Dangerous Vanderbilt team awaits Bulldogs in Nashville
Heading over to Georgia for coach Mark Richt’s weekly press conference and player interviews. Let me know if you have some (reasonable) questions for which you’d like to get answers.
We’re at the halfway point of the season so we’re starting to see some trends statistically and otherwise. The Bulldogs are 4-2 overall and tied for the SEC’s Eastern Division lead with a 3-1 record. They lost to the two best teams they played and then won the next four games they were expected to win in relatively comfortable fashion. So I don’t know if we’re sure just yet how good Georgia is.
The rest of the season sets up well for the Dogs. But don’t discount this next game at Vanderbilt. This is no ordinary Commodores team. They have some offensive issues and are unsettled at quarterback. But they feature some playmakers and are stout on defense, and I think we’ve seen in Georgia just how effective that can be.
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Rumor
October 11th, 2011
2:12 pm
Garcia dismissed from USC.
Restore UGA
October 11th, 2011
2:15 pm
Chip Towers
My favorite play was the opening play in 1981.
“1981 Georgia Tech game in Atlanta. It was a 44-7 blowout.
We hit an 80 yard TD pass on our first play of the game. The play was
called “69″, which was a play-action go route and Lindsay Scott just ran
by the Jacket cornerback for an easy score.” – Buck Belue
BurytheBone
October 11th, 2011
2:16 pm
There’s a news flash. Only to be reinstated. What a clASS act of a coach
Restore UGA
October 11th, 2011
2:19 pm
Spanky
We should have beat SC. We gave that one away. rats…
I-DOG
October 11th, 2011
2:20 pm
I wouldn’t call the South Carolina loss bad luck, but I would say that UGA outplayed them in most facets of the game and that Georgia made 3-4 critical mistakes that cost them the game. UGA shot itself in the foot, but it is still an L and South Carolina controls their own destiny.
I think we are better than last year, but we don’t know how much better quite yet. We have beaten 3 flawed teams (I don’t recognize Coastal Carolina as a win). It is better to have beaten Ole Miss, Miss St. and Tenn than to have lost any of those games. All you can do is beat the opponent that you are playing. The defense should give us a chance in just about every game from here on out.
Joey
October 11th, 2011
2:23 pm
1978, freshman Buck Belue enters Tech game with UGA down 20-0.
Key play – Belue to Arnold, 42 yard for TD, then an end around for the 2 point conversion with a minute or two left.
Joey
October 11th, 2011
2:24 pm
Oh UGA won 29-28.
JB
October 11th, 2011
2:27 pm
If not reported yet, Garcia gone at Carolina.
Thomas Brown
October 11th, 2011
2:27 pm
Dangerous Vandie.
I guess that or this, about says it all for where UGA is :
http://cfn.scout.com/2/1115664.html
mark PRICHT
October 11th, 2011
2:42 pm
Favorite game was 1990 at UGA when the mutt fans bood their own QB and team off the field…..and left at halftime
scdawg
October 11th, 2011
2:44 pm
Can we expect to see more complex passing and running schemes coming from the Offense, to be less predictable?
Bama in Atlanta
October 11th, 2011
2:50 pm
@ truedawg
Regarding LSU, first I just hope we have everyone healthy for that game because we’re going to need to shoot with both barrels. I can certainly see this as a low scoring game because both defenses are stingy with yardage. That said, it could easily come down to special teams or the dangerous turnover or the infamous fake punt/field goal or on-side kick.
What bothers me about Bama is that in most games so far we have started slow but made up for it in the second half. Not sure if we can get away with that against the striped cats.
As far as QBs, I’m pleased with the way AJ has stepped up to claim the starting position but he still has some maturing to do. Did you see the TD pass against Vandy when we were on the six yard line and he threw it to the back of the end zone in heavy traffic when he could have just walked it in?!? You could read Saban’s lips saying “Why didn’t you just run it in?” when he came to the sidelines.
I think we would have a better chance against Jarrett Lee rather than Jefferson because we have a tendancy to either rush the outside and leave the middle to scramble or vice versa….so we have a tougher time against a good scrambling QB. Richardson/Lacy need to establish a run game so that it can open up some passing lanes for AJ.
That’s my opinion but looking forward to Nov 5th. I think I may head down to T-Town and set up a defibrillator and Advil stand to add to my son’s college fund!
Nate the Great
October 11th, 2011
2:51 pm
Hey Thomas Brown:
I read the article and I do have to say this about our beginning rankings on defense and where we are ranked now: Don’t most people schedule weak teams to start the season? Can you name anyone who had a tougher first two games? Of the 45 we gave up to USCe, how many were from the USCe offense?
There are three kinds of lies that exist:
1) Lies
2) Damn Lies
3) Statistical Lies
That hater has posted #3 Statistical Lies.
UGA is right on track for where most fans thought they would be from the beginning of the season. We thought we would split the first two, but also thought we would stumble at some other point before the UF game. We didn’t split but we haven’t stumbled against weaker teams. We played down to our opponents the last few years, but we now just play our brand of football.
The only game we played like crap was BSU, and I was disgusted after that game with all the off season chatter. I think the best case would be us playing BSU in a bowl game to see if we really did improve throughout the season or was just an incredibly weak SEC schedule.
PS Who in their right mind is going to call ANY sec schedule weak? Answer: Tech Trolls. Anybody that plays in this conference respects a one loss conference team.
Restore UGA
October 11th, 2011
2:58 pm
ARdawg, duroninmo
Richard Samuel has one of the top 10 longest running Touchdowns in UGA history. I was surprised when I saw that. Put him and Crowell in the backfield so that the D watches Crowell, then run Samuel up the middle or sweeped in the opposite direction.
TampaDawg
October 11th, 2011
3:00 pm
Hey mark pRicht, do you get a bigger W for wins with more yardage? Does a win with 600 total yards (not so much against powerhouse Maryland) count more than one with 350?
MY 2 cents
October 11th, 2011
3:01 pm
Yes, it has been confirmed. Garcia is out at S. Carolina. He tested positive for marijunia and alcohol.
Rock And Roller
October 11th, 2011
3:07 pm
Dawgs will win national title the next 2 years! We win the rest of our games this year and whip Bama in SEC Title Game. WE will whip Tech this year as always under Coach Richt who owns the Jackets.! Dawgs 34 Tech 10.
Restore UGA
October 11th, 2011
3:08 pm
It seems like Aaron Murray would have learned after teh 2nd of the 3 long balls to Tavareous King and thrown a little shorter. He threw like he was throwing to Mitchel who apparently has a little extra burst that he can spare on long balls. King is fast, but he is burning full speed and has nothing extra to be able to reach out or get an extra short jolt of speed.
Murray blew at least the last 2 of those throws, maybe all of them, sense he should know what TK is capable of from practice.
Come on Murray, step up. I wonder if Mason would have missed all those throws?
beanster
October 11th, 2011
3:09 pm
No doubt it is a repost, Reposting. Just keep on copying and pasting like your secretary showed you (remember now, ctrl-c, ctrl-v),
collegeballfan
October 11th, 2011
3:10 pm
“Dangerous Vanderbilt team awaits Bulldogs in Nashville”
Please!!!!!!!!!!!! It will be a slaughter. Georgia by 4 TD’s.
Louie
October 11th, 2011
3:10 pm
Vanderbilt? Dangerous team? Wow, I’ve read it all now.
ARdawg
October 11th, 2011
3:14 pm
Restore UGA
Samuel actually has some unique value as a RB but, as we have witnessed all too often, we maybe aren’t coaching and using players to their strengths. I was at that game against Arkansas when Samuel broke that run. He is an open field runner and he won’t/can’t fake anyone out but with his legs moving to some tempo he will run over them. He he much tougher to drag down in the secondary. If they don’t open him a hole he is useless. I don’t see that as his fault. It’s the kind of runner he is.
TampaDawg
October 11th, 2011
3:14 pm
Hey Reposting, repost your fantasy story somewhere else. Your story holds about as much weight as still believing in Santa Claus. Try this link out:
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities
Yes, UGA on this ranking fell behind GT. But certainly not so much that your story would have any merit to it. And as for the athletes, if GT is so academically minded to only go after the brightest athletes, how come they can’t have higher graduation rates?
ARdawg
October 11th, 2011
3:17 pm
Connor Shaw had a good game last Saturday so the Old Bawl Sack doesn’t need to give Garcia anymore chances. What a nice guy Spurrier has been huh?
TampaDawg
October 11th, 2011
3:17 pm
beanster
October 11th, 2011
3:09 pm
No doubt it is a repost, Reposting. Just keep on copying and pasting like your secretary showed you (remember now, ctrl-c, ctrl-v),
————————–
Guarantee there is no truth to any of that post. When posts come on here talking about UGA being “redneck”, it begs the question as to why. Is it because of the location, Athens, GA? If so, what of any affluent value is located around GT? The Varsity?
AltamahaDawg
October 11th, 2011
3:19 pm
Actually BigGadawg, you can probably count the number of times Bobo has called a run up the middle on 3rd and long on one hand this entire year. About that last year too. So consider it taken care of.
AltamahaDawg
October 11th, 2011
3:20 pm
I wonder who SC is going to hire as a head coach this offseason?
Bham Dawg
October 11th, 2011
3:28 pm
CHIP- The UGA vs GT fight was 1995 and it was Ray Goff’s last year. Donnan started in 1996.
Restore UGA
October 11th, 2011
3:30 pm
I love UGA and it is an honor to win the SEC East, but do we really want to? I hope we continue to improve and can match up to either LSU or Alabama, but man they are machines this year. Between Florida, SC and us, we have the best chance to make a game of it, but I fear the east is in for a shellacking in that game.
I hope I am wrong. I will be cheering myself horse, but I really don’t want to have our team run out of town. With tree and Washington back with some warm up time before the championship, maybe we will have a pleasant surprise. I don’t see SC having a prayer. They will be beat by 30 points.
Chip Towers
October 11th, 2011
3:35 pm
Restore UGA: To answer you’re question, yes, you should want to win the East. They hand out trophies for that.
Thomas Brown
October 11th, 2011
3:41 pm
Nate, Obviously the national writer feels that we have played 4 cupcakes in a row, Vandie is # 5. After all that, we have 2 Losses and 4 wins. We should have beat South Carolina. We can thank Aaron Murray for that, as we can the Florida Loss last year, for example as well – directly.
We are not very good. Very good is when you BEAT good teams. We have not. What our own Athletic Director, Mr. Greg McGarity, said last night was exactly what the national writers URL Link above says : ““those teams have really struggled. I don’t know if there’s a (conference) win among them. You’ve got to keep things in perspective”
I would like nothing more than for UGA to be very good. We aren’t. We haven’t been. We are not going to be. We are what we are. We are not Alabama, not LSU, not even Auburn, certainly not South Carolina, not Arkansas. So, what are we ? Somewhere in the bottom half of The SEC, right ?
The vols are not any good. Ole Miss stinks. Missy State is the biggest flop of The entire SEC. Vandie is Vandie and Coastal Carolina is not even 1-A. We have all kinds of issues on Offense. We have Lost 29 players who Mark Richt gave scholarships to to play this season, who will not play Saturday vs Vandie.
Seniors 22, Juniors 25. The top juniors are gone after this season – that would be like Orson Charles, maybe Christian Robinson, maybe Michael Gilliard, Brandon Smith even maybe – guys like that. All the seniors are gone after this season – that would be Cordy Glenn, Ben Jones, Justin Anderson, Aron White, Bruce Figgins, Trinton Sturdivant, Drew Butler, Brandon Boykin, Israel Troupe, and Blair Walsh. NOT INSIGNIFICANT PLAYERS we lose. We are NOT YOUNG. We have NOT done much with these Juniors and Seniors – putting up a won/lost record of # 27 best in the nation after 2005 and we are in The SEC East after 2005 a miserable 14-13. I am sorry. Now, did you have some excuse for all this Nate ? Pardon me for being insensitive, but there isn’t any excuse for it Nate.
beanster
October 11th, 2011
4:17 pm
We will really miss Ben Jones and Glenn. Dallas Lee is as good as Anderson. Jay Rome is waiting in the wings to fill Aron White’s gap. Figgins is a great blocker but I am not sure he will be all that missed. Sturdivant hasn’t played a down in years. Butler will be missed but at this point I am convined Bogotay trumps Walsh. Boykin will be missed for sure. Israel Troupe?? C’mon man.
TampaDawg
October 11th, 2011
4:19 pm
What is your point Thomas Brown? It’s the same tired old crap every single day. And most of it is just insignificant ramblings. You keep wanting to blame the UF loss last year on Murray because of the pic in OT. Guess what genius. Without Murray, there may not have even been an OT. The D let us down in that game too, no mention of that. The running game was mediocre at best. No mention of that. Instead, your lack of football knowledge leads you to blame the entire game on one guy, a freshman at that.
Your crap about all the scholarships past out to players not playing is hysterical. Players getting injured, players leaving due to being low on the depth chart, players leaving because of academic and legal issues; no, this happens no where else in the nation. Actually, it happens EVERYWHERE else in the nation, you just don’t do that research. Face it, you aren’t a real fan, you just copy and paste the same old crap and try to spin it for your argument.
You keep ranting about 22 Seniors and 25 Juniors showing we are not a young team. If you would pull your numbers from the actual depth chart, you may see why people say that. On the offensive side of the depth chart, 31 players are listed, 18 are freshman or sophomores. On defense, 25 listed with 12 being either freshman or sophomores. The important part of this is that many of those, like Crowell, Mitchell, Herrera, Geathers and Murray are starters. Jenkins lists as a junior but he is in his first year out of JuCo.
Of the players you mentioned, we have replacements already for White (Drew), Figgins (Ogletree) and the lineman. Sturdivant hasn’t been a factor in a while, Butler and Walsh are tough to replace no matter what you do as well as Boykin. But Israel Troup? Come on dude. Hasn’t proven anything to anyone.
TampaDawg
October 11th, 2011
4:21 pm
beanster, I agree with you .. especially since I just covered the same stuff .. but to note, Bogotay is listed as a Senior
beanster
October 11th, 2011
4:27 pm
I checked that right after I hit submit. Who is going to kick next year??
beanster
October 11th, 2011
4:29 pm
Lindley I guess? Forgive me if I give TB any fuel to add to his fire.
Thomas Brown
October 11th, 2011
4:36 pm
Hurts when you cannot say we are young. And anyway, we have the 29 who are not so funny to the coaching staff who are not playing this season, who they gave Scholarships to to do just that. Perhaps our 14-13 vs SEC East after 2005 explains where we are best. Certainly, we haven’t beat 1 good team in so long that ended the season in the AP Poll Top 10. That was 2006 when we LOST 4 games but beat # 9 Auburn. 2006 was Six (6) seasons ago.
I know. I should be happy. You are. Hey we won 4 games in a row and 3 of them SEC teams. Now we get another SEC team. Obviously we beat them. I was the 1 poster who predicted 11-3 this season and said that if we did, we would not have beat a single good team. Guess what ? I’m as right as rain on that, too. TampaDawg, is that you ? You who said yesterday in here that everyone said we would lose to the vols with no running game no defense no special teams and no talent.
Sorry, we haven’t done much. I know I am right on that.
Thomas Brown
October 11th, 2011
4:38 pm
I’ve got plenty beanster, don’t worry about it. We recruited a kicker already. A good one. A punter who kicks.
Thomas Brown
October 11th, 2011
4:40 pm
Marshall Morgan punter who kicks
TampaDawg
October 11th, 2011
4:45 pm
Actually, I said MANY on here said we would lose to UT, and many on here said we would lose to MSU. Then they come on here afterwards and claim that we won just because those teams sucked. Let the season play out. I have said that since the beginning. I predicted 10-2 regular season. They do that, say the lose the SEC title game, then win the bowl game and we are both right.
Thomas Brown
October 11th, 2011
4:45 pm
There is only 1 way to recover from this season. It is to beat Alabama or LSU or Arkansas. LSU has beat the better teams. Would have been nice to be Florida these 2 weeks and play both back-to-back. Otherwise, without a win over them, winning The SEC East is PUNISHMENT.
Except for the DISNEYdawgs.com who get to say we won The SEC East.
Big deal this year, huh ? Like last year, too.
Thomas Brown
October 11th, 2011
4:47 pm
So, why do you pick on me TampaDawg, then ?
Thomas Brown
October 11th, 2011
4:50 pm
I don’t think you are happy with this football program TampaDawg. I don’t think you can say that we beat the top teams, that we don’t lose to cupcakes and that we have not wasted talent.
I also do not think you are happy with our offense, its coaches, or how some of our offense acts. I think you think we aren’t where you expected us to be in year 11.
TampaDawg
October 11th, 2011
4:52 pm
I pick on you? Not really. I just think you are way too unfairly judging parts of this team. You talk like Aaron Murray should be a one man show, especially last year as a freshman. You criticize way too much for the last 2 years instead of looking at the entire body of work for CMR which by most anyone’s measure are really good. The team went into transition after losing NFL first rounders Stafford and Moreno added that to losing a really good WR in Massaquoi. It happens.
But blaming CMR for the 29 scholarships doesn’t make sense. The ones that were kicked off, we don’t want them on here. We don’t need players bringing a team down off the field. Plus, we still have 85 on scholarship as has been reported several times.. I have nothing against you Thomas Brown, but I think you are way too critical at this point. True fans should let the season play out, and cheer like crazy for this team with so many young stars getting playing time.
TampaDawg
October 11th, 2011
4:55 pm
This team is getting better and better each week. This time last year, they were 2-4, now 4-2 and beating teams we should. Can’t say that last year. Improvement is what you should look for. Not many teams go from 6-7 to dominating the nation. And no Tech fans, you are not dominating the nation, you’re dominating Class 5A high school teams.
Jordan
October 11th, 2011
5:48 pm
http://isportsweb.com/2011/10/11/sec-outlook/
Dawgs Win Big
October 11th, 2011
9:35 pm
“dangerous” vanderbilt? Get real! is this vince dooley talking? Ga blows out vandy easy—39-13!!! Dawgs are on fire and will run the table and win the SEC east–book it!
DawgByte
October 12th, 2011
12:31 am
For Ga to get any respect this weekend we need to blow them up by at least 4 touchdowns. It’s time to turn this Offence loose.
zbulldawg
October 12th, 2011
10:47 am
Everyone is dangerous to the bulldawgs.They bring there A game when they play us The games means so much in recruiting.Alot of the west teams and teams trying to build up there programs want the talent we have in the state.I’m so glad we are starting to keep some of that talent.KEEP WINNING so they will stay home.That’s the real DREAM TEAM
HECKLE
October 12th, 2011
12:23 pm
why is UGA always “young”????