm
The Pro Combat uniforms are boring and uncreative. I could have designed something more interesting, and I don’t have near the applicable education that the people that NIke payed to design them do.
“Hey fans! Look at these new uniforms! We changed the colors around and made them look boring and generic! Whoopidy freakin doo!”
PMC
August 20th, 2011
3:31 pm
Most people are probably against it because the last few times they tinkered with the uniform they got blasted.
PMC
August 20th, 2011
3:31 pm
Nike just wants to debut a new uni so they can sell it. If they build it, people will freaking buy it.
Phuch Le` Duch
August 20th, 2011
3:33 pm
[] Pronounced – foosh le duke []
I do not mind the Red on Red for one game, and I really admire the Silver headgear, although the wider than wide red stripe is gauche. By the way – thanks to –
[ "For Real Dawg? FOR REAL DAWG!" ]
that video was very interesting and unique. I especially enjoyed the Dawgs barking. Also, actually I thought the jesies were a little plain.
Once again thogh if the players are juiced and win handily then who cares what we think and plus who will remember the ini color? Rather the score.
Phuch Le` Duch
August 20th, 2011
3:35 pm
[] Pronounced – foosh le duke []
jersies
dawg85
August 20th, 2011
3:38 pm
They’re pretty ugly. Wouldn’t be so bad if they had done a thin stripe on the helmet and silver pants. That’s what happens when you let fashion designer’s do football uniforms. But such is life. UGA’s normal uniform is good looking, but it won’t change a thing on September 3rd. GATA Dawgs!
No problem with CMR’s comment. I doubt he likes them much himself. I wonder how much input the AD had in the design?
SEC1
August 20th, 2011
3:42 pm
I don’t care if they are in Nike Necked Unis as long as they win!
dawg85
August 20th, 2011
3:42 pm
BTW — the video Nike put out is a bucket of cheese.
Truth Shall Prevail
August 20th, 2011
3:42 pm
Glad to see Sterling Bailey out of the green jersery! Way to go East Hall graduate from Lula, GA!
jp
August 20th, 2011
3:43 pm
DOOLEY FOR PREZ YOU BLITHERING IDIOT .DOOLEY HIRED DAMON EVANS WHO PUT ASU AND LOUISVILLE ON SCHED.AND WANTED TO PLAY ARMY IN NEW YORK.GA PLAYED AT LSU AT JAX ( FLA) AT KENTUCKY AND AT AUBURN IN STAFFORD AND MORENO’S LAST SEASON . 4 ROAD GAMES BACK TO BACK TO BACK TO BACK .SO WE COULD ” INCREASE OUR BRAND ” DOOLEY GOT HIM HIRED AND NOW MAGARITY IS CLEANING UP HIS MESS GETTING US OUT OF HOME AND HOME WITH OREGON AND LOUISVILLE .WE GET A CHANCE TO WHIP# 5 IN ATLANTA ,A HOME GAME AND THE NATIONAL TV WATCHING AND WE HAVE A CONTRACT WITH NIKE YOU IDIOT. WIN THE GAME AND YOU WILL BE TELLING EVERYONE THAT YOU KNOW THAT YOU HELPED DESIGN THE UNIFORM.WE SCORED 42 ON TECH 31 ON AUB 41 ON TENN 43 ON VANDY 34 ON FLORIDA 27 ON COLORADO,42 ON KENTUCKY DOES THAT SOUND LIKE BOBO DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HE IS DOING .YOU HAVE NEVER PLAYED A DOWN OF FOOTBALL IN YOUR LIFE AND YOU PROBABLY BOO YOUR OWN TEAM . GO CHEER FOR THE FALCONS OR SOMETHING YOU JAG OFF
LHarding Dawg
August 20th, 2011
3:43 pm
Who gives a damn what the fans want. If the players like them it doesn’t matter what the fans like. All I want is a win!
bitter nose tackle
August 20th, 2011
3:44 pm
can—————U———say———-QUAM——MAY——————————YAAAAW
——————–IM a heart breaker and a AS-S———-TAKER———-get used to it!!!secound string
————————————-and pay for play and tree killers————and gay-tards—hahahahah
Go Gators
August 20th, 2011
3:47 pm
As long as the pups continue to focus more on how they look instead of how they play, they’ll never be a force in the SEC, and will never beat Florida.
LHarding Dawg
August 20th, 2011
3:49 pm
It’s great to have a gator troll on a Georgia blog telling us what we need to do. The gators have their own problems.
Dawg89
August 20th, 2011
3:49 pm
It’s one game. Get over the uniforms.
Big John seems to be hurt a lot.
anthony
August 20th, 2011
3:50 pm
voice of reason @ 3:25….Perfectly said!
Delbert D.
August 20th, 2011
3:55 pm
The Pro Combat uniforms are going to make it more difficult for Boise State. They haven’t seen them in all of the video from last year.
Go Dawgs!
August 20th, 2011
3:56 pm
All the old codgers should just get over themselves. I think the uniforms are sharp and it’s for just one game. All the “tradition” talk is a bunch of crap. It’s just a bunch of old cronies that don’t like change of any sort, I bet Vince Dooley went through the same thing when he introduced the super G on the helmets. If you’re a fan under 50 that hates them then you need to pull the stick from you know where.
I love being a Dawg fan, was born and raised in Athens, but I swear sometimes I hate being associated with some of the backwards thinkng fans we have. Get over it.
Don’t get me wrong the vast majority of our fans are great, met a couple of great ones at the mall in Jax as I was getting new gear for my sons, but some of us just simply act like a bunch of cackling old hens, always looking for SOMETHING to complain about.
If you agree with my post then obviously I’m not talking about you, however if you are offended by my statements or think I’m talking about you, well guess what bubba you’re right.
Go Dawgs!
Boise in ATL
August 20th, 2011
4:03 pm
Special game – both teams wearing nontraditional uniforms.
Will add to the uniqueness and atmosphere of the game – differentiating this game from others to make it more special.
From publicity perspective – the entire college football nation will be talking about UGA/Boise.
Players like them – adds to the game.
Future players – recruits – will notice as well – and makes both programs unique with that national attention.
The uniforms are growing on me – good for ONE game!
Go Broncos!!!!!!
Austin
August 20th, 2011
4:05 pm
We look like an arena football team. They are hideous, but its obvious we have no choice in the matter, we just pay the money to see them play…….. thats all. LOL LOL
Prozac Dawg
August 20th, 2011
4:11 pm
@Boise in ATL,
Got a link for a look at the BS unis?
BurkDawg
August 20th, 2011
4:14 pm
Overall it’s fine, but what were they thinking with that collar?
AltamahaDawg
August 20th, 2011
4:18 pm
Go Dawgs, you are barking up the wrong tree. It ain’t the old codgers whinning about it. Did you actually read the complaints?
UGA Fans Have Too Many Bong Smokers
August 20th, 2011
4:22 pm
I just had my 10th glass of jack daniels
Those uniforms are starting to look good
LOL!!!!!
nobody
August 20th, 2011
4:24 pm
I’m old enough to endure anything…remember the Edsel…
chickenman
August 20th, 2011
4:25 pm
if you hate the uniforms then your too damn old to be on blogging to begin with..
Bdawg
August 20th, 2011
4:32 pm
Ah get over it BlazerDawg!
4WhatIt'sWorth
August 20th, 2011
4:34 pm
I’m with you “pdawg”. Every DAWG FAN in the universe will love this uniforms after UGA beats BOISE STATE 27 – 23 in an “INSTANT CLASSIC”!
GOOOO DAWGS!!!!!!
Malcolm X
August 20th, 2011
4:36 pm
Wow, thats’s one of the worst uniforms EVER!
Malcolm X
August 20th, 2011
4:39 pm
And anyone who likes these uniforms is a Nike employee and/or knows nothing about style. Updated uniforms dont bother me, but ugly ones do…
Big Daddy"CaneDawg". Ignorance reigns at UGA under CMR !
August 20th, 2011
4:39 pm
Most of the players would be excited if the poor combat uniforms were pink with the oval “G” on them because they don’t know squat about the history of traditional uniform history at UGa. Neither does Nike or CMR.
Those helmets minus the red striped black facemasks are a rip off of Ohio State’s 1960 helmet.
The Black jerseys are cool with real silver pants but not with the dull, faded grey pants UGA has been calling silver for years. UGa should occasionally wear black shirts but they need to cancel the “blackout” Sanford stadium campaigns and promotions as they learned from playing Bama in 2008, it only motivates opponents when you create a hoopla environment about it.
I hope Georgia wins it’s first game. It’s just sad to see them looking like UNLV or Western Kentucky while doing so.
Bronco
August 20th, 2011
4:41 pm
These will look great with the pink undies UGA “Men” like to wear.
Lowereast
August 20th, 2011
4:42 pm
a top 5 Boise team and a top 20 Georgia team on a holiday weekend and tickets are face value with 3500 available on stub hub. Maybe they should offer cokes and hot dogs to go with the tickets to see if they can sell some.
UGA Fans Have Too Many Bong Smokers
August 20th, 2011
4:43 pm
chickenman
If you love the uniforms your retarded too
UGA Fans Have Too Many Bong Smokers
August 20th, 2011
4:44 pm
They really should have colored the uniforms sissy pink instead of read
UGA loses top ranked teams, probably because they are scared
UGA Fans Have Too Many Bong Smokers
August 20th, 2011
4:45 pm
red
heyberto
August 20th, 2011
4:55 pm
Someone tell Coach Richt that this is not a reaction because of lack of tradition in the uniform.. it’s a reaction to the fact that they don’t look good. I saw three mockups online before this came out. One was a traditional scheme with pro combat unis.. the other two were more ‘out there’. All three were better looking options than this.
Judge Dawg
August 20th, 2011
4:57 pm
The photo in this article is intentionally bad to stir up controversy as usual. Check out the UGA site. I prefer the old but these should be fun for one game.
UGA Fans Have Too Many Bong Smokers
August 20th, 2011
4:58 pm
heyberto
I will agree with you about that, heck if I were a UGA fan I would have at lease chosen the one with the white helmet
But what do expect from a former Miami player and FSU coach
joe taxpayer
August 20th, 2011
4:59 pm
They could play in pink tutu’s as long as they win.
Paddy
August 20th, 2011
4:59 pm
Players love them, they must wear them. OK by me. Can’t imagine we will see them again after Boise St.
Paul in NH (formerly RDU)
August 20th, 2011
5:01 pm
New UGA uniform on sale for $52
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&xhr=t&q=red+power+ranger+costume&cp=18&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1366&bih=587&wrapid=tljp1313873954423032&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=12448726218241940140&sa=X&ei=GSBQTpmTGOaw0AGS-KGYDQ&sqi=2&ved=0CEAQ8wIwAA#
Dooley for Prez
August 20th, 2011
5:03 pm
JP…you must be a democrat! Move to California where they appreciate change. We have been and will always be “traditionalists”. As for the scheduling…What because we play one game against Boise you give the AD the hall of fame. The previous AD also scheduled Boise but added OK St. and Colorado as well. The current one canked our games with Oregon that would have been a super two years for us fans. So don’t go telling me he is lining up great match-ups for us OOC. Go back to cracking the pipe!
Rich Black
August 20th, 2011
5:03 pm
Thank God I went to school up North where education is more important than football. Southern people are stupid.
Dooley for Prez
August 20th, 2011
5:04 pm
Paddy…the players may wear them – BUT WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THE MESS!
CHDawg
August 20th, 2011
5:07 pm
I looked at a better site for the unis and I like them. Should be great and fun for one game. I especially thought the touch of making the G with the gloves is neat…I highly recommend a site that gives you some full shots–they will grow on you.
Dylan
August 20th, 2011
5:07 pm
The uniforms are fine! Yes, the silver britches and the red helmets are tradition and they shouldn’t be messed with, but they’re not going anywhere! You’ll see the silver pants and the plain red helmet the next Saturday when South Carolina comes to town, which in my opinion is a much bigger game than Boise is. Anyways, got my tickets to the Dome yesterday and I hope to see everyone there in red!! GOOOOOO DAWGS!!
Ron Burgundy
August 20th, 2011
5:08 pm
I like the uniforms. The silver helmets are awesome. Bump tradition. It’s a new day at Georgia. Time to kick Boise butt and turn the tide against Florida.
TampaGator
August 20th, 2011
5:08 pm
Rich Black…….
Where did you go to school…….up north……OHIO STATE? Now, those people up there just hate football, don’t they?
What is stupid, is you post!
Buzz2011
August 20th, 2011
5:11 pm
I don’t think it will make much difference what kind of uniforms the Dawga wear..
It has been reported that that Boise State has decided to dress in full Florida Gator uniforms.. Rut- Row
JE
August 20th, 2011
5:20 pm
Again, AJC has shown poor coverage of the player and too much on the uniform and too much on everything else. Get off it and cover the team regardless of what.
Jim
August 20th, 2011
5:20 pm
I’d say the fans are split on the uniform. Personally I think the pants are too plain. Some of the UGA fans are actually acting with the manliness (sarcasm here) of Tech grads in regards to the uniform.
If UGA wins the uniform will look a lot better to those that are whining today.
Joe
August 20th, 2011
5:23 pm
Wow!!!!! The “Dream Team”, dreamed of wearing the traditional GA uniform and have to start their careers wearing something like that????? Wow. I spell it UGly.
Stupid Honkey Mo-Fo
August 20th, 2011
5:24 pm
Why not add a couple hindred punds of gold chains. gold tooth caps, and some other bling? Goodbye, Dawgs, I’ll keep the memories, but I’m not following this crap.
DawgByte
August 20th, 2011
5:26 pm
Georgia Morons -
Get over the uniforms you complete an utter simpletons!!! The players like them? Why do they like them? Because they’re damn cool, that’s why. The helmet design is amazing… love the wide red strip over the base silver color. Combined with the black G and black and red face mask – it doesn’t get any more modern and interesting. You pansies are going to love these uniforms when we kick the teeth out of Boise St.
Tradition is fine, but stop being obsessive putz’s about it!
Joe
August 20th, 2011
5:28 pm
Rick Black!!!! In the immortal words of a “great dawg” and “great American”, “the late great”, Lewis Grizzard!!!! “Delta is ready when you are”. Go North Young Man, Go North!!!
SiddyBoy
August 20th, 2011
5:28 pm
In the early 70’s UGA had bright red UGA numbers on those dull white road jerseys.Why do we put black numbers on white jerseys rather than bright red numbers??? Let’s make the opponents see more red !!! Throw in some red pants on the road “occasionally” .Now that’s a great uniform !!!.
Ben
August 20th, 2011
5:30 pm
That is not an acceptable UGA uniform. All these comments that the players love it come from some invisible source. I have not heard or read an actual comment from a player. One game, if we must, but ship them back to Nike immediately after the game. They need to get back to the red jerseys and silver britches.
Dave
August 20th, 2011
5:31 pm
Nike must have a lot of money to waste.
DD
August 20th, 2011
5:34 pm
When did Nike get into the Halloween costume business? I am sure there will be a rush on this costume by the “Walmartians”.
georgia bulldogs fan in nwfla
August 20th, 2011
5:35 pm
i am just ready for the game , oregon has done well in uniforms that are wild , i want to see the game and if we are the 6-7 dawgs or 12-1 dawgs….i would say 13-0 but thats to much to wish for, damn if…………………………………………………………………
i know who we are , just flip the damn coin.
Bobby
August 20th, 2011
5:37 pm
Three words.
They su*k @$s.
Same ole same ole
August 20th, 2011
5:38 pm
Said senior defensive end DeAngelo Tyson: “That’s pretty good. We can’t go anywhere but up starting at 19.”
Hello? That’s the same garbage the dawgs were spewing last year. And the year before. And the year before that. Ad nauseum.
When will these jerks learn that playing, not bigmouth talk, wins games?
bamaguy
August 20th, 2011
5:39 pm
In my humble opinion, the thing UGA fans can do to have the most influence on the game is pack the dome and create a noise level like blue-field Boise has never heard. They don’t play in front of big crowds, and they certainly don’t play in front of crazy crowds in domed stadiums.
Go show Boise why the SEC is a AQ conference.
BiggdawgK
August 20th, 2011
5:41 pm
The uniforms look exactly like I figured a Nike uniform would look. I wouldn’t want them to be UGA’s new uniform but for 1 game I don’t see what the big deal is.
On matters that actually are important to the success of the Dawgs, glad to read Crowell is fine. Can’t wait for Sept 3.
ATL Guy
August 20th, 2011
5:41 pm
Haha – these uniforms are freakin pathetic!!! Nike has no idea trying to make this Transformers or something. Auburn Uniforms with Under Armour has it right. Thanks for the laugh Nike and UGA
Uniformity
August 20th, 2011
5:42 pm
The uniforms are even uglier and stupider than the mutt.
Will the mutt have his own uniform, or will he just wear his red panty diaper?
Idaho City
August 20th, 2011
5:46 pm
Boise State 37, UGA 13
The uniforms won’t help. Sacking Mark Richt would help a lot.
Chopdawg
August 20th, 2011
5:47 pm
Why mess with the best-looking uniform in all college football? Glad it’s only one game, hope we’re getting paid a lot of $$$ to wear them.
Jim (not Mora)
August 20th, 2011
5:52 pm
Never been a fan of the same color pants to go with the jersey…especially red on red. Silver pants or black would be much better for sure. Jeez…lose that red and red. The helmet? Get oudahear (said in a Yankee accent). Are you kiddin me? (Sorry, Yankee accent again.) That think is totally mean. You put that thing on and you not only look tough, but you’ll probably feel pretty durn tough just putting the thing on. Now I’m still a fan of the good old classic uniforms (believe it or not I think Penn State has the best) but sooner or later all college, and probably pro uniforms, will look like this. Jus a matter of time.
(Main problem I had with the photos of the uniform was that the manequin..or whatever that thing was wearing it…made it look more like a ballerina was wearing the uniform than a football player.)
not scientific
August 20th, 2011
5:55 pm
Anyone who writes a headline saying GA fans disapprove is an idiot. Its like Fox news publishing the results of a survey, but failing to disclose the survey pool consisted of five teadrinkers. The majority do approve, just not the boobirds who show up here most of whom are not Dawgfans anyway. Anything that can be printed to try and make a controversy will be printed.
Lame Duck Coach
August 20th, 2011
5:55 pm
Black Out=bad idea, Bulldogs dancing in Florida’s endzone=pathetic, Combat uniforms=another gimmick that won’t work!!!
Dawg tired
August 20th, 2011
5:59 pm
We have jumped the shark
doug dawg
August 20th, 2011
6:00 pm
UGLY IS AS UGLY DOES, I’M AFRAID.
THE Dixie Redcoat Band
August 20th, 2011
6:00 pm
Can you ever imagine Penn. State, Bama, Texas, ND, doing this silliness?
Erk Russell's Dog
August 20th, 2011
6:00 pm
I wit you guyz while we are tossing tradition why don’t we replace Russ the Bulldog with a freakin Pit bull.How about it boyzzzz.
chris
August 20th, 2011
6:02 pm
Love how everybody hates on these new awesome uniforms. I love a change of scenery. Sic em Dawgs!
greg
August 20th, 2011
6:02 pm
For anyone wondering…yes UGA is calling for a RED OUT in the dome for the BSU game. Go to georgiadogs.com and there is a page that says “spread the red”. I think it’s a pretty cool idea.
Goodbye CMR
August 20th, 2011
6:04 pm
This will go down as another stupid decision that CMR has made – everybody wave goodbye to this moron they “call” a head coach. Good bye and Good Riddance!
Erk Russell's Dog
August 20th, 2011
6:05 pm
I guess these uniforms are UGA’s penance for crapping out on the home and home with the University of Nike (Oregon).
Go Dawgs
August 20th, 2011
6:09 pm
Who cares what the fans think – the uniform does not make or break the outcome of the game – the players like them – as long as they lay the wood on the ponies and send them home in body cast I don’t care if they wear pink – please Dawgs – show BS how we do it SEC style -
bamaguy
August 20th, 2011
6:09 pm
Actually, DIxie Redcoat, Alabama has already done this “silliness” (not sure about the others). The only difference is Nike was not allowed to make any changes to the basic design of the uniform. Only minor alterations like a houndstooth trim on the jersey collar and a script A at the top of the pants.
superDawg
August 20th, 2011
6:12 pm
nike needs to stay the hell away from UGA.I will never buy a nike product again as long as I live!
hrmacon
August 20th, 2011
6:12 pm
The uniforms look terrible and we lose our tradition to a big name like NIKE! It’s all about the money and nothing else and it looks like UGA is all about the money too. If you have a great uniform why chage it.
I’ll always be a UGA fan but this is nothing more than commercialism at it’s best.
Go Dawgs
August 20th, 2011
6:12 pm
Hello Goodbye CMR – this was not CMR’s decision you dufus – this is part of being in the kickoff game – gosh all you haters out there – please go away – get a life – do something for yourself – stop trying to bring everyone down to your pathetic level in life – most you idiots here that are bashing probably were not even at the pic day – so you my friend are not a true fan – us true fans were there today and we actually loved it – this is just the AJC trying to get hits on a blog
Go Dawgs
August 20th, 2011
6:14 pm
Red out baby – lets rock and roll
Erk Russell's Dog
August 20th, 2011
6:14 pm
I think CMR welcomes the distraction over the uniforms ,gives him an out if the Dawgs lose the game. I am sure his butt puckered when Garrity told him that the Dawgs would open with Boise State. Yeah I can’t believe it ,butt puckering over Boise State.Good thing Bama And LSU are not on the schedule.
CoastDog
August 20th, 2011
6:14 pm
No, the time won’t let me “get over it.” But when you have sold your soul for the money what else can you say for the fans to do but “get over it.” Gee, thanks.
Go Dawgs
August 20th, 2011
6:17 pm
Ha Ha Cost Dog – you too funny man
Worm
August 20th, 2011
6:18 pm
Greg, Mark, whomever needs to hear this..-Those UNI’s are Horrific…Could we just play some FOOTBALL…I’ve been a season ticket holder for a long time, but those UNI’s have made me want to barf, TWO weeks before the opener…
JJ's Hammy weighs more than you
August 20th, 2011
6:18 pm
Love the uni’s – lets all red out baby
Go Dawgs
August 20th, 2011
6:18 pm
Worm is right – what grown man wants to “barf” – go back to your basement baby
Go Dawgs
August 20th, 2011
6:22 pm
WAAAAAAAAA!WAAAAAAAAAAAAA! I don’t like the uniform – I am gonna cry to my mommy
UGA Unveils Opening Day Uniforms « The Meat Locker Sports
August 20th, 2011
6:23 pm
[...] University of Georgia unveiled their new look Nike Combat alternate uniforms today to be worn in the home opener against Boise [...]
Erk Russell's Dog
August 20th, 2011
6:24 pm
Red out are you freaking kidding, I guess Nike will come out with a red t-shirt for you Idiots to wear to the game .For only $19.99 you can look new school and support the Dawgs. Phil Knight is a damn genius. Ohio State is in deep do and he unloads containers full of red t-shirts on dumb ass Dawgs fans.I for one will be wearing my vintage Erk Russell silver GATA t shirt.
LOL
August 20th, 2011
6:24 pm
What the.. I don’t even.. Seriously? If we lose and look like morons (which they will), I’m done with this team…
Dawgs Forever
August 20th, 2011
6:30 pm
Sure, I like the traditional Georgia uniform ! As Coach Richt said, this uniform is for the game against Boise State only. I think the uniform is awesome !!!
Dawglasville
August 20th, 2011
6:30 pm
It looks like a uniform for Rollerball. Let’s just get started.
Ashamed Dawg Fan
August 20th, 2011
6:31 pm
Who designed that ugly garbage, I mean seriously, thats embarassing…
NorthHallDawg
August 20th, 2011
6:34 pm
Saw the uniforms up close. The only thing I don’t like is the wide red stripe on the Helmet. A thinner, traditional stripe would have looked better. Red pants are okay but I think they should have kept them silver. Not too bad overall. I do like the idea of a silver helmet on occasion as a tribute to the Wally Butts teams of the 1950’s. Nonetheless, Nike does pour big bucks into the program so I guess you have to humor them on occasion.
Mayretta
August 20th, 2011
6:34 pm
I am so disappointed. These uniforms are just not attractive and makes our team look like an Arena team. UGA’s uniforms are so classic. Don’t mess with them.
Erk Russell's Dog
August 20th, 2011
6:38 pm
Is the Boise State game a practice game. The new uniforms are for only one game. If the Dawgs win ,we can’t change back ,it will jinx us. Holy crap ,if the Dawgs win we are stuck with this ugly ass uniform .And Nike will have too design a road uniform too. Double Holy Crap!!!! Will the nightmare end I thought 6 and 7 was bad enough ,now if we win we are screwed.
LakeDawg
August 20th, 2011
6:39 pm
The unis look hideous. I can put up with them for one game. Especially with CMR saying he’s not going to spring anymore uniform surprises on the Dawg Nation. That’s a concession on his part, because earlier this summer he was talking multiple uniform combos ala Oregon.
As for the on field news, IC turning it on has got me excited. I’m really looking forward to this year.
Snoop Dawg
August 20th, 2011
6:42 pm
I don’t like the uniforms, but I will go along with them if they actually motivate the team to play like the Dawgs of yore.
I’m not going to buy anymore Nike stuff, though. It’s a ripoff, anyway for the price.
Did you know that Nike doesn’t even own a factory? Yep, they contract everything out to third world countries. No exceptions…
Maybe I’ll start to like these uniforms after UGA puts the wood upside Boise State’s head in two weeks…
Michael
August 20th, 2011
6:43 pm
Not sure the uniforms are going to help against Boise State.
Sid
August 20th, 2011
6:44 pm
Break out the Uzi’s……………………….
Knew money
August 20th, 2011
6:46 pm
I like the uniform. Very 21st century
eboneezer snerdberg
August 20th, 2011
6:46 pm
They sux!
Snoop Dawg
August 20th, 2011
6:47 pm
I think DawginFex has morphed into Go Dawgs. The ostriches have multiple blog names…
red panties
August 20th, 2011
6:47 pm
Damin Edwards and my red panties must inspired Nike to produce these gadawful uniforms. But as Richt has finally learned, uniform tricks don’t win games-good coaching does. And that is where UGA is sorely lacking. Great players, no coaching leads to the record Richt has posted the last 2 years.
Sorry to say but UGA is starting 0-2, Boise and SC aren’t ranked where they are for no reason, you better start believing that h*ll is hot. And to make matters worse Richt will proably be fired after losing to Miss. State (SC and Miss State are much better than last year) and know the can beat the dawgs.
Hope Mark has tickets ready to leave......
August 20th, 2011
6:49 pm
Once Boise State gets done with these sorry looking Dawgs, Mark better go ahead and get his tickets ready because he is going to have to be on a fast train out of town…….sorriest Coach that has ever been at Georgia and recruits the stupidest dumbest retards that ever walked on a football field….I can’t wait till he gets run out of town and I hope the first team besides Georgia to win at Sanford Stadium this year goes ahead and tears down the Hedges!!!! Go any team but Georgia! Beat the Dawgs Tails!!!!!!!
LakeDawg
August 20th, 2011
6:50 pm
Did I mention the new unis are hideous?
Gary Donehoo
August 20th, 2011
6:50 pm
Mighty fancy uniforms for a bunch of losers. They can hang their picture behind the counter in the 7-11 they’ll work in after they leave athens.
Go Dawgs
August 20th, 2011
6:51 pm
Grow up you pansies -
Markt Wrecked
August 20th, 2011
6:52 pm
Er uh, I didn’t have anything to do with these uniforms, folks. This is just for a lot of money, you know? I’m not cheap. These uniforms from Nike will pay about one tenth of my salary this year, so hang, baby. That’s why I put it out a couple of weeks in advance. Drink this koolaid, it’ll start looking better before you know it.
The buck stops where?
Blackout = Losers, Red Uni's Bigger Losers!!
August 20th, 2011
6:52 pm
Look like a bunch of punk retards in those Red Uni’s…..Combat Uni’s yeah right….just wait until you see all these LOSERS of the Dream Team Recruiting Season lay down one time after they are hit!!!!
Hit A Single
August 20th, 2011
6:53 pm
If it takes a uniform to take a kid to commit, I don’t want that kid. Tradition should sell the school and UGA has that academically and athletically. I am not surprised by Nike. All these companies are partly responsible for college football and basketball being in the shape it is in. They cater to and give gifts to AAU teams and college teams when they charge high school teams outlandish prices. An AAU basketball team walked by me in Disney World one summer as they were participating in the showcase. The whole team smelled like a brewrey. They cater to the type of kid that has college football in the shape it is in. You poll many of the UGA players and I guarantee you they don’t like the uniforms. College football should have been embarrased by the uniforms worn by Va. Tech and Boise State last year. And of course Oregon is the poster child for uniforms and they are probation bound.
LakeDawg
August 20th, 2011
6:55 pm
Not to mention they break with TRADITION! UGA has spent decades building brand recognition. The new unis are either 1) a gimmick or 2) a sell out to a corporation that uses third world child labor. Either way its a low for UGA and college football in general. I thought this was supposed to be collegiate athletics, not a marketing campaign. Oh well, still excited about the upcoming season.
Go Dawgs
August 20th, 2011
6:55 pm
Hit a single – Really?????
ga gator
August 20th, 2011
6:55 pm
Be honored that Nike thought enough of the Dawgs to offer them. My understanding is that Boise and UF will be wearing theirs this year when the Dawgs play them.
Go Dawgs
August 20th, 2011
6:56 pm
Why does a person get so worked up over a uniform? Geez!
Snoop Dawg
August 20th, 2011
6:56 pm
They have prostituted UGA football to Nike for a handful of sheckels. Shame on them.
Go Dawgs
August 20th, 2011
6:57 pm
Snoop – go back to harlem my brother – this it SEC football not E v/s W hip hop
Erk Russell's Dog
August 20th, 2011
6:58 pm
Give it some time Ga gayturd you will be down here with the Dawgs ,we have already planted a mole in your coaching staff.oops that was supposed to be a secret disregard that comment ga gayturd.
Zoli
August 20th, 2011
6:58 pm
Everyone who posts GATA meaning we (UGA) are running after their backsides. I would rather it say somthing along the lines FUTC–FORMTACKLE’EM UNDER THEIR CHIN!!
Run CMR Off
August 20th, 2011
6:59 pm
CMR has done nothing but embarass Georgia Football….this poor excuse for a man and imitating a head coach should be run out of town if not tar’ed and feathered. He is a JOKE!!!!!!
Snoop Dawg
August 20th, 2011
6:59 pm
If UGA losese to Boise State in those roller derby uniforms, he’d better just pack it up that night and be crossing the state line back to Tallahassee before the sun comes up. This will be worse that the smackdowns that Alabama and Florida put on him after the blackout and the Grambling loan.
Imagine how stupid the entire university will look. and it will reflect on every alumnus…
LakeDawg
August 20th, 2011
6:59 pm
Hit A Single,
You are right on the money.
Go Dawgs,
You obviously don’t understand the role tradition plays in college football, especially in the SEC. My guess is you’re in your 20’s.
Snoop Dawg
August 20th, 2011
7:00 pm
Go Dawg you just go back to bobbing for maggots in the bottom of the dumpster, OK…
Go Dawgs
August 20th, 2011
7:01 pm
You are so right Snoop Dawg – your knowledge of college football makes me trimble – dude are you sure you not a coach at a power house school somewhere
shankit
August 20th, 2011
7:01 pm
Whatever happened to the dinosaur NCAA and Russell Sporting Goods?
College football is now dictated by ESPN and Nooki.
And Craig James, you suck.
Mike
August 20th, 2011
7:02 pm
Good to see practice going well and spirits high. The new uniforms suck and blow chunks. Glad we will only see them once.
Go Dawgs
August 20th, 2011
7:03 pm
Lake Dawg – you are right – I am in my 20;s and tradition does predict the outcome of a football game – I guess Ga will lose or wait will Boise lose – I mean aren’t they both wearing NIKE uniforms – my goodness Lake Dawg I am so confused – please enlighten me
Go Dawgs
August 20th, 2011
7:04 pm
Bobbing for maggots? – Really?
bamaguy
August 20th, 2011
7:07 pm
LSU and Alabama have both worn the Nike Combat uniforms. However, they allowed Nike to make only minor changes to the traditional uniform. Who at UGA allowed this and why?
The SEC is a traditional conference with traditional uniforms. When I saw these uniforms all I could think is “How many UGA fans would want a poster of their team holding up a crystal football, hoisting their helmets in victory, wearing these uniforms?”
Stamey
August 20th, 2011
7:07 pm
The new Unis look awesome. For all the traditionalists out there, get on board, we’re only wearing them once…
Hit A Single
August 20th, 2011
7:07 pm
I sure hope these uniforms aren’t like the music from motown and other great music from the 60’s and 70’s. That music is and will always be around, I hope these uniforms aren’t. I really would like to see UGA go back to the red pants with white jerseys on the road. The same ones that Herschel wore when he ran over Bill Bates.
Hit A Single
August 20th, 2011
7:09 pm
Oh yea, Craig James and his son both suck!
tckr83
August 20th, 2011
7:09 pm
WE ARE… Texas Tech. Go Dawgs!
shankit
August 20th, 2011
7:09 pm
Nooki has a special on “Red” golf, er’ football shirts.
$9.95 with a Tigger logo, or $49.95 with a Dawg logo.
JAWJeRDAWG
August 20th, 2011
7:09 pm
Won’t reflect on me, Snoop Dog, and I won’t have go south of the Georgia border to get home. Just sayin’. .. Go Dawgs!
Carl Spackler
August 20th, 2011
7:10 pm
Glad the players like them, that’s who matters. I did notice that the helmet looks like the #11 billiard ball, and that they matched it with the #11 uniform for the picture.
Snoop Dawg
August 20th, 2011
7:11 pm
Snoop Dawg’s not a coach, but he knows a good coach when he sees one… Preacha Man’s not a good one. He’s holding us back like the albatross around Ulysses’ neck… Now get back to that bobbing…
AltamahaDawg
August 20th, 2011
7:15 pm
Nope , there is not any possible score of that game that will reflect negatively on me. I will not look stupid if UGA loses. You might think it makes you look stupid, but that’s all on you. (actually I was just assuming you were counting yourself as an alumnus, since you took it upon yourself to speak for us) I would also add that there is no possible score of that game that will reflect positively on you.
LakeDawg
August 20th, 2011
7:16 pm
Go Dawgs
August 20th, 2011
7:03 pm
Lake Dawg – you are right – I am in my 20;s and tradition does predict the outcome of a football game – I guess Ga will lose or wait will Boise lose – I mean aren’t they both wearing NIKE uniforms – my goodness Lake Dawg I am so confused – please enlighten me
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Go Dawgs, not trying to Dawg you out
I’m not talking about the play on the field, but what makes college football special to the fan. If you weren’t taught the appreciation of tradition by older Dawgs while growing up, I can’t explain it to you. BTW GO DAWGS! 
shankit
August 20th, 2011
7:17 pm
The NCAA has become a dinosaur with regards to modern college athletics.
ESPN is the new kid on the block $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Sell your soul to the new company store.
ESPN cannot afford for A & M to leave the SW conference, with all the cash
they are shelling out to the Longhorns. If the SW conference dissolves, think
of the losses ESPN will “suffer.”
I would dare say there is behind the scenes negotiations involving monetary
considerations for A & M to stay in the conference, and preserve ESPN’s
deal.
A great comment by Mike Leach regarding ESPN, when they come, a team
or conference spreads it’s legs and opens up for the largest payout.
PolarDawg
August 20th, 2011
7:19 pm
Richt loves ‘em? Then maybe it is time for him to go. If he does not care about tradition then maybe we need to stop the tradition of keeping a head coach around this close to the season. These are embarassing and not Georgia football. Richt – TIME TO GO!!
LakeDawg
August 20th, 2011
7:20 pm
shankit, you are so right. But this time at least, ESPN is keeping A@M outta the SEC, I hope.
AltamahaDawg
August 20th, 2011
7:25 pm
Got to love the folks that wave the banner of tradition when it suits them, or the just personally don’t like something. Calling this a departure from tradition cheapens the meaning of the word. Those of us that have been around a bit longer have seen enough changes in college football over the years that we know what real tradition means, and we don’t confuse it with things that inevitable change over time.
We were bamboozled.....
August 20th, 2011
7:25 pm
Let’s just hope to uniforms for Boise State are even more hideous (Maybe helmets the same color as their turf…..).
U*G*L*Y
August 20th, 2011
7:25 pm
The new unis make the players look like fire hydrants. They’d better not get too close to UGA or Smokey
Erk Russell's Dog
August 20th, 2011
7:30 pm
Tradition CMR played at Miami was O coordinator at Free Shoes U ,What does he know about tradition,it is all about the money. He puts on a nice guy God fearing facade ,but he is what he is ,a football coach. His lively hood is tied to 19 and 20 year old kids playing football,so if he can make an extra buck from the devil “Nike” he will take it.If the Alumni and Dawg fans don’t like it they will get over it, you better win CMR or we will be getting over you.
LakeDawg
August 20th, 2011
7:34 pm
@AltamahaDawg
You are full of it. I’ve been around a looong time and this is no gradual evolution of tradition. Its a sell out to NIKE. Plain and simple. Tradition means you’ve built something and traditional unis represent that. Tradition includes the whole Dawg nation from us “old farts” to the newest members. Its one of the things that make college football special. Now, I’m not going to get overly concerned over unis for one game, but I’m allowed to vent for one day.
Vince Doodly
August 20th, 2011
7:35 pm
Richt just DOES NOT GET IT. That G has a tradition associated with it and a brand. People see players wearing traditional UGA uniforms and question in their minds whether they can win. Thats the history of the tradition of winning that brand brings. Certain SEC teams have this. Bama, LSU, Auburn, Tennessee, Florida and UGA. When Nike messes with the branding, the fear is gone on the field. This is psychological.
I am an Auburn man, and I thank GOD we dont wear Nike uniforms. This aint Oregon over here with the day glo socks. Those people have no tradition. They have gimmicks. The people who think this is cool wonder why UGA has a building named Buttsmear. With no idea who Wally Butts was.
These Nike combat uniforms are BS. Richt is into gimmicks now. just like the black out stuff that made UGA look like Grambling.
A.Bishop
August 20th, 2011
7:36 pm
Wow, all you CMR haters act like children. I guarantee you that you couldn’t even come close to the job that he has done at UGA. Grow up please or better yet just go joing the UF or GT bandwagon. We don’t want you here.
shankit
August 20th, 2011
7:36 pm
I am an avid Dawg fan, but—–
I love Joe Pa, he would tell Nooki to take a hike if they tried this sh– on Penn State.
AltamahaDawg
August 20th, 2011
7:36 pm
I just can’t help but hearing Vince in that classic voice of his talking about the red pants that he rolled out to start the 1980 season which were a departure from the standard unis worn in that miserable preceeding season.
Uh well, someTiiiimes, you know, fan just need to get over it.
A.Bishop
August 20th, 2011
7:37 pm
join*
SuperB
August 20th, 2011
7:38 pm
THE NEW UNIFORMS— SUCK!!!!! Nike imposed those ugly uniforms on other teams (see Oregon,) and now us.
Mark Richt ought to be fired for letting the tacky morons at Nike use Georgia to sell hideous uniforms!
Bulldawg Richie
August 20th, 2011
7:39 pm
Well, I may be the ony one but I like the new uniforms for the Boise State game. Maybe not all the time but this is just a special event game. All in all, the main thing is how does the team play. And if the players like the uniforms, I’m not going to complain.
A.Bishop
August 20th, 2011
7:41 pm
What kind of an idiot thinks that a coach should be fired for allowing a company to design new uniforms for one game? I’m glad the players like them because that is all that matters since they are the one’s playing in the game. I guarantee you that it doesn’t matter what uniforms they wear, you “fans” will still cheer for them.
Say what
August 20th, 2011
7:43 pm
The only uniforms Nike knows how to make are UGLY UNIFORMS. Who’s designing those? A seventh-grade gaggel of Goths? If we lose, richt can take those uniforms and put them where the sun never shines. The great teams DO NOT change uniforms and wear gadget ” costumes” like this.
AltamahaDawg
August 20th, 2011
7:46 pm
So it’s not that the pants are red, or the helmet is different, it’s that Nike paid for it? I don’t have a problem with that. Personally I don’t think it’s selling out any more than the entire game has sold out. Kind of how it is. But you do, so that’s fine, vent away. But as I was saying and you seem to be confirming, waving the banner of “tradition” when in fact is not about the change but more about the motive, waters down what real tradition means.
LakeDawg
August 20th, 2011
7:47 pm
AltamahaDawg
August 20th, 2011
7:36 pm
I just can’t help but hearing Vince in that classic voice of his talking about the red pants that he rolled out to start the 1980 season which were a departure from the standard unis worn in that miserable preceeding season.
Uh well, someTiiiimes, you know, fan just need to get over it.
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You need to get your facts straight. UGA wore the red pants on the road prior to 1980. After the Tenn. game they reverted back to the silver britches for tradition’s sake and were warmly received.
Uh well, sometiiiimes, you know, you need to try to understand what the majority of the Dawg nation holds dear.
Erk Russell's Dog
August 20th, 2011
7:47 pm
A river Dawg I am confused are you for the college tradition ? Or are you a progressive who believes that change is inevitable and we should just take it .We should sit down,shut up and take whatever crap Adams and CMR tell us to take . I myself am tired of the overpriced crap sandwich they are serving,I will give them one more year of this .If the Dawgs have another crap season ,I will call Satan incarnate Bill Curry and ask him ,how much for GSU Panther season tickets?
SuperB
August 20th, 2011
7:48 pm
Hey A. Bishop– you better not be calling me an idiot. I have been the biggest Georgia fan for the last 42 years and am a Georgia graduate. I know tacky uniforms when I see them– and Nike makes tacky uniforms. When we changed from white to silver breeches– that was a good look. There’s nothing wrong with having a uniform that looks good for a special game (I liked the black jerseys.) But these uniforms are just plain ugly!
AltamahaDawg
August 20th, 2011
7:50 pm
I assume you are over the multiple uni changes that occured when you were coaching Erk?
Hit A Single
August 20th, 2011
7:50 pm
I don’t care if the players do like them. They are not the only ones that matter. The ones that matter are the ones that have come thru the program and helped make it the program it is today. I know it is one game but that mess in Jacksonville with those black helmets was one game and I think all UGA fans should have been reimbursed their ticket money that day. Ala. controlled their uniforms and I am really disappointed in Georgia for letting this crap happen. They fell for the Nike trash method of doing things.
Stupid Honkey
August 20th, 2011
7:51 pm
Black worked. Didn’t it? Really? It didn’t work? Gee, maybe some coaching? maybe some disciplne? No, dat be racist. Bye, Georgia; it was good once.
Prozac Dawg
August 20th, 2011
7:55 pm
I will really like the unis if I see them all over kellen Moore’s face. The End
shankit
August 20th, 2011
7:55 pm
I can think of several great coaches that would not allow a corporate entity be allowed to create a distraction to their preparation for two upcoming games which would determine the total outcome of their season and their pursuit of a state or national championship. They would be—
1. Wright Bazemore – Valdosta High School
2. Wyman Sellars
3. John Donaldson
4. Coach Cavan from Thomaston
5. Bear Bryant
6. Joe Paterno
7. Bobby Dodd
8. Our ol’ VSU coach, Mike Leach
9. And I could go on and on
10. George Patton
This is a distraction to the ultimate goal of kicking arse.
rm
August 20th, 2011
7:55 pm
cheesy
Tiger Woods
August 20th, 2011
7:58 pm
Don’t criticize Nooki’s new red jerseys.’
Look what they have done for me lately.
Macon Dog in Middle East
August 20th, 2011
8:00 pm
Coach Richt should burn those Nike “Combat” unis right after the game. Nike should stop bribing teams to wear Nike’s flaky designs. These look like somthing the XFL would have rejected! Besides, Coach Dooley’s “traditional” Georgia uni is among the most beautiful in football. Why change a good thing? Why “ugly it up”?
Joe Pa
August 20th, 2011
8:00 pm
I personally like Nike’s intervention into uniform changes for any of my forthcoming opponents.
shankit
August 20th, 2011
8:02 pm
The more I see of Nike, the more I like of Joe Pa.
Hit A Single
August 20th, 2011
8:03 pm
I just got my new Nike jersey and heck it says made on Mars.
War Dang Dawg
August 20th, 2011
8:04 pm
We have the best looking uniforms in football, and our players have to wear that Arena league looking new age crap.
“Get over it”? I look forward to getting over Richt’s tenure as head coach, whenever it mercifully ends.
Dawglasville
August 20th, 2011
8:06 pm
Snoop – I am with you on this one. I am sick of Nike running college athletics.
Hit A Single
August 20th, 2011
8:10 pm
Nike isn’t running college football it is ruining college football.
Atlanta87
August 20th, 2011
8:12 pm
All I know is my team could come out in Pink Jersey’s and Tu-Tu’s for all I care as long as they win the dang football game. It will be fun to watch people make fun of UGA and probably Boise State for these. In the end it doesn’t matter what the player is wearing, but how many times they get in the end zone. End of story.
Erk Russell's Dog
August 20th, 2011
8:15 pm
A river Dawg I could give a gators ass about the new uniforms.The tradition I am talking about is how the Dawgs play. I hope the Dawgs can learn how to actually play some defense this year. I hope that on offense when it is 3rd and 2 they can man up and run the ball for a first down. And most of all win or lose that no visiting team looks forward to coming to Sanford Stadium.
shankit
August 20th, 2011
8:17 pm
Where does this ESPN and NIKE insanity end.
I guess Nike will approach the Pentagon next to get a contract to redesign our traditional military uniforms. Hope Patton will resurrect to stop this crap.
I hate artificial turf, I hate Nike, I hate ESPN, I love grass, I love Chris Schenkel, I love uniforms washed by trainers, I love high football shoes with rubber cleats, Go Joe Pa, you are the man. Penn State would be foolish to get rid of you. Also, go Dawgs, irregardless of all the latest distractions.
kp
August 20th, 2011
8:18 pm
I like the uniforms, traditions are made to be broken, its modern day and kids love to shake things up, i think this will get some excitement from the players and potential recruits! GO DAWGS
Lifelong fan
August 20th, 2011
8:18 pm
I am a 60 year old lifelong UGA fan who grew up listening to GA games on the radio, attending games, and watching every televised game I could. My father was a UGA graduate, I am also a UGA graduate who is married to a UGA graduate and have 3 children attending UGA. So I am born and bred UGA all the way. I have always loved UGA’s classic and traditional uniforms and hope that the basic uniform does not change. But all these ignorant comments on ProCombat uniforms that are going to be worn for one game is really embarrassing. We have a lot to be excited about: our recruiting was excellent, news is great coming from practices, discipline appears to be strong with no arrests, and the University is exceeding expectations academically, and you still find ways to criticize our team and university. I can tell you that the players and the student body love the uniforms. Why not reward them with something that is modern and up to date? Are you really that upset with the uniforms or are you just an old stick in the mud who cannot accept that things change. I bet you are the same ones who complain that your low performing child cannot make the grade academically to get into UGA. Face it, the university is changing and if you cannot get on board go find another team.
Low Cou ntry Dwg
August 20th, 2011
8:18 pm
I can’t stand the helmets-they are cheesy. I hope this is the only game they wear them.
Quit the gimmicks and play football.
Our current helmets have a great, classic look
Z-RO
August 20th, 2011
8:19 pm
why do we keep talking tradition im a Georgia fan but WHAT tradition??? we’re one of the the only teams that win the SEC but no National title…when LSU wins they win it all, when Florida wins they win it all,when Alabama,Auburn etc….THEY WIN IT ALL forget the jerseys and play ball!!!
'Cat's' Dad
August 20th, 2011
8:20 pm
Would like to know what the cost was and if it can really be justified these days while tuition for education is getting to be out of reach for many. What’s really correct, reasonable, sensible, important etc., is rare and hard to discern in these tumultuous times, especially from those in leadership roles everywhere… government, business, education, religion, etc. We’re descending into self-annhilation because of making bad decisions.
AFAN
August 20th, 2011
8:25 pm
helmet is cool. red pants not so cool. should have had black pants with red shirt.
red shirt and red pants together look bad.
but go dawgs!!
JP
August 20th, 2011
8:27 pm
Red-outs, Black-Outs…. Haven’t we heard this before? The never-ending string of gimmicks this program concocts to motivate its football team to play well in big games is astonishing.
War Dang Dawg
August 20th, 2011
8:27 pm
To all you fans who question the loyalty and dedication of fans and alum who complain about the direction of the UGA football program under Richt:
Up yours.
Your crap is getting old. Some of you pie-in-the-sky types are the same folks who’ll be bitching and moaning and calling for Richt’s head after another mediocre season that includes yet another loss to Florida. Apparently you just haven’t reached your breaking point yet. Fair enough, but some of us have reached ours.
I don’t like the unis, and I don’t like Richt as head coach. I’d love to see another tradition brought back – playing defense – but I’m not going to hold my breath with these clowns in charge. I’ve paid enough money to UGA to be able to say that. So if you can’t deal with that…get over it, as your favorite coach would say.
mark
August 20th, 2011
8:28 pm
@Bulldawg Dickie you must be about 12. These clown suits look silly and only schools with no real tradition would remotely think about wearing one…..
mgdawg
August 20th, 2011
8:32 pm
The jersey and pants I like ok, I’ve been waiting on the red on red. But the helmet looks horrible. I really expected nike to do better then what they did. I’ve really liked alot of the combat jerseys other teams have worn.
Erk Russell's Dog
August 20th, 2011
8:34 pm
War Dang Dawg ,well said sir .The old tradition was actually coming home from J-Ville with a win and not just another moral victory.
sandyspringsjacket
August 20th, 2011
8:37 pm
Nice uni’s haha. Another CMR gimmick will blow up in his face. Why does an eSECpn team need to do this, just play hard nose FB.
LarryatLeesburg
August 20th, 2011
8:39 pm
ok just add the helmet to the old uniform.
bigdawgfan
August 20th, 2011
8:40 pm
The dawg nation should trash their Nike stuff for Reebok.
Dawg Tired
August 20th, 2011
8:44 pm
# 5 vs. # 19 or #22 (depending on the poll). What do the boys in Vegas say the line is? You would think #5 would be at least a TD favorite, maybe more. If I were a betting man, I would bet the line is much closer. Wonder why?
gt4ever
August 20th, 2011
8:45 pm
UGLIEST uniform I think I have every seen….. But hey, You will beat Boise like a drum… Your lucky this year, they are way overrated…
shankit
August 20th, 2011
8:45 pm
I am confused.
I thought Oregon was playing LSU.
Dawg Tired
August 20th, 2011
8:47 pm
You know the unis are terrible when a GT fan can knock ‘em. GT used to have great looking unis back in the day. Now – not so much.
Dawg Tired
August 20th, 2011
8:48 pm
Thank goodness we only have to wear those things one time.
shankit
August 20th, 2011
8:48 pm
National Championship game 2010.
Nike vs. Russell
Russell, national champions.
gt4ever
August 20th, 2011
8:49 pm
Exactly Dawg tired, I hate messing with tradition…. Just wear your regular Red, it looks 100 percent better…..
Cousin Curtis
August 20th, 2011
8:49 pm
Ok. CMR thinks that showing some willingness to “break with tradition” might help with recruiting and he may be right. But Saban, Joe Pa and other coaches of old school, storied programs won’t miss a beat with recruiting, and in fact may attract more of the kind of recruits I would personally prefer by sticking to their classic identity.
These uni’s are attrocious and they are not in line with what I would like to consider my alma mater’s football identity. I wish we’d leave this kind of crap to Florida and Oregon to embarrass themselves with.
AltamahaDawg
August 20th, 2011
8:50 pm
Yes I am aware that the TN game was a road game, but I was not aware they had been wearing them on a regular basis for road games. So thanks for that clarification. But frankly the fact that they had worn them a few times before is not the point. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t say that they changed Back to the silver pants for “tradition” sake, while trying to minimize my point that the Red Pants were a departure from tradition. One I doubt that the Bulldawg faithfull really thought was flying in the face of what is dear to them, about the time Bill Bates was getting run over.
mark
August 20th, 2011
8:51 pm
Sid you are a tasteless moron.
BigBadJohn
August 20th, 2011
8:52 pm
Gay!!!
Lagrange2008
August 20th, 2011
8:53 pm
I love the uniforms. I understand tradition, but sometimes tradition needs to change. To be honest, our tradition has landed us only 1 National Championship since 1980. It’s time to do something, “Anything” to get these young men excited. If that means changing the uniforms, then I am for it.
mark
August 20th, 2011
8:54 pm
Sid, my uncle once told me, “You can hide class but you can’t shine sh….”
SugarHillDawg
August 20th, 2011
8:55 pm
I HATE those DAMN red pants!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
shankit
August 20th, 2011
8:56 pm
Nike uniforms are made in China.
Russell uniforms are made in Alabama.
Tough choice.
AltamahaDawg
August 20th, 2011
8:57 pm
Personally I think they are butt ugly, and would rather see the normal gear. But this was absolutely what UGA needed, this game. A chance to be in the national spotlight . A rally point for a better offseason preparation, and a boon to recruiting. If this is the price to pay for this game, it was well worth it. I don’t know too many organization that wouldn’t be willing to accept a small condition, for the opportunity to improve itself.
BigBadJohn
August 20th, 2011
8:58 pm
GAY!!
Erk Russell's Dog
August 20th, 2011
8:58 pm
A river Dawg ,I get where you are coming from . But is there a Dawg on this 2011 that could run Bill Bates over.Back in that day 1979 the game was only on the radio ,could only hear Munson describe the red pants.
Hmmmmmmmmm
August 20th, 2011
9:02 pm
Very Gay! Nothing wrong with gay…… I mean I guess… What an embarrasment for the state of Georgia…. Good Grief…
BigBadJohn
August 20th, 2011
9:03 pm
UGAY!!!
shankit
August 20th, 2011
9:03 pm
Tressel would still be coach if he had these uniforms a couple of years ago. There would have been no need for tattoos.
Rabid Dawg'84
August 20th, 2011
9:04 pm
I love our away uni more than home – always like the helmet, jersey and pants 3 different colors. I like this helmet and jersey, but would like to see black pants with them. I wuoldn’t mind buying this jersey.
trey
August 20th, 2011
9:05 pm
I LOVE EM…F YOU AND ALL YOU FANS THAT DONT
Hmmmmmmmmm
August 20th, 2011
9:06 pm
Good trey,
then go back and snuggle with your boyfriend…..
trey
August 20th, 2011
9:06 pm
THE ONES WHO DONT LIKE EM ARE GA HICKS WHO WEAR JEANS AND BOOTS AND HAVE BIG BELLIES—THEY THINK ANYTHING COOL IS 2 BLACK AND THEY HATE IT
Bulldog Bred
August 20th, 2011
9:06 pm
Dear God. It looks like Nike now owns our athletic department. I am sick of gimmick uniforms and Nike calling the shots. Give me the standard Georgia uniform anyday. Can you imagine Nike cramming this piece of crap down Alabama’s throat? Penn State’s? Let’s take a few less bucks and tell Nike to stuff it.
Mama don't let your babies grow up to be DAWGS
August 20th, 2011
9:07 pm
UGA-ly mutts
trey
August 20th, 2011
9:07 pm
NAAA ID RATHER SNUGGLE WITH YA WIFE LIKE I DID LAST NITE
trey
August 20th, 2011
9:07 pm
THE ONES WHO DONT LIKE EM ARE GA HICKS WHO WEAR JEANS AND BOOTS AND HAVE BIG BELLIES—THEY THINK ANYTHING COOL IS 2 BLACK AND THEY HATE IT…
AltamahaDawg
August 20th, 2011
9:08 pm
I’m really not sure how the question about Bates has anything to do with the point I was making.
But as far as the other. Are you suggesting that a departure from tradition is fine if you just hear it, and not see it? Do the UGA fans at that game count?
Erk Russell's Dog
August 20th, 2011
9:09 pm
Trey school starts Monday ,I hope the other boys in the 6th grade don’t find out your secret.Not that there is anything wrong with it.
trey
August 20th, 2011
9:10 pm
ONLY REDNECK FAT WHITE BOYS DONT LIKE THESE UNIS—GO BACK TO YOUR WRANGLER JEANS, BROWN BEAT UP GYPSIE BOOTS AND PLAID COLLARED SHIRTS
AltamahaDawg
August 20th, 2011
9:13 pm
BTW, does it have that Dawg face on the front or not?
rodney charles
August 20th, 2011
9:13 pm
another gimmick to disguise a failing program. UGA football has been irrelevant on the national stage for half a decade. new uni’s will not change the fact that program sucks. dump richt and get a real man as coach.donnan was be better than this wuss.
gt4ever
August 20th, 2011
9:13 pm
Trey,
Your a MORON!… This has nothing to do with “black”, but more to do with butt UGLY unis… I mean you guys have sharp uniforms already, why embarass yourself and the state of Georgia by wearing this crap? I don’t think you lose this game, but if you do lose, whoever picked these color combinations should be Fired… It’s really kinda funny…. National TV and everything…
chip
August 20th, 2011
9:16 pm
they look like mighty morphin power rangers uniforms
gt4ever
August 20th, 2011
9:16 pm
Erk,
Trey is already out of the closet…..
Erk Russell's Dog
August 20th, 2011
9:16 pm
Trey ,now don’t take this the wrong way ,but just because you wear skinny jeans and got cut from the jv cheerleading team ,does not make it OK for you to call people fat .You might hurt there self a-steem
mark
August 20th, 2011
9:17 pm
I remember when the Braves went to the god awful softball uniforms in 75. These are worse.
rodney charles
August 20th, 2011
9:18 pm
the wussification of UGA football continues. please hire a true male as HC and athletic director. UGA appears to be spearheading transgender football.
Erk Russell's Dog
August 20th, 2011
9:21 pm
A river Dawg for the last time I don’t care what color your pants are. It is your performance on the football field that matters.Giving up 30 points a game is a tradition I do not care to see or listen to.
Strange Murphy
August 20th, 2011
9:22 pm
Uniforms are ugly as shat. They’re embarrassing!
cookieman
August 20th, 2011
9:22 pm
Change is good . Love the uniforms.
rodney charles
August 20th, 2011
9:23 pm
And I forgot to say that I’m a man who likes men!
rodney charles
August 20th, 2011
9:24 pm
Go Yellow Jackets!!!
shankit
August 20th, 2011
9:27 pm
Wonder what Terrell could have gotten with one of these autographed jerseys?
rodney charles
August 20th, 2011
9:27 pm
And I love Michael Adams
shankit
August 20th, 2011
9:28 pm
Nike – Made in China.
trey
August 20th, 2011
9:29 pm
I’m with you rodney! Let’s go somewhere where we can hold hands.
Erk Russell's Dog
August 20th, 2011
9:29 pm
A river Dawg UGA will wear whatever colored pants that Nike tells them to wear.Money talks and Nike has the money.So I hope the Dawgs play well in the dome and win I won’t be there ,will be coaching a baseball team in Greenville SC.that weekend.
Dawg Tired
August 20th, 2011
9:30 pm
Trey’s problems make the uniforms look ok. Talk about a man in need of serious counseling. That’s one sick dude. At least we can change into our regular uniforms. What’s Trey going to do? His problems require a whole lot more than a simple change of clothes. Come the South Carolina game, a mere 7 days later, we’ll be back in good looking uniforms and Trey will still be a sicko.
AltamahaDawg
August 20th, 2011
9:30 pm
Well then, you know what might help? If you would stop commenting to me about the uniforms.
Steve "The King" Spurrier
August 20th, 2011
9:30 pm
I think it may be time to pull out the black helmets.
If the Dawgs actually score against Boise, have the whole team run to the end zone and jump up and down!!
Paint some chicken bones blue and tie them to the back of your helmets too.
Try ANYTHING for a winning season!!
Bill
August 20th, 2011
9:30 pm
You can change the uniforms, but the team will still be uglier than the new ones. WDE!
Steve "The King" Spurrier
August 20th, 2011
9:31 pm
I wish I could play the Dawgs twice this year.
Erk Russell's Dog
August 20th, 2011
9:32 pm
Rodney and Trey if you two like Michael Adams so much buy him Ga Tech season tickets.
NOBODYYOUKNOW
August 20th, 2011
9:34 pm
The helmets need a big bulldog mouth with big sharp teeth up front.
Poopdawg
August 20th, 2011
9:34 pm
Has Tide roll complained yet about the Manikin being too white?
NOBODYYOUKNOW
August 20th, 2011
9:35 pm
Why you taking me out?
shankit
August 20th, 2011
9:40 pm
LSU is wearing traditional Russell uniforms against Oregon and their gimmick uniforms in their season opening. Just wondering. Anybody want Oregon against the Chinese Bandits?
Dawg Tired
August 20th, 2011
9:40 pm
Amazing how someone who supports a team that is 1-4 against us the last 5 years can be so boorish. However, I must say I am not that surprised. It’s fairly typical for that group.
War Dang Dawg
August 20th, 2011
9:43 pm
Trey has a point. Our players will look sharp with their dreads hanging out the back of those Arena Football League uniforms. Who cares what us good-ole-boy alums think, anyway.
It was fun watching that UCF defensive lineman wreak havoc on our offense in the bowl game. You know, the country boy who dreamed of playing for Georgia since he was a kid but didn’t draw any interest from Richt and Co. Didn’t run a fast enough 40, I guess.
Thank God Donnan drafted David Pollack. Not sure Richt would have.
War Dang Dawg
August 20th, 2011
9:45 pm
RECRUITED Pollack, I meant
Master P
August 20th, 2011
9:45 pm
Crowell’s back—full speed baby!!! Look for IC to run all over Boise’s weak defense! Dawgs roll!!!!
ga gator
August 20th, 2011
9:45 pm
Erk Russell’s Dog, you must be gay to bring up Gayturds morphadite.
Mobile Dawg
August 20th, 2011
9:47 pm
I don’t think the unis look terrible, some people just like our Dawgs they way they have always been. If Richt wins he will probably be forgiven, if he loses it’s likely he’s laying the path for his way out of town, probably ends up in the ACC, unless he decides to pursue his mission work. Either way, I don’t think the uniform change is appropriate. And I probably won’t get over it either. Just another straw on Richts back.
ETown Dawg
August 20th, 2011
9:47 pm
Can the Dawgs bring out the black uniforms against florida? Fla’s way down and this is finally the year when Ga can beat them bad!!! Back in black baby!!!
Erk Russell's Dog
August 20th, 2011
9:49 pm
A river Dawg come on I have been as patient as I can with you.You are right my freshman year at Uga they wore white pants. when I was a junior UGA wore red pants and the silver pants. Can’t say any thing about my senior year ,Got title nined out of my baseball scholarship and did not care what color the football teams pants were,and I still dont give a s##t.
shankit
August 20th, 2011
9:49 pm
ga gator – And what was the name of the taxidermist in Alachua that mounted ya’ll’s mascot that is on display in your skyboxes. Only team I know of that kills their mascot and has him mounted UGA rest in peace.
Steve
August 20th, 2011
9:51 pm
Those uniforms are absolutely horrific. Are we trying to become a Mtn West team? Arena Football? Hellp.
Stick to tradition. That is what college football is about.
drdawg
August 20th, 2011
9:56 pm
Much to do about nothing. If the Dawgs win, I want some stock in the helmets.
Just please don’t pull any new crap in Jax other than win.
Sun Devil dave
August 20th, 2011
9:57 pm
Hidious. Absolutly Hidious. Putrid. Vile. Simply put, Ugly.
chris
August 20th, 2011
9:59 pm
whats funny is the people that are bitching about the uniforms almost 100% didn’t even attend UGA. I just find it funny that rednecks just go for the team/school that they didn’t attend.
beachdog
August 20th, 2011
10:01 pm
as long as the players llike the uniforms, it’s none of our business
Erk Russell's Dog
August 20th, 2011
10:03 pm
Hey Ga gator if you can’t come up with anything more creative than the gay card than, oh s##t that is what I did . You sir I will apologize to.Don’t want to rile up any Gator fans this early..Wait until October for that to start. And I was only kidding about UGA having a mole on the Florida coaching staff,really just kidding.
T2go
August 20th, 2011
10:06 pm
The unis are not that bad….red jersey and red pants is not the best combo. What is really tragic is the helmets. That is just plain ugly as hell…..giant silver stripe!? Im an artist and feel I have a pretty good understanding of these things…
Look at all the new NFL logos over the past decade…they are all terrible. Go back and look at Tampas old logo or even the falcons. They were so much better 20 years ago. The Carolina panthers logo is soooooo lame. But the reason for this is marketing. They want things that can be readable no matter the size…so they are simplified and have brighter( less sophisticated) color schemes. Its not laziness as much as capitalism ruining yet another thing.
They should have left the Dawgs helmets alone….that outfit looks like some Canadian football something or ‘nother.
Anyway GO Dawgs!
T2go
August 20th, 2011
10:08 pm
….That said….who really cares what the uniforms look like….GO GEORGIA….BEAT BOISE!!!!
jaglaw
August 20th, 2011
10:08 pm
Who cares what uniforms they wear…….just win baby!!!!!!
I can’t believe so much interest and argument goes into a freaking uniform worn for one game( a bowl game ay that). That type of superficial analysis is why our program was 6-7 last year. And the idiot who said CMR should have had imput with the design should be ashamed. If.our coach was designing uniforms the last six months we would be in some serious trouble. Get real people.
gianni versace bowl committee
August 20th, 2011
10:08 pm
Hi guys
First annual Gianni Versace bowl game in sunny Miami.
Open invitation to Georgia Bulldogs vs. Oregon “Aflac” Ducks
Special half time appearance by Elton John.
Erk Russell's Dog
August 20th, 2011
10:09 pm
Hey Hanky Panky I thought Chip was the buffoon broadcasting the Braves game.There is another buffoon named Chip.
SickandTired
August 20th, 2011
10:09 pm
I think they are beautiful and go right with Mark Richt’s path to the complete and total demise of any sort of tradition. What’s next? Why don’t we go out and recruit a kid that wants #34. Why not Mark. Be cool. You are the man. The day u are fired, I’ll help you pack.
playmeortrademe
August 20th, 2011
10:11 pm
College Football USED to be about tradition.
E$PN has killed it with Wednesday night games, Thursday night games, Friday night games, contrived early season matchups, BCS manipulation, and super-bowl long pre-game shows that beat any shred of a story into the ground until an unsuccessful old coach can do his shtick and put on a mascot head.
Then Nike bought any program that wanted to sign on the dotted line. Well, guess what, everyone sold their souls so Phil “sweatshop” Knight could build his college athletics empire at Oregon. Have fun competing against Oregon in the near future. The only thing saving everybody from an Oregon reign of terror is that Eugene is just too far away from So California, Texas, and Florida.
Mike
August 20th, 2011
10:11 pm
These uniforms are SWEET!!!!
shankit
August 20th, 2011
10:12 pm
Combat Uniforms?
Get outa my fox hole.
French Foreign Legion maybe.
Dawg Tired
August 20th, 2011
10:16 pm
I”m guessing the Auburn crowd is now looking up the word boorish. That could take a while.
shankit
August 20th, 2011
10:17 pm
Bought a new Nooki wedge, shanked it every time I used it.
Going back to Spalding.
Spike 80DF
August 20th, 2011
10:17 pm
i’m not a big fan of the uni’s but the atmosphere in the dome will be electric in 2 weeks and when the Dawgs come running out i’m sure i’ll love them. beating boise’s a$$ won’t hurt either…
wild bill
August 20th, 2011
10:18 pm
These are the butt-ugliest things I have seen in a long time. I am already embarrassed. Wearing clown uniforms is no way to follow up on a losing season. Tell Nike to take a flying leap and get back to the traditional uniforms……..fast!!
shankit
August 20th, 2011
10:19 pm
Bought a new sleeve of Nooki 20XXI golf balls.
Actually fouled them off.
Going back to Titleist.
Mobile Dawg
August 20th, 2011
10:19 pm
Good news earlier about Crowell. Let’s get Samuel ready, for some reason I think he’s the key to winning this game, and the Oline of course. That is if the coaching staff doesn’t get in the way.
Hairy Perry
August 20th, 2011
10:20 pm
I was at picture day with some family. I was not real impressed with the new look, but I’m not going to pitch a fit about it. The important thing is the players are exited about it and it’s just for one game. They are not so bad. Some fans will cry about anything no matter what it is.”Get over it”.
T-Dawg
August 20th, 2011
10:20 pm
First to claim “First!” I thought that was the whole point of the blog…
Hope the uniforms are forgotten as soon as possible. It should be about the athletes and theirplay on the field. Glad to see Crowell coming back and Jones and Charles not being held up by NCAA shenanigans like that wide receiver from last year. Bring on all the players from both teams and let’s PLAY THE GAME !!!
Ian Poulter
August 20th, 2011
10:21 pm
I think these uniforms are hideous, I would never be caught dead in this garb.
jaglaw
August 20th, 2011
10:22 pm
I hear you Hairy Perry. Amen!!!!!
jaglaw
August 20th, 2011
10:24 pm
Hairy Perry for President.
Liberace
August 20th, 2011
10:25 pm
Is Nike furnishing Candelabra to the Tuba player?
jaglaw
August 20th, 2011
10:25 pm
nobody in America cares what Ian Poultry thinks.
Hairy Perry
August 20th, 2011
10:27 pm
I think it would have looked cooler if the helmets had been white, with the red stripe and white face mask without stripe down center. Just fun thought.
Mobile Dawg
August 20th, 2011
10:27 pm
Let’s start a blog for standing up for Tradition. Remember Hootie Johnson sending Martha Burk packing, and who could forget last year, “turn your hat around”. Hootie for President, UGA, USA, oh yeah. Don’t have to wonder what he would tell Nike!
I'm Just Saying
August 20th, 2011
10:28 pm
CMR = Fashionista
Erk Russell's Dog
August 20th, 2011
10:29 pm
All traditions fade away slowly and eventually die . I remember a great UGA tradition , the baseball team hanging out at the athletic dorm and bogarting beers off the football team after a big win ,especially after the Ga Fla game .I guess that tradition died a while back But what memories they were.Don’t judge us,baseball players at Uga have always been the red headed step children of the athletic dept.
Zumadawg
August 20th, 2011
10:29 pm
Coach Richt should understand is that most dawg fans are’t “gitting over” those putrid uniforms were just tollerating them. Why woud Nike want to inflict such pain on the Dawg Nation? How about running this by Munson
Hairy Perry
August 20th, 2011
10:30 pm
Thanks for the vote jaglaw………………..GOODNIGHT!
shankit
August 20th, 2011
10:32 pm
Can’t hardly wait for this classic, going to the tanning booth every day,
and just got me a new set of sun glasses. Went to Needless Markup
and got me a Prada combat cap.
Bow Wow
August 20th, 2011
10:33 pm
Russ is looking good. And we finally get to wear the red panties.
dawg stuck in Gulf Shores
August 20th, 2011
10:33 pm
LOVE THE UNIFORMS!!! WE BAD, WE BAD!
toker
August 20th, 2011
10:35 pm
They look like astronauts…
shankit
August 20th, 2011
10:37 pm
Heard Nooki may be cutting a deal to paint the turf Red.
Roger
August 20th, 2011
10:37 pm
The uniforms look like crap! Another payoff to Nike who will be marketing this garbage as UGA uniforms within 2 weeks, just like they do with their hometown Oregon Ducks – which is an embarassment. Be a Bulldog; play like a Bulldog; and for god’s sake, dress like a Bulldog!
Richt should worry more about coaching this team up, rather than accepting Nike’s selection of Bulldog uniforms for their commercial benefit.
Bdawg
August 20th, 2011
10:40 pm
No, brooksdawg, cmr does not play head games
He Hate Gator
August 20th, 2011
10:43 pm
I can live with the uniform except for the white helmet. More importantly is how they play in them.
Mike Franklin
August 20th, 2011
10:46 pm
The new unis really blow. I hate white helmets… and the jerseys look like Falcons’ leftovers.
They should have stuck with the black jerseys. We would have learned to ‘get over it’ that the Dawgs don’t win every time they wear them.
Common Richt, grow some stones.
ugakev
August 20th, 2011
10:49 pm
he hate gator, you dont even know the color of the helmet. It’s silver and it looks amazing. I would go as far as to say we should wear these uniforms more than once. I dont know what some of you are looking at but those uniforms are sharp. GO DAWGS!!!!
Drewski
August 20th, 2011
10:51 pm
Red. Out. The. DOME!!!!
NCDawg
August 20th, 2011
10:53 pm
These new diggs look better and better each time I look at them! If you don’t like them then to bad—you can’t please everyone. The important thing is that the players are fired up about them! Go Dawgs!
SuperB
August 20th, 2011
11:01 pm
“Sticking it out there (two weeks in advance) so everybody can get over it,” is the height of arrogance on the part of Mark Richt. If you go 0-2 and are lucky enough to coach at your alma mater next season you can wear any damn ugly, tacky, hideous uniforms you like.
But I (and all other lifetime Georgia alumns) will be here long after you have departed– wearing the traditional (and GREAT LOOKING) red jerseys and helmets and silver breeches that define Georgia football! Got it Mark?
dave
August 20th, 2011
11:02 pm
THEY’re AWESOME!!!!!!!! time to get past “tradition” and embrace new ones!!! These are perfect
UGA4EVER
August 20th, 2011
11:03 pm
Call me old fashioned but i do’nt like the new uniforms.Let’s stick with the old ones there’s a lot of history there.
AltamahaDawg
August 20th, 2011
11:04 pm
Nike has been the sponsor (and marketing) the Georgia jersey for years now. They and Georgia have made plenty big money together, ours going towards new sports complexes and stadium expansions, thier going to drive a capitalist company. Now all of a sudden, we all hate the corporate pigs?
BTW , UGA and Nike made some changes to the unis in 2005. And that change was permanent to the “traditional” unis. This is one game. Why the double standard?
bamaman
August 20th, 2011
11:06 pm
Anybody remember how Georgia fared wearing their black uniforms against Alabama several years ago?
Hunkerdown
August 20th, 2011
11:08 pm
Keep Richt, fire Nike!
DawgFan
August 20th, 2011
11:08 pm
All those uniforms need is a cape! God awful!
Dirty Dawg
August 20th, 2011
11:08 pm
Hey all you that claim to hate these unis so much you won’t even go to the game…how’s about you sending your tickets back to the Ticket Office and give others of us that are still interested in making money off ‘em some more shots…and it ain’t a white helmet, it’s silver.
And for those that are making a racial thing out of this and that say they’ve had enough…good riddance and don’t let the hedge hit you in the a$$ on the way out of the stadium.
DawgFan
August 20th, 2011
11:09 pm
BamaMan, I remember how Georgia looked the year before that beating Alabama in their white uniforms at Alabamy!
MS. Bully
August 20th, 2011
11:10 pm
One word, UGLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
poof!!!
August 20th, 2011
11:11 pm
Those unis are horrid. Tradition carries a lot of weight. You don’t have to change the unis in order for them to look up to date. All the equipment changes over time. Look at a Georgia uni from 1990 and the ones from today. The helmets are different the jerseys are different…….
dawggirl
August 20th, 2011
11:12 pm
I see the little boys on this blog have been whining all day long. How pathetic. It’s a uniform for one game. And it is actually designed to make the player perform better – “The redesigned base layer facilitates the uniform’s overall innovation, delivering the ultimate in lightweight protection for maximum speed. Strategically placed seams, pads and cooling zones also help minimize distraction and optimize protective coverage.”
And yet, here the majority of you still are whining. Grow up. If you don’t like the uniforms, go be a Tech fan or a Gator fan or an Auburn fan. We don’t need you.
UglyUni
August 20th, 2011
11:14 pm
Dawggirl, The uniforms are UGLY! All that is missing from this uniform is a prison yard.
dawggirl
August 20th, 2011
11:15 pm
I bet they’re not as ugly as you are.
Wade in the Water
August 20th, 2011
11:15 pm
Tradition? I would like to see us establish tradition…..not any Miami style garbage. It is time to stop being content and expect greatness through hard work and determination. No entitilements.
AltamahaDawg
August 20th, 2011
11:15 pm
except the gators have done this a few times too.
UglyUni
August 20th, 2011
11:15 pm
You are the one with the name dawggirl. I am sure the name fits you perfectly.
dawggirl
August 20th, 2011
11:18 pm
It’s not indicative of my appearance, I can tell you that.
dawggirl
August 20th, 2011
11:18 pm
But fine, what harm is there in the players liking the uniform? Please tell me that.
AltamahaDawg
August 20th, 2011
11:20 pm
Well, certainly the odds would say, it does not.
Return to Glory
August 20th, 2011
11:25 pm
The black jerseys looked good, this set up looks like crap, we ain’t Oregon were GEORGIA !
Glad it is only for one game.. kinda like taking a four wheel drive F-150 and putting spinners and curb finders on it !!
Go Dawgs hope we play much better than were gonna look !
Erk Russell's Dog
August 20th, 2011
11:28 pm
Dawggirl will the new uniforms help the Dawgs defense play better. Will it help the Cornerbacks with thier reads and the Safetys support the run and make clean open field tackles .Do the new uniforms provide some type of artificial intelligence factor to help our players make better decisions on the field. If this is true I am all in on the new uniforms.
AltamahaDawg
August 20th, 2011
11:40 pm
For a guy who doesn’t care about the unis…………..
HateTheLook
August 20th, 2011
11:42 pm
Nike deserves an “F-” and a swift, hard kick in the ass. The uniform is pathetic, ugly, and will never do………….DO-OVER!!!
dawgs66
August 20th, 2011
11:43 pm
Richt is giving us “2 weeks to get over it” That’s aokay, after the first 2 games of the season, the season will be over and we’ll get over having Richt around!
Colorado Dawg
August 20th, 2011
11:44 pm
All I’m hearing or shall I say reading is a bunch of complaining. I used to think the saying “the best thing about the south is it never changes and the worst thing about the south is that it never changes” just a saying. Now that this day has come I see that it’s true. CMR line them up in all pink and I’m still gonna scream for my DAWGS!!!! I love the unis just like the players do.
HateTheLook
August 20th, 2011
11:45 pm
If Nike was going to make them so ugly……and if it really didn’t matter what they looked like…..why not make them pink..with lace….with a dull light- grey “G” on the helmet?
Erk Russell's Dog
August 20th, 2011
11:49 pm
a river dawg .the last one was just too easy to pass on.Little ga dawg girl really thinks uniform is going to make a difference on how the players perform.Too damn funny.
AltamahaDawg
August 20th, 2011
11:50 pm
man, what is with you people’s problem with Richt and these unis? The head coach does not negotiate the uniform contract. Hello. The man all but apologized for having these things.
Richt is the one that brought BACK the more traditional look of the helmets when he got here. He has done more to revive old Georgia traditions since he has been here than any coach in a long time.
LakeDawg
August 20th, 2011
11:50 pm
AltamahaDawg
August 20th, 2011
8:50 pm
Yes I am aware that the TN game was a road game, but I was not aware they had been wearing them on a regular basis for road games. So thanks for that clarification. But frankly the fact that they had worn them a few times before is not the point. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t say that they changed Back to the silver pants for “tradition” sake, while trying to minimize my point that the Red Pants were a departure from tradition. One I doubt that the Bulldawg faithfull really thought was flying in the face of what is dear to them, about the time Bill Bates was getting run over
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Changing pant colors and changing the whole uniform is two different animals. Changing the helmet is the worst offense. BTW The current classic uni is the longest running uni in UGA history…31 years…and if you discount the pants its been 47 years. UGA has won a NC and 8 SEC titles with this uniform. Leave it be. You’ve also failed to address that this is a marketing gimmick for a corporation and a totally different animal to the red pants. Not to mention the NIKE unis represent everything that is wrong with our current society. They’re loud, garrish, cheap looking, and classless with no respect for what has come before. And last but not least, their sole purpose is commerce….getting the NIKE brand out there and selling more jersey’s. UGA is pimping themselves to NIKE.
HateTheLook
August 20th, 2011
11:57 pm
Ugliest, poorest uniform design, tacky, tasteless, poor quality….there’s only so many ways to say that these uniforms…totally suck. Hopefully the play on the field will far surpass Nike’s weak-as-hell uniform design. Does Nike make uniforms as a means of earning a business profit? With results like this, one has to wonder how in the hell they stay in business. It must have been “amateur week” at Nike when they were designing these “pathetic contraptions”. Is UGA obligated to pay for this trash? The UGA players will be ‘heros if they can win a game in ‘these’….ugly contraptions.
Deepdiver
August 20th, 2011
11:59 pm
Mark Richt might as well as said “screw you” to his team as he accepts money from Nike for wearing these gaudy uniforms and drawing attention to the team for something other than good play. How can a coach making millions of dollars tell a player not to accept gifts or cash while he is making millions of dollars and keep a straight face? That is the hypocrisy of coaches and the NCAA and school presidents.
Erk Russell's Dog
August 21st, 2011
12:00 am
Last comment on the uniforms. Hindsight is 20/20 but I think it would have been less of a distraction to the team,if Uga waited until game time Sept 3rd to spring the new uniforms.If you win the game no problem if you lose blame it on Nike.
Now everyone will have 2 weeks to argue pro or negatively about the uniforms,will have to bleed over and distract the players.
Glenn
August 21st, 2011
12:01 am
They are uuuuggggly
bobby
August 21st, 2011
12:03 am
i hate those darn uniforms they need to stick with their regular uniforms, shoot i love the black uniforms much better.
LakeDawg
August 21st, 2011
12:05 am
Does anybody find it curious that all off season the coaching staff has been emphasizing UGA’s “tradition” to the players. Telling them that it means something to wear the “G.” Even to the point of bringing in Herschel and former UGA players currently in the NFL to talk about UGA’s “tradition.” Now all of a sudden tradition is silly.
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2011
12:11 am
why WOULD I address it. The intention of a corporation has nothing to do with the fallacy that our uniforms have not changed plenty of tiems for special occations and even permanently (yes I understand you choose to draw hypothetical lines on the exact percentage change that is allowable). And I wholeheartedly commend Nike for producing a product and marketing it.
Alabama and Florida pimped themselves to Nike last yar. LSU will later this year. Army, Navy, both pimping themselves later this year. None of those program have any less respect for tradition than Uga, you, or I.
We’ll just disagree. The more you tell me whats behind your dislike of these, the more I find my original point was right, but obviously you aren’t going to see it that way.
As I have said, I think they are ugly. I think ugly unis is a small price to pay for what we are getting from it, and it’s far more than money can buy.
the altamaha dawg mark richt bromance continues
August 21st, 2011
12:13 am
removing a black stripe from a helmet does not a great restorer of tradition make…..bernie madoff donnan put the black stripe on there and then stuck his middle finger at all of us. we see where that got him….
playing as hard as you can every single down of every single game does more to restore the tradition of erk and vince. mark richt’s teams do not play that way. never have. and they never will.
but, the A-dawg can justify all of mark richt’s mistakes….so there is no use in intelligent discussion as he will just start bashing whoever questions him or his favorite coach.
Ga Dawg
August 21st, 2011
12:16 am
This is beyond awful…out with tradition…again! So now there is no more “Georgia Red” – I’m spreading the GA read on my facebook thread…PLEASE do the same!
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2011
12:17 am
I find it curious that you claim anyone ever remotely indicated that tradition is silly.
LakeDawg
August 21st, 2011
12:19 am
The point isn’t NIKE. Its UGA and college football in general pimping themselves to the highest bidder. I could care less about NIKE. And there is no “right” in this debate. Its a matter of what each of us value. So yes, we’ll just have to disagree. BTW There is near unanimous concent that the unis are butt ugly. I can handle the unis for this game only. A lot of my ire was in CMR’s comment this summer, where he pondered several uni combos ala Oregon. I’m glad he’s backed off of that for now. This will be my last comment on the unis. I’ve vented and now I’m going to turn my attention to the upcoming season.
LakeDawg
August 21st, 2011
12:22 am
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2011
12:17 am
I find it curious that you claim anyone ever remotely indicated that tradition is silly.
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Oh, its been implied by several venters. “old farts,” “times change,” “get over it,” etc.
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2011
12:23 am
How is this “Richt’s Mistake”. He doesn’t negotiate this kind of stuff.
And you look like a kid to use silly names and not the one that you always use in here.
please quote me “bashing” somebody for having an intelligent discussion. Sounds like you just disagree with something I have said, then just made up your little insult.. Here is a great chance to prove me wrong. .
Erk Russell's Dog
August 21st, 2011
12:25 am
A river dawg ,I thought you argued your point fairly and with out the usual bashing that takes place on the UGA blog. Good job!
UGAJD
August 21st, 2011
12:28 am
Geez! Stop whining! All that matters is that the players like them, and that they may have a positive affect on recruiting.
LakeDawg
August 21st, 2011
12:29 am
This is more than likely Adams and the Athletic Assoc.’s doings. I don’t get the impression CMR is against it though. Especially considering his remarks this summer.
dawg24
August 21st, 2011
12:34 am
Im a traditionialist but a realist. I dont care what the uniform but how well we play and kick their butts.
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2011
12:34 am
Thanks dog, dawg. You can bet that anyone accusing me of “bashing” is just somebody with a hurt ego. I’d bet anything that guy has a normal nick we all know.
Junior Samples
August 21st, 2011
12:36 am
“Fish Fry” Paul Johnson said tech never gets caught up with wearing different colored uniforms. Does that include your flag boy? Bwahahahahah! Maybe a gold tutu would work with your scheme?Bwhahahahah!
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2011
12:38 am
I know I would not want to be the guy trying to herd 105 young men around in this day and age. And attract 20 more every year. Uniforms, how about dealing with the internet?
Tdawg
August 21st, 2011
12:39 am
Coach please tell me that you are not planning on wearing these god awful uniforms ever again. Just how much was the university paid to wear this joke of a uniform?
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2011
12:40 am
I will bet anything that somebody, someday, and very soon, WILL tell Paul Johnson his boys are wearing some fancy new uniforms to a particular game. .
Thomas Brown
August 21st, 2011
12:42 am
Strength and Conditioning doesn’t have anything to do with Stretching ?
Say what ?
The uni is horrid, a
CLOWN SUIT
Boise State blogs are poor, at best. I went over there and tried to carry on a conversation. It is not possible. They do not want to hear, like so many blogs I have no respect for, what is the truth.
The truth very clearly is that with 15 Boise State in the NFL to our 45, Scout.com is correct with the last 5 recruiting classes averaging # 69 for Boise State and # 11 for Mark Richt.
Now, frankly it is true that Boise State plays a weak schedule; but, the real Truth, is that when they are not playing a weak scheduled team, they
LOSE.
31 games against the 6 BCS Conferences and Boise State has won exactly 8 games.
Every SEC team has always beat Boise State.
8-23 clearly shows the NFL and Scout.com Rivals are correct that Boise State is no match-up for UGA.
Boise State just needs to play more games like this one. Then, there would be no question about them. Look at them the last time they came here. The year before they had a 12-1 record with the same quarterback; the year after they had a 14-0 record with the same quarterback and we beat them by Five (5) Touchdowns with this same, said, quarterback.
COMCAST ISP. If you are getting garbage adding to your screen RedANDblackDawg, sir, what you need to do is to call comcast. They come to your home for free. They will run a test, replace connectors, check your speed, and fine tune the connection. Aren’t you paying them $150 a month like the rest of us ? Why ask us for what to do, when you obviously only have to call them. Some outlets are farther away from the splitter and are troublesome. They can re-route if that is your choice for where you want to use your PC. Their meter will tell them everything they need to know about your connection. Your connection is bad.
CHDawg August 20th, 2011 7:08 am
“The hamstrings and groins may not have much to do with S&C”
CHDawg, sir, half the team has hamstrings. Stretching is the 1st thing you do in Strength and Conditioning Training everywhere but here obviously, and the last thing you do in S and C everywhere but here obviously, and the 1st and last thing you do before and after every practice. This is poor coaching. And, please note that these are the very crucial players we are counting on to have spent this entire camp learning for the 1st time ever with no game experience. We have failed.
RED PANTS, yuk. One look at Oregon Ducks’ uni is all I needed to know that I didn’t want them to have the only say in what the uni looked like. You can stipulate in the Nike Contract that your helmet has the G, that your pants are silver and that your jersey is this color red. Their system can still be fully implemented as a uni.
I hate the uni. Totally hate it. The players did not say they love the red pants, what they like is the system that makes up the uni. Nike knows nothing about color combinations, nor would they in the least feel constrained to have us demand we have silver britches.
CLOWN SUIT
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2011
12:44 am
LD, don’t you think it was Mcgarity? That would really be his job. I doubt Adams had anything to do with Nike Pro Combat uniforms.
dan heavern
August 21st, 2011
12:45 am
Mark Richt must be out of his mind to dress hiis team as clowns for the most important game of his career
SLCDawg
August 21st, 2011
12:51 am
Don’t hate them bc they are new or differen ( black jerseys looked good), but bc they are freaking ugly. Thanks Nike.
LakeDawg
August 21st, 2011
12:52 am
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2011
12:44 am
LD, don’t you think it was Mcgarity? That would really be his job. I doubt Adams had anything to do with Nike Pro Combat uniforms.
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You might be right. I know he was the one who had to sign off on the final version. However, this was a money making decision and probably originated in the AA office, which Adams heads.
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2011
12:59 am
They are ugly. I believe that when we see them on the field worn by players that we know, and not on some mannequin, they wont seen as bad.
LakeDawg
August 21st, 2011
12:59 am
But maybe it originated with McGarity.
LakeDawg
August 21st, 2011
1:04 am
I’m just ready to get the season started. I hope all you Dawgs vent your frustration 2nite and then put it aside. Dawg Nation doesn’t need to be divided going into the season. Its been good talking with you AltamahaDawg. Go Dawgs!
ugakev
August 21st, 2011
1:14 am
hey everybody! We are wearing these amazing looking uniforms whether you like them or not hahahahahahahaha…Go Dawgs!!!! GATA
joe joe
August 21st, 2011
1:16 am
I’m a fan of another SEC school & we have worn these things before. The kids(players) love them & it brings in money, however I’m not a big fan of these “Uni’s a week” that Oregon wears & that their boss promotes. Let the rollers derby & softball teams wear these tragic uniforms.
too tuff 44
August 21st, 2011
1:23 am
looks like an arena football team…the tradtional uga helmet should never be messed with..ask Jim Donnan he added that stupic stripe and sealed his fate…I suer wish cmr would stop this mess…wow..as a fan…deflating and embarrasing to see those uni.s Go dawgs…but surely disappointed…good grief looks silly…(i dont care what the players think..the University should not allow a uniform change! I thought cmr said after the florida game that was it messing with the uniforms…..bad omen im afraid…good gracious!
D@MMITILUVTHEMDAWGD
August 21st, 2011
1:24 am
I LOVE the HELMET. The rest will have grown on me by game day. I think they will look a lot better on the kids. Having said that….it’s about the KIDS. If they LIKE them a little…I LOVE them a lot. It’s a new day and these are new day kids. Besides…it’s not like this is THE new uniform. I’m just excited about the season man!! The Dawgs have NEVER been down for too long and I feel a “RISING UP” coming on man. Hometown boys (Isaiah Crowell, Bruce Figgins, & remember the name….JARVIS JONES) are going to be front and center with Bruce opening holes for Isaiah and Jarvis giving opponenets THE BUSINESS at Outside Linebacker. LET’S GO!! LET’S DO IT!! I’m so amped up man I could crap a stick of Dy-No-Mite!!! This feels like UGA vs. Hawaii 2008. High-Powered Mountain West team with a hyped-up QB vs. SEC “SMASH MOUF / BIG BOY” FOOTBALL!! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Let’s Get It ON!!!!
too tuff 44
August 21st, 2011
1:26 am
one more thing face it another distraction from concentrating on football! I cant believe uga is allowing this change!
Dmac
August 21st, 2011
1:47 am
Guys aren’t we all UGA fans? Is all this over stupid uniforms? Granted the uniforms aren’t the sharpest looking ones. They are loud(red on red,my god really?). But lets look at the big picture,the kids like it. And you know what,the recruits like it. So we as fans can complain all we want but its just one game. They aren’t changed for good. We still have the classiest looking uniforms in college football. But a little change has never hurt anyone. To be honest if it helps get us more recruits than more power to that. This is a nationally televised game. Recruits are gonna be watching and they like the unis. So lets grin and bear it for the sake of our program.
Reddog
August 21st, 2011
1:54 am
If the players are excited about the new uniforms, then I am excited about them. Let the games begin!
dlh82
August 21st, 2011
2:08 am
If we are tacky enough to wear this-we better win
bugsquacher
August 21st, 2011
2:39 am
after this game, I hope these uniforms go in the same bin as the black helmets…….the permanent Bin (as in the big thrash bin behind Stanford stadium)
the traditional uniforms are one of the best looking in the NCAA, Richt and his band of clowns need to go….. after this season maybe so…….
mcdaviddawg
August 21st, 2011
2:39 am
just one more reason to get a new coach
How about letting the fans who pay the freight vote on uniform?
August 21st, 2011
2:46 am
America is all about polls. How about letting UGA fans vote on the darn uniform?
Stinger2
August 21st, 2011
4:01 am
This blog illustrates the typical mentality of UGA fans:They get so out of sorts on issues that really do not matter nor have an influence on the games the team plays. Moreover, you “Dawg” fans have no control at all over decisions such as uniform selection. Why don`t you people just try to be “fans” instead of trying to run the show. If you don`t like the way CMR and McGarity are handling things, spend your money on something else.
Captain Allen Waters
August 21st, 2011
4:13 am
Nike should take their bucks to the bank and leave uniforms alone! They are absurd when modern designers could do much better. Our traditional uniform would be more like UGA! I am glad Larry and Erk do not have to put up with these absurdities! 8pm EST is 530am here in India, but I will watch if not flying.
Captain Allen Waters
Captain Allen Waters
August 21st, 2011
4:18 am
I am glad we showed them SEC in the last game! Any chance the defense watched that game? Go play on your blue turf and enjoy the season. I have never watched a game on that absurd field!
Big Daddy"CaneDawg". Ignorance reigns at UGA under CMR !
August 21st, 2011
5:32 am
“I think Nike did a great job of trying to capture a lot of the tradition of Georgia football,” Bulldogs head coach Mark Richt said after Saturday’s practice. “Some things are very subtle that fans may not be able to see, but the players can see.”
THERE IS NOT ONE SINGLE THREAD OF UGA TRADITION CAPTURED IN THE AWFUL SCARLET/RUTGERS RED PRO COMBAT NIKE UNIFORM. WHAT’S CMR’S PROBLEM TO MAKE SUCH A FICTIOUS STATEMENT. WE REALLY NEED NEW LEADERSHIP BAD AT UGA !!! THE UGA FANS SHOULD PROTEST THESE UGLY UNIFORMS AND ASK FOR SOME RESIGNATIONS !!!!
Read more: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2011/08/20/1700868/uniforms-have-fans-seeing-red.html#ixzz1VeZr7JFt
Bulldawg Richie
August 21st, 2011
5:33 am
All you crybabies that are whining about tradition should just go get a life. I think the new uniforms look great for this one time deal. Let’s play ball.
Thomas Brown
August 21st, 2011
5:50 am
Stinger2,
If UGA fans did as you want us to, would we be as good as you’ve been ?
Big Daddy"CaneDawg". Ignorance reigns at UGA under CMR !
August 21st, 2011
6:07 am
bull hawg bichie richie: You and nike can go straight to HADES !!! the uniform still sucks and so do you !!!
tony
August 21st, 2011
6:15 am
Who idea was it to change uniforms and why? Do they hate the traditional uniforms? I wish they would just focus on the game and bring a nc to Athens.
Big Daddy"CaneDawg". the uniforms STINK !!!
August 21st, 2011
6:29 am
@Stinger2: You’ve got a lot of nerve to be on a UGA blog talking about uniforms. Those stale old gold and white uniforms that Tech wears are yard sale cheap looking and just as ugly. LMAO !!! You guys might need to go back to your 1990 uniforms when Tech looked and played halfway decent and maybe people in the weak ACC will take the yellow Stingers seriously for once. LOL !! You look bad you play bad. That addage fits Tech perfectly !! You guys are so bad Addidas nike or UnderArmor wouldn’t touch Tech with a 50 foot pole for uniforms. So just keep on hating UGA and we’ll keep crushing Tech !!!
Babydocdawg
August 21st, 2011
7:14 am
It’s one game people. Let us just support the team and stop splitting hairs. Yes we have beautiful regular uniforms but this hype about the unis needs to stop.
Thomas Brown
August 21st, 2011
7:21 am
CLOWN SUITS
vs a team who is nothing but a joke. A team made up of 5 recruiting classes Scout.com ranks the aveage # 69 rank all 5 years. We avg # 11. In the 5 years 0 Top 100 according to Scout.com for Boise State to 21 for us. In the 5 years making up Boise State’s roster 1 player either 5-Star or 4-Star according to Scout.com and that Kellen Moore a 4-Star in 2007 to UGA with 51. 15 Boise State NFL players to our 45. 10 games of the 12 Boise State regular season games are according to Rivals ranked their # 81 average opponent all season long except for TCU and us.
RED PANTS are horrible, but I guess red panties are worse – but not by much.
red&black
August 21st, 2011
7:29 am
Hey BBB’s (Boise Blue Boys), get ready to get “bitch slapped”……..SEC style…………
BigDaddy
August 21st, 2011
7:31 am
Change to numbers to Silver outlined in Black and it looks alot better.
Shirly Hemphill
August 21st, 2011
7:35 am
Can’t polish a turd, but you can put a swoosh on one.
heyberto
August 21st, 2011
7:36 am
If we’re going to break with tradition, at least make it look cool. This does not. Whoever it was at UGA that worked with Nike on the design should not be allowed to do that anymore. They had a chance to get the fans on board with a cool design and blew it. I would have liked to have said that while I prefer the traditional unis, I like what they did with these.. but I can’t. If the players are excited, then that’s good. Let’s win the game and forget these unis ever happened.
UGASlobberknocker
August 21st, 2011
7:36 am
Hate em. What is wrong with the basic classic uniform?
I hope this is the first and last time we see these hideous uniforms.
dap01
August 21st, 2011
7:37 am
Boycot Nike! Are we being paid by Nike? Who works for who?
UGA has been sold out.
Jed Clampett
August 21st, 2011
7:43 am
uniforms look like some backwoods highschool
red&black
August 21st, 2011
7:43 am
Shirly Hemphill: You have a wonderful way with words, and no truer ones were ever spoken…..
Midtown Dawg
August 21st, 2011
7:45 am
I am not one to comment on the style of what color goes where and what colors are on the helmet vs. the pants. These things change. What is disappointing to me is the color of red is not Georgia red. Why on earth did Nike feel they had to change the color of red? I would be fine with these uniforms if they had just made sure the colors matched Georgia’s colors – that doesn’t seem like too much to ask.
What I think is really neat is how the gloves come together to form the G – very cool.
red&black
August 21st, 2011
7:50 am
Jed, I think you may have something there. Maybe the fabric was sewn at a quilting bee, and Bubba painted the helments in the barn, after waaaayyy to much “shine”….Seems plausible. What would scare me is the fact that UGA actually paid for these damn things. Good thing they were given to us. along with bags of cash (I hope)……
heyberto
August 21st, 2011
7:53 am
Does Nike hope to sell replicas in the bookstore? I don’t see that happening.
Honest Ingine
August 21st, 2011
7:56 am
OK, Coach, What are you thinking? If you don’t like GA TRADITION THEN LEAVE….Ive been a big supporter of CMR, but man these uniforms sux.
red&black
August 21st, 2011
7:57 am
@Big Daddy “Cane Dawg”, Stinger2 has to get on a UGA site. What the hell do they have talk about on their site? Pity the fool…………
Dawg gone...
August 21st, 2011
7:58 am
Sounds like UGA has already won there first game by score of 69-11. Tell me, how does UGA’s previous 5 recruiting classes stack up against UCF before last year Liberty Bowl? I am sure UGA won that game by a greater score than 69-11, right? Oh, recruiting doesn’t always add up exactly with wins. Character comes into play and UGA will fold like a cheap suit when the going gets tough. No heart. I predict the best part of UGA’s 2011 football season will come under an interim coach- UGA fans better hope that comes early and not a late season change. Face it, CMR should be gone already. Lame Coach Coaching (get over it, really?)
voiceoftheraidersnfhs
August 21st, 2011
8:06 am
Dawgs new jerseys are awesome! They need to mix it up. Lets kick Bosie States -utt in the Dome!
Nub
August 21st, 2011
8:08 am
The truth….. All fans griping and complaining about the uni’s are the same fan’s griping and complaining about the football program…. Win the east!!!!!!
Nice Unis
August 21st, 2011
8:09 am
The big shock is gonna come when the dogs enter and see the Ga Dome turf painted blue.
Stewballdog
August 21st, 2011
8:11 am
The uniforms look like something the Pointer Sisters would wear. I’m glad it’s just one game.
sigdawg
August 21st, 2011
8:23 am
The uniforms suck, but I’m still UGA all the way! It’s time for college football, even crappy uniforms can’t dampen that special time of year! GO DAWGS!
chris
August 21st, 2011
8:23 am
I think they r pretty sweet, and tradition well tradition hasn’t worked last two years so why not something new.
WalterEgo
August 21st, 2011
8:27 am
I like the helmet alot. Nike did a decent job. Silver “britches” would be better. I also used to like “black out” unis but getting spanked in them makes them ugly. Let’s hope our play causes us to bring these unis back.
Bama Tradition
August 21st, 2011
8:28 am
Alabama’s uniforms: classic — same uniform over the years, not something NIKE orders them to for a million.
GDawg65
August 21st, 2011
8:29 am
Too bad those ugly uniforms will be worn on a televised game. Richt is desperate and these out of character uniforms is just another mistake of his.
Stinger
August 21st, 2011
8:29 am
These Mickey Mouse uniforms are perfect for you losers!!!!!!!!!!!!! They will be just as successful as the Black ones. LOL
Rufus Bane
August 21st, 2011
8:32 am
Fans VS Fanatics: Fans understand football is a game played by kids; Fanatics think this is an activity designed to dominate, intimidate and destroy not just the players, but the fans of opposing schools.
Fans enjoy the many facets of the activity; Fanatics live and die by their teams performance on a field of “play”.
Fans have a life beyond the game and understand the players and coaches do also; Fanatics are one-dimensional and expect the players and coaches for THEIR team to be just as boring as they are.
Fanatics cause the kind of problems Miami now faces; Fans do not want their teams to WIN AT ALL COST- they want to be as proud of their team and coaches off the field as on.
Thank you Coach Richt, this fan appreciates you!
wastedyears
August 21st, 2011
8:41 am
listen up dawg nation, if u dont like them lighten up.i think that helmet is the bomb and im 45 yrs old the uni ? maybe black pants.hey its colledge football its supposes to ba colorful .i personlly would like to see different combinations at least 6 of the games and please bring back the black jerseys not for a special ”blackout” game. just cause they want to wear them life is to short lighten up and get over it im more concern about injuries and the sec games
Rearranging the deck chairs
August 21st, 2011
8:44 am
The uniforms look like clown suits, which for UGA is perfectly appropriate. Will the coaches and the mangy mutt have their own clown suits?
claytondawg
August 21st, 2011
8:45 am
I agree with most everyone: A uniform does NOT make a team; the players do. The next two weeks should be a time for the players to work out and tweak whatever needs to be worked on and tweaked. Let’s hope there’s a new attitude backed up by demonstrating great skills and motivation.
poopdawg
August 21st, 2011
8:45 am
Well said Rufus. I love watching the Dawgs but for them to lose does not ruin my day. I love Coach Richt also and admire what he represents but the uninspired play we have witnessed lately directly falls on him. Sounds like he’s made some changes this year and we will see what happens . GO DAWGS!
Big Al
August 21st, 2011
8:46 am
That new uniform is about as ugly as possible. But what do you expect when they were
designed by Nike?
Daisy in Between
August 21st, 2011
8:48 am
I wonder how much money Nike put in Richt’s bank account.
That’s really what it’s all about – making Richt even wealthier.
Gen Neyland
August 21st, 2011
8:49 am
Bama Tradition : Agreed and thankfully other programs do too…I see the new wave look and I think of cheap Glamour Shots.
ringleader
August 21st, 2011
8:50 am
The uniforms were chosen and approved by McGarity
McGarity also downgraded the non conference home schedule, making your tickets worth less, creating another kid day. Notice how the crowd will have less wives or women, and be diluted.
McGarity downgraded the nonconference travel schedule by eliminating it. I truly enjoyed the trips to Arizona, Oklahoma, and Colorado with 25,000 of my closest and dearest friends and was looking forward to the Louisville trip.
McGarity did it all, but he was brown nosing Adams all the way. His actions are at the direct order of Adams. You watch him at any away game, brown nose all the way.
dawginduluth
August 21st, 2011
8:53 am
UGA-ly!
willipic
August 21st, 2011
8:58 am
Awful!!
Another bush league gimmick, just like the black helmets in Jacksonville a few years ago. Did Alabama change their uniforms
before their Chik Fila appearances ?!
I am very disappointed at this gimmickry.
Lack of class!
once you go black....
August 21st, 2011
8:59 am
looks like we should be playing Florida A&M…..
Win P.
August 21st, 2011
9:05 am
Congraduations Chip, you have created the “Perfect Storm”.
georgytech
August 21st, 2011
9:09 am
I bet Damon Evans likes them! Are the panties underneath red too?
UGA Fans Have Too Many Bong Smokers
August 21st, 2011
9:14 am
For those of you kool-aid fans who cry and whine because another UGA fan says something negative about your ugly uniform.
Here’s an article talking about why Nike blew it with this UGLY uniform design
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/813469-georgias-nike-pro-combat-uniform-why-its-a-disaster
Black Out!
August 21st, 2011
9:20 am
Go with a black out for the Florida game–all black this year, not just helmets. The Dawgs will blow out florida finally and in black it will be even better!!!!!
Jay
August 21st, 2011
9:24 am
love’em!
Andrew Hughes
August 21st, 2011
9:25 am
COMBAT? It’s a game, COMBAT is happening to our MEN and WOMEN around the world in the MILITARY.
Get a life.
August 21st, 2011
9:29 am
good grief…you would think the world is coming to an end. These uniforms are for ONE GAME!!! I don’t particularily like the way they look either but I am around athletes enough to know that they love these unforms. Some of you are forgetting that they are state of the art for performance and designed for comfort and wicking away of moisture. If you are not a athelete you wouldn’t understand that. For those of you asking how much they cost, you are really behind on the times…Nike is paying for them. I too want to maintain tradition, but all this attention to something like uniforms for one game is embarrassing. UGA fans have to be the most complaining fans on the earth. The decision has been made, they are wearing them, so shut your mouth and support the team. ALl this complaining is just going to bring the team down….is that what you want.
Hit A Single
August 21st, 2011
9:30 am
LSU bar fight! Kid announces his school of choice on GPTV when he should have been with his teammates and all sporting companies robbing high schools while colleges get their stuff free and we wonder why the NCAA is like a prison outfit.
UGA Fans Have Too Many Bong Smokers
August 21st, 2011
9:41 am
Get a life.
LOL
What a stupid statement
“Some of you are forgetting that they are state of the art for performance and designed for comfort and wicking away of moisture. If you are not a athelete you wouldn’t understand that”
By the way, several people on here have said the same thing.
Just because they are (state of the art) doesnt mean they have to be STATE OF THE ART UGLY
hurting in ga
August 21st, 2011
9:44 am
love the shirt helmet ok but needed black paints to make it awesome. go dawgs
SLCDawg
August 21st, 2011
9:44 am
If you don’t like these uniforms , Nike is to blame, so vote with your wallet and stop buying their crappy products. Their ecological and human rights records are more atrocious than these hideous clown suits .
Jimmy Crack
August 21st, 2011
9:45 am
If the players want to look like the Star Wars security personnel, that’s great, they can wear those to the after party. If tradition is dead within the University football program and Richt thinks it is cool, then change our colors every game, or even wear “colors from around the world” representing the different continents. How about eco-colors, like the Oregon smokin’ Ducks wear? Maybe earth tones to match our future earthly resting places? I have a great idea, LET’S REPLACE THE “G”!!! Yes the world has been sucked into a free-for-all mentality. What’s next, wild mobs in the streets? Oh yea, we already have that. – - – - – - – ==>
The University of Georgia’ helmet color is RED…..not Red & White.
AJC Budget Cuts
August 21st, 2011
9:48 am
How about some additional pictures! It’s really hard to judge completely based on this poorly composed single photograph.
TC in Rome
August 21st, 2011
9:49 am
Mark Richt’s attitude is a real turn-off. “Tradition” is a huge part of following a team, college or pro. The traditional UGA football uniform is one of the coolest college uniforms out there and Coach Richt takes the attitude that it’s perfectly okay for him to change tradition at his whim. That’s pretty arrogant and egotistical for a guy who’s job, unfortunately, is on the line. I hope he does well and stays — I like him. But, Coach, lose the attitude and have a bit more respect for the fans.
UGA Fans Have Too Many Bong Smokers
August 21st, 2011
9:50 am
AJC Budget Cuts
Go to georgiadogs.com but be warned they are scary UGLY
BLAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Dogs Smell
August 21st, 2011
9:52 am
The game against Boise State should be as ugly as those uniforms in favor of Boise.
D Bag Trolls!
August 21st, 2011
9:56 am
Sound like a bunch of women on here. Unis are cool and it’s for one game. Players like them that is all that matters. We will get a ton of free pr from them around the country.
You guys sound like you should work for Tommy with all of your dress opinions.
GATA AND THWGT!!!!!!
heartofdarkness
August 21st, 2011
9:58 am
Nike is to fashion, what STD’s are to prostitution.
jerry
August 21st, 2011
10:07 am
Richt should feel a tremendous amount of pressure to beat BS, a team in a state that hardly has any people much less a high school football program. I don’t care where BS is ranked, a loss to them would be 100% unacceptable.
UGA Fans Have Too Many Bong Smokers
August 21st, 2011
10:09 am
D Bag Trolls!
Yea you will get a ton of PR on how stupid you look and that should go good with the high school kids who are all about looking good and not being laughed at by their peers.
Im still waiting to hear what 2 or 3 players out of the 50 loved the uniform so much.
Got a feeling it was Richt just saying that the players liked them in hopes to keep the heat off him
Chris
August 21st, 2011
10:10 am
Good to hear about Crowell and hope he can make the same impact when the games are for real. Get over the Uniform people…It’s not that bad and its not what you wear anyway, its whether or not you win the game. If Georgia win’s these first two games, nobody is going to want them to change
Hit A Single
August 21st, 2011
10:12 am
Nike doesn’t care about tradition. All they care about is money, so they are right at home with college football, where many players think they are entitled to the world. I thank God everyday for the players that play the game because they love it and love their universities.
Thomas Brown
August 21st, 2011
10:14 am
“Tell me, how does UGA’s previous 5 recruiting classes stack up against UCF before last year Liberty Bowl?”
I dunno. You got something to say, say it. And, don’t use “Dawg” in your handle, neither when you do do your own bloody work for whatever point it is you want to make about UCF finishing # 21 in the AP Poll. I mean if you are a Boise State WIMP who don’t let us say whatever we want on your blogs, calling it hijacking your stinking blogs on jersey # 24 that day, like anyone ever heard of that guy when he was in high school, or after he was in college while you play 10 of your regular season games against teams Rivals say average the # 81 opponent all season long this 2011 season, except for TCU and Georgia.
If Scout.com is so wrong that Boise State averages # 69 recruiting class, instead of talking about # 21 AP Poll UCF beating UGA when our coach settled for a field goal on the 1-yard line, why not talk about why the NFL only has 15 Boise State players ? I thought they were all so top-class players, and all according to you, right ?
If Scout.com is wrong that you average the # 69 recruiting class, why then are you only 8 wins in all 31 games against every one of the 6 BCS Conferences ?
1980 Dawg
August 21st, 2011
10:17 am
Burn those uniforms after the game! They are hideous and embarrassing!
This puts much more pressure on Mark Richt!!!! Lose to Boise State in those ugly uniforms and this will be his last season!!!!!
Jimmy Crack
August 21st, 2011
10:20 am
Do the helmets come with a built-in IPOD?
Do they make the pants adjustable so they can hang low?
Do the shoes light up when the players run?
DADDY GIVE ME $5, I NEED A CANDY BAR!
bitter 1979 dawgs
August 21st, 2011
10:21 am
5@6 record then========and 12=0 in 1980=====we also had a dream team of recruits
—————————-a lot of hard work butt dont think ole lady luck cant determine a game
—————————————run lindsey run—————get the point
——————-a lot of guys played poorly on the 1979 team then a year latter were all sec team memb
—————————-munson was the edge we needed—what would 1980 be without “LARRY”??
ITSJUSTME
August 21st, 2011
10:21 am
BLA<BLA<BLA< I hate the uniforms, BLA,BLA,BLA, Ilove the uniforms. They look like SPACE RANGERS. and TREY is a RACEST!
Thomas Brown
August 21st, 2011
10:26 am
Nub whines : “All fans griping and complaining about the uni’s are the same fan’s griping and complaining about the football program.”
Nub, sir, all the same so-called Bulldogs’ fans – who say you can only say great stuff about a football program # 23 in wins over the entire last 5 years with a 13-12 record vs The SEC East DOWN as it is over the same last 5 years, are all the same ones in here telling us the Strength and Conditioning is so bloody great with a guy who has been in the S and C here forever promoted to run off our players and have us fall like flies not learning their position for the 1st time ever this Fall Camp. The ones telling us Mark Richt’s “coaching staff” is the most awesome ever, despite having to go back 58 years to 1953 to find any season UGA last lost more games in a season than we just did. They also are the ones in here trying to tell us S and C has nothing to do with Stretching. Telling us we aren’t Bulldogs’ fans and they are, because they SETTLE for this 3 wins in 12 games vs teams finishing in the Top 10 all 10 years and because they SETTLE for 16 losses to teams with LESSER TALENT than we have, such as UCF, 10 of whom did not finish in the AP Poll Top 25 even with their win over Mark Richt’s “coaching staff” these 10 years to-date.
I can tell you this; we better not lose to Boise State, too, with their recruiting class every year # 69.
tckr83
August 21st, 2011
10:30 am
2011 Chic-fil-a game:
Boise State Broncos vs. University of Georgia Red Raiders from Lubbock
People are going to like it or hate it… I get that. But to say that these uniforms are awesome and Nike couldn’t have done better… is worse than saying some fans are complaining just because they have an opinion on the uniform that differs from the “cool” theory.
It’s easily one of the worst pro-combat uniforms to date in college football, easily. Everyone should be upset that this is the best Nike could come up with for UGA, they had a huge opportunity and blew it.
I vote for a move to under armour.
Thomas Brown
August 21st, 2011
10:33 am
Fans are (1) either people who are satisfied with what is, and feel saying anything trying to improve us is something they can tell their significant other only in private (2) or they are people who think that the players and most especially the “coaching staff” of Mark Richt must be told to GATA – that it is unacceptable what has been passed off UGA football around here for a while now, and that we are fed up to here with it.
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2011
10:36 am
Then there is the 3rd option that applies to 80% of the fan base.
Tony
August 21st, 2011
10:37 am
Donnan changed a stripe and everyon raised hell. Ritch changes the whole deal and it is wonderful. I guess it is true God does no wrong.
tckr83
August 21st, 2011
10:38 am
Which is…
Thomas Brown
August 21st, 2011
10:45 am
which is …that real fans spend all day putting down anyone who dares to not settle for what is and has been going on around here, including the
CLOWN SUITS
Escaped from Email Purgatory
August 21st, 2011
10:50 am
This uni is uglier than Phil Knight’s hair do.
Maybe Knight can pay Richt and Petersen to sport one of his Nike-Do’s on the sidelines during the game.
Never has a man [Knight] done less with what God gave him to work with. Donald Trump should give him the name of his barber.
Kevin Jackson
August 21st, 2011
10:51 am
i wish all you old people hurry up and die.. always crying about new things.. idiots hate change..
Thomas Brown
August 21st, 2011
10:59 am
Nothing is wrong with The Georgia Bulldogs’ Football Uniform.
The “system” Nike implemented is what the players like.
No one likes the red pants, and there is no way that Nick Saban would have let Nike give him this, and settle for it.
No way.
CLOWN SUITS.
I was told there would be no discussion of red panties, the night that happened, by the same guy who I suppose we are supposed to be sitting on the edge of our collective seats waiting for whatever it was he started to say before his ISP went down – he said it would never be posted. In this blog, he said that that night, that that would be the end of that.
Now, he says the unis are fine.
He is the same guy who said Joe Cox was great. That he threw the deep ball as well as any quarterback ever.
Last season, after we should have gone 12-2, and instead put up numbers that we have to go back to 1953 to find a worse season – he just simply quit blogging totally.
Now, all of a sudden, he can blog again and whined once now this season about some issue with blogging.
Yeah, like starting a sentence and stopping.
Still sitting there squirming in your chair hiding behind your keyboard trying to THINK of something to say that will not make you a fool
again
ITSJUSTME
August 21st, 2011
11:00 am
I’m a Techie and you guys just wait till we come on the feild with our sexy lingerie. Its designed so you can cop a feel when you’re in a pile. I just love it when we play our big sweaty rivals. Those big smelly mens.
tckr83
August 21st, 2011
11:01 am
Kevin… Tell us how you really feel.
The uniforms are crap, get over it. One of the worst and most lazily done pro-combats to date. Alabama and Florida fans weren’t complaining about their pro-combat uniforms because they looked good… we look like a pimp on meth.
The gloves are cool though…
JD
August 21st, 2011
11:01 am
Ok not really on topic, but who expects any discipline for the LSU players by Les Miles before the Oregon game? Not only did they violate team rules, but are involved in a police investigation for a bar fight. I’m also sure, that the school will go out of their way (payoff) to get the victims to drop any charges. This is a classic example of big business in college football. At least les is making the team run more, what a joke!
Big Al
August 21st, 2011
11:02 am
Hope they can block in tackle in new uniforms.
Thomas Brown
August 21st, 2011
11:03 am
11-3 with 10 cupcakes including especially Boise State
Homepage | MrSEC.com
August 21st, 2011
11:04 am
[...] Reaction to Georgia’s Nike uniforms. Fans don’t like them but players do. Georgia is 2-2 under Mark Richt when wearing non-traditional [...]
Michael
August 21st, 2011
11:05 am
I hate them!. Everybody I know hates them. We have the best uniforms in the country. DON’T MESS WITH THEM. The new one look like a Arena Football Team. Nike needs to get off the drugs!
wde
August 21st, 2011
11:06 am
@Thomas Brown got a question..exactly how do you know what Nick Saban would do about uniforms or anything else? Oh that’s right you know exactly what is wrong with the UGA program so I’m sure Coach Saban is calling you for advice right?
Thomas Brown
August 21st, 2011
11:09 am
If they want to come up with an Excuse to play Zach Mettenberger as Mark Richt’s “coaching staff” should have done in the game with Okie State with his chronic shoulder and flu that day, Les Miles has all he needs.
4 guys beat up.
Jordan Jefferson threw 4 punches, 3 missed their target.
No scratches on Jordan Jefferson. What does that tell you ?
Darron Thomas “smokin’ Thomas” is the one who should have been disciplined, like Chip Kelly should have been by that footoball program # 41 in all-time wins desperate to win over The SEC, Oregon Ducks with no one at their games and their 1-win over any team who finished in the AP Poll Top 25.
The 1 thing that can be said for this blog, is that you can say whatever you want.
Only the Georgia tek nerds and Boise State WIMPS are afraid to sit there and continue after we get through with their last salvo – weak as it is with both of their records vs the 6 BCS Conferences forever.
tckr83
August 21st, 2011
11:10 am
WDE – go look at what Nike came up with for Alabama’s pro-combat… that’s how we know.
Thomas Brown
August 21st, 2011
11:10 am
wde
All I have to ask you sir is, do you like the uni ?
john stevens
August 21st, 2011
11:11 am
Mark Richt will change the mascot to a kangaroo for money. Tradition does not matter to him. In the last 4 years his teams have lost 4, 5 ,6 , and 7 games. Get rid of him!
JohnG
August 21st, 2011
11:14 am
The unis suk. Get back to tradition and play like the Georgia Bulldogs and u will not need crap like this
Thomas Brown
August 21st, 2011
11:15 am
I lie wde : Also, are you satisfied with 21 Losses these last 5 years wde ? An average in excess of 4 losses a year ?
Do you think that Coach Richt has shown a propensity to hire a great coaching staff, or fire a not so great coaching staff, wde ?
Are you satisfied that with 26 players who could have played vs Boise State, that no longer are on this roster are not MIS-MANAGEMENT of the talent at UGA by Mark Richt’s “coaching staff” sir, are you wde ?
Yeah, you have been reading my points.
You know what I know about UGA football.
Go ahead answer just a few short questions, wde, since you can ask me questions. That is fair right ? Ask you a couple of questions ? Nothing too hard. Simple yes and no questions, right ?
JD
August 21st, 2011
11:16 am
I like the “everyone was accounted for at the 10:30 bed check” statement. What a bunch of prima donna morons to put the team at risk by acting like idiots. (and Jefferson is not a stupid freshman)
Jaydawg
August 21st, 2011
11:16 am
I didnt realize that our red and black could ever appear as nauseating as Oregon, but the designers of this atrocity has certainly done it.Gimmicks dont win games; coaching and players do.This demonstrates Richts desperation to motivate his players to a level that he and his assistants(friends and former players)arent capable of doing.I guess this is what having more time to study the game of football produces-more gimmicks.Anybody remember what uniforms Saban had Alabama wear for this game?The same ones theyve always worn &the same they wore in the Rose Bowl beating Texas for the national championship.
UGA Fans Have Too Many Bong Smokers
August 21st, 2011
11:19 am
I like the uni
Its just missing a nice sunflower on pinned to the shoulder
I wonder what the uni will be against FL?
Pansy pink or wimpy light blue to go with the beat down mood that will happen again
LOL
Thomas Brown
August 21st, 2011
11:20 am
JohnG,
Sir.
You have to get it exactly right the Richt-0-Files. It is 21 Losses over the last 5 years, averaging more than 4 Losses a year over the last entire 5 years including in the same timeframe 13-12 vs The SEC East. Not 22 Losses the last 4 years.
And, moreover, they always come back with WINS over his 10 years, so you must proactively discuss his 3 wins in 12 games vs teams finishing that season in the AP Poll Top 10.
And, his 10 Losses in 10 years to 10 teams who did not even finish in the AP Poll Top 25.
Not that they will ANSWER ANY QUESTION.
Just ask you questions.
Like you are supposed to answer their questions, but that they have no such obligation themselves.
Strange Murphy
August 21st, 2011
11:24 am
Uniforms are queer as shat!
wde
August 21st, 2011
11:25 am
@Thomas Brown nope I don’t really like them, however it is a one game deal that was a part of the game promotion, Boise is wearing them too..a good showing vs Boise and by the USC game no one will even remember the darn things. If it is the consuming cause of concern for a fan I’m afraid they are sort of missing the point. We get to test ourselves against a top 10 team to start the season on national TV that is the point not the uniforms its beating Boise and winning the East.
Ben Clarke
August 21st, 2011
11:25 am
Holy Crap! I thought Boise’s all-blue was bad, so I guess this puts us in the same boat. Can’t wait for the circus to come to town on 9/3. It’s time to stop selling our soul to the corporate giants.
Thomas Brown
August 21st, 2011
11:28 am
wde,
Ok then.
“@Thomas Brown got a question..exactly how do you know what Nick Saban would do about uniforms or anything else? Oh that’s right you know exactly what is wrong with the UGA program so I’m sure Coach Saban is calling you for advice right?”
So, why exactly are you picking on me about the uniforms when you yourself absolutely hate them ?
Is there something, not obvious looking at your posts then, that is wrong with you ?
wde
August 21st, 2011
11:29 am
@Thomas Brown oh bye the way I don’t like the Tide’s uniforms either could you talk to your good buddy Saban and see if you can talk some sense into him. Since you and him are so close would you ask him how he liked that 4th place finish in the East last year.
wde
August 21st, 2011
11:31 am
@Thomas Brown I’m picking on you because your a troll pure and simple but no worries mate, I’m out I have a BBQ to attend have a trollish good time the rest of the day…..tell Nick I said Hey!
tckr83
August 21st, 2011
11:33 am
wde = hit and run artist.
UGA Fans Have Too Many Bong Smokers
August 21st, 2011
11:34 am
wde
Boise is not a top 10 team
Let me give you a drink of what I like to call Reality Flavored kool-aid
If UGA loses to Boise you will lose to S.C the next week
Then after that; you have lost the team, and Miss St will come in and beat you and after that a loss to Tenn is probable
puppytracks
August 21st, 2011
11:41 am
i don’t like any of their uniforms … no matter what you put on them, they still suck. it’s like spraying cologne on a terd to make it smell good.
why did the birds fly upside down over UGA? B/c there is nothing worth crapping on.
Jimmy Crack
August 21st, 2011
11:51 am
Keith, thanks to the inventions of science, WE AIN’T NEVER GONNA DIE, SUCKA!
Unfortunately for the younger generation, “change” to them is really just another color suit without a care of why the suit needs changing, just like the accessories in their video games. In this uniform argument, they are just rejecting tradition for the sake of rejecting tradition. Shallow, but expected.
He Hate Gator
August 21st, 2011
11:56 am
Ok, they’re sliver helmets then…..how does that change anything? again, I can live with the uni except the helmets, white or silver…
tony
August 21st, 2011
11:56 am
Why does Mr.Richt keep drawing negative attention to himself and to the team. He should have known this would put a bad taste in people mouths. True christians suppose to bring peace and unity amongst men not division. Galatians 5:22-23 Shame on you Mr.Richt.
LHarding Dawg
August 21st, 2011
11:58 am
Thomas Brown, the hate guy. He hates everything about Georgia Football.
The rest of the SEC
August 21st, 2011
11:58 am
Sheesh. Not only are you going to take a whupping from Boise on national tv but you’re going to look awfully stupid in taking that beatdown. Just another uniform fiasco similar to the blackout embarrassent by the Bammers.
Ramma Bama
August 21st, 2011
12:00 pm
Alabama sticks with their classic uniforms—-Nike money doesn’t matter. The Tide already has millions, so they can’t be bribed by big corporations looking for a marketing gimmick.
Easy Money
August 21st, 2011
12:02 pm
Nike will probably pay UGA a few million for this 1-game gimmick. Will Richt, McGarity and Adams get a cut of that bling—maybe a couple of hundred thousand each?
Troll Power Ratings
August 21st, 2011
12:03 pm
The unis have sort of a tropical fish look. Whatever, just win the game.
Thomas Brown
August 21st, 2011
12:06 pm
LHarding Dawg just hates on fans.
Unwilling to look back 58 years to find a season in which we lost more than the 7 losses we just put up.
Tripple Lindy
August 21st, 2011
12:07 pm
Terrible. We’ll look like Texas Tech out there. When this game was announced, I knew Tinker Hattfield and his obnoxious design team at Nike would force this crap on us. They have no allegiance, they just want to push their brand. Sadly, the athletic department completely bowed to corporate interests.
Erik
August 21st, 2011
12:08 pm
i think the only thing that should be changed are the pants. the helmet and jersey are nice. silver britches would have made that uniform amazing.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
August 21st, 2011
12:09 pm
LHarding Dawg
Your a typical kool-aid drinker who cant handle the truth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXoNE14U_zM
Chris
August 21st, 2011
12:14 pm
The one-game uniforms look like the Power Rangers, a childrens oriented sci-fi tv show. Nike must have some very youthful designers on staff.
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2011
12:18 pm
Lharding, don’t you think football is just his excuse.
Sam Robards, Dawg Fan
August 21st, 2011
12:18 pm
I like our traditional unis better, but it’s good to change things up every once in a while. Heck, I’d like us to go back to the black uniforms every once in a while. Those were sharp, and to anyone who thinks, “We got beat by Alabama wearing those,” we also beat the tar outta Auburn and Hawaii wearing them. Also, that ‘08 defense was not very good (read: sucked).
As for these, sometimes unis can look awful standing still, but when you get them in motion, they work a lot better. That sounds kinda contradictory, but it isn’t. Trust me.
Also, this isn’t a motivational “gimmick” by Coach Richt. Boise is wearing Pro Combat unis of their own. So enough of that nonsense.
Either way, I think the Dawgs go into the Dome with something to prove and the ability to prove it and come out with a big win (14-17 points is my margin).
Dawg-98 Panther-03
August 21st, 2011
12:22 pm
Come check out your little Bro, GSU Friday night before the Boise Smackdown. Can’t wait for BOTH of my alma maters to get off to a great start!!
GO DAWGS
GO PANTHERS
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2011
12:24 pm
Didn’t Bama roll out Pro Combat Uniform last year, Ramma? So your understanding is that Alabama refused any pay to do that, so that wouldn’t lose thier incomparable refusal to accept corporate sponsorship?
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
August 21st, 2011
12:25 pm
Nike Blew it
Nike didnt give us a choice, just stuffed this crap down our throats due to their contract
Once again when Michael Adams is gone this program will be better off
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2011
12:37 pm
LSU, Army, Navy, all will wear Nike PC unis this year. Al, Uf, did last year. Next year the list will grow. That darn Adams is behind it all.
Delbert D.
August 21st, 2011
12:40 pm
LSU won’t need as many uniforms.
Wow.....
August 21st, 2011
12:42 pm
Those are UGGGGGGLY. And about as dumb as the mediocre mutts being ranked already.
Erk Russell's Dog
August 21st, 2011
12:46 pm
The investigation at LSU is complete J Jefferson was sleep walking and just was in the wrong place at the wrong time . As for the other 4 LSU players ,they were the search party sent to find J Jefferson. As for the so called bar fight ,well any building on any corner in Baton Rouge can be called a bar.
As for the other non LSU participants in the fight,a sheriffs report said something about Donald Duck in a Prius with Oregon plates. Investigation closed.
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2011
12:46 pm
Well, I guess the corporate pig bribe money will have to be prorated in thier case D.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
August 21st, 2011
12:46 pm
AltamahaDawg
When you sign a contract if your bright enough, you sign a contract that stipulates that you are given a choice from a few uniform concepts. Not this is what we came up with deal with it UGA even if we make you look stupid
You even will stand up for Adams. Please do the program a favor and pull for GT
Back to your tv show “Hillbilly Fishing”
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2011
12:58 pm
Lots of not so bright AD’s out there I guess. Perhaps you could school them all in contract negotiations.
Btw, would it make you feel better to know I wasn’t defending Adams, but rather directly making fun of you?
Poopdawg
August 21st, 2011
1:05 pm
Erk, those same officers investigated a death and ruled it suicide. Some nut shot himself 6 times with a shotgun.
playmeortrademe
August 21st, 2011
1:06 pm
Simpy this… As an alum, those uniforms do not represent Georgia. They represent Nike and just happen to be red and black with a G logo slapped on the side of the helmet. The UGAA talk about building Georgia’s brand, but in a nationally televised game lets Nike have the exposure. The Nike Bowl between the Nike Bulldogs and the Nike Broncos…do not adjust your set, those are the actual uniforms, and this is not a Canadian Football game.
Everyone who thinks this will help recruiting needs a reality check. Top-flight recruits 1) pick a school close to home, 2) wins and can give them national exposure, and 3) plays a style of football they like. The pro-combat uniform will not do anything to swing any recruit, and if it does….well, I question where that kid’s head is at.
7576DAWG
August 21st, 2011
1:06 pm
The players may have liked the uniforms but when you don’t have anything to compare them to it’s easy to accept this look. I could have taken a design team incorporated more of a silver britches Pro Combat theme and wouldn’t have compromise what these uniform so desperately lack and that is CLASS.
Coastal Dog SSI
August 21st, 2011
1:08 pm
I’m a long time fan. I like the opening game uniforms. As for tradition, I feel it’s more than a little evident that we need some NEW traditions; for example, a national championship more than one a century. When we have a really dominant club again, then our whiners can rightfully complain about change.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
August 21st, 2011
1:10 pm
AltamahaDawg
Making fun of me wow LOL, LOL, LOL<
Yea you make an ignorant comment and your making fun of me. Please re-read what I said nike didnt give us a choice they stuffed it down our throat. That wouldnt happen if you signed a contract that stipulates that
And I think I know other teams have Nike Combat Uniforms. Oregon has used 5. I wonder how they got a hold of 5
Stick to your career in Arm Fishing on the Altamaha moron
Poopdawg
August 21st, 2011
1:14 pm
Meme, I believe the University of Oregon has already proved your points wrong.
Mad Dawg 2011. the nike uniforms STINK !!!
August 21st, 2011
1:17 pm
I hope the coaching staff wears rutgers red shirts and pants on the sidelines with team then those loons will stand out !!
Mark Richt is a Moron
August 21st, 2011
1:22 pm
Mark Richt is a Moron………Go Yellow Jackets beat the crap out of those retards in the Red Combat Uniforms…….
Mad Dawg 2011. the nike uniforms STINK !!!
August 21st, 2011
1:24 pm
If Donnan was fired for adding a black stripe to the helmet, the current coach should be tarred and feathered and chased out of town for allowing this nike obomination !!!
Jimmy Crack
August 21st, 2011
1:32 pm
Agree Flat Tire. As soon as Adams has made enough money in his multitude of palm-greasing endeavors in the name of higher learning retires and hangs up his power-mad hat, UGA can finally return to the days of respectability and tradition. The problem is that he is still in power. What is Richt supposed to say when these contractual obligations in the form of candy striper uniforms come about, tell him, “No President Adams, your ideas are pure crap, your breath stinks like my dog’s butt and I never liked you in the first place”?
Stewie
August 21st, 2011
1:35 pm
I didn’t realize the “Starlight Express” people made football uniforms.
playmeortrademe
August 21st, 2011
1:35 pm
We can only dream that the team will come out of the tunnel wearing Georgia’s red helmet, red jerseys, and silver britches made by Russell Athletic.
but, but…the players like ‘em…..WHO CARES! Teach them respect for UGA traditions and reverence for past championship teams and they might decide that wearing the real UGA uniform, and integrity, means something.
Foo U Nike….
Commerce Dawg
August 21st, 2011
1:36 pm
These uniforms are ugly folks. Everybody remember the reason we hated the black Florida uniforms because it didn’t look like Georgia on the field. Looks like another bad uniform game where our time should be spent getting ready to play football not worry about what to wear.
CANEDAWG, the nike uniforms STINK like...... !!!
August 21st, 2011
1:39 pm
Georgia should add more silver to the current dull grey pants they call silver in error. Then wear the black jersey some, with having to declare a stupid blackout. Stop allowing money to dumb down the program. If the fans like the jersey they will buy them without silly promotions, that just fire up the opposing team…..circa Bama 41 UGa 30 in 2008 !!
Poopdawg
August 21st, 2011
1:47 pm
Meme, I care and I believe the players care. It’s not a uniform change just a special design for a special game. I am also an alumni that understands marketing . I don’t like the new unis but its just 1 game. I have seen worst ( any team with the color orange as their main color)
War Dang Dawg
August 21st, 2011
1:48 pm
The transformation is complete – under Richt, we’ve officially become the Gators. Tacky, garish, and classless. We even choke in the WLOCP like Florida pre-1990s.
Fire Richt. Let’s become Georgia again.
CANEDAWG, the nike uniforms STINK like...... !!!
August 21st, 2011
1:48 pm
Don’t allow nike to declare stupid blackout promotions to wear the black jersey at UGA. (that’s what I meant to say). Nike money is really dumbing down the UGA football program and CMR.
The horrible uniform is his way of paying the traditional Dawgs back who have him on the hotseat.
SuperB
August 21st, 2011
1:58 pm
To “Dawg Gawn” and all others you say nothing is the same as it was (in uniforms.) Have you seen the uniforms of:
NY Yankees (had them for 80 years,) Celtics, Colts, Cowboys, Alabama, LSU– and countless other great teams. and they don’t wear gimmick uniforms like the awful “costumes” NIke designs. When you have a great uniform (like Georgia) why change it? Georgia may “get over” Mark Richt if he is fired after this season and Greg McGarity should have said “nada’ to these tacky costumes.
War Dang Dawg
August 21st, 2011
2:00 pm
tckr83, don’t make fun of the Red Raiders from Lubbock, they’d probably kick our butts worse than Boise State. This is the state of Georgia football under Corch Richt.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
August 21st, 2011
2:01 pm
Frankly, Im sick of:
Uniform changes
Dancing in the endzone
Growing beards
Energy Vampires
Dancing on the field during tv timeouts
Dream Team talk
Whatever happened to showing up for a game; keep your mouth shut and punching the enemy in the mouth
You either come to UGA because this where you want to be or leave
and if you cant coach your players up then its time for a new career
playmeortrademe
August 21st, 2011
2:03 pm
Pooper scooper, Oregon is winning because, 1) USC is on probation, 2) UCLA is a train wreck and can’t get it’s act together to get the So Cal kids 3) and Washington still hasn’t recovered from the Don James probation. The Pac-10/12 is a traditionally weak conference and with USC not able to dominate, there is no one there to even remotely test them. Easy to look good when everyone else sucks. Easy to put up 40-50 points per game…and then guess what, a decent defense holds you to 19.
s’alright. The Mighty Lord of Sports Phil Knight will get his championship eventually, he just needs the NCAA to put a few more teams on probation.
autotrader
August 21st, 2011
2:10 pm
I predict I will get a worn out jeep cherokee crammed with the lot of ‘new’ uniforms the week after the Boise State game. I plan on sending it to the crusher where it, and the ‘new’ uniforms belong.
jim
August 21st, 2011
2:11 pm
I can see it now….as the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS take the field.
Disappointed fan
August 21st, 2011
2:14 pm
These uniforms are terrible. Georgia has had some of the nicest uniforms in the country the last few years, even if the teams and coaching haven’t lived up to the standard. Why do people feel compelled to change something that is working fine? Nike money?
Poopdawg
August 21st, 2011
2:18 pm
Meme, good reasons for Oregon’s success. Oregon’s recruiting is also a big reason for their success. Recruits love Oregon’s uni combos. I believe Chip Kelly deserves a little credit .
7576DAWG
August 21st, 2011
2:23 pm
You can incorporate a Pro Combat uniform and not compromise Tradition. As much as I have praised McGarity in my opinion he dropped the ball on this one. Maybe the all Blue look was okay at Florida but the all Red look isn’t at Georgia. When you say Silver Britches it only bring one team to mind. The design team that Nike used are artist , not sports people and certainly not Georgia football minded. I’m sure they don’t have the athletic skills to beat themselves out of a wet paper bag. They live in California and don’t have a clue to what Tradition means in the SEC . It was our responsibility to make sure that Tradition wasn’t lost in a marketing decision. The SEC plus the state of Texas take their football very serious. Other parts of the country don’t have a clue to how fanatical our true football fans are and who will still support the program no matter what. CMR and other say it’s just one game but we all know that’s how you get things started , just a foot hold at first and more later. Georgia has way too much money and make huge profits every year to compromise, ever.
Bottom line is if our AD, and or President had thought any they would have seen how important it is to some fans and made more of an effort to incorporate the Pro Combat look and blend it without compromising TRADITION. Some who just got a big laugh out of it or smirk and say “IT’S JUST ONE GAME ” don’t have a clue what the definition of Tradition is and why it is so important to some people and they never will.
playmeortrademe
August 21st, 2011
2:24 pm
Here’s what I predict about Oregon…they will become (if they aren’t already) the Miami of the next decade. They’ll win because they will play one tough game per year and 11 cupcakes, everyone not living in Oregon will hate them except for the bandwagoners who also suddenly like the Mavericks and Packers. Oregon may win a few championships like Miami when they are lucky enough to draw an equally weak sister in the title game and not an SEC team. Then a former player/alum/booster, perhaps Knight himself, will cross the line and that will be it. Miami all over again.
I’d rather win ZERO national championships than ever be looked at the way Miami is today. You think anybody today is associating Miami football with championships? Win with class and integrity so it will mean something 20-30 years down the road.
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
August 21st, 2011
2:28 pm
7576DAWG
Altamaha Dawg will be on here shortly to scold you and make fun of you like he supposedly did at me at 12:37
Altamaha you there?
Tinker Bell Dawggie
August 21st, 2011
2:30 pm
They look FABulous!
Dawg Squeeze
August 21st, 2011
2:32 pm
playmeordtrademe……..I hereby grant your wish…..ZERO national championships……31 years and counting.
tckr83
August 21st, 2011
2:33 pm
Was in no way making fun of the Texas Tech Red Raiders… simply implying that the pro-combat uniforms were apparently wearing in the Chic-fil-a game this year will look like: Boise vs. Texas Tech.
I was all for the pro-combat jersey: I saw what Alabama/Florida’s looked like and with everyone from the players on up the chain saying these were a throwback to tradition… I just don’t see it. And Nike’s explanations of the uniform in regards to Georgia tradition are laughable and incorrect. Believe the website was Georgiadogs.com or thedawgbone.com. It’s on one of the two somewhere.
As always, go Dawgs!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
August 21st, 2011
2:34 pm
What’s really nice, is there’s a palce to hook the hancduffs while awaiting trial.
playmeortrademe
August 21st, 2011
2:35 pm
and Chip Kelly succeeds because Uncle Phil is building him a lot of pretty facilities. All Chip has to do is open the door to the showroom. Everything else is designed to sell itself. No expense is spared when a lot of other programs are helping you funnel money into your program. This is one reason why I predict the Oregon will be universally hated throughout college football sooner or later.
ladyluckjc
August 21st, 2011
2:58 pm
power rangers, unite!
Poopdawg
August 21st, 2011
3:11 pm
Meme, sounds like your trying to start the “I HATE OREGON” bandwagon. So your saying the fact that recruits love their uni combos has had no positive influence on the Oregon program?
DAWG 2008
August 21st, 2011
3:40 pm
I think the uniforms are growing on me. But, we could play in our pamjamas and I wouldn’t care, as long as we WIN!!! It’s not about what we wear, it’s how we play the game! GOO DAWGS!!!!
Pete
August 21st, 2011
3:59 pm
Just like I said………… AFter Boise destroys this pup team their gonna destroy a good sec team in a BCS bowl. LSU, Alabama, one of those teams is gonna get destroyed by Boise come bowl time.
BSU 55-0
Boise quiets the Dome in the first few minutes. The pup team can’t even beat crap teams like UCF or Colorado.
THEY HAVE NO CHANCE AGAINST THE BEST TEAM IN THE COUNTRY.
playmeortrademe
August 21st, 2011
4:05 pm
sooper pooper,
Yeah, I guess I am trying to start an “I hate Oregon “Nike” U. bandwagon.” There will be one soon enough. Look, I’m sure the uni combos look cool to their recruits, and I’m sure when asked directly “Where the uniforms a factor in your decision?”, I’m sure an 18 year-old is going to say “yeah” in the way 18-year olds do. But there is no way the unis have had the impact that winning and the upgrade in facilities have at Nike U. It’s winning, exposure, the chance to go pro, and facilities.
m a double t
August 21st, 2011
4:11 pm
just like wearing black to their own funeral in athens a few years ago… 31-0 @ halftime… ouch.. enjoy your last season as coach MR… kirby smart is coming soon… RMFT!!!!
Pete
August 21st, 2011
4:12 pm
ugly, ugly, ugly I guess we are becoming Oregon
GET OVER IT!
August 21st, 2011
4:21 pm
GET OVER THE UNIFORMS PEOPLE IT’S NOT THAT BIG OF A DEAL! JUST WIN BABY!
Barry
August 21st, 2011
4:23 pm
Looks like a conference USA uniform. You already have a conference USA coach.
playmeortrademe
August 21st, 2011
4:24 pm
BTW, anyone notice Oregon released a running back connected to a so-called scouting service from his scholarship because he was “homesick”? Yeah, OK. Even if that’s the truth, how did a Texas kid that attached to his grandma decide on Oregon? I’ll give you all a hint. It wasn’t the uniforms…
Poopdawg
August 21st, 2011
4:33 pm
Meme , maybe you should ask another Texas kid on Oregon’s team the starting QB . I believe his last name is Thomas from Houston Texas. He wanted to go LSU but didn’t think Miles would play him at QB.
Red Panties
August 21st, 2011
4:46 pm
U-G-L-Y, you ain’t got know alibi, you are UGLY Georgia, you’re uniforms are butt UGLY! These red things must
be Damien Edwards revenge for getting caught with my red panties.
Will BS also be in new togs?
August 21st, 2011
5:00 pm
Will Boise be in new threads too?
Go Dogs.
Lakedawg
August 21st, 2011
5:21 pm
ma double t—Get over it. Smart had his chance to coach at UGA 2 years ago and said no. That was his last chance. Not sure where he ends up after Saban leaves over there, because Bama would not keeo him either
jack bull
August 21st, 2011
5:22 pm
Boise will wear the same Pro Combat uni’s they wore last year in the opener. I’m all for it. Let the boys have some fun. It’s all about them, not us….I have this same problem with some parents of my 7-8 year old boys team.
JB
August 21st, 2011
5:40 pm
I have no problem with change but I simply think they new unis are horrible. A change would be fine but these look like some area football uniform. Glossy and silly. Not impressed with these at all. Just simply bad uniform design. It’s that simple. I’m sure some of the detractors are just resistant to change but I believe many see this uniform for just what it is…unimpressive ugliness.
Natureboy809
August 21st, 2011
5:43 pm
This is why you don’t ask 18 & 19 year olds about tradition and uniforms
CHDawg
August 21st, 2011
5:44 pm
Pete, BSU will be a tough opponent, but the roosters will even be tougher the next week…UGA is starting with one of the hardest schedules in the nation.
CHDawg
August 21st, 2011
5:46 pm
The uniforms are for the team, the money to the school, and to give the trolls something vitally important to complain about! It’s working…I predict that after Crowell or Samuel or Malcome takes it to the house the fans will think they are cool! You heard it here first.
TimDawg
August 21st, 2011
5:52 pm
First of all I love the Pro Combat uniforms! Second i am glad to hear Crowell can practice. Practice hard Dawgs and good things will happen.
Leslie
August 21st, 2011
5:52 pm
The Uniforms are Awesome!!
CANEDAWG, the nike pc uniforms STINK like...... !!!
August 21st, 2011
5:54 pm
Since CMR and nike have not given the fans any information concerning the controversial pc uniforms, I have dug deep to find out some idea of what was UGA traditions are revealed in the eyes of Nike.
The silver helmet goes back to the pre-1964 era, before Vince Dooley became coach of UGA, when the Dawgs wore strictly silver headgear with no stripe and no logo. However in 1963, the year before Dooley was hired some silver Bulldog helmets began to feature a red “block G”. It is not known if that helmet was officially endorsed by the University or it was the idea of a few ambitious players craving a logo on the silver helmet without official permission.
The wide red stripe on the nike pc helmet is reputed to be in honor of the late, great Erk Russell, Coach Dooley’s defensive coordinator and architect of the fabled “Junkyard Dawg Defense”. Coach Russell, who kept his head shaved bald was a muscular Yul Brunner, and he established a practice drill of taking on his best defensive players head on, with the player and Coach Erk both getting a running start to crash the helmeted players headgear into his forehead !! This drill was said to tremendously inspire the defense and transformed them to be meaner than Junkyard Dawgs during games. Coach Erk’s skin across his foreheard always gave way and at times he would often bleed profusely from the head. I can remember seeing Coach Erk roaming the sidelines with a bandaged forehead at times and at times you would get a glimpse of him in a players face barking orders during a game with a scarred forehead with dried blood residue running between his eyes along the bridge of his nose. Legendary indeed. UGA dominated rivals like UF in his days as Defensive Coordinator. Coach Erk moved on to Ga Southern and took this drill with him and went on to win multiple I-AA Championships.
The thick red stripe on the pc helmet is set there distinctly in honor of the great Erk Russell for the blood that was shed and sacrificed on his behalf to instill the Junkyard mentality to the Dawg defenses he coached.
Finally, the oval G on the helmet was the idea of Coach Dooley from 1964, when the university recieved permission from the Pro Football Coaching Great Vincent T.Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers Championship Team to “borrow” the logo to apply it on red helmets. Lombardi and the Packers graciously allowed Georgia to use the logo.
So now we traditional UGA fans should have a better understanding of the Nike PC helmet designed for the Boise State game. CMR and Nike apparently knew this PC helmet and uniform would cause a huge comotion amongst the UGA faithful and it seems as if they deliberately withheld this information. For more historical UGA uniform information please see: http://redandblack.com/2008/10/03/go-you-silver-britches-a-uniform-tale/
GO DAWGS !!!
Big Dawg
August 21st, 2011
6:01 pm
I see there are a lot of opinions on the uni’s personally they don’t look that bad, yes I would prefer the traditional red helmet with Black G etc. but I remember in the 1967 Cotton Bowl after Dooley’s first SEC Championship they were all decked out in white. I think sometimes you do have to change things up a little, shake things up and get a fire lite under your team. So if this gets this team focused and playing with great intensity, then I am all for it. Anyway I hope this team plays with a burning desire to win every game, not like the last two years when they seemed to be going through the motions at times.
Go Dawgs
flatrock
August 21st, 2011
6:29 pm
Uniforms are Arena League leftovers…
playmeortrademe
August 21st, 2011
6:36 pm
From that Red & Black article referenced above.
“That’s one thing I’ve told the guys, we’re ‘silver britches,’” head coach Mark Richt said.
OK. Apparently you didn’t tell Nike or McG.
and how ’bout this gem….
“A black helmet?” Richt questioned. “We’re not wearing black helmets.”
scambled dog
August 21st, 2011
6:37 pm
Bring back the Red bitches, White jerseys and Red helmets at the away games. A very good look……………Remember the last time we wore red pants we were National Champions. Go Dogs……Sic ‘em !!!!
Mike
August 21st, 2011
6:37 pm
They remind me of the devil’s costume I saw one time in a very bad play at Big Bethel UMC on Auburn Ave (Sweet Auburn) in ATL.
neil marlowe
August 21st, 2011
6:53 pm
how incredibily stupid. no doubt a concession to the black players.
Double Zero Eight
August 21st, 2011
7:10 pm
The only thing that matters is if the players like them.
Hit A Single
August 21st, 2011
7:12 pm
The bottom line is that college football has become too commercialized. It use to be that the school, whether it was coaches, fans, alumni or players would make all decisions. Now companies have just about taken over. Look at your stupid bowl game names. Sure they help sponsor them but you could still stick to the bowl name. Companies pay millions to help sponsor the Super Bowl, but it is still called the Super Bowl. I blame the NCAA, the school Presidents and AD’s for allowing this too happen.
No Dawgs, Milady
August 21st, 2011
7:17 pm
Crowell in jail yet?
Perry
August 21st, 2011
7:19 pm
The uniforms will make UGA players look stupid.
Oh, wait, they’re already stupid!
Wet Willie...keep on smiling
August 21st, 2011
7:20 pm
Great…when whistle blows and UGA gets the sheet knocked out of them even your face will be red! Give me a break.
Hairy Perry
August 21st, 2011
7:22 pm
neil marlowe,
What’s more incredibily stupid is your comment.
Wet Willie...keep on smiling
August 21st, 2011
7:37 pm
Hey Hairy…the guy is more than correct so deal with it! Please learn the difference between Realist and Racist!!!!!!!!! I am sure you drive a BMW 533 black with gray leather and it looks classy. Well the other side wants a dodge charger in red with red leather with 26″ wells and that is classy to them. Sport…look at Miami and Auburn and you will see the future of college football in the coming years. In otherwords in the 2016 you will not give a sheet what UGA is wearing or where they’re playing. It’s over and I hate that but the player pool and with today’s coaching the game is done. Deal with it.
CoopDawg
August 21st, 2011
7:40 pm
My goodness people it is just for one GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thomas Brown
August 21st, 2011
7:44 pm
AltamahaDawg August 21st, 2011 12:37 pm
“LSU, Army, Navy, all will wear Nike PC unis this year. Al, Uf, did last year. Next year the list will grow. That darn Adams is behind it all.”
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SIDING WITH MICHAEL F. ADAM$, again, AltamahawDawg.
LakeDawg
August 21st, 2011
8:10 pm
Apparently everything going on in college athletics is just hunky-dory with AltamahaDawg. I don’t share that sentiment.
Keely
August 21st, 2011
8:16 pm
Boise State 52, Georgia 13
Buh bye to Mark Richt the Phony Saint.
Stupid Honkey
August 21st, 2011
8:18 pm
It’s official! We’re a South Botslanta high school powerhouse!
Dirty Dawg
August 21st, 2011
8:29 pm
Hey wet-willie, why don’t you explain what you believe the difference to be between racism and being realistic? I mean dig back into your, or your Daddy’s, memory banks about how this region and this state were being ‘realistic’ about the difference fifty or sixty and more years back. Were you being ‘realistic’ when you, and Bear Bryant, decided that it was ‘realistic’ to recruit black athletes (if you wanted your team to ever win anything again)….is it ‘realistic’ to recognize that we live in a pluralistic society and have to accept that all of us are in this mess together and if we don’t deal with it together we won’t survive? Future of college football…player pool…with today’s coaching the game is done…deal with it??? You may think that’s just being ‘realistic’ but the rest of us know it’s racist pure and simple and the sooner you decide you don’t care any more and take your hate and prejudice and leave the rest of us alone, the better. Deal with that, OK?
FLA DAWG
August 21st, 2011
8:29 pm
Less than two weeks to go and I am drooling like a Bulldog!
Gotta say that if The Dawgs play ANYTHING like last season then we lose the first two games and more.
If that happens then I believe we can wave goodbye to Richt & Co.
ckgator
August 21st, 2011
8:37 pm
BAAHAHAHA. Holy crap these are horrible. I guess Nike saved the tier-2 uniform designers for the Dawgs. The latest in the world of UGA misfires. BAHAH.
Stupid Honkey
August 21st, 2011
8:37 pm
Way, way too gay. Not that there’s anything wrong with that….
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2011
8:37 pm
Why would you draw that conclusion when I have said no such thing Lakedawg. A bit of a reach there isn’t it?
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2011
8:43 pm
So if I said..”Apparently everything going on in college athletics is just completely wrong with Lakedawg. I don’t share that sentiment” How would that be? Fair and honest?
Not cool
August 21st, 2011
8:44 pm
Further proof that even Nike can destroy the best color scheme in all of sports just like how they humiliate Oregon each and every year with their nasty scheme. Unreal.
ugab
August 21st, 2011
8:44 pm
Uniforms do not look that bad! A win will make the uniforms bad a>>. A loss will make them look ugly. Lets go dawgs!
Dawg Roll
August 21st, 2011
8:49 pm
The uniforms will not matter—Ga blows out boise state in the dome—book it! Dawgs 41 boise 20!!!
dap01
August 21st, 2011
8:58 pm
UGA has been sold out!
B.G
August 21st, 2011
8:59 pm
Chip how often will they wear the new nike pro combat uniforms this year and going into future seasons?
Khalimar
August 21st, 2011
9:01 pm
So the players like the uniforms. Big deal. These lamebrains probably liked their jail uniforms too.
Erk Russell's Dog
August 21st, 2011
9:01 pm
Canedawg
Your story about Coach Russell is a little bit off. Coach Russell would get the defensive starters together in the locker room before a big game and they would take turns banging their heads into locker doors. The players would have their helmets on and Coach Russell would do it bare headed. It would draw blood on his face,but I doubt Nike used that for input in the new uniforms.
RIP COACH RUSSELL GATA DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TV Daze
August 21st, 2011
9:07 pm
The uniforms don’t matter one whit. Boise State will have a field day against the mutts, regardless of the uniforms they’re wearing.
Wait, maybe the red panties would save them. And diapers for Israel Troupe.
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2011
9:16 pm
I’m sure folks would call that a gimmic now.
PDiggityDAWG
August 21st, 2011
9:25 pm
Roaddawg80 has not been a Bulldog fan long enough nor read very much. Silver britches have been a tradition at UGA back to the early 1900’s.
Erk Russell's Dog
August 21st, 2011
9:25 pm
It was an effective gimmick. Under Coach Russell the Dawgs defense always over achieved and usually half of his players were recruited to play offense.Dooley was always sending players who washed out on the offense and Coach Russell would make them into Junkyard Dawgs .
Chopdawg
August 21st, 2011
9:37 pm
ERD–do you recall the 1974 DAWG defense, coached by Erk? Gave up 31 points to Vandy at home, 31 points to Houston at home, 34 to Tek at home, 35 to Oregon St at home; 38 to Missy St in Jackson; as much respect at I have for Erk, his defenses didn’t always overachieve (I was in school that year, painfully remember most of those games)
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2011
9:42 pm
Good guy. I’m glad his days were then, and not now. He’d never have survived the decade (70’s) they had, now. Nor Dooley.
Dawg Fan
August 21st, 2011
9:44 pm
I don’t care – let Nike keep making the uniforms for those lame DUCKS – this uniform sux.
Besides, if we get rid of RIcht who would replace him? Seriously…
BromoDawg
August 21st, 2011
9:46 pm
Dear Nike,
It the uniform ain’t broke…don’t change it! Helmets look like a mid major…However, if we win, I could care less what the uniform looks like! Go Dawgs!
Signed,
The Bulldog Nation
TampaGator
August 21st, 2011
9:47 pm
Sorry……Nike does it again……UGLY. As bad a uniform as what the Gators wore last year in JAX. I guess both Georgia and Boise players will all be eye sores with the NIke combat (more like, Nike no design sense) uniforms.
icedawg
August 21st, 2011
9:48 pm
I don’t know. It seems like the past few years that far more significance is given to what teams wear for a particular game than how they play. Fabric and color is no substitute for performance. If what is worn makes a difference then football has hit a new low.
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2011
9:54 pm
79 wasn’t exactly a fun year to remember either. 31 points to Va. 0-31 at home no less. And 33 point to Au. 27 to SC. This back in the day when teams didn’t put up big point every week too.
The good ol days. when your team could have a bad year, and you could still support the staff and nobody wanted to bust your kneecaps for doing so.
@ugadawg4life
August 21st, 2011
9:56 pm
All you old folks should get over this uniform non-sense! I think they are pretty cool unis myself, and it shows where the athletic apparel is headed…I plan to get one for myself and son. For the 60+ crowd, unlike Dooley and Herchel, the silver britches will be back soon enough,
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2011
10:06 pm
I don’t know what makes anyone think that it’s only the Old folks who are complaining. I’d say as many if not more of the fan well under 60 have said more about them. Granted soem of that was just the next excuse to complain about something, but still. I also have heard plenty of older fan saying that while they don’t like them, it is what it is. The vast majority of folks seem to be saying , they just think they are ugly which is just a personal taste issue and not a generational hangup.
Erk Russell's Dog
August 21st, 2011
10:15 pm
@chopdawg Would you rather have Coach Russell as D-Coordinator or the assorted group that CMR has used since Van Gorder left. You can pull any one year out of a teams history to make a point, but taken as a whole career I will side with Coach Russell. And I remember the Virginia Cavaliers hanging a 31-0 Beat down on the Dawgs on Homecoming in 1978.If I remember the offense gave up a couple of the scores.
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2011
10:18 pm
Everybody sides with Coach Russell. That wasn’t even in question.
Erk Russell's Dog
August 21st, 2011
10:21 pm
@ A river Dawg I think less than half of the posters on this blog know who Coach Russell was.
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2011
10:26 pm
Oh they know who he WAS. Selectively. But no way they would have supported him on the whole by today standards. We were just to stupid to know what losers and apologists we were back then.
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2011
10:33 pm
Although in all fairness, and joking aside, it is a different situation now too. You just can’t have the decade those guy had back then and expect the school not to make a move. So while there is a lesson to be learned about patience and turnarounds, the comparison isn’t really fair.
Get a life.
August 21st, 2011
10:34 pm
oh my god….please people give it a rest. it is one game and the players love them…for once can you remember what it was like being young and having poor taste….it is one game!!!! No one is suggesting that they replace the uniforms.
NdawgC87
August 21st, 2011
10:36 pm
the more i look at them i like them. its going to be a good season either way. IM ready
Erk Russell's Dog
August 21st, 2011
10:39 pm
@A river Dawg I don’t think we were stupid, we all had lives away from UGA football. Also the vitriol and anger was never this bad. The teams is the 70’s and 80s may not had the most talent ,but I think their effort was not questioned as much as the current Dawg players.Maybe we should chalk it up to the 24/7 media that never let’s a story sleep. Like this uniform story almost 36 hours of a constant blog.
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2011
10:41 pm
BTW, you don’t think Grantham was a good hire?
Mobile Dawg
August 21st, 2011
10:41 pm
Most likely by today’s standards things would have been different. We always seem to remember times that were better in the past. The train is pulling out of the station, it is what it is, support it or get off the train, or stand for something and live with the consequences. Personally, like I said last night, the unis aren’t that ugly, but I don’t like them. Whose decision this was I don’t really know, but rest assured if we lose to Boise, Richt will get the blame.
Here’s to hoping Coach Richt will stop talking about everyone else doing things “The Georgia Way” and start doing things “The Georgia Way” himself. Most likely that will solve all the other problems we have. Good Night All !
AltamahaDawg
August 21st, 2011
10:45 pm
Most definitely! 15 pages on thier pants.
Erk Russell's Dog
August 21st, 2011
10:55 pm
I have not seen enough of Coach Grantham to really know.I just wish CMR would not have dressed him down for the foul language last year.I hope another year will give his defensive schemes a chance to work.
Why is it...
August 21st, 2011
11:04 pm
everything Nike touches turns to cr@p? UGa-lee ugly.
Craig
August 21st, 2011
11:25 pm
Nice new Arena Football uni…I bet the new look has midtown fans sooo excited…
DAWGFAN56
August 21st, 2011
11:41 pm
What the hell is that? Damn!!! If you want to bring something back from the past….wear the red pants on our first away game or something. And get rid of the scooters and buy some golf carts!!
dawgs66
August 21st, 2011
11:45 pm
let’s see – the players loved the blackout – and got the crap beat out of them. Then the players loved the black helmets against Florida – and got the snot beat out of them ( the qb hardly ever hit a receiver, probably cause his instinct was to hit the “red” helmet.
Now, the players love this – can’t wait to see the results of the Boise State game. Thank God I’m working that day/night! Hope they practice in it so they know who is on their team.
idahojoe
August 21st, 2011
11:47 pm
Yep, words out that Georgia aims to improve theri record this year to 10 – 3; 10 arrests and only 3 convictions.
Those uniforms aren’t going to help or hurt them.
Hopefully the Dogs just don’t continue to hurt themselves by shooting themselves in the foot as they have done these past 2 – 3 years.
Would rather see something different on offense rather than the same predictable plays that BoBo goes with; at least better game plans and better preparation. GATA
Good Luck Dogs, I do hope you do well and at least shake off that that nonsense spell you think & beleive Florida has over you. They ain’t nothing but a water lizard.
SLCDawg
August 22nd, 2011
12:03 am
My understanding, which is purely hearsay, is richt got a lot of $$$ from a Nike contract, the fine print of which says we have to do this. Bama and others made sure they had different contract protecting their traditional unis. so while richt is not directly responsible for the unis, he is responsible for the contract that led to them, just what I heard.
Zumadawg
August 22nd, 2011
12:54 am
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Zumadawg
August 22nd, 2011
12:56 am
Thank God that the player’s job is to play and not make selections for team uniforms!
RED DOG 77
August 22nd, 2011
1:19 am
I certainly don’t have a crystal ball, like many I hear from on this blog, but I do believe the Boise State game will either be close….1-3 points or the DOGS will exact another Hawaii on the Blue Dudes from Idaho…………Point being “if” we do prevail on September 3rd on National TV……..I’ll bet dollars to peanuts BULLDOG NATION is going to fall madly in love with these strange looking uniforms…………Let the kids have some fun, if you’re a troll, be a troll, but if you are indeed a “BULLDOG”……….Get the hell behind “Them Red Britches” for game one, for heaven sake………Chill -out…………GO DOGS!!!!………..GATA!!!……….WOOF……..WOOF……..WOOF…………..Over and Out,…..RED
RED DOG 77
August 22nd, 2011
1:23 am
@SLC Dawg………..You sir, heard wrong………..RED
CANEDAWG, the nike pc uniforms STINK like...... !!!
August 22nd, 2011
1:46 am
Encore explanation of the Nike PC helmet:
Why is the Nike PC helmet primarily silver ?
The Dawgs used to wear silver headgear with no stripes or logo originating from the 1939 until 1964, when Vince Dooley was hired and changed the helmets red. Former UGA coach Wally Butts was the originator of the Silver open faced headgear in 1939, which at that time did not bear a facemask. Butts further established UGA’s famed Silver Britches with red jerseys with medium sized silver block numerals in 1939.
Why does this silver helmet have the thick red centerstripe ?
The helmet has the thick red centerstripe which extends through the black facemask to honor Georgia coaching legend, former defensive coordinator Coach Erskine “Erk” Russell. Before games in warmup drills a pumped Coach Russell would challenge his defensive players to head butt him (with wreckless abandon) with their helmets on to instill a mean hardnosed streak or what he designated in 1975 to be Junkyard Dawg mentality into the defense. This drill was wildly successful and Coach Russell dubbed his angry defensive charges, The Junkyard Dawg Defense. As a result of the head to head collisions with his helmeted players, Coach Russell would bleed from the forehead and trickle down his face. Coach Russell wore the dried blood on his face as a badge of honor, and his players were constantly reminded of their Junkyard toughness simply by looking at his bloodied face through to course of games. With the wide red centerstripe extending through the facemask is Nike’s way of paying homage to Coach Russell and the tradition of the Junkyard Dawgs of 1975.
What about the Oval G on the PC helmet ?
It was derived from the Legendary Championship teams of the early 1960s Green Bay Packer teams of the great pro coach Vincent T. Lombardi. UGA requested and was granted permission from the Packers in 1964 to use their trademark Oval G for use on Vince Dooley’s new red headgear designed for UGA.
Do you want to see photos of the Great Erk Russell’s legendary gameface and other great shots of historical pictures of unique old school UGA pictures, then go to: http://www.dawgbone.net/oldschoolarchives.html
I only do this cause I know true Dawgs love UGA as much as I do. ENJOY the pix !!!!!
Thomas Brown
August 22nd, 2011
1:56 am
Just so I’ve got this straight. Oregon Ducks who beat 1 team all season long who finished in the AP Poll Top 25, are great with their # 41 ranking all-time in 1-A wins because of their uni
Thomas Brown
August 22nd, 2011
2:40 am
AltamahaDawg August 21st, 2011 9:16 pm
“I’m sure folks would call that a gimmic now.”
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AltamahawDawg, you have said a ton of truly Hee Haw comments on these blogs, most notably Flame personal attacks on fans who are not in the least satisfied running off 26 players Mark Richt’s “coaching staff” recruited here who will not play vs Boise State, who could have; and replaced them with scholarships to walk-ons who never have played on offense or defense and never will – when they are the reason we average the # 7 recruiting class averaging both Scout.com and Rivals.com all 11 recruiting classes, while we have amassed a 13-12 record the last 5 years vs SEC East and 21 Losses in total these last 5 seasons, averaging more than 4 Losses a year.
Now, we have a very wide red stripe in the middle of the helmet for our 2011 season to open, where if we don’t in this Down SEC East make it to The SEC Championship Game, it will then have been Six (6) entire seasons – and, yet we face a “schedule” of 10 CUPCAKES against this schedule we obviously should go 11-3 (and that would be beating no one.)
Erk Russell led us to our 6th National Championship and this one Consensus, who died 5 years ago, back 31 years ago while the Railroad Tracks’ Faithful wanted to dump Dooley and replace him with Erk, a sentiment shared by many to this day, and he lived to be 80 years old; and coached us to the fabled Junkyard Dawg Defenses where we simply had the best Defensive Backs at Rover and Free Safety which we obviously have not had and do not have yet again this season. And, Erk won not only the only AP Poll National Championship of the Six (6) NC UGA Bulldogs have in the NCAA Official Records Book FBS 1-A Football (Georgia tek has 0 of by the way.), but then left when we failed to promote him to head coach to start up football again in this state 150 miles South on US 80 and US 301 at what was Georgia’s Teachers’ College, where he coached from 1981 to 1989
WINNING FOUR (4) CONSENSUS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 1980-1989
And, of course, in practice he absolutely banged his bare shaved head against the Junkyard Dawgs, and you have the unmitigated gall to come in here and say you are
SURE
FOLKS
WOULD
CALL
THAT
A
GIMMICK
NOW.
Other posters have told you on this blog you ran and hid from all season long last year while instead we have to go back 58 years to find an UGA team who lost more than the 7 losses we put up last season, that you should do us all a favor and pull for Georgia tek.
Why don’t you address how you too obviously are DEFENDING MICHAEL F. ADAM$
You are on the wrong side of everything; how is that possible AltamahawDawg ?
You don’t EVER get anything right. Joe Cox throws the deep ball better than any Quarterback. We will win the NC 2010. You are not a Bulldogs’ fan you said to everyone this time last year who suggested to you that we had no secondary, no push for QB sacks, a slow small Quarterback who would be instead himself sacked, no running back, a wide receiver interested in no one but himself who never not once beat any opponent in any of our big games all his years here, and an OL who had proven that they could neither block for the pass nor for the run.
PTFO
And, you follow that up with coming back Thank You Lord for 2011 to try your hand at posting again (before you run and hide all this season too, hiding behind your keyboard with your personal insults and that’s it) and say to us all that
YOU ARE SURE FOLKS WOULD CALL ERK RUSSELL A GIMMICK NOW.
Thomas Brown
August 22nd, 2011
3:06 am
ChopDawg,
It is the 1974 season which got Erk Russell to come up with his idea of Junkyard Dawgs as inspiration, and no gimmick AltamahawDawg, butted heads with his players he bald and they in helmets, along with One More Time. Hardly can the 1974 season, then, be what is discussed about the Coach who Is The Coach of The Decade 1980-1989 according to USA Today. He took whatever players Vince Dooley did not want on offense, and made them into the Junkyard Dawgs. Instead of your view of Erk Russell, ChopDawg, the real view of Erk Russell besides his 4 Consensus National Championships 1980-1989, are what he did here in getting his 1st Consensus NC and only AP Poll NC UGA ever has had (which Georgia tek again has 0 of.)
During the 17 years that Erk Russell served as Georgia Bulldogs’ defensive coordinator, the ‘Dawgs played 192 games and held the opposition to 17 or fewer points in 135 of them. In 74 of those contests, the defense kept the other team’s scoring in the single digits, including 27 shutouts. Coach Erk Russell’s Georgia defenses allowed more than 28 points just 18 times in 17 seasons.
Which is the more accurate depiction ChopDawg, yours of 1974 which is why he became a great coach, our greatest coach ever, or mine explaining your 1974 season (I was there too on the RR Tracks sir.), which is the more accurate depiction of what you wish to talk about GRHS Erk Russell.
dawgs66
August 22nd, 2011
3:18 am
Red Dog – I would love for the kids to have fun- but is it too much to ask that they play for three hours without taking a nap. It’s like everytime we score,game over, it’s nap time – defense and offense! If I see one more successful fake punt against us – the tv is going out the window. How many times has the other punter just lolly gagged down the field with our guys running ahead of him – in the same direction.
Thomas Brown
August 22nd, 2011
3:18 am
Dawg Fan August 21st, 2011 9:44 pm
” if we get rid of RIcht who would replace him? Seriously…”
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How easy is that question, Dawg Fan ?
Last Five (5) Years :
56-9 Ohio State
56-12 Florida
61-5 Boise State
55-10 TCU
54-15 Oklahoma
52-16 Virginia Tech
51-14 Southern California
50-15 LSU
50-15 Texas
50-15 BYU
49-16 Wisconsin
49-16 West Virginia
50-15 Utah
49-18 Alabama on the field
48-16 Oregon
48-19 Missouri
47-18 Penn State
46-18 Auburn
46-22 Hawaii
45-20 Cincinnati
45-21 Boston College
45-20 Texas Tech
44-21 Georgia Mark Richt last entire 5 years # 23 won/lost # 23
We scarcely could do worse
SLCDawg
August 22nd, 2011
3:37 am
Re: Red dog 77.
You are probably right. I was hoping someone might know more about this. All I can find is Richt got $742,000.00 last year for Nike “equipment endorsement efforts” per his contract with the Georgia athletic association, and I cannot find info on their contract with Nike.
Thomas Brown
August 22nd, 2011
4:04 am
Who do we have on this “coaching staff” of Mark Richt like this ?
http://www.dawgbone.net/OldSchoolPics/erk09-08-06b.jpg
“Erk Russell is the greatest motivator in the history of college football, no doubt,” Scott Woerner said. “He was just phenomenal. Not having the opportunity to play for him would have been a tragedy in my life.”
No gimmick AltamahawDawg.
A gimmick is Dream Team which is # 6 recruiting class in the nation according to both Scout.com and according to ESPN.
A gimmick is telling us that everyone wanted to hire Mike Bobo and Bryan McClendon so we are giving them both huge raises.
A gimmick is every sorry attempt he has ever made to change our # 1 in the nation uni and this includes his latest lie : the players love the uni – no they don’t Nike’s own site refers to the uni as not a uni but as a uni “system.” It is the system that the players like not the red pants CLOWN SUIT. Dawg fan babies will CRY to have wear those as pajamas. Don’t make me wear those mommie. I don’t wanna. The wide red stripe is no tribute to Erk Russell but a sorry attempt by a company who NEVER HAS BEEN a fashion statement. I have Nike shoes I wear folks call MOON SHOES. Great shoes, comfortable, last forever, expensive as they can be, but FASHION STATEMENT Mark Richt – this gimmick by you sir to say the players LOVE THE UNI, is just more of your BS Mark Richt. BS while you have 26 players who could have played vs Boise State you don’t have, players you get credit for recruiting here who are all elsewhere. Gimmick tell the players to go onto the field and purposely get a penalty. Gimmick. Gimmick to say you did not promise Donald Shockley in 2001 when you redshirted DJ that you promise Donald that you will play DJ in the 1st few series of every game for the next following 4 years, if he doesn’t pull his son from UGA. Of course DJ would not have let him, but a promise extracted in that meeting 2001.
Gimmick that you knocked the lid off this # 11 all-time 1-A wins football program today with his win over # 4 vols 2001 when what you really did 2001 was to lose 4 games.
Gimmick to call yourself the # 4 best coach in all of America Mark Richt THIS YEAR 2011 in this newspaper, when in fact over the last 5 years of 21 Losses, you are in fact # 23 in the nation and not even # 4 in your own conference.
Gimmick after gimmick after gimmick.
I will not let go Willie Martinez you vehemently told us all 2006. Your college roommate. Gimmick.
Field Goal from the 1-yard line vs Conference USA Central Florida George O’Leary. Gimmick.
How you argued with the BCS in the newspapers 2007 that UGA deserved to be in the NC game you yelled and screamed while LSU beat 2 teams who finished in the Top 10 and you lost to the likes of a sorry vols’ team and an even worse 6-6 not even in a bowl game South Carolina 2007 : Gimmick.
2008 ranked # 1 in the nation by every single poll, all of them, and let 21 players go out on the town and have a real party.
# 2 all-time in Fulmer Cup Standings Mark Richt’s recruits.
Coaching ?
Leadership ?
3 wins and 9 losses in 12 games vs teams finishing in the AP Poll Top 10 all 10 years.
Great in game games ?
Beat the teams we are supposed to beat ?
Why then 16 losses to teams less talented than us like Boise State in 10 years and 10 of those 16 teams did not even end up in the AP Poll Top 25, even with their win over us, the other 6 of whom would not have without their win over you.
I’m the 4th best college football coach.
Gimmick.
I’ll give you some gimmicks AltamahawDawg, not that you even know what a gimmick is or how to even spell it.
Mark Richt is nothing but gimmick after gimmick after gimmick after gimmick after gimmick after gimmick after gimmick after gimmick.
7576DAWG
August 22nd, 2011
4:46 am
The uniform that we wore in the Tennessee game in 1980 looked great and if you had taken the Pro Combat look and modeled it against the color combination of that uniform it would have been the best uniform Nike has ever used the Pro Combat on. It would have been amazing. A blown opportunity to play in the Sept.3rd game with one of the classiest uniform ever for Georgia.
The uniform that we will be wearing get a 3 rating on a scale of 1 to 10. The helmet is actual okay.
7576DAWG
August 22nd, 2011
4:47 am
Any red used should have been a bright red not a dull red.
Thomas Brown
August 22nd, 2011
4:59 am
There is the color of the red, and then there is the red pants CLOWN SUIT with also a red jersey.
Awful.
VADAWG
August 22nd, 2011
5:31 am
Stupid looking clown suit and just d— ugly What an insult! I consider this a very bad omen and typical of Richt.
Thomas Brown
August 22nd, 2011
5:54 am
Typical of Richt to say what he said about it, too.
tim
August 22nd, 2011
6:34 am
I wish someone would tell Nike that these uniforms are a joke. Being a UF fan they have stuck us in some of the ugliest things on the planet. I hope that UGA will never put something like this on again. Stick to shoes nike.
AltamahaDawg
August 22nd, 2011
7:15 am
What fun it is to toss out a banality here and there to see you stay up all night crafting it into your trademark web of insanity. Classic BuLLdawg. You are like a puppet. Pull a string, watch you dance.
Here is the bottom line: everybody in this room knows that I am one that would have been supporting Erk Russell through the down years, and everybody in here knows that YOU would have been the one up all night writing letters to the editor about how completely unacceptable that “coaching staff” was. Nobody doubts for a minute that you would have.
See, that didn’t take 3 hours to say.
Nuevequatro
August 22nd, 2011
7:32 am
The fix may have been found – a jersey which players won’t be able to sell much less give away. Great example of needing to waste money.
Brooksdawg
August 22nd, 2011
7:36 am
WOW!! People are still on here talking about the uniforms for the first game?? Nike and McGarity are getting exactly what they wanted out of this… Hype with a shelf life… less than 2 weeks ’til
GA takes the field in the Dome—Just WIN BABY!!! GGGOOOOO DAWGS SIC EM!!!
Thomas Brown
August 22nd, 2011
7:40 am
Nice try.
Here is what you actually said for everyone to read, however :
AltamahaDawg August 21st, 2011 9:16 pm
“I’m sure folks would call that a gimmic now.”
Mountin Dawg
August 22nd, 2011
7:52 am
Not bad…..Not bad at all. Really kinda like them. I am glad the UGA game unis are not as glaring as BSU and VT last year. Those were different.
Disgusted Dawg
August 22nd, 2011
8:07 am
Those uniforms look like they were designed by a drunk amateur! They are hideous!
UGA Alumni
August 22nd, 2011
8:07 am
FIRE McGARITY!
Flowery Branch Dawg
August 22nd, 2011
8:09 am
Those uniforms disgrace the University of Georgia. As a UGA graduate and lifelong fan I am humiliated by them.
SEC links for Monday - River Region Sports
August 22nd, 2011
8:10 am
[...] From ajc.com – UGA players like new uniforms to be worn vs. Boise [...]
The DawgNation
August 22nd, 2011
8:12 am
Maybe we all should wear paper bags over our heads to the game to show our embarrassment over those uniforms. If Richt loses this game in those uniforms then he will permanently lose our support! In fact only an overwhelming blow out over Boise is acceptable if we are going to have our team in those horrible uniforms.
GA Bulldog
August 22nd, 2011
8:14 am
Hold a huge pep rally before the South Carlina game and burn those ugly uniforms to fire up the fans and the team! Those things look like crap!
D man
August 22nd, 2011
8:25 am
I dislike the uniform. I think we are giving up a huge advantage by not going with the normal uniform. Boise will look at this uniform and laugh…
Blackberry Cobbler
August 22nd, 2011
8:25 am
It’s all about the money.
The unis look like crap but UGA has proven it will do anything for the money.
Lindsey
August 22nd, 2011
8:36 am
I like the new uniforms and it’s just one game. Instead of being negative everyone needs to support the boys and UGA. If they like them what can that hurt? Maybe it will give them a little bit more fire, can’t wait for 09/03/11, GO DAWGS!!!!
chilidawg
August 22nd, 2011
8:47 am
Those uniforms are uglier than a sackfull of bootyholes.
Queer Eye for a Tech Guy
August 22nd, 2011
8:56 am
Let’s stop the uniform talk. We’re starting to sound like the Tech blog.
TexasDawg
August 22nd, 2011
9:29 am
Georgia Dawg 41 and Boise State 20– Go Dawg!
Disappointed Dawg
August 22nd, 2011
9:50 am
When will one of the coaches with so much potential learn that winning is about coaching and implementing the fundamentals with outstanding players who have a commitment to team and play with intensity and self discipline. Winning is not about gimmicks. You change mindsets from the inside out, and not merely with uniforms. First it was black outs, then growing beards, and now this. Wow, what a disappointment!!! The Dawgs will be in the top 25 often, but seldom in the top 5. The coach just does not get it. Winning a national championship will seldom if ever occur until the coach changes is mindset.
HBTD
August 22nd, 2011
9:57 am
Silver pants!!
MS. Bully
August 22nd, 2011
9:57 am
UGLY!!
Foster Keats
August 22nd, 2011
10:04 am
Congrats Jaw-Juh on your low-rent, gawdy, UFL-like uniforms…
Perhaps if you all ever make it to the top tier of college football tradition and finally gain some respect, then you’ll stop with all the uniform abortions and black outs and petty gimmickery…
Mayo
August 22nd, 2011
10:19 am
I’m 50 yrs old and couldn’t care less what they wear. I just want to see a big W for UGA in the Dome. Period. If the players like ‘em, that’s fine. And as for fans of other schools/teams, who gives a rat’s ass what you think?!
GBR
August 22nd, 2011
10:35 am
Although CMR defends the uniforms, I but he had no input in their design, and there is no chance that UGA would have ever selected these “Bridesmaid Dresses” as UGA uniforms. How much did UGA and Boise get to wear them?
South GA Dawg
August 22nd, 2011
10:57 am
I totally agree with Mayo. I just want a win. Then I want UGA to beat SC by 20. Not to much to ask, is it?
LogicalUS
August 22nd, 2011
11:40 am
Was Grantham a good hire?
Louisiana-Lafayette 7
South Carolina 17
Arkansas 31
Mississippi State 24
Colorado 29
Tennessee 14
Vanderbilt 0
Kentucky 31
Florida 34
Idaho State 7
Auburn 49
Georgia Tech 34
At this point I would say the jury is still out. It looks like the defense got sorry of worse as the season went on…which leads to the question of whether the players having a better understanding of the defense will not be overshadowed significantly by the SEC coordinators having a better understanding of Grantham’s tendencies and schemes.
Another question mark for the 2011 UGA team along with WR,RB, NG, S, OL, etc.
GEORGIA BULLDOGS SEEING RED WITH PRO-COMBAT UNIS
August 22nd, 2011
11:45 am
[...] the players saw it, they liked it and that’s the big thing,” said Bulldogs Coach Mark Richt. “And it’s a special game. It’s not what we would call a traditional uniform but it’s not [...]
CreekDawg
August 22nd, 2011
11:55 am
HEY BULLDAWG NATION. ARE OUR COLLECTIVE GAYDAR DETECTORS ON OVERLOAD OR WHAT?
I’ve obviously not taken the time to read all 775 plus comments on this blog. But no matter which page I click to, everyone is focused on these silly uniforms. Folks, the relevant news from this article is that IC is practicing again, and that he’s WOWING folks!!!
Bruce
August 22nd, 2011
12:04 pm
Is it just me or do the new uniforms seem to be the wrong shade of red?
chilidawg
August 22nd, 2011
12:59 pm
Could it be? UGA vs. Mettenberger & LSU in the SECCG? Looks like Jefferson might be in some trouble…
Big Dirty Dawg
August 22nd, 2011
1:02 pm
For all you Dawg fans who hate the uniforms…if you have tix to the game, then just sell them to me..i’m needing four!! I’ll be more than happy to go to the game and watch them beat some Idaho Spuds into tater salad! LOL No wonder UGA cant get back to where it was…even our own fans can buy into the TEAM concept!!
Half Century Dawg Fan
August 22nd, 2011
1:45 pm
Who cares what they wear, just line up and knock the snot out of someone.
Tampa Dawg
August 22nd, 2011
2:23 pm
Tradition to some of us is like attending our grand parents churches. SCARY!
They go sit in a traditional church services (no drums,guitars,screens,etc), sing songs from a traditional1955 broadman hymnal (every verse mind you), hear a sermon on “turn or burn” for a solid hour (from an elderly guy who wears black pants with white socks and black shoes), then proceed to sing every verse of “I Surrender All” (while no one dares to approach the alter), then finally they walk out and shake the preachers hand at the back door and go home.
No change is ever tolerated because Jesus wouldn’t allow it (BIG LIE). The funny thing is Jesus IS all about change. He is a radical!
Sadly, our grandparents will soon die but the church has been dead for 30 (+) years already. What a waste!
Tradition is awesome! We get it! We really do! But life is about change! And changing tradition as well.
So all you older folks cut us young bucks some slack. If we want change let us have our turn! We tithe just as much if not more than you.
Now after saying all that… can we go back to silver britches and wearing red road pants. LOL! Just adding 2 cents into this absurd debate.
AltamahaDawg
August 22nd, 2011
2:30 pm
…..and we are going to sing ONE more verse, because somebody is feeling the need to come on down here this morning, I can feel it.
I see you have attended a couple of Southern Baptist Services.
Dawg_Central
August 22nd, 2011
2:44 pm
Boise was favored last time they came to Georgia…..and what happend?? If UGA played in Boise St. conference they would dominate……Boise St. will not be able to match UGA’s speed……that will be a huge factor….and speed wins !!
Tampa Dawg
August 22nd, 2011
2:53 pm
AltamahaDawg,
Hilarious stuff sir!
As Larry The Cable Guy would say, “I don’t care who you are…that is just funny!”
Tampa Dawg
August 22nd, 2011
3:00 pm
AltahamaDawg,
I can’t stop laughing because your comments are so true. But i do love the old church back in the wilwood. Geez, Thanks, I needed that gut laugh!
Go Dawgs! GATA
PS-Thomas Brown was spitting out some interesting stats earlier. I was wanting hear some “Rocky” music when he was spitting out stats on ERK. Then he lost me when he started bashing CMR.
CMR, turn this ship around… or burn (pardon the old church pun)
TampaDawg
August 22nd, 2011
4:18 pm
Someone on here stealing my moniker …
AceDawg
August 22nd, 2011
4:50 pm
Just hope the players all know it isn’t the clothes that make the man! I hpoe someone has put a burr under Mark Richt’s saddle and that he toughens up our players as they have been much to soft to be successful in the SEC.
UGA_2001
August 22nd, 2011
5:26 pm
UGA wore silver pants in all three black jersey games. They wore the black pants vs Fla in 2009 with white jerseys.
We’ve never worn black jerseys with black pants.
JaySulkowsky
August 22nd, 2011
6:52 pm
Looks like a computer generated football player. Will the game be in 3-D too? Come on, quit the marketing ploys. Us older fans and ALUMNI like what we have had forever (maybe some minor twists). AND we alumni are the ones who support the team where it really counts, the pocketbook
JaySulkowsky
August 22nd, 2011
7:00 pm
Now I know why the games are on radio too. Won’t have to look at this excuse for a uniform
AltamahaDawg
August 22nd, 2011
7:27 pm
I’ll never forget Brother Pete, song leader , when I was growing up. He’d look over at the preacher and get the nod, “one more verse”. I prefer the more contemporary services now, But I do miss the old hymnal. Those songs stick with you for life, and I am glad.
AltamahaDawg
August 22nd, 2011
7:28 pm
OK, Weisner is tweeting practice report from today, so there IS something beside uniforms.
Ben Rogers
August 22nd, 2011
8:06 pm
I must say the new uniforms are Butt Ugly to me. Please get back to the traditional uniforms after Boise State. Call me old school–whatever, I think they look tacky–the proud tradition at UGA deserves better.
Stinger1
August 22nd, 2011
8:23 pm
looks like the uniform of a LOSER to me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stinger1
August 22nd, 2011
8:24 pm
somebody call R2 D2…………………Beam me up Scotty . lol Idiots.!
MIKE MCINTYRE
August 22nd, 2011
10:37 pm
ALL YOU PEOPLE THAT LIKE TO FIND THINGS WRONG WITH COACH AND THE DAWGS PROBLEY ARE BITCHING AT YOU WIFES TOO. UNLESS THEY LEFT YOU ALREADY,I AM A DAWG FAN. THEY WILL COME BACK THIS YEAR AND WIN A BUNCH OF GAMES.GET ON THE BUS OR FIND YOU ANOTHER TEAM.
gehs72
August 22nd, 2011
10:53 pm
I’m an SEC alum though not from UGA so here’s my thought on the uniform issue:
Ugly is a gross understatement of the opening game UGA Nike uniform. The uni’s are HIDEOUS!!!! They are so bad they wouldn’t even look good on a soccer field.
dawgfan0617
August 23rd, 2011
2:51 am
not crazy bout the unis but might change my mind when i see them on the field. im a devoted GA fan and ppl need to remember that even tho we had a losin season last year it wasnt like we were gettin our butts handed to us everytime we lost. this years team is a totally different team. we may have alot of the same faces but the addition of the young guys we have this year gives us what we have been lackin… energy. the past couple years our guys have looked uninspired and disinterested at times but this group of kids comin in this year (and the fact that CMR showed a couple players the door) should really help turn things around. we WILL beat boise and we WILL win the east… dont know if we got what it takes to win the sec but we will before murray leaves. i expect 9 wins this year and CMR to be back foe years to come.
Just Asking
August 23rd, 2011
2:22 pm
Is Boise stressing over these uniforms or are they concentrating on the game? Just Asking.
Don
August 23rd, 2011
11:19 pm
The uniforms to me are not the real problem ,correct me if I am wrong but didn’t our head coach say there would not be any more jacking around with the uniforms until the football program was back on track and winning games . Well I have always heard that a man was no better then his word and it seams Richts word isn’t worth crap because they haven’t won crap sense that was said.
JAMES HOWELL
August 24th, 2011
9:43 am
Hey pete eat me
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