Richt coaches fans on crowd noise; McClendon weighs in on ‘Boo’
Here’s a link to Tuesday’s football notebook and another to my profile of free safety Bacarri Rambo, who played this past Saturday’s game with a heavy heart. It was a busy, newsy day around the Butts-Mehre Building, however, and I couldn’t fit everything in. So following is some stuff that didn’t make the cut for print. Call it “bonus material.” . . .
Georgia coach Mark Richt, playing Mississippi State quarterback Chris Relf, demonstrates exactly when Bulldogs fans should "go berserk." (Photo by Chip Towers)
Richt coaches fans on crowd noise
Georgia coach Mark Richt is counting on the Bulldogs’ fans to be a 12th man against Mississippi State on Saturday. He’s so adamant that they produce crowd noise that he stood up during his opening remarks at his weekly press conference on Tuesday and demonstrated exactly when and how he wanted them to be noisy.
“I want to talk to our fans and educate them a little bit,” Richt said. “We need a lot of crowd noise and I know fans know that. But when teams no huddle [like Mississippi State] and you’re cheering, you might not be cheering at the right time. So I want to try to tell you what we hope happens in the game.”
Standing up, Richt demonstrated how State’s quarterback Chris Relf looks to the sideline for a play call after lining up in the shotgun and starting the cadence.
“When he looks to the sideline,” Richt said, turning to face the side of the room, “that’s the time when we need the fans to go berserk. That’s when they’re going to try to communicate to their line what they’re going to do. We don’t want them to communicate well. We want them to have trouble hearing each other and we want offensive linemen to jump offsides. So, UGA fan base, that’s the time when we want you to go crazy, when he looks to the sideline after he starts his cadence.”
What’s up with Malcome?
There was a lot of rumor and innuendo bouncing around Tuesday about tailback Ken “Boo” Malcome, who didn’t make the trip to Ole Miss and was absent for Tuesday’s practice. Even running backs coach Bryan McClendon heard the scuttlebutt that Malcome was itching to transfer.
“It sort of took me by surprise to be honest with you,” McClendon said. “Every time I’ve talked to him, he’s been happy here and this is definitely the place that he wanted to come to and this is the place where he wants to be. . . . The bottom line is the guys that have been able to come out and perform out there at practice, those are the guys that have been able to play.”
As it turns out, Malcome missed practice because of “some sort of stomach problem,” according to McClendon. But therein lies the problem with Malcome getting playing time.
The 6-foot, 221-pound redshirt freshman from Decatur was expected to step to the forefront this season with Georgia’s attrition at tailback. But since preseason camp opened in August he has fallen behind true freshman Isaiah Crowell, linebacker convert Richard Samuel, junior Carlton Thomas and former walkon Brandon Harton on the depth chart.
“The biggest thing for Ken is he just has to come out there and be able to practice so he can keep progressing,” McClendon said. “Obviously, that’s something that’s sort of held him back last season, this season, this past spring, this past summer. I think he has a bunch of talent. Once he is out there and once he does get better, you’ll see the player that he can become. But he just has to be out there.”
Robinson spotting
All indications are that inside linebacker Christian Robinson will be available to play on Saturday.
To be clear, that’s “available,” not “will play.” But the 6-foot-2, 226-pound “Mike” linebacker was practicing without any obvious limitations on Tuesday, the second day in a row Robinson has been on the field. Robinson has been out since the fourth quarter of the South Carolina game with foot injury. He was a starter and the Bulldogs’ leading tackler in the first two games and is considered the unofficial defensive captain.
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Glass Houses
September 28th, 2011
6:02 pm
georgia’s offensive philosophy is an oxymoron. bobo is the oxy and richt is the moron.
marty from trion
September 28th, 2011
6:14 pm
earl from vidalia is my cousin too. his ideas sometimes don’t work very well. he came up with the “blackout idea” and the “power ranger uniform” idea was his too. he’s tryin to claim credit for the “vampire energy” thing. they don’t all work, but sometimes failure is the best teacher. he’ll hit on something soon. hear he’s floating a plan to get the fans to make alot of noise when miss st is calling their plays during this upcoming game. he’s tricky like that.
TampaDawg
September 28th, 2011
6:18 pm
hey Glass Houses, everyone is entitled to your own opinion. But you’re not entitled to your own facts. You come with none, just calling people names and making speculative claims that EVERYONE with a working brain knows are false. Thanks for playing.
TampaDawg
September 28th, 2011
6:22 pm
And now it seems as though that GT Joe has been thoroughly exposed for his lack of football knowledge. When you call a triple option offense “complex”, there is either a lack of knowledge or a screw loose.
He is still playing that “backup QB” excuse despite the fact that that backup QB in question was Tevin Washington who was certainly not making his first start. Let’s see, GT offense 101 .. do I pitch it or run through the hole? Sooo difficult to learn there. That’s why there is no real QB playing under CPJ. He basically has 3-4 RBs in the backfield on nearly every play.
dawg4ever
September 28th, 2011
6:37 pm
So Tampa, you are basically saying that Bobo is smart? He is the dumbest O.C. in college football, and he is Richt’s boy. Says alot about how complicated it is to run UGA’s offense. Bobo has 2 running plays in his offense, a delayed draw, and off tackle. And he has the most predictable offense in college football. Once inside the redzone, throw a pass in corner of endzone on 1st down, run up the middle on second down, and throw on 3rd down when the entire stadium knows it, and the defense is bringing the house. For any UGA fan to go on a blog and brag about how complex UGA’s offense is, when everyone knows it it the most predictable offense in the SEC shows how much you know about football. Tech runs a high school offense, but UGA has a high school O.C. running it’s offense, so which is better. They both SUCK!!
TampaDawg
September 28th, 2011
7:11 pm
ok, first 4ever, let’s not put words in my mouth. I said UGA runs a pro style offense. That comes from NFL scouts rating UGA’s draft potential players, NOT ME. And if you are smarter than those guys are then you would be too busy scouting players to be on here. Is a pro style offense more complicated than that crap GT runs? Yep, that too is something I said. Nothing more. As I have said before, you can have your own opinion but not your own facts.
Tech forever
September 28th, 2011
7:25 pm
The head coach giving instructions to the fans as to the when they should make the most noise so as to disrupt the play calling of the opposing team speaks negatively about the head coach. If I were on the other team, this would motivate me and the remaining team members to win by a large margin. Winning by playing fair is one thing, called competition, but trying to win by tricks is unacceptable. Whatever respect I had for the head coach was lost forever.
Nashdawg
September 28th, 2011
8:08 pm
I agree Dawg48. If you don’t like the ship jump off. Once again people talking about something they have no idea about.
slydog
September 28th, 2011
8:09 pm
@Tech forever
So, let me get this straight, it’s “fair”, according to your reasoning, for fans to be quiet when a team, especially the visiting opponent, has the ball? And I guess you would expect the same when UGA comes to The Flats this year? So, when did football become the gentlemen sport like tennis or golf?
I’m just wondering how “disrespectful” CMR was to suggest such a thing as fan noise in a stadium….hahahahha
The Monger
September 28th, 2011
8:17 pm
Coaching fans to disrupt opposing teams offensive rythym? Wow! Richt is really desperate……………
and this proves it!!! Game….set…match! See you at your vacation bible school you will be running starting Jan of 2012, coincidently the same month you will be fired as head football coach. Happy trails Pastor Richt…
Ellijay dawgcatcher
September 28th, 2011
8:26 pm
Malcome and Owens leaving?? What is going on in Athens?
Lakedawg
September 28th, 2011
9:15 pm
Ellijay–Whats going on is that players not good enough to crack the top 4 or5 at their position want to transfer to a smaller school where they can get to play. Basically dead wood on the beach. Frees up scholarships for this years class.
Ole East town Dawg could have told you that.
recreation department
September 29th, 2011
7:48 am
Pollyana, Which boys do we get behind again ? Forget about the coaching staff ? Are we to be NOT behind the 27 run-off already for 2011 that this coaching staff we aren’t supposed to discuss gave scholarships to to play this season and now are gone ? What about the ones on the fence ? Do we, say, support Ray Drew ? Do we stop supporting Ray Drew when he too quits for playing only a couple of snaps vs Coastal Carolina and not 1 other play all season long ? Pollyanna, Pollyanna, Pollyanna, you have college football confused with your local recreation department. Yes, where everybody gets playing time and trophies at the end of the year. So in the college ranks if they don’t earn playing time then they don’t get it. I’m sorry if that offends you. So if they need to go somewhere else to get their playing well let em go. So please don’t confuse your playing days (you know those great years as a recreation department hero) with college football. Just saying..
GT Joe
September 29th, 2011
9:56 am
Tampa, when I say our defense is more complex than a pro style offense, it’s because there are so many nuances to master, like timing, mesh points, decision making during plays, blocking schemes, etc.
Pro style hand off left, right, throw it here, there, etc. is NOT complex, and NOT hard to master. Much less thinking involved. Tevin Washington could EASILY run your offense, but maybe his arm isn’t as good as Murrays. It’s a physical thing, not a mental thing.
GT Joe
September 29th, 2011
9:57 am
Meant to say “offense more complex” not defense.
GT Joe
September 29th, 2011
10:01 am
Could murray run our offense? Sure, after thousands of practice reps and hundreds of game reps(which Tevin did NOT have by the time the UGA game rolled around last year).
Martinez stopped our offense? LOL. What year was that? 2008 when we rolled up 500 yards of offense? OR was it 2009 when Nesbitt got hurt and our backup handed you an INT on his first throw? Surely you can’t be thinking of Grantham last year, 512 yards of total offense with a backup QB?
GT Joe
September 29th, 2011
10:03 am
Oh yeah, FYI, we ran the triple option FIVE times against UNC. Please don’t assume that’s the only play we run. Watch a game and learn something. Better yet, listen to someone who knows more about it than you.
Dawg Tired
September 29th, 2011
10:42 am
GT – I think the real problem you’re experiencing here is the fact that this is an article that has ZERO to do with Tech. If you want to discuss Tech football, it would probably make more sense to do so in connection with an article about, well, Tech football. As far as I know, I don’t know you, although I do have several friends who graduated from Tech, and, therefore, I have no reason to think badly about you except for the fact that you seem somewhat obsessive about butting in where you are not deemed to be relevant. Your comments are often indicative of a good understanding of Tech football and what CPJ is doing there. BTW, I like what CPJ is doing and respect the way he does most things. It’s just that those observations are not really appropriate in connection with an article that has ZERO connection to Tech football. As a result, people find the intrusion to be intentionally obnoxious. I must say that based upon your apparent level of intelligence, I would agree because you do not appear to be so stupid that you would somehow think your intrusion is proper.
McDawg
September 29th, 2011
10:57 am
I’m hurt all the time, don’t practice and get tummy aches but i want to play game day
here is the depth chart- lost in all that depth
1) IC
2) samuels, thomas
this kid is a quitter ala W. Ealey
McDawg
September 29th, 2011
10:58 am
Pollyanna is a straight up weirdo
whatacrew
September 29th, 2011
11:23 am
To me, that speaks volumes on how far UGA has fallen as a true football power – when the head coach has to really use the crowd to try to get a leg-up against the opposing team. Wow – I mean come-on – CMR really has to instruct the crowd on when and how to be loud – in hopes that it will cause offensive lineman to jump??? Why doesn’t he concentrate more on coaching his kids how to play to win, rather than the fans.
JR
September 29th, 2011
12:48 pm
He’ll leave UGA and play a couple of years at another place before playing on Sunday. He will be good enough to play in the NFL, but not at Georgia.
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