Notebook: Isaiah Crowell’s ribs, Orson Charles on D and Dogs vs. Dogs on FSN
Cleaning out the notebook heading into Ole Miss week. . . .
Crowell’s ribs
Georgia coach Mark Richt indicated that tailback Isaiah Crowell aggravated his injured ribs against Coastal Carolina this past Saturday because he didn’t wear the special rib protection padding sports medicine director Ron Courson laid out for him. Crowell admits he hurt his ribs but that it wasn’t from a hit.
“I didn’t get hit on them this time,” said Crowell, who was initially injured in the first half of the South Carolin game. “I just twisted the wrong way. I hurt the myself, really. So I’ll have to go to treatment and stuff and get them worked on. But I’ll be ready for next week.”
Asked about Crowell in his postgame press conference, Richt said: “He didn’t wear his rib protectors to start the game and he probably should have. That’s what freshmen do. I’m sure he felt good by the end of the week and didn’t feel like he needed them.”
Update: Crowell is expected to wear rib protection for the Ole Miss game.
Orson Charles denied defensive debut
If Orson Charles and Todd Grantham had their way, the junior tight end would have played some defense late in the Coastal Carolina game. Charles somehow convinced the Bulldogs’ defensive coordinator to let him have a crack at that side of the ball should the opportunity arise, which it did in the 59-0 win this past Saturday. But Grantham told him to get an OK from Richt and Charles was summarily denied.
“Before Todd did it, he asked me could he do it, and I said, ‘No.’ There’s no way,” Richt said. “He was mad at me, but I said, ‘Look, Coach Grantham kept his promise to you; I made him break it.’ But Todd was ready and willing and able to put him in there. I said, ‘No way.’”
Dogs vs. Dogs get noon start
The Oct. 1 Georgia-Mississippi State game was picked up by television on Monday and slated for a noon start. It will be broadcast by the Fox Sports Network (FSN).
It will mark Georgia’s first appearance on FSN this season. The Bulldogs have appeared on FSN six times overall and are 4-2 when playing on the network.
Georgia got passed over by Alabama at Florida, Auburn at South Carolina and Arkansas-Texas A&M, all of which are being considered for a CBS 3:30 p.m./8 p.m. doubleheader
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226 comments Add your comment
hotdawg
September 19th, 2011
10:24 pm
First of all I looked a the s. carolina replay and realized aside from the 3tds given up between special teams and offense the fumble picked up by gilmore landed them in the red zone which only leaves two outright. Tds given up by the defense…and people are accusing the defense of giving up 45 points let’s blog sober please but if orson charles can deliver us our first sack of the year please let him break the streak…heck I wouldn’t care if blair walsh made our first sack….I just want one please….and richard samuel I’m not convinced yet….sorry….go dawgs
Alphare
September 19th, 2011
10:41 pm
“Woman aiming at possum shoots friend”.
What’s the likelihood this woman is a dawg fan? 100%
AltamahaDawg
September 19th, 2011
11:05 pm
First sack was in the SC game.
hotdawg
September 19th, 2011
11:30 pm
True….I stand corrected but…one by a lineman or lb would b nice
Tampa Dawg
September 20th, 2011
12:04 am
Enter your comments here
KJ
September 20th, 2011
12:07 am
What’s the likelihood Alphare has never touched a woman he didn’t pay cash for? 100%
Hairy Dawg
September 20th, 2011
12:08 am
I knew the Visor Boy chickens were dumb enough to get caught. They was lucky with refs help to beat Dawgs and now they goning pay for stealing game from us who supposed to owning East.
flo-ri-duh
September 20th, 2011
12:15 am
Bobo is missing a big opportunity. Move Orson Charles to WR and Arthur Lynch to TE. Both are good blockers and receivers and should b3e in the game at the same time. Arthur Lynch is being wasted.
I-DOG
September 20th, 2011
12:40 am
I hope we beat Ole Miss, but just because Nutt is a dead man walking doesn’t mean he won’t outcoach our staff and get a W.
The last lame duck coach we played in their stadium was a guy by the name of Dan Hawkins. He was fired about a month after beating an AJ Green led UGA squad from a school where a winning season is considered a success in a state that produces fewer division one prospects than Stephensen high school alone will this year.
If you don’t think that it is possible that we could lose this Saturday, I give you the CU game last year as exhibit A.
bugsquacher
September 20th, 2011
1:16 am
1-GEORGIA is a combined 0-5 against Top 25 teams in 2010 and 2011
2- GEORGIA has lost 10 of its last 12 against ranked teams. (2-10 record)
3- GEORGIA is now 15-14 in his last 29 games
4-GEORGIA is 6-10 in the past 16 SEC games.
5- GEORGIA is 3-5 in their last 8 games going back to last season
6- GEORGIA has won 1 of it last 4. (and it wasnt a powerhouse we beat today)
Ohio State - not ranked either poll
September 20th, 2011
1:18 am
We played a soft easy schedule last season and out of 13 games, only 5 ended up ranked teams. We beat NONE of them. So far this season, we have played 2 ranked teams and Florida is the only other at # 16 (since Georgia tek at # 25 obviously will NOT be ranked when the season is over, having beat NO ONE either.) that we play this entire season. We have a SOFTER easier schedule 2011 than we had in 2010. Directly, you can attribute both the loss to Boise State and to South Carolina, on never sacking either Quarterback – while they both SACKED our QB until the cows came home. It LOST both games. So, Saturday vs a 1-AA FCS team, and not a good one at that, we cannot sack their QB even 1 time. And, you can’t run in here FAST ENOUGH to make up your EXCUSES for -0- sacks YET AGAIN Saturday. This is NOT a team on the rise, but a team with fans who are EASY. Great job here. Never get put on the spot by the fans. Fail. Promise one thing deliver the opposite and they will HAVE YOUR BACK, not support the program to do better than we have after 1983. You are the problem we have around here
ARdawg
Hairy Dawg
September 20th, 2011
1:24 am
Are you kidding me!
The Buffaloes! They just surprised us when we weren’t very motivated. Nutts team is an S.E.C. game for motivating us. This is the kind of game where Dawgs put Nutts out to pasture.
Nutts is an embarrassment to league after winning first year with Ogeron’s players. Now Nutts can’t win with his own players despite signing 50 a year. The reason is Nutts can’t coach and Arky doing better without Nutts.
SmartNTough
September 20th, 2011
1:58 am
Had Orson been injured while playing “D”, the dawg nation would have expedited it’s calls for somebody’s head.
Ohio State - not ranked either poll
September 20th, 2011
5:27 am
bugsquacher
if you are going to post this every 5 minutes, at least please get is correctly worded :
1-GEORGIA is a combined 0-5 against teams who finished in the AP Poll Top 25 in 2010 and is 0-2 for 2011 against 2 teams who obviously will end in the AP Poll Top 25 this season. There is one remaining hope for a 3rd team this season to end in the AP Poll Top 25 in today # 16 Florida. But, as everyone knows where you are ranked when you play means NOTHING, it is where they finish the season, that does matter and is the only poll ever published for that season.
2- GEORGIA has lost 10 of its last 12 against teams ranked in the AP Poll Top 25 the day they played each other
3- GEORGIA is now 15-14 in Mark Richt and his coaching staff’s last 29 games. All 14 losses were followed closely thereto by Mark Richt and his coaching staff blaming the players. Every time.
4-GEORGIA is 6-10 in the past 16 SEC games. I don’t know what this is. Nor, do I believe it has any relevance compared to the actual facts that UGA is 13-13 vs SEC East teams after 2005 through today.
5- GEORGIA is 3-5 in their last 8 games going back to last season
6- GEORGIA has won 1 of it last 4. (and it wasnt a powerhouse we beat today)
You don’t get the Pollyanna of them riled with incorrect posts. What it is that will rancor them is to tell them the truth. Then, log in the next day outside of work, and see how many have become converts, sir. Further, I believe it is 2 main areas of concern for all of us who love this football program, not necessarily and blindly defending this coach or especially his coaching staff.
(ITEM 1) Mark Richt in his 11 years is 3-10 vs teams who finished the season in the AP Poll Top 10
(ITEM 2) Mark Richt in his 11 years has already 10 losses to teams who did not finish that season in the AP Poll Top 25.
For you see, he NEITHER beats the great teams, nor does he beat the truly lousy teams, either.
Have a great day, sir.
Ohio State - not ranked either poll
September 20th, 2011
6:18 am
Arthur Lynch is just one of the players being wasted.
Mark Richt has averaged the # 7 recruiting class, averaging both Rivals and Scout for all 11 classes, and yet is 13-13 vs SEC East teams after 2005, and has beat only 3 out of 13 teams who finished that season in the AP Poll Top 10 – all 3 of those years he actually did beat a top team in fact, he lost 4 games that season, lost 3 games that season, or lost 4 games that season. He has also lost 10 games the previous 10 years vs teams who did not finish in the AP Poll Top 10. You do not accomplish these LOSSES with THIS TALENT, without significant WASTED TALENT.
Ray Drew. We get him into a meaningless game vs a poor team. In the 2 games he might have assisted us in a meaningful way, he rode the pines. – All USA 1st Team Defense Nationally, PARADE All-America, Top 5 Overall Best Football Player in the United States of America, # 2 Best Player in the entire State of Georgia. 6′ 5″ and 263 lbs. being played at the wrong position. Consensus All-America.
Ken Malcome. 100 meter and 200 meter star on track team. Redshirted last season. Not played, like Ray Drew in any game all season long. Then, we play a weak team, and out we trot him. For 1 play. All America.
T.J. Stripling. All-America. Another player played out of position, just exactly like Ray Drew now too. Not played him at all, then put him in against Coastal Carolina, made a tackle, took him back out. It’s what this “coaching staff” of Mark Richt does.
Mike Thornton. Consensus All-America. Yet, again, played out of position. Redshirted all last season when he most assuredly should have played, obviously. This season relegated to riding the pines because he is not a coach’s favorite. We play favorites, you do know that, don’t you ? Sent to the bench never to see the light of day all this season. Then, we play Coastal Carolina, put him into the game to make 1 tackle, and send him right back to the bench. Are the coaches afraid if they play these guys that we might see how good they are ? That they might actually help ? They certainly could not hurt. Now, can they ?
I am not going to sit here and talk with you about all the players Mark Richt and his “coaching staff” have wasted for 11 years now. I am going to say again that you do not have the # 7 recruiting class on the average every year for 11 years and go out and be 3-10 vs teams who finished that season in the AP Poll Top 10 and 10 more losses to teams who did not even finish in the AP Poll Top 25 without
SQUANDERING TALENT, left and right for 11 years.
Dogs Smell
September 20th, 2011
7:33 am
Reason #1009 to hate dog fans. You whipped Coastal Carolina and now your chest is bowed and you want the SEC to know you’re going to run the table. THere is not a team in the SEC that wouldnt have whipped CC. You played 2 quality teams and your team lost them both. You havent won a quality game in over 2 years. Keep telling us just how good the dogs are.
Ohio State - not ranked either poll
September 20th, 2011
7:57 am
Or, not.
Now on to your team. When again is it that Georgia tek ever beat anyone ?
The Ghost of Wally Butts
September 20th, 2011
8:04 am
1. Crow-well probably didn’t think he needed any pads playing against a high school team.
2. Any doubts left that these ‘playas’ are running the team instead of the coaches? Look no further than (1) Crow-well ignoring what Dtr of Sports Med designed for him to wear, and (2) Orson Charles’ whinning about not getting to play on both sides of the ball against the high school team.
3. Treating players like your golfing buddy worked for Bobby Bowden – for awhile, but these days, it turns them into ‘playas’ – as shown by 14-14….
4. Maybe Nutt vs. Richt should be re-named the “Hot Seat Bowl”.
PigIron
September 20th, 2011
8:19 am
@I-DOG
September 20th, 2011
12:40 am
I hope we beat Ole Miss, but just because Nutt is a dead man walking doesn’t mean he won’t outcoach our staff and get a W.
You have a point. Nutt has a long history of winning at least one game that he should obviously lose. Only question is whether this game qualifies as an obvious loss for Ole Miss?
Hmmm…
Bo
September 20th, 2011
8:27 am
Another example of leadership on this team. Grantham should have told ChrarlesNo!!!!!!!!!! he’s incharge of the defense but he told himto go see CMR. What is this “grade school?
1eyedJack
September 20th, 2011
9:05 am
Dogs Smell, you want to see some chests bowed out, go take a look at them dorks from North Ave. They’re acting like a barnyard full of Bantam roosters. Multiple rotator cuff injuries from patting themselves on the back.
DawginLex
September 20th, 2011
9:10 am
bulldawg/thomas brown/ohio state not ranked
Now you say 11 years of talent not being used correctly?
Talk about revisionist thinking.
You had a permanent woody for Coach Richt for the first 7 years he was here and now things aren’t going well and you become Mr Genius and tell us that all 11 years were lousy?
What an idiot you are.
You are a prime example of what is wrong with our fanbase, our country and our families.
You sir are a complete embarrassment to the University of Georgia(if you ever went there)
Just STFU and go back to the garbage truck you ride on the back of.
DC
September 20th, 2011
9:19 am
Shouldn’t GT be poking their chest out? they set records last weekend against Kansas…yes it wasn’t… say, “uga”… but it wasn’t coastal carolina either…War Eagle!
1eyedJack
September 20th, 2011
9:25 am
DC, you’re right. They took care of Coastal Carolina the first two weeks. Last week was more along the lines of the Citadel.
BIGDAWG37
September 20th, 2011
9:34 am
My birthday wish: That all the dorks from Tech would pick up their redneck cousins in Tuscaloosa and take a drive down to their cheesy brothers house in Gainesville! AND STAY THE HELL OFF OUR PAGE!!! Nobody cares what you idiots have to say!!! GO DAWGS!!!
HeelsRock&Roll
September 20th, 2011
9:35 am
When booking rooms for next year’s game in Columbia, don’t forget about the Whitney. It’s Triple “R” rated (radically reduced rates), and accepts SCAR cards (Special Carolina Athlete Rates).
Hairy Dawg
September 20th, 2011
9:50 am
SCar is nothing but a bunch of cheaters that is so dumb to get caught off the field but the refs wouldn’t call the holding in the chickens game in Athens. That makes anything Visor Boy’s chickens do illegitimate.
WhopperDawg with fries
September 20th, 2011
9:56 am
37, the same applies to your trolls! Except they probably don’t have a driver’s license; much less a car!
DawgLifer
September 20th, 2011
10:02 am
@Mobile Dawg ” I think he should get a haircut” What in the world does that have to do with football? Sheesh!?!
FDawg
September 20th, 2011
10:17 am
What’s the deal with RB Ken Malcome?
murfdawg
September 20th, 2011
10:49 am
What is breakfast like in the Grove? Will the Ole Miss fans be there after the game? I am going to Oxford for the game and want to experience the full atmosphere of The Grove. any suggestions?
DawginLex
September 20th, 2011
11:10 am
murfdawg
I don’t know how old you are, if you are married or single but 2 words describe the Grove
HOT WOMEN
Mississippi has had a ton of Miss Americas and most of them matriculated through Ole Miss.
I-DOG
September 20th, 2011
11:12 am
Hairy Dawg:
So we weren’t motivitated to play CU last year despite the fact that we were on a 3 game losing streak? Will we be motivated this week? Losing 4 of our last 5 (I don’t count last Saturdsay’s exhibition), one would think we wouldn’t exactly be overconfident for Ole Miss.
I don’t think CU beat us because they surprised us and we weren’t motivated. I can’t explain the reasons why they beat us, but I don’t think it was because we were overconfident coming in off a 3 game losing streak.
AltamahaDawg
September 20th, 2011
11:29 am
In my business I play favorites. The person that I put on any particular job is the the one that I believe to be the best possible choice that I have availible to me at the time given all the circumstanses.
BUZZ
September 20th, 2011
11:29 am
headley lamar
where you been hiding ? I guess after your DREAM teams 0-2 start you were too embarrased to show you HEADY you homer ….uga going to be 1-3 after this week and you will go away again >>>>>THWG !!!!
just a fan
September 20th, 2011
11:38 am
8.27: That’s how many yards Mississippi State running back Vick Ballard has averaged per carry this season. That number ranks him second nationally among players in the top 30 in rushing yards.
dawgie dawg
September 20th, 2011
11:54 am
I dont care that the game is on FSN, i would rather want it to be on FSN at 7. Night games are electric. This is gonna be the first SEC on FSN game not at 7. Why noon?
WhopperDawg with fries
September 20th, 2011
12:12 pm
murfdawg, Lex is absolutely right! But if you’re a usual homer be sure to brush your tooth and tone down the “Georgia is the center of the football universe” thing. Good luck!
Dogs Smell
September 20th, 2011
12:18 pm
SOUTHGADAWG88 ?????????????,
Offense being scary? UGA purchased the W over coastal Carolina ! Problem is you cant keep a DIV 1 score from outscoring you ! Wake the Hell up !
Dogs Smell
September 20th, 2011
12:19 pm
harold – Its supposed to be a cakewalk , just like BSU game problem is your pups arent that good and anything could happen against this team.
Easily Amused
September 20th, 2011
12:29 pm
It might be good strategy for Georgia to lose this game. If Nutt loses this one, then Ole Miss might just fire him before the season is over. If that happens, then they’ll hire Georgia’s new coach out from under us.
Oh well… even if Ole Miss hires Rich Rod, we’d still have a shot at getting Houston Nutt to come to Athens. That would be a step up.
This year blows (again)
September 20th, 2011
12:36 pm
The total lack of discipline continues ad naseum. Nobody is afraid of Richt. If you didn’t follow instructions at Alabama or Florida you would be disciplined. Instead Richt holds him up to a public chastising because he can’t or won’t do anything himself. The postings that say “I wonder if it makes him less mobile or more prone to fumble” are completely missing the point. The point is there is no leadership or respect for leadership. Everyone is making their own decisions instead of it being a team decision. This is a ship without a rudder.
OleMiss is really bad
September 20th, 2011
12:37 pm
Mark my words:
We may not beat UF this year and we may not beat GT this year unless they choke and give us the game again, but we will beat OleMiss by 40+….. They are HORRIBLE and probably are the worst team in the SEC right now…. especially if Vanderbilt throttles you.
Mark my words, this will be a cakewalk.
DawginLex
September 20th, 2011
12:47 pm
chip your filters are way too sensitive
WDE
September 20th, 2011
12:54 pm
@Dogs Smell how many top 25 teams has your bunch played so far this season? We may not be very good ? How would you have any clue how good your bunch is, you’ve played 3 schools 2 of which Coastal would have beaten….we will beat you like rented mules..AGAIN !
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1:02 pm
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WhopperDawg with fries
September 20th, 2011
1:03 pm
Ah yes! The old “rented mule” trick. Why would you abuse government property? You know that’s a felony! Go beat something your more familiar with! But do it in the privacy of your own closet.
WDE
September 20th, 2011
1:11 pm
@WhopperDawg with fries where your from everyone has a mule to rent…but you can’t rent a goat or sheep for love nor money…just do us a favor show up undefeated, that would make your beatdown just that much sweeter…we own you, you know this is true.
Gay Dawg
September 20th, 2011
1:27 pm
I always hear baout how good looking the girls are at Ole Miss but does anyone know anything about the boys? Am I naughty or what?
WDE
September 20th, 2011
1:28 pm
@Gay Dawg nope not naughty merely annoying.