UGA linebacker Robinson out ‘at least’ two weeks, plus other updates

Not good news for UGA.

I sincerely hope the players get well and are able to return soon. These are college kids we are talking about; anyone who is glad they are injured should reflect on personal priorities.

Mark Richt and company do not need any more injuries……….they are already on a VERY hot seat.

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CMR is overmatched in his position. The most ecent example is the roster management is horrible. How can a team with 85 potential scholarships have to resort to having a walk on take the majority of snaps at ILB after ONE injury? Now we are out of ILB after 2 injuries. Already, UGA doesn’t have enough OL on scholarship. How can this keep happening? OL has had 5 of 22 starters for as long as the sport has existed. That means sign 4 to 5 EVERY year. Apparently the entire campus except CMR and the football coaches knew that Caleb King wasn’t going to pass enough classes to be eligible this fall. How could CMR not use one of those 8 extra scholarships on a RB? The same goes for ILB. CMR can’t get the concept that recruiting is an every year job. For 2012, UGA currently has two commitments from the ESPN top 20 in Georgia. UGA doesn’t have a commitment from ANY LB or RB. UGA’s recruiting class for 2012 is ranking 31st and that just won’t cut it.

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Samuel back to LB should be a no-brainer now. It’s better for UGA, and it’ll be better for Richard despite everything that’s already been said.

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Fire Richt….Offer Kirby Smart alot of money…look at Alabama’s D….we need to do it NOW…..!!!

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Thin at LB… Thin on the O line… Thin at DB… Where in the hell are these top recruiting classes at???????????

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Mark Richt is holding these players out so he will have an excuse.

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We need to get behind this team… And coach. I see great things in the making from these you guys and lack of support will hurt. See you Saturday.

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Crowell should touch the ball at least 25 times from here on out. Make him your workhorse. That way Murray won’t have so much pressure on him to win games because I assure you once teams get a whiff of Crowell and how good he is, they’ll start to stack that box, then unlike Garcia, Murray will pick them completely apart.

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Dwayne,

You’re right, BoBO today, but might save recruiting to fire both now! time for action……..It is making the program weak!

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Yep, time to move Samuel. AGAIN. I feel for the guy. What a waste of time and talent.

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I thought that was Robinson’s best game far and away. He was everywhere, and his leadership really made a difference. Hope he is back soon! The whole D played well.

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I thought the D played well, Special teams were not special!

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@AthensDawg,

I don’t think they have much of a choice but to give Crowell the 25 times a game. It is one of the keys to success for the rest of the season. I’m concerned, but not quite yet in full panic mode. They have just take care of business for the rest of the year. No more room for error. I will continue to support the team regardless of whether the current staff remains or if they change the staff. It’s a huge distraction to the team with all the “hot seat” talk. Should wait until the end of the year and if changes are warranted, then make them. We should not be saying it’s a losing cause with 10 games left.

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and the hits keep on coming….move Samuel back to LB. We have Malcomb and the little squirt back to run when Crowell come soff for a breather.

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We have to move Samuel back to linebacker. Crowell proved he’s an impact player, so I will live or die with him as the feature tailback. Carlton Thomas and Boo Malcome should give depth.

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If Saban doesn’t come with K. Smart he ain’t sheit! Get real folks, we need an experienced Head Coach.

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Get better soon, Christian! You had a wonderful game, just concentrate on getting healthy. Best of luck for your recovery.

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With Robinson out, I guess it is onside kicks until he returns.

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Go ahead dogs , tell us how good your team is and how the SEC crown is only 10 games away?

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I’m taking Coastal Carolina and the points.

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I still want to know why is it when GA is behind that a player does something and that player beats his chest like an Ape? WHYYYYYYYY

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How fat can Pam Oliver get in one off season???? Have you guys say her?

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All the Mark Richt lovers say give him time to turn the program around…. He as turned it around.. From a good team to a terrible one the last 5 years. This is not a situation of him coming into a program that needs to be turned around. He caused this mess and his Ass MUST BE FIRED!!!!!!

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The team looked 100% better this week, if they had fought & lost this same way against Boise I would hope there would be alot less criticism here. Starting out your schedule with the additional game against a #5 team was just stupid when you’re in the steep curve of a rebuilding process, and I doubt it was Richt’s idea to do so. The team looked good and I believe we’re going in the right direction. GO DAWGS!!!!

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@CHDawg,

I think it’s 2 years removed from high school before you’e eligible for the draft; I could be wrong though. However, the Columbus crew looked pretty good. I understand why the fans are so upset with the losses, but to even contemplate a coaching change once the season starts will do more harm than good.

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@MarineDog: “Crowell and Figgins in the backfield at the same time would be a good combination.”

Right. On a good day, they have a combined IQ of 100, a nice round number.

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You Homers can yack all you want, but at this point the
Dawgs are irrelevant.

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I could be wrong, too, but I thought it was three in football. Imagine some of these guys at the Battle of the Bulge, Marine: “Ike is an idiot. Fire him. He should have seen this coming. We are 0&2, the Panzers are bigger and better than our tanks, and we should just give up and go home–maybe boo the generals on the way out. The most important thing is to get rid of Ike ASAP!” Instead our Dawgs acted like a famous old 82nd Airborne paratrooper is reported to have done. In the midst of an entire tanker unit retreating in the Ardennes, a tank driver noted a PFC digging in. The PFC digging the hole asked the tanker if he was looking for some place safe, and the tanker said, yes. The PFC said, well pull in behind me; I’m from the 82nd Airborne and this is as far as the b*****ds are going. (roughly paraphrased). I’m proud of the fight in our Dawgs, as I see you are, too. We lost a battle, but the Dawgs look determined to win the war.

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UGA holds USC to a three and out. The players and Grantham are over on the sidelines dancing/celebrating like they had just found out that they had won free KFC for life. How Grantham, how about staying focused and keeping your players heads in the game instead of chest bumping and celebrating.

There’s a reason that Grantham was fired in his previous DC position…

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How long until they fix Richt’s brain problem? Oh well, at least we will still keep Boise from having a strong SOS to let others yell they belong “because they beat a good SEC team”, they beat a terrible SEC team who would be the worst if it wasnt for vandy.

What is amazing is that Richt has all these highly sought after recruits but he did better his first few years and I think only a few were 4 stars and I dont remember any of them being 5 star recruits, his coaching style only works with hungry players. Pampered 5 star primadonnas are not the recruits for him, he needs farm boys and those raised in the country to succeed, but he will go to a mid level school and do really well since he can coach lesser recruits up. He does not have the ability to coach superstars.

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Tide Roll said it best a little earlier… Mark Richt wanted Cam Newton for a tight end. That should show what the idiot knows about recruiting and evaluating players!!!!

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I totally agree CHDawg! 10 games left and people are already waving the white flag. Why does everyone expect to go from 6-7 to 12-0 in one year.

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Injuries are part of the game, I know. But did you know that over the last several seasons Georgia leads the Nation in losing “Starters to Injury”. I mean, how good was our offensive line when Trinton Sturdivant was a freshman? People forget he suffered three (3) major knee injuries and had to retire from the game. We have been snake-bit in areas where we can least afford injury.

I would like to see our “starters” play about 1 and 1/2 quarters of the Coastal Carolina game and then build depth and experience with some non-starters and freshmen (red shirts and true).

Looking at our schedule, if the Georgia team that showed maximum effort against SC shows up for the remainder of our schedule, sans multiple turnovers, there is not a game left that cannot be won. We just need that one, hard fought game win to help turn things around.

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fire them all. tired of this crap

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To pick out someone that had a bad game in the Boise Game–i.e. (Chris Burnette), the other guys must have been sensational. They all made mistakes! And why aren’t they lining up against Chris Burnette? If he is so bad. Come on Mark Richt. Look at your quarterback and help him to make good decisions.

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We can still win the sec and a national champeonship. No need to panik yet.If we win out and it can happon we will be top 5 and when we beat alabama or lsu, we will be in the big game. GO DAWGS

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UGA99.. I think you need to learn how to spell….. That was pathetic

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Uga 99 u on crack?

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Another great weekend in GA sports – Dawgs lose again, Braves swept and Falcons blown out.

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Need to see Ole Miss at Vanderbilt next week to get a better read on them. BYU beat Ole Miss 14-13 with 2 TDs in the 4th quarter. BYU lost to #21 Texas 17-16 on Saturday.

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How many of you are real football coaches and how many just wish they were? If your a real coach , maybe you should spend your spare time working on your game plaas rather than bashing another coach. To those of you who are just wannabes, pipe down. No one really cares to hear your theory on screen passes or position changes. All you do when you bash the team, coaches and players is turn off potential recruits who read these comments and decide they don’t want to play for a bunch of Bozo fans. It kills me that you guys think you sound smart when you spout off all your football jargon. My guess is most of you couldn’t make it as a football player in high school, so you feel it nessisary to put down the players and coaches who are good enough to play at the college level.
Go Dawgs…most of us fans love you guys come hell or high water. Forget about these other idiots.

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….Why not move JARVIS JONES back to the inside, and let CHASE VASSER AND TJ STRIPLIN handle the outside….. I HOPE KEITH MARSHALL LIKE HOW THE BULLDAWGS ROTATED CROWELL & SAMUEL BECAUSE THEYRE GONNA BE A GREAT 1 2 PUNCH!!!

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Wow real dog fan. You and uga 99 need to go back to high school and learn how to spell and write.

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Who’s going to call the defense!?! LOL

What a disaster this program is right now. CMR only concentrates on recruiting receivers, backs, and QB’s. The lines of scrimmage are an afterthought. He still thinks he can win in the SEC with an FSU attack. The thing is this can be turned around in 1 year with the right coach. Tons of talent and support at UGA.

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AHA! exactly what I said saturday!!!! When Murray came up in pain and hobbling they should have pulled him for a few plays-his mind was on the pain and not 100% on football. Just common sense (which is the problem here of course). So naturally two plays later the fumble occurs.

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CHDawg , mountaindawg, MarineDog all need a reality check. Most have been calling for his head for 2 years now, I defended him for those years but no more, the problems are still there two years later, stupid penalties, mental lapses, and moronic offensive play calling, I dont care if you have the bears defense from ‘85 keep putting them in those situations and even they would look bad, you cant keep running on 3rd and long, everyone knows its coming and it gets stuffed every time. And then when something works they never go back to it, WTF? Saturday they pulled the guard and blasted a hole for IC but then after that they didnt do it again, why not? It was a wrinkle they werent expecting and it was brilliant because they had no answer for it. Look, I loved richt but this is so stale that he has to go. Let him coach the year and then hire Kirby, its our only hope.

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Help me Obi Won Konobi. You’re our only hope.

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Why is Lsu only a 3.5 favorite against MS this Thursday?

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Dogs Suck

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Great article by Ivan Maisel thanks to who ever posted the link.

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Is a moral victory the same as a loss? Drats, I thought so.

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The fact that the coaches keep mentioning all of the alignment calls that Robinson has to make during each play, is probably the leading reason why the defense can’t stop anybody. This Grantham guy seems to be trying to be so complex (ala NFL) and seems only to be confusing himself and his own players. Certainly didn’t confuse Boise or S.C. or anybody we played last year for that matter. Just let em line up and go get the ball. Damn! Pay these coaches all this money and they start trying to prove they are smarter than Lombardi.

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that smell in your nose is CMR’s fanny on fire. He just better hope is starters have their gamefaces on this weekend and don’t come out flat again. This team needs every stupid nickel and dime win it can get, even if they are playing a high school team on steroids. Coach, call a spade a spade, run these kids in practice this week til their tongues hang out and their knuckles are dragging. Show ‘em a little bit of what hell looks like in practice. Trust me, you won’t have to get them up for game day.

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“Take away the Turnovers and what do you have”

Hey, great idea…even better lets take away the points that the other team scores and just imagine how great UGA could be??

Three of the “mistakes” when the UGA beaners are soothing their hurt pride were actually solid plays by SC.

The faked punt was a perfectly executed play and an incredible run by a 270 lb DT.

The pick 6 was an excellent bait and move play on Murray and the last was that Clowney kid tossing Murray around like ragdoll.

Yet UGA fans want to pretend like UGA players just walked out on the field and placed the ball neatly on the field for SC players to pick up.

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Frustrated, frustrated, frustrated!!!! Here I am approaching 73, and have been a Dawg fan 64 of those years….Love Mark Richt as a man, father, and especially as a good Christian…..but the man doesn’t have the balls to coach in this day and time….He is more interested in kicking field goals than giving the “rock” to his #1 recruit when it’s early in the game with 4th and 1 or 2 to go, and letting him get that first down….did it in the Liberty Bowl, and continues to do it every game…..apparently no confidence in his offense….or OC……Hope I live long enough to see us back on top!!!!

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I don’t mind kickin’ dawgs whether they are down or up, but I hate it for these young men who have been injured. Hope a full and speedy recovery for both of them. Wonder is we will still be averaging 56 points per game come November? Nice thought….

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3 games that will get old Saint Mark fired. TN, FL & GT and I see GA getting losses in all 3.

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Just a little education for those that don’t know, but in a 3-4 defense the LB’s are actually supposed to be making most of the plays. How can you be running a 3-4 as a coach and talking about being thin at LB. These guys (coaches) are lost. Fire Grantham, put Washington back on the ground and let your DL start trying to make plays rather than tying up blockers, which is the philosophy of the 3-4 defense. I’m telling ya’ll Grantham is a fraud, do a little research into his background. Dude was barely the LB coach for Dallas, not the DC.

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But I heard CMT say at the Galleria in Marietta that you are either on the bus or you are not. It looks like nobody is on it.

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Why do you think that UGA will be so far ahead of Coastal Carolina/New Mexico State Teachers that CMR will be able to play 2nd and 3rd string?

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Bunch o bandwagon fans, HATERS. not true fans.
That team played with alot of heart last night and the coaches push them hard and kept them in it and all the fans start leaving. I stay until the end.
So sick AJC and the bandwagon time to delete right along with a few others.

GO DAWGS from a true fan for life and there are a lot of fans that support you so dust these people and the dumb A@@ media off.
The media takes a small hill and makes it a mountain and that one thing wrong with the world today the MEDIA AND REPORTER. DONE!!!!! I AM OUT!!

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OH YEA, ONE MORE THING GET OFF THE DAMN BUS, WE DON’T NEED YOU BANDWAGON FANS.

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If we had hammered a cupcake in game 1 and then just lost like we did yesterday, noone would be hitting the panic button, or calling for anyones dismissal. This team is much better than last years team.

Some observations:

I hope Isaiah does not develop fumbleitis.
Thank God we play CC this week.
Thank God we play Ole Miss after that.
Why the heck can’t Brandon hang onto the dang ball on punt/kickoff return?

I want to see this team be successful, for the benefit of Brandon Boykin. Can that kid play, or what?

Murray’s size does come into play when he gets hit (see yesterday’s game and AU last year).

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Turd Roll: Don’t you have anything better to do? If we need a Coach Hiring Consultant Expert we will contact you since you obviously know whats best for all teams. I just hope Saban doesn’t foul up cause you be de top candidate to replace him. Then that would end college football as we know it because the Crimson Turd would never lose with you running the team. DON’T CALL US. WE WILL CALL YOU.

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42 points and 20-something first downs against an Ellis Johnson defense does not support the hypothesis that UGA’s offense was the problem in the loss to South Carolina. Let’s call a spade a spade: the game plan showed more variation and innovativeness than I’ve see for some time. As Spurrier noted “Georgia outplayed us” and some times the team that plays more poorly wins anyway! Yes, UGA made a few critical plays and suffered one bad call that was critical (Rambo’s offsides call), but what decided the game was the effectiveness (partially luck?) of SC in converting UGA’s mistakes into points. From my perspective (and I’ve watched the telecast twice) UGA did indeed outplay SC; however, it is what it is–a loss. BUT NO NEED TO RISE UP IN ARMS IN ANGER TOWARDS THE COACHES AND THE PROGRAM. I, for one, am encouraged and even with the recent injuries at ILB look for the dogs to win against Costal Carolina and Ole Miss. If we play like we did against SC, we’ll beat Mississippi State too. Let’s hope the Bulldog Nation relaxes until gameday and then yells up a storm in support of our players.

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georgiagiirl: You said it perfect. Too much pond scum with no life of their own. Likely a bunch of Middle School dropouts.

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hotdawg = Great American Dawg

Snoop Dawg = Egg sucking dawg

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“UGA’s recruiting class for 2012 is ranking 31st and that just won’t cut it”

Of course it will! A ranking in recruiting of 31st is pretty damn high. Boise State is currently 40th with their 2012 recruiting class.

And for the record here are the Boise rankings for the current 2011 team:
(per Scout.com)
2011…67th in nation
2010…97th in nation
2009…60th in nation
2008…64th in nation
2007…57th in nation

As long as you are ranked about where they are, you should have a great team. Wouldn’t you think?

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I totally agree that Murray lost the game for us and has not proven to be much of a leader, yet. Because his leadership is definitely in question I think even though Murray should play the most, LeMay should get a quarter now and then to see what he can do.
CMR has put his future in the hands of Bobo and now Murray without even considering that those two are the main problem. I hate that degree of stubbornness. I may turn out to be wrong but it not to even be considered as the problem, is the problem.

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WOW! Sorry that Robinson got hurt. Hurry up and heal. We need you bud. As far as coaching goes. Did not anyone in Sanford stadium think SS was not going to try something during punting time. Good grief!! And by the way, Coastal Carolina is 2-0.

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“we deserved to win.”

NO UGA didn’t deserve to win. Kevin Butler had it right. You have to take every play in the game into account not pick and choose the plays on which UGA performed better at and then say we should have one.

The team who “deserved” to win was the one who executed a fake punt for a 70yd TD, baited Aaron Murray into a pick 6 and then had a freshmen DT blow up a play late in the 4Q for the winning margin.

The result in a game is the result of every play of the game.

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Here’s a tip from a fan of a team that actually runs the ball…

YOU CAN’T MOVE SAMUEL TO LB AND RELY SOLELY ON CROWELL BECAUSE CROWELL CAN’T HANDLE THAT!!!!

I know UGA fans like to think because of a couple of nice runs that he is the next Lattimore, but here’s a hint…he’s not. Lattimore proved that again on Saturday. When Crowell was tapping his helmet to get off the field, Lattimore was too busy getting the yards the hard way and amassed appox. a buck fifty.

Crowell is considerably smaller than Lattimore. Crowell needs Samuel to catch breaks, otherwise, UGA is really screwed. I don’t care how good Crowell is at catching a screen pass.

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feed the homeless with your 3 million dollar pay check turd!!!————-heck its like your on wellfare

–your not earning your pay—bible boy so why cash any check given and i mean given by

———–uga supporters—————-YOUR NOT WANTED—-THUMPER

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-I wanna see more I formation,which gives us more options and slows the defense a little…Murray in the ‘gun with a single small back reduces the options and defense just pins their ears back…
Also,Murray is a mobile guy—why not roll him out a little bit instead of him standing in the pocket with his one blocking back and getting hammered??

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And play Lemay for God’s sake. Shockley was better than Green and rode the pine until he could get his reps and prove what he could do. Getting him in for one series a game was the most idiotic thing I’ve ever seen CMR do. Wait, I’ll have to re think that…there’s always Saturday…

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Let me remind some of you geniuses out there calling for Mark Richts head:

What we got 10 years ago after a couple of longwinded failed attempts at aquiring a worthy head coach is an untested offensive coordinator out of FLA ST that managed to win two SEC Champions and compete for a few more along with taking us to the brink of a National Championship.
Along the way he….by his own admission…. made some mistakes. Like the defensive coordinator change after losing Van Gorder, which was a biggie. There were other factors in his recent inefficiency like a less than adequate Athletic Director….the university saw fit to Fire Dooley….remember? And replaced him with a philandering drunk. And his wife’s battle with cancer…if you don’t think that will effect a man’s focus…you need to walk a mile in those shoes.

SO WHAT! So what those aren’t excuses…they are lessons and a man grows from them. He is a better football coach for it.

They lose by 14 points to the number 4 team (and I believe eventual #1) in the nation and 3 points to the number 11 team in the nation and you want to rid the University of it’s most successful coach in decades. BRILLIANT!

That’s why “FANS” don’t make decisions….Look what happen to Jacksonville when they dumped Coughlin….Moreover, look what Coughlin accomplished within a few years of being fired from Jacksonville (SUPER BOWL CHAMPION and perennial Contender)

Go ahead and get rid of CMR and be prepared for the mediocrity that follows. If winning the SEC was as easy as getting a new coach, then there would be 11 new coaches in the SEC every year. The fabulous Saban that everyone refers to when denigrating Richt is done for a while. What should Alabama do when they don’t win next year….Fire him

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Saban runs Bama’s D, not Smart. Smart does what Saban tells him is going to be done and he carries it out.

Georgia is about to turn the corner and be back to their winning ways of 10 games plus a season under Richt. Support the young guys, the prize recruits while they are getting their feet wet. Be great fans, not fans that put too much pressure on and tear the program down instead of supporting it and the young guys. UGA could have won Saturday and that is great to see. They were favored to lose. Heck over half of S.C.’s points were gifts from our offense and a fake punt when you include the fumble on the exchange that left them at about the 10. Add in the missed chip shot field goal and it was STILL a tie game. UGA could have DESTROYED THEM! Before this season is over they will be destroying some SEC opponents! Bank on that!

You know why they made so many mistakes? Trying SO HARD BECAUSE OF THE PRESSURE PUT ON BY A BUNCH OF SORRY IMPATIENT FANS WHO NEVER WENT TO UGA!

Richt is not going anywhere if McGarrity has the wisdom and mental toughness that it appears he does. Nor does Richt need to go anywhere. The team is being rebuilt and WITH no returning running backs, significant injuries and players no longer on the team for whatever reason, to several positions and a bunch of new guys. UGA is going to be fine. How soon depends on how soon you fans start giving your support instead of impatience and hatred and plain criticism.

The players have already stated the pressure is getting to them and you are their fans?! Give them a break OK? The heat on Richt is stressing the players. They CAME to UGA to play for him and played one game against a top 5 team and then one against a top 12 team and you people are relentless and just plain wrong. You will see. All of you when UGA finishes this season STRONG and start out next year STRONG and instead of the underdog in the first 2 games, will be the FAVORITE IN THE FIRST 2 GAMES!

Go Dawgs! We believe in you coach!

The team is going in the right direction and improving and will be very good by the end of this season just like you said. You know much more than all of these beer drinking rednecks! Why do people listen to their rants?

Chill everybody. Everything is going to be OK Dawg Fans! In 2 weeks these young guys will have 2 wins under their belt. How good do you think Crowell, Mitchell, Jones, Jenkins, Lee, ETC are going to be by the end of the season? We havent even seen Drew yet. Man the future looks promising! You guys should be optimistic! These recruits would not even be here if not for Richt, not most of them especially the best ones. They will play hard for him and they are great players. Everything is on the right track….

Get on board!

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BOBBY
Tennessee got rid of their highly successful coach because of a few down years due to rebuilding and just plain bad luck, ESPN Talking Heads and disgruntled fans like you, Bozo, and look where they are several years later. No closer to success than the day they fired Phillip Fulmer. Alabama isn’t going to be anywhere near UGA’s program by the end of this year and next year most of you Ghost Turds calling for Richts head will disappear. No one will ever recall being part of these shinanigans….except the players and future prospects. That’s okay though you keep pushin’ that broom.

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bob
What are you……twelve? When you grow up you’ll understand how I know what I know,

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@ tide roll…go jump in a hole some where!

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we keep playing like we did aganist south carolina we will win 8 or 9 out of our remaning 10 games. not saying that it’s good enough, but get behind this team and lets see what happens.we stiil have all year! keep getting better and go dawgs!

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Win 8 or 9 of the remaining games ? Who are you allowing them to lose to, for Heaven’s sake ? We don’t play a top team the entire remaining of the schedule, and you know it.

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I have never seen 3 turnovers become TDs in one game in 60 years of watching UGA football. This was just like being hit by lightning. More troubling is the continued poor play calling. UGA had it 3rd and 1 in the red zone. Why not load up in the I hand the ball to Samuels or Crowell with Figgins leading the way? Bobo decides to throw and it was broken up. Then a botched field goal. When you get in the red zone 3 times and get 6 points, that is not good. Also why didn’t Grantham make sure someone stayed home on punts to prevent what happened?

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I think Boykin is a good player, but he mailed it in on the fake punt TD. He had a clear shot to stop him about the 35 or so and not being blocked, he just kinda half heartly (sp) reached for him with no effort. That has been our DB’s mind set for a while. I think the guys really tried to win this game, but the coaching and discipline and depth , and maybe talent is just not there to beat a ranked team.

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My brother said it best when he said, “Take away Hershel and Georgia is Kentucky in Football”.

That being said, we hope Richt gets a lifetime contract.

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legionaire I agree with most of you comments except for the play calling. Bobo hung 42 on a good defense.

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““Take away Hershel and Georgia is Kentucky in Football”.”
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So I don’t know if it is your brother or you who is the mental midget in your family, but I was unaware of Kentucky stellar records of:

12 SEC Titles (including 9 without Herschel) That’s right TWELVE!

And don’t forget 46 bowl games

Including 15 Major Bowls

And don’t forget to remind your idiot brother that UGA has still won more BCS Bowl games than the entire ACC.

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We lost but I can find absolutely no fault with the coaches for this game

We scored 42 points
The defense played really well and only had one bad penalty all day

We made mistakes and like always, turnovers decide big games.

I hope against hope that Richt will get to finish out the year and be judged on the entire body of work.

Why can’t we pull a VT from 2010 and in the rest? We can. A lot of the haters will say no way.

I was proud of the effort the kids gave. If we had rolled over and played dead and lost by 30, I would say fire him today. We didn’t. We fought like crazy.

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I believe there’s a 0% chance Richt gets canned before the season is over. We should be underdogs (slight) in only a couple of games left, so it’s possible for a special run. I hope so, but until I see Murray win a big game, one against a winning team, I’m gonna have my doubts.

JB was right that Boykin didn’t appear to want to hit the ball carrier on the fake punt. Otherwise, Boykin did have a great game, making plays all over the field – sacks, tackles behind the line and downfield, etc.

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Know who really let us down? Ealey and King. With some depth at TB, Samuel would be at ILB where he’s better suited and where we really need him right now.

I say put Samuel back on defense and take our chances with Crowell playing most of the game.

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“Stop trying to recruit only blacks to play football”

I thought we were now “post racial”. In my entire 40plus year life, I have never seen as much racial tension from both whites and blacks as I have this last year. WTF is going on?

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Playcalling was actually a strength in this one. Turnovers doomed us. Would’ve liked to have been prepared for the fake punt. We needed one more block from the OL. And we needed one more stop from the defense — I think we have depth issues there. But you can’t expect to win when you turn the ball over that many times.

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Dawginlex, I agree completely. I thought the play calling for the first time in recent memory was really good. Especially their attempts to get Crowell the ball in some space and not just run him up the middle. Even Samuel was running with a purpose and the line game both backs some holes to work with. The defense (the 4-yard run after the fumble recover aside), really only gave up 17 points with the rest coming off turnovers and a fake punt (this one is a little forgiving too since as mentioned on here earlier, Boykin, a member of the D, should have made a play). Murray will get it together, too much talent not to. He is a Soph. and I hope he gets mature in time for Richt to see this through.

As for a VT type run, it can certainly happen. I felt like if they won Saturday, a 2 loss season was more than realistic. As it stands, I still see only a 3 loss season being realistic. They hung 42 points on a team with very good front 7 and ran the ball well in the process.

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It is sad to watch the trolls (bob, thomas brown, 82nd, and the list goes on…) from other schools try and bash our team. The fact is that yes we did have turnovers, but the team played great – and no one can fault the defense on this one…but wait, how the trolls’ school fared against SC or BSU? I don’t see Tech beating Georgia Southern, much less BSU or SC…

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I am proud of the way this team came out and played Saturday. SC has one of the best D’s in the conference and IC ran for 118 and we put up 42 points. But for a couple of bad plays by our QB we win.

I was worried as to how the team would respond to the loss last week. I think they play a damn good game. We didn’t have the benefit of playing a couple of soft teams to get tuned up for SEC play. That would have been nice. No we started against two top 11 teams and did okay in the first game and got a lot better for the second. Winning out is possible and I think this team can do that with what I saw Saturday. Hold your heads high and Go Dawgs!

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Thank you Support for a sensible comment on here. Preach on and Go Dawgs!!

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The loss of CR is hugh, the he and Commings are our only sure tacklers past the line of scrimmage. And those two fat nose tackles have produced only ONE tackle in two games——————-pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeze. The offense looked better, but Murray needs to learn to throw it away or just take a sack—–he is going to get kill trying to run out of trouble.
Designed running plays him are ok, at least he has some blockers helping him.

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You don’t pat yourself on the back just because you stayed close in the gamne. We lost, have been losing and that is not UGA football. We have the talent to play with anyone in the country. You can’t say this is a well coached team when you turn the ball over 4 times. You can’t say this is a well coached team when the D is giving up 40 points a game.

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The D did ok…. but when we needed them to make big stops they didn’t.

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Restore UGA

September 12th, 2011
9:43 am

You are absolutely right, if no backup QB plays in the up coming blow of Coastal, it will be another example
of Richt not preparing the team properly. The dawgs are one big hit away from having a QB that has never taken a snap.

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although i am not a big bulldog fan I gotta say if they tighten up their play they could win their remaining games. the talent is there. cut out the turn overs, just play the game and the wins will come.

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how does Orlson charge go the whole game without a catch? Play calling

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Does it make sense that we scored 42 points and STILL lost the game. You folks that say you thought the defense played well……hello, they gave up 45 points. What is considered playing not so well, giving up maybe 150 points? We DO NOT have the personnel to run a 3-4 defense. Change the defense or keep getting you butt whipped every time you play a decent team.

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from what?, when you have 15 true freshmen playing, that is a serious rebuilding year.

Say what you will, but with this many talented young men getting playing time, UGA – if we have good play calling – will be a beast the next 2 to 3 years.

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Sea Dawg, 7 -fake punt, 7 int return (Murray), 7 fumble return (Murray), very short field after fumble return (Murray making poor hand-off) 7

28 points that the D was not responsible for! Imagine if we had driven and scored on half or all of those!? We could have easily beaten SC by 40 points Saturday. Spurrier knows it and felt damn lucky to get out of our junk yard.

BTW, sorry to bang on Murray, but even though he had some great plays, he really had some bad ones.

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Restore- I want to believe,but Ive been hearing next 2 to 3 years sense our last SEC Championship!!

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IS Boo Malcom not ready ………….again?? Groin must not be healing. If HE could play, them Samuel could move back to LB, allowing Boo and Crowell to rotate, supplemented by Carlton and his cousin.

UGA is in a deep hole and we need to fire all of the coaches and start fresh. THIS SEASON is a wrap.

Go Dogs.

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Bobo averages more points per game than Richt did as the play caller. Until we find a defense we will continue to be average.

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Okay, lets evaluate the decision making that cost us the game: Ball on our own 20, almost 5 minutes left to go. Put Murray in the shotgun with one back (which should tell the D that there is a 80% probability he is passing given the playcalling up to this point). That should send a rush with the highest recruited defensive player in the country after Murray, and our highly coached but inexperienced offensive line should be able to stop him, resulting in a nice 15-20 yard pass completion! Welcome to Dreamland, where wishful thinking and earnest prayers are expected to carry us every time. Obviously at this point in the game a smart coach would have chosen to pound it out with Crowell until we got to the 50 yard line, eating up the clock until we mixed some passes in. But hey, I haven’t been caoching for 25 years like CMR, what do I know? Listen up McGarity – one more loss this year and CMR must go.

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It is fans like Bill Arp that keep losers like Saint Mark Wretch in charge despite failures piled on top of failures. Sigh.

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@ USC81,

You are correct. SC got it done when it counted. Enjoy your time in the sun, but don’t think for a minute that this recent trend in the UGA-USC series will continue for long.

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Turnovers ugghhh! Murray has to know you cant make every play! I thought as a freshman he made better decisions with the ball than what I have seen so far this year. Learn to live another down

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Edumacated. I don’t claim that we will be able to sustain recent history. I do claim that the days of GA assuming a victory the second game of the year are over for a long while. Maybe for good.

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By the way. USC playing well should be something UGA fans appreciate. It makes the football season oh so much more fun, so much earlier in the year. Also, Tenn and Fla. have to contend with us too. Glass half full guys – come on.

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BOBO…remove these plays from your playbook!!

No more toss sweeps with a Power Back!

When you’re RB is hot…dont pull him on key, big drives. Crowell was eating up yards in the first and second qtrs. Then you’d pull him out when he’s hot..and put in Samuel. Changed the whole dynamic of the drive, hence we settle for a FG.

Some big catches by your WRs saved your butt on several occassions….with a few of your playcalls.

Last drive of the game, 3 mins left…3 timeouts….you have a stud running back (banged up a lil, but still running well)…1st and 10..and then you go directly into play action pass. RUN THE DAMN BALL out of the “I” formation. We were running the ball very well all game, until you keep pulling the “hot” player..and substituting. Are you nuts?

if you’re gonna run out of the shotgun….put two back in there…who can both fall out into the flats (into space)..and let their speed to some damage (ie. Crowell, Thomas…heck…even boykin).

Need more motion plays!

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Oh my apologies Shelby Foot, we should use your expert prognostication then. Especially from someone who thinks we have been rebuilding for 30 straight years despite six 10-win seasons and two SEC championships since 2002. That’s why your “rebuilding season part 30″ crap didn’t make sense.

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@Tampa, Yes, I watched the game, and if that is what you call a good coaching job, then you do not know what one is. They did make some good play calls, so I think that Booboo was not calling the plays. Lack of coaching again produced a very undisclipined team, a trademark of recent MR coached teams. BVotton line s that trhey should have won, but did not make the plays and got beat again … the 2d loss to my 7-5 season that would be a GREAT season. Next L comes when Missy St. comes to town on Oct. 1.

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September 12th, 2011
10:57 am

the rest of the season is ” BEAT UF OR BUST “
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Can’t say I disagree there too much. I do think the SEC East is still possible, even Spurrier noted that before the game that the loser of the game still has a real shot. CMR either has to beat UF or get to the SEC title game to spare the season. Both would be preferable.

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Dan Mullen is the answer?

After LSU whips them, he will be 0-2 in the SEC.

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imagine chuckie’s intensity tho, something rikcht lacks, of course, that huggie he put on bennett was real sweet

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i am tired of hearing about playing a walkon at ilb. has anybody ever heard of nate taylor a small walk on lb who stared on the 1980 team. if they can play it doesnt matter how they get there.

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Richt is the guy this year let’s let the season play out and then call for his head if you feel so inclined. Geez this negativity isn’t helping one bit…besides it is pretty obvious McGarity isn’t listening this early. So…STFU and Go Dawgs!!!

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Gruden does have some intensity but at what price? Plus, is he willing to play the recruiting game and play it by the rules? There are so many unknowns with someone like him in the college game, but many negative knowns in his coaching process. Sure, he could have changed by now, but he’s been a media guy since leaving Tampa and I can’t imagine with as many dismal NFL coaches out there that if he were a hot item, he wouldn’t already have a gig.

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I wonder if this development will cause Mr Robinson to get more or fewer rude tweets from the bulldawg “faithful”

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I was at the Boise State game and UGA looked TERRIBLE. They were totally clueless and had no passion as a team about the big game on the national stage.

I tuned in this past Saturday for the USCe game, and UGA looked totally different and actually excited to play. They really had a lot of costly turnovers that killed the game for them.

I think if they give Crowell 25+ carries a game, then use the play action pass from the I formation, then we could be deadly with MM and OC at receiver. Crowell is the real deal, as everyone has advertised. Now we must make him our impact player.

Maybe Samuels should be moved to linebacker, and we rotate Isiah and Boo at running back. But Isiah would get most of the carries.

If Richt loses to Tennessee, and Florida then I think he is toast but let’s just see what will happen over the next 5 games. Im not calling for Dan Mullen but it sure makes me wonder what he could do with this offense with players like Crowell and Mitchell in that spread offense. It would be like having Percy Harvin at UGA !!!

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I knew we were doomed when it was announced that this was Penn Wagers’ officiating crew.

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I thought Justin Scott-Wesley was being redshirted and he is a WR, not a RB.

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David, did you watch the same UGA team that ANYONE else did? The defense at best gave up 24 points and that’s if you tack on the fake punt to the defensive totals. Sounds like you didn’t watch the game but just read some stats. USCe scored off a fumble recovery, a pick six, and a 4 yard drive setup by another fumble recovery down to the UGA 4.

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DJ, David is a stats reader or scoreboard watcher at best. Bacarri Rambo showed me something also. The guy came back from a suspension ready to play and he made plays. The only big defensive concerns I have are why the NTs aren’t holding up to smaller O-lines in the 3-4 and the LB situation is a touchy one.

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uga will /should win out until auburn game, that game will be big

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Here is what I fear will happen as a Gator; 1st of all I go to every home UGA game and a few road games including Jax and root for the Dawgs in every game but UF. I am fearful that if Richt stays that he will go to LeMay and Crowell and that will give him a very similar offense to what he had at FSU with Charlie Ward and Warrick Dunn and folks I don’t have to tell you what Ward and Dunn did to UF and everyone else in the country.

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No, that was an interference call.

The onside kick-off, our kicker came up the line and stopped to get the right angle to kick it to the guy, who stepped on the line and slightly beyond the line with half his foot, and then the kicker kicked it.

This, of course, is not where the game was lost.

But, if the defense gave up specifically 17, which is what they actually did give up.
The offense scored 45 and gave up 21, which is 21 points for the offense, clearly on the balance.
The special teams scored 6 and gave up 7.

Be consistent folks.

The game was LOST because of the OFFENSE.

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There you go….our so called team Leader…and all SEC….continues to lose games for us…..last yeave vs floriduh and now he is directly responsible for 21 of SC points…….not impressive to me…maybe we should open up the QB spot for competition

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why did we lose, then, 1eyedJack ?

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1eyedJack _ I can read I doubt you have ever been to Athens on a weekday. You did say when you saw the crew you knew you were doomed. Does that not imply officiating would go against you causing a loss ? I can read as well as understand what is being written. Do you know what 0-2 means ?

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Fellow Dawgs we showed improvement overall last week but there were still way too many mental mistakes due to lack of focus at times. This stuff of not rushing the kicker has bite us in the derier again. This happens every year it seems that some team see us do this token rush on punting situations and takes off. This was one of four plays that cost us the game, instead of being 1-1 and more importantly 1-0 in the SEC East we are 0-2 and looking at another losing season because this coaching staff does not pay attention to the finer points and allows players to loose focus, take plays off and still play. As I stated in another blog # 83 would be on the bench I don’t care about how talented he is, because he doesn’t seem to get it that you have to pay attention to what the other team is doing offensively. In watching his play the last 2 weeks he has been not only a non factor in stopping the other team but a liability to us. He was out of position on so many plays where he took himself out and got caught inside, it is not funny. If I can see this then whoever is watching on the coaching staff should see this as well and make the necessary changes. Anyway we should beat Coastal Carolina but Ole Miss is not a gimme.

Go Dawgs

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Richard Samuel is a fine athlete BUT he needs to play LB right now. We can utilize what is left in our backfield with Ken Malcom and Crowell and Carlton Thomas and his cousin Hartley. We also can utilize Zander O as a quick footed FB and that could help UGA. Allow Figgins to lead block. Duh !!

I do agree that Wesly-Scott is very decent and fassssssssssssssssssssst and can play as a situational scat back,, so put him in there. His balls skills supposedly are excellent. Use him now.

RICHT NEEDS TO UNDERSTAND THAT 9-3 IS HIS BEST SHOT NOW AND THAT HAD BETTER INCLUDE A DEFEAT OF FLORIDA AND A SHOT AT THE SEC EAST OR IT IS OVER FOR HIM AND BOOBOO.

UGA
CLASS OF 71 & 73

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0-2 ?

I know what 0-2 means.

We have averaged the # 7 recruiting class for 11 years, avg of both Scout.com & Rivals.

We are 13-13 vs the last 26 SEC East teams.

We are 14-14 vs all teams, overall.

Our QB is not six feet tall, and he has 10 interceptions in 15 games and he has 12 fumbles. Of the 20 fumbles last season, 9 are Aaron Murray. Of the 6 fumbles this year (to-date and counting) 3 are Aaron Murray’s. Even Mark Richt said he 100 percent is certain that the fumble was caused by and for everyone to BLAME Aaron Murray only (hobbled.) He is sacked more than any QB, cannot see over the line, is SLOW at 4.72 speed, slower than SEC DL as you saw, is small, averages 1 yard per run, is NOT dual-threat anything, is a poor leader, will have been on campus 4 years in a few weeks from now, calls his own number every play, checks off at the line to himself, keeps the call called in from the booth-sideline to him if it is his number called, and oh by the way, has a TWEET on his nationwide Twitter Account this morning that reads he is going to the Georgia Dome now to whoop some a**. Did I mention he is 6-9, with 6 wins over nobody, and 9 losses only 7 of whom finish in the AP Poll Top 25. 9 games to-date where head-to-head on the field that day vs each other, the opposing QB was BETTER than he. One guy above asked did we hear USC asking that their QB be benched ? I’m sorry, I was not aware that Garcia threw and interception and had 3 fumbles, like Aaron Murray – was I at the wrong stadium ? I thought I remembered leaving the Ga Dome.

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Wow, Robinson was looking real good out there.

I know you can never be sure of what you see on TV due to the compressed angles and everything, but that open-field shoe-string whiff of an attempted tackle by Boykin on Ingram was probably the most gutless play I’ve ever seen on a football field. In the open field like that it’s just inconceivable Boykin fails to get his body on Ingram, and all he needed to do was slow him up.

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Play Lemay now and here is what happens

Hutson Mason transfers
Murray laughs as we go 5-7.
He then transfers at year end

Lemay is not ready to play now. I saw him at Fan Day and NEWSFLASH, he is shorter than Murray and not nearly as muscled.

We have a shot to win the rest of our games with Murray, not so with Lemay.

You are a coach fighting for his job.

Who do you play?

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Thomas Brown, we lost because we turned the ball over 3 times. Simple as that.

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The player that should be our starting qb is now at LSU

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What is lesser about last year’s team than this one ?

We had 26 players this time last year on the team, who have been kicked-off the team, you said “addition by subtraction” sir.

We had AJ Green

We had another NFL player now who last year accounted for every SACK.

We had 2 real running backs who could have spelled Isaiah Crowell and who by the way, knew how to block since the OL did not for them, or for pass plays. Steller players on the roster last year who played the OL, are also GONE.

Another WR who caught passes, is gone.

Lesser team last year. Based on what ?

Last year, you told me that 2009 was an abberation at 8-5, and that 2010 was NC.

This Summer you promised me the # 1 QB in The SEC with Aaron Murray. He is in fact # 12 on the field and as a leader and off-the-field, he is the dead last worst as well. I cannot imagine prior to the Boise State game, that he would be so immature after nearly 4 years on our campus now to have sent a public Tweet that he was going to go whoop some Boise State a**.

Saturday, he fumbled one snap and was LUCKY enough to land on it.

He fumbled another Mark Richt said because he was hobbled, and did not put the ball into Isaiah Crowell returned to the 3-yard line and 1 play later a TD.

He threw an interception that was a PICK-6.

He got thrown the turf by a faster SEC DL than he is who is twice his size, like a rag doll, and coughed up the ball and never did get up to chase the 3 over-sized DL who lumbered their way into the end-zone to send the fans home with 2 score lead just prior to the end of the game.

If anything, this team is less than last year because of Aaron Murray. Last year, he was our best player. This year, he is the reason why we lost both games.

Did you get that ?

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Ken – That link says it all. Even the artical calls for Ga fans not to be so delusional.

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Dawginlex, I always thought of you as being one of the more intelligent of the puppy dog bloggers, but after your last comment, I now wonder. Of course they have a chance to win the rest of their games, but you know what…. so does Kentucky and Vandy. You have to be realistic however, and reality suggests that Missy State, Florida, and Auburn WILL beat the dawgs, and Tennessee has a very good chance to win also. And do not sleep on the North Avenue Trade School. CPJ has a better team than most people think, and that might be a hard game to win. I have been saying for months now, and I will repeat… consider a 7-5 record a GREAT season, go to your minor bowl, and repeat the saying that Uga fans have been repeating for the last 30 years “Wait till next year”

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Joemac

there is no one left on our schedule that you look at the game and say “that’s a sure loss”.

There are several teams that could beat us.

That will determine Richt’s coachingm future

The stuff about Murray is garbage. We have no other QB on campus who could have gone 11 for 11 after throwing the pick6 and we ahve no other QB on campus who can throw that last TD to King.

He made mistakes. He is human. That’s why we lost.

They fought like crazy and lost. The coaching staff didn’t give up and neither did the kids.

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1. Liar, Mark Richt said Aaron Murray did not put the ball in there to Isaiah Crowell, and he further said that it was NOT Crowell’s fault. If you are going to correct, at least be correct.
2. The size of the QB is the size of the QB. What I saw Saturday was he was picked up and slammed to the turf like a rag doll.
3.Agreed Matthew Stafford was an is horrible on interceptions and fumbles. I said that every day for the 3 years he was here. Where were you, and how does that mitigate the fact that you said that Aaron Murray LOST the game for UGA with his 3 fumbles and interception for 21 points subtracted from what he did. In fact, Aaron Murray said that too.
4.2008 is year 1, 2009 he redshirted after having been here December 2008 practicing with the bowl team and enrolled early. 2010 he went 6-7 requiring us to go all the way back to 1953 to find an UGA team who lost more games than he 2010. 2011 is now. Let’s see 2008 2009 2010 2011 four.

You have not got 1 right yet. Game over.

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@JJ, yeah we should have kept a QB who pleaded guilty to 2 counts of sexual battery. Comical at best.

@Dogs S .. again, you crack on UGA, but apparently don’t want to let the blog community know who your team is. As a troll, that is pretty funny. And no, UT beating up Montana and Cincinnati hardly proves they are better than last year. You’re more of our comic relief on here dude. Lots of cracks without the facts.

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AJC why does every article have to be a BLOG? Your team is clearly learning on the job and have no idea what you are doing. How do you keep your positions with this type of journalism? 90% of you the bloggers are trolls and the ones who claim to be UGA fans are not. You are a JOKE! This company likes to swim in a cess pool of negative hatred! Every one of you should be FIRED!!!!!!!!!!!! There are blog articles and then there are informative articles. Not at the AJC they like to let trolls spew there hatred all over them.

GROW UP AJC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Fire Coach Mark Rich today! Really nothing to discuss.

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This is clearly an injury report! You are going to let the trolls come out and attack kids that are injuried? REALLY?

SHAME ON THE AJC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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TampaDawg – You’re obviously as stupid as you write. My team is clear. As far as UT oh Ok. You never have stated if you have ever been to Athens on a weekday?

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SHAME ON THE AJC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Don’t understand the support for Richt because the dogs “looked good” in losing……they still lost and are 0-2. Auburn is 2-0 but good very well be 0-2 as well, but winning teams find a way to win, while losing teams find ways to lose…clock management, time out management, FG vs TD management, special teams, time spent on field by both offense and defense,…it all adds up to setting yourself up to win or to lose….and we doing the latter, which is not the fault of the players….

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Wow, they guy with no real reasons for the Aaron Murray bash tells someone else to grow up (despite typing like a 10 year old). Anyway, can’t blame Murray for 2009 scooter. And by just throwing out the loss to a team as proving that the other team’s QB is better is not only ignorant but it again proves that your football knowledge is minimal at best. Try again.

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Dogs Smell, I think you and I are done with this rant. You haven’t made a point yet. You take personal shots at people talking about how they write and not being able to read.. You come on here just to take shots at the team the blog is about but assume everyone knows who your team is (I can guess either UF or GT, but UF? Well, lately their fans on here have been much more classy than that). We will just continue to let you and your little brother Thomas Brown on here keep posting, and we will keep laughing.

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Richt is terrible with his roster management!!! He signs one good player and signs that players best friend in order to get the good player. Try greyshirts Mark because everyone your punk Rodney Garner signs will not make it.

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Let me remind some of you geniuses out there calling for Mark Richts head:

What we got 10 years ago, after a couple of longwinded failed attempts at aquiring a worthy head coach, is an untested offensive coordinator out of FLA ST that managed to win two SEC Championships and compete for a few more in addition to taking us to the brink of a National Championship.
Along the way he….by his own admission…. made some mistakes. Like the defensive coordinator change after losing Van Gorder, which was a biggie. There were other factors in his recent inefficiency like a less than adequate Athletic Director….the university saw fit to Fire Dooley….remember? And replaced him with a philandering drunk that didn’t provide much support. And his wife’s battle with cancer…if you don’t think that will effect a man’s focus…you need to walk a mile in those shoes (God Forbid).

SO WHAT! ………Those aren’t excuses…they are lessons and a man grows from them. He is a better football coach for it. Richt is and always has been a top notch football coach…he didn’t suddenly become inept. Bowden won Championships with him and we won Championships with. He will go on winning Championships whether its with UGA or some other school. So be careful what you wish for….cause if you push hard enough it just might become reality. Then what? Another round of “will the real Bulldog Coach please stand up”? We could get extremely lucky and land a good one the first time or it could destroy the program for years cause no sane coach would want a job where the fans turn a coach that just took them to wonderland for 6 years and had a down swing during a rebuilding phase.

These guys lose by 14 points to the number 4 team (and I believe eventual #1) in the nation and 3 points to the number 11 team in the nation and you want to rid the University of it’s most successful coach in decades. BRILLIANT! Did any of you really think this young team would step off the bus in August and be streamlined with no kinks ready for a run at the National Championship. That will happen next year or with a little help from some other teams possibly this year…remember LSU? By the end of the year, this team will be the class of the SEC

That’s why “FANS” don’t make decisions….Look what happen to Jacksonville when they dumped Coughlin, mainly due to the negative Fan Support and call for his head during a rebuilding stretch that brought more than the accustomed number of losses….Moreover, look what Coughlin accomplished within a few years of being fired from Jacksonville (SUPER BOWL CHAMPION and perennial Contender) while Del Rio had a few relatively successful seasons with the talent Coughlin had amassed prior to his departure. But Del Rio isn’t near the coach Coughlin was.

And let’s not forget what firing Fulmer did for the Great State of Tennessee.. Fulmer was rebuilding and was close….now they are still rebuilding and will be until their FANS understand the game. How about UGA/TECH FANS. When will you all understand what makes this college sport tick. What you say now will effect not just the players of today, but the players of tomorrow as well and you will only have yourselves to blame.

Go ahead and get rid of CMR and be prepared for the mediocrity that follows. If winning the SEC was as easy as getting a new coach, then there would be 11 new coaches in the SEC every year. The fabulous Saban that everyone refers to when denigrating Richt is done for a while. What should Alabama do when they don’t win next year….Fire him!??

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Hey Charley, I can see that, he’s young but speed is speed. Can’t hurt I guess right? But I just thought I heard that they already decided to red shirt him. Scott-Wesley would be useful if they do decide to move Samuel back to LB.

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Here we go again the UFA fair weather faithful trying to tell a coach who does this for.living how to do his job and they have absolutely no clue. First moving Samuel back to linebacker is stupid. By the time he relearns the position you have both your starters back, and their backups have been perfectly capable replacements. Lack of depth many times just means lack of experience not lack of skill. Second just because a guy is a walk on doesn’t mean he isn’t good enough to play or start. Not all schools are recruited equally. Just ask probowler clay Matthews. Third Samuel should still be starting at tailback. He had a good game also. It seemed like everytime he carried the ball the radio announcers were talking about him moving the pile. I had to listen to the game because I was driving home from preaching out of town. Crowell is still missing assignments. We need the experience to start. Plus a team needs two good backs. Ken malcome is 5th on the depth chart behind a Samuel, crowell, Thomas,and Harton; he may never carry the ball at UGA. Lastly we lost the game because of turnovers. That’s not coaching. They can’t go out there and throw the ball or hold the ball for them the players have to do that themselves. We can’t get outscored 21-3 on turnovers and win. The defense played well we just need to hold on to the ball, and take advantage of turnovers when we get the. So far this year we have 3 ponts off of 4 turnovers. Hold on to the ball and stop the fake punt and UGA dominated SC. Do the math that is about 28 points. Saying we don’t score on any of those it is 42 to 17. Coach Richt clearly out coached one of college footballs greatest coaches. Even spurrior admitted it. The difference is spurriors play makers made plays when they needed to

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OK, Ok, I’ve been chastised for hanging all 45 points on the defense and yes, I’m big enough to admit I was wrong. It’s just my frustration that we rarely put ANY pressure on the opposing QB and get picked apart with the short pass. (Although we sometimes do a better job in deep coverage). I’m still not a fan of the 3-4, and like others on this blog, think we would be much better off running a 4-3.

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How does using the same predictable approach to the game eventually work out? Just ask Lloyd Carr, Bobby Bowden, Phil Fulmer, et al.

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Charlie Hayes @2:11……….That is great post my friend. I do not understand some Dawg fans watching the beginning of the fourth year slide gathering around the fireplace waiting on Santa. He ain’t coming.

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coach Search update………….Mullen ain’t ever had a field as green as Georgia to recruit from and the Florida folks say he was very important to their TWO NATIONAL TITLES in five years. Kirby has NOT HAD A CHANCE to coach ONE game as head coach. He;s been around Saban and knows what it looks and sounds and taste like.Bash Saban all you want to, but he’s running out of room on his hands for rings.

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JB, what is the fourth year slide? 2009, 2010 yes, but this year is two games old. 2008 was a 10 win season.

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First, calling someone a moron (or moran in Charlie Hayes’ example) for sharing an opinion backed by a few facts isn’t cool at all. BIGMIKE makes some great points also.

The Tennesse example is a valid one. Fulmer brings UT from obscurity to a national title, then has some decline for a couple of years and out he goes. Welcome back to obscurity UT!

Changing coaches doesn’t always prove to bring a title. Petrino was brought in and had a big time QB and it got them not much more than what they had (expensive price too).

The Chiczik thing is a bad example because that was more a case of Cam Newton (being brought in after getting kicked out of UF btw) winning than Chiczik coaching.

Saban is just Saban. The guy could flat out coach. Not a fan of his but he is good at what he does. USCe brought in Spurrier and they have yet to have less than 5 losses in a season.

Goff and Donnan took us to absolute mediocrity. I would say Richt has far exceeded that with six 10 win seasons and 2 SEC titles. Let him try to coach through it. It’s not like he has had a string of losing seasons. He has had ONE! The year before was 8-5. Let’s at least let this season play out before the many experts on here pile on to the fire CMR bandwagon.

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Dooley walked into a mess. The roster was in shambles. If Richt leaves UGA, the new guy will at least have something to work with.

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Folks, Ga Bulldogs are on the way to be better than you expect…at least better than GT anyway.
This is not the end of Georgia football traditions man….

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I agree w/ Chuck!! CMR has mismanaged the 85 schollies horribly!! CMR gets a “D-” on managing the 85 limit!! A “F” so far on 2012 in-state commitments; a “F” on keeping inferior coaches; a “F” on in-game mistakes; what the heck is going on there??? Just “Win, Baby, Win”!!! “You Snooze, You Lose”!!!

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Insider, I don’t think Peterson would come and I don’t think he’ll get a call. If he leaves, look for a Pac 10 upgrade for him like UCLA for 4 mil per year. I don’t think he wants anything to do with southern football.

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lol JB .. Still pulling for CMR to pull this through, but Cowher would be fun to watch over there. He already looks like UGA. I don’t think too many of the former NFL guys would want to go to the college level just from the angle of having to recruit talent.

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If it weren’t for the fumbles, interceptions and missed blocks, we would have beaten South Carolina.

How can you blame any of that on the coaches or the players? That’s just the way the football bounces.

As for the first game, I don’t think anyone could beat Boise State — they’re just that good. We can’t afford to fire our coach while we’re right on the verge of greatness. Have some patience people! We can still go 10 and 2!

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If it weren’t for the fumbles, interceptions and missed blocks, we would have beaten South Carolina.

If Boise had just missed their plane.

If Central Florida had missed their bus last year…

If Florida gets food poisoning every year

If if if if if if if if if if if if if if if

if

ifs and buts were candy and nuts we all would have a merry christmas!

Every year we keep hearing about a top notch recruiting class…….

Every year we hear about expectations of a top 10 program ….

Every year it seems we get a huge let down……

I for one have about grown tired of it…….

At least I know in my heart that next week I will see a score of 70 to 0 in our favor…..right? right?…almost right?

maybe?

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JB,

Peterson was interviewed for the UF opening by McGarity and Foley years ago. I will be honest, I think the Peterson/UGA is a done deal.

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Of course the Refs are always out to get us too. Everyone’s just jealous of us because we have such a nice coach. Our assistant coaches might not be so great, but hey… you can’t blame that on the Head Coach, now can you?

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But isn’t it PetersEn you’re talking about UGA Insider?

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I agree things need to change! But how quickly have we forgotten about the Ray Goff and Jim Donnan days. Firing CMR may not be the best thing!

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My bet is Gus Malzahn

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I really hate to bring this up…but the first 2 or 3 years…didn’t CMR win with Jim Donnan’s recruits?…..Then the next few years are his with the carry overs from the great winning yeras ….and now the last 6 years are all his

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@ DawgInLex.

I agree. Gus Malzahns is one of the best OC’s in the SEC, and was selected by ESPN as one of the best recruiters in the Southeastern Conference.

If / when Greg McGarity decides that Coach Richt has to be replaced, Coach Malzahn would be a wise choice.

He has the credentials I’d prefer if the move has to be made. .. Go Dawgs!

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To all the arm chair coaches and know it alls. You do not fire a coach in the middle of the season in college. It is not the NFL where you can fire a coach in the middle of the season and promote someone as an interim coach. You would never be able to recruit. Espeically with an interim head coach who in all likely hood will be gone in a couple of months.

If McGarity gives Richt the axe ( I do not think it will happen, espcially since Richt has taken over play calling), here is a short list of coaches that will get first looks:

Kirby Smart (not sure if I want him)
Charlie Strong ( Would love to have him having worked within his program and is a possibity)
Bud Foster
Gus Mahlzan
Dan Mullen (notice is Mullen with an EN not IN, for the people who can not spell)

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Note : Tennessee and Kentucky are tied for the eighth spot in wins and losses. Don’t know why smiling faces popped up . Anyway the stats don’t lie and there is no way UGA should be this low with all the highly recruited classes they claimed to have acquired.

Steve Spurrier said it best: ” Georgia seems to get all the top rated recruits, but what happens to ‘em after they get up there nobody seems to know”.

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When is the last time you saw a coach make a tackle or catch a pass? 10-2 aint bad.If you fire CMR it will take time to learn the system and who knows when it’ll get better. You cant win them all

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Sorry Jose, but you can’t hire Malzahn over Mullen or Strong. I dare say it’s much more important to get a defensive guy like Strong or Tuberville. Look at the track record of former DC’s verses former OC’s who take over jobs. Think Bill Parcells and his two assistants, Saban and Bellichik, and go from there.

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Charlie Strong

LOL

He cant even beat FIU

What a joke

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Matthews Dawg with all due respect you are just wrong there is no excuse for players losing focus game after game in crucial situations. That goes to coaching every year it seems we get burnt on fake punts because our guys do not check to make sure the ball was punted. How many times does this have to happen before Coach Richt gets in his assistants face, sits these guys on the bench and/or fires an assistant because he isn’t doing his job in keeping these guys focused. The worst part of it is we don’t even attempt to block or return punts anymore as they usually fair catch them as witnessed on Saturday. When South Carolina did punt on 2 occasions the guy out kicked his coverage and there wasn’t a SC defender within 10 yards and our player fair caught it and it flipped the field on us.

Go Dawgs

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Chris Peterson would probably come to UGA

#1 3 times more money
#2 A real shot at coaching for a championship
#3 Our fanbase puts up with so much mediocrity he would have it made for years especially if he beats Tech and wins the FL game more often

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I would be more shocked by him going to UCLA

No one wins there

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It is obvious preferential treatment has been given to Richt by UGA administrators that was not given to his predecessor, Jim Donnan. Richt, for whatever the reason has been given more than the benefit of the doubt and UGA’s performances over the last 3 going on 4 years are reflective of it. The mediocrity is obvious in the records of 8-5, 6-7, and now a 0-2 start this year. Richt’s 2-8 record versus UGA’s top rival, Florida does not matter and is acceptable with UGA administrators and delusional fans. It’s little wonder that Richt is a mediocre 6-9 in the last 15 games and UGA is a pathetic 14-14 in it’s last 28 outings. This plain and simple is totally unacceptable and only Vanderbilt has a worse record overall than UGA in the SEC over the course of the last two seasons combined with this season. Even when Richt went 10-3 in 2008 that season was considered a major disappointment because of the hype that misled everyone to believing an overrated and undercoached UGA would go undefeated and win championships.

The truth about UGA’s predicament with Richt is he’s trying to run the program from his old 1990s FSU/ACC playbook. Only problem is that was nearly twenty years ago. Richt thinks if you put great talent around a sub par or average QB then that QB’s game will magically elevate to the level of players around him. This is why UGA’s current decline began with over-rated, undersized Joe Cox, (who supposedely never lost a high school game) at qb and continues with average talent, smallish, Adam Murray. The Richt/Bobo braintrust will continue to bring in overhyped, average or below average qbs and and stick with them for an entire season despite the need to take a look at other options. Thus because overrated, undersized Murray was so highly recruited there’s no way he is in danger of being replaced as a starting qb despite how poorly he performs in critically situations. The real reason UGA was competitive against Carolina was the emergence of a running game led by Crowell. The O-line finally responded and created running lanes. The SC game proved UGA must run to win in the SEC and finally exposed the fact that Murray is not that much better than red headed Joe Cox at quarterback. With Adam Murray at qb UGA has yet to defeat a team with a winning record despite all the stats and preseason all SEC hype. He is undersized and needs a lot of one on one coaching from a good qb coach just to basically be a “point guard”or properly distribute the ball to the real playmakers on the offense. But this falls on Richt, because Bobo can’t be an offensive coordinator and qb coach, because he’s simply not that good at either job position. So UGA will continue to live and die as they did against SC, because of a lack of coaching and Richt’s dependency on the God given ability or talent of certain players in key positions. Thus the players are just like the OC, they will learn on their on in gametime conditions and when they come up short as a result of their mistakes it’s okay, because Richt sees their potential for greatness in the future.

There is no way Richt should be retained after the end of this season. But since UGA administrators don’t do their high paying jobs either, hopefully Ohio State or North Carolina will lure the Richt problem off of UGA’s hands. But the scary part is the lazy, empty-headed, fatcat UGA administrators won’t do their jobs again and will probably run out and find someone worse than Richt as head coach. Jim Tressel, Skip Holtz, or Gus Malzahn anyone ?! LOL! The entire program is a joke and universal laughingstock at this point.

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Dadgummit JAWJeDAWG. Do you enjoy the mediocrity ?!

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Let’s start a new head coach wishlist. I think Tommy Tuberville would love to get back in the SEC. He has a great resume and knows how to win in the SEC. UGA desperately needs a proven coach and no more first timer bums or pretenders with no head coaching experience. Skip Holtz is walking in his dad’s footsteps and is building his record for a run at the Notre Dame job so he isn’t serious about coaching in the job killer SEC. Auburn OC, Gus Malzahn has no head coaching experience so would he be much of an upgrade if he came to UGA with the same credentials as Richt. Uh that’s okay, let’s move on. Boise’s Peterson might be waiting on the UCLA job to open at the end of the season so he can stay on the west coast. Dan Mullen has a lot of potential, but why would he come to a such delusional fanbase like Georgia has over the Miss St. fanbase who are thankful for 7,8,or 9 wins per year. He could coach the Maroon Dawgs for life under those expectations. Jim ” the Liar” Tressel would be a perfect fit for the UGa Kook Delusional fanbase that loves drinking head coach kool-aid(lies), but I don’t think the Dawgs are ready for probation associated with body art and making it rain cash to the players. Besides UGA already has enough players who are years overdue for a haircut so you definately don’t want to add a Tressel to that mix.

I give up. I don’t know who could possibly be the next head coach at UGA. One thing is for sure the current guy is definately on his way out. Even former Miami Hurricane coach Randy Shannon went 16-10 (.635) in his last 26 games. And for that record the the UM administration promptly dismissed him after a disappointing loss to USF. Currently at UGA Richt is 14-14 (.500) in UGA’s last 28 games with an extremely disappointing loss to UCF in the Liberty bowl. His 14-14 record places UGA in 11th place out of the 12 SEC teams. So what does this mean ? Apparently the people in charge at the “U” are smarter and more progressive than the people calling shots at UGA when in comes to hiring/firing head football coaches.

Next big game for UGA: Sept.24,2011, The Hotseat Bowl versus Ole Miss in Oxford.

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TampaDawg September 12th, 2011 3:22 pm

“Goff and Donnan took us to absolute mediocrity. I would say Richt has far exceeded that with six 10 win seasons and 2 SEC titles. Let him try to coach through it. It’s not like he has had a string of losing seasons. He has had ONE! The year before was 8-5. Let’s at least let this season play out before the many experts on here pile on to the fire CMR bandwagon.”

TampaDawg September 12th, 2011 4:37 pm

“No bowl birth means no post season money for the school either.”

Ok, so what we have here is, is a RICHT-0-FILE ? Is it fair to admit that, that you want Mark Richt to remain at UGA, no matter what ?

1. You compare Mark Richt to Ray Goff and Jim Donnan. Is this the measure by which you want Mark Richt to remain, what Ray Goff and Jim Donnan, did here ?
2. Would you admit that we added a game after those 2 left, not that I will allow you to measure Mark Richt, compared to Ray Goff and Jim Donnan, that now we play 12 regular season games compared to them playing 11-game regular seasons ?
3. Not sure what 8-5 for 2009 point is; it is not clear; but, from posts after that, you seem to hold only 5-Loss years or worse, against any coach. And, you do so matter what level of competition they lost 5 games or more against.
4. No bowl berth for SEC schools absolutely does not mean no post-season monies for the school. Vandie gets a cut of all our bowl berths. If I need to explain revenue-sharing let me know. You seem perfectly capable of understanding it, without me. This is just an incorrect statement.

Now, let’s back-up and look at the big picture, instead of your view of Mark Richt compared to Ray Goff. Can we do that ?

Mark Richt said he came here because of the talent we have here, that the cupboard is not bare, and because of the recruiting base and that this is 1 of the few schools he would consider, as an unproven assistant coach to be head coach, now given in excess of $3.5 m total compensation annually. Skills such as hiring and firing a football staff, he had no experience at to indicate either way that he would do that well, or not. 11 years TampaDawg, you should have as good a handle on this as could be expected. How has he been doing at this for these 11 years now TampaDawg ?

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2002 there were other teams who had a far more impressive resumme than Mark Richt put up. Agree or Disagree ? LSU in The SEC was far more impressive a resumme than Mark Richt put up. Agree or Disagree ?

Mark Richt in 11 seasons, and I love the guy – always have always will – has played 13 games vs teams who finished that season in the AP Poll Top 10. He has won 3 :

(1) 2001 knocking the lid off the # 11 all-time program in 1-A FBS wins, beat # 4 vols, but he ended the season the # 5 SEC team in the AP Poll and lost 4 games.

(2) 2005 he beat # 6 LSU, but he ended the season the # 3 SEC team in the AP Pioll and lost 3 games.

(3) 2006, this 2006 season was 6 seaons ago now, he beat the # 9 Auburn team; but, he lost 4 games again 2006 including the loss to Vandie a team who won 4 games including the win over Mark Richt.

Please do not give me a load of excuses for all this. You are accomplishing nothing with excuses and comparisons to Ray Goff. I am not in the least scared of who our next coach might be, and I have read every post you ever wrote. If the next coach does, as Mark Richt has done, keeping UGA in the BAD PRESS every single YEAR all 11 years, he will be fired. My $10,000 a year spent supporting this team, these players and his coaching staff, makes it clear that I have some semblance of reality when I tell you plainly TampaDawg that what bothers me most, is not the # 2 Fulmer Cup All-Time Standings – which started in 2006, when from 2001 to 2006 Mark Richt was # 1. And, it has nothing to do with him running off 26 scholarship football players from his # 7 avg of both Rivals and Scout.com all 11 recruiting classes, these 26 I have specifically named in the last year which he ran off.

It has to do with his 3-10 record vs teams who finished that season in the AP Poll Top 10 all 11 years.

I has to do with his 16 losses vs teams who finished that season not in the AP Poll Top 25 all 11 years, although 6 of those 11 made it into the Top 25 barely – but only by beating him.

This is not just only 1 year of 5-Losses and 1 year of 7-losses, which requires us by the way to go back 58 years to find an UGA coach who managed to lose more than he just lost last season.

This is 11 years of losing to the top teams in the nation (AP Poll Top 10 you brag about in every post for Mark Richt) that year at 3-10 and another 16 losses in 11 years vs teams who would not have finished in the AP Poll Top 25 even, had they not beat him that year – and 10 of those 16 still did not, even with their win over him.

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CMR isn’t capable of managing a winning SEC football program. One of the biggest problems is CMR doesn’t even know where he has problems. His OC is well below average and should have been replaced years ago. He didn’t have enough knowledge to replace his DC until forced. His strength and conditioning program has been addressed and is still way below average. Case in point is the first 3 minutes of the second half of the Boise debacle and the 4th quarter of the South Carolina game. UGA was LAST in the conference to hire a nutritionist. LAST. The team still doesn’t have a dedicated building or specific room to be used for their NCAA allowed one special meal a day. The rest of the SEC has such a dining area. Again, the problem isn’t money; its CMR doesn’t even know he needs such a dining room to be competitive. We gave up a touchdown on a fake punt against South Carolina. When is CMR going to figure out we need a special teams coach?

The roster management is horrible. Once again, UGA doesn’t have enough OL on scholarship. How can this keep happening? OL has had 5 of 22 starters for as long as the sport has existed. That means sign 4 to 5 EVERY year. Apparently the entire campus except CMR and the football coaches knew that Caleb King wasn’t going to pass enough classes to be eligible this fall. How could CMR not use one of those 8 extra scholarships on a RB? The same goes for ILB. How can a team with 85 potential scholarships have to resort to having a walk on take the majority of snaps at ILB after ONE injury?

CMR can’t get the concept that recruiting is an every year job. For 2012, UGA currently has two commitments from the ESPN top 20 in Georgia. UGA doesn’t have a commitment from ANY LB or RB. UGA’s recruiting class for 2012 is ranking 31st and that just won’t cut it. Hire Kirby Smart and hope he grows into the position. We already know CMR has grown out of the position.

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Coastal Carolina is tough, they are well coached. Looking bad for the Dawgs. Fire riktched, let TG play interim coach and fire booboo.

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@Dwayne….are you kidding me? Kirby Smart? Don’t fool yourself into thinking that Kirby Smart is the mastermind of the Alabama defense. Saban is probably one of the best defensive minded coaches in college football, and I guarantee he holds the reins. That’s all we need is another ex-UGA player as a head coach.

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