Former UGA All-American David Pollack weighs in on state of college football, his Dogs
In case you missed it, here’s the take of former Georgia All-American and new ESPN staffer David Pollack on the current state of college football, and his Bulldogs, of course. . . .
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TampaDawg
August 26th, 2011
3:15 pm
I guess if dawginlex’s comment is pot meet kettle, then when GT Joe jumps in it’s pot meet kettle meet skillet.
gt4ever
August 26th, 2011
3:17 pm
Never really thought of it that way Jaws….. I feel good… Thanks for the interest…
GATOR CHOMP
August 26th, 2011
3:18 pm
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GATOR CHOMP
August 26th, 2011
3:19 pm
GATORS or DIE!!!!!!
JAWJeRDAWG
August 26th, 2011
3:22 pm
I don’t care what anyone’s sexual proclivity is, I just don’t care to read about your sexual preference on a football blog. But, that may just be me.
moleman
August 26th, 2011
3:23 pm
the number of transplants here in georgia probably overwhelmingly do not support uga athletics, probably because they work with delusional, obnoxious uga fans. is there another state school in america disliked inside its borders more than uga? doubt it.
Gay Dawg
August 26th, 2011
3:25 pm
JAWJeDawg….I care about UGA a lot more then you. I was there when we beat Florida in 2004 and 2007 and 1997. I was there we beat Hawaii in the BCS game. Don’t tell me my busoines and if I want to say Davd polack is hot (he is) then you can stick it.
If i want to gush about a player then so be it.
Gay Dawg
August 26th, 2011
3:27 pm
People don’t realize David played DT in 2001 against AU and did a good job as a true freshmen before being a DE. He is a phenomenal athelete and he doesnt drink either.
JAWJeRDAWG
August 26th, 2011
3:30 pm
That’s fine, Gay Dawg, if that makes you feel better to say that.
DawginLex
August 26th, 2011
3:31 pm
gt4ever wins the dumb post of the week award!
Pollack not an All american?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQYAD-KSd1E
TampaDawg
August 26th, 2011
3:34 pm
Moleman – I think your opinion is based solely on you not liking UGA so you can’t handle the excitement building up to a game. That being said, to answer your question:
FSU is hated in Florida in a big way
So is Miami
Texas A&M is hated in most of Texas
Michigan State is only loved by alums in Michigan
Nobody likes OK State, even in Oklahoma
Then there’s always Auburn/Alabama (that’s pure hate right there)
Should I keep going.And being in Florida, originally from Georgia, not nearly as many transplants in Georgia anyway.
Brainiac(Dawg for life)
August 26th, 2011
3:35 pm
Harold: What about the other 100 Division ! teams that haven’t won a National Championship in the last several years. And don’t forget that most of them have NEVER won a National Championship. Hopefully you don’t profess to be a DAWG fan. You need to find another hobby.
moleman
August 26th, 2011
3:35 pm
pollack has been gone for years. maybe someone will post oj simpson’s thoughts on the upcoming SoCal football season. just as relevent.
JAWJeRDAWG
August 26th, 2011
3:37 pm
Another afternoon of football talk turning to banality.
Guess I should have let you field all the retorts, DawginLex. You’re better at it than I.
cattle dawg
August 26th, 2011
3:40 pm
GT joe, I dont care what school or who’s the coach. You coach who’s on your team. Personally,Im not a fan of cpj at all. I think he’s a jerk, but Ive never said he couldnt coach.
BigTimeTechFan
August 26th, 2011
3:43 pm
Sup Dog fans…
Pollack was a real good player, pretty good TV analyst to. Lot better then Mike Bell on 790, but Alge Crumpler is pretty funny dude.
Pollack would have been nice combination with GT’s Michael Johnson with the Bengels if he didn’t get hurt.
I’m starting to think Kentucky may win the SEC East this year, people are counting them out but they will be a good team ans surprise so folks.
DawginLex
August 26th, 2011
3:44 pm
I have already e-mailed Chip and reported all 3 of them to the mods.
more than 1 way to skin a cat
Chip Towers
August 26th, 2011
3:45 pm
“Gay Dawg” or “David Greene” or whatever you want to call yourself next, we can play this game all day long. You can switch from computer to computer there in your computer lab of whatever school you attend and I’ll just keep banning IP addresses. So I not so respectfully suggest you find another hobby other than hurl insults at people you don’t know all day long.
Queer Dawg
August 26th, 2011
3:46 pm
DawgstylinLex: we don’t die, we multiply.
cattle dawg
August 26th, 2011
3:46 pm
What in Haydes has happened to these blogs? Now I understand why I quit posting. Anywho, This dawg fan is planning on hitting up the taco mac next saturday at high noon and then walking over to the dome to watch some football. Anyone got any better ideas?
Lowcountry Bulldawg
August 26th, 2011
3:46 pm
I am still wondering when the two deep roster gets released or is it already?
Gatormeat
August 26th, 2011
3:46 pm
If Pollack is correct then Richt goes down. The dogs have 6-6 or 5-7 wrote all over them. An 0-2 start, losses to Tenn, Auburn, and Miss State, and a humiliating beat down in Jacksonville at the hands of the Florida Gators, and it is looking like a pretty sad season in Athens. You may not even beat Ga Tech, which is sad in itself
DawginLex
August 26th, 2011
3:46 pm
Tech fan
i have predicted UK will beat Florida in Lexington this year. They usually pull one off every year like that
2006-us
2007-LSU
2010-SC
Chip Towers
August 26th, 2011
3:47 pm
DawginLex, cool it with the trash talk. Ignore the haters. Last warning.
david
August 26th, 2011
3:48 pm
read somwhere bosie state 9 of teams they played were not ranked in top 60
TampaDawg
August 26th, 2011
3:49 pm
TechFan ..
I agree with all of your post except for one thing .. Kentucky? Not, UF, USCe, or UGA? Not even Tennessee huh? Kentucky?
But yes, Pollack and Johnson would have been tough to stop together. And I honestly didn’t even know Alge Crumpler was on radio now. I gotta get on there more often I guess.
TampaDawg
August 26th, 2011
3:54 pm
Lowcountry Bulldawg — the depth roster down to 3rd string (or 4th string in the RBs case) is pretty updated on rivals.com team page.
TampaDawg
August 26th, 2011
3:57 pm
@Gatormeat — those are bold predictions from a guy whose team has Brantley for a QB .. nevermind the 1st year HC. Not like the Gators are coming off a stellar year either.
Name Withheld on Purpose
August 26th, 2011
3:58 pm
I just read three pages of Blowhard UGA fans who have placed this once pretty good program( not good, not great, not premier) on a pedestal. 31. 31 years since a Big Boy Title has been won. While Titantic size Boat Loads of talent has entered and left the hedges playing field. During that time 4 head coaches including the Head Coach who won that last title. Last count we saw 19 first round draft picks play during that period.
Now for those of you who will slam me. That is your right. But until you biased people realize that the opinion of The UGA program is at an all time low is an understatement. Even if UGA were to win the east, it would be ranked right there with GT’s title due to the schedule in conference being the WEAKEST of all SEC schools. That is right. All of SEC schools in schedule strength.
The facts are the program is losing players to other schools that were formally UGA “locks” and the talent base at UGA is nothing close to the years they competed for titles in the SEC. And like it or not, many many of those players were brought in by Donnan. Get over it. The program is not what you make it out to be. But it is not as bad as others make out to be either. On a scale of 1 to 10 it is somewhere around a 5.75 ..which is not going to win many titles.
Queer Dawg
August 26th, 2011
4:00 pm
What is this, China?
DawginLex
August 26th, 2011
4:00 pm
I guess that’s why we are ranked huh?
BigTimeTechFan
August 26th, 2011
4:01 pm
DawginLex – You think Kentucky can string together a couple of those upsets this year? Joker seems like a good coach, nobody ever give him credit.
Gatormeat
August 26th, 2011
4:02 pm
8-5 with a win over Penn State in the bowl sure seems stellar compared to 6-7 with a loss to C Florida. Lord, if you guys can’t even beat our junior colleges down here, what in the world do you think is going to happen in Jacksonville?! It won’t even be close
BigRedandBlackDAWG
August 26th, 2011
4:04 pm
Name Witheld on Purpose – You are an Idiot!
UGA, not a premier program. That’s laughable. UGA is one of the top 5 football programs in the history of college football. UGA, Alabama, Notre Dame, Texas and Oklahoma.
Some information for you:
1) UGA has FIVE National Championships
2) Numerous SEC titles
3) Heisman Trophy winners
4) The best tradetions in all of college football
Those things, and many more I could list make the Dawgs a PREMIER NATIONAL FOOTBALL PROGRAM!
End of discussion.
Name Withheld on Purpose
August 26th, 2011
4:04 pm
Consensus had UGA unranked. That is not saying they should not be ranked. A great deal of the hype around UGA is based on not playing LSU, ARK, Ala, and playing USC, MSU at home.
But we play the schedules we are dealt and with that I bid you GOOD LUCK.
JAWJeRDAWG
August 26th, 2011
4:06 pm
Trying to look forward at the possibility of furthur injuries. Does anyone know if anymore full-pad scrimmages are scheduled before the 3rd?
TampaDawg
August 26th, 2011
4:07 pm
That poor little old 6-7 team to the Gators to OT, the Gators only got 7 on Miss St, and got drummed by FSU. Crushed by your hated in state rival (who, don’t get me wrong, I hate FSU as well and will pull for Florida on every OOC opponent). Brantley gives every opponent a shot at winning.
Name Withheld on Purpose
August 26th, 2011
4:07 pm
BigRedandBlackDAWG
August 26th, 2011
4:04 pm
Name Witheld on Purpose – You are an Idiot!
UGA, not a premier program. That’s laughable. UGA is one of the top 5 football programs in the history of college football. UGA, Alabama, Notre Dame, Texas and Oklahoma.
Some information for you:
1) UGA has FIVE National Championships
2) Numerous SEC titles
3) Heisman Trophy winners
4) The best tradetions in all of college football
Those things, and many more I could list make the Dawgs a PREMIER NATIONAL FOOTBALL PROGRAM!
End of discussion.
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I will say its over unless Mr. Towers says it over.
Lets play recent history. You could say the same thing about Notre Dame, Harvard, Yale and so forth…get with recent history. When was that last National Title?, when was that last time UGA played in a title game? When was that last Heisman trophy winner?
Get current and get real.
Your turn.
Uh, about your BA
August 26th, 2011
4:10 pm
By the way, I have a BA from UGA – one of the top 5 schools in the country.
Right, it’s one of the top five in drunks and lawbreaking athletes. Number one, actually.
A roll of toilet paper has more value than your worthless BA from UGA.
moleman
August 26th, 2011
4:11 pm
@Name Withheld on Purpose
you better listen to Bigredandblackdawg; he would have played at uga if he hadn’t have tore his knee up in high school. he surely knows what he’s talking about. probably would have been an all-american, then became an astronaut.
Lowcountry Bulldawg
August 26th, 2011
4:11 pm
Thanks TampaDawg. Stripling a 6′6 ILB? That stuck out with me on the depth chart. Have a hard time envisioning him staying in that role for sure.
TampaDawg
August 26th, 2011
4:11 pm
Uh, about your BA
August 26th, 2011
4:10 pm
By the way, I have a BA from UGA – one of the top 5 schools in the country.
Right, it’s one of the top five in drunks and lawbreaking athletes. Number one, actually.
A roll of toilet paper has more value than your worthless BA from UGA.
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Says the guy who’s school shall apparently remain nameless. Real guts there.
Cheri in Baxley
August 26th, 2011
4:13 pm
The homers are really swilling the Kool-Aid today. I hope the factory can keep up with the demand.
Joey
August 26th, 2011
4:14 pm
Thanks for the link, DawginLex. That boy had a motor didn’t he? Went right through two blocks on that play before making the TD – if I remember right, the only TD we got all night.
The “Two Davids” (and Richt) came within a TD (vs Zook & UF) of getting in the Big Game vs Miami.
gbal
August 26th, 2011
4:14 pm
Name withheld — I see why and I am a UGA fan. Your really somking the good stuff there … 5 NC’s …hold it… hold it – Exhale.
Name Withheld on Purpose
August 26th, 2011
4:17 pm
“UGA, not a premier program. That’s laughable. UGA is one of the top 5 football programs in the history of college football. UGA, Alabama, Notre Dame, Texas and Oklahoma.”
See that is what I am talking about. The opinion of some UGA fans is just that far off.
Everyone knows that programs rise and fall with their coaches. Where was UF,, VT, Boise St, USC, …ALL OF programs have better records than UGA over the past 10 years. But why argue with someone who wears Red and Black glasses.
Name Withheld on Purpose
August 26th, 2011
4:18 pm
gbal
August 26th, 2011
4:14 pm
Name withheld — I see why and I am a UGA fan. Your really somking the good stuff there … 5 NC’s …hold it… hold it – Exhale.
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Please list the years of the those National titles?
DawginLex
August 26th, 2011
4:19 pm
Kool aid gooooddd!!!!!
Gulp Gulp!!
Why don’t we all grow up and worry about finding out whether or not Smith is hurt and Rambo is suspended?
gbal
August 26th, 2011
4:21 pm
FIRST ON PAGE 4
moleman
August 26th, 2011
4:21 pm
you won’t change these uga fans…Stuart Mandel of Sports Illustrated said it best…”never have I seen a fan base as delusional as that of the u of georgia. they fancy themselves on the same level of an ohio state, texas, and usc because they won a championship some 30 years ago” not exact quote, but close enough.