Former UGA All-American David Pollack weighs in on state of college football, his Dogs

Chip:

Thanks for the link; it was good to hear David’s comments.

But are gonna give us some real UGA football updates soon? Not a swipe; just wanting to know the latest. .. Go Dawgs!

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JAWJeRDAWG is right! We’re getting anysey and paranoid as to who is going to be ready, who’s now injured, and who’s going to shine! The anticip…..ation is killing us! GoDawgs!!

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….that’s “antsey”…sorry

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DAMN GOOD DAWG

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Dawgs are going to be great this year – mark it down!

We’re loaded, with IC leading the rest of the Dream Team. We will win the East, maybe the SEC but that’s just a set up for next year when the Dawgs will bring thier 6th National Championshiip back to Athens. The tradetion of the Dawgs is winning and that tradetion will be in full force for the next few years.

I know this because the Dawgs get the best High School football talent in the state and Georgia is easily the most talented High School football state in the country. Belive me, I played in Cobb in High School and would have been a Dawg but I blew out my knee my softmore season.

Go Dawgs!

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@ harold

And IF we have a great season this year, what will you post? Just asking.

Can’t remember anything positive from you ever, if I remember correctly.

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Pollack is a good man…I agree with everything he said!

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NCBF, where did you read that about Smith? Can’t find it anywhere.

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I love David Pollack, the essence of a DGD. I agree with D A Double U g as I have said in this blog many a time, I wished he was on the GA staff, maybe the S&C area. He would be a great recruiter as well as a great motivator. Go DAWGS!!! BTW, I love the Combat Unnies.

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HAROLD. YOU ARE NOT A UGA FAN. YOU ARE A CRITIC.

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Harold, your a bandwagon fan. Last year you were all over Tennessee. What gives man. Do you really have nothing better in your life but to come on a blog that is titled UGA Sports and just bash all things UGA?

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Harold , you are the biggest fair weather fan of them all. Find another team to show your support to. Wait a minute you don’t support you just bitch and moan. What did you say Richt’s first 6 or 7 years when he was winning 10 games a year? So called fans like you are all the same , you demand excellence without giving any kind of positive support. For some reason you seem to feel entitled! Find another team LOSER.

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Harold- Skin it back man. I see some time alone to reflect would do you good.

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So long, Jordan Jefferson. Mettenberger will beat out Lee over the season and face the Dawgs in the SECCG.

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Harold is like Herschel Talker- all they do is gripe so people sometimes respond to them.

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Need to come out like a house a fire.

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harold…craw back in the closet with your poster of Paul Johnson!

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Football Fan , you take the players we have and go man for man with any school in SEC and compare them. If you cant get excited about this season then you need to take up fishing

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@harold (or if you prefer, HAROLD): assuming you’re right that richt only won with donnan’s players (you’re not right, but whatever) doesn’t it say something that richt actually won with them and donnan didn’t?

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You have to give Donnan for not leaving the talent plentiful for CMR though. Donnan those last 2-3 classes worked his but off. Go back and look at those classes from 99-01.

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http://dogbytesonline.com/ching-new-uniforms-dont-have-to-be-gimmicky-46987/

Had had enough BS articles from the AJC regarding the uniforms. Seemed that the topic was just used by our writers to stir the hits.

This link says it right ON to me. Very good read on the topic of uniforms, tradition, and creating excitement about UGA.

Says it like I see it and I think very accurate : Note had sitters and old tradition. I think it does hold us back to a big degree and this is comming from a guy who loved James Brown, The Tracks, sitting on the Grass in the corners. Great read and wanted to share.

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Dogs S…
I write like a 3rd grader? You end a sentance with “NOT”. So, than, maybe your a 2nd grader.

Dumb @ss

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BigRedandBlackDAWG — So the guy who writes a paragraph that is a grammatical nightmare is calling you a 3rd grader? Am I reading that right? Hey Dogs S, feel free to mix in a comma or two, and the occasional apostrophe might come in handy too.

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I wish we could bottle Pollacks passion for football and feed it to the DAWGS

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gomdawg ,
Have you ever been to Athens on a week day? Fine another team? really fine or find?

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0-2 beeatches and another 6-7 season. Long live Richt & Bozo.

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English teach on a sports blog. WOW-when you have nothing intelligent to speak of you critic grammar. Commendable let me tell ya.

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Harold wins today’s d bag award!!!! Take a shower, you smell weird.

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Joey, well said

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BS is wearing a boot. Got stepped on in kicking game practice. Nothing serious, will be ready game day.

Harold of the rocks you normally do not fine your HC 8 days before a season opener. Not so smart I see? Btw, three names that CMR recruited KM, MS, and AJand many more that the ponzi did not recruit. Doucher!

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Have we released a two deep depth chart yet?

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dbag….how many championships did those 3 initials win?
answer…none.

here’s the truth folks. The SEC was down (other than LSU) when Richt was winning his titles. Makes me think that ponzi donnan could have done just as good had he stayed.

Richt has everyone blinded by the cross….and his lilly white appearance. If you read what he says and how he acts, you realize that he is a master politician passing out koolaide. I find it funny that McGarity had a meeting with the police to figure out how to cut down on arrests. Where was Field goal jesus while this was happening? Passing out bibles to people in grass huts, no doubt. And now that his job is on the line, he is “allowing” a reporter to accompany him on a mission trip and also being “tougher” with his players. Meanwhile his staff can get an injury report straight.

He’s got everyone fooled. Good thing that we judge football coaches by their W-L records…..
(ok, koolaiders….start your bashing now.)

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Shannon Brown. a 6-4 inside LB who is currently at Georgia Military Academy will not attend Alabama as he did in February. He was one of the nation’s most heralded defensive recruits and has now decided to go to GEORGIA. Information on this will break in a few months but I wanted to go ahead and give everyone some Good Friday news! Because that’s all I have…. The rest is crap like Rambo being suspended and B Smith in a cast with a broken foot. That news in NOT good. I have been telling you people for months that Damien Swann will be the first “Dream Teamer” to start and it looks like I will be correct as usual. Damn I’m good!!!!!

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UGA Insider

That has been known for about two months now.

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Wow! LSU has suspended QB Jefferson indefinitely. Mett now #2.

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so what is the deal with Rambo? also latest on BS

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bring the pain,

For some reason recently Sanders Commings has moved into the #1 safety spot with Shawn Williams. It’s like Rambo just disappeared. Then I heard he was suspended for the first game it just wasn’t announced yet. All of a sudden we are kind of puny in our defensive backfield.

I hope the kid that is deciding later today between UGA and USCe is watching this story because that is how fast things can change in this league. One day you think you have depth and the next day you have none. USCe is lying to you when they say you will be buried under out depth chart. It is a lie.

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thanks i have heard nothing about Rambo being out. How about BS just taking precautions? or worse? also i keep getting confliting reports about RS and his leg is he good to go

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Harold

Who recruited DJ Shockley?

How many Donnan players were left in 2005?

How many Donnan players on the 2007 team?

Who coached all of the players for the last 10 years?

Who’s offensive scheme have we been running for the last 10 years?

Who hired Brian Van Gorder?

The last question contains the key to 2001-2004 success.

Donnan was gone in 2001. Richt gets the credit for everything forward.

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Bacari Rambo is listed at #2 on the depth chart behind Sanders Commings.

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David Pollack is a HOTTIE

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honestly please ban GD and DG just childish

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Stop dreaming mutts SAINT RICHT & THE CONVICTS will be lucky to win 6 games this year.Richt will be canned by midseason.”BOOK IT”

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Update from Gator nation for Gator chump

1.)Brantley still can’t throw
2.)Muschamp screaming at…everybody
3.)Weis ate everything not nailed down
4.)Jorts on sale at Gainesville Mall
5.)Mullet cuts 2 for $10 at Cost Cutters

That about covers it.

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@ TampaDawg

It would be too much to hope that is true. If so, maybe some civility and football talk can return to this blog. .. Go Dawgs!

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LOL, dawginlex… a dawg fan making fun of another school’s mullets. Pot, meet kettle!

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And just as obnoxious and disgusting as ever, Gay ‘and really hope you’re not a) Dawg.

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David P and David G are not homosexuals (not that there is anything wrong with that), you idiot. They were friends growing up and even played on the same youth football team and them played together on some great Dawg teams. CBS used to have the best profiles on them with old pictures and everything when the Dawgs were on TV. I miss those.

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Talk about a DGD!

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Never really thought of it that way Jaws….. I feel good… Thanks for the interest…

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GATORS or DIE!!!!!!

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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.

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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.

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gt4ever wins the dumb post of the week award!

Pollack not an All american?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQYAD-KSd1E

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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

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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.

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@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.

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What is this, China?

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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.

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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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Trying to look forward at the possibility of furthur injuries. Does anyone know if anymore full-pad scrimmages are scheduled before the 3rd?

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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.

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@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.

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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.

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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.

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“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.

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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?

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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.

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Come on Chip, you’re letting your UGA Sports blog turn into a bunch of buttholes insulting UGA Sports.

I actually like good debate, but these guys are just lying morons.

I’d greatly appreciate it if you would fix it.

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Name withheld..

Address your issues from the original post one by one…

1) Titles- UGA made a terrible hire after Dooley retired. That put the program behind the eightball for a decade.

2)Richt re-established the UGA brand. Two SEC Titles three BCS appearances, two victories.

3)Recruiting- In the Internet age and social media days we as fans have so much information at our disposal that when we see the “next big name” recruit not attending UGA it appears like we dropped the ball.

When in fact that if you have 25 scholarships to give in a state that produces 120 players annually then you are going to have opposing schools raid the state. Does UGA get beat on players they key on? Sure, just as every school in the nation.

4) Record Past two seasons and impact on recruiting- Of course this is used on the recruiting trail, but CMR has built plenty of credit during his tenure to right hte ship.

5) Resources and National Recognition- UGA is one of the largest revenue schools in the nation. UGA is sells I believe the sixth most amount of merchandise in the Nation. You have to be relevant to some degree to pull this off.

6) Is UGA where they should be with the amount of resources they have? No of course not. The program grew stale and flat over th epast two years. This has impacted the “beauty” aspect of the program. It takes one year to turn all the talk around.

If you are a sports fan you should know this. In todays sports it is always a what have you done for me lately mentality.

I am not going to further debate this with you. Just logical reasons as to why UGA is relevant in the National landscape of college football.

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wow. UGa top 5 program in the history of college football?!?! HEE HAW!!! Where do I start:

Alabama
ND
Texas
Oklahoma
Nebraska
OSU
MIchigan
Penn State
Florida
FSU
Miami
and…. if we are talking real HISTORY…
GEORGIA TECH
UGA is top 20 for sure though.

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Well put Lowcountry .. The tough part as a UGA fan to swallow was not having an adequate QB ready to replace Matt Stafford. Shockley replaced David Greene. The DJ Shockley year went reasonably well (the year we beat BSU) considering it was his only year starting then Stafford replaced him. Then came Joe Cox and he was not the answer but neither was Logan Grey. And last year as a RSF, Aaron Murray really did pretty well. He is THE most talked about returning QB probably in the entire SEC. I know the Gators will have a good team this year bouncing back, but Brantley is aweful so that is everybody else’s equalizer.

As far as I can tell, this team has always revolved around QB play since CMR took over. During Greene’s years, his one big play receiver was Fred Gibson (not exactly AJ Green) and they won a lot of games still. During the Stafford years, he had Massaquoi (again, not an AJ Green, but a quality receiver nonetheless) and the won a lot of games. In comes Joe Cox and we couldn’t get the ship moving forward. Murray comes in as a freshman and everyone throws their hands in the air because we didn’t win 9 games but then again, how did Matt Barkley do at USC the last 2 years? And against much weaker competition overall and with lesser stats (mainly in the INT department). As Murray continues to develop and the defense does what most believe they will do this year, it will all be ok.

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Tampa,

Right also. Here is the thing, UGA fans could care less what anyone else thinks. Same should be said about opposing teams fans, who cares what anyone else thinks. I am a UGA fan regardless. Don’t like UGA? So, don’t follow the blogs. You come on the blogs to get your kicks, well that speaks volumes about your character IMO. I rarely take the fight to another team, but I will defens the program. It is worth defending for damn sure. It is my school.

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GT Joe, I was almost on board with you (as a loyal UGA fan) until you put FSU and Miami up there. Hard to put programs up there with that much of a cloud surrounding their championships as those two do (FSU in 93, Miami in the 80’s and early 90s). I used to pull for Miami when I moved to Tampa but that program just lets corruption seep in regularly.

As a football program from the beginning to now though, GT has had some great years (I was in ATL for the 1990 season) but top to bottom they have been no where near as consistent a top program as UGA has. I know, GT has 15 conference titles to UGA’s 14, but 12 of UGAs were in the SEC.

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JDawg1785 === He is still listed as 2nd on the depth chart at rivals.com. Smith is probably more precautionary. The “Insider” info has to be verified before being justified.

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Very true, TampaDawg. I remember the day Caleb King was declared ineligible, the rumor mill was saying that Bean Anderson was out as well. Can’t read too much into the “insider info.”

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Chip…thanks for including Pollack in your blog. He was class on and off the field, and we all appreciate his many contributions. I agree with most on here that Donnan could recruit! Too bad he couldn’t coach and had terrible communication skills with alumni. I didn’t hear, but what’s wrong with Branden Smith and Rambo? Thanks.

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…than…

Dammit.

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By the way, the Dawgs will win they’re SIXTH NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP in the next three years. So get ready for it.

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That Techie got me, too, s/b Sorry.

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Donnan was a super recuiter, average coach, and a poor judge of character. Looks like he may have had other flaws, too.

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alpha male,

Let me see, some one insults me by saying I write like a 2nd grader and that my UGA degree is worth less then toilet paper and I’m not suppose to call them a name?

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ugottabkidding……

Donnan had his coaching staff hired away from him and did not do well in his replacements. As far as calling plays and organizing an offense there are none better. Special teams were comprised of starters, not scout team players. His ultimate downfall was he did not care for Adams or Leeburn and let them both know it.

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You Dawg fans who keep repeating Tech-Georgia scores enjoy yourselves all you want. The thing is… Tech alumni and fans have lives that don’t depend entirely on what a bunch of kids does on Saturday afternoons. College sports are fun to follow, but the biggest reason for going to college is to get an education.

UGA fans don’t seem to care about anything but football, and they don’t care if their players are enrolled in silly majors that no parents who are paying the bills would send their kids to UGA for. The very few football and basketball players who graduate have no job opportunities and end up unemployed or working in menial jobs that hardly require a college degree.

Georgia Tech is a real school with serious academic standards, and that includes scholarshipped athletes. UGA has a long history of being a drunken party school, where parents send their kids for an easy degree, even if the degree itself is worthless.

Jan Kemp exposed the obscene sleazy crap going on at UGA with athletes being enrolled in courses a ten-year-old kid could pass. That was almost three decades ago, and nothing has changed. If anything, the abuses are more blatant today. Way too many illiterate morons are being recruited, and the very high arrest rate shows clearly that Richt does not care if his players have any morals or character.

The bottom line is that most Tech fans have very good jobs and productive lives that don’t depend on Tech’s football record for their happiness in life. It would be great to beat UGA more often, but when you put scholar-athletes up against moron-athletes, it’s usually no contest.

UGA, REIGNING WINNER OF THE FULMER-RICHT CUP.

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the new georgia encyclopedia…ok…what about the 1966 national championship declaration by some group called the Massey Ratings…don’t sell the dawgs short…maybe the new georgia encyclopedia isn’t so accurate…uga already has 6 championships…

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Buzzzzzzzzzz
August 26th, 2011
6:08 pm

If it didn’t bother you, I really don’t think you would be on a UGA blog and spend 10 minutes writing a non football related essay. By the way, there are MANY GT “student athletes” (that was a joke), that don’t graduate and / or get a good job when they do. This is documented, GT is at the BOTTOM of the ACC on athletic graduation rates. Go do your calculus homework, or if not a student….get over to the Publix store and stock the specials. Out of here, you are a joke.

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Buzzzzzzz— ok, let’s lose the holier than thou crap for your beloved Tech. You think because they graduate a bunch of engineers that they are so much better than UGA? PLEASE!!! I work with engineers and one thing they are taught is to speak with facts. So here’s some for you:

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/data/spp+50

UGA is number 56 in terms of top schools academically. Funny, but I don’t see GT in the top 50. And if you techie fans don’t spend all your time following kids playing football, then why do so many of you not just spend time on college football blogs, but spend time on ANOTHER TEAM’S college football blogs (namely this one)? You’re worse than they are because you are trying to talk like it doesn’t happen. Get over yourself dude. Tech is not some superior academic school .. SPEAK WITH DATA, SPEAK WITH FACTS .. any engineer knows that .. or so I thought.

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Red and Black Dawg
UGA has won 673 games, which ranks eleventh in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) record books. Five Bulldogs teams have been declared national champions, in 1927, 1942, 1946, 1968, and 1980.

Like I said 31 years ago, 43 years ago, 65 years ago, 69 years ago, and 84 years ago. Speaks for itself..Yale …Claimed national titles 27
Harvard..Claimed national titles 12 …kinda blows that theory out of the water..like we said earlier…relevance.

As for my team…where I did actually attend school on an athletic scholarship…and worked on staff at three schools…. first school…acknowledged NC..13….and 3 National Championships..acknowledged……not claimed at either.

Now onto…

Lowcountry Bulldawg

August 26th, 2011
4:29 pm
Name withheld..

Address your issues from the original post one by one…

1) Titles- UGA made a terrible hire after Dooley retired. That put the program behind the eightball for a decade.
True……poor hire…
2)Richt re-established the UGA brand. Two SEC Titles three BCS appearances, two victories…
with Donnan’s players……big ol, dl players who were tough due to Donnan….not CMR….

3)Recruiting- In the Internet age and social media days we as fans have so much information at our disposal that when we see the “next big name” recruit not attending UGA it appears like we dropped the ball.

When in fact that if you have 25 scholarships to give in a state that produces 120 players annually then you are going to have opposing schools raid the state. Does UGA get beat on players they key on? Sure, just as every school in the nation…Too many top players went elsewhere…and CMR recruited a ton of malcontents who never fit the program

4) Record Past two seasons and impact on recruiting- Of course this is used on the recruiting trail, but CMR has built plenty of credit during his tenure to right hte ship……How bout starting no.1 4 years ago only to get slapped around….not 2 years but 4 years..and beating a weak Hawaii team was a joke…not making it to the SECCG….

5) Resources and National Recognition- UGA is one of the largest revenue schools in the nation. UGA is sells I believe the sixth most amount of merchandise in the Nation. You have to be relevant to some degree to pull this off. So we are testing the waters on merchandise sold to fans of a school. Poor excuse…and wrong answer to the question.

6) Is UGA where they should be with the amount of resources they have? No of course not. The program grew stale and flat over th epast two years. This has impacted the “beauty” aspect of the program. It takes one year to turn all the talk around. A dream team that in reality was just a decent recruiting class is not going to get you to the promised land.

Nice try..but sorry excuses are not going to win that argument.

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You know it takes two to have a argument don’t you? See the questions you asked where one of interpretation. I provided you my interpretation so no matter what those are actually correct answers. If you fail to agree with it then that is a “you” issue. Like I said I will not debate view points any further on this blog as neither of us ar elikely to be swayed as we are already preset to our current positions. So have fun in baiting the rest of the bloggers, just know that you are th eone who has yet to say with what team you are affiliated with.

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I think though a UGA fan may take umbridge with a non UGA guy like yourself coming in and trashing our program without affiliating yourself with th erival school so a UGA fan can point out said schools very on shortcomings. Remember the saying,”What is good for the goose is good for the gander”? Again off to go watch some high school ball. You trolls have fun bantering about with yourself.

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Sounds like David Pollack isn’t drinking that koolaid. He sees it as it is. All these Richt lovers are surely going to call him a hater now. or a troll… They must be Democrats as they share the same tactics of personal attacks for those who offer constructive and accurate criticism of the blinding obvious.

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sorry AVAILABLE ….should have been typed…

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haha, those who degrade and attempt to humiliate one, without living a moment in their shoes, are dismissed as morons. Yes, morons. Your comments are humorous, please go back to your hole.
HBTD

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A Great Dawg telling it like it is.

The first two games could be a great opportunity for Richt to turn this program around and save his butt or it may be the last two straws that break and cause an entire coaching staff change.

Bring it on boys!
I’m drool’n like a Junkyard Dawg!

FLA DAWG

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BUZZZZZZ,

Got a question for you. If Tech. students, fans , whatever do not care about college football, and for sure not UGA; Why are they always on a blog concerning UGA making nasty comments? I think it is just a good old case of jealouey from the Tech. fans.

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I strongly believe the dogs have a big year this year. STAY HEALTHY THEY MUST>Sorry for the bad Yoda impression.

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David Pollack three (3) times now has thrown Mark Richt under the bus on these ESPN interviews. This is nothing new for David Pollack. Is his job in jeopardy ESPN asks David Pollack, “Of course” David replies “too much talent” “not acceptable 7 losses” “got to start winning ballgames” ” a lot of attrition players injured and players left the program.”

17-24 Auburn (7-5) 2001 did not finish AP Poll Top 25*
10-24 Florida (10-2) 2001 did finish AP Poll Top 25 & 10 blow out
09-14 South Carolina (9-3) 2001 did finish AP Poll Top 25 not 10
16-20 Boston College (8-4) 2001 finished # 21 without win not Top 25*
13-20 Florida (8-5) 2002 finished not Top 25*
10-17 LSU (13-1) 2003 finished Top 25 & 10
13-16 Florida (8-5) 2003 finished # 24 would not be Top 25 without win*
13-34 LSU (13-1) 2003 finished Top 25 & 10 blow out
06-24 Auburn (13-0) 2004 finished Top 25 & 10 blow out
14-19 vols (10-3) 2004 finished Top 25 and not Top 10
30-31 Auburn (9-3) 2005 finished Top 25. LSU & Alabama ahead of UGA.
10-14 Florida (9-3) 2005 finished Top 25 and not Top 10.
35-38 West Virginia (11-1) 2005 finished Top 25 & 10.
20-24 Kentucky (8-5) 2006 did not finish AP Poll Top 25.*
14-21 Florida (13-1) 2006 finished Top 25 & 10.
22-24 Vandie (4-8) 2006 did not finish Top 25 at 4 wins including us.*
33-51 vols (9-4) 2006 finished # 25 & not Top 25 without win blow out*
14-35 vols (10-4) 2007 finished Top 25 and not Top 10 blow out
12-16 South Carolina (6-6) 2007 did not finish Top 25 and no bowl game*
10-49 Florida (13-1) 2008 finished Top 25 and Top 10 blow out
30-41 Alabama (12-2) 2008 finished Top 25 & Top 10 blow out
42-45 Georgia tek (9-4) 2008 finished # 22 without win over us not ranked*
27-34 Kentucky (7-6) 2009 finished not Top 25*
17-41 Florida (13-1) 2009 finished Top 25 & Top 10 blow out
19-45 vols (7-6) 2009 finished not Top 25 blow out*
13-20 LSU (9-4) 2009 finished Top 25 and not Top 10
10-24 Okie State (9-4) 2009 finished not AP Poll Top 25 blow out*
31-49 Auburn (14-0) 2010 finished Top 25 & Top 10 blow out
31-34 Florida (8-5) 2010 finished not AP Poll Top 25*
12-24 Missy State (9-4) 2010 finished Top 25 and not Top 10
24-31 Arky (10-3) 2010 finished Top 25 and not Top 10
06-17 South Carolina (9-5) 2010 finished # 22 no rank without win blow out*
27-29 Colorado (5-7) 2010 finished not Top 25*
06-10 Central Florida (11-3) 2010 finished # 21 & no rank without win*

Guess what, if it is NOT ACCEPTABLE to David Pollack, then it absolutely is ok for me to find it UNACCEPTABLE.

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FLA DAWG 9:35 pm I agree sir, a great dawg, telling it like it is. Why is it since 9:37 pm last night when you wrote that, that there is not 1 poster who has replied to this statement by you – either agreeing or disagreeing with you FLA DAWG ?

War Dang Dawg 9:01 pm. You are right.

Snoop Dawg August 26th, 2011 7:17 pm “Sounds like David Pollack isn’t drinking that koolaid. He sees it as it is. All these Richt lovers are surely going to call him a hater now. or a troll… They must be Democrats as they share the same tactics of personal attacks for those who offer constructive and accurate criticism of the blinding obvious.”

No reply to that either by Snoop Dawg. Why is that ?

“He’s got to fix it,” Herschel Walker said of Richt 10 months ago. “He’s the leader there on that team, so he’s got to take control.” “I think you got to be a little bit more harsher.”

Then, you have the namby-pambies who think 3.4 Losses a season is just the greatest coach in college football all-time. I guess I have to go back over this entire blog all the way to beginning to try to find one of them even attempting to discredit that which David Pollack now says. I cannot find 1.

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Buzzzzzzzzzz August 26th, 2011 6:08 pm

“UGA fans don’t seem to care about anything but football. The very few football and basketball players who graduate have no job opportunities and end up unemployed or working in menial jobs that hardly require a college degree. Georgia Tech is a real school with serious academic standards, and that includes scholarshipped athletes.”

Pardon me Bzzzz.

27 percent graduation rate Georgia tek baseball players
33 percent graduation rate Georgia tek men’s basketball players
42 percent graduation rate Georgia tek football players

We beat you in all 3 sports the whole entire time all your serious student-athletes were there.

63 percent graduation rate Georgia baseball players
36 percent graduation rate Georgia men’s basketball players
68 percent graduation rate Georgia football players

You have a lot of uneducated, uniformed, incorrect, lies as opinions. Do you know how to use a URL Link, if I give it to you Bzzzz ?

http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/newmedia/public/rates/index.html

Bzzzzzzzzzz

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Word out of Boise is that they are going to run the hurry-up offense. I hope the Dawgs are scrimmaging to prepare for that and that they have their rotations set to keep fresh players on the field. If the research staff is doing their job properly we’ll know how to take advantage of their rotations and get good match-ups. Just like in the military — it’s all about preparation and strategy. I’m sure the Boise offense memorized their first three or four sets during the off season in an attempt to execute them perfectly. We might have to go with a lot of man on man coverage to disrupt their timing on the routes.

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DAWGBOY,

In the 60’s that may have been true, but in the new century at least, hiring a new coach after firing the old one, usually puts you down for a couple of years. You lose the some of the old coaches recruits, and new recruits take a wait and see approach, to determine if the new coach will be someone they want to play for or go to another, more stable school, where the coach has been there for a bit. You also face the possibility of losing some of the young players on the team, because like it or not, a lot of players come to schools, and a lot of parents support the coach as well, because they think highly of the coach. That is especially true of CMR and UGA. How long do the fans give a new coach a chance to right the ship? If it is UGA fans, usually not very long.

GO DAWGS and GATA

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RedandBlackDAWG,

DAWG NATION has give this losing coaching staff far more time than most SEC ADs would have. My opinion has been the man should have been fired two years ago. We’d have had a new coaching staff (hopefully with good talent) and have been ready to play ball by now.

If this season is bad then Adams and McGarity (despite his two year tenure) have wasted two years – and in The SEC two years is an eternity.

FLA DAWG

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FLA DAWG,

Agree they haven’t been at their best for the last couple of years, I just caution about being too hasty to make a change. Let’s see how they do this year, without some of the lofty expectations some fans believe they should obtain. A 10 win season would be a big improvement but I would settle for 9 wins if they play with heart. I don’t expect a NC, or for that fact, an SEC confernece title, but 9 or 10 wins is certainly possible.

GO DAWGS and GATA

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Harold — Hug A Nut !

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Vandals,

I haven’t read much badmouthing of Boise State. Perhaps you’d care to cite exact comments and reference the blogger, day and time for our reference.

As far as the game goes it wouldn’t surprise me at all if BS beats my Dawgs. Afterall, we were 6-7 last season and lost to UCF in post season.

We were one of the worst teams in the SEC (or perhaps country) last year and it takes more than one summer to turn a program around. So a victory for Boise State over UGA would not be a shocker to any informed fan.

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FLA DAWG,

“As far as the game goes it wouldn’t surprise me at all if BS beats my Dawgs. Afterall, we were 6-7 last season and lost to UCF in post season.”

“So a victory for Boise State over UGA would not be a shocker to any informed fan.”

FLA DAWG,

I have no idea what kind of an UGA Bulldogs’ football fan you are, reading repeated statements like this from you; but I would presume you are a Georgia tek fan – in here masquerading as a Bulldogs fan. No informed football fan would expect UGA with 45 NFL players to their 15, with 21 Top 100 players to their none, with 51 either 5-Star or 4-Star players to their 1, # 11 all-time in 1-A wins with their 25 percent win percentage vs the 6 BCS Conferences of 8 wins in 31 games to-date including no impressive football team EVER to do anything but LOSE to Boise State. Boise State with the 2.41 avg rating all the last 5 years, with their # 69 recruiting class all the last 5 years to UGA # 11 rank all the last 5 years and with UGA avg rating 3.58 star.

Are you a nitwit or on drugs ?

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Vandels reek,

You are expecting to hear positive comments when you come onto a UGA blog, and spout off about the Boise State team. Why am I not surprised by that?

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Thomas Brown,

I call it the way I see it – and so did Pollack.

Some of the information you cite regarding the level of talent we’ve had should have given us much better seasons than what we’ve had. So, it’s the coaching. (Are you able to follow that so far?).

The fact that even Richt fired Martinez proves coaching is a problem. The fact that with much better talent and more depth The Dawgs were embarrassed in post season by UCF proves coaching is a problem. (Still with me?).

The first two games are big for Richt. I don’t think a team that was so bad AT THE END of last season can be good enough to beat two solid teams at the beginning of this season. But I hope I’m wrong and we win 10 or more games.
We have the talent for it but not the coaching.

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and the coaching is just fine as its pretty much the same coaching staff that won 96 games in 10 years. it comes down to the players executing bobo’s offense and granthems defense and doing what that are supposed to , what they were coached to do. have a great feeling that this will happen this year. the defense will be a top 10 defense nationally and top 5 in the sec.

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SC 17-6
Ark 31-24
Miss St 24-12
Colo 29-27
UF 34-31
Aub 49-31
UCF 10-6

There are certainly some close scores but there are other losses last season that weren’t even close my friend. So, you are wrong.

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Harold ……. ” FANS ” like you are completely PATHETIC ! Bet you’re a real fun guy to be around. Go depress some other team …..

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ATL XMAN,

You did fine in the 1st post; glad I read the 2nd back-to-back before I replied, because in your 2nd post, you made clear that you believe the coaching staff at UGA is just fine because they won 96 games in 10 years, all but one of which were 14 game seasons nowadays for the top teams. We’re not 1 of them – top teams that is.

34 Losses, is 3.4 Losses a season. Instead of bragging how Mark Richt’s “coaching staff” has won 96 of a possible 139 wins, try addressing not that today the top football teams nowadays play 14 game seasons and we win 9.6 games on the average, but the LOSSES.

Surely, you know this ? I believe you are a person who is looking for excuses for Mark Richt’s “coaching staff.” The facts are we played 13 games in a 14-game season for the top teams. Of the 13 games, 8 were against teams who did not end up in the Top 25 AP Poll. And, 5 did. Of the 5 who did, we Lost all 5, throwing only 5 TD passes in total. Of the 8 who did not, we threw 19 TD passes; and, oh by the way, lost 2 of those.

To quote FLA DAWG to you, if (1) that, (2) the 21 Losses these last entire 5 years, or (3) the 13-12 record vs The weak SEC East these last 5 years are ACCEPTABLE to YOU, you are a DISNEYdawgs.com, a Richt-0-File, a biased person who does not believe in the Separation of Church and State, and are the very reason why the Bulldogs Football Program is where it is today.

And, it is NOT good sir. On the other hand, I did agree with you about FLA DAWG saying that we cannot beat Boise State, in his opinion. If I have to log onto to these blogs and PREDICT that we will lose to a team such as 4-win Vandie 2006 who beat us, and have to say that before the game, that like Jeff Schultz does this morning, him saying too like FLA DAWG that we will lose to Boise State, then I might as well root for some other program or sport at UGA because there is no measure of comparison between Boise State and UGA which could possibly lead me to believe we lose to Boise State. And, I did the research and I put my analysis of that research up for everyone. Not you ATL XMAN.

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Good job Pollack. I am sick of losing more games every year under Mark Richt. 11-10-8-6, last 4 seasons, the direction of wins is not good. The game has clearly left Mark Richt behind. His methods are outdated and they just don’t work in this new SEC ENVIRONMENT.

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